Farm Girl's Manor

Having successfully developed a prescription, everyone was excited and overjoyed to have satisfactorily resolved the epidemic, especially the doctors who fought on the frontline. They felt proud and honored to have participated in this historic rescue, devoutly treating Mo Yan as a deity. They deeply wished they could serve by her side to enhance their own medical skills further and benefit the countless citizens.

The doctors who accompanied her fared better for they lived in Jing City and had ample opportunities to consult with Mo Yan. The doctors who were temporarily summoned from Weicheng, reluctant to leave their homeland, were also eager to seek medical wisdom from Mo Yan. They wished they could find a way to keep Mo Yan in Weicheng for ten or eight years longer.

Yet, Mo Yan had more important matters to attend to and could only spend the ten or so days waiting for the epidemic to pass answering the doctors’ questions, sharing the insights she had accumulated over her ten-plus years in medicine. Furthermore, before leaving, she took out all her handwritten notes about the special cases she encountered in her practice, allowing the doctors to read and study them in the hope that they would benefit from it.

Even though they only had a brief ten or so days, the doctors of Weicheng gained immensely. Mo Yan’s manuscripts were particularly treasured, as the doctors meticulously copied and printed them into volumes, to be cherished as family heirlooms.

Somehow, the news had leaked. On the day Mo Yan and her group left Weicheng, the streets, once desolate and bleak from the floods and the epidemic, unexpectedly filled with people seeing them off.

Thousands of people stood along both sides of the streets, standing on tiptoes and loudly thanking Mo Yan and her companions, holding high the grains saved from their meager rations to give to Mo Yan and the others. This was the best and most respectable offering they could make. ƒгeeweɓn૦vel.com

These citizens already lived hard lives, and Mo Yan could not accept their lifesaving offerings, persuading them to abandon the idea of forcing their gifts upon her after much discussion.

Facing the crowd’s enthusiasm, the departure was quite difficult. What would normally take only a quarter of an hour to pass through the long street and reach the city gates, took them two hours, and they felt relieved only after leaving Weicheng.

After traveling some distance, Mo Yan couldn’t help but stop, turning back to look at the lonely city gates. After a long while, she asked Xiao Ruiyuan, "If we have a chance to come here again someday, will it be as prosperous as it used to be...?"

Upon hearing this, Xiao Ruiyuan confidently responded, "It will, it will be even better than before!"

Mo Yan smiled softly, withdrawing her gaze, "Let’s go, we’re going home!"

Xiao Ruiyuan also smiled, gently urging his horse, "Yes, home!"

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Xuetuan’s transformation would attract heavenly tribulations, and the power of thunder was extraordinary. Only towering and precipitous mountains like Yuhua Mountain could provide some cover to avoid drawing unnecessary attention and trouble.

Therefore, Xiao Ruiyuan had originally planned to take Mo Yan on a leisurely journey through mountains and waters back to Jing City, for a relaxing trip together as husband and wife, but Mo Yan declined, citing her longing to see their children.

Seeing his wife’s eagerness to return to Jing City and having his plans interrupted, Xiao Ruiyuan put away his frustration. They split into two groups, with Xiao Ruiyuan leading the guards to protect his wife as they hurried back to Jing City, while the others, also under the protection of guards, traveled leisurely, enjoying themselves along the way.

The day after returning to Jing City, Mo Yan, accompanied by several children and the Six Beasts, couldn’t wait to return to Liu Yang Village.

On the surface, she had taken the children, who she hadn’t seen for three months, out for some good fun and relaxation. In fact, however, it was to disguise her own whereabouts. Otherwise, it would have been quite strange if she had disappeared from under her husband’s and the servants’ watchful eyes in the middle of the night without causing a big commotion.

Xiao Ruiyuan was a mainstay of Great Chu. After not returning for three months, he had accumulated a pile of work, and there was also the matter of the epidemic in Wei Zhou that needed reporting to Chu Heng. He was bound to be busy for a while and could not accompany his wife and children. This suited Mo Yan just fine.

The current Liu Yang Village, oh no, it should be called Liuyang Town now, was no longer the poor, backward little mountain village it was twenty years ago. After careful planning and development, it had become a renowned scenic spot within the region. Every spring and autumn, it welcomed a large number of tourists coming for outings and fruit picking. This not only filled the Mo Family’s coffers but also enriched the entire village, gradually forming a well-known prosperous small town nearby.

The once Mo Residence Great Courtyard had become the Mo Family’s ancestral home. During festivals and holidays, the large family still came back to celebrate, and this tradition hadn’t changed for over a decade.

After the first batch of planned residential courtyards was completed with Mo Yan and Yan Jun’s guidance, Xiao Ruiyuan had spent silver to reserve for his family the largest and most beautiful courtyard, making it the Xiao Family’s branch residence in Liuyang Town. In their leisure time, the family would come to stay for one or two months every year.

That night, taking advantage of the children’s deep sleep, Mo Yan quietly left the residence without alarming anyone.

The Six Beasts had been waiting outside early on. Seeing Mo Yan emerge, the Black Cloud Leopard, the fastest among them, immediately lay down on the ground.

"Thank you for this." Mo Yan stroked the Black Cloud Leopard’s head and climbed onto its back amid its low growls. Once she was seated securely, the Black Cloud Leopard, like a black night spirit, dashed away with a whoosh and disappeared on the spot.

The wind howled by her ears, and Mo Yan kept her eyes tightly closed to prevent the wind from causing tears. The other five beasts closely guarded her on all sides, to prevent any reckless wild animals from emerging and causing a scare.

Yuhua Mountain had many ferocious animals, and there were quite a few that had inherited a trace of their ancestors’ bloodlines, like the Black Cloud Leopard and the Golden Beast. In the past, Mo Yan wouldn’t have dared to charge through Yuhua Mountain so "brazenly" with the Six Beasts, but after Xue tuanzi’s years of training, they had become invincible beings. The fierce animals of the deep mountains were simply no match for them.

Thus, sensing the pressure emitted by the Six Beasts, the ferocious animals living in the mountain caves shrank their necks, pretending to be oblivious and closing their eyes tight, trying their best to minimize their presence, fearing that the Six Beasts would detect them and whimsically come to pick a fight.

An hour later, the group—one person and six beasts—arrived at their destination unobstructed—a gigantic lake.

The lake was very large, standing at one end, only the tips of small mountains could be seen on the opposite shore. The lake was also home to large aquatic creatures such as giant snakes like the Red Python, turtles larger than the largest millstones, and ferocious water monsters like crocodiles... They were born with Spiritual Wisdom, not only carving out their own territories, but also focusing on cultivation without interfering with each other.

Three years ago, when Mo Yan had been preparing for Xuetuan to Transform, she found this perfect spot for Du Jie and struck a deal with the fierce creatures living in the lake. She provided them with Lingquan water for body refinement, and in return, during Xuetuan’s Du Jie, the creatures would temporarily vacate their territories, leading their offspring to a safe place.

She chose this body of water also because she was worried that the lightning from the Du Jie would ignite the forest, causing an uncontrollable wildfire, which would inevitably affect the animals living in the forest, and that would be committing a sin. Undergoing Du Jie on the lake’s surface completely eliminated this concern.

"Xuetuan, are you ready?" Ensuring that there were no other creatures in the water, Mo Yan had the Six Beasts on guard and asked Xuetuan inside Space in a low voice.