Early the next morning, Yongle Town outside Chang'an City.
A few hours have passed since last night's battle. The townspeople who had not slept all night walked out of their homes tremblingly, staring at the various traces left by last night's battle.
Especially Li Lefu's house, the area of tens of meters starting from the study room has been completely destroyed.
Fortunately, there were no casualties among the Li family, so this amount of property damage was still within the acceptable range for the Li family.
The only thing that the Li family cannot accept is that Li Lefu has been in a coma since last night and has not shown any signs of waking up.
Li Lefu has no wife, daughter, or heirs. If anything happens to him, he will almost be waiting for the fate of his relatives and clans to be extinct.
This is definitely not the result that the Li family wants to see.
Because most of the servants in the Li family are actually poor people that Li Lefu has helped over the years.
As for the remaining people who are not servants?
Either Li Lefu's former injured comrade-in-arms, or the children of farmers who were abandoned by their parents in the years of famine...
For these people, Li Lefu is definitely not just the head of the Li family, but also the backbone and pillar of the entire Li family.
Once he makes any mistake, it will definitely be a devastating blow to the people living in the Li family today.
The only thing to be thankful for was that Mo Laosan stood up at this time.
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"Mo Lao San, Mo Li Hai, Mo Li Hai..."
Facing the first ray of morning glow, Pei Wende stood on a mound not far from Li's house. He looked at the people busy not far away, with an expression on his face that he didn't know how to describe.
Although Pei Wende had already guessed that Mo Laosan was probably the prototype of Mo Liqing, one of the "Four Heavenly Kings" in later myths and legends.
But when Mo Laosan stood in front of him and said that he was willing to give up his current surname and join the Li family as an "adopted son", Pei Wende was still shocked.
Pei Wende did not doubt Mo Laosan's determination, nor did he even doubt whether Li Lefu would recognize his "adopted son" after he sobered up.
After all, judging from Li Lefu's previous performances, his concern for Mo Laosan has long gone beyond the scope of a normal "stranger".
"Is he really the 'Heavenly King of the East' that you call him?"
Gently sticking her head out from Pei Wende's collar, Xiaoqing's tone was as cold as ever, as if she was simply emphasizing a certain word.
However, Pei Wende, who was already familiar with the other party's character, heard a hint of surprise in Xiaoqing's cold tone.
Regardless of whether the "Eastern King of Dharma Dharma" is the god of the eight heavenly beings.
From this name alone, we can tell that this unformed god is definitely not a small character.
Considering Mo Laosan's performance yesterday, it is really hard for Xiao Qing to imagine that the other party will grow into a king who can guard one side in the name of "holding the country" in the future.
"Maybe in the future, but certainly not now."
His eyes did not stay on the people of the Li family for long before Pei Wende withdrew his gaze.
Because during this brief exchange between himself and Xiaoqing, a familiar figure had quietly appeared behind them.
The visitor did not deliberately hide or disguise, so Pei Wende turned around and saw the graceful and enchanting presence.
"Long time no see, Red Fox."
With an ecstatic smile on his lips and every move full of charm, Red Fox leaned forward and said.
"It's polite, Zen Master. Red Fox is the title I used when I was still uncivilized..."
"Since I have been practicing with Master Huiji, the master has given me a more appropriate name."
"I now have the master's secular surname of Ye, so the Zen master can just call me 'Mei Ji'."
Red Fox, or Mei Ji's remarks can be said to have set her attitude very low.
If someone wasn't familiar with the situation, it would be hard to imagine that this extremely humble Mei Ji could be the fox demon who secretly followed Hui Ji down the mountain and would curse her as "a bald thief" whenever she disagreed.
"Ye Meiji?"
Pei Wende stared at Mei Ji in surprise, and it was naturally impossible for Pei Wende not to know the other party's little thoughts.
In other words, Mei Ji has never concealed her love and lust for Hui Ji.
As spirits who grew up in the mountains, Meiji and Xiaoqing are two completely different extremes.
If it weren't for the fact that Hui Ji couldn't be defeated, Pei Wende had no doubt that Mei Ji would have knocked Hui Ji unconscious and then forcibly taken her back to her cave.
Even so, after falling in love with Huiji, Meiji often sneaked up to Weishan and used various means to seduce Huiji.
Zen Master Lingyou and Pei Wende were both well aware of this, and Pei Wende often even joked that Huiji would simply follow Mei Ji and return to secular life to get married as soon as possible.
Just kidding aside, ever since Hui Ji set out his ambition and came out of Weishan, Mei Ji followed him on the road of saving the world and saving people.
When chasing Huang Chao, the demon of luck, in Tanzhou, it was Mei Ji who secretly hid with the seriously injured Hui Ji, avoiding disasters and crises one after another.
In the battle of Chang'an, Meiji played a vital role in helping Huiji complete the major historical event of "Wen Zong's accession to the throne" in one fell swoop.
Even when Hui Ji went to Xuzhou to investigate the "Nandu embankment burst" incident, it was Mei Ji who took action at the critical moment, so that Hui Ji had a chance to make a comeback.
Therefore, no matter which perspective you look at it, Huiji's giving of her own surname to Meiji has extraordinary symbolic significance.
"Senior brother, does he know that I'm coming to Chang'an?"
After a brief pause, Pei Wende finally gave up thinking about the relationship between the two.
Anyway, the relationship between these two people is just like that between himself and Xiao Qing. It can no longer be described and explained by ordinary relationship words.
"It's natural."
"Zen Master made such a big fuss last night. It's hard for me not to know about it."
Pei Wende frowned slightly, but was really not used to Mei Ji's attitude and spoke directly.
"You should just call me Pei Wende as before!"
"I'm really not used to you suddenly becoming so 'polite'."
This time it was Mei Ji's turn to be stunned for a moment, and the expression on her face became a little puzzled.
"Aren't you used to it?"
"But Princess Wanshou said that this is the only way to have a good relationship with Huiji's 'family' and get you to recognize me?"
Pei Wende was speechless for a long time as he listened to Mei Ji's explanation with his head full of black lines.
"What Princess Wanshou said is for the daughters-in-law of normal families. You do not belong to this category."
"And we've known each other for so long, how can I still know your personality?"
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