Chapter 148 - Feeding
There were rows of people standing in front of the house in the mountains.
In the front row were several young girls aged between ten to thirteen years old. They were wearing clean, red clothes with a red rope tied around their heads.
Although they had to reach maturity, a closer look revealed that they were quite beautiful.
Standing behind the girls were the matchmakers who had gone to meet Li Mu several times.
Apart from Li Mu, everyone was beaming with smiles.
Li Mu looked helplessly at the girls standing orderly in front of him. He was filled with a sense of sadness and powerlessness.
One of the matchmakers pointed to the girls. “From now on, all these girls will be your wives,” she said proudly.
“I never agreed to that,” Li Mu replied.
“What are you talking about? If you don’t agree, why didn’t you say so earlier? Their families have already sent over their daughters to you.”
“I… Please take them back! If they stay with me, I’m afraid that I will accidentally kill them,” Li Mu said, frightened.
“They’re already here. How can you send them back? They’re your wives now. You can do what you want with them, even kill them…”
“What?”
How could he possibly bear to kill them?
It was something he would never do.
He had no use for these few girls.
He couldn’t use them for hard labor.
He would just have to raise them.
The matchmakers did not care. They pushed the girls forward then turned to leave.
Li Mu stretched out his hand out, wanting to stop them, but it was too late.
He reluctantly looked at the innocent girls. “Where are you girls from?” he asked.
“I’m Liu Xiu from the Liu Family in the Front Village!”
“I will bring you back later!”
“No, I am your wife now. If you send me back, it means that you don’t want me, and I won’t be able to marry anyone else in the future,” Liu Xiu said as she stared at Li Mu pitifully.
“What about you?”
“I’m Xu Fang from the Xu Family.” She was another eleven-year-old girl with big sparkling eyes.
“I’ll bring you home, alright?”
“No! I will be beaten to death by my parents if you send me back.”
Xu Fang began to cry.
The other three girls lowered their heads and avoided Li Mu’s gaze.
“What should I do?” Li Mu became anxious.
Was he really going to raise these girls?
“My parents said that I will have enough to eat if I marry you. Then, I won’t be snatched away by Young Master Li,” Liu Xiu said softly.
Young Master Li again.
Their families didn’t have enough food to eat?
His heart softened.
He supposed he could use some people to cook, wash the dishes and mop the floor.
Maybe having some help around wasn’t so bad after all.
“Okay! Come in then!”
Li Mu had no choice but to adopt the girls.
From then onwards, Li Mu began his new life with these girls.
Half a month later, another group of people came to Front Village.
“Where is Young Master Li?” The group of people asked the villagers hostilely.
The villagers shook their heads. “We don’t know! We haven’t seen him.”
One of them viciously grabbed a villager’s collar. “You haven’t seen him? How is that possible! Someone saw Young Master Li heading to this village just before he disappeared.”
“I really haven’t seen him,” the villager said timidly.
“We’re asking you nicely, and you still won’t talk! Beat him up!”
Several thugs dragged the villager away.
The other villagers hunched over in fear.
The newcomers were from the Li Family.
They were the biggest landlord around this area.
The Li Family had many Higher Heaven Realm warriors and over two hundred Acquired Realm warriors.
Although one or two warriors occasionally appeared from the surrounding villages from time to time, they were no match for the Li Family in terms of skills or resources.
The Li Family defeated them easily.
The villagers regarded the Li Family as their masters.
And they just slaves.
“Does anyone know where the Young Master is?”
No one in the village answered.
“If no one speaks up then I’ll sell you off to the mines and brothels.”
After a long while, a group of people headed towards Li Mu’s house on the mountain.
They dragged two villagers along with them.
“Why would Young Master come to such a remote place?”
“Let’s go and take a look first. It’s the only clue we have. Even if it’s only a small possibility, we still have to check it out,” said the butler as he led the way.
They had beat up and threatened the villagers. If the villagers had still kept quiet, it probably meant that they actually didn’t know where Young Master was.
But the villagers had revealed that there were some strange happenings going on at the mountain.
The person living there was a foreigner.
If a foreigner came to such a remote place, he must be escaping from something.
This person was definitely hiding something.
Soon, the group of people arrived at Li Mu’s house.
The huge three-story building was built on the hillside and looked very unique.
All the members of the Li Family were surprised to find a place like this in the middle of the wilderness.
Xu Fang was outside the house. When she saw the group of men approaching, she quickly ran inside.
“Ah! Tiger Li’s family is here!” she screamed.
Inside the house, Li Mu cast out his divine consciousness.
He swiftly appeared at the door. He held Xu Fang in his arms and patted her on the back.
“Don’t be afraid. Go inside!”
“Okay,” Xu Fang whispered. She rushed into the house, then poked her head out to take a look.
When Li Mu walked out of the house, the butler of the Li Family was surprised to see someone like this.
He had seen many things before, but he hadn’t seen anything like this.
“Are you the owner of this house? It looks pretty good!”
“You’re here to see my house?” Li Mu asked.
“No, I’m here to inquire about something.”
“Go ahead!”
“Have you seen my Young Master?” the butler asked, staring at Li Mu.
“He’s not home yet? Maybe something bad happened to him,” Li Mu shook his head and sighed.
“Where could he be he?” the butler said anxious.
“On the mountain. He should be a pile of bones now!”
“You killed him?” the butler was startled.
Young Master was dead?
Whoosh!
The group of people stared at Li Mu.
The butler pointed at Li Mu and said fiercely. “How dare you!”
“I heard that the Li Family are evil, but I didn’t expect them to be so vicious!”
“Go and die!” The butler turned to speak to his group of warriors. “Take him back and hand him over to Master to deal with him!”
“What a group of thugs!”
Whoosh!
Li Mu grabbed the warriors that were rushing towards him and threw them into the forest.
He threw all five attacking warriors in a row.
The other warriors stared at him in shock.
“You… are you a Higher Heaven Realm master?” The butler was stunned.
Fear appeared on his face.
Oh no!
He had provoked a dangerous person.
No!
There must be a reason why this master was hiding here.
He would go back and report this matter to the county government.
If the Li Family couldn’t deal with him, the county government surely could.
“They’re more powerful than you!”
Li Mu’s figure flashed. He grabbed the butler and threw him out.
“Let go of me,” the butler roared in fear.
As he shouted, he was thrown towards the mountains.
Li Mu wiped his hands and turned to enter the house.
“Husband, you are so amazing!”
When he turned around, he saw the girls staring at him with stars in their eyes.
“Husband, the Li Family is very evil! I’m afraid that they will take revenge against you.”
The girls were visibly worried.
“Don’t worry, your husband will protect you.”
“Okay!” The girls nodded, blushing.
“No, that was a slip of the tongue. I am not your husband…”
Several figures appeared in the mountains.
Roar!
More than a dozen orcs suddenly rushed towards the Li Family’s warriors.
“Not bad. They’re all cultivators this time!” Several fierce beasts shouted.
“I can eat finally some delicious food again.”
“Who the hell is throwing so many people over? Are they trying to lure us out?”
“Oh no, it’s a trap!”