Chapter 23: The People Are Gone and the Building Is Empty

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  Mo Jia City, one of the five major families in the Moon Country, is the gathering place of the Mo family. The entire city has about 2 million people from the Mo family, and there are also hundreds of thousands of collateral relatives and outsiders. It can be said that in the surrounding area of Mo Jia City, the Mo family is heaven and earth, and no one dares to go against the will of the Mo family, including the so-called Moon Country imperial court.

  In the nine states, what is called a country is only the division of various Xianmen factions in the mortal world, and the royal family is just a representative of the faction in the mortal world. Just like the royal family of the Moon Country, although it seems much higher than the Mo family to ordinary people, but in the Moon Demon Sect, the Zhou family of the Moon Country's royal family is no different from the Mo family, only one of the five major family forces within the Moon Demon Sect.

  Two months after escaping from Qiongjiang, Leng Yun finally saw the mist-shrouded Mojia City again. This time, Leng Yun was even more cautious, not causing trouble or getting involved in anything along the way, and even disguising himself as a small beggar. It can be said that on this journey from Qiongshui City to Mojia City, he had experienced all the bitterness of life, and in order not to arouse suspicion, he didn't dare use his silver coins, and every day he would only buy a few pancakes at a small stall by the road.

  "What's going on?"

  Looking at everything in front of him, Leng Yun was a little distracted, and he looked several times at the map his mother had drawn for him to take into the city. According to the markings on the map, this should be the home of his maternal uncle and grandfather, but what lay before him was a dilapidated courtyard overgrown with weeds that were almost as tall as a person, looking like it hadn't been inhabited in ten or twenty years.

  After some thought, Leng Yun directly walked into a pawnshop next to him called Zhou Ji. When he left home, his mother repeatedly reminded him that if he couldn't find the place, he should ask around in the city for Zhou Ji's pawnshop. As long as he found Zhou Ji's pawnshop, he would arrive at his destination. It was precisely because of this obvious Zhou Ji's pawnshop that Leng Yun dared to confirm that he hadn't gone the wrong way.

  Zhouji Pawnshop was not very big, just a three-story small building, and there was no eye-catching sign at the entrance, but in Mojia City, this pawnshop was one of the oldest and most reputable ones in the industry. Otherwise, Leng Yun's mother would not have told Leng Yun to ask around if he couldn't find a place.

  As Cold Cloud walked in, a shop assistant inside the pawnshop furrowed his brow slightly but still hastened to welcome him, "Young master, what can we help you with?"

  Leng Yun had been away from home for several years, and the number of times he had interacted with people on this road was indeed very few. This group of memories made Leng Yun's face involuntarily flush slightly, but he still hastily spoke up: "I'm not here to sell things, I just want to ask you about the family across from us."

  The young man's expression immediately turned cold upon hearing this, but just as he was about to speak, an old man's voice suddenly came from beside him, "Young brother, are you here looking for relatives?"

  As soon as the words fell, a rich and white-haired old man wearing a purple gown came in from a side door.

  At a glance at his appearance, Leng Yun knew without guessing that he should be the shopkeeper or the master of this store, and hastily replied: "I'm here to find my relatives?"

  As soon as he heard that the other party was looking for a relative, the white-haired old man's eyes became deeper, and his gaze at Leng Yun was even more unusual. "Really alike, really alike."

  Leng Yun didn't know what the other person meant by "true appearance", but after hearing this, he wanted to run away immediately. After the incident with the strange old man, Leng Yun was now most afraid of encountering such bizarre and eerie individuals who were known as Jianghu Qi Ren (Rivers and Lakes Eccentrics). He had even reached a point where he would flee at the slightest encounter with such people. For the past two months, whenever Leng Yun met someone like this on his journey, he would run away as fast as he could. The Jianghu Qi Ren that he used to fantasize about on the island had now become his nightmare.

  Just as Leng Yun turned around, a large hand was already pressed on his shoulder. As for this hand, Leng Yun did have the ability to break free, after all, he was a genuine Foundation Establishment cultivator, but he still quietly stopped in his tracks.

  "Don't worry, young man. I just think you look a bit like a little girl. If I'm not mistaken, shouldn't you be Snow Sakura's son?"

  As soon as he heard this, Leng Yun's heart was startled, but fortunately, the other party seemed to have no malice. As for the Snow Ling mentioned by the other party, Leng Yun naturally knew it was his mother, and he was indeed the one who looked most like his mother among the four siblings of the Leng family. Otherwise, his mother would not have let him come all the way here with just a jade pendant to visit relatives.

  Turning around, Leng Yun hastily rushed to the old man standing behind him with a seemingly smiling yet not quite smiling expression and bowed. At this point, there was no need to hide anything anymore. Besides, when he left home, his mother had mentioned this pawnshop before, so it was likely that they wouldn't be enemies from his mother's past. "Senior, do you know my mother?"

  As soon as Lingyun acknowledged, the old man with white hair couldn't help but smile, "I know her, of course I do. I've seen your mother grow up, didn't she tell you who helped her when she ran away from home back then?"

  Run away? Leng Yun was taken aback at first, but then he shook his head. When he left home, his mother didn't say anything to him, she just drew a map and didn't even leave a message for anyone.

  As soon as he saw Leng Yun shake his head, the old man with white hair didn't show any unusual expression, but smiled and continued to ask: "Is your mother doing well?"

  The old man with white hair suddenly turned to the partner standing aside and said, "Go to the backyard to arrange a room for this young master. Also, go to the Cheng family's clothing store to fetch two sets of fitting clothes, and tell the maid in the back to boil some water."

  As soon as he heard this, Leng Yun naturally knew it was prepared for himself and hurriedly wanted to say no need, but the white-haired old man didn't wait for him to speak and smiled: "Don't be polite with me, when your mother was a child she would often come here to play, thinking about it, it's been almost twenty or thirty years, time really doesn't spare people."

  As he spoke, the white-haired old man suddenly let out a long sigh. Cold Cloud thought for a moment and didn't bother to be polite anymore, hastily bowing again and saying: "Cold Cloud thanks you, senior."

  "What's with the 'senior', back then your mother called me Uncle Zhou, you should be calling me Grandfather instead."

  Leng Yun thought for a moment and agreed, after all, her grandfather's family was nowhere to be found now, and she would have to stay here for a while in the future. Having a place to settle down was naturally the best thing.

  "Master Zhou, do you know where my maternal grandfather's family went?" After some pleasantries, Leng Yun hastily asked again.

  Mr. Zhou let out a long sigh as soon as he heard Cold Cloud's question, but didn't answer immediately. He motioned for Cold Cloud to sit down beside him before speaking with a regretful expression: "Not many years after your mother left home, your uncle died in battle during a sect fight. Later, your aunt took your cousin and your grandmother to the Moon Demon Sect. As for their current situation, I don't know."

  As soon as he heard this, Leng Yun hurriedly asked again: "How should I go to the Moon Demon Sect?"

  Although Leng Yun was somewhat saddened by the death of his grandfather, he didn't have much feeling about it and didn't show any unusual emotional reaction. However, when he heard that his uncle's family had gone to the Moon Demon Sect, Leng Yun's first reaction was to ask where the Moon Demon Sect was, and then go find them.

  As for Le Yun's plan, Mr. Zhou naturally understood it clearly. As soon as Le Yun finished speaking, he hurriedly advised: "A place like the Moon Demon Sect is not somewhere you can easily find, from now on you should stay here with me first. You think your uncle or cousin will come back to visit one day, and when that time comes, I'll help you notify him."

  After hearing this, Leng Yun's expression turned gloomy. His mother had let him travel thousands of miles to Mo City in the hope that he could enter the Mo family and cultivate, but now his grandfather was dead and his uncle's family was gone. It could be said that all their original plans were disrupted, and for a moment, he didn't know what to do next.

  Just then, the old man with the surname Zhou suddenly spoke up and asked: "Your mother let you come back, should be that you have a spiritual root."