Farm Girl's Manor
Chapter 668 Acceptance Decision (1)_1

Chapter 668: Chapter 668 Acceptance Decision (1)_1

The children’s legs were slow, and the mountain road was difficult to navigate. What should have been a journey of two hours to Liu Yang Village ended up taking one and a half hours due to frequent rests.

After the father and daughter of Mo Family brought the children back home, the likes of Lixiu, who had worried all evening and refused to go to bed, could finally set their minds at ease.

Having eaten only in the morning, the children were ravishingly hungry. They had trekked such a distance, sustained solely by the thought of soon seeing their families. Now, safely back in the village, they were all clamoring with hunger.

Lixiu’s nephew and she headed to the kitchen and made a pot of steaming dough drop soup. Served in a basin, each child was ladled a generous bowl. While they were eating, Mo Yan and the others went around the village to inform the relatives of the children.

Families who had lost their children thought they would never see them again and sat sobbing, clinging to the children’s clothes, unable to sleep. Hearing a knock at the door, they stumbled out of bed, half-thinking it was the child returning home. To their amazement, the child indeed had come back and was at the Mo Family’s home eating dough drop soup!

The villagers almost ran all the way to the Mo Family’s home, expecting to see their children’s terrified faces and hear their frightened cries. Instead, the twelve children were boisterously arguing over who was the greediest and who had eaten the most dough drop soup, looking nothing like kids who had just had a narrow escape from death. This irritated the anxious villagers to the point of itching teeth.

A few villagers, quick-tempered, temporarily forgot their previous anguish, grabbed their children, and started smacking their bare bottoms. As they spanked, they scolded vociferously.

When their hands turned numb from the spanking but saw none of the usual wailing for ’daddy’ or ’mommy’, they looked up only to see the children’s eyes brimming with tears, gazing up at them pitifully. They immediately wrapped their arms tightly around them, heartache flooding in, and fear washed over them: they almost couldn’t see this mischievous little rascal ever again.

Once everyone finally calmed down and expressed tearful gratitude to the father and daughter of Mo Family, they began asking about how the children had been rescued.

When calling for the people, Mo Yan and the others had only mentioned that the children were taken by mountain bandits but were now safe at the Mo Family’s home. As for how they were found and rescued, there hadn’t been time to explain the details.

Anticipating these questions, Mo Yan had already prepared a response. It wasn’t suitable to discuss such matters in front of the children, so she invited the villagers to the hall next to the dining room and brought Mao Tuan from the kitchen. As she stepped through the door, she expected and saw the change in the villagers’ expressions—several of the more timid women immediately hid behind the men.

Mo Yan squatted down, stroked Mao Tuan’s head, and spoke softly under the suspicious gaze of the villagers, "This is your first meeting with the uncles, aunts, and cousins, so say hello to them!"

There was no longer any point in hiding the beast today, for Emperor Huian had promised that the Beast Badge would be delivered soon, removing any concerns. It was essential, however, to let the villagers in on the secret early.

After all, even if the Beast Badge allowed the creature to walk openly among the people, it couldn’t dispel the villagers’ worries. If someone lost a chicken, they might suspect the beast. Such an event would inevitably lead to conflicts within the community. Since they lived here, it was Mo Yan’s wish for everyone to get along, and tonight was the perfect moment to establish a good impression of Mao Tuan in the villagers’ hearts.

Mao Tuan, behaving obediently, nuzzled Mo Yan’s hand, stepped forward, and with its hind legs planted on the ground, it stood up on two legs. It extended its furry front paws, ignoring the villagers’ fear and hostility, and performed an almost perfect bow.