He looked at Lin Zheyu and asked, "It’s extremely dangerous outside the city right now, bandits are rampant, why did you run out?"
"I came out to scout the area, if things look bad, it would be easier to make a quick escape, wouldn’t it?" Lin Zheyu replied.
"True."
"But you must be very careful, don’t head into the forests, the dangers in the woods aren’t just bandits, even those hunters and herb gatherers might not be good people," Han Mo warned.
"Got it, I will be careful."
"You’ll be careful, my ass!"
Han Mo couldn’t help but scold, "Just heard from the soldiers that you went after bandits? Are you trying to get yourself killed, going after them alone?"
"Isn’t everything fine?" Lin Zheyu said.
He had just hidden in the shadows and launched a surprise attack, without getting a single drop of blood on him.
Han Mo glared at him, scrutinizing him, he was indeed alright, even his clothes were spotless.
"These few parcels, you snatched them from the bandits?"
Han Mo looked at the four bulging parcels beside Lin Zheyu, with a somewhat peculiar expression and said, "Don’t tell me you robbed civilians and caravans!"
"How could I?"
"You know my character, am I the kind of person who’d do such things?" Lin Zheyu said, exasperated.
"These three parcels were stolen from a caravan by those bandits, I secretly followed them, seized the right moment, and grabbed them back. This one, I found on the road."
"Really?"
Han Mo was somewhat skeptical, after all, even he would be walking to his own death if he went after mountain bandits alone.
"Of course, would I lie to you?"
"The caravan had about three hundred people, do you think I have the ability to rob from them?"
"I chased the bandits into the woods, that group of bandits was ambushed by another group, the two bandit groups fought, and I got lucky."
Lin Zheyu made up a story.
"You should do such things less often, you’re risking your life carelessly," Han Mo warned.
"Alright, I won’t do it again," Lin Zheyu said.
Beside Han Mo, he directly opened the parcels and began to take inventory, without evasion.
The first parcel contained various herbs, with a strong medicinal fragrance, he recognized a few of the herbs as part of the Blood-Nourishing and Bone-Strengthening Soup recipe.
The second parcel had a variety of exquisite jewelry and jade stones, looking very luxurious, likely quite valuable.
The third parcel contained two hundred and thirty silver taels, and inside there was another parcel with powders, poison powder, and assorted hidden weapons.
"Share the loot, brother, here’s thirty silver taels for you."
Lin Zheyu took out thirty silver taels and handed them over.
During his time in Songyi City, the brother had taken good care of him; after their mentor left Songyi City, he often came to spar with him.
"Take it back, save it for finding a wife later, why would I need your money?"
Han Mo refused, speaking like an elder, "You’ll need to marry a wife and start a family, many places where money is needed, save it sparingly, don’t squander it all."
"If you don’t want the silver, then pick a few nice pieces of jewelry, I’ll give them to my sister-in-law after I return. We’ve known each other so long, I’ve never given a gift."
Lin Zheyu pointed at the pile of jewelry.
With his repeated insistence, Han Mo didn’t delay any longer, he selected a beautiful jade pendant and stopped there.
Gathering the jade, jewelry, and silver taels, Lin Zheyu started sorting through the poison and powder.
"How many bandits did you encounter on the way, how come there’s so much poison and hidden weapons?" Han Mo remarked, looking at the numerous poisons and weapons in the parcel.
"Oh, it’s all picked up."
"The woods are extremely dangerous, bandits fight and hunt each other, I happened to come across a few bodies of bandits, took them from their corpses." Lin Zheyu fabricated.
Han Mo: "..."
Han Mo looked at his brother speechless, inwardly a hundred-percent skeptical, but didn’t press for more.
His nature was like that, if the brother didn’t want to talk, he wouldn’t press; everyone has secrets they don’t want to share.
"Brother, do you know any experts in poison?" After organizing the poison, powder, and weapons, Lin Zheyu asked.