nycdaug Chapter 846 Mother's Letter to Brother
Chapter 846 Mother's Letter to Brother
Having heard Bennett's explanation, Xu Ning had roughly figured out what was going on.
The story actually begins with Mika, a surveyor in the Knights of Favonius expedition.
This young man, acting on orders from their Grand Master Falgar, returned to Mondstadt to deliver a message, recounting to Jean the expedition's situation at the border and the recent events in Natalya.
Although the expedition is in good condition so far, the predicament of Nata has worried the captains of the Knights of Favonius.
After all, if Nata falls, the expeditionary force fighting on the border will inevitably be attacked from both sides and have nowhere to escape.
A certain scout knight who overheard all of this "by chance" thought the problem was easy to solve. She felt that as long as a second expedition team was formed to help Nata through the crisis, it would be the same as helping the Grand Master and the others.
However, Mondstadt had very few available manpower, and the "Second Expedition" was slightly overwhelmed by a single scout knight. They happened to run into a Spark Knight who hadn't been confined for a while, and the two hit it off and decided to embark on a great adventure.
As for Bennett, who seems to have been unlucky enough to be bumped into, what can he do besides "like" these two troublemakers?
However, the three little expedition's plan almost died in the womb because they were unfamiliar with the roads. At this time, the "clever" scout knight thought of Lord Diluc and hoped to get a map to Nata from him.
The group had already sat down at the table in Wanmintang.
Bennett was quite surprised when a young girl came out to order food. It seemed he had never seen anyone come out of the restaurant unharmed before, when he was thinking about eating.
After all, if the restaurant is fine, then the people in it are probably in trouble.
"Eat without worry. This is Liyue, the place with the best fortune in all of Teyvat. Nothing bad will happen here."
Xu Ning patted Bennett on the shoulder, turned to look at the silent Lord Diluc and asked with a smile, "I thought that the first thing you would do upon seeing these three little ones was to notify the Knights of Favonius to go to the vineyard to pick them up, but I never expected that you would also join the Second Expeditionary Force."
“I didn’t join them, and I won’t take them to Nata. I only promised Klee that I would come to Liyue to deliver something to you, and then they will go back to apologize to Jean on their own.”
"Send me something?" Xu Ning chuckled.
"What would Klee possibly give me? Is she planning to send me a bomb? I think they're just using giving me something as an excuse to escape Mondstadt first. Diluc, how could you fall for that so easily this time?"
"No, that's not true!"
Klee stood up, tossed her small backpack onto the table, first took out two large, cute-looking bombs and threw them on the table, then picked out a dozen or so smaller ones, and then started rummaging through the bottom of the backpack.
The people sitting in a circle immediately and unconsciously moved back a little.
"Bennett, sit back a bit and don't move."
After pondering for a long time, Xu Ning finally couldn't help but speak up.
"Didn't you say that Liyue has the best luck..."
"Yes, but the Wanmin Hall, one of the symbols of Liyue, absolutely cannot be destroyed in my hands. You should postpone it a little longer."
"All right……"
Suddenly, Klee cheered, "Klee found it! Here it is, the letter from Mom to my alcoholic brother!"
Xu Ning looked up at Ke Li's small hand, which was clutching a letter that was covered in paint.
The envelope appeared somewhat yellowish, suggesting it had been stored in a poorly preserved place for a long time.
Moreover, there was no word written on the envelope addressed to him; instead, a gourd pattern was drawn on the front of the envelope, which looked like graffiti.
Xu Ning looked suspiciously at the slightly uneven gourd on the envelope. "Are you sure the markings on this weren't drawn by you or Amber?"
Amber, who had just taken a big bite of the glutinous rice ball, suddenly became anxious and waved her hands, trying to prove her innocence.
Klee, hands on her hips, loudly protested, "Klee didn't draw it herself! Mona can vouch for that!"
Mona? That fortune teller with the super long name?
"Why is Mona being dragged into this again?"
Xu Ning took a sip of his drink and gestured to Keli to carefully put the bouncy creatures back into their backpacks before slowly discussing Mona's matter.
"Mona's mentor and my mother are friends. She entrusted a box to my mother for safekeeping, and my mother gave the box to me to store the bouncy bombs."
Klee casually tossed the bouncy creatures back into her backpack, slung it over her shoulder, and sat up straight. "Mona's master sent her to retrieve something very important from the box. We found a notebook inside."
"Sister Mona looked at the words inside and then said..."
Klee mimicked a look of despair, "Now that I know about the old woman's dark past, she'll definitely kill me if I go back. I don't want to go back, I'd rather die than go back."
Xu Ning was speechless. He waved the envelope Ke Li handed him and asked, "What about this letter?"
"It fell out of the notebook. Sister Mona said it wasn't her master's thing; it was probably just something Mom casually slipped in."
Xu Ning pondered for a moment, thinking that this letter might really be for him.
After all, if it really was that woman Barbie Ross who instructed her apprentice to retrieve the box, given her habit of divining even when she went to the toilet, she couldn't possibly be unaware that her apprentice would see her notebook containing her dark history and therefore wouldn't return to report. So she shouldn't have sent Mona out in the first place.
But she did it anyway.
So Mona's purpose for this trip is only one thing: to bring this letter, which has been buried under a box for who knows how many decades, to the light of day, and then have it brought to her by Claire, who is looking for an excuse to run away from home.
"Then I'll see what's written inside."
Xu Ning casually opened the lacquered seal and took out a shiny card inside.
"What is this?"
Everyone at the table saw the small card Xu Ning was holding, but no one could recognize what it was; it seemed to have strange numbers and words on it.
Xu Ning recognized it, but he didn't know what it was used for.
Reluctantly, I rummaged through the envelope, but there was nothing else inside. However, inside the envelope, there was a poem written in Liyue's font.
"When you think you've reached the end of the road, there seems to be no way out..."
The original sentence doesn't seem to be written like this. Xu Ning calmly stuffed the small card back into the envelope, then carefully put it into his pocket.
"Alright, the letter has been delivered."
Xu Ning looked around and said, "Then your mission is over. After you've eaten and drunk your fill, let Lord Diluc take you back to Mondstadt."
Diluc, who had been silent for a while, suddenly spoke up, "I'll have to trouble you to take them back. I have some important things to take care of."
Xu Ning chuckled, "What a coincidence, I also happen to have some important things to take care of!"