Chapter 257: Ready for War and meet the enemy head on! (1/2)
Yan Mo and Yuan Zhan left silently and the Salt Mountain Tribesmen's tent sank into silence for quite a while.
Qing Lu looked at Qing Ze, who was kneeling on the ground, the warriors' leader did not know what to say, not to mention what to do with him. If Qing Ze himself had not acknowledged what he had done with that expression and action, he would not have believed that Qing Ze, the elder, would have betrayed the Salt Mountain Tribesmen.
Qing Ze is a good man. He always takes good care of people. Many young warriors like him and respect him. If not, Hei Qi would not trust him so much.
Qing Lu sighed and did not speak. Qing Ze suddenly stood up and went out of the tent without a word.
When the others looked at him together, Qing Lu went to block his way: ”Elder Qing Ze, where are you going?”
Qing Ze wiped his face and smiled sadly at Qing Lu. ”I didn't want to betray The Salt Mountain Tribesmen, and I wanted us all to leave The Moer-Gan. Do you believe me in that?”
Qing Lu sank for a moment and nodded, ”I believe it.”
”I just don't so any people to die. We don't know the Jiu Yuan at all. How do we know that the Jiu Yuan is not the same as the Moer-Gan? And the Jiu Yuan is so far away. How many people can reach the Jiu Yuan with all the dangers along the way? Most importantly, they have such good salt that they don't need us at all. Why should they help us? And even promise to our chief and priest to be the elders in Jiu Yuan?”
Compared with the Jiu Yuan whose purpose is unknown, he prefers to grasp what can be grasped in front of him. Qing Ze did not think he had done wrong before he came back, but now...
Qing Lu was surprised, too. He asked Hei Qi, ”What made you think of going to the Jiu Yuan for help?” Those big tribes are hard to talk to. Where does Hei Qi courage come from courage and self-confidence to talk to one of them?
Hei Qi could only give his reasons when he was asked: ”The Chief of the Jiu Yuan, that is, the blood warrior who just came here was one of the Yuan Ji Tribe, and I saw that several of them were the Yuan Ji Tribe.”
”Yuan Ji?” Qing Lu was even more surprised. ”How did Yuan Ji become Jiu Yuan? Did Jiu Yuan take over all the tribes on that land? But I remember that their chief was Zhang, and this chief had no tattoos on his face.”
Hei Qi repeated what he knew.
People have seen each other. People who have been to Jiu Yuan think of the dry river that they live nearby, and then think of the greedy Zhi people. They also understand why Jiu Yuan migrated all the new tribes to new places.
”Just because of that?” They know Jiu Yuan, but they don't have much friendship.
Hei Qi wiped his lips.
”Hei Qi, do you know any of them? I think you've been peeping at their young priest.” A young man opened his mouth.
Everyone looked at him, and Hei Qi had to say what he thought was a fantasy guess: ”I saw their priest, the teenager... He looks like my brother Hei Jiao.”
Everyone expression: dumbfounded.
”Is that impossible? How could your brother become a priest? I heard that his name was Yan Mo, not Hei Jiao, and he was not only the priest of a large tribe, but also a bone sculpting master, which was rare even in The Three Cities!” Qing Lu kept shaking his head.
Hei Qi whispered, ”I think he knows me too. He doesn't look at me like a stranger, and even if he's not my brother, he said he owed a favor to the Salt Mountain Tribesman and he promised to help his family. He didn't come to us before, but I went to them and he gave the promise to that tribesman family, then... Am I the Salt Mountain Tribesman family he's talking about? Is that the person he knows...?”
Hei Qi is smart and brave, which all the Salt Mountain Tribesmen admit.
When Qing Lu heard this, he began to feel that Hei Qi's guess was not entirely a fantasy. They also heard the young priest admit that he owed a debt to the Salt Mountain Tribesmen.
”Now whether the young priest is related to Hei Jiao or not, even if he is really Hei Jiao...” Qing Lu laughed at himself, ”Or did he know Hei Jiao, who would promised to help us. Haven't we been to other big tribes before, but they don't just want our ability to find salt and make salt? And I don't want to offend The Moer-Gan, just promise to accept part of our Tribesmen.”
”You mean?”
”Hei Qi, you immediately take all the Tribesmen in the market. Don't bring any other slaves except the slaves you trust most. Take a piece of salt with each one. Now go to the river to find the Jiu Yuan People. Quick!”
”The Moer-Gan People will see that so many of us go to the river.” Hei Qi frowned and added, ”Let's go in batches, Qing Lu. You take all the warriors away and carry the salt basket on your back. When someone asks, they say they are sending salt to the Jiu Yuan People. If the Moer-Gan People asks, you say that the Jiu Yuan People seems to have a way to turn these crude salt blocks into fine salt. Here, Uncle Qing Ze and I will stay with slaves. So the Moer-Gan People would not be too suspicious.”
Qing Lu disagrees. Everyone knows that the people left behind are almost as likely to die. As soon as the Jiu Yuan People by the river sets off, the Salt Mountain Tribesmen in the market will surely be arrested.
”We can't leave like this.” Qing Ze raised his head.
Others disapproved of him. Qing Lu was angry. ”Elder Qing Ze, it's time. Do you want to stay in The Moer-Gan?”
”I don't want to stay. I mean we can't just run away without reason. If we leave like this, then the Moer-Gan will have reason to say that we are betrayers, and the Jiu Yuan will become a despied tribe in their mouths. They will have reason to let other friendly tribes help them fight against the Jiu Yuan, and the advantage is red salt.”
The Elder is the Elder. Maybe he'll be confused for a while, but as long as he wakes up and sets goals, the acc.u.mulated insights over the years will make him see things deeper than young people.
”You can't let the other Jiu Yuan peoples complain about you and say that the Salt Mountain Tribesmen gave the Moer-Gan tribes a reason to attack them.”
Qing Ze suddenly sneered and said to himself, ”What's the reason for the Moer-Gan to ask for such a big bargain? They deceived me, I will meet them have a taste of deceiving...
”Elder Qing Ze?” Qing Lu and Hei Qi and others looked at him.
Qing Ze wiped away the overflowing tears and asked calmly, ”Would you like to believe me again for the last time?”
”Elder!”
”The rest, as you said before, I know which of the slaves are The Moer-Gan spies and who want to leave us. I will take these slaves with me. Don't rush to go, just do everything as usual. Eat your evening meal and eat your fill. I will see you go, and then you go.”
”Uncle Qing Ze, what are you going to do?”
Qing Ze showed a gentle smile and finally patted Hei Qi on the arm and slowly walked out of the tent.
No one stopped him this time.
Yan Mo and Yuan Zhan rushed to the river, and the first thing they did was to feed everyone.
Yan Mo is fierce, except for a few that he likes very much himself. He has distributed all the fur he acc.u.mulated in the market and in the past, so that everyone can have at least one piece of leather to warm up.
He also handed out a lot of bone needles and fine linen, simply taught several people how to sew, and then let those people teach others.
Fortunately, only a few of these 1,500 people are savage tribes, and other people have the same level of common sense as Jiu Yuan.
The slaves were very happy. Some were busy making dinner and others were busy sewing the tanned leather with needles and thread.
As soon as Yuan Zhan came, he summoned the leaders of the slaves and waited for Yan Mo to send fur and needles, and he told the story.
The leader of the slave had a heavy face, but he did not speak.
War slaves, war slaves, they exist to fight.
From the first day of training, the slaves kept them in mind repeatedly that if they were bought by their masters, they would work hard for their masters. If they could not fight and kill for their masters, then they would have no meaning to exist.
Day after day, although not everyone is brainwashed like this, they all know their ident.i.ty and the purpose of the Jiu Yuan buying them.
Now the Jiu Yuan People are willing to send some weapons to them, give each of them a leather skirt, and let them eat as much as possible, instead of letting them fight with the enemy barefoot and hungry belly, they are satisfied.
Yuan Zhan scanned these people and was satisfied with the performance of these slave leaders.
The newly bought slaves, of course, are not loyal. Yuan Zhan only asks them to obey.
Yan Mo came over and said, ”Wait, don't go first. I have something for you.”
Well, everyone looked at Yan Mo together.
Yan Mo is now used to being seen, but he can't help pulling the corner of his mouth when he is stared at by so many tall, mostly naked, muscular men.
”DHe, Shen-Gu, Ding Ning, Ding Fei, come here.”
Apart from Ding Fei and Dda, who were already following Yan Mo, the other three were busy until Yuan Zhan called them in just now, when they heard Yan Mo calling them to take a step forward together.
Yan Mo pulled four bone knives out of his pocket.
If the Earth Cliff and other tribes see it here, they must ask Yan Mo: Didn't you say that you have very few bone objects?
Yan Mo casually handed them a bone knife. ”It's not well made. These were made by me when I was practicing. You'll make use of it first, and then I'll change it for you for a better one later.”
DHe looked sideways. Come on? Priest DRen, you have exchanged so many things with these makeshift weapons. Be careful if its to be known and they use them to come to your door! With that in mind, the hand quickly took the makeshift bone knife into its hand.
Ding Ning and Ding Fei are pure joy. They can't stop touching and comparing when they take the bone knife.
Shen-Gu knows it's a weapon. He doesn't know what it's made of. He looked down and touches it on the edge.