Chapter 299 – Are You Not the Shaman? (1/2)

Shao Xuan was studying hard in the house.

He recorded the language used by the slave masters, which he had learned during this time. Every time he understood something of his own, he would also write them down.

Tuo and Lei were also forced to learn the language by Shao Xuan. Even if they couldn’t fully learn the language, it would be better if they could understand it to an extent so that they don’t get fooled by the slaves and slave masters. In the territory of slave masters, learning more of this language would help a lot.

As the saying goes, more preparation may quicken the speed in doing work. They now had enough food. Not eager to do other things, they planned to understand this basic thing first.

When Su Gu came, Lei and Tuo were tired from studying the complicated words and they were glad that they could finally take a break.

Shao Xuan glanced at Su Gu who had rushed in. He stopped writing in the hide papers, which were filled with words, and rolled them up.

“What’s the matter?” asked Shao Xuan.

Su Gu, who had rushed into the house, strode towards Shao Xuan. He tapped the table with his palm and said, “I wanna ask you…”

Bang!

The mud table, which was not so sturdy, collapsed as it could not even withstand the power of a palm tap.

Seeing that the three people were staring at him, Su Gu waved his hand and said, “I’ll ask someone to build another table for you later!”

Without a place to sit, Su Gu just stood there.

“I have something to ask you.” Su Gu looked at Shao Xuan, “Are you the Shaman?”

*The Shaman?* Lei and Tuo were somewhat confused. *Why did Su Gu think Shao Xuan was “the Shaman”? Besides, the Shaman would not come to such a place.*

“No,” said Shao Xuan.

“But in the morning you said…” Su Gu’s expression changed and he stopped himself. *The matters happening in the palace should not be told to others*. However, thinking of the miraculous correlation between Shao Xuan’s words and the things that happened, Su Gu took a deep breath, calmed himself down. Staring straight into Shao Xuan’s eyes, with a low voice he asked, “You knew what was about to happen here, before itself?”

“We’ve come here for the first time. We know nothing about the things that are happening here,” said Shao Xuan.

Su Gu kept silent for a while and didn’t focus on this question anymore. Whether Shao Xuan knew about the assassination plans long ago or had the ability to predict, Su Gu really wanted to form an alliance with the Flaming Horn tribe at the moment. Moreover, he pretty much had no other choices.

“Did you think more about forming an alliance with me?” asked Su Gu.

“We can form an alliance with you. But before that, I want to know what benefits we can gain from being your ally.” said Shao Xuan.

Su Gu stood upright. As a slave master, he would be able to provide many things.

Shao Xuan nodded. These were necessary for them but not what he wanted the most. “I want to know something about the other slave masters.”

Su Gu frowned and said, “I can tell you all the information I know, but you must come up with something worthy in return as an equivalent exchange.”

“Of course.”

“So, does this mean we have a deal?”

“Yes, I hope we can cooperate amicably.”

There was no formal, mutually signed contract. In a cooperation between the slave masters and the tribes, under normal circumstances, there would be no fixed contracts – unless there were some important matters involved. If both parties were quite familiar with each other, they would make another plan to make the cooperation official.

Succeeding in forming an alliance with the tribe, Su Gu’s mood was getting better. Remembering Shao Xuan’s reminder in the morning, after leaving the tribal area, Su Gu ordered the palace slaves to send some stones, that are used for building houses, to Shao Xuan. These stones were all transported from the rocky region of the desert while being guarded by specialized slaves. Since Shao Xuan and the other two couldn’t go to this rocky region at will, Su Gu’s facilitation of these resources had helped them a lot. They only needed to wait for the stones to be transported to their house.

Shao Xuan had noticed an open space in the tribal area and knew that no other tribe would build houses there. Then he began building the residence together with Tuo and Lei. The slaves sent by Su Gu also helped.

Two days later, another big house in the tribal area was built, which was not in any way smaller than the ones built by the other tribes. The only difference was that there were dozens of people living in each embassy residence of the other tribes, but only three people were living in the “embassy residence” of the Flaming Horn tribe.

In order to show his sincerity, Su Gu had specially carved out a wooden board from a Sunset Tree and hung it on the door of the “embassy” of Flaming Horn tribe. He also wrote some words with golden paint, but it was put aside by Shao Xuan.

Shao Xuan polished a board by himself and hung it on the door, on this board the words “The Flaming Horn tribe” in tribal writing and the totem of the Flaming Horn tribe were engraved.

The words written by Su Gu on the wooden board were in the common text used by the slave masters. Two boards engraved in two different languages were hung in the doorway. The board carved out by Shao Xuan was at the main entrance, and Su Gu’s board was next to it.

“Now this looks like a proper embassy!” said Shao Xuan, looking at the newly built house.

In the perspective of Shao Xuan, this building was neither gorgeous nor prominent, but it served its purpose. If more people of the Flaming Horn tribe came there in the future, they could expand it after their group became stronger. Now, it was enough to have a house similar to that of those other tribes.

The three people had been living in a ruined mud hut – but now that they had built a new embassy, each person had a large room of himself, and the camel was tied in the backyard. Shao Xuan also specially built a shed for it.