Chapter 296 – Avoid Water

The young man who looked like 14-year-old was not as dark as other slaves. He wore clean clothes, which was decorated with ornaments including bright gems and some bone ornaments. In Fallen Leaves City, people wearing these things were of a high class. Due to this reason, Shao Xuan and others could recognize that he was one of the slave masters.

The slaves around him called him young master. Shao Xuan thought about the information of the three young masters in the city and most likely, this person was the third young master Su Gu, the youngest slave master who had not yet owned a slave and whom the other tribes did not choose to trade with.

However, considering he was a young master in the city, the slaves had to be respectful.

At this time, the third young master lifted his chin and glanced at the slaves arrogantly. As everyone showed their respect towards him, he felt satisfied and then looked at the wooden sedan.

After the third young master appeared, the person on the wooden sedan became silent immediately. The attitude of people carrying the sedan and that of the female slave master sitting on the sedan chair changed..

She snorted again but this time it was weaker.

“Go!” She exclaimed in anger, throwing a painted pottery wine cup out.

The painted pottery wine cup fell to the ground and immediately shattered.

Looking at the exquisite pottery wine cup, which had extremely complicated patterns, Shao Xuan thought that Xing, who loved pottery, would definitely collect it as a treasure. However, it was thrown away by the owner casually in the city. Slave masters simply took what the slaves had made with great efforts as valueless stuff.

After the wooden sedan disappeared, most the surrounding people also left.

Su Gu’s eyes scrutinized Shao Xuan and Tuo as if he was looking at market goods. Maybe he did not know how offensive his scrutiny was. He probably thought he looked kind, and smiled at Shao Xuan and Tuo.

Shao Xuan and Tuo wanted to beat him up…

Walking towards them, while introducing himself, Su Gu asked, “Which tribe are you from? I haven’t seen you in the city before. My name is Su Gu, the third young master of Fallen Leaves City.”

“Shao Xuan and Tuo, from the Flaming Horn tribe.” replied Shao Xuan.

“The Flaming Horn tribe… Since you are strong, your tribe should definitely not be weak.” said Su Gu.

“It doesn’t depend on me.” said Shao Xuan.

“Have you come here for the first time?”

“Yes.”

“What are you going to do?”

“Nothing.”

“…” What did he mean?

After asking a few more questions, Su Gu couldn’t extract what he wanted to know from Shao Xuan. He finally couldn’t help but cough and say, “Well, it’s really inconvenient for you tribesmen when you come here for the first time and don’t have a token.”

Seeing there was no reply, after waiting for a moment, Su Gu continued, “I can get the token for you!” Then he smiled to Shao Xuan and Tuo proudly.

Shao Xuan and Tuo glanced at him again and still didn’t speak.

Shao Xuan had shared the information he gathered from He She, with Tuo and Lei. So, Tuo also knew that this young master was the weakest amongst the three lordship competitors and none of the tribes were willing to form an alliance with him. In Tuo’s perspective, there was no use in forming an alliance with such a weak person. However, the final decision was upto Shao Xuan here and he would not speak.

As Shao Xuan and Tuo remained silent, Su Gu thought that they didn’t understand what he meant, so he said, “You can cooperate with me. It would be good for both parties to form an alliance.”

“We are poor.” said Shao Xuan.

“It doesn’t matter. I am not poor.” said Su Gu, waving his hand.

“We are not familiar with this city.” said Shao Xuan.

“It doesn’t matter. I am familiar with it.” said Su Gu with a smile.

“Only three people of our tribe have come here.” said Shao Xuan.

“… You three must be extremely powerful.” Su Gu forced a smile. It seemed like he was answering Shao Xuan, but it was more likely that he was convincing himself.

Shao Xuan looked at Su Gu again and said, “Thank you very much. As for cooperation, we’ll go back and discuss it.”

Only three people of your tribe have come here but you still wish to go back and discuss? Su Gu forced a smile again, “When can I expect a reply?”

“Tomorrow.” said Shao Xuan.

“Okay.”

Although Shao Xuan did not agree, he did not refuse immediately either. Thinking this way, Su Gu was in a better mood.

After separating from Su Gu, Tuo said, “The third young master seems to be different from other slave masters.” Other slave masters would not be so kind and polite.

“In reality, he is not different from the rest, it is just that he is currently forced to act like that.” said Shao Xuan. The third young master didn’t own any slaves or have an alliance with any tribe until now. Without any credit, he wasn’t able to compete with his two brothers and failed to be a noteworthy Lordship candidate.

Shao Xuan really had to think about whether to cooperate with Su Gu.

Since the Flaming Horn tribe was inferior to other tribes here, the other two young masters may look down upon the three people. It was very difficult for Shao Xuan and the other two to form an alliance with them. Even if they succeeded, those two young masters would not take them seriously.

Shao Xuan intended to gather more information but other tribes refused to share it with them. To cooperate with local people was indeed a good way to get information.

Maybe Su Gu was worthless. But it may not necessarily be the truth since he had grown up healthily in such an environment.

When Shao Xuan returned to the house in the tribal area, the camel was chewing hay. This hay was a kind of grass growing inside the city, it was as thick as a finger with a long hollow rod like shape. By the looks of it, the camel seemed to like it very much.

Starting at the pile of hay, Shao Xuan was thinking about something.

When the camel found that Shao Xuan was staring at the hay, it moved its body and blocked Shao Xuan’s view. However, Shao Xuan directly pulled out two straws from the pile of hay.

“Grunt——”

“Stop grunting. I’ll bring some back to you tomorrow.” Recently, because of the lack of water, many of the grass patches dried up and got turned into hay in the city.

When Shao Xuan took the camel’s hay into the house, Lei and Tuo thought whether Shao Xuan was going to chew it himself.

However, after Shao Xuan entered the house, he just picked up a straw and closed his eyes. After a moment, Shao Xuan began to tie a knot with the straw.

Lei looked at Tuo questioningly, as if he was asking what Ah-Xuan was doing.

Tuo shook his head.

Whatever Shao Xuan did, they could only wait.

After a while, Shao Xuan opened his eyes. Looking at the straw knot in his hand, he could not help but frown.

Noticing Shao Xuan’s serious expression, Tuo asked, “Ah-Xuan, what happened?”

“Nothing, I plan to cooperate with Su Gu.” said Shao Xuan.

Lei opened his mouth but did not say anything against it. When they left the tribe, the Shaman and the Chief said that the important affairs should be decided by Shao Xuan.

Early the next morning, before Shao Xuan went out, Su Gu came to meet them. Although Su Gu did not have an alliance with any tribe, he knew about the tribal area in the city and knew where Shao Xuan lived.

Lei and Tuo didn’t expect that Su Gu would come to look for them personally, and were surprised.

“What’s your decision?” Su Gu asked as he entered the house.

Shao Xuan did not answer him directly, but said, “You’d better avoid water today.”

Water?

It hasn’t rained for a long time, why avoid water? Drinking water? You want me die of thirst?

Hearing these words, Su Gu thought that Shao Xuan was telling a joke. He held back his anger, looked at Shao Xuan with a serious expression and asked, “Why do you say that?”

“If you are still willing to cooperate with us tomorrow, let’s form an alliance.” Shao Xuan ignored the anger on Su Gu’s face.

“Alright!” Su Gu clenched his fists and felt that the three people really had no sense of appreciating favors – but he felt something was wrong. When he saw Shao Xuan, he was a little frightened. After thinking about it, he went out.