"Oh, so that's how it is." Qiao Yu looked educated.
She turned to look at the slaves and sighed inwardly.
She couldn't do anything else, she could only try her best to protect the people of the Dragon Tribe and prevent them from falling into such a situation.
The stall owner seemed quite easy to talk to, and she was about to chat some more when she heard a commotion and someone yelled, "Look, there's a fire over there in the tribe."
She turned and saw smoke rising from the walls of the Sifang tribe, and beneath the thick smoke was a glow of fire. She didn't know which building was burning, but it had suddenly burst into such a huge fire.
"It's the chief, the chief's residence." People from the four tribes panicked and ran towards the tribe one by one.
Hearing that it was the chief's residence, the people in Ji Er's household became even more panicked. The leader, the one in sackcloth, shouted, "Quick, put out the fire!" and ran forward quickly.
The men who were pushing the slaves forward hesitated for a moment, and one of them asked, "Li, what should we do with these people?"
"Heishi, you stay here and watch them. The others come with me to put out the fire." Li said, chasing after his master's back.
The others hurried to follow.
The man named Black Stone who was asking the question slapped his lips and cursed, "I told you not to talk too much." Then he kicked the old man who was closest to him among the slaves and said, "Get out of here! Stop dilly-dallying."
No one else was paying attention to them anymore. The people from the Sifang tribe, including the two stall owners who had just spoken to Qiao Yu, picked up their belongings and quickly walked back to the tribe.
Even if they didn't go to put out the fire in the chief's building, they had to go back to see how their families were doing. So after a while, everyone had left, and two women, who hadn't packed their things yet, stayed at the stall to look after them while their men went back to check on the situation.
The people of Jiangyuan tribe gathered together to discuss and left four people to guard the things, while the others ran towards the Sifang tribe.
Qiao Yu had already followed the two stall owners for a few steps when they were walking towards the tribe. Finally, when no one was paying attention, he retreated into the bushes and jumped onto a tree.
Everyone had left, and if she stayed there, it would definitely arouse everyone's suspicion. And with such a big thing happening in the Sifang Tribe, no one knew what would happen next, so it was better for her to hide.
After jumping onto the tree, she did not leave, but instead stopped after changing two trees and watched what happened.
At this time, all those who wanted to put out the fire had run far away. Even though the people from the Jiangyuan tribe wasted some time, they ran so fast that they soon overtook the slaves who were weak in legs due to inconvenience and hunger, and put some distance between them.
"Hurry up, do you hear me? If you don't hurry up, I will beat you to death." Because Heishi asked a question that was too much, he lost the opportunity to show his merit in front of the king and his master. He was in a very bad mood, so he would kick the slaves who moved slowly or whip them with a whip.
Qiao Yu frowned at him, wondering whether he should teach him a lesson; he also wondered if he would become even more violent towards the slaves if he was hit by a stone and fell to the ground.
But just as she had this thought, she saw the vines on the girl who was tied up the most tightly and had her mouth bound suddenly break. She pulled out a bronze dagger from her animal leather boots and stabbed it into Heishi's heart. After stabbing it in, she pulled it out with force and stabbed it again.
Heishi only had time to let out a brief scream before he fell to the ground, blood gushing out of his back.
The two women who stayed there to watch the stall kept their attention on the tribe's fire. When the older one of them noticed what was happening, the girl was already using a bronze sword to cut the vines off her companion.
Seeing this, the old slave who had been kicked shouted anxiously, "Yue, run! Run! Don't worry about us. We can't get far even if we run. Hurry up, or it will be too late."
Yue ignored them and continued cutting the vines on everyone.
Fortunately, the bronze sword was quite sharp, and the vines on each person were cut off after two slashes.
"Look, look." The middle-aged woman who noticed their actions shouted to the young woman who was closer to the girl opposite with trembling hands.
The young woman was confused at first, but when she looked in the direction of the middle-aged woman's finger, she saw this scene.
She originally wanted to stop him, but when she saw the bronze sword in Yue's hand, she hesitated.
Seeing this, the middle-aged woman turned and shouted to the people of the Jiangyuan tribe, "Quick, go stop them. If you catch them, the Ji family will definitely thank you. Think about the queen, she is the daughter of your Jiangyuan leader. If you don't help, our king will definitely blame the queen."
Perhaps because they were worried that leaving someone who didn't speak the language here might cause problems, the leader of the Jiangyuan tribe left someone who understood the languages of the four tribes here.
Hearing the middle-aged woman's words, the man quickly ordered: "Go, capture the slave."
All four men caught up.
The moon had already cut all the slaves' vines, and as he did so he shouted, "Hurry, run! Run separately, don't let them catch you."
Those people listened to her and even though they couldn't even walk, they tried their best to escape in all directions.
The old man's vine was the last one to be cut. Seeing that the Jiang Yuan tribe was about to catch up, he quickly pushed Yue and said, "Run, run."
Yue looked up in the direction of the flames rising into the sky, wiped away a tear, and ran in one direction.
The direction she ran was exactly towards the stream.
The people of the Jiangyuan tribe weren't stupid. After two days at the trade fair, they knew these slaves were useless to Manager Ji Er. No one wanted them, and taking them back was a hassle. These people held a deep grudge against him, and he worried something might happen if he kept them around.
So the escape of a few slaves was not a big deal. The only important thing was that the man under his command named Black Stone was killed by a slave, which was very embarrassing.
As long as the people of Jiangyuan tribe can capture Yue, they will have made a great contribution.
So they ignored everyone else and just chased in the direction Yue escaped.
Seeing this, Qiao Yu quickly threw the ore in his hand at the four people.
"Ouch."
"Ouch……"
The four men fell to the ground one after another.
If only one stone had been thrown, no one would have been able to tell where it came from. But after four stones had been thrown down in succession, the two women watching could clearly see the direction from which the stones had fallen.
The middle-aged woman pointed at the tree where Qiao Yu was hiding and shouted, "Over there."
Qiao Yu threw a stone at her, knocking her to the ground. The young woman then watched the leaves move a few times, and then the leaves of another tree also moved. The trembling leaves moved farther and farther away from her, and finally returned to calm.
She looked at the stalls that were bustling and prosperous during the day but were now empty, then looked at the man and the middle-aged woman from the Jiangyuan tribe who were still groaning on the ground, and Heishi who had been lying on the ground motionless for a long time. She stood there in a daze, trembling with fear.
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