Yao Hu looked at the backpacks on their shoulders and said coldly: "If you want to go back to the Lingque Tribe, you can tell me early tomorrow morning! Why are you leaving secretly?"
"We, we," Mountain Rat threw himself at Yaohu's feet, "Chief, please give us the machete and pumpkin, and we will repay you!"
The other people followed suit and fell at Yao Hu's feet, "Chief, please give us a way to survive!"
Yao Hu looked at them coldly, "Give you a way to survive. I remember that after the Lingque tribe was plundered by foreign tribes, we kindly took you in."
"I begged to join the Yaoshan tribe. For the sake of the Qiushan leader, I agreed. We swore a blood oath. Now you have betrayed the gods and your own oath. Is this how you repay us?"
"Bah!" Zhi spat at them, "You still want to take away the machete, Pumpkin, why are you so shameless!"
The mountain rat got up and argued: "We also want to live peacefully in the tribe, but you..."
"Shut up!" Yao Hu shouted: "Tie them up and take them to the entrance of the cafeteria. I have something to say!"
Shan Shu looked at Yao Hu and tightened the machete in his hand. Yao Hu looked at him contemptuously, "You want to do it?"
"How dare he!" More than a dozen people drew their swords and pointed them at the mountain rat.
The mountain rat lowered his head, and the pig and the bull came forward and took off the backpacks from their shoulders, tied them up, and took them to the canteen.
Mufeng and Zhi went to Dayang's yard. Hearing Dayang's shout, they stepped forward and opened the door.
Dayang anxiously said to Mu Feng: "Shan Shu took a few people and stole..."
She smiled and said: "They have been caught by us."
Dayang and others looked at the two of them with shame, "Mufeng, Zhi, we are too embarrassed to see anyone, they..."
Mufeng smiled and punched a few people's chests, "Uncle Yang, my father said that you are good people and are warriors of the Yaoshan tribe."
Dayang and others looked at Mu Feng with emotion, "Thank you, chief, thank you!"
*****
Douzi and a few women were still there helping to bake the dried meat. When they saw Yaohu coming with a group of people, they all stopped what they were doing.
"Mount Rat, what have you done?" Douzi rubbed his eyes and looked at the tied Shan Rat.
Zhi said coldly: "They were afraid that the black bear was coming and we couldn't fight it. So they locked Dayang and the others in the house with machetes. Pumpkin wanted to escape."
"Pah, pah!" Douzi stepped forward and slapped the mountain rat twice, "You are not a human being. You have completely embarrassed us."
The mountain rat lowered his head, not daring to look at Douzi. The woman behind him begged Douzi for mercy, "Douzi, go and beg the leader. We won't run away. Let's help deal with the black bear!"
"Douzi, please help us beg the leader! We will never run away again!"
Douzi looked at them disappointedly, "You are dreaming, you have violated your oath, you should be punished!"
Her tribe actually did such a thing, and she felt that she had no face to see the people in the tribe.
Shan'am stepped forward and patted her, "Douzi, don't be sad, people are different."
Douzi's tears flowed down, "Amu, I..."
Zhi looked at her, "Yes! You are different from them, and so are Dayang and the others."
At this time, everyone except the people on duty gathered in the cafeteria. When everyone saw the mountain rats tied into a ball, everyone looked at them in surprise.
After learning the reason, they were so angry that they spat in their faces, "You are so bad. Just when the tribe needs people, you actually escaped quietly and took away our machete pumpkin."
Shan Amu dug out the contents of his backpack and found that there was soap soap, dried meat, pinto beans and peppers just picked from the vines.
She was so angry that she stepped forward and kicked the mountain rat a few times, "Shameless, you are not from the Yaoshan tribe anymore, and you want to steal our things."
Everyone looked at them with contempt, Douzi and a few women lowered their heads in shame.
Yaohu saw that everyone had come and said loudly: "Everyone has also seen that these people want to escape overnight when they see the black bear coming. I am here to tell you, if you want to leave, just come forward!"
"Don't worry, I won't kill you. Once I defeat the black bear, I will let you go."
Mountain Rat raised his head in surprise. He thought Yaohu was going to execute them, so he saluted to Yaohu with tears in his eyes, "Thank you, chief! Thank you, chief!"
Muba and Lang stepped forward, "Qingwu said that the Yaoshan tribe is our home, and we must protect our home."
Yu and the newcomers walked to the front and said loudly: "Chief, we are not leaving. We will fight the giant bear tribe with everyone."
"Okay, everyone is good!" Yaohu looked at Shanshu and his gang with disgust, "Put them in the sheepfold."
"Yes, leader!" Mufeng and Xiongniu dragged them away.
Yao Hu looked at the other tribesmen, waved his hand and said: "It's time to disperse, go back and rest early!"
"Yes, chief!" Everyone walked towards the place where they lived gloomily.
Dashi looked at the exhausted Yaohu and stepped forward worriedly, "Chief, Xiaoqing will be fine! He will be back at noon tomorrow at the latest."
Yao Hu nodded, "Yeah! Let's go! Let's go back and have a rest."
When Mu Feng returned home, he saw Yao Hu leaning tiredly on the bamboo chair. He went over and squatted in front of him, "Father, it's all useless for me to let my little sister do those dangerous things! It makes you worry!"
Yao Hu patted Mu Feng on the shoulder, "You are a good boy, but my father is incompetent and asked your little sister to help me carry the livelihood of more than a hundred people in the Yaoshan tribe!"
"Father!" Mu Feng looked at Yao Hu with red eyes.
Yao Hu looked at him and said, "Mu Feng, my father is old. You must listen to my little sister and work together to build the Yaoshan tribe into the strongest tribe."
Mu Feng nodded, "I understand, Father, I will help you go in and have a rest."
He didn't feel there was anything wrong with Yao Hu's words at all. Xiao Qing was more capable than him and could manage the tribe well, so Xiao Qing should be the one to take charge.
Yao Hu nodded happily, "Okay, tomorrow afternoon you go to the tribe upstream and give them a pumpkin to thank them."
"Yeah!" Mu Feng helped Yao Hu enter the house.
In the yard next door, Shan looked at Dashi angrily, "This jackal should be killed."
"Why kill him?" Dashi said with squinted eyes, "After we defeat the black bear, we can drive them out. See if they have nothing, how can they live a good life outside."
"Yes, let's see what a good life they can live." Shan felt happy when he thought that once those traitors left the tribe, they would starve and freeze to death sooner or later.
Douzi and his gang sat in the main room dejectedly.
Dayang sighed, "We have all been humiliated by Shan Shu and the others. Those who have no oath are better than us."
Douzi raised his head and said, "Uncle Yang, let's work hard. The leader and Qingsha won't look down on us!"