Chapter 477 - Flaming Horn Must Fall!
Chapter 477
Flaming Horn Must Fall!
King City.
The people of King City were completely unprepared for this year’s winter. Even the Yi family had not predicted a disaster of such scale. At most, they predicted the change in weather, that it would snow heavily earlier than usual.
These people had already announced publicly when it would start snowing.
However, no one knew that ‘snowing heavily’ meant a disaster like this one.
Everyone was gloomy the entire day. Outside the city, in the fields, a huge batch of crops had died. Every landowner’s mood was as bad as the snow, causing the slaves to live in fear every day, afraid of being beaten to death or thrown out of the land with one wrong step. Beaten to death was fine, they’d suffer for a while and die. But if they were tossed out, they’d be tortured by the freezing cold. The snow was half a human tall, how would they survive?
The mood within the Golden Grain Fields was similar to a stormy day.
The landowner, Ji Ju, had already raged several times during the past days. All the staff in both high and low ranks walked with lowered heads, making no sound.
White. That was what Shao Xuan said.
“It really is white.”
The ripening of the Thousand Grain Gold seemed to be a sign.
The white Thousand Grain Gold gave a feeling of satiation upon consumption that could last at least a day. And it was not a hallucination, one would actually be satiated.
Just as the city needed grains most, the Thousand Grain Gold ripened.
He looked at the snow outside in silence. After a pause, he told the head butler, “Call them here.”
“Them” referred to the lower-ranked butlers.
Ji Ju decided to open his warehouse. He never liked those people who only came begging for help, yet never talked to him before this. However, he was willing to obey the hints given by this THousand Grain Gold. Even if he analysed this wrong, at least he tried.
At this moment, there were several special guests visiting the Yi family at King City.
Since everyone was discussing newly-arrived tribes, these guests were unnoticed. They were from the tribe too.
The person who came to the Yi family was the Fox tribe’s chief, plus the seductive lady.
When they escaped the salt flats, only a hundred of his people were left. They could not return to their tribe because they changed directions after the King Beast started chasing after that. The Shen people became the ‘bait’, that was the only reason why they successfully escaped.
After leaving the salt flats, the Fox chief brought his remaining people out of the forest. He did not return to the tribe. He had lost the salt rocks, fire crystals, and so many lives. He would be shunned by his people if he returned, his position as chief would be taken away.
That was why he wanted to get a solution before returning.
The lady with him was actually half a Yi. She did not have many talents in divination so she wasn’t treated very well in the Yi family. That was why she mostly stayed with the Fox tribe. However, both the Fox tribe and Yi family still maintained relations.
The Fox chief knew when the weather would change because of the Yi family.
This time, the Fox chief came to ask for aid.
He wanted the Yi family to team up with him to fight the Flaming Horns.
Perhaps the Yi family would not agree to fight Mountain Wind and Taihe. If they won, they would still suffer major losses. Not worth it. However, they could consider fighting the Flaming Horns.
That was because the Flaming Horns were considered outsiders here. The several families in King City, including Yi, were cautious against them. That was what the Fox chief heard from the lady. She had received news before winter at King City. He could offer a solution to that now.
Although the Fox chief wanted to destroy all three tribes, to succeed, he had to do it one by one. The first one was Flaming Horn. These days, the more he thought about it, the more he felt like all of this was because of the Flaming Horns.
He did his best to provoke the Yi family.
“The Flaming Horns seem to know when the weather would change, they are even more accurate than your predictions too. When they arrived, they were just in time, when they left, it was the same day as the winds stopped…” Although they were just guesses that the chief didn’t believe himself, he had to sound confident to provoke the Yi family.
“Also, I definitely heard the King Beast roaring at them, yet we never saw their bodies! Even if they were eaten, not all of them would be eaten. There wasn’t even blood, and they brought so much salt and fire crystals with them…”
Initially, several Yi family members were already upset when someone could make more accurate predictions than them. Now that they heard the Flaming Horns escaped the king beast, they were even warier of the Flaming Horns. The fire crystals became secondary.
“What you say… is true?!” said the person at the head of the table in a booming voice. He already decided to forget about the matter that the Fox people had been hiding good quality salt from them. That was just salt, the Yi family did not care. But the rest was different.
“It’s true.”
The Fox chief looked at the lady. She quickly got up and bowed towards the head. “It is true.” As her head was lowered, her slanted eyes flashed with an odd look. While the Fox chief might not believe himself, she knew that it was likely to be true. The Flaming Horns might have a larger secret.
The Yi family would not trust just two people. However, after they talked to different members separately, they believed it.
They were good at asking questions and trickery so they didn’t believe that the whole tribe could lie to them. That was why even if not all of the chief’s words were the truth, it was at least a partial truth.
The several high-ranked members of the Yi family discussed.
“I’ve said before that we’ve got to watch Flaming Horn.”
“Flaming Horn must fall!”
“Tomorrow, I’ll talk to the lord and the other families,” said the person at the head of the table.
They had to deal with the Flaming Horns. Perhaps this change in weather was a hint from the heavens?