Chapter 194: A Lu Qian Returned
The man put the small bamboo slip into the thin bamboo tube tied to the eagle’s feet, and closed the bamboo tube again. After stroking the eagle’s fur a few times and feeding it with dried meat, the man raised his arms and the eagle flew away. He watched the eagle fly away for a moment, then disappeared from there.
At the same time, in the village of the Xiuluo tribe, Xu Xiang was explaining to everyone what happened last night. After listening to her explanation, the villagers gradually calmed down. Only the families of the abducted women are still anxious.
Xu Xiang looked at them and said, "That was my miscalculation, and I’m sorry that I decided to not help them when they were kidnapped. If I rescued them last night, we wouldn’t be able to find the bandits’ den, and it would be even more dangerous for us."
Thinking that her explanation sounded like an excuse, she added: "I will make sure to find them before anything happens to them."
After she finished speaking, a family member of a kidnapped woman looked at her and asked, "How can you be sure that nothing will happen to them? What if A Lu Qian can’t find the bandits’ den and we are too late to save them? What will happen to them then?"
Xu Xiang looked at the man and said, "Those bandits won’t do anything to them for the time being. We just need to wait for A Lu Qian to return after finding out the location of the bandits’ den, and then we can make a plan to save everyone."
Seeing that the family members of the abducted women still wanted to argue with Xu Xiang, Ha Tai raised his hand and calmly said, "Stop arguing and stop blaming it all on Miss Xu Xiang. It wasn’t her fault that they were kidnapped last night, and her decision to let A Lu Qian follow those people was right. As your chieftain, I promise you all. If anything happens to your family members, I will make those people pay a thousand times over."
With Ha Tai’s blatant support of Xu Xiang, those people stop causing trouble. Despite the decision and the situation going against them, none of them felt unfair or angry at Ha Tai.
Everyone present put their right hands on their chests, bowed slightly to Ha Tai and said, "We will follow the Chieftain’s arrangement."