Chapter 487: Another Little Brother Won Over
Ji Guang, who had been hiding behind watching the battle, also walked out. She hadn't left just now, afraid that this man would go after her own man, but seeing how formidable her man was, she no longer worried at all.
Instead, she was instantly captivated by Rongdi's just-concluded fight.
So, her man was this brave and fierce.
"Rongdi, are you alright?"
"Ji Guang, why are you here?"
"Alright, Ji Guang and I will take Yue Guang to have a look. You brothers have a good chat."
With those words, Nan Qinghuan led Yue Guang and Ji Guang toward the town. Yue Guang, unwilling to concede, wanted to see with his own eyes that his clansmen were doing well. Those other clansmen who had followed him also went into the town with him; they too wanted to see how their clansmen were faring in the Small Town now. Were they really here voluntarily, not forced by Rongdi? When they reached the town, Yue Guang saw the town bustling with people coming and going, very lively. It was almost the same as what he had seen in Dragon City. Hard to imagine that a Small Town could be this lively.
Moreover, he also saw many familiar faces.
They stood right on the main street. Ji Guang saw Yue Guang and wanted to hit him. "Kid, see this? Everyone here is from the Gege Tribe. They do business here, live and multiply, and are doing very well. They eat well, live well, and in the future, their children can go to School to attend classes and learn knowledge. Could you see any of this in the Na Shan Tribe?"
These words made Yue Guang disbelieve. Suddenly, he saw a familiar face.
"Dazhuang!"
The man selling bamboo shoots was actually Dazhuang. Dazhuang had grown up with him; they were very close.
Dazhuang, upon first seeing Yue Guang, couldn't quite believe it. How was he with Nan Qinghuan and the others? "Yue Guang, is that you? You're back?"
"Dazhuang, what's going on with you? Why won't any of you stay in the Tribe? Are you going to abandon the Tribe?"
Dazhuang, however, shook his head vigorously. "Of course not. We want to stay here. Look, I found work to do here. I dig bamboo shoots every day to sell for money. I can buy meat for my cub to eat, and I can also let him go to School to learn to read and write. The Town Mayor said it's free for everyone to learn. This is a good thing! There was no such opportunity in the Tribe. We all want to live well here. Now that you're here, you should come live here too. Just go register and fill out a Household Registration form. You can make a living by hunting, and you can also..."
"Shut up! So all of you abandoned the place you've lived in for generations and came here? Are you no longer members of the Na Shan Clan?"
"Of course we are. How could we forget what's carved into our bones? But Yue Guang, what's wrong with us pursuing a better life? Look, back in the Na Shan Tribe, my A Mu had a stomach ache, and the Shaman Healer couldn't do anything about it. She died. But here, that won't happen. There are many doctors here, seeing a doctor is convenient, and it doesn't cost much. My female had an eye problem a few days ago, took some medicine, and she was fine. If it were before, she would have gone blind. Yue Guang, I won't talk to you anymore. I have to go sell my goods."
"Dazhuang, Daz—"
"Stop calling him. Yue Guang, do you understand now? It's not that we locked them up here. They stayed voluntarily. Moreover, even more people from other tribes are willing to come here to live. Rongdi is just fulfilling their wishes. He was willing to give up being Clan Leader for these clansmen. And you? You think that if you take them back, they'll live well? Go ask these clansmen, which one of them is willing to go back with you?"
Ji Guang's words made Yue Guang completely realize the truth, but he still didn't believe it, thinking that Rongdi and the others were deceiving him. He even went out of his way to ask other clansmen.
The answers he got from those clansmen were all the same.
That was, they all didn't want to go back and had come to live in the Town voluntarily. On the faces of these clansmen, he saw smiles he had never seen before in the Tribe.
Moreover, the clansmen had all gained weight and were living very well.
At that moment, he completely knew he was wrong.
Wrong in a laughable way.
He had even wanted to kill Rongdi to rescue all these clansmen. It turned out that the one who didn't want to be rescued was him.
It was him, Yue Guang.
"Yue Guang, it's really just as they said. Look, our clansmen are living well here. We were really wrong."
The other clansmen also knew they had been terribly wrong. They thought they could rescue them, but only now did they realize that these people didn't need their rescue.
Yue Guang stood on the bustling street, his expression complex as he watched his clansmen hawking their wares. So, he had thought that high-priced Salt would make Nan Qinghuan and Ying compromise. He never expected that he had placed the burden on his own clansmen.
He saw his clansmen sad and distressed because they couldn't afford the high-priced Salt, saw clansmen arguing just to get a little Salt to eat. All of this filled his heart with deep shame.
How could he insist on selling Salt at such a high price? Nan Qinghuan, seeing that the man wasn't speaking, knew they had already convinced him.
It seemed the Salt Mine issue could be resolved, and the high-priced Salt could also be dealt with.
"Ji Guang, you're really something. You sure know how to talk."
Ji Guang smiled at her. "So, does the Mayor's Wife have any reward for me?"
Nan Qinghuan curled her lips. "What reward do you want?"
"I heard you brought an Excavator. That thing is amazing. How did you get one? Get one for me too?"
Nan Qinghuan hadn't expected Ji Guang to want her Excavator.
She naturally refused outright.
"I can't give you this thing. It's a proprietary secret. But I can give you a Lipstick."
"Lipstick?"
Ji Guang was a bit confused. "What Lipstick?"
Did they even have Lipstick in the Remote Antiquity Era? Were Ancient People this fashionable? Nan Qinghuan quickly pulled a Lipstick she had made in her spare time from her waist. "Try this color. It's made from natural dyes, doesn't stick to your teeth, looks very natural when used, and has no chemicals. Want to try?"
Holy crap!
Ji Guang hadn't expected Nan Qinghuan to have made Lipstick in the Remote Antiquity Era. This made her ecstatic.
"You're amazing! How do you make it?"
"You figure it out yourself first. I'm going to see if this man has anything else to say."
Women always love beauty. As long as you give them a little something, you can win them over. Ji Guang was very happy and tried it. Although this body wasn't good-looking, she firmly believed there were no ugly women, only lazy ones.
So... she was going to put on makeup and dress up nicely, hopefully stunning Rongdi so much that his eyes would always be on her and not look at other women.
Ji Guang was daydreaming here. Over there, Nan Qinghuan slowly walked over to Yue Guang. Just then, the sun shone down, and she looked up to meet Yue Guang's gaze.
"So? We didn't lie to you. Your clansmen are living very well in the Small Town, living the good life they wanted. Even if I tried to drive them away now, they wouldn't leave."
End of Chapter
