Chapter 1263: Caught in the Middle

Xiong, finally entered the Xuanyuan Tribe. The long-lost architecture, although not in Huaxia, at least looked familiar and much more pleasing to the eye; everything was far better than being out in the wild.

The most important thing was that the Embassy had been built, so they could move directly into the Embassy to live. It was just that they had brought a few too many Soldiers, so they couldn't all move in directly; they could only camp nearby, and only some officers could live in the Embassy.

After just arriving at the Xuanyuan Tribe, everyone knew that after being away for a year, there would certainly be many personal matters to attend to, so they wouldn't disturb each other. Thus, Xiong led the team to quickly arrive at the Huaxia Embassy in Xuanyuan Tribe to get settled.

As for Xuanyuan, he returned to Qingqiu City to summon his ministers and listen to their reports on the important intelligence of the past year, only none of them expected that the events of this year would be quite so explosive.

"What! Changle Prince is married! With whom?"

"What! Huaxia has made contact with the Jiuli, and they even know about our trades? How was this leaked?"

Xiong's exclamation was one of surprise, but also a bit of regret, because not seeing Changle's wedding in person was a matter of great regret. However, Huaxia couldn't possibly delay the wedding date just for him, right? He didn't have that much face.

"What? That woman is a Princess of the Jiuli? Oh my, this is incredible. How did it happen? Chai, hurry and tell me in more detail; this is incredible."

Chai was responsible for reception affairs, and at the same time, he had to tell Xiong and the various generals about Changle. In his words, everything was vivid and lifelike; he described Changle as extremely legendary, how he tricked a princess back in three sentences and united a tribe in five.

He practically made Changle sound even more capable than Baifeng, yet everyone felt this was very likely true, because these were all things Changle could do. He had that ability; his mouth and that brain of his were not things they could compare to.

Chai continued to talk about how beautiful and how smart Ayuduo was, not only praising Ayuduo but also taking the opportunity to praise Changle once more.

Everyone listened with great interest, and when they reached the critical moment, Xiong would carefully ask for details: "You mean the Prince and that woman slept together the first day they met?"

"That's exactly it! Those few from the Jiuli felt that Changle Prince was truly too hard to come by, so they thought they must seize the opportunity, and so they just went for it. Oh my, it scared our Soldiers so much; saving them wasn't right, not saving them wasn't right, and even standing guard to the side wouldn't work."

Xiong asked Chai with a smile: "How do you know it in such detail? It's as if you participated in it yourself."

Chai was very confident: "Although I didn't see it myself, I have the first-hand source of information here. Which of our Soldiers doesn't come here to stay? As long as they stay, they will definitely talk about that news."

Furthermore, there were those people from the Jiuli; they stayed here for dozens of days. They couldn't leave, they couldn't go back, and it wasn't easy to wander around the Xuanyuan Tribe, but here, I was open to them. Anyway, they couldn't learn anything, and I could get information from their mouths."

Xiong pointed at Chai with a smile: "You are still the shrewd one, for the news to be so accurate."

However, Xuanyuan was a bit frantic on his side: "Changle married Ayuduo? They bumped into each other by accident? Changle knew long ago that we were trading with the Jiuli?"

How exactly did this information leak out? Why would Huaxia know of the existence of the Jiuli?

Oh... no. Xuanyuan seemed to recall some incredible things.

But for Huaxia to bump into the Jiuli, that was a bit too coincidental, right? Yet this really was a pure coincidence, because there was absolutely no possibility of a leak. First of all, the Xuanyuan Tribe themselves didn't know when the Jiuli would come, so it couldn't have been someone from the Xuanyuan Tribe who leaked the news.

If one said Huaxia calculated it using a Divination Technique, that wasn't very likely either. What kind of Divination Technique could accurately calculate what kind of people would come, at what place, and at what time, and furthermore, that this person would happen to take a fancy to Changle?

Xuanyuan believed this was impossible, and Fenghou, who was skilled in divination, also believed this was impossible. There could not be such a precise Divination Technique in the world; even if the ancestor Fuxi came, he could not calculate such precise matters.

Therefore, the only possibility, and also the most impossible possibility, was that all of this was entirely a coincidence, and as for their trade with the Jiuli, Baifeng, that clever person, had long since discovered it from some details.

Oh, looking back now, there were indeed some loopholes. The most obvious were those Ironware. The reason Xuanyuan dared to let people display the Ironware exchanged back from the Jiuli was that he believed Baifeng did not know of the existence of the Jiuli, and did not know that the Jiuli smelted Iron earlier than Huaxia.

But if Baifeng had known of the existence of the Jiuli long ago, then all of this was in vain. What if Baifeng was someone who came out of the Jiuli? This, it seemed, really had a high possibility.

Knowing about the Jiuli, which were so far away, and knowing many, many things, as well as these discoveries that seemed to suggest he had been to many places—all this would make one feel that Baifeng might really have been to many places and walked a long road.

He had never thought about it from this angle before, but now that he thought about it, for a Huaxia to actually be able to smelt Iron, it overlapped with the Jiuli. Before, it was just that Baifeng knew too many things, which made people overlook it.

Changle and Ayuduo were married—a natural ally, more reliable than the ally he had built up entirely with grain and supplies. For the Jiuli, Huaxia also seemed more reliable than him, because he was the one earning the price difference between the two tribes.

The most important point was the location. Because his territory was adjacent to the Jiuli, everyone now treated each other with courtesy and traded with each other. This was because everyone's strength was about the same, and they both had things the other needed to trade, so they could be this stable. Otherwise, there would definitely be territorial disputes.

But looking at the Jiuli and Huaxia, there were no such concerns. Even if Baifeng could fly, it would take more than a day or two to fly to the Jiuli. Therefore, such an ally, such a friend, was very safe and reassuring for the Jiuli.

Except for being a bit far and communication being inconvenient, everything was fine. Now the trouble lay with Xuanyuan, because he discovered he was caught in the middle.