Chapter 40: Negotiation

"You are smart, why haven't you escaped from here for so long?" I retorted.

He snorted and had nothing to say.

Li Wanxue told me when we were close to each other that the man in glasses had a good brain and he had planned an escape plan, but because of the mistake of the Japanese girl, they were discovered as soon as they acted to flee. That time, the four men were beaten seriously. It was miserable, and after that, they didn't dare to have any more thoughts of running away.

I lowered my voice and said, "Don’t think about escape, unless we can leave the island completely. Otherwise, even if we were to escape from here, we would be chased and troubled by the aborigines. That means we still have to find opportunities to negotiate with them. "

Li Wanxue said: "I don't think this trick will work."

I firmly said: "Trust me, it will work. At breakfast, you will go and talk to the chief, as long as he opens the conditions."

Li Wanxue stared at me, there are doubts floating in her clear eyes. In the end, she promised to follow my instructions.

We scraped the grass for two hours, and when we returned, every of us carried a bundle.

When I returned to the tribe, I saw that the people in the tribe were dangling outside, seeming to have nothing to do. The rope in our hands was finally untied. Li Wanxue led me and Zhang Yutong, holding the grass to feed the livestock.

After finishing the work, we returned to the hay house in the barn, where nine rice bowls made of wood had been placed. It was filled with sweet potatoes and some fat.

The muscular men, like a lunch box, took one, sat down and ate directly with their mouths. There is no difference with the pig eating something.

I was in a daze with my rice bowl. The shape is basically a mini pig trough. The key is not to give any tableware. You can only eat in the way of pigs.

Li Wanxue buried her head and took a bite of the sweet potato. Seeing that Zhang Yutong and I were in a daze, they said in a puzzled way: "Why don't you eat? Eat quickly, and work later. There will be another meal in the afternoon, but there will be nothing to eat in the evening."

I said, "Isn't this feeding people as animals?"

Li Wanxue's cheeks flushed and she looked very aggrieved.

The dissatisfaction in my heart can only be hidden in my heart, so I turned my head and said to Zhang Yutong: "Just eat it for we have no ways, we can't starve to death here."

Zhang Yutong hummed, lowered her head and took a small bite.

My life before with Zhang Yutong was not too bad, and we didn't eat much for thin lunch. But everyone else ate the food in the mini pig trough. The three women are unambiguous when they eat the fat. But what I see is that every of them has lost a lot of weight.

"Lu Fei, you can't eat it all, right?" Li Ding suddenly laughed at me.

I understood what he meant and stretched out the mini pig trough. He hurriedly got up and ran over and poured the rest of my food into his mini pig trough. Upon seeing this, the eldest brother and the man in glasses shot Zhang Yutong's hand at the same time to grab her food. But all the food fell on the hay. But the two of them didn’t feel it was too dirty at all, so they put them in their mini pig troughs and eat it quickly.

Zhang Yutong looked at me helplessly: "Brother Lu Fei, in order to save your Manager Li, we have lost a lot this time."

I coughed for embarrassment. She targeted at Li Wanxue so much, it would be more difficult for me to be caught in the middle of them.

"Don't call me Manager Li." Li Wanxue said unwillingly: "There is no manager here."

Zhang Yutong smiled at her and said, "Sister Wanxue, brother Lu Fei has always called you Manager Li, but I don't have one."

Li Wanxue looked at me with a serious face.

"From now on, I will just call you Wanxue." I actually don't want to call her that all the time, but I've been calling her for several years and I'm used to it.

Li Wanxue smiled slightly, stood up and said: "Let's go, I will take you to see the chief."

"I want to go with you too." Zhang Yutong got up and followed us immediately.

"You can't go, if there are too many people to go, they won't agree with us." Li Wanxue walked directly among us, took my hand and walked outside.

I also grabbed her hand.

Walking out of the barn, the aborigines guarding the outside directly pointed their spears at us. After Li Wanxue explained, one of them led us.

The chief's house is exactly the same as the other houses. I couldn't see the special status of him at all.

After the aboriginals went in and informed them, the chief and a young woman walked out. The woman was about 20 years old, brown skin, thin body, wearing underwear grabbed from us.

At first I thought she was the chief's daughter, but when I saw the chief holding her small waist, I realized that she was probably the chief's little wife.

The chief did not allow us to enter the house, and he asked servants to take two bamboo chairs out. After sitting down with the woman, he asked us what's the matter.

Li Wanxue shook my hand and said, "You can say what you want to say directly, and I will try my best to help you translate what you will say."

I nodded and said to the chief: "I want to take my woman away."

Li Wanxue glared at me: "Who is your woman?"

"You." Although we haven't become a real husband and wife, at least we have had close contact with each other. I don't need to tweak like before.

At this time, the chief's little wife murmured with an ugly face, and Li Wanxue hurriedly translated what I said.

The chief told me contemptuously that they hadn't caught a prisoner for many years and it was impossible to let us go.

I pointed to the barn and said, "In addition to the two of us, there is the girl who was arrested with me yesterday. The three of us have to go. You can remain the rest of us as your slaves. You can think about it. Think about it, you can ask something, and I will try my best to do it. If I can do it, you will let the three of us go. If I can't do it, we will be at your disposal."

The chief still ignored it. But his little wife seemed to think of something. After talking with a smile, the chief nodded as expected. It's a pity that he made several requests. I can't help it. One is to let me make the kind of tableware we bring, and the other is to let me make clothes for modern people, especially women's clothes.

Seeing that I couldn't do the same, the chief was even more disdainful.

When the chief’s wife saw this, she gave another idea and asked me to help them eliminate the human-faced monkey on the island.

I don't know what a human-faced monkey is, and Li Wanxue doesn't understand either. Fortunately, I quickly reacted, guessing that she was talking about the beast that can only jump on the tree and drag a long tail.

After I described the characteristics of the beast, the chief's little wife nodded repeatedly. That guy was not easy to deal with, but I nodded and agreed.

The chief had a look of horror and looked incredible.

I'm afraid he doesn't believe it, so I hurriedly stated that I would be able to do it.

He pondered for a moment and said: "If you can really kill that guy, I can let you take your woman. I can even accept you to live in our tribe without being a slave."

Seeing that he agreed, I suppressed the joy in my heart and said, "There is absolutely no problem, but I need a helper."

After the chief responded, Li Wanxue frowned.

"Why, didn’t he agree?" I asked.

Li Wanxue shook her head, bit her lip and said, "No, he asked you to take Zhang Yutong away. Whenever you kill the human-faced monkey, you can take me away."

"You tell him, it's okay." I don't want to take the others.

Li Wanxue looked somewhat unhappy.

After the communication, I asked the chief to tell me more about the beast, so that I would be more confident in dealing with it.

The chief's expression darkened, and after looking at the distance for a long time, he said that the beast appeared on the island a few years ago.