“Who told you to bring this dish up? Raw meat is not suitable for everyone, take it down!”
Suddenly, a stern voice with sulking anger came from above the king’s chair, causing everyone in this great hall to jump in shock.
It was the teenager.
At this moment, he was looking down at the plate of sliced raw meat in front of him, a lurid gloom all over his pretty face!
Ah Lan was stunned.
She immediately looked at the chief, only to find that he, too, was looking at this son inexplicably.
“Rog, this meat, aren’t they people eating it quite well?”
“Father, they are from outside and they are traders, if they taste our delicacies here, who can guarantee that they will not come to hunt our wild deer in the future? The silver fabric can be traded, but the deer were originally wild, we can’t cooperate, and if they want it, that’s all they need.”
The teenager spoke with another expressionless face.
After the chief heard this, it finally dawned on him.
Immediately, he too grimaced and immediately scolded Ah Lan who was kneeling on the ground, “Unbridled thing, who told you to be the master of serving this dish? Why don’t you quickly remove it?”
Ah Lan: “But ……”
“How dare you disobey my order? Someone, take her down to the vine thorn! Let her learn a lesson about what she is!”
The violent chief was furious and directly ordered the men to drag the woman down and punish her severely with the prickly vine.
So everyone in the hall saw this woman screaming in terror as she was dragged off, and those foreign businessmen who couldn’t understand were basically dumbfounded one by one.
Ruo Ruo was also confused.
But soon, when she came back to her senses and found that someone had come up and removed the bloody plate of raw meat from the table, she breathed a long sigh of relief and felt relieved.
The feast lasted for about an hour or so, I think.
Finally, when it was over, everyone was ready to go and see the products.
Head of the Inner Court: “Gentlemen, since you are all full, I will show you our goods here.”
Foreign merchants: “Good ……”
Ruo Ruo, who had eaten enough, hurried to follow suit.
The group of people went out of the king’s court in great numbers, and since the goods were in the hands of the residents of the tribe, they all came out and went straight to the homes of those few residents who had been prepared for them.
Ruo Ruo accompanied the foreign businessmen, introducing them to them in fluent English as they walked.
“You see, Mr. Will, what they have here, it is all handmade, this is their dye, a gra*s, which we here call Pancake, and woad.”
The little girl introduced herself to them, head on, completely devoid of the naive look she had just been taking a big bite out of in the Great Hall.
When the foreign merchants listened, they were indeed very satisfied and became even more interested in the goods displayed in the hands of these residents.
The head of the inner court: “Don’t say that this little girl is really something, how much she knows at a young age. King, if we can succeed this time, it will indeed be a good thing for us in Vai.”
“Hm.”
The chief also finally showed an approving expression and nodded his head.
He turned around, ready to go to the next house, when he noticed his son standing next to him, his eyes actually staring at the little girl, and he didn’t say a word.
But his eyes, which had been cold and unfeeling since he was brought back, would, in fact, be able to see a bit of softness in them, like a sudden ray of sunlight sprinkled on a glacier.
The chief: “……”
“XVI Lang, it’s time to go!”
The head of the inner court noticed and hurried over to remind the young master.
The young man then snapped back to his senses and immediately withdrew his gaze as he turned away, his eyes already cold again.
The chief saw it and stared at his back suddenly a little thoughtful.
“When’s his birth date?”
“Huh?”
The head of the inner court immediately looked up at him.
“Is the king asking about the sixteenth son?”
“Hm.”
“The eighth day of the lunar month, soon, he will soon be sixteen, and before that the king said that on the day of his birth, he should also decide on a consort for him, and I have already informed those families so far.”
Again, the head of the inner court went over the preparations that had been made.
Sixteen years old was a great birth day in Vaï.
For, here, sixteen means adulthood, and those in the royal court, moreover, when they reach that age, the chief’s daughters will immediately bring the talk of marriage into the process.
The sons, of course, also have to look for a successor.
So this time around, the court has prepared for the arrival of the future heir, not only by organising his bar mitzvah, but also by choosing a number of girls to be his consort.
Like Ah Lan just now, she was one of them.
The chief nodded his head, expressing his satisfaction.
The group continued on, almost to that one household, as it was silverware now, and Ruo Ruo didn’t know much about that, so after they reached those residents’ homes, they were introduced by the head of the inner court.
She, herself, ran off to look at the crafts.
“Do you like it, little girl?”
As they were dressed differently from the residents here and had come with the foreign businessmen, these residents, upon seeing her, thought they were also foreign businessmen and, seeing her coming to the silver jewellery, asked enthusiastically.