Chapter 127

The village head of Daye, accompanied by people, hurriedly arrived at the village entrance. They saw the formidable procession from Yu Village stopping at the entrance, each one staring at them with a cold gaze.

The village head of Daye almost collapsed in fear, stuttering, "Honored guests from Yu Village, may I ask if there's any business for your visit to our village?"

"Silly act?" Yu Meng coldly snorted, "Didn't you tell the Snake Clan to lead people to plunder the salt and grain in our Yu Village?"

"Misunderstanding, it's all a misunderstanding!" The village head of Daye exclaimed in terror. "We didn't say that; it's the Snake Clan who heard about the wealth of Yu Village and forced our people to take them there. We had no choice; they killed half of our villagers. If we didn't follow their orders, they would wipe out our entire village."

The village head of Daye, crying, portrayed the brutality of the Snake Clan.

In his account, they were entirely innocent, and everything was forced upon them by the Snake Clan. They were just continuously pleading for mercy.

If it weren't for the Yu Village warriors hearing the Daye village residents' story, they would almost have believed it.

"Haha, you're quite convincing with your crying. A few words, and you've detached your Daye Village from the blame, thinking it's beautiful?" Yu Meng said, pulling out a spear suddenly, pointing it at the village head of Daye with a chilling glint.

The village head of Daye trembled, visibly frightened, and involuntarily urinated.

Yu Meng and others: "..."

Yu Meng showed a disdainful expression, "You're quite a coward; no wonder you can betray others to save your life."

"It really wasn't me, not me..." The village head of Daye was scared to the point of almost fainting.

The other villagers of Daye were also terrified.

At that moment, an elderly man with a wooden staff walked out, evidently the shaman of Daye Village. He sighed, then bowed to Luyan's group.

"Noble warriors of Yu Village, this is indeed a mistake on our part. I, in order to preserve our village, betrayed Yu Village. I will bear the wrath of Yu Village; please spare the village head." The shaman of Daye said, taking out a dagger and aiming it at his own heart.

A stone flew over, knocking the dagger out of the Daye shaman's hand.

Startled, the Daye shaman looked at Luyan.

Luyan: "You show courage. I won't kill you; I'll only kill those who truly betrayed Yu Village."

The village head of Daye collapsed to the ground, unable to stand up due to weak legs. He crawled to the Daye shaman, grabbing the shaman's hand.

"Respected shaman, save me, save me!"

The Daye shaman's face turned ugly, looking at the fallen village head of Daye with eyes filled with resentment. Then he looked at Luyan, meeting the gaze that seemed to see through everything. He knew that even if he wanted to defend the village head, it was impossible now.

He knelt down toward Luyan's group, and others followed suit, fearing.

"Noble sir, this is our Daye Village's fault. Please let me die in place of the village head, and please spare the innocent villagers of Daye."

The villagers, upon seeing the situation, all started crying.

"Please don't kill the village head. I can trade everything I have for the village head's life."

"The village head did it to save us. As long as you spare the village head, we are willing to give you all our food."

Yu Meng sneered, "Don't act like we are the villains forcing you. Make it clear that your village wronged ours first."

"Exactly, and your village's food has long been plundered by the Snake Clan. What do you have to offer us?"

The Yu Village warriors retorted, making the faces of the Daye Village residents unpleasant.

"We... we have many seeds. We heard that your Yu Village has fertile land for planting. We can give you all those seeds," a Daye Village resident said.

"Seeds?" Yu Meng chuckled, about to mock the Daye Village residents. However, just then, Luyan calmly spoke up, "What kind of seeds?"

As Luyan spoke, the Daye Village shaman and others showed expressions of pleasant surprise.

The Daye Village shaman said, "Many. We traded with a traveling merchant from a distant northern village, exchanging for many unique seeds. We also collected a lot ourselves."

"Show them to me," Luyan instructed.

The Daye Village shaman immediately had someone bring out all the seeds.

Half an hour later, each household had brought out their seeds.

Even the village head, to save his life, presented the seeds he had collected.

Luyan looked at the seeds they laid out, his gaze passing over each one indifferently.

The Daye Village residents nervously watched him, afraid he wouldn't find these seeds valuable.

Indeed, Luyan didn't find them impressive. These seeds were not particularly unique. However, as he was about to withdraw his gaze and proceed according to the original plan, he noticed a particularly special seed.

This seed resembled the cotton seeds that Yu Su had once shown him.

His gaze halted, and he jumped down from the back of the desert leopard, approaching the pile of seeds in animal-skin bags, grabbing a handful to examine carefully.

After careful identification, he was certain that these were cotton seeds, the same thing Yu Su had been looking for and identical to what she had drawn for him.

"Where did these seeds come from?" The Daye Village shaman somewhat puzzledly answered, "They were a gift from that traveling merchant. He said they were seeds of some soft, fluffy white ball flowers."

He didn't quite understand why Luyan was so interested in the seeds of white ball flowers.

"Give me this bag of seeds, and I won't kill him," Luyan looked at the village head of Daye, who was trembling.

The Daye Village shaman, delighted, immediately said, "Not just this bag, you can have the others as well."

"No need," Luyan stared at the village head of Daye, saying, "If there's a next time, I will personally come to take your head."

The Daye Village head was scared, all color draining from his face. He bowed deeply, "I will never dare to do such a thing again, I absolutely won't."

Luyan coldly withdrew his gaze, picked up the bag containing cotton seeds, tied it securely, and fastened it to the back of the desert leopard.

"Back to the village."

Although others were a bit puzzled, they knew Luyan wouldn't randomly take things. The bag of seeds must be important, so they didn't say much and left Daye Village with Luyan.

The Daye Village head breathed a sigh of relief, sitting on the ground and wiping sweat.

Finally saved his life.

Damn those people from Yu Village, they were terrifying!

...

Yu Village.

Yu Su had already learned from the information brought back by the eagle that Luyan and the others were on their way back.

Calculating the time, when Luyan and the others were about to return to the village, she led people out to welcome their triumphant return.

The distant procession rumbled toward the village, and the villagers eagerly anticipated their arrival.

"It's Leader Luyan and them; they're back!"

"They must have won a great victory!"

The villagers jumped up, cheering towards the approaching procession.

When the team slowed down while crossing the bridge and finally stopped at the village gate, Luyan jumped down from the back of the desert leopard, walking towards Yu Su.

"Back, no injuries, right?" Yu Su asked gently.

"Everything went smoothly. Snake Village is destroyed, and we used something to exchange for the life of the Daye Village head," Luyan said.

Yu Su was slightly surprised. Snake Village was really destroyed?

And what did Daye Village use to exchange for the life of the Daye Village head?

Luyan first told Yu Su about what happened in Snake Village.

After hearing it, Yu Su couldn't help but sigh. She didn't expect Snake Village to end up being destroyed by their own hands.

Then Luyan asked, "What did Daye Village use to exchange?"

Luyan took off the animal-skin bag and handed it to Yu Su.

Yu Su took it, opened it, and after looking inside, exclaimed in delight, "Cotton seeds?!"

Luyan nodded, "It looks like it. I thought it should be right, so I brought it back."

Yu Su, excitedly, "You're not wrong; these are cotton seeds. This is fantastic!"

Seeing him so happy, Luyan knew the deal with Daye Village was worthwhile.

Others didn't know what cotton seeds were, and seeing Yu Su so happy, they couldn't help but ask curiously:

"Lord Yu Su, what are cotton seeds?"

"Can we eat them too?"

Yu Su happily said, "This isn't for eating; it's for use. It can replace hemp and weave soft and comfortable cotton cloth."

Cotton cloth?

Everyone became even more curious. Wasn't hemp clothing the best thing already? Could this cotton cloth be even more amazing?

Moreover, they had never heard of it before.

Yu Su: "You'll know in the future."

He was very happy. With cotton, they wouldn't have to wear rough hemp cloth anymore. To be honest, since his skin became more delicate, wearing hemp cloth always felt uncomfortable. He had long wanted to wear cotton clothes.

Luyan asked, "When can we plant?"

Yu Su replied, "It will have to wait until next year. We can start planting at the end of next spring. We need to clear a large area in the south, towards the wilderness leading to Black Bear Valley."

There was still a large area of wilderness in the south, a big stretch on the way to Black Bear Valley.

Yu Su had set her sights on that area long ago.

Luyan said, "Then let's wait until next year to plant."

With cotton seeds, a major issue was resolved, and Yu Su was very happy.

Plus, with Luyan and the others returning triumphantly.

On that night, Yu Village held a celebration feast.

During the feast, when Yu Meng mentioned the Snake Village being overwhelmed by poisonous creatures, everyone shivered one after another and urged him not to talk about it.

Yu Meng said, "I'm reminding you; absolutely no keeping poisonous creatures in the future."

"Who would want to

keep such a terrifying thing?"

"Exactly, we're not doing this just for the sake of it."

Everyone expressed their aversion to poisonous creatures.