The Queen of Needlepoint Stunts

Chapter 8

Bai Xiaojing nodded. It was not too bad to speak out her dissatisfaction directly. "Who is that guy?" She pointed to the woman who came out to persuade her.

"She is Liuliu."

Bai Xiaojing laughed out loud. "The rumors? What a good name." She wrote it down.

The woman looked at Bai Xiaojing in confusion. She did not know what gossip was.

"What's your name then?"

"Not yet... I'm raising my sister's child now, so, no."

"How many days will it take to go to the hunting area?" Bai Xiaojing asked. "Why don't you ride a horse?" She scooped up a piece of food that looked like sweet potatoes with a spoon. It seemed that these were the wild potatoes planted by the women.

"Look, look at the fruits and vegetables soup," she said.

The woman burst into laughter. "Two days to three days, about 20,kilometers away from here. It's not too far. Don't worry." She was happy that Bai Xiaojing was worried about the autumn.

"Why isn't there a horse in the tribe?" Bai Xiaojing continued to ask, inadvertently glancing at the few children who were closest to the flame.

Because they did not have the ability to survive, they could only eat in the outermost room.

"Are they the only children who are still alive in those tribes?" Seeing their bad food and looking at her roast spine, Bai Xiaojing felt her heart burning with pain.

Although the woman didn't understand Bai Xiaojing's meaning, she still answered respectfully, "A horse needs ten steel coins, and we can't afford it." According to the woman's introduction, the original few horses in the tribe were lost in a failed hunt, and the hunters naturally couldn't come back. Therefore, the tribe's life became more and more awkward, and they couldn't afford it.

On the Great Prairie, sometimes a horse could get a new pot.

Bai Xiaojing lowered her head, and she only felt uncomfortable in her heart.

She remembered that Qiu used twenty steel coins to exchange for her, this desperate act. When a man used everything he had, including his reputation, status, and life to exchange for a woman, she really didn't know what to do.

But could a man hunt far away with his legs? Could he come back alive?

Bai Xiaojing looked into the distance, letting her thoughts drift away with the wind.

The woman got up to serve someone else, but at the moment she stood up, Bai Xiaojing grabbed her and stuffed the plate back. "Take this away."

"You!" Clarity jumped up beside them.

The whole field suddenly quieted down. Everyone was watching her or them...

###Chapter11,A sleepless Night (Part 1)

"No matter how much I hate you, I can't poison the food. There's nothing wrong with my brain," Qing said. "So, you can't insult me like this?"

"We're making big pot rice. Poisoning you means poisoning everyone. We're not that stupid." The woman who had stopped Qing Weibai jumped out and said.

"That's right, you can't doubt the humiliation of Qing Qing. This type of humiliation is an insult to all of us," said the third woman.

Bai Xiaojing smiled. She knew they were together.

When they stood up to remind her and educate her, they already knew that this was a small group with no interests. Those who had a dark face, those who had a good face, and those who had a fight, were all well-rounded.

"I don't have any suspicions." She calmly said. She stood up from the ground and walked towards the edge of the crowd. There, five skinny children were holding the bit of food they only had, currently staring at her with greed.

Bai Xiaojing put the roast meat on the table. "Autumn said that they were the hope of the tribe. I am an adult. I can eat whatever I want. The children must eat well and be nutritious to grow up."

For a moment, the entire venue quietened down. Everyone was looking at Bai Xiaojing, including Qing. The old chief's hands trembled slightly, but he covered it up perfectly. The woman who had lost her son the day before stood up and walked over with a hunting knife in her hand.

"Thank you for sharing your prey with the children, although my son is not lucky to enjoy it."

She put the hunting knife under Bai Xiaojing's neck, opened it, and cut off a small amount of hair.

"You are our hunter, and I will make your own bow. You should have your own bow," she said.

Bai Xiaojing looked at the bow on the woman's back, and then at the others. It seemed that everyone in this tribe had a bow made of their own hair. So she said, "How powerful can the bowstring made with hair be? Why don't you buy the materials of merchants or make it with animal tendon?"

Almost immediately, she received gazes from people who were looking at monsters.

The woman who made the bow looked very angry. "Are you laughing at me? Woman Qiu. We can't even afford ten silver coins for a fishhook. How can we afford an even more expensive bow material? Those composite materials must cost us a lot of money!"

She did not mention anything about the beast tendons at all.

Bai Xiaojing laughed. "Not now, but sooner or later. What do you think this is?"

She was holding a wooden box in her hand, which was as big as her palm.

"Is it the steel coin?" The woman leaned over and fell to the ground with a thud after just one glance.

"Qiu..." The woman said in a trembling voice.

"My name is Bai Xiaojing."

"Bai Xiaojing..."

After that, these nineteen upper class fishhooks were presented in front of the old chief. Even though he was well-informed, he still couldn't help but become excited.

The long-handled croak-shaped hook was very suitable for catching human fish. He picked up a fish weighing its weight, which was very light. Seawater fish was a type of inhaling food, and the lighter the hook was, the easier it was to capture them. Then he tried to test its toughness. This was a high-class fish he had ever seen. No matter how big it was, it would not be able to stand straight.

From today forth, the tribe would have a stable source of food. Children would no longer need to starve to death, tears flowing out from the elder's eyes.

"It's really something good," he muttered.

This was a night meant to be sleepless.

...

It was already deep into the night. The five moons and stars in the sky shone with brilliance, and the sounds of insects rose and fell one after another. The tribe was extremely quiet. Apart from the crackling sounds of the bonfires that had to be lit, most of the tribe's people had already fallen asleep.

In a corner of the shed area, a group of women squeezed in and used the fire in the center of the shed to ventilate the manual.

Most of these people were over 40,years old, and only two were younger.

"I've never seen a woman as audacious as her," Ah Qing said angrily, rubbing her hands. "I've never seen a woman who's so audacious. She's swaggering around with the man and waiting for us to bring her food. I've never seen one!"

Flowing around using the hemp rope, she rubbed it and said, "But, she's really capable. I've never seen a woman who can subdue a Stoneater Rat of the grassland." She looked at him with a sincere gaze.

"Exactly," said the third woman. "She's really not simple. The first day she came here, she forced her man to risk his life. The next day, she took the right to distribute food from Qing. Hey, Qing, you've been the one who distributed the food in the tribe all the time. That woman actually said in front of everyone that you didn't distribute the food well. That's really vicious."

"Anyway, her man is doing things that are uncertain of life and death outside, but she is not worried at all. We will never admit such a vicious woman. Such a woman will never have a good end," the women said unanimously.

"But everyone heard the old chief's words. He said that it was a tradition. If that woman surnamed Bai could enjoy the treatment of a man, then we..." A young woman said, looking at everyone with expectant eyes.

"Don't even think about it. The most precious thing for a person is self-knowledge," said an old woman who was about to walk. "Look at how bad Bai Xiaojing is. Bai Xiaojing? Bah, she is a w***e. Look at what she has taught a girl who was originally solid." She stared at the young woman and said, "I will never allow her to lead others astray."

Under this line of sight, the young woman lowered her head guiltily.

"But Qiu and the chief all favor her, so what can we do?" asked Roland.

"Men can't control women," the old woman said angrily. "Women, no matter whether they can do it or not, they will not be able to keep themselves safe. They will never live a good life. Believe it or not, just wait and see."

After hearing these words, Qing's expression changed even more. She gave her companion a push. The woman who had been helping Bai Xiaojing from beginning to end made her very uncomfortable.

"Why do you want to help her? Didn't you hear that? She's a bad woman. We used our bows to do it ourselves. Why don't she use them? Let her do her own thing!" Qing said angrily. Suddenly, she thought of something and changed her expression. "I know, you're the same as her, women who were bought back," she said viciously.

"All of you are women who were bought back."

The woman who made the string did not raise her head, but just continued her work.

"A person's good or bad is not judged by his or her ears, but by his or her heart." She said, but the women obviously could not listen to her. They eagerly discussed what women should do and what women should not do.

"What if she is able to continue to hunt for the tribe?" he asked.

"..." "Don't even think about it. It's enough to let her be rampant once. How can there be a second time?"

In such a small tribe, everyone did what they should do, did what they could, and absolutely could not do. These regulations were very simple. There was absolutely no one who did anything wrong. Even if there was someone who was negligent because of the forgetfulness, someone would immediately stand out to remind him.

If that person refused to listen to him, then he would be rejected by the group.

But these women all thought at the same time, what kind of methods this woman had used to confuse the chief and his son. If she had learned that method, would her men be able to listen to Qiu's orders to Bai Xiaojing?

It was a temptation like that of the demon.

The women's voices were filled with envy, jealousy, and viciousness.

###Chapter12,A sleepless Night (Part 2)

On the other side of the shack area, Bai Xiaojing heard these dialogues clearly due to sound insulation problems.

"Can't these people keep their voice lower when talking bad things?" She thought with embarrassment. "However, it's better to say it out loud and clearly than those who do bad things in their hearts."

"That Miss Liu is so scheming and vicious. She must be..."

"And that... archer woman. Why don't these people give her a name? How do we differentiate her from her? The archer woman is kind and honest. But why did other people say that she was bought? Is it normal for women to be sold in this world?"

She read out the words.