Sang Dadan had sent someone to notify various household representatives around nine in the evening, asking them to meet at the tribal leader’s home at two in the morning. Everyone arrived at the tribal leader’s house on time.
But when they arrived, they discovered not only the tribal leader and his wife were absent, but even Sang Dadan’s two children had disappeared. These people felt something was wrong and after asking around, finally heard some clues from neighbors.
According to the neighbors, around midnight, they heard something breaking outside. Worried about a potential thief, they quietly looked out the window and saw the tribal leader’s wife standing in the courtyard.
They went out to ask Zhu Caiwei what happened and if she needed help. Zhu Caiwei said the tribal leader had gone out around ten, saying he would return soon, but there had been no news until now. She was going out to look for him.
The Chiqiong tribe members followed this explanation and searched for Zhu Caiwei. They had no dogs, but had an animal called “Ya Yan” with a very keen sense of smell.
Zhu Caiwei liked makeup and always carried a special fragrance, so they easily tracked her down, just in time to see Xia Xianning holding a sword to her neck.
Xia Xianning looked at Zhu Caiwei. His senior sister indeed had many tricks – he hadn’t said a word, yet she had successfully led the tribe members here.
But now Xia Xianning had not only come but was also seen by these people confronting Zhu Caiwei. He could almost predict that Zhu Caiwei wanted to pin a charge of murdering the tribal leader on him – the imposter Sang Dadan was likely already dead, and as for the real one in the cave…
Hmph.
Zhao Bo spoke while observing Xia Xianning’s expression. He didn’t care about the past grudges between Zhu Caiwei and Xia Xianning, but he couldn’t ignore the tribal leader’s life or death. After all, in most Chiqiong tribe members’ eyes, Sang Dadan was extremely good to Zhu Caiwei, almost to the point of being completely obedient, and might even conflict with Xia Xianning for her sake.
After explaining the entire situation, Zhao Bo added: “So we came this time actually to find the tribal leader. I wonder if you’ve seen…
