The man coughed awkwardly and said shamelessly, "Xiangjun, I wonder if you can share the rest of the porridge with us?"

When the man asked this question, almost everyone in the tent stared at her expectantly.

Chu Lian frowned, as if she hadn't expected them to ask this. She frowned and thought for two seconds, as if she had finally thought it through.

Under the man's intense gaze, she nodded unhappily, "Sure, but only I can share the porridge with you."

The greedy people didn't care so much, as long as there was food, they would be happy.

The three men looked at the thick-lipped woman with schadenfreude, but the woman glared back at them.

Sure enough, they watched as Chu Lian divided the pot of porridge into four bowls. Three of them had the same amount, while the other bowl was half full. Chu Lian puffed up her cheeks and pointed the smallest bowl of mutton porridge to the thick-lipped woman. She then walked to the side in a huff.

The tall man patted the woman's shoulder and walked away with the bowl that seemed to have the most porridge.

However, the taste of the mutton porridge was simply too fragrant. For people like them who hadn't eaten plain porridge in a long time, it was simply irresistible.

Whether it was the men or the women, when they got the bowl of porridge, they took a deep breath and buried their heads in the food.

As they buried their heads in the food, they didn't notice that Chu Lian's bowl of porridge hadn't been touched at all. She had been eating the mutton skewers on top of the porridge.

A bowl of porridge didn't satisfy their hunger at all. The three men and one woman couldn't wait to pick up the empty pot and lick it. In their eyes, Chu Lian had eaten the porridge in the pot, so there was nothing wrong with it.

Chu Lian chewed the food in the bowl slowly. After about a quarter of an hour, she sneaked a glance at the people around her.

They were leaning against the corner of the tent, not a single bit sober.

Chu Lian's excitement immediately surged. She did it, she did it in the end!

First, she pretended to be unruly and ignorant to lower their guard, then she used food to bait them. Chu Lian gently put down the bowl and stroked her chest.

She didn't dare to waste any time. She took the dagger beside her and hid it. She tightened the fox fur on her body and wrapped the leftover ingredients for the porridge.

Just as she walked to the side of the tent, she heard a hoarse and powerless voice behind her. Chu Lian's body stiffened. She turned around and saw the thick-lipped woman glaring at her fiercely. She said fiercely, "You … you actually drugged him!"

Chu Lian did not expect that the woman would not be drugged. Perhaps it was because she had eaten less porridge before.

However, even though she had not fainted, her entire body was sore and weak. She did not even have the strength to stand up.

Chu Lian understood the effect of this drug. She couldn't leave a sober woman alone in the tent. She gritted her teeth, turned around, and picked up the woman's long sword next to her. She gathered the hilt of the sword and hit the back of the woman's head.

With a soft muffled sound, the woman finally fainted.

As soon as the woman fainted, Chu Lian slumped to the ground. She dropped the sword in her hand in a panic, her forehead covered in sweat.

Chu Lian hurriedly calmed herself down. She suppressed the soreness in her legs and quickly carried her bag out of the tent.

Actually, if it was really possible, it would have been better to kill those four people while they were unconscious. However, Chu Lian did not dare to kill them. The world she had lived in had shaped her view of the world. Moreover, she was not a cold person.

She could not kill people. This was not because she was a saint, but because of her nature.

The environment she had grown up in made it impossible for her to do such a thing.

As soon as she left the tent, Chu Lian bumped into someone. This person was the barbarian woman she had seen outside the tent last night.

Chu Lian tried to dodge in a panic, but the barbarian woman grabbed her wrist.

Chu Lian was shocked. Her eyes widened as she looked at the barbarian woman. She pursed her lips, and several thoughts flashed through her mind. However, before the barbarian woman could say anything, she forced herself to calm down and did not make a sound.

If she made a sound now and let the others here know, then the fact that she had drugged the four people would be completely exposed. Then, she would not be able to control what would happen next.

Chu Lian stared at the barbarian woman in front of her in bewilderment. The barbarian woman finally said something in Chinese that was not standard.

"I'm leaving.

(I'll take you) "

Chu Lian had thought that she would shout and enter the tent to tell on them. However, she had never thought that this barbarian woman would say something like this.

Moreover, she had said it in the official language of the Great Wu Dynasty. Although it was not standard, Chu Lian understood it immediately.

Even though Chu Lian was shocked, she did not immediately trust this barbarian woman who had suddenly appeared. There was no free lunch in this world. She was not as naive and gullible as she looked.

The barbarian woman saw that Chu Lian was still frowning at her. There was not much trust in her clear eyes. She was a little anxious. This time, she said something else. This time, she only said three words.

"He Changdi!"

This time, Chu Lian was stunned. She hurriedly asked, "Auntie, you know He Changdi?"

The barbarian woman hurriedly nodded. She grabbed Chu Lian's hand and ran towards the side of the hill facing the wind.

At the bend, there was a groove covered with a thick layer of hay. A few horses and a dozen livestock were squeezed inside.

The barbarian woman brought Chu Lian to the center of the horses and hurriedly gestured at her. Chu Lian stared at her for a long time before she seemed to understand what she meant.

Chu Lian slowly said, word by word, "Auntie, you want me to wait here for you?"

Fortunately, although the barbarian woman did not understand the official language of the Great Wu Dynasty, she could still understand some simple sentences.

The barbarian woman nodded repeatedly and pressed Chu Lian into the center of the horses. The tall horses covered Chu Lian's petite figure.

After covering Chu Lian, the barbarian woman quickly ran towards the tent. Fortunately, the weather in the north was terrible. The temperature outside was extremely low, so there were very few people walking around outside the tents.

When she arrived in front of the two tents, the barbarian woman thought for a moment. She gritted her teeth and entered Chu Lian's tent first. When she saw three men and a woman unconscious in the tent, she was shocked at first. Then, she gathered her courage and went to check their breaths. When she confirmed that they had only fainted, the barbarian woman's eyes sharpened. She took a longsword from one of the men and slit their throats in one go …

Only when the last breath of the thick-lipped woman disappeared did the barbarian woman sit on the ground, panting in shock. However, she did not have time to waste.

The barbarian woman forced herself to focus and walked to the tent's curtain. She first listened for any movements outside. After confirming that no one had come out, she finally relaxed and opened the tent's curtain.

Chu Lian crouched on the horse and waited for about half an hour before the barbarian woman stumbled towards her while supporting two people.

Chu Lian hurriedly went up to them.

Only when she got closer did she realize that the two people the barbarian woman was supporting were two boys.

The older one was about seventeen or eighteen years old while the younger one was skinny and tanned. He was at most ten years old.

The barbarian woman muttered a few words to the older boy beside her. The older boy nodded and raised his head to look at Chu Lian. "Miss, my mother said that we need to leave this place immediately. Otherwise, we'll be in trouble if we're discovered."

Although the older boy did not speak the Great Wu Dynasty's official language very well, at least he had no problems communicating.

The four of them did not dare to stay for even a moment longer.

Because Chu Lian did not know how to ride a horse, in the end, the two boys could only share a horse while the barbarian woman carried Chu Lian.

With a dash of the horse, they quickly disappeared into the boundless snowstorm of the Northern Territory. In a few moments, they could no longer see their figures.

During the time that the horse was traveling, Chu Lian learned a bit about the situation from the older boy.

The barbarian woman was called Wu Lihan, the seventeen or eighteen year old boy was called Mu Ren, and the younger boy was called Narisong.

There were three people in their family. The two boys were both sick. Narisong's condition was more serious and he needed to drink medicine every day.

Their family was the most ordinary barbarian herders. Their father had passed away a long time ago, and the two children had been raised by Wu Lihan.

However, the children's health had always been poor, and their lives were difficult. Even though Wu Lihan knew that the two children did not suffer from any serious illness, they did not have the right medicine, so they could not be cured.

Originally, they did not live on that natural depression on the hillside, but somewhere else.

Winter had come suddenly this year. The snowstorm had crushed their tents, and half of the sheep they relied on for survival had frozen to death. For the sake of her sons' survival, Wu Lihan had brought them to that hillside.

She had used all the sheep they owned to exchange for a chance to stay there. Wu Lihan had brought her two sons to live there for half a month before they met the kidnapped Chu Lian.

After roughly listening to this, Chu Lian realized that the two tents on the hillside were like inns. The owner of the tents rented them to passersby. The man in the same group as Chu Lian had given the owner of the tent a bag of things, which was similar to the room fee.

Fortunately, Wu Lihan was a daughter of the grassland. She had lived in the grassland for decades, and even in the winter snowfield, she could still tell the direction.

After Chu Lian and the others had left for nearly four hours, another small group of people came to this hillside. The owner of the tent came out to welcome them with a smile, but was mercilessly kicked away.

After that, the man riding on the tall horse looked down at the tent owner disdainfully and said a few words fiercely. The tent owner hurriedly led the group of people towards the tent that Chu Lian had stayed in before.

"Sir, the person you are looking for is here. This morning, I saw someone come out to take something."

The leader of the group coldly snorted, jumped off the horse, and walked a few steps to the tent's curtain. Suddenly, the man smelled a slight fishy smell. The next second, the man's expression changed, and he lifted the curtain.

Inside the tent, four bodies were lying crookedly on the ground. Because of the low temperature, the blood had already condensed. In the whole tent, except for the four bodies, there was no sign of Jinyi Xiangjun.