Chapter 4050 Escorting Away

Having helped the people of Changguguo village deal with the Bashe snake, we had become the most honored guests in the village.

Walking behind these tall, stocky people, I felt like a little dwarf. They were all so tall and strong, I felt like they could crush me with a single step.

There were quite a few people in the village, all standing not far away watching us. In their eyes, we were probably rare sights, and they were looking at us like we were monkeys in a zoo.

Following Chief Bengka, we arrived at a large wooden building.

Once inside, there were tables, chairs, and benches in the house, but we couldn't reach them.

That one stool could fit all of us.

After Chief Bengka entered the house, he said, "Please sit down." But seeing that we were still standing, he felt a little awkward. So he took out a cushion made of some kind of animal skin and placed it in front of us, asking us to sit on it.

At the entrance to the house of the chieftain Bengka, a large group of people from the Longgu Kingdom gathered, craning their necks to look inside.

So, they weren't satisfied with just looking at us from outside, so they came to the doorway to carefully examine us little rascals.

Bengka immediately waved to the people from the Long-legged Kingdom at the door: "Disperse, everyone. Quickly finish cleaning up those Bashes and store them away. It'll be enough for our village to eat for a long time."

At his command, the people of the Longgu Kingdom left one after another, leaving only Chief Bengka and his eldest grandson in the house.

After everyone had left, Chief Bengka asked, "Gentlemen, you said you were passing by here, where do you plan to go?"

We had already prepared our story, just like we told the chieftain of the Nie'er Kingdom: we were going to the Guanxiong Kingdom to find a friend, and that our friend was a doctor who specialized in treating the nobles of the Guanxiong Kingdom, and so on.

The job of conning people is naturally left to the disheveled Taoist priest; his silver tongue is enough to fool anyone into losing their bearings.

Whether the Bengka chief believed this explanation or not, after a moment, the Bengka chief solemnly said, "It won't be easy for you to pass through our Changgu Kingdom. Not only our Changgu Kingdom, but every country in this Fire Domain is very hostile to foreigners. Don't be fooled by our proximity to the Maomin Kingdom and the Di Kingdom. As long as their people step into our territory, they will all be killed. If you hadn't helped our people kill that Bashe, our people would have been very rude to you when you got here."

The slovenly Taoist priest's eyes darted around, and he immediately came up with an idea. He pretended to be very anxious and said, "Chief Bengka, we came here to take our friend back. Now that you say that, it seems we won't be able to leave this Longgu Kingdom."

After saying that, the slovenly Taoist priest sighed with feigned seriousness.

Bengka said, "Actually, escorting you out of Changgu Kingdom is not difficult for me. I can personally escort you out of here, but I can only take you to the border of Maomin Kingdom. As for where you go after that, I can't help you. We have rules between us and we can't easily step into the territory of another country."

Upon hearing this, we were all secretly delighted. It had to be a slovenly Taoist priest; he was sure to be able to fool us.

At this moment, the slovenly Taoist priest immediately said, "Chief Bengka, I'm so sorry, how could I let you escort us? Let's go on our own."

"It's alright, it's just a few more days of travel. If it weren't for your selfless rescue and help us get rid of that Bashe, probably few of our people would be alive now. We are grateful and not ungrateful people. Rest assured, I will definitely escort you safely out of Changgu Kingdom," Chief Bengka said sincerely.

Immediately, we bowed and expressed our gratitude to Chief Bengka.

Now that Chief Bengka is willing to see us off, we no longer need to sneak around. We can travel during the day and rest at night.

In this way, we can save ourselves a lot of trouble.

After the matter was settled, it was already dark. Chief Bengka naturally wanted us to stay overnight and then send us away early the next morning.

There was definitely a program in the evening. The people of Changguguo specially organized a banquet to thank us, and the food at the banquet was very plentiful.

I saw a lot of fruit and meat on the table.

Honestly, I saw a bunch of fruit that looked like grapes, each grape as big as an apple.

Their fruit is similar to an apple, but about the size of a watermelon.

Yuan Kong, with his appetite, only needs two grapes to feel full.

With Xiao Pang's appetite, he wouldn't be able to eat much in this village of Changgu.

As for meat, there was naturally some snake meat served, but we didn't eat any of it; we just ate some other food.

All of us combined don't eat as much as a child from the Longgu Kingdom.

After eating and drinking our fill, we had some fun with the people from Changgu Kingdom. Then, Chief Bengka arranged for us to go to a room. Since we had slept a lot during the day, we weren't very sleepy at night.

We've only just arrived here, and we've already encountered so many dangers. I really don't know what else will happen on the road ahead.

We chatted for a long time in one room before finally falling asleep.

The next morning, when we woke up, we saw that Chief Bengka had already made preparations.

He wasn't the only one escorting us out of Changgu Kingdom; he brought along seven or eight men from Changgu Kingdom as well.

I saw that those people all had a basket on their backs, and at first I thought it contained luggage.

To our surprise, after we got there, the chief of the Bengka tribe made us crawl into their baskets, as they were going to carry us away from the Longgu Kingdom.

Good grief, this is treating us like we're not normal people, or even human beings.

The chief of the Bengka tribe explained to us that we should leave this place in a way that was not too obvious. As long as we crawled into the baskets, we would not be easily discovered by the other people of the Longgu Kingdom, thus avoiding any unexpected trouble.

Also, the Bengka chieftain disliked our short legs and slow walking, so they carried us on their backs and were able to get us to the border of the Maomin Kingdom ahead of time.

What he said made perfect sense, so we had no choice but to jump into their baskets like children and let these people from the Long-legged Country carry us.

The basket has large gaps, so even when you're squatting inside, you can still see the scenery outside.

Chief Bengka thoughtfully placed a soft cushion made of animal hide inside the basket, so that one could not only sit but also lie down. He was truly considerate.

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