Chapter 11: The Question of Breakfast
What Mo Yi'er didn't expect was that Taili Sha's shout brought over everyone who had stayed in the cave. The elderly, children, and women who were doing things outside all gathered around, and their gazes at Mo Yi'er also changed a lot. Among them were uncomprehending and accusatory glances!
Sang Zhen nervously approached Mo Yier and asked her, "Mo Yier, why did you secretly hide food? Food is for everyone to share, you can't be so selfish!"
"What? San Zhen, this is the food I didn't finish eating last night, not something I've been hoarding!" Mo Yier noticed that things seemed to have taken a turn for the worse from everyone's expressions.
"If you can't finish eating, let the woman who distributes food give you less, Mo Yi'er. In our Kankan tribe, it is absolutely not allowed to secretly store food." Even the usually kind and amiable old man Kasaha's expression turned serious.
"I'm not full, I just saved it for this morning." Mo Yi'er cried with a sad face, unable to understand why they were making such a big fuss.
"Alright, let's leave this matter to the leader to handle, everyone go back to work!" After all, Kasai was still biased towards Mo Yi'er, quickly dispersing everyone and not making a big deal out of it. Otherwise, the punishment would be severe.
Everyone dispersed, and they still listened to the words of their former leader, Kasah.
Kasa, Taili Sha and Sang Zhen did not leave, they stayed by Mo Yu'er's side. Taili Sha pouted her mouth, obviously very dissatisfied with the result. "Kasa, Mo Yu'er hid food, she should be punished immediately, how can you just let it go?"
"Tai Lisha, this is the internal affairs of our clan, not your Haimu tribe. Our matters are handled uniformly by the chief." Even the good-tempered old man Kasa couldn't help but feel disgusted with Tai Lisha.
"Even if Chu Yan returns, she will still be punished. As the leader, Chu Yan will not go easy on her just because he likes her." Taili Sha said firmly, with a triumphant smile on her face. She had been watching Mo Yi'er since early morning, trying to find her weakness, and unexpectedly, she really found it.
"Do you like him? Taisa, I think you're mistaken. Yesterday was the first time I met Chuyi, he can't possibly like me!" Mo Yier thought it would be better to clarify things early on, otherwise having a woman with a grudge against her around would make her life difficult.
"What? You and Chu Yan met for the first time?" Taili Sha cleverly grasped the key to the matter: "Could it be that you're not a member of the Kan clan? Then how did you end up here? Or are you also interested in the leader, Chu Yan? I'm telling you, Chu Yan is mine, no one else can take him away." This didn't eliminate Taili Sha's hostility, but instead deepened it by several layers.
Mo Yi'er scratched his head in distress, looking at Sang Zhen and Kasuo, who also looked quite frustrated. If Yueta Lisha wasn't the daughter of the chief of the Haimu tribe, everyone would have driven her away long ago.
"Why aren't you saying anything? Hmph, with a dried-up face like yours, Chu Yan won't like you!" Taili Sasha shouted loudly at Mo Yuer, with a resentful expression.
"Fine, fine, I know he won't like me and I won't like him!" Mo Yier hated dealing with the kind of annoying and nagging woman that Taili Sha was.
"Really? You don't like him? Then who do you like?" Tairisha's eyes sparkled as she continued to seek an answer.
"I... I don't like anyone, you see I'm still so young, I won't like anyone's." For the first time, Mo Yier actually exposed her own shortcomings herself. She even found that being short and having small breasts didn't seem to be a bad thing after all.
Tai Li Sha looked up and down Mo Yi Er once again, nodded her head in agreement: "Indeed, you're not yet an adult, but you don't look like it either!"
I'm already twenty years old, alas! I think to myself, but my mouth has to say the opposite: "Yes, yes, I'm still underage, I won't think about men!"
Now, Taili Sha finally felt at ease and didn't bother to bring up the fact that Moye wasn't a member of the Kankan tribe. Her goal was simple: Chu Yan. Since Moye posed no threat to her, she naturally wouldn't make things difficult!
However, Mo Yi'er didn't know that this conversation later spread to everyone's ears, and they all treated her as an underage kid. Chu Yan also firmly believed that Mo Yi'er was lying when she said she was two years older than him yesterday.
Finally, Mo Yier's roasted meat that she saved last night was confiscated, and she was told to wait until Chief Chu Yan returned in the evening to decide on her punishment. Now, she can go out for a walk under Xia Zhi's protection.
At this moment, Mo Yu's heart is filled with both pain and joy!
Xiao Lala is a lively kid, looking around 12 or 13 years old. However, he has great strength. Early in the morning, after being told that he couldn't go hunting with them, he stayed behind in the tribe to tidy up dry firewood.
Mo Yu'er wants to go out for a walk, and he dutifully acts as a little bodyguard. Ta Li Sha, who was shouting about going out with them yesterday, didn't come out after all, and it's unknown where she went.
The two of them walked along a small path that had been trampled out for about twenty minutes, already far away from the cave, before Mo Yi'er finally let out a breath and asked Xiao Jie. "Xiao Jie, is it very serious to put food aside to eat in the morning? What kind of punishment will we receive?"
He nodded slightly, and Mo Yi'er was the one he and Fan Gong had brought back, so he especially liked Mo Yi'er: "It's very serious, we won't eat anything during the day, you're wasting it like this. But don't worry, I'll plead for you to the leader, at worst I'll help you accept the punishment."
"This, how can this be?" Mo Yier was speechless. Even if she pretended to be a minor, she couldn't let a child take her place and receive punishment instead.
"It's okay, you're a girl, we men will protect you!" Xiao Zhai patted his chest with a self-righteous expression. Mo Yier couldn't help but giggle and dropped the subject, anyway she wouldn't let Xiao Zhai take her punishment for her.
There's a saying that ignorance is no excuse for crime, but she isn't one of their own people, so how would she know about their stupid rules?
"Let's go, we'll pick some wild vegetables and see if there are any stones that can be used as pots." Mo Yier's mouth was sore and she really didn't want to keep eating roasted meat. Weren't there stone pots in ancient times? She would just try her luck.
"What's a wild vegetable? And what's a pot stone?" Xia Lala was somewhat puzzled.
"Wild vegetables are edible grass, and a pot is a container for cooking food." Mo Yier's eyes darted around, still remembering to answer Xiao Ci.
"Grass is something only wild goats and cattle eat, we haven't been reduced to eating grass yet. Mo Yier, when the chief returns I'll talk to him, so you can have food in the morning, you're a person sent by the gods, I believe everyone will agree." Xiao Ji felt very uncomfortable in her heart, thinking that her tribe wasn't treating the person sent by the gods well enough, and she must discuss it thoroughly with the chief.
