Yehe City has basically not changed at all from when he left twelve years ago. The thick and solid city walls are like loyal guards, sticking there day and night, and the houses and streets here are

It was so familiar, but Shuotuo didn't bother to appreciate the feeling of time correction at this time.

At this time, Shuotuo's mind was completely occupied by Dong Ge's lonely back and lonely eyes. He wanted to reach Dong Ge as quickly as possible, and his heart was beating harder and harder as the distance got closer.

It became intense.

At this time, Dong Ge was sitting on the bed with a sad expression. At the same time, a black python that was two meters long and as thick as an arm was coiled around Dong Ge's side, occasionally rubbing its head against Dong Ge's side.

From time to time, the long snake letter came out from my brother's shoulder.

The whole scene has an extremely strange aura to it. If one had not seen it with one's own eyes, no one would believe that such a beautiful and weak woman could stay so close to a giant python.

"Xiao Hei, there is still no news about Brother Shuo Tuo. Where can he be now? I know he is still alive, but why doesn't he come to see me?" Brother Dong said to himself while stroking Xiao Hei.

Said eloquently.

The black python seemed to be able to understand people's words. It gently rubbed its head against Brother Dong's cheek, but then it twitched a few times in an extremely unnatural way and crawled onto the bed.

"Are you still feeling uncomfortable? I know you feel uncomfortable, but Mr. Peng still hasn't found out about the century-old black bear fruit. If he still can't find it by next month..."

Brother Dong's eyes were so empty, as if he was looking into the distance. While gently stroking Xiao Hei, he was talking to himself. In the end, he just started sobbing, and his tears seemed to stop.

Threaded pearls are usually dripping from the cheeks one by one.

If they hadn't seen it with their own eyes, perhaps no one would believe that the most beautiful Jurchen woman who enjoyed being surrounded by thousands of people and always looked aloof, cold and unapproachable in front of outsiders was actually so fragile and lonely, so lonely that she could only

Confess your true feelings to a python.

Unfortunately, Brother Dong didn't know that Shuotuo, whom she had been looking for for twelve years, was outside her room at this moment, and everything she just said fell into Shuotuo's ears verbatim.

"A hundred-year black bear fruit, a hundred-year black bear fruit!"

Shuotuo, who returned to his room again, kept repeating this word in his heart, as if he was possessed, because this is the only thing that can save Xiao Hei, and more importantly, Mr. Peng can't find it anywhere.

Shuotuo knew where to find the things he found.

In Northeastern dialect, the black bear fruit is also called the black blind fruit. Because it looks a bit like a sheep's udder, it is often called the goat's milk fruit. Its scientific name is the indigo fruit. It often grows on river banks, swamp shrubs or alpine forests.

.Indigo fruit likes a cool and humid climate and has strong cold resistance, and can even withstand severe cold weather of more than 40 degrees below zero.

It is distributed in the Changbai Mountains of Jilin Province, the eastern mountainous areas of the Daxinganling Mountains of Heilongjiang Province, eastern Heilongjiang (in Boli County), Inner Mongolia, North China, northwest China, Sichuan and other places. In addition, it is distributed in the Russian Far East, Japan and northern North Korea.

The Heixiazi fruit tastes sweet and sour, and can be eaten directly or soaked in wine. Many Jurchen tribes

During the autumn harvest season, black bear berries are picked and made into wine.

You know, this kind of shrub fruit matures once a year. Even if no one picks it, the fruit will ripen and fall off, and new fruit will grow next year. However, the century-old black bear fruit is completely different. The century-old bear fruit here is not the black bear fruit.

A hundred years, but if the fruit is a hundred years old, that means it will take a hundred years for the fruit to grow.

The tree body of this kind of century-old black bear fruit is much smaller than that of ordinary black bear fruit trees. Each tree can only bear twenty or thirty trees at most, although it does not look much different from ordinary black bear fruit in appearance.

There is a difference, but under the moonlight at night, it will show a sapphire-like light, and after the hundred-year-old black bear fruit is picked, it will never rot even if it is left for a hundred years.

Although the century-old black bear fruit does not have the effect of curing people's flesh and bones, it has extremely miraculous effects on some strange diseases caused by imbalance of yin and yang.

Two years ago, when Nurhachi's tribe was fighting other tribes, because the tribe's position was easy to defend and difficult to attack, Nurhachi ordered Shuotuo to lead people to find a more favorable attack route.

In order to complete the task assigned by Nurhachi, Shuotuo's team searched for nearly a month before learning about a little-known path from a local hunter. In order to explore that path, Shuotuo almost fell off a cliff.

But it was precisely because of that accident that he discovered the existence of the century-old black bear fruit.

On the one hand, the urban environment in that place was extremely dangerous, and there were many strange beasts. On the other hand, Shuotuo was still shouldering the task entrusted by Nurhaci at that time, so he did not go to pick the century-old black bear fruit. He did not expect that this time

Time turned out to be the key to healing Xiao Hei.

Shuotuo always felt that God had been kind to him. That place was only about ten days' journey from Yehe City. If he hurried on, he could get back in about twenty days.

If it weren't for the city ban, I'm afraid Shuotuo would have rushed out of Yehe City long ago, but now he had to fall into waiting again. It's just different from before. Now the waiting is not the night, but the coming of day.

However, fate often plays tricks on people in the world. When Shuotuo brought the century-old black bear fruit back to Yehe City with scars all over his body, it was already the 22nd day since he left. Although to ordinary people, this is just...

It was less than a month, but for Shuo Tuolai and Brother Dong, one day was enough to become the time between them that could never be crossed.

One day ago, just one day ago, Xiao Hei, the python that he and Dong Ge had raised since childhood, did not wait until Shuo Tuo came back with the century-old black bear fruit, and this finally became the last straw that overwhelmed Dong Ge's heart.

, she finally agreed to the marriage proposal of the Mongolian leader Mang Gurtai, and soon she would marry far away from Mongolia.

"Why didn't I come back one day earlier? I could have come back one day earlier!"

After hearing the news, Shuotuo felt that he was gradually being separated from the whole world, and his whole person seemed to be hollowed out. He even didn't hear what Mr. Peng and others said to him when he came back.

He walked straight back to the room that had been arranged for him before, and then he collapsed on the bed. Tears flowed down Shuotuo's cheeks like a fountain, and his heart continued to twitch with the gush of tears.

, this feeling at this time is far better than when he gave up to kill

Nurhachi felt heartbroken a hundred times, a thousand times.

"Master, him?"

An attendant next to Mr. Peng obviously didn't know what happened to Shuotuo, and asked Mr. Peng in surprise.

"Let's go first!"

Looking at Shuotuo who was covered in scars and returned like a walking corpse, although Mr. Peng didn't know what happened in the past few days when he was missing, but for a tough man to be like this, something extremely important must have happened.

His experience told him that no matter who tried to persuade Shuotuo at this time, it would have no effect. They could only wait for him to slowly get up, but this process would definitely not be short.

However, to Mr. Peng's surprise, Shuotuo rushed out of his room in the afternoon of that day. Although his eyes were still empty, there was a hint of expectation and determination.

.

"Great Master, the sinner Shuotuo wants to see you!" Shuotuo said, lying respectfully in front of a felt tent.

If they hadn’t seen it with their own eyes, no one would have believed that there was such a quiet and simple place at the foot of the mountain outside the bustling city of Yehe, and they would never have imagined that this simple yurt could no longer be simple.

The person living there turned out to be Ye He's great mage.

Just as Shuotuo finished speaking, a slightly older figure walked out of the yurt. At this time, the Archmage's face did not have the complicated and slightly scary patterns on his face like when he was offering sacrifices.

, his face looks a little old at this time, but his eyes are like stars under control, giving people a clear and bright feeling.

"Shuotuo! It's really you!"

The Archmage quickly came to Shuotuo and helped Shuotuo up. Although Shuotuo's appearance was now difficult to distinguish due to scars, the Archmage still confirmed Shuotuo's identity at a glance.

"Shuo Tuo has no face to face you!"

Looking at the Archmage who was full of joy at this time, Shuotuo felt as if something was stuck in his throat, and his burly body bowed before the Archmage again.

Looking at Shuotuo in front of him, the Archmage's thoughts seemed to go back to more than 20 years ago in an instant. Shuotuo, who was still a young man, knelt down in front of him respectfully like this, but Shuotuo was always beside him at that time.

That girl is as quiet and beautiful as the bright moon at night.

"Oh, why did you just come back! Come on, come with me, tell me how you have lived these years, and how did you get this injury!"

Thinking of this, the Archmage couldn't help but let out a long sigh, and the joy in his eyes was instantly tainted with a bit of regret and loneliness. He gently touched Shuo Tuo's head, and while speaking, he turned around and walked towards the yurt.

In the simple yurt, accompanied by the swaying candlelight and the crackling sound, Shuotuo slowly told the Archmage about the twelve years he had disappeared...

"No, this is absolutely not possible! I will not agree to it!"
Chapter completed!