The air that has been washed by the heavy snow has a sweet smell when you breathe it. Although it is cold, it is very refreshing. The surrounding scenery is beautiful, with the wolf cubs that have just grown silver fur and a group of young hunters.
, the colorful girl, the scenery is ready for painting. The only flaw is that the young people do not have any prey in their hands. This is not because of their poor shooting skills. From the moment they leave the camp gate to the moment they run, Ganluo starts to stick out his tongue.
Until they took a breath, no prey appeared in their sight.
"Perhaps the recent hunting spree has scared away all the wild beasts around the tribe!" Eru gently twisted her nose, the smile on her face as bright as the sunshine after the first snowfall.
"Thousands of people take turns hunting, and even the most courageous beast will move quickly!" Xu Dayan made a joke that was not very clever. When Eru was around, his wisdom always declined rapidly. Sometimes it showed
His level of "stupidity" can even be compared with that of Li Xu.
"Why don't we all go further and try our luck at Crescent Lake. The lake doesn't freeze in winter. When it's cold, there are always wild beasts going to the lake to eat grass roots!" Su Chudu'er suggested loudly. So many people were empty-handed.
When you return home, you will definitely be secretly laughed at by your tribe. Besides, you don’t have much dried meat anymore. If you kill sheep indiscriminately, you will be scolded by the elders in your family as a waste.
"That side is already far away from our camp. Once we encounter someone who is being teased by Suotou, it will be a bit troublesome!" A'Silan is the oldest among the group of people, and his opinions are also the most prudent.
Tao Kuo took off his silk, Duer and others stopped talking and focused their attention on Xu Dayan's face. This man was recognized as a wise man in the tribe, and his suggestions were the most influential in the team.
Xu Dayan saw the expectations in everyone's eyes, especially Li Xu. This good brother must have been holding back for a long time to wash away the shame of his defeat. Looking back at the gentle and considerate Eru, his heart gradually softened.
After thinking for a while, he said hesitantly: "There shouldn't be any trouble. The distance between their camp and Crescent Lake is several times that of ours. Even if we meet Xi Ren who comes out to hunt in the snow by the lake, both parties don't know each other's details.
Reasonable people will not stir up trouble easily!"
"Okay, let's go to Crescent Lake and try to get back before dark. Pada is pregnant again, and I just happened to go collect some star iron by the lake (Note 1), so that I can help the child when he is born.
Knife!" A'silan pondered for a moment and answered readily.
The timing of my wife's pregnancy is good. If she gives birth to a boy, I hope he will be as smart as his husband and as lucky as his separated brother. Aslan, who is going to be a father again, has the same burning eyes as when he heard that his wife was pregnant for the first time.
The harsh and changeable climate on the grassland has caused the tribe's population to never be prosperous. Therefore, in the eyes of the herdsmen, a woman's pregnancy and childbirth are more important than getting married and celebrating the birthday of the elderly. When everyone heard that Aslan's wife was pregnant, they gathered around her.
He went up to congratulate him. After congratulating him, he blamed him for not telling everyone earlier, otherwise he should have stayed at home to take care of his wife in such a cold weather. Who would dare to shamelessly drag him out to hunt!
"It's only been 20 days? It hasn't hindered her movement. Besides, Pade's body has always been strong and the bones are strong. The more she moves, the more pain she will have to endure when giving birth to children in the future!" Aslan waved her hand and answered with happiness on her face.
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"It's only been twenty days, no wonder I didn't see Sister Pade's belly getting bigger. Aslan, how do you know it's only been twenty days? Have you already asked Elder Etuo to take a look?" Tao Kuotaosi clapped his hands and said,
He asked with his eyes widened. Elder Etuo is the oldest wise man in the entire tribe. He is responsible for all the complex and mysterious tasks such as offering sacrifices to the Suchu tribe, seeing doctors, and dispensing medicines for animals. Aslan said that his wife is pregnant with her second child.
After more than ten days, in the eyes of the girl, this must be the conclusion reached by Elder Etuo after communicating with Changshengtian.
"This? No need to bother Elder Tuo, I figured it out!" Aslan was a little embarrassed by the question and started scratching his scalp.
"How did you calculate that?" Tao Kuo's curiosity was suddenly piqued, and his eyes were even bigger than Xu Maogong's.
"Haha!" Duer, Cai Tiaotai, and Basimi burst into uncontrollable laughter. While laughing, they asked Aslan to answer this question seriously.
"A'Silan, how did you calculate it? Don't hide it, teach everyone how to calculate it!" Duer winked at A'Silan while holding his stomach.
"God of immortality!" Aslan was asked and wanted to hit the wall. After a while, he blushed and explained: "This, this is a bit difficult. When you grow up, you will naturally understand!"
"It seems like you are much older than me!" Tao Kuo spat, and a red cloud floated on his face. From the expressions of everyone, she guessed that she must have made an extremely childish mistake. Otherwise, Duer
The smile on the other person's face wouldn't be so weird. She remembered this expression very well. When Sister Eru heard that she had gone to the guest tent, but Fu Li was so scared that she ran away, the smile on her face was exactly the same.
Thinking of his embarrassment in front of his sisters that morning, Tao Kuo's "anger" turned into a prairie fire. He turned around to find trouble with Li Xu, only to find that the dizzy young man and Xu Dayan were pestering Eru.
, kept asking him questions about Star Iron.
"Star iron is the iron stone given to the shepherds by the God of Immortality. You don't understand this. You are so stupid!" Tao Kuo interrupted angrily.
"My master is knowledgeable, and I would like to learn from you!" Li Xu clasped his hands in front of his chest, assuming the posture of a young scholar accepting advice from a wise man. This was a trick he had summed up through many days of practice to deal with Tao Kuo's loss of silk. As long as he put it
If the scholar shows his poor energy and adds a few sentences, the barbarian girl will definitely run away.
Sure enough, when Tao Kuo took off his clothes and saw that Li Xu suddenly turned into a little scholar, all the anger was instantly frozen in his body. His eyes widened and his teeth itched with hatred, but he couldn't think of a good response.
words.
"The ground near Crescent Lake is warm, and the snow always melts with it. After being washed by snow water, the original color of the stone is easy to show. So today is a good time to find the star iron! Everyone, walk faster and help me together.
Silan, look for it!" Duer was so angry when he saw Tao Kuo taking off his clothes that his eyes were red, and he quickly changed the topic elsewhere.
Aslan was wondering why Tao Kuo's face changed color in an instant. Seeing Duer suddenly riding away, he suddenly remembered the joke about attachment that had been spread throughout half of the tribe recently. He knew that his sentence "Wait a minute"
When you grow up, you get into trouble, stick out your tongue, and ride your horse to chase Duer.
Seeing several other people running away, Tao Kuo Tuosi felt even more embarrassed. He wanted to give that annoying idiot a blow on the head with a riding crop, but was afraid of hitting him too hard, so he never wanted to pay attention to him again. After thinking about it,
I was so aggrieved that my eyes began to blur.
"We Xi people live by water and grass, and we will not always be stationed in the same camp. Therefore, our ancestors did not leave any wisdom about mining, and the herdsmen did not have time to mine iron ore!" Eru looked at the kittens and puppies in front of her.
The boy, who was snarling nonsense, smiled and picked up the horse's reins, standing between the two of them.
"Aslan is now starting to accumulate star iron. By the time Sister Pade gives birth to his son, he will probably be able to make a machete. A man on the grassland has a good knife, just like an eagle growing wings! Let's speed up.
, don’t be left behind by Aslan and the others!”
This is the reason why Aslan wanted to find star iron. Herders do not know how to mine, so all iron tools are either bought from the plains, or rely on collecting iron stones scattered on the grasslands while grazing. That kind of iron is called star iron by the ancestors of the Lin people.
Although the black stone is small, it takes dozens or even hundreds of dollars to make a scimitar. But the quality of the sword is excellent, the blade is sharper than a scimitar made of ordinary iron, and the toughness of the blade is also
better.
The only fly in the ointment is that the little thing is hard to come by. Many herdsmen wandering the grassland for a whole year may not be able to pick up enough materials to make a machete.
The group of people laughed and ran for more than seventy miles. Both the horses and the people were sweating, but they did not feel tired. As they ran, the sound of horse hooves in their ears was gradually replaced by the sound of running water. Everyone knew that Crescent Lake
It's right in front of you.
It was an extremely beautiful lake. Whether it was the ignorant Li Xu or the well-informed Xu Dayan, the moment they saw the lake for the first time, they opened their mouths and softly let out a sigh of admiration.
Beauty, not ordinary beauty. The river upstream is frozen for thousands of miles, and the river downstream is covered with snow. Only this lake with a radius of more than 20 miles lies like a blue gem among thousands of miles of snow. The cold wind blows
Passing by, smoke slanted across the water, lingering and disturbing, as if an immortal was burning incense and playing strings among the blue waves.
Li Xu jumped off the horse, rushed to the shore of the lake in three steps at a time, stretched out his hand to grab a handful on the smoke wave. A bone-breaking cold immediately penetrated into his bones.
"Ah, it's so cold!" Li Xu, who had been preparing to touch the warm water, shook his fingers and jumped on his feet.
"Stupid, this water is just warmer than snow, that's why you see smoke coming out. If you throw a wild fruit in it in summer, you can freeze your teeth after taking it out after a while!" Tao Kuo took off his clothes and saw that Li Xu had been fooled.
, became happy again, pointing at the lake with a riding crop to introduce.
"It's so majestic and amazing! If you hadn't been outside the Great Wall, you wouldn't have known that there is such a grand place in the world!" Xu Dayan closed his eyes and opened his arms on the horse. This trip was worthwhile. Not only did he gain experience, but he also gave him many years of experience.
I found opportunities to practice the art of war that I had studied so hard. I also met a few good friends and saw scenery I had never seen before.
Traveling thousands of miles is like reading thousands of books. The ancients are honest and don't deceive me. Only seeing this empty field can arouse the pride in people's hearts. Only in these thousands of miles of ice and snow can people see their hearts more clearly.
Dream. Xu Dayan waved his arms, his smile showing a bit of youthfulness and frivolity.
"If you come here in the summer, it's even more beautiful. There are wild flowers everywhere, and even the fish in the lake want to jump out and smell the flowers. If it's at night, the stars in the sky and the stars in the water are almost right next to each other.
, If you don’t look carefully, you can’t tell who’s reflection is whose!” Seeing that the guests were so appreciative of the grassland scenery, Eru introduced them with a bit of pride.
This lake has left countless good memories for the girl. Last summer, it was at this lake that she met Bacoruo from the Chunyu tribe. That boy was the youngest clan leader among the dozens of tribes nearby. The entire summer
The wind was very intoxicating, and the stars above our heads were exceptionally bright.
"When spring comes next year, he will come to marry me with drinks in hand!" The girl's eyes were full of expectation for the future. Looking back at Xu Dayan, the expectation was mixed with a bit of confusion. (To be continued)
