north of the north

"Look, what is that?" Chang Wuyong pointed to a "window" inlaid with ice cubes at the top of the igloo.Just now, a magical color was flashing.

"What?" Freya turned around.

"Wow!" Freya exclaimed, "It's the tail of the holy fox, Anas, let's go out and see."

When Chang Wuyong followed Freya out, he found that everyone had already escaped.And they are looking up, mouth open, looking in the direction of the sky.

Countless magnificent rays of light splashed on the black sky like swimming cloth, they flowed, danced, and spread generously.They are extremely far from the ground, but it feels like they are about to envelope them.All kinds of colors are mixed together, some are winding, some are stretching, and some are gathered into a ring.Every moment is different, the beauty of the last second will change its posture in the next second.

Often useless feeling a kind of natural vastness, a kind of inexplicable moving.

It's really... it's like a gift.

Chang Wuyong didn't expect that she could see the aurora.

"I really didn't expect to see the tail of the holy fox again..." Chang Wuyong heard Freya murmur.

"The tail of the holy fox?" Chang Wuyou asked.

Freya's eyes reflected the color of the aurora, and she said: "My mother told me that watching the tail of the holy fox with the person I like is a very, very happy thing... What my mother said is absolutely right."

Chang Wuyong didn't dare to look at her hot eyes, those pure blue eyes, as if lit by the aurora splashing colors.

Until Chang Wuyong woke up the next morning in Fuliya's warm embrace, she still seemed to be able to feel the burning sensation in Fuliya's eyes.

Chang Wuyong deliberately discussed with Dada on the way back to store food for winter.

As the conversation begins, Chang Wuyu realizes that the truth is more grim than she imagined.Every year, the tribe goes to the grassland trading station set up by the Bru merchants by the sea to make transactions. During the transaction this year, Mamma asked them to bring all the furs that could be traded, and use them all in exchange for food.While they were doing the business, the remaining hunters worked hard, but only got one injured baby seal, two white foxes, and seven or eight fish.

The transaction Dada mentioned was the one when Chang Wuyong met them.Chang Wuyong remembers that they walked for 10 days on the way back, and according to Dada, when they met Chang Wuyong, they had already walked half of the way.In other words, for at least a month or so, this tribe of twenty or so people had gained almost nothing.

This shock is often useless.

She finally knew why she was able to win the hunting team's approval so easily that day.

Dada sighed, and continued to tell Chang Wuyou.There is indeed more game to the south, but that is the domain of the steppe people.

"You are also a prairie man." Chang Wuyou said.

"I." Dada smiled wryly, "I am a deserted prairie man. The day I came to the tribe, I held the heads of my people in my hand."

Chang Wuyong felt that Dada was not willing to say more, so she didn't ask any more.

Dada shook his head, and he quickly continued to tell Chang Wuyou that it was more difficult to find the prey than to plunge the spear into the prey's body.They often squat for a day, but find nothing, and sometimes the prey escapes far away.

"They are only as courageous as prairie lice." Dada said bitterly.

Chang Wuyong finally understood why they valued her "animal radar" so much, she suddenly felt a heavy weight on her shoulders.She didn't want them dead, yes, although she dreamed of leaving this world.However, she didn't want them to die.Dada, Oak, Uquia, Uta, Old Ram, Little Tok... and Freya.

Chang Wuyong glanced at Fu Liya, she quickly felt Fu Liya's gaze, and she gave Chang Wuyong a smile as bright as her blonde hair.Freya seemed completely unaware of her avoidance.

When they returned to the tribe, the tribe was quiet, except for a few barking dogs, no one came out to greet them.

problem occurs?

Everyone looked a little flustered.

Freya rushed into Old Ram's tent a few steps ahead, and immediately came out and shook her head to everyone.

"Old Ram never leaves her tent," Freya said solemnly.

The look of a group of people became more tense.

"Arnold." Freya untied Arnold's reins, "Look and see where everyone has gone."

Arno sniffed, and ran all the way towards the tent of the witch doctor Chiopardo.

Everyone's hanging heart was relieved at once.

"What the hell is Chiopardo doing?" Pasha complained.

Approaching Chiopardo's tent, Chang Wuyou heard a strange singing.The voice said: "Wiridon, king of the gods, Virdon, lord of the world, let your children obey your will and honor everything that happens. They came into this world without knowing, They will go away knowing nothing, they will give their knowledge, experience and memory. I implore you to return their pure souls to the embrace of the stars..."

This is…?

Chang Wuyong noticed that the faces of the people around him had all turned black.

"We're not dead yet, Chiopardo." Freya was the first to bear it, she lifted the tent and walked in.

Chiopardo's voice stopped abruptly.Chang Wuyong saw through the door curtain that he was holding a bone fragment in his hand and wearing a robe with a pattern like a crying face.And all the remaining men, women and children, including old Ram, sat around Chiopardo.

Chang Wuyong also saw a few dolls made of animal skins on the ground.

Seeing Chang Wuyong and his group, several screams of surprise came from the tent, and Chang Wuyong even heard a few sobs.

Chiopardo didn't speak for a while, he was stunned for a while, then suddenly pointed to Chang Wuyong and said, "The unknown people, get out. If it wasn't for you, nothing would happen to them. Thanks to my prayer——"

Before he could finish speaking, the people in the tent rushed out happily like a torrent.The wives beat and laughed and cried at their husbands, and the children tugged at Dad's leg and asked questions.The little Tucker who was at a loss cried with Aruna at the top of his voice, which made Aikewa busy for a while.On the other side, it was Pasha who was crying. Tana hugged Pasha to her chest like a child, and she kept patting Pasha's back with her hand.Little Tok was like a little adult. He struggled to help his crying father hold the harpoon, and comforted his younger sister with a serious expression.

The whole scene was in chaos, but the happy atmosphere couldn't be covered up no matter what.

Chiopardo was so angry that his hands were shaking. He pointed at the crowd and kept saying: "You are blasphemy, you..."

Chang Wuyong found that no one paid attention to him.

Old Lamu stood in front of Freya and Chang Wuyong with a smile. She touched Freya's head on tiptoe—Flya bent down specially—and then touched Chang Wuyong's head.

She is like a kind grandma, or grandma.Chang Wuyong doesn't have a grandma or grandma, but she thinks that if there is one, it would be nice to be like Old Ram.

"Go to my tent for soup, two little ones." Old Ram.

Of course the two agreed.

"I knew you would come back, I knew it." Old Ram said firmly as he walked, but Chang Wuyong found that her hands were trembling slightly.

After entering the tent, Old Ram lit the seal oil lamp.

She didn't go to make soup, but stared at Chang Wuyong and Fu Liya.

What's wrong?The two looked at each other suspiciously.

"Kiopardo..." Old Ram said, "Kiopardo is very wrong. He said that you are dead, and the rest of you should go to the prairie people."

"I feel... as if he really wants you to die." Old Ram said.

The dim seal oil lamps made their shadows extraordinarily long.