Wolf Dysprosium

The closer you get to Xuelang Mountain, the more you can feel the faint heat wave coming.Jin Yan also smelled a special smell, He Lansone frowned: "What kind of smell is this?"

Jin Yan and Yue Lianlou said in unison: "Sulphur!"

The dark fire is bright red, the land is iron black, and the Blood Wolf Mountain is indeed composed of black and red.Looking at it from a distance, Jin Yan couldn't help thinking of the legends in Liang Jing: King Gao Xin and his concubine came from the sky, dressed in red and black cloaks, floating like immortals.

"Sulphur?" He Lansone asked, "What is sulfur?"

"Do you understand gunpowder?" Yue Lianlou explained to him in detail.

Zhu Ye told Jin Yan that half of Xuelang Mountain was always secretly burning with fire, and since the Gaoxin people settled here, they have coexisted with the fire.The Gaoxin people live in Xuelang Mountain on the side far away from the ground fire. Affected by the ground fire, the climate is hot and dry, and the fire is intense. The Gaoxin people dig coal and mine, smelt iron, and some people move to the east of the mountain. Cultivate where it is planted.

Coal and iron ore in Xuelang Mountain are what the Gaoxin people rely on for their survival. The Gaoxin people rely on iron smelting technology to exchange items with other ethnic groups, from food to livestock, everything that can be exchanged is exchanged with iron.

Jin Yan has been looking at the astonishingly red mountains under the blue sky, and suddenly he saw some tall shelves on the top of the mountain, and there were faint activities on them.

"Is that from Gaoxin!" Jin Yan was both surprised and delighted.

"No." Zhu Ye stared at the top of the mountain, "It's Bei Rong's army."

After Bei Rong swallowed the land of the Gaoxin people and Xuelang Mountain, they sent troops to station here, guarding the coal mines and iron mines, and supervising the work of the workers.

"Most of the workers here are criminal slaves of Beirong. You should know about the rebellion of the five tribes, right? Many people in the mine are defeated soldiers from Nushan." Zhu Ye said, "But besides that, there are also some People from Gaoxin. After all, iron smelting technology cannot be learned casually. Gaoxin people are good at iron smelting because Gaoxin people know how to distinguish fire and temperature. Such skills cannot be practiced within ten or eight years."

"Won't Zheweng force you to teach Beirong people how to make iron?"

"Of course." Zhu Ye blinked, "But what Da Yu said is good, the things at the bottom of the box can only be passed down from generation to generation, and cannot be taught to outsiders. People in Gaoxin are not afraid of death or threats, except for the gods who gallop to the original , no one can make us bow our heads."

Under Zhu Ye's leadership, the four left the territory of the Nushan Tribe.This is already the border of Beirong, and there are only Xuelang Mountain and soldiers stationed on the frontier.The group turned a corner and cut directly into the Blood Wolf Mountain Road.

Yue Lianlou had already taken off his coat, and Jin Yan took off the fox fur, but his head was still sweating from the heat.There were soldiers guarding the road on the mountain road. When Jin Yan was nervous, Zhu Ye raised his hands at those soldiers.

"Zhu Ye!" Several young people were very excited, "You are back again?"

Yue Lianlou nodded suddenly, "I see...Zhu Ye is dead in Beidu, but the news hasn't reached here for a while."

Zhu Ye said that these were all his friends, and the Beirong soldiers let them go after a few glances.Jin Yan was surprised: "Are you familiar with them?"

"I go back to Blood Wolf Mountain every year." Zhu Ye waved goodbye to the soldiers and said with a smile, "Gaoxin goddesses will not bring bad things into Blood Wolf Mountain. Returning to Blood Wolf Mountain to worship, some even bring their own family members with them, the people on duty here are used to it.”

The horse walked slowly on the earth-red mountain path.

"The most important thing is that as long as the Blood Wolf Mountain can produce iron ore and make weapons on time, the North Capital will not care what happens here. It is too far from the North Capital, and the Gaoxin people are too insignificant. The army and the Blood Wolf Mountain It is peaceful and happy to get along with people, and there is no need for anyone to make trouble."

The Blood Wolf Mountain is divided into a huge coal mining area and an iron mining area. The miners live far away from the mining area, on the east side of the mountain.The east side is not so hot, and occasionally you can see lizards gliding past the ground, which are rare living creatures on this mountain road.

As we walked forward, the voices of people gradually became denser.Zhu Ye dismounted everyone and led them forward.After turning two passes, it suddenly became clear: it is a very lively town!

The eyes are full of dark-skinned workers, almost all of them are bare-chested, the men only wear their bottoms, and the women wear more coverings on their chests, and they are also cool.The sound of blacksmithing came from far and near, and all the nose smelled was the smell of burning coal. The sky above the town was filled with smoke. If you look closely, you can still see coarse dust suspended in the air.

All the houses are built of stone, with very little wood. The door frames and window frames of each house are made of iron, which are extremely strong.The shoes people wore were very tight and thick, and most of their hair was cut very short. The words that Jin Yan couldn't understand condensed here. He was surprised and felt fresh, and turned his head to look at each other with Yue Lianlou.

"You are so innocent." Yue Lianlou said.

"You too." Jin Yan also said.

They are out of place here: their skin is too white, their hair is too black, and they are completely different from the Gaoxin people of Beirong.Jin Yan looked up at He Lansone again.

He Lansone kept clenching his fists tightly, Jin Ye took his hand, he was shocked as if he woke up, and said in a low voice: "There are so many Gaoxin people."

Compared with the Beirong people, there are only a dozen Gaoxin people here, but in He Lansone's opinion, there are enough people. He has never seen so many people with bright hair and honey complexion.

When people spotted Zhu Ye, they rushed forward one after another.Seeing the three unfamiliar faces behind her, especially seeing Jin Yan and Yue Lianlou, he made no secret of his curiosity.

"Da Yuren." Zhu Ye briefly introduced, "I was injured, and they escorted me all the way back."

So they also received the highest standard of reception.It was almost night at this time, and the workers who went to the mine returned to the town to rest one after another, and people bustlingly led them to the wine shop.This wine shop has no signboard, only a huge iron deer head is hung on the thick and strong black iron frame in front of the door, which is a bit taller than Jin Yan.

Lutou's eyes were blood red, as if staring at Jin Yan and He Lansone who were gradually approaching.Jin Yan was so surprised that he repeatedly praised: "Such a big deer head! How did you make it?"

He asked the question in Da Yu language, but no one around could understand it. In the end, Zhu Ye answered: "Build it in six pieces, and put it together in the end."

There were torches hanging on the antlers of the deer. Jin Yan and Yue Lianlouzai lay down on the deer's head carefully to observe, but they couldn't find a seam.

"It's the same skill as taking apart your violin and then joining it into a bow. You can't see the gap at all, and you Gaoxin people are too amazing..." Yue Lianlou almost saw a pair of black eyes as opposite eyes. After a while, he straightened up and rubbed his eye sockets.

Zhu Ye raised his eyebrows: "Of course."

After entering the wine shop, the reserved Jin Yan and He Lansone sat obediently in the corner, next to each other.Zhu Ye was the focus of everyone's attention, and Yue Lianlou took a look at Gao Xin, the most handsome man in the crowd, chatting affectionately and fluently in Beirong dialect.

The man only wanted to talk to Zhu Ye, and he couldn't answer one of the ten sentences Yue Lianlou said.The coldly received Yue Lianlou went to flirt with the woman again, but the woman didn't pay him much attention, and only looked at him from a distance with black or green eyes.

"Yue Lianlou's looks are not welcome here." Jin Yan laughed softly, "He will definitely complain again at night."

He Lansone didn't speak, but Jin Yan held his hand again.He Lansone nodded: "Yes."

"What's wrong with you?" Jin Yan asked, "Is the smell too bad here?"

"No." He Lansone tightened his grip on Jin Yan, "...I'm a little scared."

Jin Yan was puzzled.The wine shop is very lively, the strong smell of alcohol dilutes the scorching smell that pervades the place, people sing unintelligible songs enthusiastically, and provoke unrestrained and joyful dances, even Zhu Ye looks much happier than in the north .She forgot the injury on her shoulder, picked up the piano and played it, her singing was loud and high-pitched, reminding Jin Ye of the starlight like a long whale on the Liexing River.

Work during the day, drink and sing at night.Occasionally, soldiers stationed at Blood Wolf Mountain would also go to the liquor store to buy alcohol, but they would not stay for a long time, and the people here did not welcome them.The boundaries between Beirong people and Gaoxin people are completely blurred here. Whether they are criminal slaves or stubborn craftsmen, after drinking, each of them has a similar red face, and they look the same.

He Lansone held Jin Yan's hand all the time, he seemed to be much calmer, and he was able to accept and thank others when someone handed him a drink.The person who served him and Jin Yan the wine was from Gaoxin, and he thanked him in Gaoxin words. The green-eyed middle-aged man said happily, "Your father or your mother?" He pointed to his own green eyes.

"Abba." He Lansone replied, "Ama is from Da Yu."

"The eyes of Gaoxin people are the most beautiful eyes in the world!" The Gaoxin person had drunk a little too much, turned his head to look at Jin Yan, and got closer, "Black ones, not good!"

Jin Yan didn't understand, and thought he was praising himself, so he quickly smiled.

The middle-aged man suddenly raised the wine bowl in his hand and shouted: "Zhu Ye! Did you bring another child whose mother is from Da Yu?"

"Yes!" Zhu Ye sat directly on the counter, with one leg crossed and the other lowered, playing a lively song, "Did you forget? You even got into a fight with him."

"Oh...Helan...Helan Jinying..." The middle-aged man shook his head drunkenly, and asked He Lansone again, "Do you know him? You..."

He got very close and could see He Lansone's entire face clearly.

After a moment of daze, the man seemed to wake up from alcohol, and took two steps back.

"You two are very similar..." he asked, "Are you Helan Jinying's brother?"

"I'm a younger brother."

The middle-aged man suddenly threw the wine bowl on the ground, but the laughter and singing were so loud that no one noticed.He simply jumped onto the wine table, pointed at He Lansone and shouted, "This is, this is He Lan Jinying's younger brother!"

There was a sudden silence in the wine shop, only Zhu Ye was still playing the piano leisurely, and Yue Lianlou was slapped loudly by a beautiful Beirong girl.

In the silence, the middle-aged man pointed straight at He Lansone.

"So you are also the son of He Lanye?" He asked, "He Lanye who led the Beirong people to Xuelang Mountain and wiped out the entire Gaoxin clan."

He Lansone immediately grabbed Jin Yan's hand tightly, causing him pain.

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A non-spoiler spoiler:

He Lansone's first confession to Jin Yan happened at Xuelang Mountain.