Lanshan Snow

Qiu Bodeng knelt on Tule wizard's lap.

Staring at him blankly.

For a moment, he didn't understand the meaning of the other party's words, as if what he was speaking was not the Central Plains dialect or Tule language, but some incomprehensible words, until... until the hand on the back moved up, Pankou Holding the young boy's white and fragile shoulders and neck, forcefully push him down.

"Arlan."

Wizard Thule's cold lips fell to the side of his ear.

The sound couldn't be nearer.

So close that those syllables have to be burned directly from the lips into the eardrums.

too weird……

It's so weird!

The young master from an aristocratic family turned his head to avoid it, his cheeks were bright red, as if he was some kind of ice-glazed porcelain embryo that had been baked in a kiln to be translucent and white - if he didn't run away, he would have to be baked into a very attractive The ice pattern can't be done.But the Thule wizard held him, held him, and hugged him.

Give him no space at all.

"……mine."

Thule wizard's voice is cold, and because he rarely speaks, his voice is stained with the snow of the holy mountain. He seems to be the epitome of the entire Thule tribe, both savage and holy.He moved his lips slowly, inch by inch, kissing the boy's eye corners, cheekbones, and rosy cheeks...

delicate nose...

bright red lips...

……

"Okay, okay," Qiu Bodeng panicked, stretched out his hand to separate their cheeks, and put his slender fingers between their cheeks, "It's okay! Got it! Got it!"

--wrong!

Qiu Bodeng suddenly came to his senses and opened his eyes wide.

Why can't he smile at others? !

and also!

He is not who he is!

"You have... um!"

The kneeling teenager was crushed backwards, his thin wrists were deeply pressed into the thick and warm felt blanket, and Wizard Thule folded him like a newborn Arlan.

The following syllables of reprimand were chewed up and swallowed into the stomach.

Kiss until the fine wool shirt is loose again, and the jade skin is bright warm red by the firelight.

Only then did the Thule wizard let go of his suffocating Arlan.

Qiu Bodeng was gasping for breath, his Adam's apple kept rolling, his clear eyes were foggy——he was stunned by the kiss!Even the fresh, icy air poured into the stomach from the nasal cavity and throat, there is an illusion that they are still kissing and receiving what the other party is giving... Maybe it is not an illusion.

When his lips and teeth met, he had no idea how much he was forced to swallow the cold, cloudy and snowy breath of Wizard Tule.

Those breaths haunted him.

They cling to his palate, his throat, his stomach... the movement of air stimulates them, wakes them up.

He was like a child who had swallowed too much mint, tortured enough by the long-lasting coolness.

Thule wizard's fingertips fell on his throat, grinding the ups and downs of his Adam's apple, and stroking the place where he covered the imprint.Qiu Bodeng was terrified that he would do it again, and hurriedly grabbed his fingers...

…Thin and soft fingers, just soaked in water when twisting the cloth, the knuckles and fingertips were red from the cold.

Cute and pitiful.

The totem wizard didn't continue, instead he held Qiu Bodeng's fingers in his palm and asked a question—he still spoke the Central Plains dialect.However, the details of distinguishing the front and back nasal pronunciation of Zhongyuan Yayan are really difficult for those who are used to the deep voiced sounds of the Thule language family.

He asked again, Qiu Bodeng looked at him blankly, not knowing what he was asking.

Wizard Thule also seemed to be aware of the difficult gap between the two language families. His eagle-winged browbones cast a light shadow, making his silver-gray eyes even more serious.After a while, he took Qiu Bodeng's hand and let him touch the bone jade ring ring - he intended to write on it, but Qiu Bodeng withdrew his hand suddenly.

The reaction was so great that he almost jumped up and bit him again.

Thule wizard can only change one.

He picked up the bronze totem given to Qiu Bodeng, let Qiu Bodeng touch the words on it again, and asked again.

This time Qiu Bodeng understood.

……name.

He was asking for his name.

Realizing this, Qiu Bodeng immediately pursed his lips tightly, refusing to utter a single sound.The weird and inexplicable intuition is warning the ignorant young master—just like a newborn lamb who knows nothing about it, unfortunately steps into the predation range of the snowy goshawk, and will suddenly wake up in the shadow of the predator.

Although it doesn't know where to escape.

Wizard Thule asked again.

——He knew that Qiu Bodeng understood what he was asking.

Qiu Bodeng turned his face away, avoiding his sight: "I... I'm sleepy! Going to sleep!"

As he said that, he tried to escape from the man's cover. At this moment, Qiu Bodeng realized that he had dug a trap for himself... He was kneeling on the felt blanket to help Wizard Le was wiping his wounds, but when he stood up and was dragged down, he also sat on his knees...

In other words, if he wanted to escape, he had to get up first.

But as soon as he got up, he was about to crash into the arms of the Thule wizard.

"You will repay your kindness with revenge!" Qiu Bodeng was forced by him to have nowhere to escape, even reaching out to push him, he didn't know where to press, so he could only withdraw his hand to cover his face... It's hot, it's too hot, his cheeks It was inexplicably hot... But Wizard Thule simply grabbed his wrist.

Either tell him the name.

or...

The goshawk is driving its prey into the winter grazing rift.

This kind of raptor that lives in the snowy field is a ruthless predator.Their lairs are built on the highest cliffs, and they have honed and hammered their hard bones and claws in the strong air currents.They can hover for most of the day in the icy wind, tracking the traces of their prey.

They are cruel, vicious, and decisive.

...and with a lot of patience.

The flame of the copper furnace jumped suddenly, and the expelled prey could no longer hold back.

"...Bo Deng!" he shouted, "Chou, Qiu Bo Deng."

The clear voice was slightly hoarse, almost forced to cry.

The hand on the corner of the shoulder was finally removed, and Wizard Thule took Qiu Bodeng into his arms.

The fire light shone in the silver-gray eyes, and the Thule wizard softly kissed Qiu Bodeng while reciting the three syllables of the Central Plains in a low voice.Qiu Bodeng leaned against him, turned his face away and didn't want to pay attention - he was already being burned by that weird, inexplicable sense of danger and shame.

But the other party didn't let him go.

The Thule wizard grabbed his face, kissed him, and forced him to read it a second time.

No.

Not just the second time.

The dim red fire of the copper furnace was jumping and shaking.The slender boy was trapped in the arms of a goshawk in the snowy field, and was forced to teach him his name over and over again... until the night fell, and the winter herding team was about to arrive at the tribe.

..............................

The return route of the winter grazing of the Thule tribe spans almost the entire Chama Basin.

If one carefully observes the "Snow Field Map", their behavior becomes even more incomprehensible: the Tule tribe, like other tribes on the snow field, lived as nomads and kept migrating as the glaciers froze.No matter how the migration route changes, they will definitely return to the Holy Snow Mountain at the end of each year.

There is the pole of the whole snow field.

The coldest, scariest place.

This is strange.

Other tribes chose to migrate south when it was the coldest time of the year, but they did the opposite.

However, this explains why the return route of winter grazing is so long: there are few birds and animals near the Holy Snow Mountain. If you want to store enough food for the whole winter, you can only carry out a large-scale battle from the basin at a relatively lower altitude. Chase hunting.

When the bright red sun rose from the horizon and illuminated the outline of the rugged and majestic holy mountain, all Thule warriors cheered with joy.

The cheers woke up Qiu Bodeng who was still sleeping in the wooden house.

As soon as he stood up, he took a few small breaths in an instant.

After cursing someone in a low voice, Qiu Bodeng pulled the black robe to wrap it tightly, moved to the window, and carefully pushed it away.The bitter cold air poured into the room, causing Qiu Bodeng to shiver, but he couldn't care less about it at all.

—He was overwhelmed by the sight in front of him.

The sky is extremely clear, extremely blue.

Scythe-like silver ridges cross each other in pairs, as if the earth were baring its ribs here.Behind the Rib Mountains is the Holy Snow Mountain, which rises far away. It is steep, majestic, and towering. It is a black spine covered with white snow, carrying the sky at the end of the world.

The foot of the Holy Snow Mountain has been submerged in color.

Countless auspicious cloud flags of deep red, gold, indigo, three colors and ten phases filled the low and slow plain; the astonishingly long carpet of red-backed gold sutras reversed on both sides formed a long welcoming road; hundreds of thousands of Goddesses herd deer, warriors lead elephants. The mantle is covered with ribs and mountains; dazzlingly printed and dyed colorful shawls are hunting in the wind...

Ancient snow mountains.

Primitive tribe.

Majestic, small, pure white, colorful...all these diametrically opposed things merge together in a very impactful way.

Qiu Bodeng had read about this scene in "Si Fang Zhi".

At that time, he didn't understand why Xu Zele would describe the scene of the Thule tribe welcoming the winter herding team in an almost miraculous tone—until he witnessed it himself.This is indeed a landscape that people in the Central Plains could not even imagine in their entire lives.It is a tribe sticking to the end of the world, using color as evidence of its own survival,

The severe cold cannot freeze their blood, and the strong wind cannot break their spines.

They are saying:

See, I live, and live more proudly than anything else.

Qiu Bodeng watched for a long time until the wooden house was opened.

The Thule wizard came in with a mahogany box.

As soon as he came in, Qiu Bodeng slammed the window shut with a "slap", reflexively pretending not to care.It was only after it was over that I realized that my behavior was simply trying to cover up.

The cabin fell into an eerie silence.

For a moment, Qiu Bodeng heard a very light laughter.

Qiu Bodeng: "..."

The shock and emotion just now disappeared in an instant, and he just wanted to find a crack in the ground to get in.

Qiu Bodeng glared at someone bitterly, said nothing, pulled off the blanket, and was about to lie down and sleep again—it didn't matter what the Tule tribe was doing outside him, it had nothing to do with him anyway.

Wizard Thule came over, stopped him, and signaled to him that it was time to change clothes and get off the mammoth.

Qiu Bodeng didn't really want to continue sleeping.

It's just... Last night, pale and slender fingers pressed against the throat, capturing the vibration of every strand of air passing through the throat.Speaking like this, there is a very strange feeling, as if, as if you are giving your life and name to the other party.

But in the Chinese original language, the pronunciation of "life" and "name" are almost the same.

Name is life, life is name.

For a while, Qiu Bodeng didn't really want to see the other party, but the noise outside was abnormal, and it seemed that it was not good to procrastinate.

Qiu Bodeng struggled for a moment, but still let Wizard Thule pick him up.

After getting up, I found that the red box brought by the Thule wizard to the wooden house contained clothes.The wizard Tule helped him dress these days, and Qiu Bodeng was used to it.

After all, he never changed his clothes before.

However, the clothes brought by the other party today are different.

Qiu Bodeng picked up the red coral and turquoise in the box with his fingertips, and asked in surprise, "Why are there so many beads?"

Soon, Qiu Bodeng knew what those beads were for.

—to be braided into the hair.

"Wait!" When the man's fingertips touched his scalp, Qiu Bodeng couldn't help dodging a little, "I'm not from your tribe..."

The Thule wizard pressed his fingertips on the boy's fair neck.

Pressed on a red mark.

Qiu Bodeng took a deep breath, not daring to hide anymore.

The disciples of the Dongzhou family praised in private how many times his black hair was broken.

Pale fingertips brushed away the crow-like hair, separated them from the forehead, picked them up one by one, and braided them into delicate braids.When weaving, weaving bright red coral beads, indigo turquoise, and light blue lapis lazuli one by one... When doing these, the Thule wizard was surprisingly patient.

He half-knelt behind Qiu Bodeng, his silver gray eyes were as calm as the snow-capped mountains of the Holy Land.

Continue until the last braid is done.

The shell beads at the end of the braid hang down to Qiu Bodeng's shoulders, jumping out with a lustrous luster.

Wizard Thule got up.

... shirts, underpants, waistcoats, robes... have been changed one by one.The last thing is the wreath around the waist, all of which are strung together with extremely bright beads and gold and silver totems.After wearing it, the beads danced around the boy's slender and graceful legs.

The man's warm and powerful tiger's mouth encircled his calf.

His knuckles sunk in slightly.

Qiu Bodeng pressed the shoulder of Wizard Thule, endured and endured, but couldn't hold back, and punched him hard on the back.

Don't let it go, don't let it go! ! !

How long have you held it!

Wizard Thule let go and got up, Qiu Bodeng lowered his head, and went to push the door on his own, but was held back by the other party.

"What?" Qiu Bodeng asked unkindly.

Wizard Thule opened a small wooden box, and there were several ruby ​​rings in it. He picked up the rings, put them in his braids for comparison, and then put them in Qiu Bodeng's hands.

I want him to help make it up.

"..."

The young master who couldn't even untie a button felt that he was embarrassing himself.

Turn away.

The Thule wizard calmly wove rubies on himself.

He has tall eyebrows, deep eyes, and pale complexion. He usually wears a deep black pulu robe. Today, the collar, placket, and cuffs are inlaid with gold thread decorations on a dark red background. His waist has the same three-layer drape as Qiu Bodeng. Wreaths.There is a mysterious and gorgeous compatible temperament.

He raised his eyes, and his eyes fell on the back of the young man at the door.

His Allan didn't want to braid his hair, his Allan...in fact, he didn't like him.

But if you snatch it back, it's his.

The young master, who was not familiar with the customs and tribal culture of Tule, was still standing at the door, looking at the bustling camp curiously, not knowing what those beads and necklaces represented.

He was dressed as...

The wizard's bride.

——The kind that will hold a felt ceremony.