Lanshan Snow

Qiu Bodeng moved the bead on his forehead with his fingertips.

He was worn by the Tule wizard with a red thread encircling the iron wire, and agate and emerald were woven into a bow-shaped headdress.From the front of the headgear and the left and right sides, many arc chains made of pearls, turquoise, agate, etc. hang down... Ding ding dong dong, adorned on the young man's smooth forehead and black hair.

The Thule wizard walked up to him.

He raised his head naturally: "It's a bit heavy..."

Sunlight poured in from the wooden door, and the young man's face was exposed in the golden light. Bright red, indigo, dark purple... Countless strong and bright colors danced and shone on his fair face.His eyes are clear, his black hair is loose, and he has become the holy painting of Zanka with golden lacquer.

pure, beautiful...

bride.

Wizard Thule froze slightly.

Qiu Bodeng waited for a while, but before he got a response, he stretched out his hand in surprise and waved it in front of the young man.

Thin morning light danced on the scallion-red fingertips, and Wizard Thule pulled them down.

"What's wrong?" Qiu Bodeng asked.

Wizard Thule didn't speak, held his face and leaned over.

Qiu Bodeng's pupils dilated slightly, showing the face of the Thule wizard.

His eyelashes drooped, and his light shadow fell on the silver-gray lake that was always too cold, like an illusion, showing a quiet and pious meaning—he was kissing him.But it was different from all the previous kisses, this kiss was extremely gentle, like the holy snow under the sky, with silent warmth.

Qiu Bodeng forgot to struggle.

He stood there obediently, with his face up until Wizard Thule ended the kiss.

"...Alan."

Wizard Thule got up and murmured in a low voice.

The beautiful young master stood in front of him, the braids he had braided by himself were draped over his thin shoulders, like a black waterfall, shining with turquoise and red coral... All the girls of the Tule tribe braided beautiful braids. Braids, because they are too complicated, usually have to be groomed by female companions.

——Until the day we felt together.

Before getting married, the bride is not allowed to see the groom.

In the snowfield, the son of the tribe gave the totem to his beloved girl. Since the girl accepted it, they lived together and grazed together.Men and women who live together at this stage can only be called "same felt", because if the girl is not satisfied, she will drive her flock away at any time.

The aquatic plants change with the years, and the children of the snow field come and go.

If the girl chooses to stay, a co-felting ceremony will be held, which means: From then on, my felt blanket is your felt blanket, and my cattle and sheep are your cattle and sheep. You and I are one and will never be separated.

On the day of the felting ceremony, the groom has to braid the bride's hair with his own hands. The more braids he braids, the happier he is, the longer his life, and the happier he is.The braids should be braided with colorful beads, and different colors symbolize different blessings.And the beautiful young master in the Central Plains has enough thick, black and shiny hair, and the hands of the Thule wizard are dexterous enough.

He had braided enough of his Arlans, found enough rich and gorgeous beads.

Except for one thing.

Wizard Tule moved his fingers to the side of Qiu Bodeng's face, gently stroking the young man's beautiful jawline,

...his Arlan had left.

According to ancient custom, his Arran no longer belonged to him.

But he was not only his Arlan, but also the booty he shot with his arrows, the booty of a foreign race with whom traditionally should not marry.

— No need to follow the old rules.

Qiu Bodeng looked at Wizard Thule in confusion.

The young Thule wizard rarely changed his expression, as if the real silver-plated mask was not hung on the wall, but born on his face.Right now, he suddenly gave a rare smile... It's still... Pretty good-looking...

There was a heavy drum beat in the camp.

Qiu Bodeng turned to look.

I saw the Thule warriors who also put on costumes standing on the head of the mammoth, happily beating the drums.Amidst the sound of the drums, the mammoths, dressed in velvet saddle blankets printed and dyed in colorful stripes, stepped on the footsteps of "dong dong dong", shaking their curved tusks and shaking their long noses.

The Thuleians tied bright red ribbons to their crooked teeth, with bells at the bottom.As soon as it was shaken, the whole camp was filled with the sound of "Ding Ding Dang Dang!"

And magnificent, and simple and honest.

As soon as Qiu Bodeng was amused, Shaerlu, who was carrying the cabin, rushed out cheerfully and joined the dancing elephants.

Do not!

It's not just about joining!

It also acts as a lead dancer!

The ground trembled under Qiu Bodeng's feet, and the red silk flung up by Shaerlu almost rushed to his face--it's not so lively and active at all at ordinary times!

"Sharru!"

Qiu Bodeng half smiled and half complained, reaching out to grab the door frame.

As soon as he stretched out his hand, he was grabbed.

Wizard Thule picked him up horizontally.

After a few steps, we reached the highest ridge of Shaerlu directly.

Shaerlu, like other mammoths, is covered with a Chipu saddle blanket with strong color contrasts, and countless beautiful silver bells are tied to the edge of the saddle blanket.Accompanied by the drumbeat, it trampled the ground rhythmically, making the biggest "dong gong" in the entire camp, and won the position of leading dancer by virtue of its strength.

The house was shaken to pieces.

Qiu Bodeng had no choice but to laugh and curse while hugging Wizard Tule's shoulders tightly.

He didn't want to fall off the mammoth yet!

The herd of mammoths began to move, and the sea of ​​flags on the opposite plain also began to move, as if two colorful oceans were pushing and moving forward at the same time.

Accompanied by the sound of a long and long copper horn, a ten-foot-long bronze pipe, a crimson flute with seven rows of holes, Gulinbi with smooth fingers, Hurla with gut strings, Chaoerqin with Chima head, The Hengle drum with vermilion lacquer and flowers, the thirteen-bronze Yungong... all the instruments rang together.

The magnificent movement flooded the entire snow field.

Qiu Bodeng couldn't name those extremely rough and weird musical instruments, let alone tell what occasions they were used for.

He just felt like his blood was going to boil with the rough, crackling music.

As the most beloved young master of the first family in Dongzhou, he has seen and heard countless silk and bamboo orchestras.

But it's completely different!

In the music here, every syllable is full of effort, and every melody is full of effort.They are blowing, pulling, knocking, playing, and singing with the vigor that they are about to die in a second!

The air is bursting, hot, burning.

Snowfield has no spring, no summer, no autumn.

They forced themselves to live out the midsummer!

The two seas of color were about to converge, and the warriors of Thule began to howl, and the welcoming crowd began to respond loudly.

Qiu Bodeng was in the middle of two primitive and savage violent waves.

He watched the horse herd on the opposite side collide with the elephant herd on his side, so he couldn't help but screamed, and grabbed Wizard Thule's shoulder tightly.

Suddenly, a very high and bright female voice exploded.

"Come on! Xueyuan's lover!

old docile shepherd

The mammoth walks across the land—

Arran blooms on the hills! "

Boom!

All the steeds and all the mammoths set foot on the ground at the same time, the ground was shaken heavily, and there was a vast expanse of snow and dust.

From the extreme movement to the extreme silence, only the high-spirited female voice remained, singing in Tule language that Qiu Bodeng could not understand.Amidst the singing, beautiful girls in costumes spun off their horses in an almost virtuoso manner, and their red-brown skirts turned into eye-catching flowers.

They should all be Arlan of the winter grazing hunting team.

As soon as they appeared, the Thule warriors on the back of the mammoth jumped down.The moment the two sides passed each other, they grabbed each other's fingers, tugged and turned, and completed an extremely wonderful roundabout.

"Pretty!"

Qiu Bodeng couldn't help cheering.

He pressed Thule Wizard's shoulder, trying to take a closer look.At this moment, Wizard Thule hugged him, jumped off the mammoth, and landed steadily on the long carpet with reversed curly grass patterns on both sides of the red background and golden scriptures.

As soon as he fell, the young men and women in Thule immediately turned to the left and right.

Make way for the head witch of his own family.

"What are you doing!" Qiu Bodeng's face inexplicably burned up, "Put me down."

The Thule wizard turned a deaf ear.

The sun shone on his face, and the red jade with braided ends swayed gently.Holding the Chou Bo Deng in his arms, he walked straight forward stepping on the scripture carpet of bundled velvet.Qiu Bodeng couldn't push him away, and saw the Thule warriors of the Dongmu hunting team and the beautiful girls, in pairs, dancing and moving forward along the sutra carpet.

...It seems that one has to be lucky that someone is not sick enough to drag him to dance.

Qiu Bodeng was a little relieved, but the gaze from all around made his cheeks hotter and hotter, and he was almost on the verge of setting himself on fire.

He covered his face with his hands, and there was laughter all around him.

Qiu Bodeng: ...

As if aware of his nervousness, Wizard Thule moved his hand up and pressed it on his back, as if to comfort him.

"..."

If there were not too many people, Qiu Bodeng would definitely bite him again.

What are you doing!

The laughter is louder!

The laughter intensified, Qiu Bodeng gave up on himself, and simply buried his face in the shoulder socket of Tule wizard.

Became an ostrich.

This is a pure misunderstanding of the bad-tempered young master.

The subsequent laughter was not directed at him, but at Wizard Thule.

Everyone is quite new.

Their chief witch actually brought back Arlan!

You know, before Lord Shouwu jumped off the mammoth with the beautiful young master in his arms, most people were still doubting the authenticity of this incident.

Thule on top!

Their chief witch was cold and stuffy.

The old patriarch tried his best to persuade him countless times, move the house down and hang the door curtains, otherwise how would any girl want to live with you... All of them were ignored, and it was as if he had to study hard for a lifetime.As a result, a few days ago, the first witch actually wrote back, saying that a joint felting ceremony would be held.

old patriarch,

The old patriarch was so shocked that he almost fell off the holy snow mountain.

If it wasn't for the fact that the goshawk that sent the letter back was indeed the falcon of Lord Shouwu, he would have doubted that the letter was fake.

This is actually a bit difficult.

Thule is one of the tribes on the snowy plain that is not so repulsive to the people of the Central Plains, and they still do not intermarry with foreigners.Amaqin and Xu Zele have a deep relationship, and neither of them held a joint felting ceremony.The two can only be regarded as living together, and there is no formal contractual marriage relationship in the tribe.

The matter was disputed for several days.

In the end, the old patriarch rejected all opinions and agreed.

That's how the co-felting ceremony held today with Dongmu welcomes the hunting.

Most people are quite curious about what Lord Shouwu will look like after having Arlan. Today, I saw... eh? !Even willing to wear costumes!Even hugging a mammoth, isn't that too different from usual? !It's unimaginable.

Of course, part of the laughter was directed at Qiu Bodeng.

In a blink of an eye, everyone saw clearly the young master of Zhongyuan, his face that was so beautiful that it could conquer the aesthetics of all tribes, and the blush on that pretty face.

...God!

How shy he is!

Shyer than the shyest girl in the tribe.

You must know that when the girls in the tribe held a felt ceremony, which one didn't they hug their lover's shoulders generously and make a beautiful appearance for everyone to see.Today, Shouwu's bride is so shy that she almost hides her whole body in Lord Shouwu's clothes.

How can you be so shy?

It's going to be felt together at night!

Even the thinnest young man in Gongzhiye is as strong as a bull.

The girls in the tribe scattered around Mr. Souwu and his Arlan with teasing, lively and affectionate feelings, spinning, dancing and clapping their hands.The female voice that shook the two colored oceans with a voice just now sounded again, extremely clear, extremely high, and extremely loud.

"Come, beautiful bride!

look at your handsome beau

Tell him to carry you over there—

High hills! "

In the singing of snowbirds rising from the ground, Thule's stern head witch hugged his shy bride, walked through the long carpet of red-backed golden scriptures, passed through the rib mountains, and arrived at the majestic, steep, and towering St. The foot of the snow mountain.

All the colorful flags and silk cloth are gone here.

The holy mountain of black stone and white snow stands upright, overlooking it, and is covered with new red clothes by the rising sun.

After arriving at the foot of the mountain, the rest of the Tule tribe stopped accompanying the newcomers.

The tribe's pasture is at the foot of the mountain, but the shepherd's house is on the holy snow mountain.

On the way from the foot of the mountain to the igloo where they will live together, the bridegroom must carry the bride up the road, and the bride's skirt must not be contaminated with dust.The holy mountain is high and steep. If you live too high, walking around with someone in your arms will exhaust the young man who is physically weak to death.

The road to the top of the holy mountain is called "Eagle Road".

——It means the place where goshawks can fly.

The first witch's house is at the end of Eagle Road.

Stand at the beginning of Eagle Road.

Shi Wuluo plucked Alan's hair in his arms, wanting him to watch the red glow of the holy mountain with him - people in the snowfield believed that the newcomers who witnessed the holy glow together would be happy for a lifetime.

The young master was so ashamed that he let him play around.

Life and death refused to look up.

The turquoise bead chain he was wearing fell on Shi Wuluo's neck, and Shi Wuluo wrapped the bead chain around his fingertips.

Step onto Eagle Road.

Qiu Bodeng quietly raised his head.

The sun shines on his cheeks, and his eyes meet the Tule crowd standing in the grand canyon formed by the Rib Mountains, and he immediately buries his head back.

The movement was so subtle that Wizard Thule thought it was just the wind blowing his hair.

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

The young masters in the Central Plains didn't understand Tule's customs, but Xu Zele knew it very well.

He is now particularly afraid of Tule Shouwu, as soon as he arrives at the tribe, he immediately rushes out of the winter herding team as if his butt was burned, and slipped away to find a good friend first.The two reunited after a long absence, and they were full of nasty things to say, but they didn't even mention important things.As soon as the drums sounded, Xu Zele was dumbfounded.

Heart said: broken!

It's over!

This is not a song to celebrate the success of Dongmu at all, it is clearly a song for a shared ceremony!

As soon as he asked, Xu Zele called out, "Mother!"

The first witch really doesn't do anything, and moves so fast!He was still thinking, how could he send a message out of Xueyuan, and he would directly hug Young Master Qiu onto the Yingdao, and there was going to be a carnival ceremony... Thule, please spare him!He is just a poor, innocent and weak traveler!

How did you let him meet this shit?

Xu Zele turned pale when he saw the head witch of Tule changed into hunting clothes and left the holy snow mountain surrounded by tribal warriors.

This is the penultimate link of the felting ceremony.

The bride sits in the room and waits.In the contest, the groom will personally hunt down the night blanket for her, and show her his strength—to prove that he can protect her.The bride will give herself completely, and they will love each other on the bloody rug.

From dark to dawn, and from dawn to dark.

Like the most primitive beast, but also like the purest man.

Xu Zele: ...

Not to mention whether the young master of the Qiu family can stand it, but let the Qiu family know about this...

Then there will definitely be a bloody battle between the Central Plains and the Snowy Plains! ! !

Xu Zele didn't think at all that Dongzhou's enemy, known as "the first family to sweep the world", would care about its taboos or not.

They have always had only one creed: kill first and speak later.

Xu Ze turned around in a hurry.

Amaqin asked him what happened.

He took a deep breath and was more serious than ever: "We have to help the young master escape."

Amaqin's eyes widened: "Are you crazy?!"

"I'm not crazy! Listen to me!" In order to convince his lover, Xu Zele almost burst out with all his sense of situation.He analyzed the smugglers in the snowfield, the approaching All Gods Festival, the hidden tribal disputes, the number one position of the enemy... and finally made a firm decision.

"Your Chief Witch, you don't even know who his Arlan is."

"He alone can detonate the entire snowfield that is about to be turbulent."

"I promise!"

He was sweating profusely and his face was pale.

Amaqin hesitated for a moment, and chose to believe in her lover.

"Follow me." She took off her longbow.

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

The young master who Xu Zele said "one person can detonate the entire snowfield" is sitting in the room blankly.

The Eagle Road to the top of the Holy Snow Mountain is long enough, and the mountain wind is cold.Wizard Thule wrapped Qiu Bodeng with a cloak.He walked steadily, neither fast nor slow, and the cloak not only blocked the light, but also kept him warm.Qiu Bodeng was tossed about by him for half the night yesterday, and fell asleep before he knew it.

He didn't wake up until he was put on a felt blanket by the Thule wizard.

then……

Then it's in the house.

Wizard Thule was out, not knowing what to do.

The flames of the painted copper pots are blazing, and the fir trees are burning, covering the space with a dark red warm tone.The familiar silver-plated mask hangs on the wall, announcing the identity of the owner of the house... Qiu Bodeng still remembers that the oak house on Sharru's back was so shabby that it was outrageous.

However, the Thule wizard's residence in the tribe is barely a human habitation.

Unknown animal skins were evenly nailed on the wall, and the patterns were magnificent when illuminated by the fire.The ground is covered with a dark velvet mat with a circle pattern of Lianzhu Baima, with rough warp and weft, simple patterns and bright colors.Some carved wood furniture with red background and gold lacquer were placed in an orderly manner-the styles include Thule style and Central Plains style.

There is even a bronze mirror inlaid with rubies.

I don't know what to do with it either.

Qiu Bodeng wanted to open the door and go out to have a look, but found that the door couldn't be opened.

Qiu Bodeng: "..."

In fact, given the height and steepness of the Holy Snow Mountain, if he slipped and slipped down, I am afraid that the enemy will really have to burn paper money for the young master next year.

But this does not prevent the young master from writing someone's account.

Since he couldn't get out, Qiu Bodeng simply wandered around the house, looking carefully at the alien patterns he was interested in... like a little chick that has been carried back to the eagle's nest and is still ignorantly looking at the environment.He had no idea that he would soon be swallowed up, bones and flesh.

For the rest of my life, I would never want to fly out again.

——He thought that what happened these days was already the limit.

Tuk Tuk Tuk.

There was a rapid knock on wood.

Qiu Bodeng thought it was the Tule wizard who had returned, subconsciously took two steps towards the door, and then realized that someone was knocking on the window.Immediately afterwards, Xu Zele's voice came, asking him anxiously to stay away from the window.

Qiu Bodeng just took two steps back.

Just listen, "click", the window was violently smashed open.

A Thule girl appeared outside the window, followed by Xu Zele who was shivering with cold.As soon as he took the lead, Xu Zele crackled a lot, speaking as fast as a string of balls.

Qiu Bodeng only had time to grasp one important point.

"Wait! What are you talking about?" He asked confusedly, "What is... a joint ceremony?"

Hastily smashing Lord Shouwu's wooden window, Miss Tule was obviously very nervous, she kept urging her while looking at the foot of the mountain.

"The pilgrimage ceremony is, it is..." Xu Zele became more nervous, he didn't dare to look at Young Master Qiu's face, "It's just..."

He gritted his teeth and went all out.

"Breakhouse!"

Qiu Bodeng: "Huh?"

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