Wolf boy

Ah Tong sat in the clean and tidy yurt, surrounded by elder sisters and aunts pinching his face, so he had to cover his hood tightly so that the robe on his head would not be ripped off to expose a pair of ears.

Blinking his eyes and leaning his neck up, he asked Zong Shuo who was sitting across from him for help, but Zong Shuo couldn't make it, so he just watched Ah Tong being squashed and rounded by others.Xing Wu even drank mare's milk and smiled straight at Ah Tong, and mouthed words to the young man, "Bribe and bribe others so that we can pass by, little commander!"

Ah Tong has never been close to women. He was born in the mountains since he was a child, and only when he was a child was brought to a village by Ana. The old woman of the family rubbed his head, and the palm was warm and loving.

The boy with a bow and arrow brought in another small bucket of kumiss from outside the tent, and called out to Ama, who was still smiling and looking at Ah Tong, "Ama, Aunt Juan said dinner is ready."

The woman nodded, sat upright and said to Chao Zongshuo, "Since you are passing by here, let's have a meal here. There are no good things, but you are always full."

Zong Shuo nodded, and cupped his hands towards her, "What's your name, madam?"

"Bikit, it's my tribe's surname, you can call me Alun."

It was the first time that Xing Wu saw a village full of women. They walked all the way in and saw the only older man, the boy with the arrow at the mountain gate.But he didn't ask too much, and Hu'er Zhahe explained a few words on the way.

Years of wars on the grassland, the major tribes annexed the surrounding small tribes and forcibly recruited soldiers. The men who were conscripted either went to fill up the war with the Central Plains, or they were consumed by the battles between the various major forces. Therefore, on the grassland, many small tribes Only women, children and old people remained.

This tribe is already very good. They have not experienced looting and plundering, and they are still alive and well, waiting for the men who fought the war to come back.This is inseparable from the wisdom and hard work of these women.

The women saw that they had nothing to do, so they dispersed to do things separately. They were the pillars of the whole clan, and they were very busy every day.Grazing, collecting firewood, cooking, and even repairing nearby traps and tripping ropes. At the same time, you have to raise small children and take care of the crooked old people.

Women can't rest, women are the backbone.

Allen had considered the origins of these people in front of her, but she forgave the countless prairie animals that followed behind them. There was no marauding cavalry that would carry such "burdens".The various lives that stop and go and gradually approach them are the foundation of the grassland, just like the children of the clan are to themselves, they are the hope and inheritance of the future.

The women around Ah Tong finally dispersed, and before they left, they stuffed a piece of milk cake into his hand. Ah Tong smiled and said thank you, then happily stuffed it into his mouth, but only took a small bite, then put it away again up.

"Where did you come from, and where are you going? There is a river bank ahead, and I'm afraid you won't be able to get over it." She had already seen the following animals, and she knew it well.

After hearing this, Ah Tong scratched his head, "He came from the arid east and went southeast to find a way for them to survive, but he couldn't make it through, hey." The dry river bed was wide and steep.

Zong Shuo said bluntly, "Does Mrs. A Lun know where there is a detour nearby?"

The woman sighed, "It won't work, the river bank is long and long, far away."

Zong Shuo also thought about how long this detour would last, why not go to the river bank to investigate and start construction on the spot.

The women around A Lun whispered in low voices, their dialect was fast and vague, and Ah Tong couldn't hear them all.This is the only point in the grassland, and there are no distances. Although it is the same language, it has different tones.

Ah Tong only listened to what they said was not easy, it was fundamental, stone platforms and the like, and the rest could not be heard clearly.

The women whispered to Alan for a while, and they nodded together, and then saw Alan's heroic Chao Zongshuo wave his hand.

"Stay here for two days, and when the time comes, I will definitely call you over."

Before everyone could react, a few people came in from outside, and began to put out a lot of meals, and called Allen away, saying that the raised horse gave birth, but the birth was not smooth.This kind of situation is very difficult on the grassland, and most of them cannot be kept.

Zong Shuo motioned to his back, the scout nodded and left the tent, and went outside to talk with those women who were in a hurry. After a while, the scout was patted on the shoulder by those people and took him away.

Ah Tong was surprised, "He really knows everything!"

Xing Wu smiled, "He knows some acupoints and medical principles." But he didn't go deeper, the scouts didn't even know how many people they had unloaded before, let alone horses.

Everyone was really a little tired, and they finally reached a place to stay, so they all rested overnight.

But the next morning, as soon as the tent door was opened, Ah Tong felt that those women who were busy in various places yesterday were not here, and only the younger women were left to watch the children.

But Ah Tong's ears moved, and he heard some "ping-pong-pong" sounds in the distance. When he and Zong Shuo rode horses to investigate together, they saw a woman on the bank of a river far away from the tribe. They are busy there.

When the two rode their horses closer and took a look, they both felt unspeakable.With their hair and sleeves rolled up, the women tied their skirts neatly around their waists, pried away the broken rocks in the distance, and put them one by one into the baskets, and then carried the baskets to the river bed, and then poured them on their backs. Entering the gully with a huge difference in height, I struggled to fill in a road and build a bridge.

They have different shapes, but in Ah Tong's view, they are all extremely beautiful, full of vitality, and will never admit defeat.A Lun took the lead in opening his voice, and the women chanted together, working in full swing. Even the child who claimed to be a man was among his aunts, carrying a small basket on his back, moving stones step by step.

The gravel smashed together, and many animals in the distance stopped and watched.

In the end, together with the women of the tribe, more than [-] people in this group filled the deep ditch within a few days.Everyone packed up their bags, and Ah Tong stood opposite the river bank, shaking his iron claws "jingling", and as the first horse stepped across the stone bridge, all the beasts seemed to have received the signal to move forward, and gathered towards the river bank from a distance. , and then slowly cross the river.

After only being together for a few days, Ah Tong deeply loved these "people". He stood at the head of all beasts and waved to the women and children who came to see them off.Zong Shuo turned his head and looked at them deeply.

Loving life and advocating nature are the inexhaustible vitality of the grassland people.He looked at the kicking beasts and the people standing in the middle of the mountain, and gradually understood his mother.

A Lun hugged her son, who was only around her waist, and together with the clansmen, they watched the group of tough men lead tens of thousands of creatures across the river bed, across the mountain danger, and gradually drifted away from them.

The child raised his head and asked, "Grandma, will they come back?" He still remembered half of the milk cake that the good-looking boy handed to his mouth, and the remaining half was given to the little boy who could ride a horse .

Allen smiled, "We are both under the Longevity Heaven, so it doesn't matter if we meet or not."

And after many years, the child met the little man on the horse again, only to find that the man had grown a head taller than himself!And the whole body is full of knotted muscles.Only then did he feel that it would be better not to meet each other under the same Longevity Heaven!

But at this moment, he only looked at the back of the pedestrian, and heard the sound of the iron bell gradually drifting away, and the lingering sound echoed in the mountains, "Ding lang lang, ding lang lang..."

After Ah Tong's people crossed the riverbed with the animals, they went all the way to a place with abundant water and grass in the southeast. The grasslands everywhere became luxuriant with the naked eye, and even surrounded by mountains and forests. Many animals found their own places on the road. The new settlement of the ethnic group, after honking and saying hello, they gradually left the team.

The "troops" behind Ah Tong gradually decreased, and before they got near the holy mountain, they had already reintegrated into this grassland.

This made everyone breathe a sigh of relief, and it was considered to have completed one thing. Xing Wu stretched his waist, "The merit is immeasurable!"

It's just that the more you go to the holy mountain, the more native animals there are. They are not like those weak beasts in the eastern grasslands, but they are all fat and strong, and even the spiders are the size of a fist!They watched a few wild boars fight with their own eyes, and directly smashed down several thick trees in anger.

The impact surprised Hu'er Zhahe. Zong Shuo told everyone to be careful not to anger the animals here. Years of fighting told him that they looked a little unusual.

As you go southeast, the grasslands decrease, and there are mostly dense forests and mountain rock walls. The mountains and rocks are towering and continuous, and the shapes are different, which makes people unconsciously think of the "sacred cave" in the grassland that is sheltered from the wind.

The old man Tianmu also became more and more excited as he walked, and Ah Tong was able to retract his ears and tail after the beasts behind him dispersed, but as he walked southeast, his condition became unstable again. He controls his animal appearance, and is lethargic, often sleeping so deeply that he can't wake up even when he is on the road. Only Zong Shuo hugs him and walks away.

Zong Shuo frowned, but the Tianmu people reassured him, saying that when the adult is old, he will naturally return to the Holy Mountain, and he has already identified someone, if he doesn't come back this time, when will he come back?Although I don't know if I can get in.

Zong Shuo asked the old man, what do you do when you come back when you are old?The old man didn't know much about it, he only said that there seemed to be some ritual, but he didn't know much about it, so he wanted to ask the adults if he knew about it.

And when Zong Shuo lowered his head to ask Ah Tong, he saw that the man fell asleep again, paralyzed in his arms, deeply unconscious.The boy's brows and eyelashes are like crow's feathers, black and thick, straight, and when the sun shines, it casts a small bay of fine shadows at the corners of his eyes, looking at it makes people feel affectionate.

Zong Shuo hugged him in, and used his stalwart body to shield the young man from the light, so as not to make him sleep uncomfortably from shaking his eyes.

Zong Shuo didn't ask, but it was useless to ask. A young man is born with knowledge, but he knows the world, but he doesn't know the world.He didn't even know about the prosperity and downfall of his own ethnic group, and he had never heard of the Holy Mountain. The young man only knew that he had a small home in the Eastern Mountain, and that he had to go back to the world in the end.

Everyone hurried on their way silently and cautiously. The further southeast they went, the colder the weather was. They came across the grassland. It was extremely hot all the way, but at this moment, they all took out their outer robes and put them on.The dense forest of vines and banyan trees is gradually turning into a coniferous forest. If you look carefully, you can find the pine cones in the rotting grass under your feet.

As the temperature dropped, Ah Tong's body temperature gradually increased. He didn't even want to wear a small gown, and only showed his arms with close-fitting cut-off sleeves.Everyone already knew about his abnormal condition, so they simply didn't hide it anymore. He was so hot that he didn't want to wear a robe, but he was still thinking, forget it, let them see it.

But sometimes when he saw the eyes of the people cast on him, he felt emotional, Ana was right, his behavior was too enviable, and his eyes lit up when he looked at them.

Zong Shuo observed the situation of the boy in his arms from time to time, and saw that he was awake, but after looking around at the crowd, he heaved a long sigh.

Zong Shuolema, "What's wrong?"

Ah Tong shook his head, "I really committed a crime."

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