Chapter 13: Heading South (1)

The weather was so cold, so cold that people shivered, the snow wolf ran on the ground and sniffed, the wind blew a sweep, burrowed through the white hair of the snow wolf, it raised its head and roared forward, the sound was deep and long.

Snow felt so cold on horseback that a sheepskin coat couldn't keep the wind out of his body. The west wind Buddha passed through the ends of his hair, flowing and fragrant. A flock of birds flew overhead and landed on a few poplar trees, and a long river was frozen in front of him, and Snow thought to himself, "Flowing through this river is the territory of the Yanqi tribe." ”

The king's mouth twisted, and his whole face turned red with anger, "Damn the weather, I should have been warming myself around the fire in the royal court, and there was a group of women around me to take care of it, but now I am frozen in the grassland wilderness so that I don't look like a person, a ghost is not like a ghost, and I have to be with you as an animal, it's really a bad scenery, and my whole life is terrible." ”

"Don't complain, this damn weather is the same for both humans and wolves. Think of the slaves and refugees, in fact, hunger is more terrible than cold. Snow said, and the air that came out felt like it was going to freeze immediately. He turned over and dismounted, and the kings grabbed the reins and dismounted. Snow tied his horse to a poplar branch, and looked sideways at the king, and said, "If you want to keep warm, get some firewood, and I'll go around and see if there are any pheasants or hares." After saying that, he patted the horse's back, "Snow wolf, come with me." The snow wolf, who was crouching on the ground, immediately got up and followed behind Snow.

The king leaned his back against the poplar tree, wrapped his arms around him, and put his hands in his armpits, and though he was dressed thickly and with thick sheepskin gloves on his hands, he began to complain again, "Damn, it's freezing to death, how can I find firewood?" ”

Snow was fed up with the king's complaints, and reached out to make a goodbye gesture as he walked behind his back, and the king was even more angry, and Leng urged him to go into the depths of the poplar forest to find firewood.

After walking for an unknown amount of time, Snow saw a narrow stone path, steep and treacherous hills, and jagged snow-covered peaks on the distant horizon. The snow wolf roared a few times, sniffed as he walked around the base of the tree, and raised one leg to pee as a mark. The low-hanging branches swept across its face, and it bit back, twisting and pulling until the wood broke. Its mouth was full of bitterness of needles and sap, and it shook its head and howled.

He saw a rabbit in a pile of weeds, and the snow wolf chased it from a distance for a long time before it bit the rabbit, and he took the rabbit in front of Snow, sticking out its long tongue and looking very tired. Snow was full of joy at the easy prey, he picked up the rabbit that was still bleeding, touched the head of the snow wolf and praised, "Snow wolf is good, you have been with me for so many years, you have aged a lot, but your skills have not decreased at all when you were young." ”

The snow wolf stuck out his tongue, wagged his tail, and rubbed his head around Snow and kept rubbing his head against his body, "We can have a full meal tonight, let's go, Snow Wolf." ”

It was dark, the moon was so bright, and Snow saw the campfire lit from a long distance, and when he walked in, the kings and the two horses were gone. He went into the campfire, picked up a torch and examined the footprints, of which there were probably a dozen of them, and he had an uneasy premonition that the kings had been taken captive by the savages. "It's not a good place to stay for long, Snow Wolf, come with me. He looked at the smoking bonfire, threw down his torches, and ran towards the poplar forest.

Snow ran west, away from the glacier in front of him, barely making out a country road from the barren wilderness. Here, feeling safe, he skinned the rabbit in his hand and cut off the meat piece by piece for the snow wolf to eat. Snow screamed with hunger, he covered his stomach and said to the snow wolf, "I can't light a fire to roast rabbits to eat, otherwise it will attract wild people, you eat more, I don't know when the next meal will be eaten!"

Snow leaned against a tree, exhaustion came at him, he held the snow wolf in his arms to keep warm, "My snow wolf, please allow me to squint for a while before going to the kings, I'm too sleepy." In the blink of an eye, he fell asleep.