At night, the whole tribe fell silent in the night.

Souler sat in the great shaman's tent and watched the great shaman grind a stone that already had an edge.

Outside the tent, the night wind howled, and from time to time a few wolf howls could be heard, the wood crackled inside the tent, and the firelight reflected the wrinkled face of the great shaman. Souler sat in the corner, watching the great shaman push the stone back and forth.

"Great shaman, what are you going to do here?" Souler asked suddenly.

"It's nothing, it's a fool's errand," the great shaman stopped what he was doing, raised his head and glanced at Sule, and said with a blank face, "You're going to lobby the Ministry?" ”

Sule didn't answer, just nodded slightly.

The Great Shaman sighed, "Your choice is correct, but you are destined to suffer a lot of hardships along the way, and if you can come back alive, you may be able to change the fate of our northern realm." ”

"I know." Souler put his hands on his knees and turned his head to look at the burning fire.

The great shaman suddenly threw away the stone in his hand, took out a jar of wine from the corner of the tent, took out two bowls, handed one to Sule, and poured the wine while saying, "Come, drink two glasses with me." ”

Surle took the wine bowl, and when the great shaman poured himself full of wine, he raised his head and drank it all, and the great shaman couldn't help but laugh and scold, "You kid are waiting for me, so thirsty for wine?" ”

Souler put down the bowl and waited for the great shaman to pour him wine, he smiled and said, "I think there will be fewer opportunities to drink like this in the future." ”

"That's right," the great shaman refilled the wine for Surer and himself, raised the bowl and touched it, without saying anything, and drank it all as Sule had just done.

The two of them drank in silence until the bottom of the wine jar was at the bottom, and both of them were a little drunk, and the great shaman put down the bowl and began to stare at the dancing flames.

"Sole, you know what?" The great shaman suddenly called his name, and his expression became rare and serious, "Sometimes, I can also see the picture of the future from the flames, no need to deduce, no need to calculate, a certain picture of the future will appear in the beating fire, this fire, in fact, is the same as the stars in the sky, and so are you." ”

The Great Shaman raised his head and looked at Sule and said word by word, "You are all able to shine." ”

"You are the star of the Northern Realm, and you are destined to lead the people of the Northern Realm through this era of frost and grass."

"It's ...... Gods, your test for us. ”

Sulle stayed late in the great shaman's tent, and when the sun rose the next day, he stood on a small hill outside the tribe, overlooking the whole tribe, then turned and walked down the mountain, mounted his horse, and left the leopard tribe with his companions.

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The Great Khan was supposed to give him a grand send-off ceremony, but he refused, saying, "I don't want those little ones to see sad, so let's go quietly." ”

Even those younger brothers who have gone through the rites of passage have always been "little ones" in his eyes.

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......

On the same day, on the border of Youbei, Gongsun Yu took more than 1,000 cavalry to patrol the border, which was the most he had done on the border in the past ten years.

The weather on the border has been a bit unusual lately, and autumn has just begun

The temperature dropped suddenly, although in the northern border, cold is a common thing, but no autumn year, the temperature will be so abnormal, many crops have been frozen to death in the geography, but the farmers have no choice, can only sigh.

Gongsun Yu frowned all the way, and the adjutant general rubbed his hands beside him, stepped forward, and asked, "General, why don't we rest for a while?" ”

Gongsun Yu looked up at the sky, the sky was overcast, and it seemed that there would be another heavy rain, maybe it would be hail.

"What time is it?" He asked, turning his head.

"It's late." The adjutant replied.

Gongsun Yu nodded, "It's too late." ”

They had set out at dawn, and now that they had been walking for almost four hours, it was almost time to stop and rest.

"Cooking." Gongsun Yu said loudly.

The tense strings of the soldiers were finally relaxed, and as before, there had to be a team of forty-five people patrolling around at the same time when the cooking was made, and when the others finished eating, someone would naturally replace them.

Gongsun Yu rarely did not go around the inspection, but sat down, roasted his almost frozen hands and feet by the fire, this time they came out, did not expect the weather to become so cold, so they still wore summer clothes, halfway they also thought about going back to bring clothes, but Gongsun Yu refused, saying that the time of the inspection can not be late, if you go back now, maybe there will be many villages to suffer, so just sent a team of people back, let them go to the station to bring some winter clothes over.

"General, this year's weather is a bit abnormal," the adjutant put down his helmet and placed it next to the fire, as if he wanted the fire to make the helmet hot and more comfortable when he put it on, "It's cold like this on our side, and maybe it's freezing on the northern side." ”

Gongsun Yu nodded, "Last month, there was an unprecedented heavy rain in the northern realm, and the northern realm may also be suffering from famine now. ”

"It's good to have a famine!" The adjutant general said hatefully, "Starve these bitches to death, and they come to our side every day to plunder." ”

"It's better to starve to death," Gongsun Yu's face was solemn, and a thin layer of hoarfrost seemed to form on his eyebrows, and now that he was close to the fire, the hoarfrost turned into water, dripping down little by little, "But do you think the Buyeo tribes will sit idly by?" ”

The adjutant general was stunned for a moment, and replied honestly, "No." ”

"Do you remember why the Buyeo Ministries committed a big offense last time?" Gongsun Yu suddenly asked.

"What else...... They want to rob our land, our things, and our people. ”

Gongsun Yu nodded and said, "This is just a superficial reason, if you think about it carefully, every time Buyeo invades the border, what happens in the northern boundary?" ”

The deputy general frowned, and after thinking about it for a long time, he couldn't think of it, so Gongsun Yu spoke, "It's a natural disaster." ”

"The people of the northern realm come to grab the land and grab the food, because they have no food to eat, their population is increasing, but the food is decreasing, they send samurai to invade the border, and there is a constant civil war, this is a good way to reduce the population, there are fewer people, and the food will naturally be surplus, at least it can ensure that women, children, and those nobles are not starved to death, why have they been on the border for so many years, and have never grabbed any real land, but they have always come, yes

Because someone needs to die for others to survive, if the samurai sent can grab the land and food, that's a good thing, and if they can't come back, then there's no pity, because their mission has been accomplished. ”

The adjutant general was stunned again, and he muttered, "These dogs are so ruthless that they even pit their own people?" ”

"That's not a pit," Gongsun Yu shook his head, "That's a kind of sacrifice, if they don't die, others won't survive, these people in the northern realm have always come over like this, if you think about it carefully, they are also quite pitiful." ”

The adjutant general looked at Gongsun Yu with a ghostly expression, "General, ...... are you?"

Gongsun Yu waved his hand and said expressionlessly, "Don't worry, even if they are pitiful, I will not pity them, they rob our land of Daxi and kill our people, as long as they cross the northern border, they are my enemies, and I will never be soft." ”

As he spoke, Gongsun Yu grabbed a hot naan and stood up, as if he was going to inspect again, and the deputy general also quickly grabbed a naan and hurriedly followed him.

Gongsun Yu climbed the nearby hill, while eating bread, while looking into the distance, the sky was gloomy, black like night, the distant mountains were shrouded in a thin mist, as far as the eye could see, the hoarfrost on the green grass had not yet melted, if such weather lasted for a few days, maybe winter would come early.

They patrolled all the way, and along the way, they also encountered several stragglers from the northern border, all of whom were defeated by them without exception, and naturally they did not leave a single living mouth, because if they survived, they could only suffer from the people on the border in the future.

In fact, no one wants to stay in this desolate north, and most of the people who stay nearby are sinners who have been exiled to the border, and they are strictly guarded and take care of their villages, which are actually also supply depots for patrolling the border army, and the existence of these villages is indispensable for the army to operate in the north.

So it's not that they don't want to leave, it's that they can't leave.

If everyone leaves, then this border, is it not wanted?

In addition to the exiled sinners, there are actually aborigines here, but most of the aboriginal villages are not too close to the border, at least a hundred miles away, to find the villages gathered, except for the only villages that are almost cut off from the outside world.

And the meaning of Gongsun Yu's existence is to protect those villages.

Gongsun Yu looked at the grass and trees covered by hoarfrost, and suddenly sighed softly, "Frost kills all grasses." ”

"I'm afraid that the turmoil in the dark north is coming."

In the twelfth year of Tianfu, in July, frost killed all herbs.

The torrential rain in midsummer, the frost in early autumn, left one corpse after another on the earth, some animals and some people, the plants and trees died in the bleak autumn wind, the animals hid in their burrows, the people shivered in the wind and the rain, some people said that this was the test of the gods to the northern realm, and it was also the punishment of the gods.

The Buyeo tribes in the northern realm are in a predicament of no food, and they began to fight with each other again, robbing each other of food and women, and it was also in this month that a young man from the Leopard Guibu took his companions and men, with the light of the stars, and opened his lobbying path, and he burned the wilderness of the northern realm little by little like a torch.

At that time, people called him - the King of Sparks.