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On the third day after leaving the shore of Crescent Lake, a southerly wind blew on the tip of the grass.

This is not a good sign, autumn is the season of northwest winds, and the warm south wind blows through the Great Wall, often bringing disaster to the grasslands. Li Xu and Hei Feng both cheered up and rushed south with their best efforts. But God obviously didn't want to miss the opportunity to play tricks on the pair of prey, and soon released dark clouds that blocked the entire sky.

It was dark, as if it was about to fall off the top of your head. On the vast grassland, the scenery becomes exactly the same. Without the guidance of daylight, Li Xu could no longer be sure that he was walking the way home. Every few dozen steps, he had to jump off his horse and judge the direction of the Central Plains by relying on the occasional small tree or a stone according to hearsay. Sometimes he couldn't find anything on the ground, so he had to walk against the wind, praying that the wind was still the same as before the clouds rose, and that nothing had changed.

In the middle of the night, he lit a fire in a depression. The glow of the fire and the smell of cooked meat soon attracted several groups of predators. Pairs of blue-green eyes rolled around the fire, like countless lonely souls who had lost their homes wandering with lanterns. Black Wind tensed his limbs alertly, ready to smash his incoming foe with his hooves. Li Xu gathered away anything around that could be lit to keep the fire alive. He regretted that he didn't steal Ganluo out, and when Ganluo was there, no wild wolf dared to come within ten feet.

"Maybe it's some kind of holy thing!" Li Xu said to himself. No one listened to him in the middle of the night, only the black wind snorted uneasily. "I'm an unlucky guy, though, so I'm dragging you down!" Li Xu smiled and threw a few pieces of dried animal dung into the fire, maybe it was wild donkey dung, maybe it was wild deer dung, anyway, this thing can be lit, as long as the fire is not extinguished, the wolves will not have the courage to attack.

When it was almost dawn, he couldn't support it anymore and fell asleep in the cold wind. In his sleep, he saw Tao Kuo detaching silk again, and lived a happy life of riding a horse and a horizontal sword, galloping in the wilderness. Then, a group of red cloaks rushed over and snatched Tao Kuo's silk, he drew his knife desperately, but found that there was nothing in his hand.

"Detachment!" Tao Kuo took silk to hug him, and tears fell into the rain. Li Xu stretched out his hand to wipe Tao Kuo's cheeks, but there was a coldness between his palms.

He opened his eyes suddenly, and saw a few bright colors in the sky. Hundreds of crystal-clear snowflakes fluttered down from the sky, sending the embers from the grass into a cloud of green smoke. The wolves have dispersed, and Black Wind is looking for something to eat not far away. Under the low clouds, a few lines of geese quacked and flapped their wings and flew south.

Li Xu jumped up quickly, it was snowing, and he had to find a place to stay before the snow fell. Hei Feng heard the master's voice, stopped breakfast, and trotted towards Li Xu. A man and a horse galloped at high speed along the shadows left by the wild geese, leaving a trail of mud on the grass wet by the first snow.

Not long after riding the horse, a tribe came into view. It was the former camp of the Suotou Xi people, and now belongs to the Susibu tribe, where most of the Susi's public livestock are kept nearby, and there are special samurai and herdsmen responsible for breeding. The black wind hissed with excitement and sped towards the front of the camp. Li Xu grabbed the reins tightly and forcibly pulled the black wind away from the direction.

"Sigh!" Black Wind vacated his front legs and loudly protested to his master. The clouds are so dark that the snow will only get heavier and heavier. Braving such a heavy snow to force the way, both men and horses can freeze halfway through! The wild wolf who is in a hurry to accumulate winter fat does not matter who has backbone and who is not dignified, as long as you don't have the strength to resist, it will rush up and bite your throat as fast as possible.

"Black Wind, let's go!" Li Xu ordered loudly and forcibly turned the horse's head. He saw the samurai of the Susa tribe in the camp come out, and the hiss of the black wind alarmed them, and the samurai strictly went out to fulfill their duties.

"Sigh!" Hei Feng let out another sad hiss, and was forced by Li Xu to run south. The warriors who rushed out in a hurry saw Li Xu's back in the wind and snow, and they were stunned one by one.

"It's Attached, my eyes don't flower, why did he get here?" Someone shouted.

"With such a heavy snowfall, he still continues to hurry!"

"He would rather freeze to death than touch every grass and tree in our tribe!" The samurai, who knew the details, sighed and shook his head. The elders have gone too far, and it's no wonder that the Attached-Adults refused to even put in the tent to roast the fire. But how far can he go on such a cold day? The samurai looked at the blue-black clouds and muttered prayers.

"Immortal Heaven, please bless the Attached Adult!"

"Changshengtian, please make the snow heavier! Bigger! Several Xi slaves with leather cords on their ankles prayed in low voices. There will not be a second tribe within a radius of hundreds of miles, the lone wolf who ruined the Suotou Xi Division, may the Immortal Heaven give him the most severe punishment.

The snow melted as it fell, and the ground was covered with mud. The mud was soon frozen into ice ballast, and the porridge was mixed with the falling snowflakes. A few old elm trees that had not had time to drop their leaves were covered with ice cubes and shrank in the wind. Finally, a branch could not bear such a heavy load, and it snapped into two pieces with a click.

Ice cubes, branches entangled with each other and rolled in the wind, and the snow that had gradually accumulated was brought up and wrapped into a large ice mass. The ice mass grew bigger and bigger, and it made a heavy mark in the snow. Finally, in front of a slope, the ice masses stopped rolling and were frozen on the ground. The snowflakes raised by the wind swirled around the ice and gradually piled up into towers, piled up into mounds, piled up so that they were inseparable from the slope ahead.

A pair of big feet stepped on it and fell into it with a "plop". The "white-haired" black wind hissed desolately, struggled to retreat, and slowly dragged the master out of the snow pit with the reins. Li Xu stood up straight with difficulty, and just wanted to give Hei Feng a grateful smile, his feet slipped and he fell into the snow pit again. He took a few steps forward, grabbed a handful of dead grass, and slowly gathered his body. Squatted, stood up, and hugged Black Wind's neck. Turn your face to the south and stumble forward.

"There are two small mounds ahead, and there is a shelter from the wind in between!" Li Xu lay on the ear of the war horse and whispered to cheer the other party. I don't know if the black wind understands it, it raises its neck with difficulty, accompanies its master, and moves forward one foot deep and one shallow.

There should be two small mounds ahead, and a tent can be placed in the birch forest in the middle. Li Xu kept cheering himself up in his heart. The cold wind had frozen him to the point where he was numb, and when Xu Dayan talked about the nearby terrain last winter, he specifically mentioned this birch forest. In the event that the allied forces fail to attack the Xiren camp, or encounter a snowstorm, the birch forest sandwiched between the two mounds is the best place to camp.

Turning over one mound and rolling over another, the birch forest that Xu Dayan said never appeared. The wind blows on the body and no longer feels cold, but the snow melts on the face and brings a trace of warmth. "Brother Black, I'm dragging you down!" Li Xu knew that his path had come to an end, and said apologetically to the black wind. Black Wind struggled to lower his neck, struggling to warm his face with his tongue. That was the last thing Black Wind could do, its whole body was soaked in snow, and the only thing that remained warm was its tongue.

"Don't make trouble, Tao Kuo desilk, don't make trouble!" Li Xu shouted in a daze and rolled down the snow slope. Is this in Crescent Lake, Tao Kuo kept pouring cold water on himself. What about Ganro, how Ganro jumped into the wind. What does it taste like, is it a roasted hare burnt?

"Sigh!" The black wind roared loudly, knelt down on his front legs, and desperately pushed Li Xu down the hillside with his head. After a few strokes, it couldn't hold it anymore, and the bean-sized tears fell down the snow in the eyes.

Suddenly, a scorched smell blew into Li Xu's nose. His spirits suddenly lifted, and he struggled to open his eyes in the wind and snow. He saw Black Wind's desperate eyes, and saw the snowstorm. Then he saw a puff of smoke rising high in front of him to his left, and the wind blew snowflakes down the pillar of smoke, but it could not swallow the dark of hope.

"Someone's camped there!" Li Xu shouted hoarsely, and the black wind let out a long and terrible hiss. The men and horses gathered the last of their strength and rolled down the hill one after another, snowballing towards the place where the smoke had risen.

It is a birch forest, and the bark of this tree unique to northern China is as white as snow. Between the layers of snow and trees, a tent made of cowhide stands tall. Outside the tent, a huge fire spewed clouds and mist, and the red tongue of fire rolled, licking all the wind and snow that approached the tent into heat.

By the fire, a young man stood with a lance. With its burly figure and sly smiling face, it is the warmest scenery in the world along with the birch forest.

"How are you?" Li Xu blurted out, and heard the same question in his ears at the same time. He stumbled over and bumped into the other party. The man thumped him hard, knocking all his senses back into his body little by little.

"Why are you walking so slowly?" Xu Dayan asked while dragging Li Xu into the leather tent.

"How did you get here?" Li Xu rubbed his almost frozen face and ears vigorously and asked loudly. Hei Feng, who felt that he had been snubbed, snorted several times in succession, expressing his dissatisfaction with the unrighteous master. Then he slammed into the other horses in front of the tent and circled around the fire.

"Aslan sent someone to tell me with a fast horse, and I then took the straight road to chase you. I encountered a snowstorm this morning, and I didn't bother to enter the village of the people again, so I set up a tent here! I thought I wouldn't be able to catch up with you this time, but I didn't expect you to go after me for so many days. After closing the tent door, Xu Dayan described the reason for his appearance in the most concise language.