Often, many things are just a thought.

Looking at the quiet Apache town in the dim lights with hesitant eyes, Su Yu's explanation made Mao Xingjian's heart feel like a pot, and there was an impulse in his heart to return to the town immediately to find Chilu, but when he really stretched out his hand, he was cowardly, fear, disgust, exhaustion, pain, and the wine that had not yet dissipated echoed in his brain, drowsy, I don't know when, his head drooped towards the wheel, and he fell asleep groggily.

Su Yu, who was sitting in the front of the car, also quieted down again, but his eyes were staring at the prince's bruised and broken face, staring so distractedly.

…………

Smack~smack~

A cold touch appeared on his face, and under a cleverness, Mao Xingjian sat up suddenly, and in the sound of clicking, a cold towel fell to the ground suddenly, and in front of him, Han Xiaomo's little face covered her small mouth and gloated.

Beside him, the ox cart made a dull sound in the mud, and he could vaguely hear the river flowing, and when he looked up again, the snake river of Qingling had been left behind.

"Crossed the river?"

"That's right! It wasn't your eldest nephew who ordered it, I delayed it all night yesterday, hurry back today, and when I got up in the morning to see that you were sleeping soundly in the car, the Nangong housekeeper didn't make any noise about you, and rushed back with the sailors directly! Big nephew, did you peek at someone else's object last night? Being beaten like this, haha......"

Covering her little mouth, this girl was still smiling heartlessly, but Mao Xingjian's brain was blank, he rubbed his forehead, and after a while, he suddenly grabbed Han Xiaomo's little hand impatiently.

"How's Apache Town? Did you see a red deer when you left? ”

"Oops, it hurts ......"

Frowning and snatching his hand out, Han Xiaomo hugged his arm a little sourly: "I didn't see it!" The patriarch of the Red Deer family only stared at the crown prince, how could he receive such a small character as me!"

"Trouble in Apache Town?"

A little stunned looked at Mao Xingjian, who was swollen with half of his face, but still full of anxiety, and after a while, Han Xiaomo finally shook his little brain seriously.

"No! The big guy still should eat and drink when he came out, and when we left, the tiger head wizard came out to see us off. ”

These words made Mao Xingjian's heart breathe a sigh of relief, it seems that Chilu did not say what happened last night, and it will not affect the stability of the Apache Department for the time being, and there was a Su Yu in the know last night, so he had to quickly remind him not to spread the matter, thinking, Mao Xingjian quickly stretched his neck and looked left and right.

"What about Su Yu?"

"I don't know, I'm as nervous as you, I said that I wanted to go back to the tribe to visit his father, two pots of boiling water, and I left by myself."

Since rescuing the second generation of this chief back to the tribe, Su Yu has been following him, in the words of their Indians, the grace of saving his life, he regards himself as a brother of the blood alliance, and he needs to repay this kindness before leaving, or simply join his tribe, but now, after Song Yongzhong, Su Yu suddenly left his side, which suddenly made Mao Xingjian's heart become empty.

"Hey! Big nephew! You haven't said who you were beaten like this? Auntie will avenge you! ”

Han Xiaomo was still shaking her little arms angrily, looking very tough, but unfortunately, the prince who suddenly lost her mood didn't pay any attention to her, just looked back at the snake river that was getting farther and farther away.

.........

This is the third year after Mao Xingjian arrived in the New World, and it is also the second bumper harvest, this year the cultivated area of the Snake River Plain has been expanded by him more than tenfold, reaching 400,000 acres of dry land, which has never been cultivated, and the fertile fields full of humus are really not a joke, although the average labor force is in charge of more than ten acres of land, which is close to an extensive type of cultivation, one acre of land can still harvest more than 200 kilograms of rice or wheat.

Compared with last year, the area of Snake City has also expanded a large circle, after all, more than 8,000 immigrants have come, and the new southern immigrants rely on the urban area on the mountainside, and expand a larger square city area downward, the shape, as if a large and a small two words are stacked together, and a small city in the shape of Jingshi City stands on the land of the New World.

As soon as this spring came, it was close to a full state into the wasteland, a little idle summer, and several tribes in the north fought a big war, the houses and buildings of the new immigrants were built compared to the old immigrants obviously compared to the old people's houses are much simpler, many people only built a simple layer, only the city wall, Song Yongzhong went east after no one urged, but only on both sides of the town to set up a opening, but here is much more lively than the old city, the tavern grocery store has opened more than a dozen, and there are people who specialize in running the trade of the sea of gems to the port of the fishy sea, A small society is basically healthy.

Mao Xingjian came back just in time, he just entered the gate of Snake City, fluttering northwest wind, the first snow this year has been fluttering and falling, there is no trend of global warming, still in this Xiaoice period, this snow is affordable enough, fluttering sprinkled is more than the fifth day, the snow is actually as deep as a thigh, the thick snow is buried deep under the just harvested dry fields.

However, this year, even the poorest Indians are no longer freezing, and with the reduction of grain imports, all the vacated shipping spaces have been replaced with daily necessities, and those Indians who have taken refuge in Mao Xingjian have also changed into thick cotton clothes, huddled in sturdy wooden houses, and warmly enjoyed the heat from the hearth.

On October 18, the continuous heavy snow blowing from the northern polar regions was finally enough, and finally the gloomy clouds could be regarded as dispersed, and early in the morning, the long-lost sun could be regarded as lazily appearing in the sky over Snake City, and the pure white snow shining was dazzling.

It's too moist, even if the Sioux people in the Dakota Department have become lazy, wearing thick cotton clothes, whether they are Ming immigrants or Sioux people, they are all under the urging of their chief chieftain, so they reluctantly took a broom to the street, and swept the thick snow out of the street one by one.

On the other hand, Chen Zao brought the clansmen from the Chen family to be even more busy, and more than 200 sturdy men were dispatched from various lijia, and dozens of ox carts were driven down the hill.

It's not as densely populated as the Ming Dynasty, and a heavy snowfall has almost covered the road to the Sea of Jewels. However, the long winter days are more than four months, but Snake City can't cut off the connection, and it also needs to transport all the grain abundant here to the Baobao Sea Port, and supply the various Ming strongholds in the north through there, so the snow can be cleared as much as it can, and it is estimated that it is enough for them to be busy for a while.

Prince's Mansion.

With a thick leather hat on her head and a big cotton jacket on her body, Han Xiaomo's nose was red from the cold, she looked like a complete village girl, leading the daughter sent by the Chen family to serve, as well as the black pearl sailor guards sent by Mao Jue to the prince, they were also full of enthusiasm and cleaned up, piling up the big snowdrifts outside the wall.

The dry is in full swing, this girl also took off her hat and threw it aside, and her head was like ascending to the immortal, bubbling with a stream of white gas.

Standing in the corridor on the second floor, Mao Xingjian, who had also been a cat for several days, looked straight to the south as if he had lost his soul.

In the past few days, he has been feeling restless, so as soon as the snow stopped, Mao Xingjian sent a messenger to the south bank impatiently, but even so, it still did not relieve the anxiety in his heart.

What he is worried about is not only what is happening to Akaka, whether the Apache Department is stable or not, but also his relationship with Akaka! If you ask yourself, Mao Xingjian does not hate and reject this self-reliant matriarch, but under the heavy Confucian etiquette, he is very secretive about the relationship between men and women, not to mention that he is still the prince of the Ming Empire, and his marriage is not just his own business!

Without the consent of Mao Jue and Chen Jiao, really marry Chilu, an alien woman? In Mao Xingjian's mind, he could even see the ministers of the DPRK and China beating their chests and feet, and they were angry.

Let's click~

Just when Mao Xingjian was gloomy, a snowball suddenly threw it up, not impartially, just to make the face of the dignified prince, he couldn't catch it off guard, he simply sat on the ground with his ass, and spit out a few mouthfuls in a row, then he stood up in annoyance and looked down, but it was Han Xiaomo, the girl, who smiled happily and bent over.

"Big nephew, come down for a snowball fight! It's fun! ”

"The stove should not be poured!"

Shaking his head helplessly, with his hands behind his back, Mao Xingjian returned to the house with a straight face, looking at his disappearing figure, Han Xiaomo grimaced in disappointment: "Stingy ghost!" ”

patted the snow on her body, the prairie wild girl was going to take out the majesty of being an aunt and personally go upstairs to pull the eldest nephew down, but before she could take two steps, the wind suddenly sounded rapidly behind her, and she turned around in amazement, and the crackling snowball almost buried Han Xiaomo in an instant.

A burst of giggling voices came, and the immigrant children who had stopped classes for several days didn't know when they slipped into the prince's mansion again, and the snowball combo just now was undoubtedly their masterpiece, pointing to the snowman-like Han Xiaomo, a group of naughty children jumped up and down like little monkeys, laughing non-stop!

"Dare to sneak attack your Miss Han, wow, don't run!"

Angry and shook the snow on her body, like a big child, this girl gritted her teeth and grabbed the snowball and pounced, laughing, the whole yard was suddenly snowballs flying, and from time to time there was an exaggerated exclamation of a grassland wild girl.

Poof~ Another snowball hit the pillar heavily, and the snow powder fell on the face of the prince who was sitting cross-legged below, and he turned his head to look at Han Dawunu, who was facing the snow and threw a little doll into the snowdrift with his teeth and claws, Mao Xingjian shook his head helplessly again.

........

God is also powerful, the sunny day lasted for four or five days, although the snow on the ground was still so solid, but while the sky was fine, there were already residents of Snake City who were excited to carry fishing rods down the hill and go to the frozen river to open ice and fish, and in Mao Xingjian's anxious waiting, the messenger sent to the Apache Department finally returned.

"How? Have you seen the Red Deer Patriarch? ”

Full of impatience, in the prince's hall on the first floor, he didn't even wear shoes, Mao Xingjian had already run quickly, but he hurriedly knelt on the ground with a military salute, and the sailor sent to the cold red face shook with difficulty.

"Didn't see it! Listen to the tribesmen of Apache say that they haven't seen the Red Deer Patriarch for several days! ”

With a clear chuckle in his heart, Mao Xingjian couldn't help but stumble back half a step, but with his head down, the sailor messenger reported in a hurry.

"However, the great wizard of the mountain lion tribe asked the humble position to convey important information to the prince, and the five divisions of the Cheyenne people have decided to go north to meet the prince, it is said that after the snow stops, they will set off with the strong men and wizards in the tribe, and it is expected that they will be able to cross the river in these two days!"

After the loss just now, this news made Mao Xingjian's heart feel like a shock!

"They're finally here!"