Chapter 11: Ten Years Later
The snow night caught fire and became a mystery, tearing down the yin and yang between mother and daughter.
Leaving a bitter root, how do you know that you will be noble and cheap in the future?
On that snowstorm night, on that night when the dire wolf attacked the tribe, on the night when Wangmu died, why did Wangmu's house, far from the burning place, catch fire? Was it really a fire sent by a blizzard? Or, did someone deliberately set the fire? Uger thinks and analyzes every day with many questions, and she wants to get to the bottom of this matter, to give an explanation to Maiatten, an explanation to Wangmu, and an explanation to Aidaβafter all, it is a matter of life being ended.
Having just passed the full moon, Aida is in good health and thriving under the careful care of Ug and several kind women. The jet-black head is shiny, and the pretty face is chubby. Probably because she was eating Etta's milk, her physique was like a three-month-old child, holding her in her arms and heavy. A woman hugged Aida and said to Uge, "Uge, why do I always feel that this child smells of flowers and plants?" β
Ugg smiled and said, "You just heard it?" As soon as she was born, her mother and I smelled it. This child will definitely be a beauty in the future, and he will be promising. β
"It's a pity that she has no mother since she was a child." Another woman said, "Well, I don't know when the old chief will return." β
Every day, Regett led the hunters in the Liasun Forest to cut down trees, rolling the finished timber down the cliffs on the west side of the valley to rebuild the homes of the burned houses.
Although Tiktor was passive and slack, he was forced to stick to the logging site under pressure from everyone. However, his ambition to usurp power and his malicious revenge have never changed. It's just that Regitt and the hunters didn't give him a chance.
Time is like water and does not return, and spring and autumn are like the sun and the moon.
The past can be looked back, and the power is right and wrong.
There is no trace of the footprints of the predecessors, and the dream of the future has been prescribed.
Ten years have passed.
Aida turned into a pretty little girl. She was dressed in a blue desert rabbit skin coat, with bison leather boots on her feet, a pair of big watery eyes like Wangmu's life, her face was pure and bright, she inherited Maiatten's broad forehead and high nose bridge, giving people the impression of wisdom and generosity, a pair of sheep's horn braids tied behind her head, when walking, the braids swayed up and down, and when she ran, the braids did not swing regularly.
Aida enjoys running, spearing, and mimicking the movements of hunters. It is what people now call martial arts. At every turn, she beat boys her age to tears, some even two or three years older than her, and Aida was no problem. Many boys are afraid of her and don't like her, and behind their backs they say that she is "a woman with a man's body and a man's body". It is true that her personality is not very similar to her physiognomy, which is a beautiful girl. character, but more like a savage boy.
Aida had noticed that Uncle Tiktor had been going heavily armed lately to the south-east of the Snowy Ridge (the same place that Maiatten had looked back at when he had left the Snowy Land), sometimes with Uncle Golota, and had never returned with a large prey, and occasionally a desert hare or badger or something.
Aida felt that Uncle Tiktor was too stupid to catch even a decent prey, so she took her spear and said to Ugg, "Aunt Ugg, I want to go hunting with Uncle Tiktor." β
"Hunting with Tictor?" Ugg asked in surprise, "Aida, how do you know that Tiktor went hunting?" β
"I'm going to the snowy land." Aida said innocently, "The snowy area is so big, you can't see the edge at a glance, but it's beautiful." β
"I say, Aida." Uger took Aida in his arms and said, "You're a girl, learn to be reserved, don't run around like a madman." In the future, don't fight with boys. Everyone laughs at it. β
"I'm not afraid." Aida said with a little grievance, "Whoever dares to speak ill of my aunt in front of me, I will continue to beat him." β
"Good boy, let them say go, my aunt doesn't hurt." Uger said that, he suddenly felt bad and went back to the house.
Seeing that Ug had returned to the house, Aida took her spear and ran towards the Rainbow Bridge, chasing after Tiktor and Golotta.
Crossing the Rainbow Bridge and climbing up the sidewalk, Aida saw Tyktor and Golota, and she shouted from afar: "Uncle Tyktor, Uncle Golota"
Due to the distance, Tiktor and Golota did not hear.
Aida ran faster. And, while running, he shouted the names of two people.
Tiktor and Golota chatted as they walked as if they were walking in a snowy area. Tiktor said: "Golotta, after so many years of testing, you are sincere to me, and I am willing to treat me with sincerity. Today, I'm going to tell you the secret that has been hidden for ten years. Ten years ago, on that snowy night, I set the house on fire to Maiatten, and I had intended to burn Wangmu to death along with the child in her belly and the witch Uger, but they died a lot, alas, only one of them. β
Golota was taken aback and said, "Did you really do it?" β
"Needless to say." Thiktor glanced at Golota, "You don't want to think that the place where the fire started is so far away from Maiaten's house. β
Golota suddenly felt that Tiktor in front of him was simply a demon, and he said in his heart, Tiktor, you are too cruel! And the hatred of the old chief, why take revenge on the woman?
Tiktor heard Aida calling his name and looked back to see Aida running towards them both with a spear swing.
"Look, that evil seed has come to us." "It's a little too early to kill her, let her grow first, wait until you kill Maiateng, and then kill her." β
"I think it's okay to be a child. What's more, she is a girl. It can't be the climate. Golota interceded for Aida.
By the time he reached Tiktor and Golotta, Aida was out of breath. She stood there, clutching her chest, gasping for breath and saying, "But I've caught up with you." β
"We're going hunting, what are you doing here?" Tick asked with a straight face.
Aida smiled and said, "Two uncles, I'm going to help you hunt." β
"Go, go, go." Tiktor said, "How can you help a little yellow-haired girl?" β
"Then," said Aida, with a flash of inspiration, "will you take me to the snow valley?" β
Tiktor was stunned and thought to himself, could it be that this little evil species knows our purpose? No. This matter is known to no one except Golota, and I have not leaked the wind to anyone. Mo Fei, Golota
Tyktor glanced at Golotta, who looked around into the distance.
Tiktor realized that he was a little allergic because of his weak heart, and hurriedly said, "Okay, Uncle will take you there." Okay, just this once. β
Aida nodded and happily agreed.
The three of them walked up the snowy valley, and Aida excitedly looked here and there, and soon, the mystery and curiosity in her heart about the outside of the mountain disappeared at once. She pouted and said disappointedly: "I didn't expect that there is still snow and mountains here!" How can there be so much ice, snow and mountains? β
"Enough of it?" Tiktor didn't answer Aida's question, saying, "Are you satisfied?" Go back quickly. Get back. Don't let the beast eat you. β
"Hmm." Aida nodded and said, "I'll go back." With that, he turned and ran to the bottom of the snow.
"Be careful, don't fall." Golota looked back and admonished.
"What, you feel distressed when you fall?" Tiktor said, "It's good to fall to death!" β
As for whether Tiktor and Golota can wait for Maiateng to return today, let's not say for the time being.
Alone said that Aida said goodbye to her two uncles with a spear in her hand, and when she ran down the snowy ridge, she fell several times and rolled a lot, and she didn't feel any pain at all (in fact, it is common for people in the snow to wrestle, and their butts have been falling since childhood).
Standing at the foot of the snowy ridge, Aida didn't know where to go. It's not that she forgot the way back to the tribe, but she feels that going back the old way, everything is very familiar, and there is nothing new.
Aida walked to the right of the snow ridge. When she approached some of the cypress trees, she was startled by the sudden emergence of two sharp-beaked badgers with black fur from under the trees. Aida immediately calmed down, shouted "where to run", brandished her spear, and chased after her. The badger was also frightened, and "chirping" and ran separately. Aida chased after him, and saw that the spear was about to pierce the badger's buttocks, but he couldn't stab it. In desperation, she glanced back at the other, who was crouching there looking at her. Seeing that the one she was chasing was running faster and faster, Aida turned her spear and went after one of hers. As a result, the two badgers escaped from under the tips of her spears in vain. Aida stood there, panting, and muttered to herself, "Why didn't I know to put my spear and javelin over just now?" As she spoke, she flicked her arms and threw her spear out.
Aida picked up the spear, summed up the lesson in her heart, and walked in the direction of the Mammoth River Valley.
When Aida came to the eastern slope of the river valley, she saw in the distance the houses of the tribe and the bridge that was half a leg deep by the river, she was disgusted that it was a little slow to walk to the road and cross the water bridge, so she took her spear steadily, sat down in the ice and snow, and pushed the ground with both hands, and slid towards the bottom of the valley.
Aida walked along the riverbank to the head of the water bridge, probed the depth of the bridge with her spear, rolled up her trousers, and walked cautiously.
On the west bank of the water bridge, there are green trees and kingfishers singing. Aida looked curiously for the chirping birds in the trees, watching them fly around, but she couldn't catch them in her hands and raise them for fun. She pursed her mouth and blew hard, trying to imitate the birdsong and trick them down, but no matter how hard she blows, her lips are dull, and the sound she makes is a threatening expulsion of "shhhhh The birds with sensitive ears were so frightened by her that they either flew far or higher.
Before she knew it, Aida had come to the bottom of the cliff. She looked at these smashed, jagged and strange stones, and couldn't help but feel a chill and fear. She was no longer interested in playing with the birds, and walked briskly in the direction of the tribe upstream.
When Aida walked to the bottom of a recessed cliff, everything in front of her made her instantly creepy, she held her breath, her legs trembled, and she didn't dare to move forward or retreat.