Chapter 64: Snowfield

A snowfield, this is the first image of Wang Dayuan and the crew getting off the ship, although they were shaken by the cold temperature when they were on the ship, but they didn't expect to see the snow all over the ground after landing on land.

Wang Dayuan clearly remembered that it should have been April at this time, why was it still snow on land? This is not what the prince described.

In the description of the prince, this land should be full of life, full of sun and sand, not like now, a snowy field, without life.

It turned out that Wang Dayuan, who had always been full of reverence for Zhao Weiji, had doubts about Zhao Weiji's judgment for the first time, this kind of place is not suitable for people to live in at all.

In fact, if Zhao Weiji was here, he should be able to judge where Wang Dayuan had landed, and this place should be called Alaska in the future.

It is no wonder that they will find this place, according to Zhao Weiji's recommendation to sail with the ocean current, the first piece of land on the American continent to see must be Alaska, a land close to the Arctic Circle.

And Wang Dayuan's login time is not right, this time is indeed April, it should be spring, but that is for the Central Plains Continent, this continent close to the North Pole has just broken away from the polar night at this time, and the temperature has not completely risen, so the snow covering the earth has not yet melted, so what will be displayed in front of Wang Dayuan's eyes will be a snowfield.

Now what? This is a huge problem facing Wang Dayuan. Do you want to explore, this endless snowfield?

"What do you do now, my lord?" Just when Wang Dayuan was deep in thought, his first mate asked him.

After hesitating, Wang Dayuan still sent a team of people into the depths of the continent to explore.

What Wang Dayuan didn't expect was that the exploration team actually found humans in this snowfield.

"Actually inhabited here?" Wang Dayuan heard the report of the team members who came back, and asked such a question.

"Yes, my lord, they live in the snow, in a house made of ice, and they look like us."

"What do you mean by being like us?"

"Their clothes and hair color and contours are very similar to our Han people, but we can't understand what they say."

This ordered a boatload of people to be shocked, actually living in such a place where birds don't in the ice and snow and birds live humans who are very similar to our Han people?

At this time, of course, the people of the Song Dynasty did not think that human beings looked the same as the Han people, and the Central Plains people had already dealt with white people in the Middle East and even Europe a long time ago. There are also Indians, as well as black Africans known as Kunlunnu.

At this moment, he actually met a yellow person in this kind of place, which really aroused Wang Dayuan's interest.

"Okay, you can take me to get to know this family."

After speaking, Wang Dayuan led more people to the depths of the snow field.

Not long after entering the snow field, Wang Dayuan met the rest of the snow field exploration team that had entered before, and they were being guided by the local natives, the group of people who looked like Han people who had returned to the population before, and built igloos one by one.

"My lord, that's the group."

Wang Dayuan looked in the direction pointed by the scout, and really found a group of people who were dressed completely different from his side, but had similar faces.

"This is us, our lord." After the scout led Wang Dayuan over, he introduced Wang Dayuan to the eldest of the group of natives.

“@#¥%%#@!” Hearing the introduction of the scout, the old man also said something like this, but Wang Dayuan really didn't understand what he said, but judging from his actions, it should be a sign of friendship.

"Hello." Although Wang Dayuan also knew that the other party might not understand, he still put on a friendly posture and greeted the old man.

After making sure that Wang Dayuan was not hostile, the old man led Wang Dayuan into his igloo. After entering, Wang Dayuan found that this kind of igloo was quite magical.

There was a fire in the house, but the igloo didn't melt, and the fire made the inside of the igloo much warmer than the outside. The tables and other furniture in the igloo are also made of ice, but they are also unmelted next to the fire, and they are covered with animal skins. But Wang Dayuan couldn't see what kind of beast this was.

After entering the house, under the signal of the old man, Wang Dayuan found a place to do it. Then he saw the old man gesturing at him.

After the old man finished the gesture, Wang Dayuan thought about the meaning of the old man's gesture. The old man pointed in one direction before, and then he used two fingers to pull on the table like a man walking. Wang Dayuan probably guessed that the old man might have meant to ask if they had come from the West. Because the direction the old man is pointing in seems to be the West.

Wang Dayuan shook his head, pointed his finger in the direction that the old man had pointed just now, and then compared the shape of a wave with his hand, wanting to tell the old man that he was from the sea.

Looking at Wang Dayuan's gesture, the old man thought for a moment and left the igloo. Just when Wang Dayuan was wondering, the old man came back again, still holding a ball of snow in his hand.

Then Wang Dayuan saw that the old man quickly kneaded the snow with his hands into the shape of a small boat, then pointed to the boat, then to the west, and then to Wang Dayuan.

Now Wang Dayuan completely understood, the old man's behavior just now was roughly understood and wanted to be sure, so Wang Dayuan nodded vigorously.

After seeing Wang Dayuan's nod, the old man suddenly burst into tears. This made Wang Dayuan suddenly a little overwhelmed, how could this such a good person suddenly cry.

Just as Wang Dayuan wanted to step forward to comfort the old man, the old man suddenly stopped crying, grabbed Wang Dayuan, and took him out of the igloo.

Then the old man found a group of young people and began to babble something to the group of young people, and before Wang Dayuan could react, the group of young people began to draw pictures on the ground.

Soon after, something resembling a scroll of stories formed on the snow. Through the interpretation of the picture scroll, it is cooperating with the old man's comparison. Wang Dayuan probably guessed what the old man wanted to talk about.

It turned out that the ancestors of this group of indigenous people were people who lived on the continent to the west, and then for various reasons, they continued to migrate to the east. Eventually, some migrated here and settled, while others continued further east. This part of the people who settled down slowly became the ancestors of these people they met today, Wang Dayuan.

After settling on this continent for many years, these people did not have the idea of returning to the West, but when someone actually took action, they found that the road they came from had turned into an ocean. Although these people can build ships, they can only build very small disembarkers, and they can't cross the wide sea at all.

As a result, the desire to return home came to naught, and as time went on, many people forgot that they were actually from the far western continent.

The old man seemed to be a kind of priest in the local tribe, and the kind of priest has been passing down legends about their origins.

So when the old man learned that Wang Dayuan was from the Western Continent, he would behave like that.

After reading the whole story, Wang Dayuan was also shocked, the ancestors of this group of indigenous people may also be Han Chinese, which made Wang Dayuan a little unacceptable.

But then he observed that the living customs of this group of natives were really similar to some details of ancient mythology described in the history books.

And after listening to the dialogue between the natives, Wang Dayuan found that many of the pronunciations of their speech were somewhat similar to the Chinese dialect of the Central Plains.

So Wang Dayuan found the old man again to test, and he was surprised to find that there are really many words with the same pronunciation as Chinese in the language used by the old man, and the meaning is also very similar.

In this way, Wang Dayuan began to believe what the old man said.

So Wang Dayuan tentatively asked the old man if he was willing to send someone to follow the ship back to the Central Plains first, because this place did not seem to be as described by Zhao Weiji, so Wang Dayuan was ready to return to the Central Plains first and discuss with Zhao Weiji before making plans.

But when Wang Dayuan asked for the old man's opinion, he also euphemistically indicated that those who went back to the Central Plains might never come back. Now the old man was embarrassed, he himself really wanted to go, but first of all, because of the duties of the priest, he could not leave the tribe at will, and besides, he seemed to be not young, and it was still unclear whether he could withstand the wind and waves at sea and return to the Central Plains smoothly. So the old man himself gave up this opportunity.

But when the old man announced this in the tribe, he encountered a cold wave, and here this group of natives showed a habit similar to that of the Han people in the Central Plains, that is, it was difficult to leave their homeland. After many generations of living here, it seems that this group of natives has little interest in the legendary hometown of the western film. Besides, since there is a possibility that you will not be able to come back, no one wants to go.

Just when Wang Dayuan thought that no one here wanted to follow the ship to the Central Plains, a boy who looked very thin stood up.

Now the old man was happy, and happily sent the boy into Wang Dayuan's team. Wang Dayuan was also very happy to see that someone wanted to follow the ship back to the Central Plains, so after saying goodbye to the old man, Wang Dayuan led the team and led the child back to the ship. Started the journey home.

At the same time that Wang Dayuan began his return journey, the political turmoil in the Central Plains arose again, because the dark side of Zhao Yuanxi's heart overcame his conscience.

He agreed to the deal sent by the Khitan State and was ready to sell the country for profit. But what he did did not escape the eyes of the three people.

At this time, Zhao Guangyi, who knew what Zhao Yuanxi had done, what choice would Zhao Weiji and Zhao Heng have. A fierce political game is about to unfold in the territory of the Great Song Dynasty.