Once overland, the mountain roads are more rugged. Xiao Nan has adapted a lot to this, and for him, all he has to do is hide in the carriage and listen to the sound of the squeaky wheels.

The road in the forest can only be barely called a road, and even if it is a horse-drawn carriage, it travels at about the same speed as a human walk.

In order to make it easier to travel, they had a total of two carriages and six mules, which was a fairly large marching team in this era.

According to the old leader, although bandits are very rampant in this area, it is winter now, and in the past month, there have been several unusually heavy snowfalls, and the cottage families who have sparse fields and make a living from driving mountains have no good harvest, and the bandits who live by oppressing the people are much more honest.

Based on his experience, as long as he takes advantage of the cold weather in the past few days to hurry up, plus bypass the so-called official road, there should be no big problem.

It can be seen that he is really short of money, and if it weren't for this, he wouldn't have taken such a big risk to take this job.

The first day was peaceful from morning to night, and there was no situation, but at night, the place where they stayed was just a small cabin in the mountains for hunters to stay, and the conditions were not as good as Xiao Nan staying in the car.

For the sake of safety, except for the female dependents, who spent the night in another carriage, Miao Feng and Xiao Nan were huddled in a carriage alone.

"It's a lot like where I come from." Miao Feng said to Xiao Nan after getting into the car with a glass lamp.

"This is also one of the ancient battlefields where the gods fought fiercely in the primeval period." Xiao Nan said, "I remember that there were more than a dozen tribes who swore to follow me in the early days, and the Yumin people were just one of them, and perhaps, the descendants of the people of other tribes were scattered in this mountain. ”

"The feathered people are just a special case, and there are very few tribes that can maintain the original memory." Miao Feng said, "The oath of human beings is sometimes more light than the wind. ”

"There will always be humans who will continue to make vows with me." Xiao Nan smiled faintly.

Miao Feng hooked the corners of his mouth when he heard this: "Did you deliberately choose this path to visit your former territory?" ”

Xiao Nan just laughed and didn't say anything.

"The primordial people, all life and life, are your subjects." Miao Feng said.

After that, he lay down: "Sleep peacefully, it's not early." ”

I don't know if it's because he and Xiao Nan discussed the topic of this land before going to bed, this night, Miao Feng had a strange dream.

At the beginning of the primeval period, when the giant spirit god moved mountains and reclaimed the sea, opened up the forest sea, imparted divine sense, and led mortals to expel endless demons, at that time, giant beasts were all over the sky and the earth, and mortals could control it, galloping through the endless sky and forests.

The first mortals were not afraid of hating the gods, they were as pure as gods, and the scenery they saw in their eyes was so clear and far-reaching, so light that it seemed to merge with the white clouds.

When Miao Feng suddenly opened his eyes, he realized that his face was full of tears.

It was an ancient memory deep in his blood, so reminiscent and emotional!

He could even be sure that this was Xiao Nan's dream for him!

"Xiao Nan!" He rolled over and put his hand on Xiao Nan's shoulder, who was lying beside him.

"Huh?" Xiao Nan turned his back to him, as if he hadn't woken up yet.

“………… Now, it's getting more and more difficult to tell whether you are a god or a human. Miao Feng said in a low voice.

"I'm just Xiao Nan." Xiao Nan said, "Those concepts of mortal division do not apply to me. ”

"Okay...... Miao Feng shook his head and said, "I'll go to work." ”

"Miao Feng." Xiao Nan said suddenly.

"What?" Miao Feng asked.

"You will always be the Miao Feng I know."

Miao Feng was stunned.

He shook his head and smiled wryly as if relieved.

"Let's be considered a bad fate." Miao Feng said.

"Hahahaha......" Xiao Nan just chuckled.

So they continued on their way, eating their own bacon and dry food at first, and occasionally cooking on their own stoves.

After walking for three days in a row, I finally came to the first village where I could see people.

This village is built on the mountain, extremely hidden, from the miserable cottage buildings can be seen that it was once a very prosperous village, but now it seems to be very defeated, most of the houses in the village have been in deep disrepair for many years, and the villagers are also wearing rags.

According to the old leader, this village has been so squeezed by the bandits that now the village has no oil or water at all, and every family either flees outside to find a partner, or barely survives without starving to death.

It turned out that man-made disasters were more rampant and extinct than natural disasters, and it was said that there were no young women of their right age in the village, because the bandits had carried out a large-scale raid and abducted girls from their teens and twenties, and it was not known whether the girls were sold or ruined to death.

Even some young and middle-aged people went to join the gangs because they couldn't survive. As a result, the village saw either middle-aged and elderly people or children. Not even a person who is a little physically strong can be seen.

The old leader is familiar with the head of the local village, and the head man is like a VIP greeting, leading Xiao Nan and them to his home to live temporarily, of course, not for nothing, but to pay the toll.

The headman's house is quite clean, it is a typical bamboo building, and now there are almost no young and middle-aged laborers in the village, and they only eat some wild vegetables and potatoes, and Xiao Nan and they have almost eaten their own dry food - they originally brought a lot of ham, but the three sons of the old boss were too good to eat, and they ate it in a few days.

Xiao Nan thought to herself, don't they feel sluggish?

Hearing that the ingredients for dinner were only potatoes and wild vegetables, Wanyue was stunned, even in the last days, Xiao Nan had never eaten so badly, so she asked the headman: "Can I hunt in the mountains near here?" ”

"Yes, but the weather has been too cold in the past few months, and the beasts have hidden, and if you want to find their traces, you can only go to the mountains, which is very dangerous, not to mention, and there may be bandits, no one dares to go." The head man sighed around the fire.

"Don't worry about this, leave it to me." Miao Feng said, "I'm also a master hunter. ”

"You're a Miao person!" The head man looked at him and couldn't help but be surprised, "Looking at your decoration and physiognomy, you are from the more southwestern realm, right?" I heard from my ancestors that there is a group of Miao people over there who are blessed by the ancestral gods, and I don't know if they are still alive in this world. ”

“…… I am indeed a Miao from the southwest. Miao Feng said, "But the tribe you mentioned has perished." ”

"Alas......" the leader sighed as he held his cigarette gun, "we are not capable of holding a meeting of the gods of the hundred tribes like we did decades ago, and probably because of this, the gods have abandoned us." ”

"The gods have not forsaken you." Miao Feng said in the ancient Miao language, "As long as you believe in the ancestral gods, the ancestral gods will still favor you." ”

"May the ancestral gods still take care of us. There aren't many people who can speak the language now, young man. The old patriarch also knew some ancient sayings that had been passed down from generation to generation, and said with emotion, "If my son is still alive, he is as old as you, and he may be a brave hunter." ”

As he spoke, he couldn't help but burst into tears.

"I'm a lot older than your son." Miao Feng said, "Touren, I want to organize a hunt, please lend me your hunting tools." ”

"I'll let my wife take you to get it, you can use it as you please." The leader generously said, "I'm old, and I can't use those things, so I'll give them to you." ”

"You're going hunting?! Can I go! Xiao Nan immediately interjected when he heard this.

"What do you say?" Miao Feng gave him a blank look.

"I'll go, I'll go! I'll go too! Lin Yi was already getting excited, "My nose is good, let me go!" Let me go! ”

"I'll go too!" Lei Xue said, "I'm here!" You don't need tools at all! ”

Xiao Xiao looked at Lei Xue, a strange woman, and pouted, he didn't want to go to the mountains to be tired and bitter, so he said, "Then I'll stay with the Thirteenth Master." ”

"Xiao Nan, what game do you want to eat?" Miao Feng asked with his arms crossed.

"Cold ...... Eat rabbit ...... I haven't eaten it yet......" Xiao Nan said dumbfounded.

“…… Eat some of the things that you don't have. Miao Feng bared his teeth.

"Isn't it spicy? I see that the head man has dried chili peppers at home, which can be made. Wanyue said.

"You have to have it." The head man couldn't quite understand their accent, so he just nodded.

"Got it, ask for a rabbit." Miao Feng said.

"I still want to eat wild boar! It's delicious! I want to eat it again! Lei Xue raised his hand.

"Don't catch protected animals!" Xiao Nan reminded.

"Then I'll stay here and prepare other ingredients or something." Wanyue said.

Miao Feng belongs to the kind of person who acts immediately when he thinks of it, he said that he wants to go into the mountains to hunt, and the three sons of the old leader are young and vigorous, and they even go with him.

Xiao Nan could only watch with his eyes as they led the mules into the mountain.

Wanyue took half a bag of rice from the car and handed it to the head family's family to use to make dinner, seeing the rice, the head family's children drooled greedily, they are also the best living conditions in the village, you can imagine how poor other families are.

However, the two children were knocked on the head by their father with a cigarette stick, saying that it was used by the guests for cooking, and told them not to peek and eat.

Xiao Nan didn't understand their dialect very well, but he also understood that the two children were greedy, and he couldn't move around while sitting on the recliner, so he waved the two children to his side and asked them if they wanted to eat candy.

"Sugar?!" The little boy, who was only ten years old, had his eyes lit up when he heard the words. It's carved out of the same mold as the previous thunder snow.

"Brother, Daddy told us not to take the guest's things." The seven-year-old girl said timidly. She obviously hadn't eaten much sugar, so she didn't have any idea.

The two children looked good, but they were thin and out of shape, so Xiao Nan took out two candy cubes wrapped in shiny candy paper from the pocket of his shirt, and said, "Take it and eat it, see if it's delicious." ”

"This one is so pretty...... Can you eat it? The little girl took the candy cube and looked at it over and over again, and couldn't put it down.

It was the ten catties of candy that Xiao Nan placed in the future package and bought in the supermarket where he was engaged in activities, and was going to bring it back and send it to everyone as a snack, because it seems that eating candy cubes is very luxurious in this era.

The little boy anxiously peeled off the wrapper, and the inside was the White Rabbit Milk Candy, a small piece, but the little boy was reluctant to eat it in one bite, but bit a little.

"Wow!!" His eyes lit up immediately, and it was clear that the taste of the toffee made him feel like an explosion.

"It's delicious!" He was still smacking his lips for a long time.

"Wow! Then I'll eat it too! The little girl said. But her brother handed her his piece of candy and said, "You eat my piece, and your piece for Abba and Grandma." ”

"You are really filial, I still have a lot, don't worry." Xiao Nan said and felt in his pocket, but in the end he only found five pieces, he just thought that after getting out of the car, he would give them a little candy to increase his favorability, so he didn't bring a lot.

The child didn't seem to be very affected by Xiao Nan's bewitchment brought by the power of Fuxi, and he could talk and laugh with him very happily, but in the eyes of others, Xiao Nan really had an indescribable strange aura, which made people can't help but be attracted by his appearance at the same time, but also feel a little afraid.

"Thirteenth Master, Miss Wanyue asked me to add a blanket for you." Lu Hua happened to bring a blanket to the bamboo building, and happened to see Xiao Nan and the two children sharing sugar.

"Luhua, I have a plastic ...... in my compartment It's a transparent barrel, you can help me get it. Inside is candy. Xiao Nan then said, "I'm sorry for you." ”

Lu Hua was just greeted by him, and immediately lowered her head, her face so hot that she couldn't do it.

She knelt in front of Xiao Nan, carefully laid a second blanket on Xiao Nan's legs, and said, "Slave maid, go get it." ”

"Luhua, you're not a slave." Xiao Nan corrected.

"A slave is a slave, the thirteenth master, Lu Hua is stubborn, you let me repay the favor." Luhua knelt on the ground and refused to get up.

Xiao Nan sighed: "You go." ”

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"Is all this candy for us!!" When Xiao Nan handed over a small bucket of white rabbit Xu Fuji set to them, the two children were fried.

"Of course, but not for you." Xiao Nan said, "There are conditions." ”

"What conditions? We don't have any money at home! Really can't afford it! The little boy shook his head repeatedly.

"Tell me about your customs here." Xiao Nan said, "How is it." In this way, the candy is your consultation fee. ”

"Okay, okay!" I don't understand what the consultation fee is, but the child is just greedy, so he nods easily.