CHAPTER XXV

The large and small figures of Pan Lazeen and Hima watched Emmen disappear into the wind and snow, and the hoof prints that had just stepped out were soon covered by the wind and snow, "Little girl, be hungry, the meat will be ready soon, Hook come out, meet new friends, and she will be taken care of by you for the time being." ”

At this time, the curtain of the carriage was lifted, and Hook jumped out and looked at Shema who was standing in a daze, Hook went up and grabbed Xima's hand and shook it vigorously, and patted her shoulder, "My name is Hook, what is your name?"

At this time, Xima's face turned a little red, and he broke free of Hook's hand with all his might, and muttered in a low voice, "Rascal!"

"What!? Hook's non-fake expression made Shema even more embarrassed, and he shouted, "Little rascal, what do you mean!?"

"You?" Hook hurriedly took a step back, his face full of confusion and strangeness, "Someone's name is a hooligan, or is it a girl?" Emma was about to explode, and said angrily, "What nonsense are you talking about, bastard!" Hema who had just left her father shouted out a little aggrieved, and after shouting, she squatted on the ground and cried, the girl's crying made Hook a little overwhelmed, and he didn't know what was wrong......

"Hey, get up, tell me where I said something wrong. ”

At this time, the old man looked at the two who were noisy together with a smile, and slowly smoked his pipe, the golden tobacco was pressed into the pipe by his thick fingers, the old man picked up a piece of burning wood from the side of the campfire and lit the tobacco in the pipe, holding the pipe in one hand, and taking out the pocket watch with the other hand to look at the time, at this time it was nearly four hours of night, and the long dark night of winter had just begun.

Old Penrazon put away his pocket watch and shouted to Hook, "You two come here." ”

Hook tugged at Shema's cloak, "Let's go, grandpa called us, by the way, aren't you hungry? There's beef in the pot, do you want to eat it?"

Suma ignored him, got up and walked over to old Panrazen, and bowed to the old man sensibly.

Old Pan Lazeen nodded, and said to Hook who was walking over: "Boy, look at how polite Miss Shema is, you can learn something for me! When will you also learn to bully girls! Haha, but Shema is a guest, so be polite to her." In addition, little Xima, Hook boy is not sensible, you don't want to be like him, you city children know a lot, little Hook has been used to following us since he was a child, there are some things he doesn't understand, you have to tell him, otherwise you will be angry in vain, and he will think you are unreasonable. ”

See-Ma listened to the words of the old Pan Lazen, nodded and did not speak, followed by a grunting sound came from the belly of See-Ma, See-Ma hurriedly covered his stomach, looked at the old man with an embarrassed face, the old man laughed, and commanded Hook: "Hook, you go and take out the silver bowl we brought, and serve some beef soup for Hima, and there are a few pieces of soft bread in the baggage of the bowl, you can also bring it together, and you can eat a little together, otherwise you will be hungry in the middle of the night." ”

Hook quickly got into the carriage, fumbled for a while, took out a bowl and bread, filled two bowls of beef soup for Shema and himself, walked up to Hima, and handed it to her.

Seeing this, the old Pan Lazeen smiled and said: "Don't be restrained, child, I promised your father that I wouldn't let you return to the imperial capital without a single hair, you can't let me break the old man's trust, when the time comes, your father will blame me when he sees that you have lost weight, maybe he will think that I am abusing children! Eat it while it's hot, and go to bed as soon as you're done, we may be about to leave before dawn, and we'll try to get out of the realm of O'Hari Peak tomorrow, and it will be warm after the snowfield." ”

Listening to the old man's words, Xima's eyes were a little red, probably thinking of his father, and now he couldn't help but worry again, but what the old man said was right, he couldn't let his father worry, Xima rubbed his eyes, and took the bowl and bread in Hook's hand with both hands, the dinner without knives and forks made Hema eat a little hard, Hook saw it, so he took out a silver spoon from his arms and handed it to Hima, Hema glanced at Hook, and then took the spoon, "Thank you, you give it to me, what do you use?"

Hook grinned at Hima and smiled, "No, I'll just eat it like this, let's eat it faster?" After saying that, he stuffed the bread into the bowl and picked up a piece of beef and stuffed it into his mouth. Seeing this scene, Hima, who had just a good face, muttered again, "Childish, it's better than this when you're so old!"

Hook pretended not to hear and continued to stuff the bread into his mouth, and when Hema saw this, he was really hungry, so he scooped up the beef and ate it in small bites.

Old Panrazane had a little more firewood from the wagon, and added a few more pieces to the campfire.

"Everyone takes turns to rest, everyone is on duty for three hours, hurry up!" said Old Pan Lazen, who took out the map and looked at it......

Soon, everyone rested, leaving a few good spirits gathered in front of the bonfire and whispered, "Old man, your silver musket is really not powerful, when can I have one, it must feel very good! Old man, can you make me have a good time?" A guard stared at Pan Lazeen, who was wiping the musket, "Okay, you can come and get it, but this guy has a bit of weight, can you do it?"

This is a small young man in the guard, after hearing the old man's words, his excited eyes lit up, and he hurriedly got up and trotted two steps to the old man, the old man picked up the musket with one hand and sent it to the young man's arms, the young man took it excitedly, but before he could catch it, the weight of the hand made his body lean forward, and hurriedly controlled his body to take a step forward, and the young man held the heavy musket with both hands to stabilize his body, "So heavy?" I'm afraid it's almost 70 pounds!" After finishing speaking, he raised it to his chest with some effort, trying to aim, but unfortunately it was a little laborious to hold the gun with his arm, and it was even more difficult to aim, and he trembled and lifted it for three seconds before he put it down a little depressed, "Haha, the young man still needs to exercise, even if you give you this kind of killing weapon, you can't use it now!"

"Speaking of this gun, there are many stories, but today is not a good day to tell stories, cheer up, we are in trouble now, if we encounter a surprise attack, we should not say this, all right, climb on the roof of the car, one car per person, cover something, block the wind. A few people did as they were told...

After 5 hours of hard work, O'Hari Snow Peak can already see the outline slightly, and it is not too long before dawn, "Okay, it's almost, the carriage has been more equipped with wheel chains, and the bearings have been replaced, you guys will check it one last time, wake everyone up, feed the horses something, and we'll set off in half an hour!"

After everyone was busy, everything was loaded into the cart, and all the traces of the camp were covered with snow, and the old Panlazen himself sat down in the groom's place, raised the long horsewhip, and after a crisp whip, the horse team began to move slowly, and began to move in the direction of the imperial capital.

After two hours of walking, the convoy could already see the white morning light in the east, and the sunrise was about to come! Everyone's hearts also cheered up slightly, suddenly the carriage driven by the old Pan Lazen in front of the convoy stopped, the old Pan Lazen quickly turned over and got off the carriage, and waved his hand downward at the people behind, the tacit understanding that has been cultivated all year round made everyone discover the gesture of the old Pan Lazen for the first time, and the convoy also stopped quickly, and several people quickly stabilized the horses, and the old Pan Lazen looked at the scout who was already lying on a snow hill in front of him, and quickly gestured to ask! It's the Ice Giant Bear, it's too bad, now everyone immediately abandon the carriage and disperse in concealment, quick!"

Everyone knew that the matter was urgent, and quickly dispersed in all directions, "It's a little careless, I haven't seen this kind of big guy for more than ten years! How can we be so unlucky this time!" Old Pan Lazen was also a little annoyed, but there was no good way now, he approached the carriage and whispered to Hook who was sleeping inside, "Hook, Hook, tell Little Shema to get up, hurry! Hurry up, don't make a sound!"

Some of Hook, who hadn't woken up yet, heard Grandpa calling himself in a daze, turned his face to look in the direction of Grandpa, the anxious look on Grandpa's face didn't seem to be fake, and the sleepiness disappeared in an instant, and he reached out and pulled up Shema, who was sleeping under the bearskin, Shema was hurt by the force of pulling up, and woke up, and saw Huk who grabbed his arm, and Hima, who was already angry to get up, couldn't help it anymore at the moment!

"Ah, stinky rascal, what are you going to do? let go of me!" At this time, Hook saw that his grandfather had left the carriage some distance, and rushed to the front to observe, when Seema's voice sounded, the old Panlazen immediately turned around and gave Hook a gesture to seal his mouth, Hook knew that the situation was urgent, went up and covered Hema's mouth, threw her down on the bearskin, stretched out a finger to the side of his mouth and made a low shhh, and pointed outside, Hema only reacted at this moment, he almost got into trouble, and quickly buried his head under the bearskin, but Hook patted her back, she looked up at Hook and whispered: " What for?"

Hook pointed to the outside of the carriage and made a gesture with his hand to go out, Hema understood, so he wrapped Hook's bearskin coat around his body, and he didn't care about Hook, and he quickly crawled to the door of the carriage, Hook was angry, and just wanted to say something, but he immediately shut up, took out the cloak that Hema was wearing just now, covered his body, and crawled out after him.

The scout on the slope came with the news that the bear was moving in this direction, and the old Panrazon frowned and looked back at the two children who had just climbed out of the carriage...