Chapter 39: Two Fogs
The last red light was about to disappear on the side of the mountain, and Feng Xi sighed lightly, knowing that it would not be of much use to persecute the fire tree again. Although the young patriarch screamed well, it was not so easy to include his own flesh and blood in the clan name. Huoshu helped Feng Xi to get up gently, with his back to the remnant sun and ready to start descending the mountain, and the man and woman had to leave here before the moon and the middle of the day.
The figure in front of me is longing, and I don't know how many of my fellow clans have left here with satisfaction or regret. Although there is no harassment from bears today, hunting itself is a risky business, and there are always people who never return home on the third day of March every year. No one knows why, but the consensus is that you shouldn't do anything else!
On the third day of the third month of the third month, the tribe always sent some daring tribesmen to go to undetected places to collect information. After all, there is only one day of the year, but every year there are people who never return home, and even so, there are always some young people who volunteer to complete this task every year. If we can get some information about the bear problem, then the family will at least have to worry about food and clothing for a while. If you're lucky, you'll be able to go without labor for three years.
But the effort and the reward are equal, and the glory and life are also equal!
Although Feng Xi is preparing for the child and fighting for the best treatment for the child, she also knows that she can only do her best, not necessarily if she wants to get it. At the same time, she wouldn't want her man to really embark on an adventure because of this matter. It's nothing to splash in front of your lover, but you won't really ask him to do something embarrassing.
Huoshu is a very calm man, and at the same time, he is also a husband who knows his wife very well, and he knows that his wife is not really forcing himself to seek anything for his children, but he always feels a little sorry for his wife in his heart. The young patriarch is not the patriarch, but even the patriarch will not arbitrarily occupy the resources of other clansmen for his own heirs. The reason why the fire tree can use a clan name has to start when he was twelve years old.
Huoshu has three older brothers and one younger sister, and his status in the family is not high. Father Sui Ming Ji is the patriarch of the Sui Ming clan, and he has always been upright and impartial in his work, and he does things first and then the family, so he has a certain influence in the entire clan. Every time an elder suggested that he should include his sons in the clan name, he strongly objected, saying that there were still clansmen who were not doing well, so how could they consider their own children first. But after a long time, he was always unable to resist the opinions of the elders of the clan, so only the eldest son was included in the clan name.
There is the Xiong's fire tree, and at that time he didn't even rank the Suiming clan in the family, but his natural calmness was very much liked by his father, and he was smart, sensitive and studious since he was a child. Because of his young age, he often followed his father's side, so he knew early on about the dangers of bear plague to the tribe. Twelve years old may have just retired from childishness for a modern child, and it is the age of playing nonsense.
Twelve years old meant for the Fire Tree that he was qualified to become a hunter and could enter the mountains on the third day of the third month of March to complete his first hunt. But he didn't think that becoming a hunter would bring any benefit to the tribe, but felt that he should take advantage of the fact that he was now nimble and light to be his father and give the tribe more strength. So, the twelve-year-old Huoshu did not inform his father of his thoughts, so he resolutely entered the mountain alone on the third day of the third month of March.
Two years earlier, Huo Shu had seen a map of the mountains at his father's residence, so his goal was to enter the mountains to find a blank area in the northwest of the map. The fire tree is not reckless and knows its strengths and weaknesses, so the place chosen is not far from the hilly forest on the west side, there is not much undulation, and the trees are very dense. Such a place is very suitable for him who is not tall and has little stamina, whether it is to explore or escape, he has a certain advantage.
The fire tree set out with the brigade at dawn in the east, and groped in the northwest direction alone after entering the mountain. Looking at the direction he was going, many of the clansmen smiled and continued to move north, after all, in the cognition of these clansmen, the fledgling young hunter should start with a simple hunt of horned sheep.
Horned goats are relatively docile animals, similar to modern goats, except that their horns are curved. Horned sheep are mostly found in hilly and mountainous areas, and are a favorite of many first-time hunters, but the fire tree does not stop in this area. Instead, he shrunk through the dense belt of thorns and stepped into the empty space of the map.
After the fire tree passed through the thorn forest, he felt strange, although this thorn forest is very dense, but it is not very difficult to pass, why is this area blank in the map? After walking for a while, he began to gradually understand that the stone wall in front of him is no longer ordinary high, even experienced hunters will not choose to climb here. And the reason why there is a blank space on the map is that the tall stone wall behind the thorns is really impassable.
Even so, the fire tree did not give up, and they had already walked in, of course, they were not afraid to continue walking for a while. He began to walk along the tall stone wall, and at first there were intermittent thorn trees in the way, but the more thorns he went, the more and more of a tall tree species he had never seen before.
The trunk is thick and the branches are more distributed, the bark is dark gray, slightly smooth, and the twigs are brown. The fire tree looked up for a long time and couldn't see where the top of the tree was, although everything was reviving now, but the leaf buds were like long ovates, which was really ugly. However, in the thick humus on the ground, you can see a lot of fruit shells as big as thumbs, the shell is shaped like a cup, and the surface is covered with diamond-shaped lines, which are very beautiful like scales. The fire tree searched for a long time and did not find a single intact fruit, and he couldn't help but wonder in his heart, could it be that these fruits rotted and disappeared after falling?
The fire tree didn't stay too long, picked up a few more husks and put them in his leather pocket before moving on. For the rest of the day, the fire tree kept walking between the stone wall and the big tree. There were no gaps or cracks in the stone walls, and there were more and more unrecognizable trees. After walking for a long time, the fire tree stopped to look at the sky, and found that it was almost sunset, and it was not necessarily possible to find anything if it went down, and it was not early, so it was necessary to hurry up and walk back.
Although it was not found this time, there were traces of bears or other large animals moving here, and Huoshu thought that this news should be good. If there are no bears, then you can come here often to see these trees, and if the fruit of the trees is really edible, then it will also make a lot of sense for the tribe.
Now that he had made up his mind, the fire tree did not linger any longer, turned around and began to walk back. But when the moon rose, the fire tree still did not see a single thorn tree. Now the fire tree is a little anxious, when it comes, it is walking along the stone wall, how can it go back and get lost? Brainless, he rushed forward for a while, and the fire tree was completely disappointed, it was already in the middle of the moon, and it was the fourth day of the first month of March! There were only two possibilities for going on like this, one was to be lucky enough to find the way back, and the other was to be unlucky enough to meet a bear, or to be met by a bear.
After all, he was only twelve years old, and no matter how smart he was, he was not yet mentally mature, and the more he walked, the more frightened he became, and his feet became faster and faster, and finally he actually ran up, running in the dark woods. A crescent moon shimmered overhead, and the fire tree could barely see the big trees and dark stone walls in front of them.
Suddenly, there was a sudden light in front of him, and a dazzling fire light was reflected in the pupils of the fire tree. Illuminated by the sudden firelight, the fire tree fluttered and fell into the soft humour. Then he smelled a pungent scorching smell, and Huoshu subconsciously wanted to look up to see what was happening, but his eyes were not stimulated yet, and he couldn't see anything clearly in the bright light in front of him, and could only hear some sounds.
The fire tree didn't know what it was hearing, it seemed to be shouting and arguing, and it seemed to be moaning and scolding, but it felt like a human voice. The strange sound sounded for a while and then faded away, and then the fire tree sat up, rubbed his aching eyes, and looked at the darkness in confusion.
After his eyes gradually recovered, by the flickering moonlight above his head, the fire tree looked around for the place where the light and sound had just come out. But after looking back and forth, I couldn't see anything, and suddenly a little fluorescence lit up behind a large tree, and then quickly disappeared. The fire tree wasn't sure if the fluorescence it was seeing was from a bug, but slowly walked towards the tree. When he was about to reach the bottom of the tree, the fire tree pulled out a sharp stone knife from his leather coat, held it tightly in his hand, and walked towards the tree step by step.
Where the fluorescence lights up and disappears, there are indeed people, but it is a little inaccurate to say that there are people. Because they were now just two humanoid clouds of mist, suspended behind the trees. If you look closely, you may find that their facial features are just too hazy, and their original appearance is unknown.
The fire just now was indeed made by the two of them, and the sound was also made by them. The reason for this is to make the little boy in the leather coat notice that they haven't seen anyone alive for too long.
The fire tree slowly walked behind the tree, saw two humanoid mist floating in the air, and then was stunned for a moment, saluted at the two fogs, and turned to look.
At this moment, one of the fogs became anxious, what does this mean? Even if you salute, why do you have to leave, there is no fear at all. At this time, a bright fluorescence appeared in his blurred hand, illuminating Fang Yuan abnormally brightly. The fire tree saw the bright light shooting out from behind, so he cautiously looked back at the fog dragging the bright light, and saw that the fog did not move, so he turned around and walked over again, looked at the fog and thought about it, and began to take things out of the leather bag.