In the southernmost meadows, sparse trees begin to appear, and even in winter, there is a lot of grass hidden under the thick snow.

Even if you don't store forage before winter, you can still keep the herd through the winter, and some Central Plains people even farm under the mountains to the south, and a little further south, you can see the tall city walls.

There are a lot of Central Plains people inside the wall, there are a lot of people, their houses are densely packed next to each other, I heard that every market day is crowded with people on the street.

But before last winter, all the villages here were slaughtered. Those who survived had to put on the robes of barbarians and leave their hometowns and go to the pastures further north, perhaps if they blended into it, they would not be looted every year.

In the thick snow, a footprint stretched all the way to the north, and a heavy figure staggered in the wind and snow.

It was a figure covered in a sackcloth that came out with two puffs of heat. It was a little girl with snow on her head and her lips cracked open. There was also a younger child on his back, and he fell asleep with his eyes closed on his sister's back.

The two of them escaped by hiding in a dry well, and the barbarian cavalry did not dismount, but leaned slightly to look into the well, and the black and swarthy could not see anything, so they left.

The sister who hid at the bottom of the dry well covered her brother's mouth and nose, almost suffocated to death, and almost scared to death herself, and when the figure at the mouth of the well disappeared, her heart beat violently for a long time before stopping, glad that she escaped death.

After spending a day at the bottom of the well, the two were rescued by the other survivors. Everyone collected the few things in the village, divided the food that the barbarians looked down on, and fled for their lives.

The sister and brother walked north for I don't know how long, and now there is nothing to eat, the sister also left as much food as possible to the younger brother, and ate some snow on the ground on the road, which looks whiter than white flour steamed buns, but can not eat more, not only is it not full, but it is getting colder and colder.

At first, when I first entered the grassland, I could catch small animals and make meat, but the further north I went, the colder it became, and now I didn't even see a mouse hole. But she didn't know that after walking for so long, she was only on the edge of the grassland, and the whole grassland stretched out as far as the eye could not see, and it stretched north until it was too cold for grass to grow.

Now my sister's physical strength is running out, and she just feels so tired and wants to take a break. The weak eyes were almost narrowed into a slit, but they still forced themselves to look ahead. She didn't know what the north was, but she was walking in a colder direction, and the direction against the wind and snow should be the north.

Suddenly, she felt as if something was shining in front of her, and the smell of meat wafted from the wind and snow, she was too familiar with that taste, she had just eaten it a few days ago.

She struggled to move forward, but her body was too heavy, and her brother on her back was still dreaming. It seems that I have been walking for a long time, but the light source with the smell of meat is still unreachable.

With a "poof", my sister fell forward, and the whole person fell into the snow. The younger brother was also thrown out. Fortunately, the snow was soft, and the sudden fall only made him slowly wake up from his dream.

When he saw his sister who fell to the ground in front of him, he tried hard to help her up, remembering that his sister said that she couldn't fall asleep in the snow, and that she would never wake up again.

But he couldn't help it, he was much smaller than his sister, and he pushed her head hard, but he couldn't wake her up, but fortunately, he could see a faint mist coming out of his nose. I have to think of a way not to let my sister stay here for too long.

Looking around, there was a fire in the distance, and there was a faint figure, and he subconsciously wanted to run over for help, but suddenly stopped.

In the territory of this barbarian, it is very likely that the barbarians will be encountered, so whether the other party will help or ignore it indifferently, or even wipe it out casually, after all, the barbarians he has seen are all killed when he sees people.

However, in this case, why run to the territory of the barbarians, there should be no way to survive.

After a short period of thought, he chose to slowly approach the firelight, first go to the vicinity to see what kind of person the other party is before making a decision, if it is a fierce and vicious barbarian, then forget it.

Bypass some snowdrifts, get to a place not far from the fire, hide behind a bush, and quietly observe. I found that there were only two people on the opposite side, a barbarian girl in a thick robe, who looked like she was about the same age as her sister, and the other was a teenager next to the fire, and the strange thing was that the young man was dressed very thinly, just living in summer, with a short coat on her upper body, bare arms, and bloomers on her lower body, and barefoot.

It's incredible, what kind of mountain spirits, but they burn the fire and eat meat, do the spirits eat meat? I should eat it too, but I don't think it needs to be baked. Moreover, there was a stone pier beyond the two men, and there was no snow on the stone, which must have been sat there not long ago, and there were three people here.

"Is there something wrong?" a voice came from behind

The little boy was taken aback, he had been coming quietly, he should not have been discovered, and the voice behind him, before he spoke, he had not heard any approaching footsteps at all, and the sound of his feet on the snow could not be missed.

The little boy quickly turned his head and saw a tall figure wrapped in a robe, and he couldn't even see his face. The man seemed to be standing on the snow, but his feet were not submerged in the snow at all, as if he was floating there without weight.

"Ghost!" There is only one thought in my mind, otherwise how to explain being approached silently.

"Click, click" There was the sound of running footsteps from the direction of the firelight, and someone stepped on the snow to come this way. The little boy with his heart in his throat calmed down a little, this is at least a living person.

"Where's the kid?" Asuna leaned over to see the little boy behind the bushes.

"Help... Help," the little boy said in the language of the barbarians, who were on the border and had contact with smugglers from time to time, and knew some of the official dialect of the Central Plains, the official dialect of Jibei and the barbarian language.

Following the direction of the little boy's finger, there was a black patch on the snow-white snow ground, and he went directly to the little boy's sister to the campfire, fed some broth into it, and let her recuperate slowly.

"Thank you for saving us. I haven't reported my home yet, my name is Ruan Xingzhu, she is my sister Ruan Yunxiang" He looked at the girl in the barbarian robe and continued: "Actually, we came from the south, and we came here to seek a way to survive"

Asuna roughly guessed that the little boy was a little afraid of herself: "You don't need to report your name, when you are well rested, we will naturally go our separate ways, and we may not meet again in the future." Although you, a native of the Central Plains, wear our robes, if you don't go back, sooner or later you will become flesh and blood in the mouth of the wolf god. ”

Ruan Xingzhu's body trembled, he didn't expect this girl who saved them to say such words in her mouth: "Go back? Wait until next winter, before you barbarians will loot again, or a dead end."

Asuna's blood pressure is a little high, and the barbarian in the child's mouth is there, and the grassland language means barbarian: "I saved your life in the wild of ice and snow, and you actually call my tribe a barbarian?!" Obviously, the Central Plains people in the south of you are a barbaric race, and the reason why the old lady left the tribe now and appeared in this ghost place where there is no smoke and no, is because you Central Plains people have killed my tribe! She seemed to be a little angry, and her voice became louder and louder, "If I hadn't thought you were a kid from any tribe and was about to freeze to death, I should have just left you alone." ”

Ruan Xingzhu saw that her emotions were about to collapse, and he didn't dare to face her, so he blocked it in front of him with his hand and replied loudly: "When did we kill all your tribe in the Central Plains?" It's clear that you've been attacking and harassing you, right, our village is the one who was killed! ”

Tang Dao, who was sitting on the side, interjected: "No need to quarrel anymore, what you said is true." ”

Ruan Xingzhu and Asuna both stopped talking and looked at him: "What? ”

"According to current intelligence, in the past few decades, the tribes of the northern steppes have often invaded the northern frontiers of the Central Plains countries, and recently the Central Plains seem to have begun to fight back."

Both of them seemed to understand when they heard it, and they fell silent for a moment.

"My tribe was slaughtered last night, and only a few women and children remained," Asuna said weakly, looking up at Snowflake.

"Our village was also looted ten years ago, and people were almost dead, so a few people escaped to find a way out." Ruan Xingzhu lowered his head and recalled the past in the village.

"Thank you for saving us," he added.

Asuna turned her head, in fact, he didn't want to yell at such a child, she had only controlled her emotions since the slaughter of the entire tribe last night, no matter what setbacks she encountered.

But when I saw the little kid in front of me, he was smaller than the little ghost who had saved the tribe by the explosion itself. His village was also slaughtered, and it seemed that the two sides had no grudge but killed each other, and the first time they met, they had a feud.

Ruan Xingzhu looked at her and turned her head, but an inexplicable feeling emanated from her body, as if she could feel her emotions at the moment, and the suffocating sadness came to her face,

"Why is there no shelter here, but the wind and snow have not fallen on it?" Ruan Xingzhu looked around and muttered to himself.

No one answered, and it was quiet all around, except for the crackling of burning branches.

Asuna thought about it, it seemed to be snowing along the way, but when she was near Tang Dao, she wouldn't be blown by the wind and snow, although she could guess that this young man was very powerful, but what was the point of this state of inviolation.

Ruan Xingzhu could detect something unusual, but for some reason, seeing that no one had accosted him, he went to check on his sister's condition.