Forbidden City of Heze + Dalufei

──Garu, our homeland, will always stand on that pure paradise.

The Hasanka seasonal settlement marked on the map seems to be approaching, and they can almost discern the morning cooker rising behind the hill through the foggy car windows, as if smudged in the pale thick paint A little light water.But the convoy of three lumbering jeeps came to a halt, and after a dozen or so slams of the accelerator to no avail, the engine died with a feeble groan.

The driver and co-driver of the leading dark green jeep jumped out of the car immediately, checked the rear tires that had been completely sunk in the low-lying part of the road, and were half submerged in the mud mixed with ice slag, and he kicked them up angrily. Feet, complained unbearably, "Fuck the new model, who believes that the off-road vehicles produced by the military factory can't even pass a broken puddle!"

"The materials on the car are too heavy, not to mention that in such cold weather, the rubber will harden and the anti-skid performance of the tires will also deteriorate."

The man who got out of the car in the middle was stepping on the snow and ice that had accumulated on the road the night before, while answering the conversation calmly.He had just come out of the fully heated car. He took off the sunglasses used to filter the glare of the snow, and took a deep breath of the still extremely cold outside air. The moisture in his nasal cavity was frozen within a few breaths. Not smooth up.

"Major, why did you come out?" The man acting as the driver seemed a little flustered, and quickly put away his previous impatient attitude, "It's too cold outside, please go back to the car, we can take care of it soon. "

"It's okay, I'll help you push it too. I've been sitting for too long, and I just want to move around."

At this time, another subordinate who followed up hurriedly took out the fur coat that was in the car and put it on the officer.The long trek and the extremely harsh natural conditions made his face a little gloomy.Although the northern part of the Greater Rabegor is mostly plains, due to the subpolar cold climate, there are permafrost that is frozen all year round, and the weakly acidic gray land cannot be cultivated, so it has been neglected for hundreds of years.

This time they were ordered to visit the central area of ​​the north where there is not even an asphalt road. How could the countless difficulties they encountered on the way be compared to a small breakdown?So the major seemed to be in a very optimistic mood, especially when he got out of the car, he found that the long-lost sunshine had sprinkled their road ahead and the scattered swamps around them, although the prelude to spring at the end of April may be the culprit for the softening of the road surface , Of course, it is easier than their experience of changing tires several times in snowy days.

The fragile road under our feet has only been trampled by brown bears and reindeer at most. It is difficult to support the weight of this iron block. In addition, the snow last night was exposed to the sun, making it even more slippery.After pushing the cart a few times, it still didn't move at all. Just as the group was about to try again with all their strength, a horse suddenly broke into the end of their sight, and the brisk hooves broke the silence of the morning light.

It was a tall and strong brown-red horse with hooves as thick as the caliber of a small cauldron. The long and thick mane on the back of its neck was almost dragging to the ground. The healthy color was like the light of the sun and the moon. Helps withstand the harsh seven-month winters here.If you guessed right, this beautiful species is a purebred Unicom horse native to the Greater La Begor region.

When the big horse got closer, the major's gaze shifted to the person on the horseback.In contrast to the bright saddle decorated with fiery red tassels, the rider is wrapped in a thick gray camel jacket, equipped with a hand-sewn buckskin hat, gloves and boots, and a large rucksack, rough but authentic.His neck, face and ears were tightly wrapped in a small blanket, leaving only a pair of eyes looking straight at the group of visitors from afar.

Immediately, the horse stopped under the signal of its master, and before anyone could speak, the man conveniently fell to the ground and turned over and jumped off.It was only then that the major noticed that the other party was two circles smaller than himself, and that he was only an underage boy.

Under the eyes of the people around him, without saying a word, the boy tore off a thick blanket that was spread on the saddle, and walked to the side of the trapped jeep.He knelt down on one foot, took off his gloves, and scraped out some of the mud mixed with crushed ice behind the wheel, and skillfully placed the carpet under the wheel.

Thanks to the resistance added by this carpet, the car finally jumped onto the road with a bang when it was started next time.

Seeing the other party's hands and trousers soiled by mud and water, the major felt both grateful and very sorry. He immediately stepped forward and stopped the young man who was silently picking up the blanket that had been crushed and turned around and wanted to leave. Just as he was expressing his thanks, he suddenly noticed that the young man's face, hidden by the shadow of the brim of his hat, was embedded with a pair of pure eyes like glass beads. The light sky blue color perfectly matched the fringe land of this icy and snowy land. .

"Rich, go to the trunk and get him some food and wine." The major blocked his way and hurriedly greeted his subordinates.Before they set off, they bought enough products from civilized society in various large markets in the capital, with the purpose of building a good relationship with the aborigines in these wild places.

The down-to-earth young man waved his hands immediately after hearing this, intending to refuse.But the major stopped him and said in a friendly tone, "You're welcome, this is our kindness. Can you understand the common language? Can you tell me if the Hasanka settlement is not far away?"

When he was trying to talk to the young man, his subordinates took the goods, but the other party couldn't help but stuff them into the leather pouch hanging beside the saddle.

"Gassi! What are you still dawdling about?!"

At this moment, a call suddenly sounded in the distance and grabbed everyone's attention. Just when they found another tall Unikon horse appearing on the other side of the moss in the swamp, the other party shouted loudly and raised his whip towards the horse. Come rushing.

When he was about to bump into this group of people, he pulled the reins sharply, so the water splashed by the messy horse gait just splashed on the bodies of several soldiers present.

This reckless young man has very similar attire to the teenager who helped them before, especially the identical buckskin hat, gloves and boots, which must have been made by the same parent, but he did not hide his appearance so closely , frozen red cheeks, high cheekbones and brown eyes are typical features of the Hasanka.

He furrowed his brows without concealing his distaste for these uninvited guests, and then he ignored their existence, and said to the young man who was still standing there, "Why are you standing still, get on the horse quickly! I have already asked Ita My cousin helped us graze, and the condition is to give him two deer legs. We must come back before our mother finds out!"

As soon as the young man named Jiaxi heard this, he immediately pulled the horse's rein, put his feet on the pedals that were almost as high as his waist, and flipped nimbly onto the horse's back. The ground flew away in the sound of clanging hooves, and the panic splashed all the way behind it.

"Don't deal with those people, they are from the army, are you stupid?"

They didn't slow down until the convoy behind was thrown out of sight.When the two horses came together side by side, Garu couldn't help complaining about the other party's behavior of abusing a good man just now.

"It's not as serious as you imagined, maybe it's just passing by?"

The taciturn boy finally opened his mouth lightly when facing his intimate brother.

"Even if they don't wear military uniforms, don't try to fool them around. Only people from the army will harass this place thinking they have nothing to do! Yita has heard his father say a few times that those guys want to come and steal our things. Our The land and the mineral deposits under the ground, gold and so on, are all villains."

"We don't need gold, they can take it if they like," Gaxi looked at his brother's serious look, and couldn't help but joke half-truthfully, "We only need reindeer, and reindeer don't eat gold. .”

"But gold can be exchanged for more reindeer."

"Our reindeer can give birth to their own reindeer every year, why do we have to exchange it for gold?"

Jia Lu suddenly puffed up his cheeks in disbelief, but he couldn't think of any flaws in his brother's words.After being confused by himself, he simply stopped this topic, and took out a stick that was hung beside the saddle and was tightly bound by a leather rope and a leather bag.

He couldn't wait to disassemble this mysterious thing in front of Gaxi. After taking off the old leather bag, he revealed a well-preserved old-fashioned gunpowder spear. The wooden gun body glowed with a dark brown luster. The shiny metal gun barrel shows no sign of rust. It is obvious that it has been taken out every year, oiled and waxed, and carefully maintained.

"I heard that people outside use this to hunt. It's very powerful."

"It's so heavy," Gaxi clamped the horse's body carefully, and took the antique-level long gun he handed over with both hands, trying to see the vast needles in the distance from the sight under the poor guidance of his younger brother. Lin, "I don't think it will work better than a bow and arrow."

"Please, don't let others know that you have such an ignorant idea. Ita's family has been using it since their grandfather's generation. That's why they can win the championship every year in the hunting festival."

"Really? I thought they won the championship every year because you gave the prey you hunted to Ita to please her." Gaxi finally couldn't help laughing at the sudden embarrassment of this young boy Come out, "Look at you mentioning her every time you open your mouth."

"I just gave her some bunnies!"

Amid the jokes and jokes, it seemed that even the air current that was enough to freeze people was not so fierce.The thin sunlight above the head is gradually blocked by dense straight pines and cypresses, and the low tundra and shrubs that the horseshoes trodden are also sparse. The two leisurely little knights are like two small moving black spots on the quiet and vast white frozen soil in the north. , as the terrain increased, the brothers drove their horses deep into the destination—the dense coniferous forest at the foot of Baimali Mountain.

Relying on the proficient skills honed since childhood, after they found several wild reindeer looking for food, they quickly surrounded one of the weaker doe within range. With a slash of the whip, the sturdy mount rushed forward with a hiss, and the desperate prey ran diagonally in front of Jialu, and the loaded spear in his hand followed the running back of the deer, buckling one after another. Three clicks of the trigger.

After all, it was an antique that hadn’t been used for many years, and the strong gunpowder smoke distracted people. When Jialu took a closer look, the path blocked by the dense branches had disappeared.

"Missed?"

The two brothers couldn't wait to go forward to check, and found the fresh blood spilled on the mottled moss floor, crooked all the way, and the beads of broken strings became more and more densely strung together to form a bright red ribbon, spread into the deep forest pierced by the faint light in front. middle.

"The injury is serious, and it won't last long." Jia Lu breathed a sigh of relief, "Really, I just thought it was impossible to miss."

"If I had used a bow and arrow, I'd have just shot through its neck."

"Come on, Gaxi!" The boy's sensitive emotions were stimulated by his brother's teasing. He kicked his pedals vigorously and pulled the rein at the same time. Bar, why not hurry up and catch up!"

The uninterrupted line of blood ended in a low-lying ravine, and the stream passing through it was not frozen due to the rapid flow, although the soil on the bank had been frozen hard and slippery.The leading Jialu soon found the dying reindeer lying beside the water. Without even thinking about it, he excitedly rode his horse and jumped off before the horse's pace was fully stabilized.

Just as he was about to squat down to check the life and death of his prey, his brother's eager and panic-speaking voice suddenly came from behind him.

"Garu! Watch out! Get on the horse! Hurry up...!"

At the same time that he turned his head like lightning, a white figure suddenly appeared from the bushes behind him, and he rushed towards him. When Garu saw clearly that it was a mature tundra wolf, the beast The sharp claws had clasped his shoulder, and tore the entire sleeve of his right arm as he struggled desperately to get up.

Fortunately, the Unikoma next to Jialu was brave by nature. After being startled by the sudden attack, it saw the hungry wolf's hair standing up like silver needles, and when it was about to jump up and bite its owner's neck, it instinctively He raised his two thick front hooves and stomped over, the white wolf frantically dodged hurriedly, and Jialu escaped, rolling and crawling to hide behind his tall mount.

The red-eyed beast didn't take advantage of it, a deep roar rolled from its throat, and it waited for an opportunity to counterattack. A slender feathered arrow suddenly slashed through the air with a whizzing sound, and landed in front of its eyes very neatly.The wolf shrank suddenly, as if it recognized the weapon that reminded them of a terrifying hunter, and the originally upright triangular ears also fell to the sides.

Gaxi didn't leave any space for it to breathe, and then drew out the second and third arrows on the bow, and released them steadily.The attack launched with an extremely calm mind is often what the wild beast fears the most. The white wolf retracted its claws and backed up again and again. Finally, it simply turned its head and ran away towards the way it came.

Seeing Jiaxi adjust the direction of the arrow, narrowing his eyes slightly, and the force distribution of his fingers made an imperceptible change, Jialu realized that he was really aiming, pointing his back at the prey of the bow and arrow in Jiaxi's hand It is the most unlucky, and nine out of ten will be killed by the next arrow.

"Don't! Don't shoot it!"

Garu's loud stop made the strength in his arm that was on the verge of explosion suddenly drain away, and just as he put down the longbow wrapped in smooth fish skin in his hand in doubt, the snow-white wolf had already taken the opportunity to sneak into it. In the woods, it disappeared soundlessly in a mass of black needles.

"She's pregnant with a cub," Garu let out a long breath, and sat down on the carcass of the reindeer beside him with limp feet, "I noticed."

"So that's how it is," Gaxi smiled lightly, put away the arrows that hadn't been released, and drove the horse slowly to approach the little brother who was still in shock, "The pregnant female wolf is inconvenient to move, and it is difficult to catch prey. Her spouse may Be beaten by some hunter, if it is not so hungry that there is no other way, tundra wolves rarely come to snatch prey from humans, not to mention they hate the smell of gunpowder."

"...It's so pitiful." Garu murmured to himself thoughtfully, looking at the place where the wild creatures disappeared without moving.

"I know what you're thinking," Gaxi sighed. He knew his younger brother's character too well and didn't make it clear, but said with his usual flat expression of concealed doting, "In this case, what should we tell Ita? cousin on a business trip?"

"We still have time. It's easy for us to catch new prey, isn't it?"

The two brothers looked at each other and smiled, but neither said anything.After a little packing, they left the dead reindeer where it was and left silently. Its rich fat and high-calorie fresh flesh are enough for those struggling species in this world to enjoy a luxury. feast.

"Say, whose idea was it? Who stole the gun?!"

Holding a thin whip for grazing in her hand, Mamata stared ferociously at the two teenagers standing in front of her with their tails between their legs, and asked loudly.

Due to the uneven subsidence of the foundation caused by temperature changes, the crumbling brick houses in the settlement have not had time to repair. In this temporary nomadic tent, the floor is covered with thick leather felt for moisture insulation, which has not been completely removed. fishy smell.Under a copper pot suspended in the center of the room is a burning charcoal fire, and sparks sprang up from time to time. The plump cheeks of the hostess's plump and round face that was flushed red by the reflection were smooth and shiny due to tension.A smaller reindeer captured by the brothers for the second time, only half of it was left after being divided up by the partners in the tribe. At this moment, it is like a criminal evidence, hanging in pieces on the iron hook beside the curtain, " You guys are so bold, do you know that when spring starts, there are wolves everywhere in the mountains, but luckily you met a lonely one! Otherwise, losing an arm would be considered cheap for you!...Also, this gun is from when I was young It’s a dowry, and it hasn’t been used for more than ten years, so you’re not afraid that your heads will be blown off by fire?!”

"That's not the main thing." Jialu was fed up with his partners showing off their hunting prowess with guns in front of him, just like when he was comparing each other's advanced toys, but he only had yellowed building blocks in his hand.So I couldn't help but courageously retorted, "I don't understand why we can't use guns to hunt. Many people in the village use them! Only we still use the old method, and people will laugh at us."

"Little bastard!" Mamata stomped her foot, as if she was really on fire, she stepped forward and grabbed Jialu's ear fiercely, causing him to howl in pain. "Have you forgotten what I taught you? The reason we can survive here is because we have become part of nature. She provides us with food and means of production and treats us as fair as other species. Therefore, we also The animals around are closely related, fair play!"

"Tundrawolves and brown bears have teeth and claws, and we have bows and arrows. Gunpowder guns are the product of human power. All animals are afraid of the smell of gunpowder. They will gradually stay away from areas filled with gunpowder smell. This kind of thing will alienate us. Destroy our interconnectedness! Once guns are used, we are no longer a part of nature, and betraying the land we live on will bring disaster to the Hasanka!"

Seeing his son's expression of surrender and begging for mercy, Mamata let go, but still pursued her and asked, "Okay, don't gossip with me, a man dares to act bravely, obediently tell me who is in the lead?"

"It's me." Gaxi took a step forward, raised his head and calmly looked into the woman's eyes, and calmly said under the oppression of her strong figure, "I'm sorry."

Mamata was silent for a moment, and raised her brows in dissatisfaction, "I'll ask again, to be honest, who is in charge?"

"It's me." Gaxi replied blankly again, with an attitude of letting others be slaughtered.

"Garu," she took a deep breath, still unwilling to give up, and shifted her needle-like gaze to her younger brother who kept his head buried all the time, "I want you to tell me, who is it?"

The hair on the back of Jia Lu's neck stood up immediately, he bit his lower lip uneasily, and secretly glanced at the face of his brother beside him, until he was sure that the expression on it hadn't wavered in the slightest, he answered bravely, "Yes... ...Gassi."

Mamata rolled her eyes as if feeling hopeless, and didn't pursue the matter any more forcefully, she just threw the whip she had been braiding for a long time into the leather basket in the corner, and said in a raised voice, "Okay then, Gaxi , punish you to clean the deer enclosure now, and you are not allowed to eat until it is cleaned up before dark! Jialu, don’t even think about slipping away, come boil water and cook meat!”

When the smell of meat began to waft out of the tent, Mamata leaned against the simple fence built of dead branches, watching Gaxi sweating profusely cleaning the trough and sweeping up the deer's excrement. Gather them piece by piece in big bags for spare fuel.

"You, spoiling him like that all the time will hurt him."

"Huh?" Gaxi heard her muttering from a distance, and stopped what she was doing for a while.

"Huh, what? Two young brats trying to scare me? Garou's sleeves smell like gunpowder, but yours doesn't smell at all. He's the one who has been arguing about playing with that gun. I originally wanted to take this opportunity to teach him a lesson." Why do you bother to come out to take care of him?"

"He's the younger brother, he's just playing for fun." Gaxi turned his head, resumed his working speed, and said disapprovingly.

Mamata stared blankly at his smooth and vigorous muscles and bones protruding through the still immature back, her heart was so soft that she couldn't bear to blame anything for no reason.A gust of cold wind blowing from the polar regions made him unable to restrain himself from tightening his overalls. Before he returned to the warm tent, he did not forget to tell him, "If you want to eat venison in the future, just pull one from the circle and slaughter it. Don't eat it again." Go up the mountain behind my back and mess around."

As she said that, Garu's thick leather jacket appeared in her mind. The claw marks that were torn from the shoulders to the arms made people shudder. She retreated from the claws of the most famous predator in the northern plains. Much luck. "White wolves are best at jumping up and grabbing people's shoulders. They can grab people by the throat in the next second and bite people to death. If Garu reacts slower today, he won't be able to come back."

"Well, I see." After Gaxi noticed the unusually serious light in her eyes, he lowered his eyes as if admitting his dereliction of duty.

After dinner, the ink color had settled on the off-white inkstone formed by ice and snow, and gradually thickened and solidified. The orange-yellow flames from the hundreds of teepees gathered together seemed to be a guide in this magnificent turbidity. The dead and frozen country conveys a weak but firm signal of life.

The temperature at night was as cold as minus ten degrees, and even though there was a firepit in the house, the hands and feet were still frozen.Mamata worked tirelessly to boil the bath water, and finally accumulated a bucket full of steam. The brothers immediately jumped into it with their bulging bellies.

"I put a pot of boiling water on the stove for you, if you feel cold, add it, and go to bed obediently after washing."

The neighbor's two doe gave birth tonight. Mamata put away the leftovers and went to help out in a big leather jacket. The only sound left in the quiet big tent was the crackling of firewood and the sound of splashing in the water.

"I'm sorry, I let you take the blame for me again." Jialu looked at his brother who looked a little tired after working non-stop for several hours, showing a sorry expression, "If I admit it, my mother will whip me."

"It's nothing, as long as you are happy." Gaxi still had a calm attitude, and then shrank a little, immersing his sore shoulders in the hot water.

This almost conniving favoritism all the time made Jialu laugh heartily, and he kept his eyes on the serene expression of the other party who was close at hand.The space in the big wooden barrel was once large enough for the two children to swim and play, but they had grown so fast that they were now stretched thin, squeezing the brothers tightly together.

"Gassi, you're so beautiful." Garu whispered, raised his flushed hand, and gently stroked the other's eye sockets and eyebrows exposed on the water, feeling uncomfortable when the water on his fingers dripped into his eyes , making Jiaxi's light-colored eyelashes tremble a few times.

"Sky-blue eyes, snow-white skin, shiny silver hair, just like that tundra wolf. Different from us, so special."

Gaxi continued to remain silent, his snow-like face did not respond to his younger brother's naive envy, but what Mamata said to him two years ago began to appear in his mind.

"Your appearance should be the characteristics of the early Rabeger people. Unlike the Hasan Kazakhs, they used to be the dominant ethnic group in the Greater Rabeger area, but because of the interracial marriage hundreds of years after the opening of the country History has diluted the bloodline, and the Rabegales in the strict sense are now gone."

"Gassi, I also expected that when you grow up day by day and find more and more differences between yourself and the people around you, you will definitely ask me about your life experience, but I didn't expect it to be so soon."

Mamata sighed as she spoke, and did not dispel the child's doubts with perfunctory words. Facing Gaxi, who was more stable and sensible than her peers, she put down the buckskin hat she was sewing and said in detail , "Unfortunately, when I found you, you were on the way of winter migration. You were thrown under an old pine tree at the foot of the mountain, wrapped in a thick quilt, and had nothing else. At that time, the monarch of the country Conflicts with the aristocratic class intensified, civil war broke out between conservatives and reformers, and the situation was turbulent. People in the village said that you were probably born of a soldier and his family members who were defeated and fled..."

After she finished speaking, she carefully concealed her sad expression.The nomadic women who always appear as independent images, they are healthy and strong, generous and heroic, but they do not have the recklessness and aggression of men, just like this motherly land, they never show others that they are weak.Mamata understands that being a parent requires showing offspring the way things really are and respecting their ability to judge for themselves.

"Gassi... If one day you want to return to civilized society and find your roots, I won't keep you, but you have to know, whether it's me, Garu, or anyone in the tribe, They never saw you as an outsider."

"No more."

Jiaxi, who was only in the year of cardamom at that time, suddenly clenched his fists, looking at the great man in front of him who not only saved his life, but also taught him survival skills, and gave him all the warmth in the harsh winter year after year. Female, he said word by word as if taking an oath, "Hasanka's tent is the place where I was born, Mamata, you are my mother, Garu is my twin brother, and there is nothing else I am concerned about people, I will not go anywhere, I just want to stay by your side for the rest of my life."

Gaxi never doubted that he would go through this isolated journey with the two most important people in his life.But just three months after encountering the broken-down convoy, the northern plain of the Great La Beserre greeted her precious summer with her eternal doom of slavery.

A large-scale army and engineering team invaded this uncultivated virgin land. Huge excavators roared day and night, overturning the dense coniferous forest, changing the flow of the river, draining the wet silt of the swamp, and digging out The flat and hard foundation is used to build a long railway line.Following the exploration results of the previous few years, two mines appeared on the deforested gray soil to mine the rich underground coal, iron, gold and diamonds. kilometers of oil fields.

In order to replenish the large number of engineers and soldiers who have worked here for many years, the supporting living facilities of the factory were quickly spread in full swing.But the most terrible thing is not only the plundering of resources, but the careless way of life brought by the outsiders completely disturbed the tranquility of this holy land.

Rude soldiers set fire to forests for no reason, hunted reindeer herds and musk oxen with highly lethal guns, and dumped polluted domestic wastewater into rivers.Hasanka's patriarch went to coordinate many times, but with little success. When they couldn't get along with each other, they chose to move to a farther and clean place, thinking that they would find a small place in the vast northern plain. As long as you have a little patience and don't fight with that overwhelming force, there will always be enough land and water to shelter and continue the race.

But they are wrong, they mistakenly regard this urgent development process as a necessity of social development, rather than a prelude to a conspiracy.Three years later, Ludu revealed its hideous face that had been dormant for a long time, and launched a large-scale foreign war against the surrounding countries in the blink of an eye.

"You are citizens of the empire, and you are obliged to contribute your strength when the country needs it. All adult men over the age of 18 and under the age of 50 must serve in the military. Only women, the elderly and children can stay."

"You have been grazing on state-owned land for generations, and even our army deliberately set aside protected areas for you. Don't you only know what to ask for, and don't know how to give back?"

"The roster of all the Hasanka people is in my hands. If I know of anyone who is qualified enough not to report on purpose, or whose family members have assisted in concealing the behavior, they will all be punished as treason!"

"Gassi, you weren't born here, and you don't look like the people here. Maybe your name isn't on their records. Go hide first. If you survive, you count as one!"

When he suddenly opened his eyes, the lining of the leather jacket on his body was already wet with sweat.For a moment, I couldn't remember where I was, and I still had the indifferent face of the officer who brought the bad news, as well as Mamata's begging voice, which kept ringing in my ears.

Immediately afterwards, the slightly shaking bed, the sound of the wheels turning mechanically, and the stifling smell coming out of the heated and crowded compartment all awakened his senses quickly.When the reason came back to his mind, apart from the peeling white roof of the car and the rusty brown lampshade becoming clear, there was a faint choked sob from bottom to top that gently spread into his ears.

Gaxi sat up quickly, flipped neatly from the top bunk to the ground, looked at his younger brother who was curled up and sitting on the lower bunk, he half knelt beside him, and gently opened the hands that tightly covered his eyes.

"I don't want to go to war, I don't want to go!" Garu grabbed him and shook his head desperately. The aura in his eyes had been annihilated by the uncontrollable restlessness. "Let's run away secretly. We will run when the next train stops. They won't be able to catch us!"

"No, this will harm Mamata and the people in the tribe."

Tired from the journey and sensitive to changes in the environment, this is not the first time that such mood swings have occurred. Gaxi hurriedly sat next to his younger brother, resting his head on his shoulder to comfort him, "Don't worry. We won't be sent away immediately. Those who are on the front line, you can rest assured to sleep, I will be by your side, no matter where we go, we will be together."

When his flickering expression let out the sound of long and steady breathing again, Gaxi cast his eyes from nowhere to the narrow window of the train.The newly enlisted soldiers that crowded the compartment were piled up cheaply and chaotically like animals being sold. He passed their uneven luggage and stared dazedly at the fast-moving horizon under the gray sky, as if It was an anguish like a forever looping or frozen film shot.

The two brothers have never stepped out of the icy and snowy northern plains since they were born, so the usual trees and houses in the past few days are so strange to them that it is frightening.However, looking at An Xin's younger brother who was sleeping in his arms, Jiaxi was very grateful that he insisted on walking with him at the beginning. As long as the two are together, there is nothing to be afraid of. Together, they will surely overcome all difficulties.After ten years of compulsory military service, they are still young, and they can return to their hometown in high spirits, and gallop across the endless pure white tundra.

Not long after midnight, the barracks fell into dead silence as the temperature dropped to freezing point, and was suddenly awakened by a few sharp whistles, and the lights of the simple concrete dormitory building lit up one after another as if they knew the instructions. The officer standing straight downstairs immediately took out his pocket watch and started counting.

Because the previous day's long-distance heavy-duty travel exhausted his energy, Jiaxi slept too deeply. He sat up suddenly when the room was filled with noise. When he found that his roommate was packing the bedding as quickly as possible, he immediately Putting on his clothes and jumping out of bed, he went to wake up Garu who hadn't responded yet.

"You get dressed first! I'll get the luggage." Without a word, he pulled his younger brother up, pulled out the belt from under the bed, tied up the pillow and quilt a few times, and hurriedly stuffed them into the arms of Jialu who was still sleepy. Pushed him out the door again.At this time, the stream of people scrambling down the corridor had only its tail left, and a whistle came from downstairs to warn that the time had come.

Gacy ran downstairs while fixing the messy marching equipment on his back. When he rushed into the dark and cold training ground, all the soldiers had already entered the team and finished forming. They watched the last one silently. The recruits who ran to their company, no matter whether it was gloating about the upcoming misfortune or sincere sympathy, in this training camp that has always been known for its harshness, latecomers will not be easily accommodated.

Jiaxi stopped outside the team wisely, waiting for the instructor in charge of this emergency assembly to come from another company.He looked anxiously at the team shrouded in darkness in front of him, and through the dormitory building,