In the early morning, everything is silent, and the day of the nocturnal animals begins.

A hare quietly left the shallow soil hole in the black locust bush and went out to look for food along the hidden path that it had walked many times.

But the hare didn't know that its path had already been discovered.

After daybreak, two men in robes walked up the hillside one after another to inspect the condoms that had been worn yesterday.

The hare pretends to be dead, and its tawny fur makes it look like a pile of dead grass, but it cannot deceive hunters.

"[Herd] There! Brother!" the boy walking behind shouted in surprise.

The young man walking in front also saw the prey. He pursed his lips, took off his short bow, and signaled his brother to be quiet.

It was too late, the hare was already frightened.

It fluttered desperately, jumping up and landing again, trying to get rid of the restraints of its hind legs.

The thing that tied the hare's right hind leg was a tough leather rope, which was not easy to break.

But the prey that stepped into the trap was also a strong adult male rabbit. In its dying struggle, it actually pulled out the branch holding the leather rope.

As soon as he regained his limited freedom, the hare immediately dragged the rope and stick into the bushes.

"[Hidden] The rabbit is going to run away!" the boy shouted.

The young man took a deep breath, drew his short bow, and shot an arrow like lightning.

Even though the bow in his hand was a shoddy one made of tree branches, and even though the arrow he attached didn't even have a tail feather, the young man still hit his prey.

The boy happily ran into the bushes and picked up the hare.

The two brothers found a sheltered place from the wind. The young man gathered dead branches and leaves to make a fire. The young man skinned and disemboweled the prey and started roasting the hare.

There can be no doubt that the youths and lads are Huds--of course, they do not think so themselves.

In the cognition of young people and teenagers, there is no concept of "Hud people", they are just subjects of the "Tai Chi" leader.

After the Battle of Pangtuo River, Tiefeng County did not directly imprison Taichi's troops, but only expelled them to the south bank of Pangtuo River, where they were still under the control of Taichi himself.

At that time, Winters decided to give top priority to the annihilation of Teltun Khan's camp, and could not spare any extra strength to deal with the Taichi tribe.

So the Taichi tribe's surrendered troops were "placed" in Lower Tiefeng County. Winters gave the two companies stationed in Tushechang a single mission: Don't let the Taichi tribe enter Middle Tiefeng County again.

Taichi himself was considered cooperative and did not make any small moves during the battle between the Tiefeng County army and the Teldun Khan tent. To be precise, Taichi may not have known the battle situation in Zhongtiefeng County at all.

In exchange, during this period, the food and drink for the Taichi tribe's descendants were provided by Tiefeng County.

The people of Tiefeng County can only eat black bread themselves, so of course the only thing they can provide Tai Chibe is black bread.

However, the daily diet of the Hud tribes mainly consists of porridge, rice and dairy products. Occasionally, they can eat meat when hunting and harvesting. Even if they eat dry food day after day, the stomachs of the Hud people cannot bear it.

In order to stabilize the surrender of troops, Tiefeng County will provide a certain amount of meat every day.

It's just that all the meat went into the stomachs of the leaders, and the subordinates and slaves at the bottom had to find their own solutions - such as catching rabbits with traps.

Hare has almost no fat and cannot be roasted for too long.

Seeing that the fire was almost done, the young man used his knife to cut the rabbit meat into small pieces, then took out a small skin bag filled with lake salt and gave it to his younger brother to dip in and eat.

The young man tore at the rabbit's legs and asked in a murmur: "[Herdese] Brother, have you heard about it?"

The young man chewed the rabbit head slowly, as if he wanted to crush every bone and suck out all the marrow: "[Hidden] What did you hear?"

"[Hede] Bai Yu and Deji...those people will murmur like sparrows for a long time every night."

The young man snorted coldly and did not answer.

"[Herd] You and I should also join the gang." Seeing that his brother was noncommittal, the young man was a little anxious: "[Herd] When will these days end? You and I should just follow Bai Yu and find a way to escape!"

The young man still didn't speak.

The young man threw away the rabbit leg bone and said with resentment: "[Herd] Don't you want to go home? Brother? That Yan is no longer an eagle, his soul was taken away by the wolf! Bai Yu said, Taichi

Na Yan wants to sacrifice you and me to that wolf..."

The young man spat on the broken bones: "[Hedish] Shut up."

Seeing that his brother was a little unhappy, the young man kept silent.

"[Herder language] If you knew what Bai Yu was thinking." The young man picked up the rabbit leg bone that his younger brother had thrown away, wiped it with a blade of grass, put it in his mouth and bit it loudly: "[Herder language] Then

Yan will know soon too."

The boy's eyes widened and his mouth opened wide.

The young man continued: "[Herd] If you want to go home, you must first have a horse. Without a horse, you and I can't walk across the vast grassland even if we die from exhaustion. And the horses are in the hands of the leaders."

On the day of surrender, Winters ordered his troops to take away the horses and weapons of the surrendering soldiers, leaving only their swords with them.

Therefore, the bows and arrows used by young people to hunt rabbits were made of temporary branches, which did not fit well in the hand.

But Winters specially left some horses and weapons for Taichi himself - for use in suppressing the Tertun people.

"[Herd] Then... what should we do?" The young man suddenly wilted.

The young man glanced at his younger brother: "[Hidden] Shut your mouth and open your eyes. I'll find a way. Don't get involved."

The young man came to life again and pestered his brother to find out what happened.

However, the young man knew that his younger brother could not hide anything, so he refused to reveal it.

After being beaten to the point of being helpless, he finally mentioned something: "[Hede] It's not just Taichi Nayan, there are other leaders in the south... There are also leaders with weapons and war horses..."

The two brothers were preparing to extinguish the campfire when a group of riders suddenly emerged from the northern hillside.

The group of riders saw the light of the fire and galloped straight towards the two brothers.

As soon as the young man saw the tall horse, tight-fitting clothing and riding posture of the visitor, he knew that the visitor was not from his own tribe.

"[Herd] Run away!" The young man grabbed his younger brother and ran away.

But two legs couldn't outrun four legs, and the two brothers were soon overtaken and surrounded by riders.

The leading rider took off his triangle scarf and asked in confusion: "What are you running for?"

The young man clearly felt his brother's weight pressing down on him. In fact, his legs couldn't help but feel weak.

Because what he saw was a face that was almost engraved in his bones.

It was the owner of this face who took away the soul of Taichi Nayan; it was also in front of this face that the young man handed over his weapons and horses - the "wolf" in his brother's mouth came.

Winters glanced at the translator who was still in a daze.

The translator hurriedly rode forward and translated the words of the tribune to the two Hades.

The young Hud didn't have any reaction, but the Hud who seemed to be still young suddenly knelt down with a thump and babbled a lot.

"What are you doing?" Winters laughed dumbly and looked at the translator.

The translator listened for a long time and replied rather awkwardly: "Your Excellency, he said he wanted to be your door slave, opening the door for you, leading the horse, carrying the knife, serving the wine... I didn't hear the rest clearly, but they were probably all

Miscellaneous things like that.”

After hearing this, Winters wanted to give the little Hurd a whip.

This mentality of being willing to be a slave to power made him indescribably disgusted, but considering the state of Hart society, he couldn't ask for anything.

Winters shook his head.

The translator immediately relayed the tribune's attitude to the other party, and added an explanation thoughtfully: "[Hidden] The tribe of the leader of the Blood Wolf does not want slaves, and has no slaves."

The little Hud was confused at first, but soon came to his senses and asked a few more questions eagerly.

"Your Excellency." The translator was even more embarrassed: "He asked you, if you don't want a slave, do you want a guard? A groom?"

"You guy, what on earth did you say to him?" Winters lightly slapped the translator on the back with his whip.

"I didn't say anything." The translator scratched his head: "I just translated your words truthfully."

When most clerks first met Tribune Montagne, they would unconsciously feel a sense of awe and fear.

However, the translator who came to Lower Tiefeng County with Winters was a "senior" clerk. After walking beside Winters for a long time, the fear gradually subsided, replaced by a sense of relaxation and closeness.

Winters put away his smile, looked at the two Hurds, one large and one small, and said seriously: "Go home, come back to me if you can't survive, but don't come with swords... Leader Taichi

Where are you now? Please take me to see him."

After the translator repeated this passage in Khedic, the young Khedic man touched his chest and bowed, extending his hand to indicate the direction.

"He said just follow him." The translator said, "He will take you to the camp."

The two Hurds walked in front, followed by Winters and his party of riders.

"Your Excellency, I really don't understand what the barbarians are thinking." As one of the entourage, Mr. Jacob Green witnessed the scene just now: "Aren't they the ones who wanted to kill us all before? Now they are taking the initiative to be your slave.

Slave? Incomprehensible!”

Winters thought for a while, he had a lot to say, and finally simply answered: "For survival."

Mr. Jacob Green wanted to continue the conversation, but seeing that the tribune was not interested, he did not continue the topic.

The group soon arrived at Taichibe's camp.

The scene in front of him was very different from the chilly and dark barbarian lair that Green had expected.
To be continued...