The charcoal kiln and blacksmith shop were all built.
The cold wind was howling, and the cubs were huddled in the cave, warming themselves by the charcoal fire, while the adult orcs came out to clean the road.
This year is different from the past. They still have a lot of things to do, and naturally they can't sit in a cave and wait for the snow to melt.
When the sun was shining at noon, some cubs who were not afraid of the cold finally came out to have a snowball fight. Hu Ling'er was the most active, greeting everyone back and forth, but he soon discovered a problem.
No one dared to throw snowballs at her. When Hu Ling'er hit them, they ran away quickly, but no one dared to fight back.
"Hu Zhen, I just hit you on the head with a snowball, why didn't you resist?" Hu Ling'er blocked Hu Zhen's path and insisted on asking clearly.
Hu Zhen didn't know what to say and could only look at Hu Ling'er and giggle.
Hu Ling'er taught him: "If you hit me, you can stuff snow into my neck while I'm not paying attention..."
Fox Zhen stood still, holding two clumps of snow with stiff fingers.
Just when he was about to lose his hold and wanted to run away, Hu Fu came up and said, "Sister, please stop making things difficult for him. Didn't you see that Hu Zhen is almost crying?"
Hu Ling'er took a closer look and saw that her eyes were really red, and she looked like she was about to cry.
"Brother, I didn't bully him either!"
Hufu thought to himself: You didn't bully him, but you taught him how to beat you, but you didn't even think about it. You are a great witch. Would he dare to attack you?
But can my sister be wrong? No? What else can I do? Just coax her!
"Sister, why don't we go skiing?" Hufu suggested.
"Okay!" Hu Ling'er raised his hands in agreement.
The snow track on the back mountain is where they go to play every year. Now the snow is thick, fluffy and soft, and they can roll all the way down the mountain.
Hu Zhen watched the two brothers and sisters leave, and finally relaxed. The great witch actually asked him to beat her. What if the beast god got angry and punished himself with the fire of divine punishment? How terrible, how terrible!
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Although the imagination is wonderful, the fact is that it took a lot of effort for them to climb the mountain, and Hu Ling'er followed in his footsteps all the way up.
The rolling down was not so smooth, because the snow was too thick, and Hu Ling'er would get stuck in the snowdrifts from time to time and had no way to climb out. Hu Fu had to look for her everywhere, and skiing properly turned into a hide-and-seek situation.
"Brother, big brother, come and save me!" Hu Ling'er shouted for help when she fell into the snow pit again and couldn't get out. The snowflakes stirred up by Hu Fu running down fell on her face again.
"No more fun, no more fun." Although it was very cold, Hu Ling'er was already sweating all over, so Hu Fu had no choice but to carry his sister on his back and walk down the mountain.
The brother and sister were walking downstairs when they suddenly heard the horn sounding from the north gate of the tribe.
"Brother, look quickly!" Hu Ling'er pointed in the distance.
"What?" The sun reflected on the snow was a bit dazzling. Hu Fu calmed down for a moment before looking in the direction Hu Ling'er was pointing.
"It's right there. It's very high. It seems like something is buried, and there seems to be some gray coming out."
Hufu blinked and finally saw clearly what his sister was talking about.
"There is a problem! No one will go out and walk around in such a cold weather. Maybe a wild beast is coming. Let's go down and take a look." Hufu walked even more hurriedly.
By the time the two of them were covered in snow and crawling to the north gate, Boss Hu had arrived early and had already taken people out to check.
"Is it a ferocious beast?" Hu Ling'er stretched his head and looked longingly. There were guards at the door blocking these little cubs from going out for fear of danger.
"Great witch, please stay. I don't know what is going on right now. The clan leader has ordered that no one can go out without his orders. Once there is any danger, the city gate should be closed quickly."
"It seems that those ferocious beasts have fainted from the cold and there is no movement. They dare to attack our tribe. Are they impatient?" Hufu also kept looking outside.
"It would be great if that was the case. We picked up so many ferocious beasts for nothing and we can have extra food at night." said the guard next to him.
While everyone was talking about it, they saw Boss Hu leading people back.
They are not ferocious beasts, but a group of ragged orcs.
Their bodies were dirty, and many of them had fresh wounds.
"How come there are so many orcs?" Hu Shan, who arrived later, asked with his head stretched out.
"Who knows? It seems that the clan leader wants to bring them back to our tribe?" someone next to him said.
"Are they coming to join our tribe?"
"Can't? Our tribe is so small and so poor, how could any orcs defect to us?"
"Nonsense, we are not poor now!"
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Sure enough, the tiger boss led a group of strangers into the tribe. After everyone came in, the guards closed the north gate.
"These are the orcs from the Red Rat Tribe. They just said that their tribe was attacked by stray orcs and they have become homeless, so I plan to place them in our tribe."
Everyone has no objection. The clan leader has always made the right decision, and what their tribe lacks most now is orcs. With the addition of the Red Rat Tribe, they can just strengthen their team.
"Master Patriarch, our great witch is dying. Can you let the tribe's witch doctor take a look at it and save our great witch?" All the members of the Red Rat Tribe knelt down.
"What's wrong with her?" Boss Tiger saw an elderly female surrounded by everyone. The old man was very old. His cheekbones were high and his cheeks were sunken. He looked like he was breathing out.
Angry, it seems that I am really about to die.
"Since we escaped, the body of the great witch has been getting worse day by day. It snowed all day yesterday. We protected the great witch, but she was still about to freeze to death." The speaking red rat tribe member cried very sadly, as if
I blame myself for not protecting the great witch.
"Let's go back now and let the witch doctor Yuantai take a look at her." Boss Tiger agreed.
"Would you like to wait a moment? I think she seems to be talking about drinking. Let me give her some water first." Hu Ling'er looked at the old man's moving lips and judged.
After saying that, she squatted down and got some spiritual spring water from the space.
In fact, she saw that the old man's condition was not very good, and was afraid that she would not be able to insist on being examined by Yuantai witch doctor, so she planned to use spiritual spring water to help her survive first.
At first, the old man could not swallow, and water stayed at the corners of her mouth.
Slowly, she seemed to regain some consciousness and began to hold on to Hu Ling'er's hand, like a traveler who had been thirsty for a long time in the desert and finally grabbed a life-saving water bag. This chapter has been completed!
