Chapter 170 (2/2)
”There is no love in the Wilderness. I don't care about the others, and you shouldn't care about the others, either.”
Tang Xiaotang directly ignored him and held that direwolf cub more tightly in her arms, then replied, ”He doesn't need you to feed him, anyway.”
Those scratches on the man's body which were left in the previous battle, at this time, had already become a touch of white lines, and those earlier white lines had disappeared without a trace. No scratches could be found at the man's iron body not all. No ones knew what kind of martial arts he had and why his recovery ability was so great.
The wind began to blow and the snow started. Nightfall was coming. The direwolf group had gone far. The man and the little girl left the natural mountain pa.s.s and walked toward the south of the Wilderness. Their pace became faster and faster.
Sporadic tribes from north Wilderness were moving southward. Strong men in those tribes set off earlier to fight against barbarians in gra.s.sland, leaving the old, the woman and children at home who still had a long trip to reach their destination.
Holding the direwolf cub, Tang Xiaotang followed the man and asked questions about that strange southern world from time to time.
”Do we really need to go south? I think life in the Wilderness is very good.”
”Tang, what does that world look like? You are always unwilling to tell me.”
”Tang, have you ever been to Tang Kingdom?”
”Tang, since Tang Kingdom has deported us to the north Wilderness and it has been our hereditary enemy, but then why your surname is Tang? ”
”Is it to remind us not to forget the hereditary hatred?”
”But that is really meaningless.”
”I'm really not used to living in strange places, but I heard that there are cities in the south and I am wondering what a city looks like.”
The man called Tang didn't say a word until he heard this sentence. He stopped, stood in the Wilderness where was blowing and snowing, and then turned around. He looked at that little girl who was teasing the direwolf cub, and then he realised that she had been living at the Wilderness since she was born, so she never had a chance to see what a city looked like.
”Cities... are very big and have lots of building. They are lively and prosperous.”
The man in furred robe recalled cities seen in Central Plains when he was a child and explained to her awkwardly.
Tang Xiaotang curiously looked up and asked, ”What is a building?”
The man answered after a moment of silence, ”Something likes tents.”
Tang Xiaotang burst a laugh, which made her very cute, and said in an immature voice, ”I see, a city is a giant tent.”
The man in furred robe suddenly had a heavy heart. Watching this little girl, he had an endless mercy and pity for her, and then he said in a heavy voice, ”The life in the Wilderness is too hard. You should not have life like this.”
Tang Xiaotang replied, ”Which life is not hard?”
”I heard a place which is not bad,” The man in furred robe answered after a moment of silence, then he continued to say, ”there is a Academy in the south of Chang'an, the capital of Tang Kingdom. ”
Tang Xiaotang raised her arm to stab at the Fu characters on his back. And then she said with a smile, ”Didn't you say that people in south call us left evils of the Devil's Doctrine?”
”I will visit the master. We have been separated for almost twenty three years.”
Looking at her eyes, the man continued to say, ”n.o.body knows where he is. It may take a long time to look for him. I can't protect you during this period, so I need to find a safe place for you.”
”Isn't it safe to live in the tribe?” Asked Tang Xiaotang.
The man shook his head and said, ”Since we are moving to the south, there must be battles with Tribe of Savages in the Central Plains, which will definately startle the people in Central Plains.”
Thinking that strange world and that Chang'an Academy she had heard about several times, Tang Xiaotang couldn't help but feeling lost and puzzled.
Seeing her expression, the man said, ”The G.o.d is stern and merciless to us, yet we can still live, which means that only we human beings are the strongest and the most powerful creature in the world. There is no need to be worried.”
”I understand.” Raising head up, Tang Xiaotang replied, ”Whether we can enter the Academy or not, I will live well.”
And then the man said, ”Before finding the master, I need to kill a person.”
”Who?”
”A general of Tang Kingdom called Xia Hou.”
”His surname is Xiahou?”
”No, his name is Xia Hou.”
”I see, just like you.”
”Yes. Tang is not my surname, it is my name.”
Watching the direwolf cub in her arms, Tang Xiaotang suddenly remembered one thing. So she lifted her cute little face with bright eyes, and asked, ”I have a question, the male direwolf's body was so much smaller than his wife's, so how could they bore a baby under this situation?”
The man was shocked for a while, and then he replied after a while, ”I am your brother. You should ask your husband this question in the future.”
The wind and snow started again. The Wilderness was cold, yet the conversation between the brother and sister was even colder.
A suburb in south Chang'an city. A stone path behind a mountain of Academy.
”People's feelings always present the most regret things in his own heart. So it is understandable for a fat man like you to find a girl who is cut and slender, yet has a tough character.”
Glancing at Chen Pipi, Ning Que said in a serious tone, ”The problem is, I still think that you should lose weight, otherwise what kind of girl could bear your two or three hundreds pounds weight? It's a problem if the difference of physical shape is too big after all.”
Showing no interest at Ning Que's ironies, Chen Pipi reached out to break a branch, waving like a child, then said, ”That's why I added a condition that that girl must have great power.”
”You just want a powerful woman who painstakingly cultivates a strong power just to bear your weight?”
Looking at him and reluctantly shaking his head, Ning Que said to him, ”I guess if there is such a person, then it is you that been rested on and can't turn over for the rest of your life.”
Chen Pipi arrogantly laughed and said, ”How can you find a girl who is more powerful than me? Even though this girl could be found, she must be an old woman living in the depth of a mountain. I am not blind, there is no way I will find an old woman.”
Suddenly Ning Que bursted a laugh, asking, ”Then what about the woman in West-Hill?”
”It is wrong to slap people's face and talk about their weakness!” Chen Pipi rubbed his bulging cheeks and answered angrily, ”If we really fight, how can that crazy woman win? I avoid to fight against her because of her brother, whom I am afraid of and respect.”
Ning Que said sincerely, ”I wish you like a girl who has the strictest brother in the world in the future.”
Chen Pipi scoffed at him, ”I am an unparalleled cultivation genius, only few people in young generation are more powerful than me: two Senior Brothers, a Senior Brother in West-Hill, a dumb one and a person as a mute whose name is Tang. ” ”Eldest Brother and Second Brother don't have sisters. Do you think that I am that stupid to find girls from the left three people?”
Ning Que sincerely reminded, ”Don't speak in absolute terms, leaving no room for compromise. If that day really happens, it will be useless to cry.”
”Stop making fun of me. I don't know what kind of woman you are interested in yet, a woman like Sangsang?”
”Is Sangsang a woman?”
Ning Que shook his head and laughed, ”A woman? I would rather to keep a dog.”
Chen Pipi said, ”I won't tell Senior Sister what you said just now.”
Ning Que said seriously, ”A bowl of crab porridge.”
Chen Pipi stopped to threaten him and then recalled the topic they just talked, he shook his head and said, ”Dog is for eating, not keeping.”
Ning Que thought back a long time ago, as if seeing a snow-white dog in a flower bed. Keeping silent for a long time, he said, shaking his head, ”I want to raise a Samoyed in my life, and then call him... Xiaobai. ”
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