Another summer, Roger has been in this world for more than two years, and the way back has not been found yet, and life is fairly stable, and An Luo Ansen and An Luo Ansen are not so much partners as they are living under the same roof Friends, support each other, coexist peacefully, and sometimes sleep in the same bed, but except for the first few times, there has been no relationship in the past two years.
"You run slowly, Xi Ya." That was his child. At first he couldn't accept the fact that he was a little leopard, but now he got used to it a lot. This child is very lively, almost too lively, like ADHD, sitting still all the time Can't live.
After nearly two years of observation, measurement and calculation, a sundial for relatively accurate time measurement has been made. Without enthusiasm, many things have to be done. He needs an excuse to freely enter and exit the temple.
At dusk, a large number of burning clouds appeared in the western sky, the sultry heat in the day gradually receded, the wind came from the sea, and the air carried cool moisture. Roger readjusted the sundial on the top of the temple. Sitting down after viewing the angle, the 360th floor of the temple is in front of you. There are pictures of ancient starry sky engraved on it, which are quite different from modern ones. The solar system has begun to take shape. The orbits of the eight planets are very clear. The ninth planet The lines here are blurred, and the stone representing the earth has been artificially picked out. Maybe there used to be a highly developed civilization here, but it suddenly disappeared for unknown reasons.
As night fell, the grassland that had been busy for a day finally fell silent, and the tribe was dark, with occasional flickering of a few weak oil lamps, and the loneliness and desolation in Roger's heart resurfaced. What was the point of this place to him without anything familiar.
"Father, I'm hungry." Tired of running, Xi Ya climbed onto Roger's leg and onto her lap. "Okay, let's go home and have dinner." Finally, there was a little guy beside him, Roger touched Xi Ya's sweaty forehead, took out a small cloth towel from his pocket, and wiped it for him.
"Father, when will Dad and the others come back?"
"It should be only these two days." Roger put the booklet made of bark paper around him in his arms, and hugged Xi Ya. Anson and Anbu have been out hunting for nearly a month, and it's almost time to come back.
When Anbu came back, he was regarded as a wandering orc by the patrolling orcs, and he was blocked from entering the tribe. It’s no wonder that people didn’t recognize him at a glance. When Anbu left, he was still a young boy who had just grown up, with a slender body and a handsome face. Slightly green and mellow, but after two years of wandering in the wild, he is dark and tall, his body is simply wrapped in a piece of animal skin, and many deep and shallow scars are clearly visible on the exposed arms and legs. But people seem to be getting stronger and more energetic.
"Anbu? Where have you been for the past two years? I almost thought you weren't coming back. Both Anson and An Luo have gone out to look for you several times." Anbu's friend Mallow is also one of the orcs on this patrol. As soon as he recognized it was Anbu, he gave him a fist when he came up.
"Mallow, long time no see." Anbu also generously patted him on the shoulder.
Mallow pulled him into the bamboo building, gave him a bowl of water from the big pottery jar in the corner, and said, "Let's rest for a while, and then talk to the priest later. Anson and the others are all out hunting, you go home There is no rush for this moment."
Anbu temporarily unloaded the prey he was carrying, and asked after drinking the water, "I've been away for two years, and the tribe has changed a lot. This is the first time I've seen this water-holding and drinking utensil. It doesn't look like wood."
Mallow smiled and said: "Speaking of this, it's thanks to the female companions An Sen and An Luo brought back from outside. He thought of these." Mallow pointed to the hourglass on the table and said: "This is The hourglass is used to tell the time. You haven’t seen it before, have you? In short, he really made a lot of practical things. He is also beautiful. No wonder the orcs in the tribe almost made a fuss two years ago to compete for him. Overturned. But An Sen and An Luo are still strong, and they snatched people away without making a sound, and the children are now two years old."
Mallow had said so much, and Anbu could understand that brother Ansen had a female partner and a child, and he was sincerely happy for them, and joked: "No, I have to go back and see them How beautiful that female is, making them move so fast."
Mallow's smile paused, and she said with two expressions of embarrassment: "Actually, it's not just them, I also held the ceremony."
Anbu raised his eyebrows in surprise, and said with a smile, "It's a good thing, with whom?"
"With me." Zhu Xi came in from the door with red hair and a small clay pot. Although he was smiling, his eyes fell on Anbu, and there was a bit of unstoppable sadness in his eyes. .
"It turned out to be Zhu Xi, congratulations, when did this happen?" Mallow and Zhu Xi were his playmates since childhood, and he was naturally happy to see them being together.
Seeing that Anbu didn't seem to mind, Mallow secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and said with a smile, "We just came back from the holy lake, and it's only the fifth day." He knew that Zhu Xi liked Anbu, and Anbu should also like Zhu Xi , but after Anbu left for so long, there was no letter at all, and it was impossible for Zhu Xi to be allowed to wait in the tribe.
He led Zhu Xi to sit down, opened the clay pot, which was full of stewed rabbit meat, "Anbu, let's have some together?"
Anbu is a sensible person. He is a new partner who has just finished the ceremony. What is he caught in the middle of? He refused: "You two eat, I have to go to the priest now. If it is too late, I will Afraid he fell asleep."
Mallow nodded and said, "Yes, come to my house for dinner another day."
Anbu promised: "It must be there."
Roger and the old priest came out after saying hello, and when they were about to turn onto the avenue, Su Rui called them from the other side: "Xia, this way."
"Uncle Su Rui." Xi Ya waved her fleshy paws and jumped out of Roger's embrace with a promise, and ran over. Roger followed closely behind helplessly.
There was no one at home, and Anbu put down some of his prey and came to the temple without stopping. He turned off the main road, and the door of the priest was ajar, and someone had just left.
The priest has reached middle age. He has used it to worship the gods all his life. He has never held a ceremony with anyone. He used to get along well with Anbu's father, and it can be regarded as watching Anbu grow up. When Anbu came back safely, he was very happy, so he stayed for dinner and asked some outside matters, and Anbu answered them in detail.
Coming out of the temple, it was already a bit late, and on the way, he unexpectedly met a little female who came back from outside alone, carrying a small basket, at the age of twelve or thirteen years old, sprained her feet and limped.
Anbu has been away for two years, and the younger children are hardly recognized, but they are all in the tribe, and he can help. He chased after him and said, "Where do you live, let me take you back?"
Unexpectedly, the pretty little face of the little female immediately scowled, and said coldly, "What do you want to do?"
Anbu was taken aback for a moment, and smiled when he understood: "You are such a little one, what can I do to you? Besides, they are all from a tribe, and I don't want to be hunted down by your father and mother." Forced underage little female In the tribe, that was despised by everyone.
The little female tilted her head and thought for a while, "Then you squat down and carry me back."
It was so late, and Anbu didn't want to argue with a child, so he knelt down and said, "Come on."
Chun Ji touched the knife in his arms and climbed onto An Bu's back with hands and feet. It was quite generous, but the smell was really bad: "It's been a long time since you took a shower, it stinks."
Anbu straightened up, and was annoyed by him, "You are so small, why are you so busy."
Anbu sent him home, only to find that there was no one else in the house, so he had to help with the medicine again, and he felt pain when he saw the child wrenching his ankle to come straight.
Chun Ji was spoiled by the orcs in the tribe who pursued him, and he was not polite when ordering others. This person looked a little different from those people, but there was no guarantee that he didn't mean that, so he would not promise anything easily.
"Okay, you go to bed quickly, I'm leaving." Anbu finally took out a blanket from the closet and threw it to him, then helped him pour a bowl of water and put it on the bedside, and closed the door without looking back. If he doesn't leave, the child might want to make troubles.
The stream under the moonlight looked very cool. After driving for another day in this sweltering weather, Anbu felt that he was really not well, so he decided to take a bath in the stream and swim back along the way.
Xiya woke up halfway through urinating. Dad praised him as a sensible child. Dad often couldn’t sleep. Jumping off and landing silently, Xi Ya was secretly proud, and spread her paws and ran to the stream behind the house.
When Anbu jumped out of the water, he saw a little golden leopard rubbing his sleepy eyes, urinating towards the creek with its buttocks pouted. This position and those big purple eyes made it obvious that it was Anson. My brother's child, like Anson's brother when he was a child, is a big, fluffy mass of meat.
After he finished, Anbu took the fur from the back of the little guy's neck and hugged him.
Xiya woke up in an instant, her eyes widened, showing only a few short baby teeth, and she roared twice thinking she was mighty, but in Anbu's ears, her voice was soft and tender, no different from being coquettish How many.
Anbu teasingly passed his finger over, touched his little baby teeth, and said with a smile: "I haven't changed my teeth yet, and I can't bite raw meat."
Seeing that Xiya couldn't beat her, her eyeballs kept rolling and her mouth flattened, she was ready to cry to attract people.
Seeing that his posture was not good, Anbu quickly begged for mercy: "Baby, be good. I am Uncle Anbu, the younger brother of your father Ansen." Not impressed with him.
Don't look at Xiya's young age, but she is shrewd, so she won't easily believe what strangers say.
Anbu gently tugged at his fluffy ears, and said with a smile, "Baby, are you only two years old, why are you so smart?"
Xi Ya was still lying in her arms with her round belly proudly shy.
Why is he so cute? Anbu kissed his little forehead, pushed the door open a gap, put Xi Ya down with both hands, and said: "When you see me tomorrow, you will know that I am an uncle."
Xi Ya hugged the legs of the bed and climbed up. Anbu smiled and was about to close the door when the person on the bed turned over.
Ambu froze.
"Roger..." Ambu murmured, he called this name in his heart countless times, but he never said it out loud, his chest was so stuffy that he couldn't breathe, and when he wiped his face, it was already cold.
"Roger..." Ambu didn't know how he walked those few steps.
He carefully stroked the once familiar hair.
Seemingly sensing a familiar taste, Roger raised the corners of his mouth and moved a little closer to this side.