On the ground covered with thick white snow, there was a group of people wrapped in animal skins, holding weapons, and trudging along with difficulty.
These people huddled up in the cold wind and kept looking around, hoping to find some prey to fill their empty stomachs.
However, what made them feel uncomfortable was that after a heavy snowfall, some animals that had appeared when the weather was warm before disappeared again and became extremely difficult to find.
They knew that the food they needed most was buried under the thick snow, but the desperate thing was that they could not find it at all under the snow.
The leader of the Huangguo tribe, after searching for a while without finding any living animals, became furious and started to dig around on the ground with the stick in his hand, trying to find some frozen prey in the thick snow.
Such behavior was of course futile, but a surprise appeared at the very edge of the team.
A rabbit that had gone into a snow den to eat hay was startled.
When walking in thick snow, people with longer legs naturally have the advantage.
For example, the rabbit now tried its best to jump, but it didn't jump much above the snow surface. The distance it jumped was no more than 30 centimeters, and it fell headfirst into the snow nest again.
The heavy-hearted team burst into joy, and then the short-legged rabbit lost its life, being lifted up by its ears in someone's hand.
The surprise brought by the rabbit made everyone excited again. They stared with uncomfortable eyes and tried their best to find prey.
The reason why a surprise is called a surprise is that the possibility of the event itself happening is not very high.
So in the following time, no more surprises happened.
The leader of the Huangguo tribe clenched his hands, which had little feeling in them, and looked up at the cold sun in the sky. He felt very uncomfortable.
Even when he was about to come out, he asked those who stayed in the cave to untie the furs and wrap those who came out with them, and he also wrapped himself in thick fur, but his body was still shivering in the biting cold wind.
He really wanted to take his people back, back to the cave, sit around the warm fire, drink warm soup, and never suffer like this again.
But when he thought about the fact that there was only enough food in the tribe to last for two days at most, he suppressed the thought.
I can't go back. If I go back now, someone in the tribe will starve to death and be eaten...
There was another team trudging through the snow.
Mao, who was wrapped tightly with a gray-brown linen strip on his eyes, walked at the front of the team, looking around constantly.
Shang looked at Mao and couldn't help but feel a little nervous.
At this time, the surroundings were covered with heavy snow, and some of the more eye-catching signs were covered up, losing their previous appearance.
Along the way, he felt a sense of déjà vu in many places he saw. He secretly identified three places that were similar to the Huangguo tribe in his mind, but each time, Mao led the team forward without much stopping.
"There, the Huangguo Tribe..."
Mao looked around for a while and pointed towards the west. Shang looked over there and felt that it looked similar, but also seemed not to be the same.
He was completely stunned.
When you arrive near the Huangguo tribe, turn to the other side, pass Goudan Mountain, and walk for a distance, you will slowly return to the tribe.
At this time, Shang had completely handed over the task of finding the way to Mao. Hearing Mao say this, everyone in the team couldn't help but feel happy.
It is true that they have a lot of "equipment", but they are also unwilling to stay in this increasingly cold weather. Along the way, the people in the team have missed the warm kangs and delicious food in the tribe countless times.
After hearing that they were near the Huangguo tribe, everyone became excited and led the deer towards the direction of the tribe.
The team turned around and after walking a short distance, Mao, who was walking in the front, suddenly stopped.
"What's wrong?"
Shang asked quickly, he was worried that Mao had remembered the wrong route back.
Mao handed the rope holding the deer to someone behind him and asked him to hold it, while he went to the end of the team to find Shang.
"Did you remember the wrong way?"
Shang spoke again.
Mao shook his head confidently. How could he have remembered the wrong way?
Seeing this, I immediately felt relieved, as long as he didn't remember the wrong way.
"Huangguo Tribe..."
Mao pointed in the direction of the Huangguo tribe.
What happened to Huangguo Tribe? Didn’t we go there not long ago?
Almost everything that could be exchanged in their tribe was exchanged, and there were not many animal skins left.
Shang was a little confused and didn't understand what Mao meant by mentioning the Huangguo tribe at this time.
As a businessman, Shang has no talent for trade.
Seeing that Shang still didn't understand what was going on, Mao started talking with a smile.
When they arrived at the Huangguo tribe not long ago, there was very little food left in the tribe. Even if the people of the Huangguo tribe did not exchange much salt and pottery this time, and the things they exchanged were basically food, it would not work.
Because the Huangguo tribe had very few things that could be used for exchange, the food exchanged from them would not last them for long.
If the weather continued to warm up, there wouldn't be much of a problem. The problem is that the weather is now colder than before, so the food in the Huangguo tribe will become less and less.
If they brought food over at this time, could they get the people of the Huangguo tribe to join their tribe?
As a result of often leading people to do business, Mao has developed a relatively keen sense of smell, especially when he thought of what the Son of God had said before when he came to them that the tribe was short of manpower, he became more determined in this idea.
After hearing Mao's words, Shang's eyes lit up.
Compared with trade, he feels the most directly about this matter.
A big part of the reason why he brought people to join the tribe was because the tribe lacked food and the people could not survive.
The Huangguo tribe is also short of food now. If we go there, then...
Shang, who had figured things out, shook Mao's hand vigorously, expressing his agreement with Mao's idea.
So, the trading team, which was supposed to return to the Qingque tribe, changed direction and headed towards the cave of the Huangguo tribe.
At this time, compared to Mao, Shang wanted to get to the Huangguo tribe as soon as possible.
Having encountered a similar situation in the past, he hoped to rescue the people of the Huangguo tribe from hunger and death.
In this way, his tribe will become stronger, and the people of the Huangguo tribe will not starve to death.