According to tribal custom, when a person dies, he ascends to heaven to serve the wolf god, and everything he owns will no longer belong to him. Women will be given to other men, and children will fend for themselves when they grow up, while younger children will stay with their mothers and recognize other men as their fathers.
They worked hard, only to end up benefiting others. If they were still in the tribe, they might have actually done such a foolish thing. But now they are not in the tribe. In Anxi, they have learned other ways of getting along with people. It is a life philosophy completely opposite to that of the tribe. They have been educated in this philosophy and have become smarter, more flexible, and also more cunning and resourceful.
Therefore, those who used to be absolutely obedient to orders, knowing that going up meant certain death, all hesitated for a moment when they heard Ashina's angry shout. They watched helplessly as the two men calmly leaped over the high wall and escaped. Even though Ashina knew that these people were outwardly compliant but inwardly defiant, there was nothing he could do. He understood that he couldn't deal with the newcomers, and the rest of them would only be throwing their lives away if they went up. So he could only vent his anger by smashing a stone sculpture and angrily cursing the two thieves, vowing to capture them and skin them alive.
At that moment, the two people he was cursing were climbing over the high wall and quietly slipping back into the house.
As soon as she entered the inner room, Shi Lan started kicking her little feet repeatedly.
On the way back, I don't know what Yue Zhan was thinking, but he suddenly picked her up and carried her all the way back headfirst, patting his back.
Yue Zhan held her waist, casually pulled down the slightly thicker curtain hanging between the inner room and the hall, and gave her a light tap for being unruly.
(To be continued.)
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