"If you can stay here longer, I will give you all the hair I comb out to make a nest when the hair falls out!" The lamb Qingzao promised generously.
"I'm afraid that's not possible," Song Xu said, "We'll be leaving in two days."
Wumu spent a few days in the beast and half-beast forms, and was not very stable. Now that both of them have rested well, it's time to leave here.
Qingzao has only known Song Xu for a few days, but she is reluctant to leave her. She is more lonely than the other half-beast Cangji, and she likes to hang out with Song Xu more. Cangji usually goes home to help his mother with work and goes to the wilderness to explore, but Qingzao will come to Song Xu whenever she has time.
Hearing that she was leaving, the lamb's ears immediately drooped.
"Maybe I will come back. When I pass by here, I will come to play with you." Song Xu comforted.
The lamb's ears quietly stood up a little, and it looked a little more energetic. Qingzao bleated twice and urged earnestly: "Then you must come early, you must come early."
"If it's too late, I'm afraid you won't be able to find me."
"Why can't I find you, haven't you been staying here all the time?" Song Xu was puzzled.
"Of course not." Qingzao answered calmly, "I am a half-orc. I have grown up. Every year from now on, I may completely lose my orc appearance and become an ordinary lamb. Many half-orcs in our tribe used to be like this. They gradually changed into another appearance and could never change back. Then they followed the passing horses, cattle and sheep and left. I will be like this in the future."
Other children may look like orc children or completely beast cubs at birth, but half-orcs are basically born in half-human and half-beast form.
When Qingzao was a child, children of the same age occasionally showed some beast characteristics in beast form because of their lack of control.
At that time, Qingzao felt that she was no different from other people. Later, as everyone grew up, other children could control themselves to become beastmen, but she still could not become a complete beastman.
When she became an adult, there was no hope of becoming a complete beastman. Qingzao knew that she would lose the memory of her relatives and friends and leave here forever, instead of finding a partner like other people and continuing to reproduce and live here.
"I think there's nothing wrong with that." Qingzao still had a naive and innocent look, and even showed a little expectation. "I will become an ordinary lamb, and I will still eat the tenderest grass on the hillside and run in the grass. And then I will be the same as the sheep in the wild sheep flock. I will be the same as everyone else, and I won't be lonely."
The tribe never drove away or harmed the orcs, but they didn't get too close to them. If they got too close, they would be reluctant to let them go in the future. So before she completely turned into an ordinary beast, she already had no friends.
"Oh no! If I have turned into a lamb by the time you come back, how can you recognize me among the flock? Then we will miss each other!" Qingzao thought of this urgent question and suddenly jumped twice on the spot, as if she had imagined the scene where her friend could not recognize her and left directly.
The talkative squirrel rarely interrupted Qingzao when she was talking, but remained silent for a long time.
Seeing Qingzao jumping anxiously, Song Xu grabbed her: "Don't worry, I have a way."
She took out a handful of colorful feathers from the animal skin bag she was carrying. These were souvenirs she collected along the way, from rivers and streams, various watersides, big trees and abandoned bird nests. The colorful feathers that fell from different birds mixed together and were dazzling.
"I'll string these together and tie them together to make a necklace for you to hang around your neck. In this way, if I see a lamb wearing a colorful feather necklace on the road in the future, I will know it's you."
"Necklace? Is it the same necklace on your waist? Good, good, I have a necklace like you!" The lamb was very happy and bleated non-stop. Literally, it jumped three feet high.
"Then the question is, what kind of thread can be used to tie the feathers firmly?" Song Xu pondered.
There was a sound of horse hooves, and the pony Cangjie ran over from a distance: "Qingzao, what are you doing, why are you jumping so high?"
As he said this, he noticed that his new friend Song Xu's eyes were fixed on his... butt? He didn't understand, but took two steps back nervously.
Song Xu smiled happily: "Ponytail hair, okay."
Horsetail hair is a good material for making bowstrings for silk and bamboo instruments. If you can use several strands to braid and make a necklace, it should be strong enough.
Cang Ji donated his own horsetail hair, because friends should help each other. He had just eaten the sweet honey nest given by his new friend two days ago, so a little horsetail hair was nothing. Besides, his friend Qingzao was also staring at him.
Song Xu worked hard for a long time and finally made a beautiful colorful feather necklace for Xiaoyang, which was purely handmade and customized. The necklace was hung around the neck, and the red, blue, yellow and emerald colors fell on the white fluff, making it even more gorgeous.
Cang Ji, who contributed the materials, also received a necklace, but it was smaller than Qingzao's. When Song Xu gave it to him, Thorn was still holding it in his hand and was embarrassed to hang it up. On the way back to the tribe, he quickly hung it up.
Having friends is the happiest thing for them.
The beautiful gift diluted the sadness of the friend's departure. Song Xu said goodbye to his friend and walked back. He met Wu Mu who woke up early and came to look for her. There was a rustling in the grass, and suddenly a snake head popped out. Song Xu knew it was him before he could see it clearly. He smiled and rushed up. Without saying anything, he rubbed his scales wildly.
"Let's go tomorrow!"
After a night of rain, the grass leaves were dotted with water droplets. Fortunately, it was sunny in the morning and the sun came out. These water droplets will disappear in less than half a day.
There were two shadows on the hillside in the distance, one of which was jumping. Song Xu waved to them, and then headed towards the farther mountains with Wumu.
She showed no reluctance to leave, just like they left the original cave.
The next step was a journey over mountains and ridges, and they did not encounter any more tribes.
Mountains are different from plains and forests. Having no roads is the norm when going through mountains and forests, but this kind of continuous upward movement, with some places having very steep terrain, is something Wumu has never experienced.
In fact, Song Xu had never climbed such a big and high mountain, but she would fly the same way as long as there were trees. It was just hard for Wumu, because in some areas with almost vertical slopes, she had to twist her body into many bends when climbing up to increase resistance and avoid accidentally sliding down.
"Ebony, why don't you climb up a tree too?" Song Xu suggested, squatting on a tree branch.
Not all trees on this mountain can bear the weight of the big snake. The trees that can support him are often far apart. If you walk on the trees, the road you pass by will be full of broken branches and trees.
They encountered a waterfall on the mountain. Climbing from the other side, they were above the waterfall. The waterfall was more than ten meters high, not very big, with a deep pool below and a bunch of unknown flowers growing beside the stream.
"Wumu, this is your first time seeing a waterfall, right? Do you want to go down and play?" Song Xu asked.
When she asked this, Wumu knew that she wanted to go down. At this point, the long snake once again had the advantage. He tied his tail to the stone above, and with the squirrel in his mouth, he could easily hang down.
On the way down, Song Xu touched the splashing water of the waterfall, and it was so cold that he kicked his claws. The cold water is colder than the snow in winter. This is the melted snow on the top of the mountain in winter. Now it is all rushing down. The turbulent water will wash out a river channel downstream, which becomes a place for downstream animals to drink water, play and hunt all year round.
Song Xu came down mainly because she saw the large clusters of wild flowers. She picked a handful to taste the flavor and explained to Wumu about this new thing called the waterfall. Tell him what the biggest waterfall will look like, and that when the sun gets bigger, a rainbow will appear above the waterfall.
They came late, and the sun was about to set. In order to let Wumu see the rainbow on the waterfall, she decided to rest here for a night.
The nights here are colder than in the wilderness. They climbed up from the foot of the mountain, and the temperature was gradually dropping. Song Xu lit a fire and set up a sleeping nest amid the sound of the waterfall. When Qingzao said goodbye, he was so excited that he sheared a lot of wool for her as a gift. She had to take it all with her because it was a bit too warm now.
Song Xu thought of Qingzao's yearning to join the flock and no longer be alone, and looked at the big snake next to him, and suddenly hugged the snake's head.
"Wumu, wuwuwu."
Wumu:?
"If you really become an ordinary big snake, I will also raise you." Song Xu said.
In fact, at the beginning, she raised Wumu as a pet snake. Later, in order to raise snakes legally, they suddenly became partners. Then she found that Wumu was different from ordinary snakes. Her mentality also changed. She began to treat people as objects. However, this mentality has not completely changed. Now, the object may become a pet snake.
...Should this be called a different path to the same destination or not forgetting the original intention?
Faced with the rare negative emotions of the squirrel, the snake launched its own special comfort: strangulation!
Song Xu was tied up by him and forgot about his sadness. His head tilted and he slept until dawn, and then he was shaken awake by Wumu.
A rainbow hung beside the waterfall, and the colorful rainbow light lingered for a long time. Song Xu jumped up by stepping on the snake's body and shook Wu Mu in return: "Look, a rainbow!"
Wu Mu had already seen it and had been watching it for a while before she woke up. Because she was very excited last night and talked a lot about the principles of the formation of rainbows, although Wu Mu didn't quite understand what the refraction of light was, he was infected by her expectations. When he woke up today and suddenly saw the rainbow, he felt happy.
Song Xu had long forgotten the intermittent sadness of last night. Her sadness could never last too long and was easily interrupted.
The rainbow on the waterfall lingered for a long time, and they watched it for a long time.
"In the past, people believed that seeing a rainbow would bring good luck. We have been watching it for so long, and now we have accumulated a lot of luck!"
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