When Li Yuemin heard what Chief Yin said, he was instantly moved and shocked. He looked at his kind eyes with an inquiring expression.
Chief Yin's face turned slightly red when Li Yuemin looked at him, but this redness was not out of excitement, but out of guilt.
After a long pause, he said:
"Yuemin, I'm not going to hide it from you. Ever since Xiong'er disappeared, your godmother has been missing him day and night, and finally exhausted all her energy. Now her time is running out.
When I saw you for the first time, I was stunned and thought my Xiong'er was back.
Therefore, an idea came to my mind at that time, asking you to pretend to be Xiong'er and accompany your godmother through her last days. But I never had the nerve to speak up.
However, I assure you that I accept you as my godson from the bottom of my heart. I am also willing to give you my gun.
In short, let me tell you this, I think Xiong'er is attached to you to fulfill his filial piety.
Otherwise, how could it be such a coincidence? At the critical moment of my life, you suddenly appeared like a god.
Chief Yin’s words made Li Yuemin fall into deep thought.
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He racked his brains, trying to think of what he knew about his father and mother's past experiences. Neither of them had any so-called ex-lover, either before or after marriage.
He could say with certainty that there was no blood relationship between him and Yin Xiong.
Apart from this, they just look alike.
Chief Yin saw that Li Yuemin kept his head down and remained silent, and thought that his words hurt him.
So, I said with guilt:
"I know you think I took advantage of your kindness, if that's what you really think. Then I hope you can understand the feelings of an old father who misses his son."
"Godfather, I don't think so. I just think that the fate between Yin Xiong and me, and the fate between me and you, old man, is really wonderful.
Since it is fate, I should cherish it.
Don't worry, I will definitely accompany my godmother on her last journey.
It’s getting late, godfather, you should go to bed early and recharge your energy.
I will send you back to the army tomorrow. We still have a long way to go."
"Okay, you brothers should rest early too. Let's all rest early."
Commander Yin lay down on the straw with a childlike smile on his face, and fell into a deep sleep under the light of the campfire.
Li Yuemin was worried and did not sleep well. The dark black horse was always swaying in front of him.
Therefore, he woke up as soon as daybreak came.
I lit a bonfire again, heated up the roe deer meat left over from last night in a small iron pot, and ate it to fill my stomach. Then I walked out of the cave.
According to the direction that Chief Yin told him yesterday where he met the black dragon horse, he took out the compass and looked at it. He put it back in his pocket and walked southeast on the thick snow.
The old forest was shrouded in fog in the morning, and the visible range was less than ten meters.
If a wild animal suddenly appeared, it would be very difficult to guard against. Therefore, Li Yuemin walked very carefully.
When he took out the Czech pistol from his arms, he seemed to have found the time in his previous life when he was a special forces king and sneaked into the Greater Khingan Range alone to carry out a secret mission.
It was also such a morning, such weather, and such fog.
For a moment, he was in a trance, as if he had returned to his previous life.
But the crunching sound of the snow under his feet kept him conscious.
He is no longer the special forces king, but Li Yuemin, an ordinary mountain man who was reborn with all the memories and skills of the special forces.
Although his mother is still the blind mother and his brother is still the naughty and wise Li Yuejin, the only difference is that his wife is no longer the scheming woman Song Mengyao who married him while pregnant.
Instead, he was with his first love Zhang Chuntao, who grew up with him as a childhood sweetheart.
When Li Yuemin thought of Chuntao's pink lips and beautiful skin, his lower body began to react gradually.
The more I walked, the more excited I became. The more I walked, the hotter I felt.
As the fog gradually dissipated, he could clearly see the true appearance of the old forest in front of him.
The ground was covered with thick blood, and tall, thick dead branches stood upright in the cold wind.
The branches are covered with crystal clear icicles, and it is obvious that this forest is a place where few people go.
There were no horse hoof prints or even footprints of other animals on the ground.
Li Yuemin was unsure and took out his compass to check. He then looked back at the mountain stream behind him and confirmed that he was not going in the wrong direction before continuing to move forward.
The forest was completely silent, without a sound, not even the sound of birds. It could be said to be a completely isolated world.
Sometimes, Li Yuemin really wanted to live in seclusion in the mountains like this with his Chuntao and son.
Just like what is recorded in Peach Blossom Spring written by Tao Yuanming, live a happy and contented life.
Just when Ma Yuemin was daydreaming, suddenly, he saw a series of crescent-shaped horse hoof prints in front of him, which made his heart suddenly rise.
The horseshoe prints were clear at first, then messy. The splashed snowflakes fell on the trees and formed small ice chips of strange shapes.
Seeing this, Li Yuemin couldn't help but think of the horse leisurely walking on the snow, and suddenly encountering some danger, spreading its four hooves and galloping away.
As he looked, he discovered a string of huge plum blossom prints on the snow next to him.
The mark is oval in shape, wide in the front and narrow in the back, with obvious toe pads and claw marks.
The footprints were estimated to be about 14 cm wide and 16 cm long, and the step length was at least 80 cm.
When Li Yuemin saw this, his heart suddenly sank, "Oh my god, this is the paw print of a Siberian tiger.
Judging from the depth and width of the mark, it must have been from an adult Siberian tiger. Could it be that the black dragon colt was eaten by this beast?"
Seeing the tiger's claw marks, Li Yuemin's heart began to change from astonishment to solemnity.
He took off the long whip from his waist, held the gun in one hand and the whip in the other, pricked up his ears and listened to the movements around him.
After walking for a long distance, we didn't see any signs of fighting. We only saw the crossed prints of horseshoes and tigers.
After walking a little further, I found that the horseshoe prints and tiger prints actually split into two directions, east and west.
Seeing this, Li Yuemin was immediately relieved.
He guessed that the tiger might have discovered the black dragon colt and launched a surprise attack on it.
Unexpectedly, the horse ran faster than the tiger. After trying for a long time to catch up, the tiger had to turn around and run away.
However, this is just Li Yuemin's unilateral speculation, and he is not sure whether this is the real situation.
So, we continued walking down following the crescent-shaped horseshoe prints.
As we walked, we were blocked by a deep ditch and the horse hoof prints disappeared.
Li Yuemin judged again that the horse might have jumped to the other side of the deep ditch.
He checked the terrain and found that it would take at least two hours to get through the bottom of the ditch.
He was already very hungry now, and the roe deer meat he had eaten in the morning had already been consumed.
If we don't replenish our food, even if we see the horse, we won't be able to capture it.
But the whole journey was really desolate, and I didn't see a single bird, let alone other small animals.
"Oh no, have I entered the Siberian tiger's territory?"
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