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Chapter 52: Horse Shepherd's Day

"Beautiful girl, you are the brightest starlight in the night sky, illuminating the journey home when I grazed. I am willing to stay with you all my life, riding a horse and running on the vast grassland~~~~~" On the vast orc grassland, the thick and loud singing sang from the horizon, echoing between the endless heaven and earth.

In the grassland in mid-to-late April, the grass has entered its growth period, and every time this time, it indicates that the grazing season has arrived. Every year from mid-to-late April, the orcs who endure winter will happily drive the raised livestock into the grassland with grassy grass, allowing the livestock to happily swim in the ocean of food. On the once empty grassland, every time this time, large groups of cattle, sheep, red and deer are often seen. The chirping sheepdogs and domesticated dogs and monsters run around the cattle, sheep and sheep, consuming the energy of a winter while galloping.

The singing of orcs, the cry of livestock, the singing of wild birds, the endless wind, and various sounds played a music of life on the grassland. This is the beautiful orc grassland, this is the beautiful spring on the grassland.

It was another morning, on the grassland.

A spring rain that quietly came in the night filled the grassland with a wet smell. The crystal clear raindrops still hung on the tips of the bent grass leaves that were hanging down. The slightly moist soil exuded the unique fragrance of the soil. The sky after the rain was as clear as a piece of blue crystal.

As the night faded, under the rising sun, the fields after the rain slowly recovered from the night's sleep, and the vigorous vitality returned to the grassland.

In the dense and deep grass, two grassland gophers poked their heads out of the hole, and their four small eyes blinked around. They looked around carefully for a while. The two little guys crawled out of the hole one after another, and moved slowly against the grass roots. The gray-green fur is the best protective color, so that they will not be easily discovered by the enemy during cautious and slow movement.

"Shashashashasha." After climbing for more than 30 meters, the two gophers stopped and curled up again. They disguised themselves as an ordinary piece of soil with moss growing, but their small heads were still twisting, allowing as many unstable factors in the surrounding environment to be collected in their eyes as much as possible. After disguising for a while, the two gophers felt relieved, stretched out their short limbs again, and stretched out their sharp claws. They seemed to have chosen a few grass randomly, and began to dig down against the roots of the grass.

After digging about ten centimeters, the two gophers suddenly shook their bodies, gathered together excitedly, and rubbed each other's backs gently with their tails, as if expressing their joy in their hearts. After a while, the two gophers continued to dig along the position just now. Within a few minutes, they dug out more than thirty insect eggs. The eggs were fat and fat, and looked the size of a thumb, which made the two gophers' excited tails flutter around. With a "whip", the gophers each picked up an insect egg and ate it in large quantities.

With a "swoosh", two gray shadows rushed out of the grass like lightning. Two grassland foxes, one big and one small, followed far behind when the goblock left their nests, following all the way to wait for the moment when the goblocks relaxed their vigilance. After more than half an hour of patient waiting, the opportunity finally came. The goblocks finally had a gap in their vigilance in front of the food. The two foxes grabbed the gap and pounced on them like lightning and bit off the goblocks' necks.

The sound of horse hooves "da da da da da da da da" approached from a distance. The fox who had just hunted was frightened by the sudden sound of horse hooves, and all its hair exploded. He held his prey in his arms and rushed into the depths of the grass. However, no danger came, and no one paid attention to the actions of the two foxes. The two horses were running side by side, and a simple and distant horn sounded from the mouth of the rider on the horse and soared into the sky.

"Woo~~~", the same horn sound came from the depths of the distant grassland, making a far-reaching response. Soon, another horn sounded further and further, representing the sound of the beginning of the Hermitage Festival spread farther and farther, gradually extending to all directions.

"Dongdongdongdongdongdongdong", as soon as the horn fell, the dull drum sounded, and the continuous drum sound became more and more intense, and from a distance, it sounded like continuous thunderbolts. When the thunderbolts ended, countless people roared "Wuhe" at the same time, without any cumbersome rituals or opening speeches, the annual horse-wallowing festival began in Wuhe.

The Horse Shepherd Festival in spring and the Ancestor Festival in late autumn are called two major festivals on the grassland. In late autumn, the orcs hold grand sacrificial rituals to their ancestors based on tribes, sharing the harvest of the year with their ancestors, thanking the ancestors for their protection, so that the tribes can spend the dangerous year on the grassland. The Horse Shepherd Festival in spring is often even more grand, because it is a festival that communicates with gods.

In the distant Third Age, the grassland was still an ignorant barbaric era. Every time the Hermitage Festival came, the orcs armed the slaves and warriors in the unit of the horses. Each tribe formed a team and concentrated their fighting within a designated range to offer the most exciting battle for the gods to please the gods and pray for the blessing of the gods, so that everything would go smoothly in this year, whether in war or production. There were many tribes and many teams. Every year, there were often four or five thousand people fighting and fighting in small fields, never ending until the team that survived to the end was decided. This team was the final winner. The winner could receive the best praise, and the slaves in the team could also be free and become a normal member of the tribe.

As time goes by, this barbaric and bloody battle gradually withdraws from the stage of history. Despite this, the festival still needs to continue, so the orcs turn bloody fighting into a more civilized way, including horse racing, riding and shooting, shooting skills, hunting, competition, and various competitive competitions will be staged during the three-day Horse Wrangler Festival, replacing the real bloody. Although the orcs were worried about the deity of the gods when the initial change was made, the god of war soon passed down the oracle, recognized this new way of sacrifice, and also made the uneasy orcs breathe a sigh of relief.

This year's Mochia tribe is also holding a grand horse-wrangling festival, just like in previous years. Not only are the orcs from the tribe, but also a large number of tourists from all ethnic groups from all over the world come and enjoy this exotic festival.

The Mochia tribe is one of the members of the tribe alliance on the grassland. It has thousands of square kilometers of tribal pastures, and there are vast public pastures outside the grassland. The tribe's strength is middle-class in the league, with tens of thousands of people, its own priests and ancestral temples, and countless animal husbandry. It is one of the strongest tribes in the southern part of the grassland. It is also one of the organizers and venue providers of surrounding tribes jointly held the Horse-Herd Festival every year.

When the thunderous drums shocked the earth, a team of less than ten people quietly entered the lively tribal territory. Before entering the tribe, Catherine stopped, sat on the horse's back and looked around, and exclaimed with an amazement.

The tribe is very large, especially compared with the small tribes outside the sphere of influence of the tribe alliance I saw before, this place is very large and amazingly large. The orcs here also live in tents as families, but because there are too many families, it is impossible to make all tents in a circle like small tribes. Therefore, you can see that thousands of tents are scattered like stars in the sky on a grassland of more than 100 square kilometers as a residential area. The arrangement seems chaotic, but in fact it implies some strange and unique order. Outside the residential area, it should have been an endless grassland that the tribe enjoyed exclusively. You should have seen a large number of cattle and sheep wandering on the grassland, but you have not seen these in the past few days. A large number of arenas were built on the vast grassland, completely for the preparation of the Hermitage Festival.

The sound of drums stopped, which meant that the Hermitage Festival had begun, and the entire tribe gradually became boiling. Whether it was the indigenous people or the visitors, they were mixed together, and people of all kinds began to wander around the venue, making the atmosphere of the festival gradually become rich.

"It's really different from the festivals of human beings." Catherine said softly: "Human celebrations often pursue concentration, concentrated in a city and in an area. The denser the flow of people, the better, and the more people the more lively. But the opposite is true here, the more scattered the flow of people, and the more scattered the flow of people, scattered to different places. Although it doesn't look so lively, it is actually not inferior to the celebrations of the human world."

"There is no difference. They are all like a group of extremely hungry dogs who smell the food. They go wherever there is food." Lina made a vicious comment with a cold face. Before returning to the client's camp, Lina had become another person one night, but no one expected that on the way half a month, Lina re-reviewed and unknown which book by chance, and then turned back to this hateful look, which made everyone laugh and cry. Although her evaluation is very accurate in many cases, the overly straightforward evaluation is often not so good, just like now: "The so-called difference is just seeing a pot of leftovers or ten pots of leftovers."

"Ahem, Lina." Catherine finally couldn't help it and said with a headache: "Let's discuss, you can work hard tonight, read the book now, and then change it to another one?"

"Okay." Lina thought for a moment and reluctantly accepted Catherine's opinion: "If this is your request from my elder sister, I will do it later. Anyway, I've read this book almost all the time."

"Hu." Catherine breathed a sigh of relief. When she turned her head, she saw everyone around her stretching her thumbs to her and making a complimentary gesture.

"Wow, brothers and sisters, have you arrived?" Behind Catherine and Pennis, they were each made a child wearing toys and ragdoll suits. Although it seemed a bit strange to put them all in ragdoll suits, it was not uncommon for people participating in the celebration to wear various strange costumes. They were just ragdoll suits and would not attract too much attention from others.
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