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Chapter 176: The Reindeer Tribe, the Elves of the Forest (2/2)

“The main government has prepared houses for the Ewenki out on the plains and most of the young people have now said goodbye to the life of a hunter. Most of those who have stayed to hunt and raise reindeer are old people.”

“They really like reindeer.”

The two men walked for a while, through the dense forest and finally came across the real Ewenki tribe.

It was a flat bottom that had been reclaimed among the forest, surrounded by forest on all sides. In the middle, there were a lot of spires made of wooden poles. Most of them were steaming hot.

“That’s called a handful of lozi, and it’s where the Ewenki people live.”

Ning Fei explained.

At this moment, Ning Fei suddenly heard a “jingle jingle jingle” sound, which sounded like the wind blowing through a tree full of bells, all of which were swaying gently.

Ning Fei turned his head and looked over.

He finally saw the image he had always wanted to see.

Only to see that not far away, there was a young Ewenki girl driving a herd of reindeer, coming from this side of the tribe. Each reindeer had a small bell on its chest, which rang as it ran.

The antlers on the top of the reindeer’s heads are huge and shaped like scattered branches of a tree. Their large bodies and calm temperaments in turn make them divine, looking as if they were elves in the forest.

Seeing such a picture, netizens finally understood why reindeer receive so much love from the Ewenki people.

It is because the reindeer herd looks full of sacredness, especially with the bells hanging around their necks, more like animals coming out of the fairy world.

This herd of reindeer just walked past Ning Fei.

Ning Fei led Handsome Black and stood by, his expression filled with delight.

He had come here, but just to take a look at the reindeer.

There was no other entanglement of interests, nothing else on his mind.

Reindeer are the totem and belief of the Ewenki people, and what he wanted to pursue was the totem that once symbolised Chinese culture.

After netizens saw the reindeer, pop-ups were sent out in a dense stream.

“Look, it’s a reindeer!”

“That’s a reindeer, it’s so pretty!”

“It’s like a divine beast.”

“It’s the first time I’ve seen reindeer in a live feed.”

“It seems like there are only wild reindeer in the forests of the Northeast now, and such a large reindeer herd can only be seen in the Ewenki tribe.”

“The scenery here is so beautiful.”

“What kind of world has Master Ning experienced, why does every place feel like it doesn’t exist to me.”

“It’s as if he’s searching for a paradise that belongs to China, passing through places that are wonders of nature that are worth stopping to savour.”

The Ewenki girl was behind the reindeer, and after she saw Ning Fei, she exchanged a few words with the hunter in a low voice in Ewenki.

Ning Fei could not understand, but the Ewenki language was close to the Mongolian language, so Ning Fei could roughly understand the words “a customer who wants to buy meat”.

“What kind of meat do you want?” The hunter asked him after the young girl had driven the reindeer away.

“Some hare meat and wild boar meat.” Ning Fei said directly, “What is the price?”

“Money, or good tools, either way.”

Ning Fei thought for a moment as he took his backpack off, and then took a dagger out of it.

It was a beautifully decorated dagger with a hilt that could be pulled out and was very sharp. The price on the market was around 200-300 yuan and it was of good quality.

Ning Fei Expedition had a special pocket knife, this dagger was meant to be a spare, it was rather heavy and had been a bit cumbersome to carry around, so it was good to sell it.

“Is this dagger okay?”

When the hunter saw the dagger, he lit up and said, “Wait for me here, I’ll go and get you some meat.”

With that, he left in a huff.

Looking at his back, Ning Fei sighed and added.

“The Ewenki are a very hospitable people, and like the Mongolians, they welcome guests on the steppes and will greet them with reindeer milk and wine.”

“But that’s not the case with the hunters in the mountains.”

“There was a time when the local Masa – government allowed the traditional Ewenki to migrate and make the transition from the mountains to the steppes and the countryside, and took their hunting guns.”

“Faced with the ‘better’ way of life offered to them, the Ewenki were sad and part of them began to live on alcohol paralysis.”

“The development of human society, from caves to mountains, from deep mountains to grasslands, from grasslands to farmlands and finally to cities, each step was a trial and departure, a sign of the march of modern civilisation.”

“But, very often, we always imagine that farewell is too simple before we think that there is no real soulfulness in this world.”

“In the autobiography of Maria, a very famous chief of the Ewenki tribe, she said: ‘When I think of the Ewenki people without hunting guns and without a place to put reindeer, I want to cry, I cry in my dreams’.”

“These people have a deep affection for the mountains and the reindeer, a deep sensibility.”

“Thankfully there is still a small part of the Ewenki people who live the way they like and are protected by the law.”

It wasn’t long before the hunter came running back, his hands leading two large hangings of meat, one of hare and one of wild boar.

There was a good amount of meat, and it would have cost at least 600-700 pieces to sell at the market.

“These, is that enough?” The hunter asked towards Ning Fei, his gaze still looking at the dagger every now and then.

Ning Fei handed the dagger to him and nodded, saying, “More than enough.”

As he said this, Ning Fei fished out some more money from the compartment of his backpack, probably around 400 yuan, and gave it all to the hunter.

Nowadays, although they were all paying by mobile phone, this was definitely still the most primitive way of payment here.

After the transaction was complete, Ning Fei carried the two hangings of meat with him, looked away, and said:

“Today at lunch, we will eat meat!”