Catalog of the Lost - a searing epic

Kite had long forgotten his original name, and almost all of his family had died in the cold winter of the previous year, leaving him and his father to depend on each other, and in the new year, the lordship system was established, and the village welcomed a lord who began endless exploitation from the day he arrived, and showed no signs of leaving.

The winter of that year was extremely difficult, and Kite remembered that day, in the middle of the night, he was so hungry that he could not sleep that he crawled out of the thatched pile and called his mother's name, and after a long time he remembered that his mother had long since died, so he called his father again, but there was no response, and he was the only one left in the whole room full of haystacks, and Kite did not see his father again until thirty years later.

Later, he learned that there were many children in the village who had the same experience as him, and it seemed that the men of the village had gathered together privately to discuss leaving the children outside, and going out collectively to find food and a way to survive, and then send someone back to pick up the villagers together, but there was no news of this time.

The sudden extra ten orphans became a big trouble in the village, they had no surplus food, even if they gathered all the food, they couldn't feed the ten mouths, and the lord didn't care about their life or death at all, in desperation, they gathered all the orphans into a thatched hut, stuffed it with thatch so that they could survive the cold winter as much as possible, and the food was really helpless.

More than a dozen boys and girls huddled in the thatch, the first night, they hugged each other to keep warm, when they were hungry, they would take a stick of grass beside them and chew it in their mouths, and then swallow it when they were completely chewed, and when they were thirsty, they would take a piece of ice covered with dirt outside the house, and the thirsty children would lick the ice, and even if the bitter soil reached their mouths, they would swallow it with the ice water, and the first night passed in hunger.

The next day, some of the children called on the others to go out with them to find their father, and the young children, apparently unaware that their father had abandoned them, answered the call.

In Kite's impression, he followed the bravest children out of the village secretly, and walked a far, far away in one direction, even if the children next to him fell one after another, he still didn't care, knowing that they were wearing only a thin coat, and they were completely unable to resist the cold wind.

The kite remembered that in the end only he and the brave boy were left, and everyone else fell halfway through, as if they had no purpose, they kept going forward against the cold winter, their blood had coagulated, there was no longer a trace of blood on their faces, and they felt nothing but pain and cold in their bare feet.

It wasn't until the brave child also fell that the kite realized his mistake and wanted to turn back, but now it was dusk, and he didn't know where to go, and fear enveloped him in a moment, looking at his friend who had fallen in front of him, he wanted to reach out and help him up, and then then carry himself forward, but in the end he was crushed by fear, and while shouting for his father, he ran straight forward.

Suddenly, as if something tripped him to the ground, his whole body began to freeze, and he could no longer move, that is, when he fell to the ground, his hands seemed to touch the hair, and he didn't have time to care about what he touched, and the survival instinct made him lift the hair and hide inside.

The kite felt the warmth, this trace of residual warmth melted his stiff body, he didn't think about the source of this warmth, he only fell asleep in this warmth, maybe it was a long, long time later, or it was just a moment, and the sound sounded in his ears.

"There's still breathing, there's still one alive, come on!".

The kite survived, and he didn't know if it was lucky or unlucky, but after that, a family adopted him, and although life was still not easy, he still survived with difficulty.

It

is not clear whether it was an accident or a matter of fate, but on the night the children left, they were found missing, but this was a good thing for the villagers, because there were fewer mouths to feed, and they didn't know how bad their already difficult life would have become, and now they disappeared by themselves, but solved their troubles.

Three days passed, and the villagers who still had some conscience could no longer sit idly by, so several villagers searched around the village for their footprints, and they set out from the rising sun, and did not find the first child until noon, whose body was completely frozen, his face and the ground frozen, and if he was forcibly pulled up from the ground, it was estimated that it would be broken into pieces one after another.

Following the direction of the child's head, they found the others, and before they walked into a forest, they compared the numbers and found that there were still two left, they looked at the forest, and discussed what to do, for a long time ago, there were many bears in the forest, and even though the bears hibernate habit, some individuals still came out to forage for food when they were hungry.

After much hesitation, they decided to look for the remaining two children, and agreed to leave immediately if they saw the shadow of the bear, but they did not expect to find the body of a child as soon as they entered the forest, and not far away, they saw a bear lying on the ground.

Everyone was frightened at that moment and did not dare to move, until one of the people had a strange hairline, and the bear was motionless, and there was blood all over him, and then he mustered up his courage, and tremblingly stepped forward and stabbed the bear with a stick, and the bear remained motionless, and then he went around to the side of the bear, and found that the bear was dead, and had been disemboweled, and behind the bear's body, there was also a body.

It was an adult corpse that had been bitten and eaten by wild beasts, and the rope beside him confirmed that he was a hunter, and that he had hunted the bear, but when he was about to cut the bear, he was unfortunately found by other beasts and died here.

Later, the group found a weakly breathing kite under the bear's carcass, and they wrapped it in cloth and held it in the arms of one person, while the others took over the hunter's work, cutting up all the things that could be used on the bear's body and bringing it back to the village.

There is obviously a big difference between a dozen mouths and a mouth, but the more realistic reason is that if anyone adopts a kite, then he will get the largest piece of bear skin, and two shares of bear meat, and such a generous reward will naturally make everyone flock to him and rush to adopt him.

The

kite was adopted, but the family who adopted him did not give him a piece of the bear's meat, and he never touched the bearskin again, and soon after, the lord got the news, and the bear's meat and bearskin were taken again, but anyway, the thing still had some good memories, except for the kite.

In the blink of an eye, spring came, that is, in the spring of this year, the kite fell in love with the land, he saw countless young grasses poking their heads out from under the snow, and the flowers were slowly growing, the kite was so happy that he pulled up the grass on the ground and stuffed it into his mouth, the soft taste was better than the hay, he especially liked to eat the tip of the grass, because the tip of the grass was sweet, and after eating enough, he would pick a wild flower, pick the petals and put it in his mouth, and taste the faint fragrance of the flowers.

This year, the land welcomed Slay Gosho, and the kite also ate food except for the weeds, although after Shilai betrayed everyone and took their land, the kite still could not listen to his adoptive parents and hated him, because the food he sent was like the wild grass and wild flowers growing on this land, a blessing after the cold winter, the fur touched by the palm of his hand when he could not move, and the unforgettable residual warmth.

After Shree deceived them and took away their land, the people of this land were completely disappointed in him, and they also negotiated in private to leave this land of suffering, after that, the adoptive parents wanted to leave the kite here, but the kite still followed, and when he grew up, he often recalled his choice at this moment, whether it was right or wrong, but after countless times of thinking, it was the same conclusion, and he did not have the ability to choose at the beginning.

A group of people left the town of Lulu at night, and the kite followed them, stepping on the land for the last time, and he seemed to hear the land being held, but he left behind him every word.

After following the crowd for a while, Kite recognized it from a vague memory, he recognized the place where his former friends had fallen, and saw the forest where he had felt the warmth.

It turned out that he had only walked this distance, and it turned out that the children who died in the cold winter a few years ago were still sleeping on this land.

Soon, the town of Lulu will be born on this land, and after the cold winter, this land will finally usher in its warm spring.