As for the purpose of inviting him here, Zhang Qiling left without saying anything.

In this way, he lived in Zhangjiatun for three months and spent the whole winter.

During the period, he asked to see Zhang Qiling more than once, but Zhang's family said that the patriarch had something to do, so please wait at ease.

Slowly, he began to wonder if he was under house arrest by the Zhang family.

He wanted to run away secretly, but this place was deep in the Thousand Li Snow Mountain, without a local guide to lead the way, he couldn't go out at all, and he would definitely be trapped to death in the vast forest.

After thinking about it, he is just a wandering Taoist, and he is not from a wealthy family, so what is there to worry about?

Besides, he was alone, with nothing to worry about and nothing to fear.

It's useless to be afraid of death or life.

After figuring it out, he put down his mind to fattening up.

Eat delicious food and drink spicy food every day, you don’t have to do anything, and there are dedicated people to serve you, living like an emperor, why not do it.

He didn't meet Zhang Qiling until three months later, when the spring was warm and the flowers were blooming.

For the house arrest during this period, Zhang Qiling first expressed his apology, and then said.

"Mr. will live here for three months."

Hearing this, he asked quickly.

"Mr. Zhang invited the poor Taoist to come. What is the reason? Please explain clearly."

He has nothing to do all day, eats and drinks, and feels very bored. He has long wanted to find something to do.

Zhang Qiling replied.

"What we are going to do is deeper in the mountains, where the ice and snow are too thick in winter to go."

"You can only go there when the sun is at its peak in summer and the ice and snow melt."

He couldn't help feeling puzzled, and asked again and again, but Zhang Qiling didn't say anything clearly, only saying that he was in the extreme north.

So he had to be patient, and kept fat for another three months.

Finally, summer came and the snow and ice melted.

A few days before Zhang Qiling came to look for him, the whole Zhangjiatun started to get busy, and every household was preparing for something.

He asked the villagers, are you celebrating a festival?

It's not a festival for the villagers to return to him, but it's more important than a festival, and it's the most important thing for the Zhang family.

He continued to ask, what is it?

The villagers replied, worshiping the ancestors.

In ancient times, offering sacrifices to the ancestors of heaven and earth was the most important thing.

Although he accepted the answer, there was still a trace of doubt in his heart.

Why did the Zhang family invite an outsider to worship their ancestors?

After more than ten days of intense preparations, Zhang Qiling finally came.

When he saw Zhang Qiling's outfit, he couldn't help being very puzzled.

It was clearly midsummer, but Zhang Qiling was wearing a thick fur jacket and a dog fur hat, which were the clothes for the cold winter months.

"Mr. Zhang, where are you going?"

Zhang Qiling handed him the same outfit.

"Mr. will also go with me, the land of the extreme north."

He took the jacket and couldn't help being taken aback.

"Why is the Zhang family worshiping ancestors in such a place?"

Zhang Qiling nodded.

"Yes, that is the origin of our Zhang family."

He couldn't help but frowned slightly, somewhat disbelieving this statement.

"The Zhang family looks like a Han Chinese. How could the extreme north be the origin of the Han Chinese?"

Zhang Qiling smiled slightly, his eyes were bottomless.

"If you don't go, sir, you can only stay here for the rest of your life."

Chapter 458 The Scary Zhang Family

Even though nine centuries have passed, when Wang Zanghai thinks about the events of that year, there will still be waves in his heart.

If meeting an old Taoist priest was a turning point that changed his life, then meeting Zhang Qiling made him understand the world anew.

At that time, he lived in Zhangjiatun for half a year, and it was not until the next summer that Zhang Qiling appeared again and invited him to go to the extreme north.

Although he had doubts in his heart, but in Zhangjiatun, he couldn't help it.

Besides, there was the temptation of ten thousand taels of gold, so he agreed without thinking too much.

Apart from him and Zhang Qiling, the Zhang family went to worship their ancestors, and there were more than 60 strong and strong men, each of whom was a master of extraordinary skills.

The team marched mightily towards the depths of the snow-capped mountain, and walked northward for seven days before they walked out of the mountain.

What appeared in front of them was a large plain covered with ice and snow.

Even though it was midsummer, the place was still covered in ice and the wind howling.

He didn't know until many years later that this was Siberia.

Zhang Qiling told him that if he came here in winter and stayed outside for an hour, he would be frozen into ice cubes, and only in summer could he cross the Great Plains safely.

They walked on the plain for a day, and in the evening they came to a village. The people in the village were all aliens with blue eyes and red hair.

Zhang Qiling seemed to be very familiar with these people. The villagers entertained the guests with spirits and caviar, and prepared a dozen pairs of sleds for them.

Dog sleds are the best form of transportation in Siberia.

The next day, amidst the joyful shouts of a large group of huskies, the team set off on a sled, with two foreigners acting as guides.

He couldn't understand the language of the aliens, and the Zhang family who accompanied him told him that this great plain was bigger than the Kyushu in the Central Plains, and it would take at least three years to go from east to west!

However, their destination is in the northeast direction, and they don't need to cross the entire plain.

Even so, the journey is thousands of miles away, and it takes day and night to get back before the end of summer, otherwise it will be trapped in the extreme north.

It was not until hundreds of years later that he realized that this statement was not an exaggeration at all. Siberia covers an area of ​​more than 1300 million square kilometers!

Fortunately, on the flat plain, there were no obstacles from mountains and gullies, so the team moved very fast.

After a month, they finally came to the end of the Great Plains.

At the end of the plain is the sea.

But the sea here is different from other places, there are actually icebergs in the sea!

The temperature suddenly dropped, as if he had returned to the twelfth lunar month of winter. Only then did he understand why he had to wear a thick fur coat, because this is the extreme north!

"Shen Yi Jing" records: "There is a layer of ice in the north that is thousands of miles thick and hundreds of feet thick."

Qu Yuan's "Calling the Soul" note: "It is said that the north is always cold, and its ice is so heavy that it is as high as a mountain."

It wasn't until this day that he saw the extreme north with his own eyes that he believed that what the ancient books said was true.

There is a small fishing village by the sea, and there are hundreds of families in the village.

After Zhang Qiling entered the village, all the families came out to greet him, as if they were welcoming their masters.

This made him think that this village was the destination of this trip.

At the reception banquet that night, in order to celebrate the ten thousand taels of gold that he was about to get, he drank a lot of wine and got completely drunk.

Early the next morning, Zhang Qiling dragged him out of bed with a hangover headache.

He thought it was for an ancestor worship ceremony, but Zhang Qiling let him go into the mountain together.

He asked what he was doing in the mountain, Zhang Qiling only said two words.

cut down trees.

There were more than 100 villagers who followed into the mountain, all of them were strong and strong men, and they also carried some strange tools that they had never seen before, and they didn't know what they were used for.

After walking in the mountains for half a day, they finally stopped under a towering tree.

This tree was more than thirty feet high, and a dozen people couldn't hug it. It was the biggest tree he had ever seen.

There was a fence around the big tree. Under Zhang Qiling's command, people took down the fence and got busy with strange tools.

he asked hastily.

"Do you want to cut down this sacred tree?"

Zhang Qiling nodded.

"The fence is there to protect it and allow it to thrive."

"Today is the time for it to fulfill its mission."

He couldn't help but feel a little surprised and asked.

"Why do you want to cut down trees for ancestor worship? What is such a big tree used for?"

In his common sense, such a big tree can only be used by emperors to build palaces.

Zhang Qiling gave an unexpected answer.

"shipbuilding."

When he heard it, he was just taken aback.

"Shipbuilding? Do you want to go to sea!"

Zhang Qiling nodded.

"To the far north, to cross the sea covered with icebergs, we need a very large ship."

"Only such a big tree can be the keel of a ship."

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