Chapter 143: Wintering in a Cave in the Ground
In the following days, for Liu Shuangli, it seems that there has been a change, and there seems to be little change. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
In fact, seeing that the old man was already awake, he no longer forcibly trapped her in the cave. Liu Shuangli didn't want to open the labyrinthine hole.
She didn't know which of the cobweb-like underground tunnels was the way out. But come to think of it, since Mengren and Brother Li can come and go freely, even if Brother Li and they refuse to tell the truth about the way out, it is not difficult for her to find it with her heart.
But as soon as this thought arose in her heart, she saw the lonely figure of the old man in a blink of an eye, and after hearing him call him a sister, Liu Shuangli really couldn't say goodbye and leave at this juncture.
In that case, let us stay in this cave for the time being. What to do if you go down, that's also a matter of going down. Don't bother now.
Seeing that Liu Shuangli decided not to leave, the boy Qin Siyang no longer said that he was leaving.
It's not that the boy can bear to stay in this cold hole.
Today's boy, although he is in love with Liu Shuangli as before, but with the development of things, the two Han Mansion people are inseparable. His ambivalence gradually became more than Liu Shuangli.
However, as Liu Shuangli pointed out, Han Qihai made a decision, and he would not let him go Qin Siyang.
He couldn't escape it.
In fact, what Han Qihai said is also good, there are some things that he is destined to no longer be able to escape.
And he didn't really want to escape, he just thought that if he could avoid it for a while, it would be a while.
Moreover, there were some things that had penetrated deep into his heart, and he desperately wanted to take them back.
But that's not something he can think about.
In the depths of the boy's heart, he still hasn't been able to understand what he wants most!
Therefore, his heart has always been very contradictory and confused.
Therefore, in addition to going to another hole to fetch water every day, in fact, in the time, most of the time is just stupidly looking at Liu Shuangli, stupidly following Liu Shuangli, stupidly in a daze, stupidly asking questions that are not answered, stupidly swaying in the hole, stupidly not knowing what to do.
Therefore, Liu Shuangli now feels that the days seem to have not changed much compared with before. It's just that the expression is serious, and the serious person has changed from a boy to an old man, and the stupid person has changed from an old man to a boy.
The only difference is that if Liu Shuangli wants to learn the old man's martial arts, he doesn't have to deliberately tease the old man and ask the boy to secretly memorize it, but he starts to ask the old man for advice openly.
Count the days, it should be the golden autumn and October, and the days should be as cold as a day.
It's just that living in a cave deep underground, and it doesn't feel like much has changed.
On the fifth day when the old man was sober, Xu Zhensheng and Li Chaoxiong kept their promise to send the daily necessities of the three of them.
A bucket of fragrant oil, a bag of fine rice, a bag of white flour, a bag of refined salt, and two baskets of coarse charcoal. A few bags of jerky, a few jars of pickled vegetables, all kinds of dried grains, pastries and fruits. There are also brand-new pots, dishes, chopsticks, spoons, cups and saucers, two large boxes of candles and oil lamps, two brocade bedding pads, three large boxes of new clothes for three people to change and so on. After the two children saw it, they were so shocked that they couldn't close their mouths for a long time.
Are these two people going to move their whole family here?
But they seem to have said that they would not live in the cave with them.
But for the sake of the three of them, this is ......
Liu Shuangli, who knew the reason, couldn't help but peek at Qin Siyang's reaction. I saw that after the boy took a cursory look at the things sent, he immediately darkened his face, and did not help to carry and tidy up, turned around and walked away.
When the old man Guan Quanzhong saw these too many and too heavy things, after his initial surprise, he looked at the two children, and his eyes had a little more meaning.
"The two sisters, they really deserve to be the distinguished guests of the Han Hou Mansion!" the old man sighed with a smile and didn't say anything more.
Fortunately, although Xu Zhensheng and the others sent a lot of things, they didn't think of what screens, incense burners, ornaments, calligraphy and paintings and other playthings to give, otherwise, this hole in the ground could really be turned into a side courtyard room of a high-class mansion by them.
As for Liu Shuangli's parcel left in the bandit's house and the bat jade pendant entrusted by the old man of Jinqiqing, Li Chaoxiong returned it to Liu Shuangli alone with two boxes of cakes two days before this batch of overly extravagant items was delivered. Needless to say.
In the following days, even at the bottom of the underground cave, I could deeply feel the cold weather.
The fire in the cave was lit for the first twelve hours of the day. Xu Zhensheng and Li Chaoxiong gave robes, shoes and socks, and a few bedding. At the same time, a large basket of charcoal was delivered every few days, and the dried cakes and fruits were never broken. In this remote and sparsely populated northern borderland, which has been plundered by the Mongols, I don't know where they got so many things.
The days passed really too fast, and before the three of them in the cave could perceive it, the days had passed. Day after day, when they saw the crystal snowflakes hanging on Xu Zhensheng and the two when they came again, the three people in the cave knew that it was the season of heavy snow outside the cave.
Liu Shuangli was very strange, why Xu Zhensheng and the others sent everything, but they didn't remember to send them a calendar. There was no calendar to see, and the three of them couldn't keep track of the days at all.
In the end, in order to make it easier to remember the day, Liu Shuangli began to mark the day on the rock wall with a sword.
At the same time, in this deep winter season, the bored old man began to listen to Xu Zhensheng's suggestion, and taught the two children martial arts and the art of war in a step-by-step plan.
Many of the sticks used for burning fires were cut into human shapes, car shapes, and various fortresses by the old men to demonstrate the art of military formation to the two children.
In this way, in the cold days, the two and the third of the old, two and three people who temporarily took refuge in this cave slowly spent a winter while you taught me to learn.
Even on the big day of welcoming the new year, the three of them spent it like this.
In the world outside the cave, when the winter snow melted away and everything was reborn, the three people in the cave still spent this way, unbeknownst to them.
It wasn't until that day that Liu Shuangli counted the lines she drew on the rock wall, and there were nearly a hundred, that she realized that the days passed too quickly, and she remembered that Xu Zhensheng and Li Chaoxiong hadn't sent anything for ten days.
In fact, whether they can send things or not now is not a big problem, because of the repeated overdelivery, the accumulated items in the cave are enough for three people to eat for more than a year.
It's just that I haven't seen the two of them for ten days, Liu Shuangli is really curious, don't the two of them care about Qin Siyang's situation?
After another three days, Xu Zhensheng and the two were still nowhere to be seen. Even if there is no more fire in the cave, I don't feel how cold it is. Liu Shuangli estimated that it should be the warm spring season in February.
"It's warm, big brother, Siyang, let's go out of the cave to have a look, right?" After breakfast that day, Liu Shuangli finally made a suggestion to the old and the young.
The old man listened, but was silent and did not say anything.
The boy looked forward to it, he had long wanted to leave this boring place.
"Does Big Brother know the way out of the cave?" asked Liu Shuangli again.
The old man shook his head and replied, "I don't even know where this hole is." β
Liu Shuangli was stunned, and then remembered that the old man had told her a long time ago, and the old man didn't remember how he came to this labyrinthine cave. It is simply futile to recall the past that has not existed for a long time.
Even so, without the support of Xu Zhensheng and Li Chaoxiong, if they want to get out of the hole, they can only explore it themselves.
Liu Shuangli was thinking to himself, whether to try to walk and explore the road, but heard the old man say again: "I am old, and I have a comfortable life in this cave, but I don't want to go out again." The two sisters are still young, and they have spent a winter in this cave with me, a lonely old man, and the love is enough, but it is right to go out for a walk. β
Liu Shuangli was taken aback: "Big brother doesn't go out?"
Guan Duzhong smiled sadly: "I'm a bad old man, what are you going out to do." β
Liu Shuangli said: "No matter what you do, it's better than being in this cave where you can't see the light of day." β
The old man shook his head but smiled: "For me, an old man, the cave that can't see the light of day is the best. β
"Big brotherβ"
"Sister, you don't need to say any more," the old man shook his head and interrupted Liu Shuangli's words, "Although I don't know where the exit of this cave is, I do know that the road that has been walked by people all the year round is much more realistic when turned to other places, not to mention that there are a lot of dirt brought in from outside the cave that does not belong to the ground. As long as the girl looks for these two clues, she will be able to find her way out quickly. β
Liu Shuangli was stunned again, looked at the old man with a pair of beautiful eyes, and said again after a while: "Big brother really doesn't go out." β
The old man shook his head.
Liu Shuangli lowered his head, although he didn't know why the old man made this plan, but he knew that she couldn't change the old man's determination, he sighed secretly, raised his head and smiled at the old man, and didn't mention that he was leaving, but asked some questions about martial arts on behalf of Qin Siyang.
The old man smiled, didn't ask any more, and explained the martial arts questions in detail.
And so it went on for another two days.
In the afternoon of this day, Xu Zhensheng and Li Chaoxiong, who had not appeared for half a month, finally reappeared.
As soon as Liu Shuangli saw the two of them, he rushed to the front and said with a smile: "Brother Xu, Brother Li, you are finally here, it's been half a month, I thought you forgot about us." Hey, what did you bring with you today?"
Xu Zhensheng laughed, looked at Liu Shuangli and said, "Well, the baby is still here obediently, very good." There is no delicious food today, but there is something fun. β
"What do you mean by being obedient, Brother Xu is saying this strangely. Liu Shuangli pouted and smiled, "What's so funny, you know, Brother Guan doesn't like to play now, Siyang is small but it's not fun, it seems that you can only give me this thing for you." β
"Hey, it seems that I can only send Miss Liu alone," Xu Zhensheng replied with a sudden realization, raised his eyes and saw that Qin Siyang was looking at him just over, hurriedly leaned over and said hello, and then said goodbye to Guan Quan, and then nodded to Li Chaoxiong.
Li Chaoxiong lowered his head and took two steps forward, took out a small green cloth bag from his arms, and then gently opened it.
Liu Shuangli stepped forward curiously to look, and immediately wondered when he saw it. (To be continued.) )