Chapter 5: Old Black ...... Grandfather?
The cave is not big, but it is not small, but it is a little damp in the depths, and because it is summer, there is moss on the stone walls. Therefore, Li Yuanzhi just found some hay not far from the entrance of the cave and spread it on the ground, even if it was a temporary bed. Another slightly flat stone was cleaned up, and it was considered a temporary dining table. As for the rest, I don't have any plans, let's take it one step at a time.
It's just that when it comes to meals, eating becomes a problem again. There is still a small bag of grain, but there are no pots and pans to make it difficult. Walking out of the cave, Li Yuanzhi looked at the verdant and quiet mountain and the smoke curling under the mountain, but this moving and quiet beauty seemed to be the boundary between yin and yang, and he was standing in the middle, incompatible with this world.
Cut some bamboo, fortunately there is the physical fitness of an adult, but the height is still not a small problem, so I can only transport it back to the cave little by little, make a little bamboo tube rice, make a meal, Li Yuanzhi started tonight's evening class again.
After finishing the evening class, it was already sunset and moonlight. Li Yuanzhi stood on the big stone at the entrance of the cave and looked at the small village. I still have to go back, just a small firewood knife with me for self-defense is obviously not enough to live, and the belongings in the house under the mountain are all purchased by my grandfather, and I have no reason to retreat.
At night, Li Yuanzhi secretly returned to the small village and returned to the small courtyard where he had lived since he could remember, but this small courtyard had long been unrecognizable. The wall also collapsed, and there was a pit in the east and a large hole in the west, and even the house was not spared.
Li Yuanzhi threw out three notched bowls from the courtyard, thinking that the others had been divided. After all, the small bowls that Grandpa brought back from town were very exquisite. Maybe these three were also abandoned because they were broken. There was also a clay pot in the others, which did not look very good, and was also left behind.
With all the harvest, Li Yuanzhi quietly walked out of the village again, and when he passed by the boulder at the entrance of the village, Li Yuanzhi hesitated for a while, put down the package, and climbed the stone familiarly, as if looking at the stone, he could see the hope of his grandfather's return. Grandpa was also in awe of the villagers when he lifted this stone, and when I can lift this stone, I will go out to find grandpa! Li Yuanzhi secretly swore in his heart. I'm still young, but I have a lot of strength, and soon I'll be able to lift, soon, soon.
Back in the cave, the old sunspot hasn't come back yet, and after going out of the village together, they found the cave, and the old sunspot disappeared, Li Yuanzhi thought he was going to hunt and forage, and he didn't care, but he didn't expect it to be so late and didn't come back. Looking at the swarthy cave, like a monster's open bloody mouth, Li Yuanzhi was very scared.
"Click. "It was the sound of a dry branch breaking. Li Yuanzhi turned around, only to see a pair of green eyes flashing from the bend of the path that he walked out of.
Li Yuanzhi gently grabbed the chai knife behind his back, and the sweat in his palms made him a little unsteady in grasping the handle. He knew that there were beasts on the mountain, but he didn't find them during the day, and the cave he found at the foot of the mountain was not very far from the village, which greatly reduced the probability of encountering the beast. But now it still appears, maybe the beast found him during the day, and only came at night?
Li Yuanzhi stared at the beast that looked like a wolf slowly approaching, Li Yuanzhi didn't dare to move, the hand holding the handle of the knife kept trembling because of too much force, constantly bumping his back, but Li Yuanzhi didn't dare to relax in the slightest.
Li Yuanzhi was also by his side when his grandfather rescued people, and the person bitten by the beast was covered in blood, which was very miserable, and Li Yuanzhi didn't dare to look at it. But now, will I have the same experience? Just leave the village for a day, I can't live? I just swore that I will go to my grandfather in the future!
An adult can't get away with a wild wolf, even if he has the strength of an adult, what's more, those who dare to go up the mountain are experienced hunters!
The beast approached step by step, and by the moonlight, Li Yuanzhi could roughly see that the beast looked like a wild wolf, but there was something like a hump on its back, just like the camel that his grandfather said, but how could a camel be the size of a wild wolf?
Could it be a youkai? Youkai can shrink and grow their size at will. If it was really a camel, maybe it would be able to live, grandpa said that camels are vegetarians! But this is a monster, and the monster in grandpa's mouth is not going to eat people with a big mouth open!
Li Yuanzhi's newly raised hope was slowly shattered. The beast slowly approached, and he was about to attack. It's just that Li Yuanzhi didn't notice that a playful look flashed in the eyes of the beast walking on the opposite side.
Close, five, three, two...... No, this is?
"Old Heizi!" Li Yuanzhi yelled, threw the firewood knife in his hand and pounced.
"Bastard, you bastard, won't you scream?" Li Yuanzhi put his arms around the old black man's neck, slapped the old black man's body with one hand, and kept cursing. A large pile of snot and tears was wiped on the old sunspot's neck.
"You know what? I thought I was going to die, I was eaten by wild beasts, miserable, you bastard, old bastard. Li Yuanzhi cried over and over again, scolded over and over again, and wiped his nose and tears on the old sunspot's neck.
The old black man was stunned, he originally planned to scare him, but now it seems that it was his own mistake. This little clever ghost can't be acting, right?
On closer inspection, it is indeed true. It's my own fault. I forgot that he was also a child under the age of four. Although he behaved very well in the village, he looked like an adult, but in the end he was still a child, and he lost his grandfather who he relied on, and he could only give away everything he had if he wanted to live, but he was still kicked out of the village, and he was scared of him a little too much?
Looking at Li Yuanzhi, who was crying a little breathlessly, Lao Heizi felt distressed. I wanted to tell him my identity tonight, but this kid dared to stain my beautiful black hair? No, even Lao Li can't be forgiven, let alone Xiao Li?
"Squeak?" suddenly a monkey cry came.
Li Yuanzhi immediately stopped crying and listened to the sound. Seeing this, the old sunspot was determined, did he do it on purpose? I have already seen through it!
"Squeak. Another monkey scream, Li Yuanzhi retracted his gaze from the tree, and it was actually a cry from the back of the old black man!
Only then did Li Yuanzhi discover that the old sunspot had a small black-haired monkey on his back, and it was okay to say that it was an orangutan, but it was too small, about the size of a baby's head, and shouldn't all orangutans be as strong as an adult man?
"What is this" Li Yuanzhi finally understood why he looked at the old black man from a distance like a little camel. It turned out that he had a small monkey on his back. I may have been sleeping on my stomach just now, but now I opened my eyes, and a pair of small eyes glowed silver in the moonlight, which was very strange.
Of course, the old black man will not tell him what it is. However, Li Yuanzhi didn't expect the old black man to tell him, and he caught the little monkey in one hand. Of course, the little monkey wanted to resist, but when he saw the old black man staring at him, he gave up again, so he had to let him pinch and knead it with a loveless face. Is this my future master? Thinking that the descendants of my dignified gibbon monkey sold themselves because of a drop of ancestral blood, I really don't have a word. Of course, there are reasons why you can't beat the old sunspot. Not even a single ethnic group can beat it!
What is known in the world is never the most terrifying, the unknown is. The exception is newborn calves. Li Yuanzhi is, whether it is the little monkey who finds that the old sunspot is different from the dogs or the little monkey with silver eyes, he will not go deep and think why.
Because of the existence of the little monkey, Li Yuanzhi forgave the old black man for the big mistake he made to himself, and happily played with his friends of the same age. At this time, Li Yuanzhi looked like a three-year-old child. I couldn't tell that a quarter of an hour ago, this was a child with a hatchet in his hand who wanted to fight for his life with a beast suspected of being a demon beast.
With himself here, that demon beast within a hundred miles dares to appear? The beast doesn't dare! But will the old black man tell Li Yuanzhi? Of course not, otherwise I'm sorry for the hairs he caught!
Li Yuanzhi had a lot of fun tonight, and finally fell asleep peacefully with the little monkey on his pillow.
The next day, because of the company of the little monkey, Li Yuanzhi cut some bamboo with great interest and made some so-called tables, chairs and benches that were twisted and twisted and made people unbearable to look at directly. In this way, the cave gradually became homely. It's just that the old black man will still disappear often, and he will be gone for several days. Fortunately, there was a little monkey with him, otherwise Li Yuanzhi would not dare to enter the dark cave by himself.
More than a year has passed in the blink of an eye. Li Yuanzhi has grown up by a year, and his height has also grown a lot. It's a lot calmer, but it's still a little kid less than five years old. Just a year of hunting allowed him to see the cruelty and cold-bloodedness of nature, and he gradually learned to survive. It is worth mentioning that in autumn, the old sunspot often returns with the corpses of some dead beasts. Li Yuanzhi will peel the skin and dry the meat for the winter. As for why an old dog would bring back the carcass of a beast, Li Yuanzhi didn't seem to think it was strange, as if he didn't know anything.
It's just that another summer is coming, and Li Yuanzhi already feels that the cyan gas in his body is full, and he won't do any more evening classes. Of course, his physical fitness is definitely much stronger and more powerful than that of several adults, but the little monkey is still so big that it hasn't changed at all.
On this day, Li Yuanzhi came back from hunting outside, and he smelled bursts of aroma from the cave, it was the smell of dim sum, and it was the old sunspot who had returned.
"Old sunspot!" Li Yuanzhi shouted, whistled again, and a black shadow fell from the tree next to him, and landed steadily on Li Yuanzhi's shoulder, turning into a little black monkey with a pair of small eyes embarrassed.
"Old sunspot, old sunspot. Li Yuan rushed to the cave in high spirits.
"Old Black........ Grandpa?"