Chapter 29 Settle down
This stone cave does not look big at first, and the entrance of the cave is also very miniatial, but when the brother and sister walked in and burned the dried grass and wooden sticks to smoke the moisture, they found that there might be another cave inside.
"Brother, there is the sound of water."
Ah Hua was more careful, a large part of the billowing smoke turned around and poured into a gap in the cave, and listened carefully, and there was the sound of "ticking and ticking".
Feng Dazhuang covered his mouth and nose with one hand, and picked up the axe with the other, widening the gap even more. The stones here are really not strong, and when an axe goes down, a pile of rubble falls in a flutter.
The gravel is quite beautiful, lumpy and leaf-shaped, white and egg blue, and the sound of landing is soft and glutinous.
Feng Dazhuang felt strange, and pulled it with his hand, the texture was very soft and had a slippery feel, and he spread out his palm, leaving white traces.
"Ah Hua, this stone piece can be carried back to draw lines for my father's tailoring."
Ah Hua also came up to look at it, put it under her nose and smelled it, there was no smell, her fingers were crushed, and her brows were slightly wrinkled.
This feeling, familiar?
When I was a child, the summer was scorching, and Ah Hua, who had been running crazy all day, was always pressed into the red plastic bathtub by her mother every night, cleaned it cleanly, and then poured a layer of white and fine talcum powder on her body, and hung it comfortably on the straw mat......
That's what it's like to be a powder, it's what it's like to be a mother.
In an instant, Ah Hua had an inexplicable sense of belonging to this cave, and she chose to stay here to make a home for herself and the child in her womb.
If you want to live in a cave for a long time, you need to study what the inside of the cave is like.
"Ah Hua, you wait outside, brother Tan explores the way." Feng Dazhuang wrapped a straw handle and lit it, drilled through the entrance that had just expanded, and then, as if slipping under his feet, "Ouch hey-" shouted.
"What's wrong?" Ah Hua's tense sweat pores exploded.
"No-it's fine, it's a pit down there-".
Feng Dazhuang straightened up and shone the straw handle in all directions.
The terrain inside is much lower than the outside, not only sliding down to follow the pit, but there is also a puddle of water in the center of the pit, the source of which is the crack in the stone overhead, drop by drop, uninterrupted, and the water that gathers up seeps into the more low-lying ground.
Feng Dazhuang followed the small stream of water under his feet, and the trouser legs of his shoes were quickly wet, and there was no dry place on his head.
But the space ahead is getting more and more cramped, and the smoke that was burning outside just now has all dissipated here, and Feng Dazhuang can only see the small stream of water disappearing along a crack, and there are only a few old tree roots at the end of the stone wall.
It's so good, don't worry about any wild things getting in, Feng Dazhuang is very determined, and he groped for it again and reported to his sister.
Boil some water in the hole today and taste it less, if there is no problem, it will be convenient later.
Ah Hua was also very excited, tied a broom with branches and leaves, swept the inside of the cave, and improvised the boundaries of the bedroom and dining room kitchen.
Feng Dazhuang smirked "hehe", picked up the axe and cut down the tree, and when he saw the right stone, he spared no effort to push it back.
Men, in fact, are born to be good craftsmen.
The stone is built into a high threshold, the trunk is split and bundled into a door panel, and the inner and outer double layers of insurance are divided, with the intelligence of the beast, it is impossible to break it lightly and silently.
The rice and noodles bought in Nanshan Village were also placed, and the water boiled in the big iron pot was rushed by Feng Dazhuang to drink, and he didn't feel uncomfortable after tossing for a long time, so he boiled a pot of wild vegetable gnocchi soup, and the brother and sister dealt with it to fill their stomachs.
After living for several days, the cave really had a home.
Fung's shoddy wooden plank bed, always unusually tall with four legs, but hidden behind a triangular stone growing from the ground, is very unique.
Ah Hua likes this stone very much, the natural bed curtain, not only does not interfere with Feng Dazhuang in the other corner of the stone cave, but also can put clothes on it when sleeping.
The stove is located close to the water source in the cave, so that the cooking smoke has a place to disperse, and it is convenient to draw water, and the temperature in the cave is low, and the food can be kept fresher.
"Ah Hua, let's not worry about wild things scratching the door tonight."
Feng Dazhuang proudly disguised the last trap and laughed loudly.
In front of the cave, a small flat courtyard has been expanded, with an area of only about 20 square meters, and an old tree is still guarded on the side of the cave entrance, with shrubs two meters high, and a simple toilet is densely wrapped around.
The outermost part is a wooden fence completed by the two brothers and sisters, and the materials are very luxurious, all of which are arm-thick tree trunks cut down nearby, deeply wedged into the stone crevices and soil, and the height can reach Ah Hua's shoulders.
"Our fence is so dense that the hares are big enough to squeeze in. If a pheasant with wings comes to visit, make more bacon. ”
Ah Hua is happy, Feng Dazhuang is even happier.
"There are also these traps, I can't say that I can open it today, and when I open my eyes tomorrow, I will pick up two wild things with fat heads and big ears to warm the pot."
If you move to a new home, can you invite relatives and friends to eat some good warm pot stove? In the past two days, the brother and sister have been walking non-stop, but they have not been less troubled by the hares and pheasants halfway up the mountainside, and the inventory in the cave is pickled, and then hung on the stove to smoke and burn, and there is no worry about not having food in winter.