Chen Xu and Niu Dashi walked around the town again, bought some salt, grain and a few pieces of thin linen, thought about it for a while and bought dozens of catties of fine linen for Niu Dashi to put on his back, and began to embark on the return journey after meeting with Uncle Ma.

It was almost three o'clock in the afternoon, and the sky was even more gloomy, and there were already sparse raindrops mixed in the whirring wind.

"Let's go, I hope to get home before the rain rains!" Uncle Ma urged all the way, and several people walked quickly on the rugged mountain path.

But only halfway to the road, accompanied by lightning and a few thunders, suddenly the wind was fierce, and the raindrops the size of beans crackled down, and in an instant the world was shrouded in the pouring rain.

"Quick, there's a cave ahead to shelter from the rain!" Several villagers were very familiar with this road, and they pulled each other to run forward against the torrential rain, and when they turned a corner, they saw a cliff, and there was a stone crack that was wide at the bottom and narrow at the top, and several people rushed straight into the stone crevice.

In just two or three minutes, everyone was drenched like chickens in soup, their hair and clothes were all soaked, and they were still flowing down.

"It is estimated that Da Zhuang will also be drenched in the rain!" A villager said while undressing as he watched the torrential rain outside the cave like a bucket pouring down.

"I hope the river doesn't rise, or the wheat will be all gone!" Another villager said worriedly.

Uncle Chen Ma stood at the entrance of the cave and looked at it a few times and said: "It shouldn't be, the sky is very bright in the north, and the scope of the rain is mainly concentrated in the direction of the county seat. ”

Although there are a lot of stones in this cave, the ground is rugged, but the inside is high and the outside is low, so the ground is very dry, and there are a lot of melon and fruit peels and other things in it.

There is also a lot of dry firewood in the cave, which is put in it by the villagers of Xiaohe Village and several other nearby villages when passing by, just to prepare for this kind of rainy and snowy weather, so the ancient people's sense of distress is very strong.

A villager found some dried pine needles and moss in a crack in the stone, took out the flint and lit it, and soon a fire was burning.

Niu Dashi took off the clothes on his body three times and divided them by two, wrung them out and spread them on the stones to roast them, and several other villagers including Uncle Ma did the same, Chen Xu thought for a while, and also took off his clothes, and then several men sat naked by the fire and chatted.

"Xiao Xu, what are you going to do when you buy so many things?" Uncle Ma looked at the metal tools in Chen Xu's back basket, and took them out the same as he said.

Chen Xu explained with a smile: "The doors and windows of the house have not been repaired, and there is no bed to sleep in, so I am going to get these things done before harvesting the wheat...... Oops! ”

Speaking of this, Chen Xu's face suddenly changed and he stood up.

"Brother Xu, what's wrong with you?" Niu Dashi was startled and hurriedly asked.

"With such a heavy rain, will my house fall? I'm worried that something will happen to my mother and apricot? Chen Xu thought of his crumbling thatched house, and said with a pale face.

"Don't think nonsense, when the rain stops, we'll hurry home, your mother and Xing'er will be fine!" Uncle Ma knew that Chen Xu's house was indeed about to collapse, but he could only be relieved at this time.

In Chen Xu's anxious waiting, time passed slowly minute by minute.

"咴~~"

Suddenly, a neighing sound came from the thunderous rainstorm, although it was not particularly clear, but Chen Xu and Uncle Ma still heard it, so they all stood up with surprised faces.

"It seems to be a war horse! Put out the fire and hide! Uncle Ma listened attentively, his face changed greatly, he reached out and put a few wet clothes on the fire, and then covered a rattan basket with his hand, and a group of people also quickly found a stone to hide.

"Bang Bang Bang ~ " The dense sound of horses' hooves became clearer in the rainstorm, and it seemed that there was not only one horse, but also the roar of people one after another.

Soon a black horse rushed to the edge of the cliff, and immediately a man in black was half-crouched on the horse's back, his body staggering as if he was about to fall at any moment.

"Poof~"

A sharp arrow pierced through the rain and shot into the black horse's ass.

The front hooves of the black horse raised a miserable neigh, and the man in black who was lying on the horse's back fell directly off the cliff with a bundle of grass, but the black horse raised its hooves and hurried away along the narrow mountain road, turning a corner and disappearing in an instant.

Less than half a minute after that, three more fast horses galloped past the cave, all carrying bows and arrows and weapons, one of whom held a machine in his hand.

"Quick, we must intercept and kill before Qinghe Town!"

A terrifying roar was faintly heard in the midst of the storm, and then the sound of horses' hooves quickly disappeared into the rainstorm.

At this time, the storm outside the cave was thundering, and it was estimated that they couldn't see it clearly when they were ten meters apart, so the people on the three horses behind definitely didn't see that the man in black had fallen off the cliff, and still chased the black horse, but Chen Xu and others hiding in the cave could see it clearly, and they didn't dare to come out until they couldn't hear any sound except for the thunder and the rainstorm, and then they stood up with pale faces one by one.

"Uncle, do you know who these are?" Chen Xu asked nervously.

It had been more than half a month since he had traveled to the Qin Dynasty, and it was the first time he had seen such a primitive hunt, so he was particularly nervous.

"Don't ask too much now, get dressed and leave!" Uncle Ma gave a very solemn low command, and a group of people immediately hurriedly put on their clothes and carried the basket, and Uncle Ma kicked the burning charcoal fire into the torrential rain at the entrance of the cave to extinguish it, and a group of people rushed into the torrential rain.

The pouring rain instantly poured a group of people again, but at this time, no one dared to go back to hide from the rain, once the three people caught up with the dark horse and did not find the man in black, they would definitely come back to search again, Chen Xu and the others would definitely be more auspicious.

Curious, Chen Xu rushed to the edge of the cliff and took a look down.

"Brother Xu, let's go~" Niu Dashi grabbed his arm.

"Wait, that guy didn't fall!" Chen Xu only glanced at it, and saw that the man in black who fell off the cliff on the back of the horse did not actually fall, but was wrapped in a few vines and thorns, and was still swaying in the torrential rain, but it seemed that he would fall off the cliff dozens of meters deep at any time.

"Don't worry about it, when those three people come back, our lives will be in danger!" Niu Dashi said in horror.

"No, pull him up!" Chen Xu stubbornly dropped the rattan basket and yelled to the edge of the cliff and began to pull the vines.

Uncle Ma and two other villagers also rushed over.

"Quick, don't be stunned, let's do it together!" Uncle Ma also put down the basket on his back, grabbed a vine and began to pull it up.