"Go out and have a look." The man who looked like a leader instructed a man in his twenties who had stopped eating next to him.

The man immediately put down what he was holding, and found a bundle of rope from the cave, not one, but many heads and tails, and an iron ring on the head and tail of each rope.

I saw that he tied a long rope around his waist, and held the other rope in his hand, walked to the entrance of the cave in a few steps, hung an iron ring of the rope on his body on an extra iron hook on a rock on the ground, and pressed on the iron hook, and a special thing for jamming stuck the extra gap of the iron hook.

After pulling hard twice, everything was fine, the man turned upside down, his back was outward, his head was tilted, and his body 'flew' out, and after only a few strokes, he fell more than ten meters.

The length of the rope on the man's body was also just at the back, and I saw that as soon as he used his hand, he stopped in a falling posture, took out another rope from his arms, and wanted to hang it next to him, where there was also an iron hook, just so that he could hang the iron ring of the rope.

Loosening the original rope in his hand, the man switched to another rope, and with a gentle gesture, grasping the rope with one hand and holding another rope with an iron ring in the other, when the body was parallel to the ground, the other hand reached out and hung the iron ring on a protruding iron bar.

The iron rod was only slightly bent upward, so far from the shape of the hook that it seemed that the iron ring would fall off if he was not careful.

Several times, the man adhered to the rock wall behind the waterfall to the outside of the waterfall, and when the last rope ran out, a recessed pit appeared in front of him.

The man pulled it in with one hand, and jumped down like a monkey flexibly towards the small pits one after another, dozens of times, until his feet hit the ground, he let out a long breath, and then gasped a few times, obviously the action just now made him physically exhausted.

If someone stands down and looks down, he can't detect the recess in the 'road' that he has used his hands and feet to get down, but he thinks that the mountain wall should be like this, and most of the recesses are carved out from below, and when you look up from the bottom, you can only see the flat rock wall.

The man who landed below looked up into the sky, and the sound of the fireworks exploding was louder than in the cave, as the sound of the waterfall falling into the pool below was closer.

Fireworks were still blooming in the sky, not only in the sky of the place that I had just seen from the entrance of the cave, but also in the sky above other places.

The face of the fireworks is very single, just a red sè, the pattern is also single, all one after another circles, if you look at it at night, it is many times stronger than now.

The man who came from the cave behind the waterfall, looking at the fireworks in the sky, had a trace of sadness in his eyes, tilted his head, opened his mouth, took some water droplets blown by the wind from the sky, swallowed twice, took a deep breath, and climbed up again according to the way down.

When you get to the place where there is a rope, you grab the rope with your hand, and just dàng is under the other rope, and the hand that held the rope before pushes outward, and the iron ring hanging on the iron rod is dàng down.

After a few times, he returned to the cave, took off the iron ring, shook his arms and relaxed, and when his breath was even, he said to the person who ordered him to go out: "Sect Master, the sky outside is full of fireworks, the same as the one we transmitted, please decide." ”

A few coughing sounds sounded, and after a while, the sect master called by the man spit out a mouthful of phlegm and said: "Trouble, our people have been arrested, or they have been arrested without sending a signal, the people from the Zhang and Wang families are here, only they are most familiar with all kinds of fireworks, and they will be filled with various metal powders, as well as the arrangement." ”

"Sect Master, are you going to leave early? So as not to be blocked in the hole by them? Another asked worriedly.

The sect master shook his head, gasped for breath twice, his voice was like pulling a bellows, and he said hoarsely, "Leave? If you leave, you will be caught, and the people hiding below don't know where we are hiding, as long as you don't go out, how can others think that there is a cave behind the waterfall?

Open out from the hole, occasionally you can see a vague scene outside, that is, there is light outside, from the outside to the waterfall, you can't see anything, while they haven't found a place yet, they immediately go to steam the rice, steam the rice out, put it in the ventilated few small openings, let the wind dry.

From today onwards, the food will be halved, and no one will be allowed to go out, and we will spend two years with them, and I don't believe that they will always send people to keep an eye on it, and it is uncomfortable to stay in the hole, but it is better than death, and only when you are alive will you have a future. ”

After the words of this sect master, the other six people calmed down as if they had the backbone, finished the meal as quickly as possible, and began to cook the rice, and the rice with the outer skin removed could not be stored for too long in the current environment, so it could only be cooked, and then it was taken to a ventilated place behind the cave to blow, and it was dried so that it would not be bad.

When you eat it, you can soak it in water, the taste is not good, but it can make people live, live, and have hope.

When he was busy, the man who went down earlier said to this sect master: "Sect Master Ning estimates that there should be some action in Hangzhou, and there is also Sect Master Qi in Duchang, as long as he puts things into the water, that is, the fish will die, and the worst will be sick, see how they treat it." ”

When the sect master heard the man's words, there was no joy in his eyes, and said: "Don't expect it, as expected, they have been arrested, since the people of the Zhang and Wang families can find Lushan, it must be that all the people outside have been found by them, looking at the momentum, the team they sent out is definitely not small."

Don't be afraid, don't belittle the enemy, guarding the cave, not only to keep your life, but also to keep an understanding of Datang for the rest of us, once you die, all the information we have collected in the past few years is gone, a lot, all in mind. ”

"Sect Master, Sect Master Qi is cautious, how can he be caught? It's better to take advantage of the fact that they didn't come over, go out first, and bring the information to the clansmen, and my skills can still be used in the mountains. ”

The man who climbed down earlier was suspicious and resolute.

"Huh." The sect master sneered twice and coughed twice: "You have great skills in the mountains? Will the seedling team of Zhang Wang's family be worse than you? Once you get out, you will be caught, can you be sure that you will not tell us about the cave where we are hiding? Staying here honestly, for the hope of the clansmen, what is the point of enduring a year and a half. ”

His words fell, and the six people in the cave fell silent, obviously not wanting to stay in the cave for too long, the cave was full of tide and yīn, and there was the sound of a waterfall ringing in their ears incessantly.

I still didn't believe that Sect Master Qi would be arrested, but I didn't dare to object, because what the person in front of me said never missed.

"It's a pity that there are so many small caves from the cave that don't know where to go, and the holes are too small for people to pass through, otherwise, we can find a way to get to the place closest to the outside and listen to the movement, why don't we have nothing to do, dig inside, maybe we can find a new way out."

"Dig if you want, don't make too much noise, lest someone find the hole outside, and wonder the same, be careful, be careful."

This sect master didn't continue to obstruct it, and it was good to find something for others to do.

"Brother, are you going to fish for shrimp in the middle of the night today?" Compared with the nervous mood of the cave people, Xiaobei and the others were much more relaxed.

After eating a dinner made of real rabbit meat, Becky lay in the tent despite the fatigue of the day, still thinking about what to play in the middle of the night.

They saw a waterhole on the side of the road, a small river flowing through it to be precise, and due to the topography, it gathered into a blister, which was nothing more than living water.

When Zhang Xiaobao cooks at night, Xiaobei fishes out three transparent shrimps, each shrimp is two centimeters long, according to Xiaobei's understanding, when it is at the water's edge, the water is shallow, so the shrimp are small, so the water depth in the middle of the waterhole can grow.

Catching shrimp is more difficult than catching fish, Xiaobei estimates that according to the water of his nine people, jump down to catch a night, and each person can catch three shrimp on average, which is a very remarkable achievement.

So she dispelled the idea of catching it with her hands, and wanted her brother to help with fishing, or use a net to catch it, but the net that her brother carried with him was not used to catch shrimp, and she could fish and catch birds.

But if you change it to fish, you don't need your brother to take action, Xiaobei can catch enough fish for everyone to eat in a very short time, and there is no challenge xìng, so don't want fish.

Zhang Xiaobao was worried, her sister said that she wanted to fish for shrimp, and she should fish for her sister, but how could there be shrimp that could be caught in that small pool? The hook is put down, thicker than the shrimp, unless the shrimp is really blind, and the python has learned the skills, the mouth is open, and he dares to swallow anything in the stomach, otherwise he will never bite the hook.

"Well, I'll go down and see if there are any conchs, if there are, tie them up, and allow you to drink some wine at night, and I'll make you spicy fried snails, don't you have chili peppers in your bag?" Let your sister tell you a story, and I'll come back with a conch after listening to the story. ”

Zhang Xiaobao really didn't have the ability to catch shrimp and change a dish for his sister.

Xiaobei is quite sensible, she didn't make trouble like other children, thought about it, and said, "Heluo? Okay, I don't listen to stories, I also go fishing, fishing for river snails is to touch the bottom, my swimming skills are good, the weather is hot, the water is not too cold. ”

"Okay, let's go together." Zhang Xiaobao agreed very happily and took his younger brothers and sisters to the waterhole.

It was not completely dark, but the sunset was no longer visible because of the mountains, and the sky was still bright, accompanied by the thin mist that had just risen, like a dream.

The nine children changed their swimming shapes, they were deliberately brought, Lushan, there is a lot of water, especially where there is a waterfall, Xiaobei also wants to fight with the waterfall, as for seeing the waterfall, my brother will not let it, it depends on the size of the waterfall, and how the water flows.

When he was waiting to go down, Xiaobei didn't let his brother follow, saying that he didn't need to slaughter chickens without a cattle slaughtering knife, and nine of them were enough.

Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan stood guard next to the waterhole, looking for some hay and branches that could be lit, and planned to light them all the time at night.

"Look at what you're used to, I guess you can pick the stars too." Wang Juan looked at his younger brothers and sisters playing in the waterhole and said to Zhang Xiaobao.

Zhang Xiaobao smiled on his face: "The stars are not good, they are too big, bigger than the sun, they can't be picked, if you want monkeys, I can catch them, I have the ability to make them happy, why do you have to control it."

It's not that they don't know about the people's suffering, so let them endure more hardships so that they can treat ordinary people as human beings in the future, and since they know very well that there are still people who are having a hard time, I will not refuse their request. ”

"I don't admit it, I don't mean that they don't care about the feelings and lives of ordinary people when they grow up, but that you promise them everything, they will keep asking for things, I used to see my colleague, every time I see his children, he asks for all kinds of cars and other toys.

When he arrived at his house, the whole room was almost full, but the child still cared about him, which is called insatiable, called inch by inch, and cannot develop bad problems. ”

Wang Juan talked about what she had seen and told Zhang Xiaobao as an experience.

After hearing this, Zhang Xiaobao disagreed, and asked: "Does your colleague always play with his children?" The child wants something, he has money, he buys it directly, throws it to the child after buying, usually hands the child over to the nanny and the school, and if it is small, he gives it to the kindergarten? ”

"How do you know?" Wang Juan was stunned.

"How could I not know? I specialize in this kind of thing, the child actually doesn't want a car, he wants a car to show off with his friends, so that he can have a few more people around him to play, so he always keeps asking adults to buy it, so as to ensure that he exchanges material and spiritual conditions with others.

In fact, children's requirements are very low, you buy them a few toys, buy a little snack every day, they are enough, they mainly want to play with adults, because they trust their relatives the most, and they are also the most attached.

If you don't believe it, you can find a rich family now, and see whose children often can't be with adults, and you order that adult, when his child asks for something, let him ask his child, two choices, one is to buy something, and the other is to go out to play with the adult for half a day, and see how many children choose to play with adults? ”

Zhang Xiaobao said to Wang Juan that with their identity, no matter what they ordered to take a family, the people of that family did not dare to have the slightest objection.

"Crooked, I don't believe it, how can I have time to find someone else to test? You don't have children yourself, and you're embarrassed to say you understand? Wang Juan retorted.

"Whether I have children or not, it's not my business alone, I'm not a double xìng body, the children of the world are all my children, whoever doesn't want it to me, I'll leave it all.

Okay, now I'll give you an experiment where you can see the results right away, you tell Xiaobei and them, let them play by themselves, let's go to rest, and when they've had enough, go to rest, and make spicy fried snails tomorrow morning, and see if they can be as happy as they are now. ”

Zhang Xiaobao proposed a solution.

Wang Juan thought about it, and was really tempted, looking at the younger brothers and sisters who swam around in the waterhole and threw the river snail over from time to time, seeing that they were having a good time, he shouted to them: "Xiaobei, Xiaoyuan, you play by yourself first, my brother and I are going to rest, wait for tomorrow morning to make food again, let's play." ”

As soon as the words ended, all nine children who had been playing in the water stopped moving, stepped on the water, and looked to the shore.

"Sleep? Oh, then I'll go to sleep too, and I'll fish again tomorrow morning. Xiaobei's voice came, looking very regretful.

The other children didn't make a sound, but they swam towards the shore.

"See? They don't actually want to play in the water themselves, they want us to accompany them, even if it's to watch them play, you shout, you can solve it. ”

Zhang Xiaobao gloated and said to Wang Juan.

Wang Juan glared at Zhang Xiaobao and said, "It's your idea, you solve it, I don't care, see what you do, you can't go back on your word, right?" ”

"Me? Meaningless, watching. Zhang Xiaobao said and said to his younger brothers and sisters who swam to the shore: "Your sister is afraid that you will be frozen, the water is cold, are you cold?" If it's not cold, keep grabbing, in fact, we'll wait to eat. ”

The child shouted almost at the same time, cheered, and turned his head back to the place where he had been to continue fishing for snails.

"You lie too, kids." Wang Juan admired it in his heart, but belittled Zhang Xiaobao on his lips.

"I want to be honest with them, and they hear it, what do you think they're going to think? Wait, I'll have to give them mosquito repellent medicine later, but don't bite a bag. ”

As Zhang Xiaobao spoke, he looked at his younger brothers and sisters who continued to play happily, and the corners of his mouth smiled with satisfaction.

When the two of them were playing with their younger siblings, four figures appeared on the way over, and when they saw the tent erected here, they immediately sped up and ran over.

"Little boy, little lady, the people surnamed Qi have relented and found what they want to get in the lake and river." One of the four said to Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan.

Zhang Xiaobao did not immediately speak to the visitor, but shouted into the water: "There are four more people, catch more, invite them to eat together, come up and rest when you are tired." ”

After speaking, there was a positive reply from the other side, and Zhang Xiaobao asked the visitor, "What is it?" ”

"Back to the little boy, it is some leftover things that refine metals such as copper, silver, gold, and iron and aluminum, some of which are ***, as well as those of several small countries in the southwest, and they have been exchanging good things with us at very low prices.

As a result, the waste materials they refined did not get into the water and the sea, but all of them were accumulated, then dried, packed in barrels, and secretly transported to Datang, starting from the previous year.

They are going to dump those things in the lake and the river, and we have found more than 10,000 barrels, and the people from the Communist Party are rushing over, and after looking at them, they can estimate how harmful it will be if they are poured into the water. ”

Someone came back and forth.

Listening to his words, Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan's eyes were straight, and they looked at each other, Zhang Xiaobao nodded, and said, "Good strategy, more than 10,000 barrels of dried and refined metal things?" Volatilize some of the poisonous, and prepare the rest for us to use? It's a shame on how they came up with it, okay, good skills, don't pour things down, keep them for me, I'll let them call it a fight and a star shift. ”！。