On the flat hill.

Hu Doudou's grandfather ran around and looked for half an hour, but there was still no trace of Hu Doudou.

So he went to the shade cast by a large acacia tree, leaned his back against the tree, and breathed the dry smoke, and rested.

Hu Doudou's uncle also knocked on the doors of almost every house in their village, next to the dan water ditch, but still to no avail.

"Now it's only around the dan ditch......"

Hu Doudou's uncle muttered to himself, and at the same time, when he thought of the dangerous Danshui ditch, a seven-year-old child, who was unfamiliar with life, he couldn't help but feel his bones stand up.

Thinking of this, Hu Doudou's uncle ran in the direction of Danshuigou without stopping.

At this time, Hu Doudou's grandfather, who was enjoying the cool under the big tree, saw it, so he lazily asked:

"Huigang, this baby, did you find it?"

"Nope!" Hu Doudou's uncle panted and said, "I have searched almost all the alleys and alleys in the village......

"Then where are you going to look for it now?" Hu Doudou's grandfather said, and took two puffs.

"There's really no way," Hu Doudou's uncle said in great embarrassment, "so I'll have to go down to the ditch to find it!" ”

"Where do you say you're going?"

Hu Doudou's uncle repeated what he had just said.

"Don't you go in a hurry first," Hu Doudou's grandfather said unhurriedly, "The ditch is so deep, I don't dare to go."

Besides, he's such a big person, I don't believe he doesn't know where the danger is and where it is not?

At the age of seven, I learned to grow my own food and feed myself.

I still remember when I first arrived when I was seven years old, it was full of barren mountains and mountains, and there was not a single family.

I and your tenth master, who was only five years old at that time, barefoot and wearing straw sandals, we used our pouts to reclaim the wasteland little by little...... That's how you live now. ”

"Dad," Hu Doudou's uncle said embarrassedly, "but now and ......"

"And what?" Hu Doudou's grandfather shouted, "Do you want to say that the dolls now are different from our past?" ”

Hu Doudou's uncle was silent.

"What's the difference?" Hu Doudou's grandfather argued, "Aren't they all the same people?" I was seven years old at the time, isn't this baby seven years old now?

At that time, our living conditions were as difficult as they were.

How can it be like now, what do you want, people don't have to worry about food or clothing...... Especially children, they say that this is not delicious and that is not delicious at every turn, and they are picky when they wear clothes.

You don't know, at that time, we had no food or clothing, of course, this is okay, but we had to hide from war and famine all day long, and it was really dark in that era!

…… Okay, I'll not say more.

What's wrong with the depth of the ditch?

I didn't run up and down at that time, not to mention, I didn't know how many wild things were in this ditch at that time, and there were many wolves like sheep in the range, and if I didn't pay attention to it, I would be taken away.

When I was seven years old, when I went to fetch water in the ditch to drink, I was surrounded by a pack of wolves.

So while the wolf stood still, I pulled a rattan out of the grass and roared at the wolves:

'Hey! You dare to take a step forward and try,' and then I slammed the rattan in front of me, and the rattan crackled and exploded in the air......

Eventually, the wolves fled in fright. ”

In this way, Hu Doudou's grandfather talked for a short time in front of Hu Doudou's uncle, all about how capable and brave he was when he was a child.

In fact, Hu Doudou's grandfather told Hu Doudou's uncle more than once about this—how when he was a child, how he single-handedly drove away a pack of wild wolves, how he faced famine, and how he reclaimed a wild land.

Hu Doudou's uncle did not comment on this, but only whispered:

"So, then I'm not looking for it now? Isn't it? ”

Hu Doudou's grandfather frowned, thought for a while, and then said in a deep voice, "Uh, it's not that I don't look for it, uh, that's the case, isn't this kid coming here for the first time, and he is still unfamiliar with life."

So, you are here to guard, if he really goes down into the ditch, he will definitely climb up by himself, there is a road on this ground, and there is such a road, he should know the way. ”

"But," Hu Doudou's uncle still felt flustered, "well, I mean, otherwise, Dad, you stay here, I know that you don't have a good leg, so don't run back and forth anymore."

I'll go back to the Zhuangzi to look for it, maybe he's hiding in some little pimple nest. ”

As soon as Hu Doudou's uncle's voice fell, when he saw that Hu Doudou's grandfather was still thinking about something in a hurry, he hurriedly turned around and ran away with a grasshopper.

……

……

When Hu Doudou's uncle turned back to look for Hu Doudou again, he met Hu Doudou's aunt on the road in the countryside.

It was Hu Doudou's aunt who saw Hu Doudou's uncle first.

"Huigang, what are you running?"

She shouted at Hu Doudou's uncle from afar, with a fuss on her face.

At this time, she was still holding a large piece of meat in her arms, and she was walking with great difficulty.

"I'm looking for my sister's big baby," Hu Doudou's uncle panted, "He came at about three o'clock in the afternoon, and when he saw my sister quietly leaving, he cried and cried, and slipped away alone while people were not paying attention, and he didn't know where he went?" ”

Hu Doudou hurriedly said, and when he saw what Hu Doudou's aunt was holding in her arms, he asked curiously, "Where did you get such a big piece of meat?" ”

"Don't ask, help me carry the meat, I really can't carry it."

"Ugh!" Hu Doudou's uncle felt very strange and helped carry the meat on his shoulder.

"That's right," Hu Doudou's aunt said excitedly, dusting off the ashes on her clothes, "You don't know, a cow died in the cattle herding baby in the village, and it is said that it was bitten by a snake......

The meat was cleaned up only yesterday.

Because I was bitten by a snake, this meat is very cheap, as long as a bucket of rice, you can exchange ten catties of clean meat, I changed ten catties of meat for our family. ”

When Hu Doudou's uncle heard this, he felt very frightened.

"Where was you bitten to death by a snake?" Hu Doudou's uncle asked hurriedly.

"It's near the old cave where your tenth master lived a few years ago," Hu Doudou's aunt said regretfully, "You know, it's very overgrown with weeds.

However, few people have dared to let the cows and sheep drink there, because last year, a man was bitten by a snake there, and since then no one has dared to go. ”

At this time, Hu Doudou's uncle couldn't help but fall into deep thought.

"I don't know what monsters are hiding in there!" Hu Doudou's aunt added lightly.

"Oh my God!" Hu Doudou's uncle suddenly remembered and said, "Will this Doudou go there!" ”

"You mean?"

"I mean, I went to that old manor!"