Chapter 69: Strange Things in the Mountains
I stepped forward and pushed with my hand, and the piles of stones were so strong that I could hardly push them.
Outside, there are old and vaguely mottled stone statues, both of which stand in a guard posture with their swords, and behind them there is a cave, which is hard not to make people think otherwise.
There are only two reasons for building a stone statue here, digging out a cave, one is that the person who built it has a noble status, inherits his own style of acting, and builds a stone statue of two people with a human proportion, almost one meter nine stone statues, and declares his status and identity in the posture of **, and this cave is likely to be the old residence of the owner, because he does not want future generations to live, so it is blocked.
The second reason is more ridiculous, but the ancients would believe in the gods, and they would be more superstitious because of this, which is true, they will think that there are many evil demons and monsters, and look at the posture of this stone statue, I think it is similar to the door god, so I think another use of this stone statue is also this usage, used to sit in the door god, calm the guard, and use it to shock the evil spirit.
But in any case, this blocked cave is very likely to be the place where the old-timers of the Western Zhou Dynasty lived, although I am curious, but it is difficult to shake these stone piles by myself, so I can only speculate and speculate, for fun, and nothing else can be done.
Although I couldn't see it, I still put my ear to the pile of stones at the entrance of the cave and listened to the movement inside, there was the sound of dripping water, and there was even some wind sound, it seemed that there was a great possibility of underground water in the cave, and I continued to listen, and it was quiet for a while, and I was about to give up and leave, but suddenly I heard a strange sound!
I sat slumped on the ground, staring in disbelief at the entrance to the rockfill in front of me.
At present, it is speculated that there is only one entrance to this cave, and it is blocked by rocks, and it is difficult to say whether there are any creatures inhabiting it, but I clearly heard the footsteps of people just now, how weird?
I hurriedly avoided it, thinking that I had just laughed at the superstitions of the ancients, and now I was frightened by this mysterious and unexplainable phenomenon, which was really ridiculous.
"I heard it wrong, I must have heard it wrong! It must be bats, lizards and the like hiding inside, not the footsteps of people, this is absolutely impossible. I patted my chest and said.
But I still thought about it, if there were really people living in it, I couldn't have seen it and never seen it, and besides, the air and food in it were completely insufficient, and there would be no people living there.
And if it's not people, isn't it?
Forget it, forget it, Confucius said: "Respect ghosts and gods and stay away", I should listen to the words of the sages and don't provoke these things.
Thinking about it, I hurriedly withdrew from this place, and when I passed the two guard statues, I also bowed to it, hoping that even if there was anything dirty, I would stop it.
Then I went back to the top of the mountain, now I can only rely on the metal cups brought back from the plane to cook, which is not enough at all, and the girl in Yingchun refuses to do anything, and her work can only be contracted by Yunwen.
Fortunately, Yun Wen has already written down the steps to make in Yingchun, although the baked finished product is not as delicate as Yingchun, but it can also be used, at least it is used to drink some soup and stew something.
I took a look at the current supplies, three bronze vessels, 26 fungus that can be eaten as food, the rest of the fungus is still growing, wild grass, wild roots, wild raspberries and a small snakeskin pocket, 12 pieces of air-dried beef, all the tools are sound, the sapper shovel, the saw, the hemp rope, the bayonet and one more transport tool, the wooden ox and the horse, and finally my gun, although it is a sharp weapon, there are only five bullets left to use.
Of course, at the same time we also harvested three hides, and when night came, one was draped over for a tent, another on the ground for a bed, and one for a cover, which was much warmer.
And that's it, we relied on these supplies for three or four days, during which Yingchun occasionally came to eat and drink something, but the temper came up, just refused to move more, I knew that she was angry with me, felt that I was too indifferent to Bai Lu's affairs, and treated her slowly, but I have my own way of acting, and I owe her nothing to her in this matter.
When everyone is hungry, they eat the leftover supplies, and when they are thirsty, they look for water to drink from the spring pool next to them, and life is worry-free for the time being, but occasionally we see vultures hovering in the air and the like, which will make us feel uneasy and afraid, but most of them are seen during the day, and if we do, hide among the bushes and hide, and we will be fine.
I haven't talked to them about the cave below, but if the cave isn't so evil, I'm really going to try to figure out if I can open the rocks and use them in the cave for use and living or something.
In the past three or four days, we have slowly adapted to the days without Song Bailu, and we will indeed be worried, but they have also been slowly replaced by other things such as firewood, rice, oil and salt, and I am completely dead, even if I don't see her body now, I understand that she will never come back.
On the fourth day of living on the top of the mountain, we all got up early, cleaned up, and after eating the same breakfast, we ordered to do the task, and said: "Yunwen, hide all the food in the tent today, so as not to attract birds of prey such as vultures or sea eagles, and then help check the firewood, find out if there are any supplies of wild grass and wild fruits nearby, I need to go threshing in a while, after you have done it here, come down and help me sort out the grains together, so that they can be put into the warehouse." ”
"Okay, no problem." Yun Wen said.
"Song Yingchun, I can allow you to be lazy for another day today, as your deep recognition of your sister's affection, but there is no free lunch in the world, if you are still like this tomorrow, then I'm sorry, there are no rules, I can only ask you to leave." Since you are staying at home for a long time, please help look at the food, and take care to protect yourself, if a bird of prey comes, immediately hide in the grass. "I warned.
After finishing speaking, Yun Wen and I packed up and prepared to go to work separately, I didn't expect Song Yingchun to do anything, I didn't think about it, she was almost dumb these days, and she spoke: "Brother Zhou Bo, threshing needs tools, and you have to have a warehouse to enter the warehouse, you don't have these ready, where are you going to put the threshing wheat in a while?" ”
"That's right, threshing requires a flail, a rake is needed when panning wheat, and a barn needs to be loaded." I said.
"I'll do it, I'll go down with you." Song Yingchun's voice was a little low, not as high-pitched as before.
I was a little surprised, but I thought that it would take her manual work to do it, so I nodded and asked her to follow me.
Seeing that Yun Wen's face was a little relieved, I also let go of the knot I had been keeping, loaded a saw and shovel in my backpack, and went down the stone steps with Yingchun to the wheat field, looking at the dried wheat all over the ground.
Then Yingchun looked around for dry branches, found long and short, first sawed the slightly shorter branches with a saw to the same length, about an arm's length, and then used a bayonet to cut out some wooden nails, and then broke some branches, and horizontally clamped the six slightly shorter branches back and forth, fixed them with wooden nails, and fixed them in two places.
I went to cut some thinner vines, reinforced, and tied the fixed cross-section, so that the six branches of the same length were tightly connected together to form a board, and then sawed the long branches, and then made a long and large wooden nail to connect the long branches with the board, and widened the tail.
Then a movable shaft is formed, so that a flail is formed, and the pole part is shaken, and the force affects the movable shaft to shake the board surface, and the wheat can be threshed quickly by beating it in this way.
"The flail is done, and the next thing is the barn, and now it is difficult to find raw materials, so we need to go to the bottom of the mountain to get those wooden planks that are not used in the deserted house." Song Yingchun said.
This proposal made me look at her with admiration, and when she got serious, she really had a bit of a score.