Chapter 5: The Cave Collapses
returned to the air-raid shelter and walked inside for about ten minutes, before Cheng Ming signaled the two children to stop, put down the backpacks on their shoulders, and rest for a while.
Lin Fan looked around curiously through the faint light of the candle, and asked in a low voice, "Uncle, did you live here before?" โ
"Yes, Brother Lin Fan, it's safe here, that's what Dad said."
Before Cheng Ming could speak, Ke'er answered like a treasure.
Cheng Ming smiled and explained, "This is an air-raid shelter built many years ago, which was dug by my uncle's grandfather, and it is very deep, so it is relatively safe. โ
As Cheng Ming spoke, he took out the alcohol stove and the stainless steel pot he had picked up on the road before and put them on the ground.
"And where does this dugout lead?" Lin Fan asked again.
Where does it lead? Cheng Ming was obviously stunned, yes, where does this air-raid shelter lead? Cheng Ming tried hard to recall what his grandfather had told him back then, and after thinking for a long time, he said uncertainly, "It seems to lead to the back of the mountain on the side of the road." โ
Lin Fan listened to Cheng Ming's words, thinking hard, as if he was imagining where the mountain was, looking at his frowning appearance, Cheng Ming didn't feel funny in his heart, reached out and touched Lin Fan's head and said.
"Don't think about it, you and Ke'er will play for a while, Uncle will cook for you, and we'll have a hot meal tonight."
"Okay, okay, Brother Lin Fan, let's play with the doll you gave me first."
Ke'er heard that there was a hot meal to eat tonight, so she happily grabbed Lin Fan, and handed the doll she had been holding in her arms to Lin Fan.
Cheng Ming looked at these two little guys, and was glad that he had decided to take Lin Fan with him, at least, his daughter also had a playmate.
Cheng Ming poured alcohol into the alcohol stove, lit it, added water to the pot, and put some mashed luncheon meat and a packet of instant noodles that he picked up on the road before.
After a while, there was a burst of fragrance from the cave.
However, because Cheng Ming was concentrating on cooking, he didn't notice that since the fragrance in the pot came out, the cave was quiet, there was no frolicking sound of the two children before, only the sound of two people swallowing saliva was heard, and after a while, Cheng Ming realized that something was wrong, and when he looked up, the scene in front of him made him laugh for a while, the two little guys were no longer playing, but were squatting in front of the pot, staring at the food that kept rolling in the pot and swallowed saliva.
Cheng Ming touched the heads of the two little ones with a smile and said, "It's okay right away, wait a minute." โ
After speaking, he took out a bag of seasoning from the instant noodle bag just now, thought about it for a long time, poured it into a little bit, wrapped it up preciously, and put it into the small pocket of the mountaineering bag.
After Cheng Ming finished all this, he stirred it with a spoon for a while, then scooped a full bowl into each of the two small bowls he had prepared before, and handed it to the two little guys.
The two little guys had been waiting for a long time, and when they saw the bowl handed over by Cheng Ming, they took it and were ready to eat, but Cheng Ming hurriedly stopped it.
"Be careful of scalding and let it dry for a while before eating."
The little guys listened to the bowl and looked at the bowl with their eyes, and from time to time they tried it with their small mouths, and the two hot little guys pouted their mouths from time to time, and the little hands of the two kept changing over and over, but they were reluctant to put the bowl down, and Cheng Ming, who was watching, just wanted to laugh.
After Cheng Ming extinguished the alcohol stove, he carefully poured the remaining alcohol back into the bottle. After doing this, the food in the bowl was almost cold, and I saw that the two little guys were already gobbling it up, and after a while, the two little guys finished eating the food in the bowl, and looked at Cheng Ming with the bowl in their eyes, with an expression that I hadn't eaten enough.
Cheng Ming smiled and scooped a bowl for each of the two little guys, looked at the little residue left in the pot, and ate it himself, but it was over after two bites, Cheng Ming smiled helplessly, in this era, it is really a luxury to want to eat full.
After Cheng Ming finished eating, he looked up at the two little guys, Ke'er was still gobbling up, but Lin Fan looked at Cheng Ming with a half-eaten bowl, and after watching Cheng Ming put down the pot, he handed his bowl to Cheng Ming.
"Uncle, I still have half a bowl here, you can eat it too."
Cheng Ming looked at the little guy's appearance, his heart warmed, and he just wanted to speak, but when he saw that Ke'er also heard the voice, he was embarrassed to hand over the bowl he had left.
Cheng Ming said with a smile to the two little guys. "Eat, uncle, you're full, you're growing now, you need to eat more."
After saying that, he got up and put away the stove, and the two little ones were still young after all, and they still couldn't resist the temptation of food, so they began to eat again.
After dinner, Cheng Ming laid out the bedding, rested for a while, and then let the two little ones lie down and told them stories.
โยทยทยท Sun Wukong picked up the golden hoop stick in his hand, and with one stick, he beat the white bone spirit back to its original form..."
"Uncle, Sun Wukong is so powerful, why don't you come and fight those big spiders, so that we don't have to be afraid of them."
Lin Fan listened to the story and asked in a low voice, Cheng Ming was just about to explain that this was a mythical story, not a real one, but at this moment, he only heard a loud bang from the direction of the exit of the air-raid shelter, as if something heavy was hammering the ground, so frightened that Cheng Ming suddenly turned over and stood up, but forgot that the air-raid shelter was only one meter six high, and he hit his head on the roof of the cave, and his tears were only rolling in his eyes.
Cheng Ming endured the pain on the top of his head, protected the two little guys behind him, listened to it for a while, and turned back to Lin Fan and said.
"Xiaofan, you and Ke'er quickly put away the futon, I'll go over there and take a look, remember, if you find something wrong, immediately run inside with Ke'er, do you hear?"
"Okay, uncle, don't worry, I will definitely protect Sister Kerr." Lin Fan looked at Cheng Ming firmly and said.
"Dad, you have to be careful." Ke'er was a little scared and pulled the corner of Cheng Ming's clothes and said.
"Don't worry, Dad is just going to take a look, and I'll be back in a while."
After speaking, he cautiously walked towards the entrance of the cave, because for safety, the place where Cheng Ming and they rested was far away from the entrance of the cave, and the air-raid shelter was slowly downward, the deeper it was from the ground, the safer it was, so Cheng Ming walked for more than ten minutes before coming to the location of the previous cave.
It's just that the entrance to the cave at this time has long since ceased to exist, and it seems to have been hammered with a heavy object, and the entire hole has collapsed, even with this section of the air-raid shelter, which is why there was such a loud noise just now, and at the same time, Cheng Ming also heard that there were many unknown creatures moving on it, so frightened that Cheng Ming hurriedly retreated quietly.
Cheng Ming returned to the place where he was resting before, and saw Lin Fan dragging a mountaineering bag, blocking in front of Ke'er, looking at the front with a nervous face, as if he would pull Ke'er to turn his head and run away as soon as he found something was wrong, when he saw that Cheng Ming was back, the little guy immediately sat down on the ground deflated.
When Cheng Ming saw this scene, his heart was also relieved, thinking that even if he was gone, with Lin Fan, he would be able to protect a little Ke'er.
Thinking of this, Cheng Ming shook his head vigorously, and said in his heart What are you thinking, I want to watch Ke'er grow up, no matter what, I must live well.
"The entrance to the cave has been collapsed by alien creatures, and it seems that this place is not very safe anymore, and we must continue to walk inside."
Cheng Ming said to the two little guys, then picked up his backpack and walked towards the depths of the air-raid shelter with the two of them.