More than 100 people from Dongshan Village, following behind a gray wolf, silently marched into the cave. If anyone makes a loud noise, the big bad wolf, which is more than a man tall, will stare at you with green eyes until you are quiet. Therefore, more than 100 people, even the young children in their arms, were silent, silently moving forward in the deep and dark cave.

Soon, a ray of light came out from the top of the cave, and a larger cave appeared in front of everyone. The cave is very large, and as Xiaocao said, it is more than enough to accommodate more than 300 people. The best thing is that the light from the roof of the cave is like a bright lamp, so that people don't feel dim.

The cave is dry, and there are a lot of dead branches and rocks in it. When the villagers saw Xiaocao stop and announced that everyone had settled here, they spontaneously chose a flat place as a family unit, put down their luggage, and carried out a simple cleaning.

Temporarily safe, the child who was held by adults was full of curiosity about the surrounding caves. A few older ones, after learning that there was no danger in the cave, began to explore the cave. The younger ones laugh and chase around their families. The echo in the cave was loud, and the children's laughter spread out layer by layer, making it seem extremely noisy.

Princess Jing frowned slightly, and her head twitched a little. She is a quiet person, and more than a hundred people, old and young, women and children, are crammed into a cave, which is too noisy for her. However, she also knew that in special times, she couldn't ask too much, so she sighed and endured it.

Dodging a little kid who had just learned to walk and was still unstable, Yu Xiaocao came to Princess Jing's side and said to her: "Niangniang, there are still many holes here, I will go with Sister Meixiang to pick a suitable place to live, and we will move in when the time comes." ”

When Princess Jing heard this, she smiled and nodded, "Okay, you and Mei Xiang be careful, let Xiaobai and Da Ash follow." Go early and come back early! ”

Yu Xiaocao glanced at Da Ash, who lowered his head to drink water, and gently touched its ass with his foot. The big gray ass moved to the side and looked up at her, as if he was a little impatient that she interrupted his enjoyment of the spiritual water.

"Big Ash, have you drunk enough? When we were full, we were taken to a cave where we could live. It's best to have four or five holes to be close to, not too big, enough for a dozen people! Yu Xiaocao didn't care if Da Ash could understand it. The cave is so big, one hole after another, like a labyrinth, let her go and find when can she find it?

Mei Xiang snorted and laughed: "Miss Yu, if you tell it this, can it understand?" ”

"Don't underestimate animals, especially spirited animals! Big Gray is not like a normal wolf, it should understand what I mean, right? Yu Xiaocao didn't say it so well.

Big Ash squeezed over to grab water from it to drink Xiao Hei, licked the spirit stone water in the basin in two bites, licked his mouth again, turned his head and walked towards a small hole in the cave, seeing that Xiaocao and Mei Xiang did not follow, he turned his head to look at them, as if urging them.

Xiaocao understood and pulled Mei Xiang to follow. The entrance to the cave is more than a man high, and inside is a long, narrow passage that allows two people to pass side by side. After walking a distance of about fifty meters, the inside suddenly opened up. The cave is semi-enclosed, with a semi-circular roof that falls like a lid.

There was a gap on one side of the "lid", and a few small trees with crooked necks were hidden in the gap, and one of them was a wild mountain peach tree, on which hung a lot of fruits, many of which had been ripe and waited for people to pick. If you look out through this opening, you can see the scenery of the valley. At this time, it was already dusk, and the orange sunlight was shining into the cave, making it warm and bright.

On the wall of the cave, a row of neat holes is like a portal, and the grass probe looks inside, this small cave should be artificially dug by man, the walls are neat and tidy, and some still leave stone beds and stone benches. Each small cave is like a single room of seventy or eighty bungalows, which is dry and refreshing, and you can move in with a casual cleaning.

Mei Xiang was surprised to visit the "single rooms", and said in surprise: "There should be people living here, I don't know who dug out these caves, we won't occupy the residence of some hermits, right?" ”

Yu Xiaocao looked at the thick dust on the ground, shook his head and said, "If you live in someone, it would have been a long time ago. The predecessors planted trees and the later people enjoyed the shade, which is cheap for us. There are eight 'rooms' here, enough for us to stay! Sister Mei Xiang, you tidy up here, I'll go and invite the princess. ”

By the time Yu Xiaocao took the princess and her relatives, Mei Xiang had already tidied up one of the larger caves. At this time, she was wiping the stone bed in the cave with a wet cloth soaked in water!

"Huh? Sister Mei Xiang, where did you get the water? Yu Xiaocao asked in some surprise.

With a smile on her face, Mei Xiang came out and pointed to a stone trough at the gap, where the spring water flowed out of the mountain wall, converging into a pool in the stone trough, and the excess flowed down the mountain wall to the outside.

"This is really a treasure of feng shui, with this stone trough, it will be much more convenient for us to use water in the future." As I didn't think about it, if there is no mountain spring, the water will either go down from the mountain wall more than ten meters high to the valley to draw water, or go around to the cave just now, and then go out to find the water source, which is very inconvenient!

Lan Xiang hurriedly took out a basin from the servant, worked with Mei Xiang, and quickly cleaned the cave. The stone bed is covered with soft brocade quilts, and the square platforms carved out of the cave walls have become storage spaces. The supplies of the princess and her mother are neatly placed inside. Xiaocao placed the Night Pearl in the highest stone cave, and the whole room was as bright as a light bulb.

Of the remaining caves, the Yu family lives in one, Aunt Xiaocao's family lives in one, and the grandfather's family lives in one, and the remaining four are all divided between the housekeeper and the girl brought by Xiaocao, as well as the maid and the mother-in-law in the other courtyard. The servants and guards of the annex could only lay out in a corner of the "living room".

It's not early, and everyone didn't have time to eat lunch in order to escape for their lives, and everyone was so hungry that they were close to their backs. There is a lot of grain brought by the palace courtyard, and the seasonings such as oil, salt, sauce and vinegar are also very complete. Xiaocao's family and her relatives brought enough food for them to eat for three or five days, not to mention the pheasants and hares that Xiao Hei Xiaobai hunted back.

I simply tidied up the cave where I lived, and the stone bed inside was very wide and large, like a big earthen kang, and I didn't feel crowded when I slept with a dozen people. Old Yu Tou slept in the innermost, followed by Yu Hai, the Liu couple, and then Xiaocao and Xiaolian. For people with poor conditions, in order to save firewood in winter, it is common for a large family of people of all ages to crowd on a big kang for several generations.

Putting the things he had brought on the stone bed, Xiaocao took Xiaolian out, and outside the cave near the opening, he set up a simple stove with stones, washed the rice, and began to cook. She looked to the other side, and the mother-in-law and the girl in the palace kitchen were also busy. Their stove was divided into three, and the rice was boiled in three pots at once. The subordinates and guards of the palace add up to thirty or forty people, and the amount of food is large, everyone is hungry, and there is not enough food to eat!

Yu Caifeng came over with a bag of rice, squatted down beside Xiaocao, and helped her light the fire. After thinking about it, she spoke: "Otherwise, let's fire together, so that we can save some money!" ”

Yu Xiaocao nodded, thought about it, and said, "Auntie, you go to the grandfather and ask, do you want to fire together?" Let's join the two families, don't open your mouth to invite, don't let the grandpa think that we don't treat them as relatives......"

Yu Caifeng smiled and said, "It's still Xiaocao who thinks thoughtfully." Yes! I'm going to ask my aunt and see what they have planned. ”

It didn't take long for her to come back, shake her head at Xiaocao with a smile, and say, "Uncle they said, they brought dry food over, and they won't fire at night." He also said that they have a lot of family members, so let's fire alone. ”

While he was talking, a figure flashed through the gap in the cave. Xiaocao fixed his eyes and saw that it was the captain of the Zheng guard, and everyone carried a bundle of dry firewood behind them. It turned out that the guards of the palace were afraid of going out to detour too far, so they tied a rope to the stone on the tree at the gap, anyway, it was only more than ten meters, and for them who had kung fu, it was not easy to pull the rope up and down.

The head of the guard Zheng left three bundles of dry firewood for Xiaocao, enough for them to burn three or four meals. Yu Xiaocao reciprocated the favor and gave them one of the pheasants he had caught. Although it is not enough for so many of them to eat, at least you can add some meat to the dish, right?

The remaining hare, skinned by the grass, was stewed in a large pot with the potatoes. I filled a bowl for the princess and grandfather. When the rice is stewed, sausages and bacon left over from winter are added to it, and it is fragrant even if there are no vegetables. In addition, Xiaocao boiled another pot of seaweed soup.

The Yu family and the Liu family each held a large bowl, with bacon rice below and potato stewed hare on top. Maybe it's because they're hungry, but everyone eats extra sweet. Even Liu Fangping, the youngest, ate most of the bowl of rice and a spoonful of rabbit meat.

Seeing that the little guy was eating happily, Liu suddenly put down the dishes and chopsticks in his hand and sighed deeply. Seeing this, Yu Caifeng asked, "What's wrong?" ”

"When I saw Xiao Fangping, I remembered the stones in our house. I don't know if he is safe in the town, and our family Yu Hang, Xiaocao said that the Japanese also went to the dock, Xiaosha will not run into the Japanese Kou......" The more he thought about it, the more Liu felt as if there was a big stone blocked in his heart.

Yu Caifeng comforted her and said, "You relax, the little stone is in the town, far away from the coast." It's just that the Japanese invaders have beaten it, isn't there still an official yamen? It's definitely safer than our side! As for Xiaosha, you don't have to worry about it. Xiaocao's godfather, but he is a general who has experienced a hundred battles, and his soldiers are also powerful, can he still protect him? ”

When Liu heard her say this, she was also liaison, and her heart relaxed a little. But after eating half of the meal, I couldn't eat it anymore. The adopted child is 100 years old, and he is 99 years old. The hearts of parents are always concerned about their children.