Ma Yun counted, except for him, a total of seventeen people fled here. Qin Ming, Ling'er and his grandfather, a middle-aged couple and a boy, a brother and sister and their elderly parents, a young man who looked like a scholar, a lonely woman, and three middle-aged people who were alone and two old men.

He had just taken a moment to explore the lower valley, which was only more than a hundred meters long, and there was a thin stream flowing slowly down the cliff wall at the other end, forming a small pool with a radius of two meters on the ground, and the water was very clear enough for everyone to drink. The two fruit trees in Qin Ming's mouth were also seen, both three meters high, full of fruits, about hundreds, and they could be eaten by everyone for a few days.

"Since we are going to live here for a while, we need to make some preparations, Brother Qin is more familiar here, I don't know how to solve the food problem?" Ma Yun took the lead in raising his own questions,

The little brother immediately said that the most important thing was to solve the problem of food, and the fruit could barely last for a few days. ”

"Along the way, I saw a lot of hares and pheasants, which can be caught by traps. A middle-aged man who claimed to be Hu Lie spoke, and everyone agreed.

"My husband and I are fishermen on the lake, so if there is a lake or river nearby, we can catch some fish every day. The middle-aged couple also came up with their own ideas.

"Five miles northwest of this mountain, there is a pond of three acres, and I have seen fish leap out of the water. Qin Ming thought for a moment and remembered a place.

"That's fine. For the next few days, all you need to do is weave a fishing net, make a raft, and you're done. The middle-aged couple looked happy.

"It's okay to say that the raft is woven with what the nets are woven from?" Hearing Qin Ming's question, the middle-aged couple remembered this stubble and lost their minds for a while.

"Not far from here there is an iron palm forest, and the bark of the iron palm tree is so tough that it can be torn into filaments and woven into fishing nets. And the iron palm bark will grow again after a while, which is very magical. Ling'er's grandfather spoke.

"Grandpa is so powerful, he actually knows this. "My grandfather worked as a carpenter for a few years when he was young, and he knew a little bit of wood. ”

Through discussions with everyone, Ma Yun has a deep understanding of the sentence "Three stinkers, race Zhuge Liang", although they are all fleeing people, they have no power to resist in front of the robbers, but now when they are facing difficulties, they can make suggestions when they calm down.

On the second day, the crowd got busy according to the strategy they had discussed. The women, the elderly, and the children were left in the valley, and Qin Ming was also allowed to stay in the valley to recuperate, and first went to the iron palm forest to harvest the bark.

The iron palm tree is straight and straight, about ten meters high, the tree is as its name, the bark is unusually tough, everyone in addition to Ma Yun, there are several people with short knives and two big knives that killed the thief, their knives take a lot of effort to insert into the bark, scratching the bark is even more laborious, only Ma Yun's short knife can cut off a large piece of wood effortlessly, plus Ma Yun is flexible, and his strength is great, and he will get a large piece of bark in a moment.

"The little brother has profound skills, Hu Lie admires it!" As everyone knows, skill is only one aspect, and the sharpness of the short sword is the main thing. He didn't explain too much, and continued to cut the bark until he heard Ling'er's grandfather shout enough.

"I thought it would take two days, but who would have thought that Shaoxia would finish it in less than half a day. Ling'er's grandfather said with emotion.

"Shaoxia, since this is over, I'll search around and see if I can find some good materials for making traps and bows and arrows. Middle-aged Hu Lie said.

"That's very good, you go back to the valley first, bring the bark back, and Brother Hu and I will walk around and see if we can find bamboo or anything like that, whether it's to make bows and arrows or rafts, it's all good materials. "So be it. Everyone left with the bark, leaving only Ma Yun and Hu Lie.

"Brother Hu is a hunter?"

"When I was young, I had been a hunter in the mountains, and my life was stable, but I was young and vigorous, and I went deep into the ancient mountains for more than 100 miles, but I was unexpectedly hit by the miasma in the mountains, and was attacked by fierce beasts. ”

"Manggu Mountain Range, Brother Hu, do you say this mountain is called Manggu Mountain Range?" Ma Yun has long been curious about this mountain range, and he can finally get some news.

"Don't young heroes know about this Manggu Mountain Range?"

"To be honest, I'm also a newcomer here, and I don't know about this Mangu Mountain Range. ”

"Shaoxia's statement makes me a little surprised, this Manggu Mountain Range, not to mention the people nearby, is also famous in this Longyuan Continent. Some people say that this Manggu Mountain Range stretches for thousands of miles, and some people say that this Manggu Mountain Range stretches for thousands of miles, which is comparable to the Longyuan Continent. Those of us who have lived nearby for generations, our ancestors have only gone a hundred miles deep into this Manggu Mountain Range at most, and it is really unknown how big this Manggu Mountain Range is.

"To tell you the truth, I learned art in the mountains with Master since I was a child, and I don't know much about other things. ”

"I see. I think the young man is extraordinary, and he will definitely achieve a career in the future. ”

"Borrow Brother Hu's auspicious words. After listening to the news of the Manggu Mountain Range, Ma Yun was surprised in his heart. "It may be an exaggeration to say that this Manggu Mountain Range stretches for thousands of miles, but it is absolutely impossible to say that it stretches for thousands of miles, and the blue bird alone flies with him for more than a thousand miles, if it really stretches for thousands of miles, and he goes in the wrong direction, it is unimaginable what will happen. Also, if you can't behave like this in the future, you will be seen to know nothing at once. Now I know that this continent is called Longyuan Continent, which is thousands of miles wide. ”

Hu Lie's body really had some problems, Ma Yun walked fast, and it didn't take long for him to run out of breath. "Shaoxia, go slowly, my body is really not good, otherwise when I met those thieves, I would have fought desperately, how could I be at their mercy. ”“

It was also my negligence, so I stopped and rested. In this way, the two of them stopped and rested, and Ma Yun did not feel bored.

Along the way, Hu Lie told him a lot of stories about the Manggu Mountain Range, the Longyuan Continent, and Jiayuan City, which gave him a general understanding of this world. The two of them were really lucky, and after walking for more than an hour, they actually found a lush bamboo forest, and the bamboo in it was tall and thick. Ma Yun cut a few suitable bamboos, dug up a few bamboo shoots, and then returned to the valley with the bamboo and bamboo shoots.

In one night, he made most of the nets out of the bark of the iron palm tree, and it was not a day to weave them completely; Hu Lie found that the bark rope was very tough, and asked for some more rope sets for bowstrings and traps; and those bamboos were made into several traps, animal pens and bows and arrows.

The next day, Hu Lie took everyone to dig a pit in the woods and lay all kinds of traps, while the woman and the old man continued to weave fishing nets in the cave, and Ma Yun accompanied the couple to find the pond that Qin Ming said.

As soon as the couple saw the pond, they concluded that there must be fish in it, and there were quite a few of them. For the sake of the long term, several people finally decided to spend some time making a bamboo raft out of bamboo, although the wood can float on the water in the short term, but the buoyancy will become worse and worse after absorbing more water.

The trap didn't work on the first day, and the crowd was not discouraged, because the nets were braided, and as long as the raft was ready tomorrow, the fish could be fished. Seeing that everyone was united and happy, Ma Yun felt an inexplicable emotion in his heart, strolling alone in the valley.

"Big brother, wait. Listening to the voice, he knew it was Ling'er, and when he looked back, Ling'er was standing not far behind him.

"It's Ling'er. "Big brother, look, what is this?" took the thing in Ling'er's hand, it was a folded piece of paper, about a foot square when unfolded, and a sitting person was faintly drawn on it by the moonlight.

"Ling'er, where did you get this?"

"Big brother, you gave me half a flatbread, I ate this from the inside while eating, I think this should be the big brother's thing, so I'll return it to the big brother. ”

"Oh, in the flatbread. The eldest brother has forgotten about this, and the eldest brother is actually very mischievous, and he put the paper in the flatbread to play tricks on people, but it turned out to trick Ling'er."

"The big brother is also very naughty, fortunately Ling'er found out early. ”

"That's Ling'er smart, by the way, Ling'er, have you told others about this?"

"No, I have always been reluctant to eat the bread you gave me, I eat a little bit every time, and I didn't find it until today, so I will give it to you immediately. ”

"Ling'er is doing a good job, then keep it secret for the big brother, the big brother doesn't want others to know that I'm a troublemaker. ”

"Big brother, don't worry. ”

Ma Yun and Ling'er talked about some other topics before finding an opportunity to coax her back, and he was thinking about something with the strange paper. Two days ago, he felt sorry for Ling'er and the little boy, so he divided the remaining flatbread in the bag into two halves and gave it to them.

"This little girl is really destined for me, and the first human I saw was her, and she kindly secretly baked cakes for her to eat, and discovered such a secret. He recalled the discovery of the man in black, although he felt that things must be strange, but he had no intention of investigating the matter, who would have thought that "there is no intention to plant flowers and flowers, and no intention to plant willows and willows", his unintentional secret was exposed in this way, as for what a secret, he still needs to find a bright place to see it.

"The man in black was so cunning that he hid his secret in a loaf of bread. As for Ling'er, Ma Yun is not worried about anything, firstly, she doesn't know what this paper is, secondly, the child's nature is innocent, that is, she is curious, and it is estimated that it will not take long to forget about it, and no one else has seen this thing, even if Ling'er says that he leaked his mouth, he can find a reason to prevaricate in the past.

When he returned to the cave, everyone was still laughing around the fire, and only the young man who looked like a scholar sat quietly reading a book, and did not care about everyone's jokes. "Oh, you scholar, everyone flees with gold and silver, but you carry a few books. It's really a bad reading book!" If there is chaos today, does the little brother still want to get a fame?"

Ma Yun became curious about the young man: in such a situation, he can still read books calmly, this heart is not ordinary perseverance, at least he can't do it, although his grades were also good, and he also had the experience of reading late at night every day, but it was out of a kind of forced and helpless, how can he be so peaceful as a teenager. I paid attention to this young man in my heart.

Within a few days, life in the valley improved. The middle-aged couple was able to catch some fish every day, and Hu Lie's trap also caught a lot of wild animals from time to time. One day, a pheasant was trapped with a trap, and the pheasant laid an egg overnight, and everyone was overjoyed, and they found a vacant place to raise the pheasant.

In this way, not only was there no shortage of food, but there was also abundance of food every day, and the surplus food was smoked and stored in the sun for later use. Ling'er's grandfather made a lot of simple furniture out of wood, and the two children learned to read and write with the scholar, and everyone forgot about the suffering outside for a while.