Chapter 6: The Secret Passage (1)
It normally only takes an hour to get to the fruit tree, but Ma Yun is not in a hurry, and carefully explores along the cliff wall, in case he finds any secret passages or the like, so that he can have more chances to leave here.
Fortunately, Ma Yun didn't have much hope, and searched as he walked, except for a few thick dead branches, he didn't find any secret passages.
When I arrived at the fruit tree, the fruit tree was full of fruit, estimated to be hundreds, and only a small part of it was picked by Ma Yun and eaten by the monkeys, and the tree was still densely covered with fruit. Seeing that it was still early, Ma Yun simply ate two fruits and continued to carefully search for the past towards the bottom of the valley that he had explored before. As expected, when Jack Ma returned to the fruit trees a few hours later, there was still no harvest.
Ma Yun ate a few more fruits, this time picking more than 20 fruits, and set off towards the position of the canopy bed with the package full. Everything went as planned, just as it was getting dark, just as we reached the canopy bed.
To Ma Yun's surprise, the little gray monkey was squatting on the canopy bed and looking around at the moment, and saw him coming back from a distance, constantly beating and screaming loudly, as if he was very excited. When Ma Yun got closer and saw what was under the little monkey's feet, he was even more shocked.
At the foot of the little monkey lay what resembled the skin of an animal, about two feet square, and it was full of the kind of insects he had found in the trunks of dead trees, and there were dozens of them. When the little monkey saw Ma Yun approaching, he skillfully rolled up the four corners of the animal skin, so that the insects were wrapped, and the little monkey lifted the animal skin package, jumped off the canopy bed, and came to the extinguished fire, pointing at the fire and squeaking non-stop.
How could Ma Yun not understand what the little monkey meant, smiled lightly, took out the flint from the package, and by the way, took out another fruit and handed it to the little monkey. The little monkey first took two steps back, and after rolling his eyes a few times, he boldly stepped forward, bore fruit from Ma Yun's hand, and threw the insect wrapped in animal skin in front of him.
Ma Yun smiled and picked up the package, walked to the extinguished fire, and skillfully lit a fire in a few moments. This time, Ma Yunduo threw a thick tree trunk into the fire, and after more than ten minutes of the tree trunk was burning, he opened the animal skin package, separated half of the insects from it, and quickly threw them into the fire, and it didn't take long to quickly clip these insects out of the fire, and the remaining half of the insects were quickly burned.
Ma Yun wanted to eat the two burned insects, but after thinking about it, if the little monkey protected the food, the previous hard work would be in vain, so after removing the scorched skin of the dozens of insects, he put them in the animal skin and wrapped them up and handed them to the little monkey. During this period, the little monkey has been standing by his side, watching his every move carefully, as if thinking about something.
Seeing Ma Yun wrapping the burned insects and handing them over, the little monkey showed joy, took the package, opened the package, took out 5 burned insects from it and handed them to Ma Yun. Ma Yun was very surprised and relieved by the little monkey's behavior, and he unceremoniously took the insect and ate it in a big gulp. Otherwise, the little monkeys will be obsessed with it.
Seeing Ma Yun's appearance, the little monkey let out a few more joyful cries, and then grabbed the animal skin package and left, and looked back at him several times when leaving, as if he was a little reluctant. The little monkey's actions made Ma Yun very happy, and the departure of the little monkey made Ma Yun a little lost, and he had to face the night alone again.
"The fruit is enough for a few days, and tomorrow it's time to go and weave the rope. With a decision in his heart, Ma Yun fell asleep peacefully.
When Ma Yun woke up the next morning, the little monkey had already appeared silently by the fire. It's just that it's still wrapped in animal skins, and it's eighty percent full of bugs. At the same time, there was a bunch of grapes next to Ma Yun, and when he saw the grapes, he was very happy in his heart, and he was even more firm in his judgment: this little monkey must know a secret place.
"Good morning!" Ma Yun didn't care if the little monkey could understand it. The little monkey hadn't noticed him wake up, but was startled by his voice, and then reacted and chirped at him. I don't know what it means this time, but I know that I must have to burn a package of worms for it. I grabbed a few grapes and threw them into my mouth: they were so sweet! and more importantly, there were no seeds.
It only took half an hour from lighting the fire again to burning a pack of bugs. The little monkey is still seriously learning how Ma Yun makes a fire and roasts insects, and this time he has grasped the key point: flint and steel. He picked up the flint and steel that was placed aside, and beat it like him. Looking at the scattered sparks, the little monkey threw the flint aside in fright. "Hahahaha!" Seeing this, Ma Yun couldn't help laughing. The little monkey responded with a few hissing smiles and seemed to be very unhappy with his ridicule.
However, the little monkey still caught 5 bugs and gave them to Ma Yun, and then left with the package. Ma Yun was actually not hungry, he only ate all the grapes, ate two more insects, and left the rest in the package and left it on the canopy bed with the package, bringing an apple and the small iron piece.
Half an hour later, we arrived at the place where the thin leaves were drying, and the original green leaves had withered and turned yellow after two days of drying, and could be used to weave rope. According to the plan, the thin leaves were cut several times with small iron sheets, and finally torn into 8 filaments, and then the filaments were wound in two.
Before starting to braid, Ma Yun specially braided a small string to tie his long hair braids, which was only briefly tied up a few days ago, and he didn't feel very comfortable. After a short break at noon, I ate the apple and continued to weave ropes. When the sky was a little dark, and a total of twelve thin leaves were used to make three ropes, and then they returned to the canopy bed.
The strange thing was that the little monkey didn't show up all night, which was a bit unexpected for him. When he woke up the next morning and saw the little monkey and the animal skin wrapping, Ma Yun was relieved again. Similarly, this time the little monkey brought a fist-sized purple fruit with skin, what it was, Ma Yun didn't know it, and he had never eaten it before. Peeling off the outer skin, the flesh was smooth and sweet, and it was even more delicious than the fruit of the tree. Ma Yun ate the fruit in a few bites, and there are still some unfinished ones.
"Thank you, little monkey!" and then the theme began: burning bugs for the little monkey. The rest was the same as yesterday, and the little monkey left him with five bugs and left with the package, while he went on to weave the rope. Then come back in the evening to rest.
As the weaving of the straw rope became more and more familiar, it took three days, a total of 48 thin blades of grass, 12 two-meter-long rope segments, and finally the 12 rope segments were connected to complete the work. The woven straw rope is the thickness of a thumb and is very strong to pull up. Ma Yun hung the straw rope on the branches, and his whole body hung on the straw rope without the slightest problem. Although it has been hard work in the past few days, it is worth harvesting this more than 20-meter straw rope.
When Ma Yun woke up from the canopy bed again, the little monkey was still standing by the fire, but this time he was not wrapped in animal skins, but kept making strange movements at him. Although Ma Yun can usually guess the little monkey's thoughts, this time he really doesn't understand the little monkey's purpose.
The little monkey was chattering and dancing, and he looked at him with a blank face. He gave the little monkey a fruit and threw it away, and he burned two more worms for him, and he threw it away. In the end, the little monkey simply picked up the flint and iron pieces on the ground, ran more than ten meters away, and then stopped and screamed at Ma Yun, waving the flint in his hand.
"It's not good, if this monkey loses the flint, it will be troublesome to start a fire in the future. "Drilling wood for fire seems simple, in fact, it is impossible to make a fire without practicing for a long time, Ma Yun knew that he would definitely not succeed in drilling wood for fire at present, so he hurriedly chased after it.
The little monkey didn't seem to panic when he saw him chasing him, but when he was about to get closer, he quickly ran to a stop more than ten meters away; Seeing this, the little monkey seemed to become very impatient, and hissed a lot faster. Ma Yun suddenly seemed to understand something, and hurriedly chased after him, and then the little monkey continued to run away.
A man and a monkey chased like this for more than an hour, until the little monkey did not continue to run away when he approached, but put the flint and steel on the ground, and he jumped up and grabbed the small tree protruding from the rock wall, and in a few flashes, jumped to a rock protruding only half a meter from a height of more than ten meters on the cliff, and then disappeared all at once.
Ma Yun's eyes lit up, there must be something strange behind the protruding rock, and there was probably a passage. Just as Ma Yun was thinking, the little monkey appeared on the rock again, watching Ma Yun make strange movements.
"Little monkey, I can't go up!" Ma Yun made a helpless movement, and then carefully observed the situation near the rock. A little more than a meter above the left of the rock, a small tree caught his attention. "If the little tree is strong enough, try to tie a straw rope to the little tree, and try to climb it. I didn't expect my straw rope to come in handy so quickly. Ma Yun thought happily.
"Little monkey, I've got to go get something to go up, and I'll go back when I go. He made a back and forth motion with his hands, then picked up the flint and steel and quickly returned to the canopy bed. When the little monkey saw Ma Yun leaving, he hurriedly jumped down and chased after him. By the time the package was collected, the gourd vine was wrapped, and the rope was returned to the protruding rock again, nearly two hours had passed.
Ma Yun was a little surprised by his current physical strength, although he did not exercise vigorously, but he kept running for a long time, and he was only a little tired. However, these doubts only passed through my mind, and there were more important things to be done. After searching around, I found a small slender stone, wrapped the straw rope around the stone many times, made sure that the stone would not fall off, and finally fixed the straw rope in the center of the stone.
The small tree above the rock is about 14 or 5 meters high, and I should be able to throw the stone so high. The first time it was successful, the long stone fell in the middle of the small tree, but as soon as Ma Yun exerted his strength, the stone fell from the small tree, and it seemed that he did not have the strength. Then I threw it a few more times, but I couldn't hang it on the small tree, and finally the last time the stone seemed to be wrapped around the root of the small tree, Ma Yun pulled hard, and the rope didn't fall. Gradually increase the force, until the whole person is off the ground, the rope is still very stable, and then a little bit of refreshment.
The reason why you can't be completely relieved is that you are trying to force back and forth during the climb, and it can be dangerous if the stone is not firmly stuck or if the small tree cannot support the roots and falls from the air. Thinking of this, Ma Yun hurriedly collected a lot of weeds, and spread them layer by layer on the corresponding ground under the small tree, until it was half a meter thick, and he felt the elasticity when he lay down, so he put his mind at ease, so that even if he fell from the sky, he would not die.
In the process of Ma Yun doing all this, the little monkeys were watching from the sidelines, hissing from time to time. Finally, Ma Yun tied the package in a knot and tied it firmly to the end of the straw rope ground with the gourd vine, so as to reduce the tension, and then pull the straw rope up after he reached the rock. Everything was ready, and finally the climb to the rock wall began. Ma Yun has the experience of the gourd vine falling last time, and tries not to put all the weight of his body on the rope, and if there is a place for his feet to have strength, he will share a little more weight.
More than ten meters high, whether it is high or not, whether it is low or not, Ma Yun climbed cautiously little by little. After climbing about five or six meters high, I found a good place to eat with both feet, so I stopped to rest for a while, and then continued to climb up. In this way, it took more than ten minutes, and finally arrived at the rocky place without danger.
Ma Yun used one hand to pick the edge of the rock a few times, and the rock did not move at all, and it seemed to be very solid. Only then did he hold the rock with one hand, wrap the straw rope with the other, and lift his body upwards with force, and when his head was higher than the rock and saw the dark hole behind the rock, Ma Yun's spirit was shocked, and he gave birth to some strength out of thin air. First his arm pressed against the rock, then his upper body pressed against the rock, and finally his ass sat on the rock, and the rock still didn't move. Ma Yun simply leaned into the hole and lay down on the rocks to rest.