Chapter 215: Outsiders on a Rainy Night
In fact, building a house on the edge of a small town is not an easy task. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
Because of the lack of necessary building timber.
For Jiuyou Huangquan, it is extremely difficult for plants to grow, wood is scarce, except for some special places, most of the buildings are built with soil structures, the number of refugees in Qinghe Village is not large, naturally can not build rammed earth structure houses like Moyan Town, because it consumes a lot of manpower, they obviously do not have this special condition, can only seek some more labor-saving ways.
However, every descendant of the human race who survived in Jiuyou Huangquan has their own survival experience, and although these refugees in Qinghe Village are ordinary people, they are also able to build some temporary shelters according to local conditions.
The shelter they built was very simple, borrowing some tools from Shencha, and a few strong men began to dig a pit, digging a pit about six feet deep at the edge of the village, because of the quality of the soil, they only took a day to dig a space that could accommodate a dozen people.
The inside is more spacious, but the hole is very small, only enough to accommodate one out, a bit like a cellar, but it is warmer to live here, and the only thing to take into account is that it is relatively damp and dim inside.
But they obviously didn't think about it so much, because the shopkeeper Cai from Demon Yan Town only provided them with some food, and in terms of accommodation, they obviously had to figure it out on their own.
So this kind of cellar was not a place for them to live for a long time, and they planned to build some permanent houses not far away, so during the day, they would take some clean water from the village, mix it with grass and wood ash in the soil, and add some rocks found from afar, as some simple materials to build the house.
However, it was clear that it would take time to build such a house, so on the third day of their arrival in Demon Yama, they had only laid out a rough structure.
In this kind of construction, Goo obviously didn't play much of a role, so all she did every day was to sit in a daze, sitting on a flat rock, and staring at the two rare cabins in the distance.
In the environment of Jiuyou Yellow Spring, building a house with a wooden structure is obviously a luxury, when they first came here, they found the two wooden houses, but no one dared to go over to talk, and even when he begged for food that night, Gugu's father would subconsciously stay away from there, because the most ferocious beasts in the wilderness are always some unsociable existences, and a hunter's keen intuition made him feel that there was some danger there, so in the past few days, everyone subconsciously ignored that place, only Gugu was a little curious, and did not understand why the other party did not live in the townγ
On the third day, they finally saw the owner of the cabin, an unusually strong man, with slightly bulging arms, even thicker than Goo's father's thighs.
The strong man came down from the sky, and he didn't know where he had found a large amount of wood, and surrounded a place with wood not far from them.
Gugu's father and the others obviously swallowed their saliva, their eyes staring at the straight and thick wood, and they subconsciously couldn't take their eyes off.
The strong man paid no attention to them, just glanced at them coldly, and then flew away again, disappearing from their sight.
The scattered wood was placed there, but no one dared to take it secretly, perhaps because the strong man was a powerful cultivator himself.
Most ordinary people treat practitioners with awe.
On their fourth day in Enma, the door of a distant wooden house opened, and a young man he had never seen before stepped out and circled the fenced field. Then he went back to the hut, took out some things, and began to grow some crops in that field.
Father Gugu was very strange to see, and hesitated for a moment, but he still didn't dare to come forward to talk, even if this person seemed to be very talkative.
However, this kind of emotion, Goo obviously did not understand, she sat on a rock not far from the fence, her two little legs kept shaking, and her big eyes stared at the strange-looking big brother without blinking.
My father and brother were going to build a house, and they didn't have much energy to look at her, because they were relatively young, and their vigilance was not as heavy as that of adults, so after watching for a while, she jumped off the rock, and fell on her heel when she fell to the ground, and she didn't cry, she got up and clapped her hands as if nothing happened, and then ran to the fence, and grabbed the fence with both hands and looked inside.
The man who came out of the hut had apparently spotted the little fellow, but he did not bother until he had planted the last of the seeds in the field before he stood up, clapped his hands, and glanced at the little girl outside the fence.
"What are you looking at?" the man asked, cooing through the fence.
Goo blinked his big black eyes, looking not afraid.."I'm watching you grow things, big brother, are you growing cooking cakes?"
"Cookbread?" the man asked, looking at her with interest, "Why, do you think I'm growing cookcakes?"
"Because, because ......" Goo Goo glanced back, and her father in the distance had stopped his activities and was looking at her nervously. β
"Do you know how the cookcakes are grown?" the man asked, looking at her.
Goo shook her head, it was clear that this kind of question was beyond her comprehension.
"Go back and ask your father, if you know how the cookbread is grown, I'll invite you to eat the cookbread, okay?"
Goo looked at him blankly, then nodded heavily.
Seeing the man leave there, Gugu's father breathed a sigh of relief, and when he went to bed at night, Gugu's father asked Gugu what he and the big brother had said, and Gugu couldn't hide it, so he learned what the big brother said.
Father Goo was silent for a while, then took a serious look at Goo Goo and sighed slightly.
He briefly told Gu Gu how some cooking cakes came out, and he didn't care if Gu Gu remembered it or not, when it was completely dark, they had already begun to sleep, because they had to conserve their physical strength, and they were really tired from building houses during the day, not to mention, this kind of long-term physical activity was also a big consumption of food, and the food they got from Cai Zhanggu might not last so long.
In this way, the group fell asleep deeply, and in their sleep, Gugu got a lot of cooking cakes to eat, as well as delicious broth, bowl after bowl, and more than they could eat, and the disappeared little boy also appeared, eating cooking cakes with Gugu, and soaking in the broth, Gugu wanted to let the little girl not soak in the broth, but the little girl lost her temper and yelled at her, and then Gugu opened her eyes and woke up slightly.
In the damp and dim cellar, my father, brother, and Grandpa Wu were no longer there, and they should have left here to build a house outside when Goo Goo was asleep, and Goo could even hear the sound of his father talking to Grandpa Wu in the distance.
She rubbed her sparse eyes, sat up, and found that there seemed to be a snow-white thing in the corner, she was slightly stunned, then pouted, and suddenly jumped up from the earthen kang.."Little girl, you're back......"
There was no surprise, maybe she had encountered this kind of thing before, maybe she was young and thought very simply, so when the little white cat appeared in the cellar, she was just a little happy, and she had a small emotion unique to children.
She tiptoed over and reached out to grab the white cat's tail, perhaps because of the overnight rush, the white cat seemed a little sluggish, so when Coo grabbed its tail, it didn't react at all, and was suddenly lifted by Coo's hand.
After a slight struggle, the little cat began to bark, its limbs dancing desperately, but it did not scratch people with its sharp claws.
Goo didn't understand this, just wrinkled his nose and imitated his father's appearance to murder it.."Next time you're running around, I'll spank your ass......"
The little girl fluttered a few times, screamed weakly, giggled, and hugged the little girl into his arms, but found that the little girl's hair fell out badly, and his spirit was also a little bad. She stood there and thought for a while, put the little girl on the earthen kang, and picked up the quilt that her father made out of animal skins, and covered the little girl's body, while saying something vaguely, as if an adult told a child.
After doing all this, she came out of the cellar, first said hello to her father who was not far away, and then sat down on the rock by the fence, looking at the cabin in the distance.
It's just that the morning has passed, and the people in the cabin have not appeared, and even for a whole day, Goo Goo has not seen any trace of the big brother.
Goo was a little disappointed, but quickly forgot about it, because the little girl had regained some of her spirits and was finally able to play with her.
In the evening, Gugu's father and others also discovered the existence of the little girl, and unlike Gugu, these people all looked at it with a look of surprise, because from Qinghe Village to Moyan Town, such a distance, a kitten can be found from the mouth of a beast, which is obviously a very strange thing.
However, they are all ordinary people, and this kitten looks harmless to humans and animals, and Gugu likes it very much, and it can't be thrown away, so everyone just talked a few words in surprise, and then began to boil the dark rice porridge when they were hungry.
This is the most common food in the Yellow Spring, which is the grass seeds left by some plants like dead grass on the surface, it is like a particle, the color is pitch black, and because of some legends, it is called the dark rice, which is an extremely important food source in the world that is not suitable for farming.
Previously, the shopkeeper Cai of Demon Yan Town had provided them with some dark rice, but it was not much, if they were frugal, it would only be enough for a dozen of them to eat for a month, so it would not be long before they should worry about food, but they should still solve the problem of living first.
Taking advantage of the gap between Grandpa Wu and his father, Gugu took a bowl of rice porridge that had eaten and drunk half of it, and secretly put it next to Xiao Ling, Xiao Gu tilted his head in disgust, and was finally violently suppressed by Gu Gu, almost pressing his whole head into the bowl, and then grabbed Xiao Gu and desperately dug the soil on the earthen kang, and made a kind of meow scream, which attracted other people who were talking to look at him suspiciously.
However, the movements of Coo and Xiao Yu can only remind the adults of play, so they just glanced at it, and the cellar, which had been quiet, became slightly noisy again.
After eating the food, Gugu hugged the little girl and slept on the side, but late at night, Gugu was awakened by a thunderous sound, she shrank up with some fear, but found that the little girl she was holding had disappeared, and the whole cellar was in a hurry, because it seemed to be raining a lot outside, and a lot of rain flowed down the hole and into the cellar.
They used tools to dig to block the exit, but the rain outside was so heavy that it didn't take long for not only the blocked outlet to be reopened, but also the surrounding walls to seep rainwater.
The earth kang was overflowed by the water, and a group of people began to panic, and Goo's father looked around, guessing that the cellar was likely to collapse, so he yelled, took the lead in picking up Goo, and beckoned everyone to leave the cellar. At the urging of his father, the panicked crowd rushed out of the cave with a few things.
Fortunately, the previously built house has two rooms with the basic outline, and one of them has even been capped, but because it is too humid inside and needs to be dried for a while, no one intends to move in.
But at this time, it was not time to be picky at all, and everyone rushed into the room that had been capped, set things up, and then began to count the number of people.
At this time, the dull sound was not clearly transmitted in the rainy night, and everyone could vaguely see through the rain curtain that the previous position of the cellar had collapsed, and some people's faces began to turn pale, and Coo Gu was also curled up in a ball, holding Gu Gu's father and not letting go. Father Goo and Grandpa Wu sighed, continued to count the number of people, and finally found that everyone was there, and no one was left in the cellar, until the cat named Xiao Liang disappeared.
However, no one in the audience paid attention to the non-existent kitten except Coo.
The gray-haired Grandpa Wu stood beside Gugu, looking at the dark night sky with solemn eyes, and sighed slightly.......
"What's the second time?" asked Gollum's father, who was slightly stunned and looked at him with some confusion.
"It's the second time in my life that I've encountered such a heavy rain......" Grandpa Wu squinted.
Gugu's father subconsciously asked, "Uncle Wu, when was the first time you encountered such heavy rain?"
Grandpa Wu stood there, his eyes were already blurred, and tears lingered in his sockets.......
"Sixty years ago?" Goo's father blinked, not understanding what happened sixty years ago, which could make Uncle Wu so sad.
He was about to ask, but in the rainy night, a few slightly blurred figures came in from a distance, and when they could see each other's silhouettes clearly, those figures were already close to the outskirts of the town, only a few feet away from their room.
The figures obviously noticed something, paused slightly, and seemed to be talking in a low voice, and then a person in a cloak walked over and slightly raised the face of the disastrous defeat under the hat...
The reddish color was left from the man's coat along the falling rain, and the father took a serious look, but found that the reddish color seemed to be the blood that had just been spurted......
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