Chapter 32: Time and Space Travel
In a house, my father, grandfather, grandfather, and second grandfather were still neatly stacked there thirty years ago, and there were no insects and rotten, and my father smiled happily.
Fir manuscript Liang is the fir tree skin is damaged by insects or external forces, from the tree body of oil, after a long time these oils will be soaked in the tree itself, forming a red color, and many years of immortality, very flammable, is a good material for ignition.
Soon, the house became bright, and my father took everyone to look at each room, and found nothing unusual, so he was relieved.
After reading it, my father quickly made a division of labor, in fact, this will not need my father's orders, everyone already knows what to do, hold firewood, burn fire, organize things, arrange customs and defense, and get busy one by one in a neat and orderly manner. Seeing all this, my father smiled with satisfaction.
Half an hour later, when it was already dark outside, the father took his sons to the gate, and said that if we live here, we only need to put a stone on the top of the gate, and we don't have to stand guard at night.
With that, he pointed to a long stone in the distance. When we looked carefully, we found that the door of this stone house is very special, there is a door outside, there is a door inside, there is a stone pit on the door, and there is also a stone pit on the ground in front of the door.
Seeing this, everyone understands. I asked my father who built it, and how many people would have to take to carve out such a stone house.
My father said that he didn't know, and my grandfather didn't know when he was there, and they were also passed down from generation to generation by his wife, maybe they were chiseled by the ancient army, and this was a military stronghold in ancient times.
My father also said that thousands of years have passed, and the flat land in front of the house is full of vegetables that were planted in ancient times, and the land in Pingchuan is fertile, there is a small stream in the river, the water volume is uniform all year round, and there is no flood, the surrounding area seems to be flat, and there are high mountains, but there are no large animals to disturb it, which is very suitable for human survival, and the wife of the wife once wanted to move the family here. Later, because an old lady was not in good health, she couldn't cross the snow-capped mountain we passed.
After doing this, the stone house is already fragrant with dinner, the lights are bright, and it is a scene of living at home.
The two sons and the full sister also cleaned up the bed where everyone slept at night.
Today's time is tight, there is no time to do it well, just spread a thick layer of fur on the clean stone floor, although sleeping on it is not as comfortable and soft as the straw mat, but it should not be cold, today let's get together for one night.
When everyone had fallen asleep, my father got up quietly, picked up the black lacquered wooden box again, pointed it at the door, and muttered something silently. I heard a crisp sound, and a golden light shot out of the box, hit the door made of stone, and then reflected back, enveloping the entire stone house.
"It's good now. "When my father saw this, he knew that the troubled times outside had been cut off, and no one else could find or enter here unless anyone from the Xiyan family could find it.
Many years later, the father passed the box to his third son and told him the secrets in the box.
In fact, the box does not contain the genealogy of the Xiyan family, the real genealogy has long been lost in the chaos of the war, and this box is indeed a golden talisman that the clansmen exchanged for their lives. Opening this box and exposing the golden talisman to natural light can isolate the entire area from the outside world, thus avoiding the impact of the troubled times and realizing the continuation of the clan.
As for the rumored that if you open the box, you can find treasures and find mountains of gold and silver, even my father has never seen it, let alone believed it. With the protection of the box of golden talismans, my father knew that the family was safe here.
Sure enough, as my father said, it was very safe here, and everyone slept very sweetly all night, and they had not slept so peacefully since they went out, and they slept until noon.
No one added wood all night, and the fire in the fire had long since been extinguished, and only some coals were left that had burned quickly.
When the mother got up, she hurriedly and carefully added firewood to make the fire bigger.
By the time the father and the children woke up, the mother had already prepared breakfast, which consisted of porridge and steamed buns.
The porridge is cooked with rice brought from home, and the steamed buns are leftovers from everyone on the way yesterday. The water used to cook rice is a spring that flows out of the cave.
In fact, it can't be called spring water, this water is the mountain spring water introduced from the outside when building the stone cave, flows into the cave through a secret channel, and then flows out from a lower secret channel, in order to prevent animals from entering the cave through the waterway, after the secret passage is repaired, it is tamped with large irregular stones, and the gaps are also filled with fine sand, in addition to preventing animals, it can also play a filtering role in the water, it is really a masterpiece.
I can't imagine that the masterpieces of the ancients thousands of years ago can still be used normally without clogging, which is really wonderful.
The father and the children were only half full, although the mother did not speak, but it is estimated that she was not full, after all, all the way, the physical exertion is too large, and although I have not eaten anything special since I went out, I have not eaten anything special, but I have also eaten either meat or fish, and the meat and vegetable matching, it is not a problem to be full, and today I did not eat a full meal for the first time, and everyone sighed a lot.
However, the peasants had already adapted to the days of being full and hungry, and everyone did not take it to heart, but they were worried about what would happen if there was a shortage of food in the future, but my father seemed to be indifferent to all this or was confident, and he was not worried about not eating at all.
As soon as the breakfast bowl was put down, my father explained the situation here to everyone, saying that he would stay here for at least half a year before going home, and if the situation was not good, he would stay longer, and this is our current home.
Later, the division of labor was discussed with everyone, the mother and the full sister cleaned up at home, and a son dealt with the weeds and yard in front of the door to make it look like a place to live, and at the same time was responsible for chopping firewood nearby, and the chopped firewood was piled up in the yard outside the stone cave first, and then moved into the stone cave after a period of time when it was completely dry and the firewood in the stone cave was almost burned.
The father went out with his two sons and three dogs to look for food, and before he left, he told the people in the house that they would not go far, that they were nearby, and that they would shout loudly if something happened, or send a dog to call them.
The father took the children out of the yard and walked up the stream, which was flat and overgrown with weeds, and slowly stretched forward.
The father and the children left the brook and went into the grass, and said loudly that this was a place where vegetables were planted in the past, and everyone saw if there were any left.
The children thought that their father had been away from here for 30 years, and how could the vegetables he had grown in the past still be available now.
Before he finished speaking, his father had already found a few cabbages, but they were almost eaten by insects, and only a mottled cabbage was left.
After a while, the children also found some celery and coriander.