The eldest son knew that the things were coming, so he asked all the people and dogs and little wolves to get up, and arranged for a dog and a little wolf to accompany Manmei to take care of the children in a house in the middle, and the rest of the people were divided into two groups, one group was responsible for looking out on the roof of the building to see if anything was approaching, this group was composed of the father and the third son, and the other group was responsible for the guard in the yard, and at the same time looked at the Manmei and the children from time to time, this group was composed of the eldest son, the mother, and the second son.

After the arrangements were made, my father lit a fire on the roof of the building, which illuminated the hillside near and far, and the sky was crimson.

Afterwards, the eldest son took out the steel drill from the fire and looked at it, checked the killing knife and spear around him, and asked the second son to quickly chop more fir drafts to light up all corners of the yard.

The eldest son divided the eight dogs and eight wolf cubs, four dogs and three wolf cubs followed the father to guard the roof of the building, two dogs were responsible for patrolling around the yard, one dog followed the mother, and four little wolves followed the eldest son and they were guards.

As soon as it was set up, I heard the sound of some animal running from the lower valley, no, it was a few animals chasing an animal!

Only the animals behind them can be heard roaring and screaming, as if they are deliberately frightened, and the animals fleeing in front of them can only hear the sound of breathless gasps, and sometimes the sound of falling and slipping.

The sound is getting closer and closer, and the wheezing sound is getting louder and louder, and it is not a small thing from the size of the sound, at least it is as big as a bear.

The father nervously analyzed, what kind of animal was running for its life in the middle of the night?

And what animals are chasing after them, and what if they rush into the yard?

One question after another came to mind.

Thinking of this, the father hurriedly asked Manmei to take the child, the dog, and the little wolf into the underground house made of stone.

The eldest son also felt that something was wrong, and hurriedly asked everyone to kill with knives in hand and spears by his side, ready for a big battle at any time.

At this tense moment, the second son suddenly said that he should set up a rattan net in the yard. If the animal comes in, it can also be caught with a net.

A sentence reminded the eldest son, and it was another busy, and the rattan net was finally set up, and everything was just waiting for those animals to rush over.

By the light of the fire on the roof, my father saw two shining, green things running from the bottom to the top—the eyes of an animal fleeing for its life.

Draw a full bow. With a light arrow, as soon as my father's right hand was sent, an arrow made of nanmu flew towards the eyes of the fleeing animal.

I heard a "poof", and the arrow went straight to the green thing, and the animal fell.

My father's idea was that if the prey of those animals was shot, they would not chase after them, and they would not endanger the stone house.

The animal that came after him saw the animal that had fled for its life fall to the ground. They wanted to rush up and bite it, but when they found it dead, they suddenly felt a wave of fear attack, and they were so anxious that they stood in circles and circles, and the bright light of red crystals was everywhere, and finally, they found the fire on the roof and their father standing on the roof.

After a low howl, the animals quickly rushed towards the stone house.

The third son shouted, "It's coming!" and grabbed the stone that had been prepared on the roof of the building and threw it at the eyes below.

The eldest son heard. Let all the dogs and little wolves scream, and let the sound of sixteen little wolves and dogs scare the animals outside.

But the animals heard the little ones crying. Not only did he not slow down or even stop, but he ran faster.

The eldest son saw that it was not good, and hurriedly dragged a few chestnut thorns with the size of a stick prepared in the yard to the door of the house - if the animal entered the yard, then these thorns were enough to prevent the animal from entering the house.

At the same time, he asked his second son to release a dog out of the yard, and told him to hurry to his uncle's house to report the news, so that they could come and help.

The dog walks on the front foot. The sound of the animals banging on the door was heard.

At this time, my father stood on the roof of the building and saw the animals outside, which turned out to be seven or eight cheetahs, almost as tall as a person's shoulder.

After seeing it clearly, my father also figured out the way.

The best way to deal with a cheetah is to spine. Get a thorn in the ground, so that it has no place to put its feet, as long as one cheetah is hit, the rest will be scattered, and they dare not come here to harass again.

Thinking of this, the father grabbed the soaphorn thorns from the basket specially equipped with thorns on the roof of the building, threw them in the direction of the gate of the courtyard, and then threw them in the yard, and told the eldest son to prevent his own people from stepping on them.

The soaphorn thorn is different from the thorns they used to fish, this is a three-pronged thorn, each thorn is the length of a thumb, the thickness of the incense stick, sharp and hard, just throw it on the ground, you can have a thorn is facing the sky, it is a natural hunting good thing.

As soon as the cheetahs saw that hitting the door did not work, they prepared to jump in through the door by sprinting.

However, due to the high height of the door, they jumped a few times to no avail, and they were still a little short.

One of the cheetahs, apparently their heads, withdrew far from the doorway, aiming at a cheetah in front of them, trying to jump into the yard with a run-up and jump on the body of this cheetah a second time.

Just as it was about to rush to the cheetah's side and was about to jump, it heard the cheetah stumble, as if it had suddenly broken a leg, and then tilted its body to the side, and screamed "whooping", probably with its foot pierced into the thorn.

Seeing that this had worked, the father took a few steps forward and threw more thorns at the door—it was night, and although the cheetahs could see their prey, they could not see the black spines on the ground, and it was a good time to use them.

After a while, a few more hounds were tricked.

As soon as the cheetah saw that it didn't work, the rest scattered and ran towards the lower reaches of the valley, and the injured cheetahs wanted to run, it was not so easy, some broke one foot, jumped away with a limp, and some stepped on both feet, basically couldn't walk, I saw my father aim one by one, one arrow at a time, straight through the stomach, and the three cheetahs fell to the ground only humming.

As soon as the arrows were released, they heard the sound of the iron basin beating from the direction of the uncle's house above the valley, and it was estimated that they had come to the rescue.

The father hurriedly shouted at the top of his voice, telling them to come down and be careful, there was a soaphorn thorn at the door.

The uncle agreed, and immediately slowed down and asked his cousin to light two torches. Prevent.

Although the soaphorn thorn is not poisonous, the taste of the thumb-length thorn piercing the instep is still unpleasant.

The eldest son knew that the danger had been lifted now, so he grabbed a big broom and swept all the thorns in the yard under the courtyard wall, and then asked the second son to open the gate, and then carefully swept the door and a little longer on the road to make sure that there were no thorns before reassuring.

The third son continued to stand on the roof of the building and watch. My father came to the gate of the courtyard and greeted my uncle and the old man.

The second son was busy for a while and thought of the full sister and the child in the underground house, and went over to see it once, and found that the children were asleep in bed, and the dog and the little wolf were also lying on the ground with half-squinted eyes, as if they didn't take the danger outside seriously at all, and the full sister was sewing a piece of clothing for her father unhurriedly with a needle.

When my uncle came, my father accompanied me to talk.

The eldest son called the second son, the third son, and his cousin to pick up the three cheetahs and the animals that had been shot dead by their father in front of them.

They walked over. Under a patch of sand, two cheetahs were found, and the other burrowed into the nearby grass and was found by the dogs.

There was a cheetah's arrow that missed a little and went through the thigh, and when they approached, the cheetah was still scary, and the eldest son didn't care about that. Lifting a spear and slapping it on the head of the cheetah a dozen times in a row, it was stunned.

The other two because they went straight through the stomach. Blood and intestines flowed all over the ground, only lying on the ground and humming, and the second son also slapped a stick on the head in the past to make it comfortable.

They tied the four limbs of the stunned cheetah in pairs and two pairs with cow cable vines, and hung them upside down on a pumpkin rack at the door, and tied their necks with another cow cable vine facing down. Tied to a large stone of several hundred pounds on the ground.

When it wakes up, its cry will probably wake up the animals in the valley.

After packing up the three cheetahs, the eldest son asked the brothers to bring a few more manuscripts, and they were going to find the animal that had escaped from his father's death.

There were two or three hills down the field, on the road to the edge of the field. They found it, and it was an aardvark the size of a calf!

When the arrow shot into the eye, the aardvark died on the spot, which saved everyone a lot of effort.

After everyone got the animals back, they set up a wide area in the yard.

With these animals, it happens to be a good thing to send to the door, and everyone doesn't have to worry about eating meat lately - I don't know how many of the animals that were released some time ago.

The eldest son and the second son helped to carry two cheetahs up to their uncle's family, and then returned home to rest and rearrange the matter of standing guard.

After tossing and turning for most of the night, it was almost dawn.

Early the next morning, the father told the family that the affairs of the family were handed over to the eldest son, and everyone was happy for the eldest son.

Mother said well, the old man, when you are old, it is time for the children to exercise, don't always think that you are still twenty years old.

The father burst out laughing.

From today onwards, everyone will continue to pick up the hoe and start doing the housework.

However, there is one more thing this morning, that is, to find back the cattle that were put into the mountains some time ago, and with these, the family's ploughing, eating meat, working, and pulling carts can be guaranteed.

When he came to a small ravine not far from the stone house, the eldest son first divided the dog and the little wolf, and went up from both sides of the ridge to the halfway up the mountainside, and then went into the woods of the ravine, and drove down from the top to see how many cattle could be driven out.

The dog and the little wolf seemed to understand their master's thoughts, and when they went up the hill they were quiet, and they did not make a sound at all, but they all went far away, and when a bag of cigarettes reached the mountainside, they made a loud noise, made as loud a noise as possible, and drove the animals of the mountain down.

This was like a hornet's nest, and the whole forest was filled with crackling footsteps, as if the forest was full of animals, and I don't know if it was the family's livestock.

At the beginning, the animals in the forest seemed to be frightened, and ran around with their heads covered, and when it became clear that there were dogs and little wolves barking on the mountain, they all ran down the mountain like bees, and a few animals that ran in a hurry, as if they were sitting on skateboards, slipped down directly from the woods on the mountain, and frightened the eldest son, and they were also distressed.

But the animals on the mountain didn't go far before they stopped.

When all these animals were driven to the fields in the valley, everyone counted them, and the livestock at home were basically still there, including reindeer, wild boars, bison, wild sheep, but there were no wild ducks.

Eventually, they found a dozen ducks in the upper reaches of the creek.

When I got home, my mother saw that these things were still there, as my father said, and said happily that even the animals knew that the family was safe, hahahaha.

With livestock, hunting dogs and wolf cubs in the house, that's what a home looks like.

When the children went to look for the livestock, the mother also looked at the underground house where the family put the grain, and everything was fine, except that several generations of rice seemed to have been bitten by rats and the rice was sprinkled on the ground.

The mother called two hunting dogs, went around the underground house, and caught and ate the rats in it one by one.

He fenced all the cattle and repaired some of the broken places, cut some thatch nearby, cut down some white oak trees with many leaves, and put a thick wall on the cattle shed, so that it would not be cold in winter.

After all this, another day has passed.

In the second half of the day, my mother and my sister went to see the nearby vegetable garden, and the Chinese cabbage and radish were basically eaten by some animals, and later found a lot of cow and sheep dung next to the vegetable garden, only to know that it was eaten by their own cattle and sheep.

The other dishes are fine, such as spicy seeds, pumpkin, celery and green onions, which are all green, probably because these things smell so bad that the livestock don't like to eat them.

Cabbage and radish are easy to do, take advantage of the good weather, and then sprinkle some seeds, and they will grow in ten days, and you can also eat a stubble before the winter solstice.

The next day, the father and the children picked up a hoe, and they were going to dig up the sand, and the potatoes should be planted, and before winter came, they had to turn over the sand so that the insects hiding in the sand would be exposed to the winter snow and freeze to death.

This work cannot be done by ploughing the field with oxen, it needs to be dug with a hoe and hoe, and the soil clods that the oxen plough the field are too fine, and after turning it over, the insects are pressed into the ground again, and they are busy in vain.

In this way, everyone took advantage of the good weather before the snow came, turned over all the idle sand, planted potatoes again, and sowed a cabbage field and a turnip field, and the eldest son breathed a long sigh of relief.

After finishing the work in the sand, the father took his eldest son to see the paddy fields, which are the places where rice is grown, and are divided into winter paddy fields and dry fields.

Winter paddy field means that there is still water in the field in winter. (To be continued.) )