Seeing that the children were a little sleepy, the father asked them if they wanted to hear how the grandfather and the old lady had lived in the castle before.

The children suddenly became interested and talked and thought.

The father slowly told them a story that happened hundreds of years ago and lasted for decades, and the children were so moved and embarrassed that they all fell into deep contemplation......

Looking at the already dim light outside, the father called out to the sleeping mother and eldest son.

Let the third son help his mother light the fire, and the mother cooks, and he and the eldest son sharpen their knives with a granite. The granite is not very big, and it slips away as soon as it is grinded, and the eldest son needs to use his feet to push it.

His father was afraid that the knife and axe would touch him and he couldn't show his hands and feet. Later, he simply leaned the granite against the stone wall, which made it easier to grind.

Seeing that his father found a way to sharpen the knife, the eldest son also sharpened the steel drill, sharpened the kitchen knife after sharpening the killing knife, and sharpened the axe after grinding the steel drill, one by one. When you pass it with your hand, you can feel a crunchy coolness on the edge.

The knife was sharpened, the meal was ready, and the day was bright, and the children naturally woke up.

After eating, they pushed open the stone door, walked out of the stone cave, and began to carefully look at the terrain outside the cave, yesterday they were too busy to take a good look at the surrounding situation.

Standing on the flat grass at the entrance of the cave, I saw that the opposite side was ten zhang away, and when I raised my eyes, there was a high mountain blocking the view, the mountain was covered with deep forests, and there were big trees with bright feet, which was the ravine of the mountain where they came down yesterday, and the platform and valley that could not be seen could not be seen upward, and the main peak of the top of the mountain could not be seen when it turned a corner, and it was also a layer of platforms that went down to see far downstream.

Turning around to look at the stone cave, it is actually a whole stone mountain, in some places the stones have weathered and turned into soil, or the soil formed by the dead branches and leaves blown by the wind, plus the seeds of trees and weeds that occasionally blow over, there are many trees growing on the stones, and the roots of the trees are deeply drilled into the soil, and some of them squeeze out a crack in the complete stone mountain, which is very rare. Life is so tenacious.

The soft, cool sunlight of the morning poured down from the mountain behind the cave, casting the shadow of the mountain far into the deep forest opposite.

Seeing this, my father was stunned, his mind was blank, and he didn't know what to do here.

When the eldest son saw his father like this, he smiled and said, "Does father have a crush on this place and don't want to leave?"

My father smiled and said, "yes, I really don't want to leave such a nice place." ”

Then the father changed his words and said, "Do you think there is any possibility that this is also a place where the old lady lived back then?" ”

"No, it looks like it's many years older than the castle. "The children can't see this, in fact, they don't have any more ideas, and they feel that this place is very good, and they are a little reluctant to leave, at least they have to stay for a few days, and their father's idea is exactly what they want.

After thinking for a while, my father hurriedly said, don't stand here stunned, and arrange today's work.

Father said that the grain and vegetables they found yesterday were not available in the castle, and the most important thing today was to protect the seeds.

My father divided the work, and in the morning everyone worked together to protect the seeds, and in the afternoon they arranged to hunt for food.

So, the six of them were divided into three groups, the first group of eldest sons, The second son and the three of them were responsible for cutting enough thorns; the second group was the only one with the third son, and he was responsible for pulling the three of them up with a rope to the ground and handing them over to the father of the third group, who surrounded the grain seeds that had been found little by little; the mature seeds were collected by the mother separately; all the dogs and wolf cubs were on the same line formed by everyone's work, observing the movements around them at any time, and sometimes even taking the initiative to bark a few times to scare away other dangerous animals.

After arranging this, my father suddenly remembered that the animal that had been burned last night was gone, and when he was busy with these things in the morning, he could go down and look for it with confidence, and he would definitely not be able to run far.

Thinking of this, my father shouted to everyone, hurry up and work, and go hunting in the afternoon.

The children have been waiting for this sound for a long time, and they have started to work one by one.

As I mentioned earlier, the third son of the second group had to be strung with a rope and pulled away.

Why do you want to string the thorns? Think about it, the thorns can neither be removed, nor can they be tied into a bundle and carried on the shoulder, and the thorn tree often grows in all directions, even if you tie a large bundle, you can't tie a few trees, and if you run back and forth, you can only delay your efforts, and the simplest way to work is to use a rattan rope to pass through the main trunk of the thorns, and string a bunch of thorns together, so that you can pull the two ends into a knot, and you can pull it away.

However, the requirements for the road are higher, if the road is a real road, the stone and sand mud road are OK, the lawn is better, the weeds are OK, but there can be no shrubs or thorns, if you encounter a bush or a few thorns on the side of the road, it must not be able to pull, not only very difficult, but also not able to pull at all, only to do in a hurry.

However, this happens to be a lawn platform, and there are some weeds and small shrubs on the platform, but they are not big or high, basically there is no obstruction, and they can be pulled up quickly, and some good places can be trotted and walked.

In this way, the whole work was done in less than a morning, but there were still several places where the seeds were not fully covered.

Father decided to leave them alone and leave them to fend for themselves, leaving enough seeds anyway.

After doing these tasks, everyone started to cook together, and this meal was food brought out from home, and everyone did not eat much, and it was very economical, which was something that could not be eaten unless it was absolutely necessary.

After eating, my father decided to leave the people in separate groups, take all the tools with me, and leave everything else in the cave first, cover it with stones, and find the animal that was injured last night.

Because it was a scald wound last night, except for some blood stains at the entrance of the stone cave, there was no more in the distance, and everyone looked at it and didn't know where to look for it.

The father called the two dogs, took them to smell the blood on the ground by the cave, and explained a few words to them.

The two dogs led everyone upstream, walked a bag of cigarettes, turned around again, and walked towards the stone mountain.

The stone mountain is a whole stone, and although the stone itself is not slippery and basically free of moss, the slope is still very large.

After walking a few steps, everyone can't slide up, and the dog is no different from walking on a flat road, walking easily and naturally.

When the dog saw that his master did not follow, he returned and walked to his master's side, licked his master's cheek with his tongue, and looked up at the unfathomable mountain on the stone mountain, and howled a few times at several dogs, and the four dogs followed.

The other two dogs and three wolf cubs did not follow, and naturally gathered in the middle of their owners, and then scattered in all directions, keeping an eye on the surrounding guard.

The father understood what the dogs meant, and they were going up the hill to rely on the six of them to try to get the injured animal that had run up the hill down.