In less than an hour, a simple and sturdy house was ready. Another advantage of this type of house is that you only need to make one wall on the side close to the mountain, and you can do without walls on the other three sides.

But in the end, considering that the temperature could be very low at night, and that there might be strong winds blowing the fire, a simple wall of branches was built on both sides to protect against the wind, and the roof was only placed with some leafy branches.

From the celestial phenomena, the moon has risen high and can be seen very clearly, there is not a single cloud in the sky, and it should not rain at night.

The floor of the house is made of logs, and then layers of stone slabs of different thicknesses are laid on the logs, and in the place where the fire is burned, several more layers are laid so that the log floors below will not be burned out.

More than an hour before dark, the hut was already lit with fire, the pot was set up, and the water was brought in and supper began to cook.

Considering that it was still early and the place was relatively safe, the father said to the children, "Would you like to eat some wild fruits or vegetables or something to change your appetite?"

Mother also smiled and said that they are all gluttonous, but we are not allowed to run far, we must be able to see it.

Father hurriedly said that it would not be far away, and we would go to the creek next to it to have a look.

In this way, the mother and the sister were busy with the fire, and the other was busy with the things in the pot, and the father took the three sons to the stream two or three feet away, and the dog and the little wolf were divided in half, and the extra little wolf stood in the middle of the two groups of people, and could help at any time if there was any problem.

The creek is not wide, the narrow place can be jumped over, there are stones on both sides, some are mud, the water in the stream is not big, but it is very clear, you can see the end at a glance, but there are green aquatic plants in some places. My father said that when he passed by the creek earlier, he found fish swimming in it, and he hadn't eaten fish for a long time, so let's try it today.

So saying, he blocked the upper reaches of the creek with stones and mud, and later the lower reaches of the stream in the same way.

Then he told the children to pull up their trousers and go into the stream and stir them vigorously with their feet until the water was muddy.

At first, there was no reaction in the water, so my father dug up a few pieces of mud from the side of the stream, and dug a lot of sand into the water, and then continued to stir it, and the water in the stream was almost muddy.

At this time, I saw the father and the children bent over one by one, their eyes searching the surface of the water, and their hands were put together, ready to hold the fish. Suddenly, a small fish probably couldn't hold back in the water and jumped out of the water and struggled.

The third son, with his eyes and hands, held it at once—the size of a small fish two fingers—and then pulled a vine rope out of the grass beside him, passed it through the gills, and skewered the fish.

After a while, everyone caught a dozen small fish, seven or eight loaches, and three or four yellow eels.

Seeing that it was getting dark, and the dam blocked upstream was almost unable to hold the water, my father stopped everyone to wash their hands and go ashore, dug the dam with a hoe, and washed a long stream of fish in the clean water upstream, and returned to the hut with everyone. Mother and Manmei were also very happy to see that they had caught so many fish, loaches and yellow eels, and hurriedly discussed how to eat them.

The end result is that part of it is roasted and eaten, and part of it is boiled and drunk.

Grilled fish, dogs and wolves can't eat, there are many spines in the fish, and it's troublesome to get stuck in the throat, but the boiled fish soup can be drunk.

Everyone took turns to eat, and it was dark.

After dinner, my father began to think about the night.

It's hard for my father to judge what the situation is here, so it's better to be careful.

With this in mind, the father asked all the dogs and the wolf cub to bark loudly, trying to scare the other big animals away in this way, which actually meant that they would retreat.

Generally, a single large animal is afraid to approach, and a large animal generally acts alone, which may have something to do with their large appetite, and it is inevitable that everyone will be hungry if they can't find enough food together.

The more dangerous animals in the group are wolves and hyenas, and their populations are generally not large, that is, more than a dozen, and they can't be raised, but a dozen animals in front of this group of people and hunting dogs and wolves basically can't take advantage.

If you look at it this way, there should be no problem here.

However, my father still didn't dare to be careless, because he had never been to this forest, and he didn't know the depth of the deep forest, so he arranged a four-to-two ratio to stand guard, two people rested, and each person rested for a meal.

Due to the many mountain roads walked today, everyone is really tired, in order to prevent someone from falling asleep when standing guard, the eldest son simply stood guard, while telling everyone the words that he had just taught you some time ago, everyone forgot something, he told everyone in detail, some even he can't remember himself, and he drew a word on the spot instead.

He also told everyone about the mischievous things he did when he was a child, and everyone laughed.

It's been a long time since the family has laughed so happily.

In this deep mountain and dense forest, it is indeed rare that there are no animals to disturb you on the first night of arrival.

After standing on duty all night, everyone was mentally exhausted and their eyes were a little foggy.

The eldest son squinted his eyes, looked at the hazy and shiny sky in the sky, and said lazily, the sky is almost dawn, let's take turns to sleep.

Soon, everyone fell asleep in a daze.

In his sleep, the eldest son felt that his face was wet and cool, like it was raining, but it was very comfortable.

Thinking about it, it didn't feel right, my father looked at the sky before dark last night and said it wouldn't rain, so why did it rain? No, something must have happened.

He tried to wake himself up, his hands and feet fluttering, but no matter how much he struggled, he couldn't wake up, as if someone had pressed down on his chest, choked his neck, grabbed his hands and feet.

The more he couldn't wake up, the more he struggled harder, and he didn't know what to say.

After a while, he was soaking wet.

Suddenly, he woke up and saw his father sitting beside him shaking his arm vigorously, and realized that he had a dream, looking at the sky, and it was not raining, and then touching his face, it was indeed a little wet.

When his father saw that he had woken up, he hurriedly asked him what was wrong, and he told him what he had dreamed.

As soon as he finished speaking, his father burst out laughing, hahahaha. As he spoke, he beckoned a dog and said, "Come on, come on, you tell your little master what happened just now."

After that, there was another burst of laughter.

It made the eldest son inexplicable, but he knew that it was definitely not a good thing, so he hurriedly asked what was wrong.

The father told him that when the dog saw that he was still sleeping, he walked over and licked his face for a long time, and he didn't know what to lick, so that his face was full of saliva......

There is water, trees and mountains, and the place to live is safe, so it is a great place to stay if it doesn't rain.

My father was a little reluctant to leave, so he asked everyone's opinions.

Some said that they would try to go to the foot of the mountain today and spend the night in the valley below; some said that if they walked a little more horizontally and then down, they might find something that they could bring back as seeds; and some said that they would listen to their father's arrangement, but they did not directly say that they would stay for another day.

Seeing that everyone still wanted to walk around, my father didn't say anything, so he decided to go down, so it is estimated that he can go faster, and he has not been to the following, so he can arrive early and leave more time to find a place to spend the night.