When they got to the bottom, he and his father realized that it was just another ditch-shaped grassy slope, and there was nothing around it except darkness and some overpowered dead grass, and he was a little incredulous and a little unwilling, thinking that the dogs must be somewhere here, but they didn't find it.

They took up their torches again and looked around the place, but found nothing else, and when they approached the dark place, they found that there was another grassy slope, and there were no stones, let alone cracks or holes in the grass.

The eldest son wanted to go up and find another place to see, but the father still didn't want to go, he felt that the dog had stopped here, and must have found something, but no one could say what was going on.

After checking for a long time, the father didn't find any other problems, so he went up to the platform with his eldest son, and they wanted to go around the platform to see if they could make new discoveries.

When the eldest son climbed on the bull cable, he picked up a lump of dirt on the ground and threw it downward—he was upset that he could not find the dogs.

Just as he was about to continue walking, he faintly felt that something was wrong, it turned out that the clod of earth that he had just thrown down did not make any sound, could it be thrown into a deeper ditch farther away?

Impossible, just now he and his father looked carefully, there are dirt slopes around, and there is no ditch at all.

Could there be another reason?

He immediately felt that something was wrong, and while shouting for everyone to light the torches, he quickly descended down the ox cable to the bottom of the ditch again, and before his father could react to what was the matter, he had already picked it up below with a torch.

The mother was about to ask the eldest son why he had gone down again, when she heard the eldest son shouting again at the bottom of the ditch, "There's a hole here!" It means that the dogs disappeared in this hole.

The father tied two thick cow cables to a big rock, planted two big torches next to the stones, arranged two dogs and two little wolves to guard nearby, and the rest of the people and all the dogs and little wolves climbed the cow ropes and went down to the bottom of the ditch.

At this time, everyone realized that in the place where the father turned around just now, a black hole was exposed in the middle of a messy dry grass, and the lump of dirt thrown by the eldest son just now fell from here. No wonder no sound was made.

Needless to say, those dogs who came out to hunt in the afternoon must have also fallen from this place.

The bottom of the ditch was not too deep, and besides, it led to the woods, so it was not a problem to get out, so the father told the eldest son to go up and take down the two oxen cables tied to the stones, and call down all the torches, the dogs, and the little wolves, and stay with everyone, so that it would be safer.

The father used a killing knife to cut off all the thatch at the entrance of the cave, revealing two holes the size of baskets. The inside of the cave was a little dark, but it didn't seem to be very dark, but there was a faint light, but it was not clear under the light of the torches.

This time it was the eldest son and the second son who went down, and before they went down, they took two drafts with a bull cable, and when they reached the bottom of the cave, they shook them with their hands. He dropped himself aside, and then put down four more dogs.

Father and three sons. and the mother and the four wolf cubs on guard to prevent the danger of approaching at any time.

The eldest son and the second son grabbed the cow cable and slowly got into the hole, the more they went down, the more they felt that the hole seemed to be brighter, at first they thought they were feeling wrong, but later they found out that it was true, and finally when they reached the bottom of the cave. Below, there was a lot of light everywhere, just like dozens of manuscripts - they had never seen anything so bright.

It's strange that there are no torches, no fires, and no idea where these lights come from. The ground is unbelievably flat, like the ice in a river in winter. It seems that if you are not careful, you will slip.

The surrounding walls and roofs are filled with some strange shapes, but it's clear that the people who made them worked hard to make them look good.

The eldest and second sons didn't bother to look at these things they had never seen before, and they didn't know what they were for, they just wanted to find their dog and wolf as quickly as possible.

After getting used to the light in the hole, they looked around the hole to see if there was a place to go out, or a fork in the hole, and finally they pushed a protrusion in a place with a crack in the middle, a bit like a door, and the whole wall automatically retracted, revealing a deep hole.

The inside of the cave was as bright as the hole outside, and the surroundings were similar, the eldest son and the second son, their two brothers, picked up the killing knife and axe, and walked in without hesitation, and several dogs also ran forward and backward to follow around, sniffing here and from time to time, and from time to time raising their legs there to pee, for fear that they would not find their way back.

This time they went surprisingly well, and not long after entering, they found that there were several houses with iron railings not far ahead, and their missing dog and wolf were locked up in several houses.

The eldest and second sons rushed over and cried out so loudly that they were almost in tears.

They knew they couldn't stay here for long, so they quickly found the deadbolt, pulled it open, and let the dog and the little wolf out.

The little wolf and the dog were so excited to see their owners that they wagged their tails, and it seemed that they didn't know how they got here.

Ignoring all of this, the eldest son and the second son took the dog and the little wolf and almost trotted out of the long hole in the ground, barked at it, climbed on the rope and hurried out of the hole—it was so strange here, it was something that had never been seen before, and I don't know what kind of spirit it was.

After pulling the eldest son, the second son, all the dogs, and the little wolf out of the hole, the father was worried that someone or something else would accidentally fall into the hole again, so he asked the third son to cut down a few trees from the side and cover the hole entrance, so that at least he would not feel uncomfortable in his heart.

After coming out of the cave and coming to the earthen cave at the foot of the mountain, the eldest son and the second son could not take care to tell everyone what they found in the cave after they went down.

When they heard this, they were at a loss, they didn't know what they were, and they didn't know who made them, and of course they didn't know who or even what animals lived in.

It's already the middle of the night, and if you want to change places, there's really nowhere to go. Although there is such a strange and dangerous place halfway up the mountain, I can only barely stay for one night, and no matter what the situation is, I can only talk about it tomorrow at the earliest.

This night, everyone never fell asleep again, firstly, to prepare food for the dogs and little wolves who went out to hunt in the afternoon, and secondly, they suddenly encountered such an incident. I couldn't sleep, everyone was talking about what to do tomorrow, whether to go back or continue.

Father listened to everyone's talking, and rarely interjected, what he was thinking about now was whether this cave had anything to do with the cave they had returned home from, and the red-skinned iron gate, and the ruins of so many ancients found along the way. What does that mean, and what to do about it.

All these questions stirred up his mind.

In a daze, the night passed, and the faint light shining through the sky on the distant mountain shone through the wooden door made of branches and wood, and my father knew that it was time to make a decision.

He glanced at the family slowly. With mixed feelings in his heart, he whispered. Let's go home, this is not the place for us.

As soon as this sentence came out, everyone was stunned, and they couldn't imagine that they had been worried all night, and in the end, they couldn't imagine that this time they rushed out to explore. I have to go back if there is no result, and I am a little unwilling.

But the reality is here, everyone can see it, and of course, there is no better way for everyone to do it. If we continue here, the safety of the family will definitely be another problem.

Since it has been decided, my father will divide the work among everyone and prepare to go home, first of all, I will return to the grass hut in the valley plain today for the night, the farther away from here, the better, and tomorrow I will stay in the grass hut for two or three days, and go home as soon as I prepare the things that have passed through the hole.

Just do it, the mother and the two sisters hurriedly prepared breakfast, the father took seven or eight dogs and the little wolf to the outside to breathe, and the eldest son took the second son and the third son to quickly pack up their things.

After a bag of cigarettes, breakfast is ready, and everyone no longer takes turns to eat, but eats together, even the dog and the little wolf, because there will be no danger at all, and they are about to leave, so they don't care about that.

They hurried overhead, and when the sun was almost overhead, they passed by the stone hut where they had stayed the night before, and when the sun was halfway west, they finally came to the hut.

Fortunately, the hut had not changed much when they walked with them, and the thorns placed on it were all in good condition, so they didn't have to spend time looking for a place to spend the night.

Putting down his things, picking up the thorn tree, and lifting the straw curtain, the father felt that it was necessary to be careful, and he let the two dogs and the little wolf go in first.

After the dog and the little wolf looked at it for a while, they came out wagging their tails, indicating that there was no danger in the hut and signaling the owner to go in.

Everyone went into the hut one by one to rest, but everyone knew that time was tight, how could there be any time to rest, and we had to hurry up and work quickly, otherwise tonight would be another worried night.

So the father asked the eldest son to arrange the division of labor, and finally the father was responsible for tidying up the thorns around the house, and re-erected, the mother and the second son were responsible for cooking, the eldest son and the second son were responsible for chopping firewood nearby, and the third son was responsible for carrying the firewood back, arranging half of the dogs and the little wolf to go out hunting, and the other half spread the guard around, leaving two dogs for the mother and the full sister to accompany them to cook and wash vegetables, because the creek is some distance from the grass hut, and the water surface of the creek can not be seen in the distance, and there must be a dog to follow to rest assured.

It's all arranged, and everyone is moving.

After a while, my father used a killing knife to cut a lot of thatch nearby, and he wanted to thicken the roof of the house to prevent it from raining at night.

After doing this, I re-divided all the thorns, and in some places that I didn't feel thick enough, I cut some new thorns around and spread them out.

Later, he used his axe to cut out several wooden stakes and nailed them to the ground around the hut to hold the thorns in place and prevent them from sliding down.

The mother and the elder sister were busy in the hut for a while, and then they found that there was nothing to eat, so they took a few dogs and called the third son to go to the stream, and they remembered that there were many things to eat by the stream.

Fortunately, they picked up a lot of snails, mussels, and water celery in the stream, and the third son used the method he just learned the day before yesterday to catch a lot of loaches and yellow eels.

While chopping firewood, the eldest son and the second son also found some fir mushrooms and two winter bamboo shoots, and brought them back with firewood, so happy that everyone didn't know what to eat tonight.

The dogs and wolves who had gone out hunting did not return from the plains until it was dark for a while, and they caught two gray rabbits and a red fox, and it seemed that the dogs and wolves would not have enough to eat tonight.

At mealtime, the dog and the little wolf drank a belly of soup at the end, and they barely ate enough, but there was no way, only tomorrow.

After taking turns to eat dinner, I don't know how long it had been dark. The father still asked the eldest son to arrange for the overnight guard.

The eldest son decided that the four sisters would stand on the first shift, and let the father and mother rest first.

As soon as the arrangement was completed, my father went to sleep at the end of the night, and he knew that he didn't know what to do in the second half of the night, and it was important to rest quickly.

The mother explained several times, asked her to take over the first shift, and said that if the children were tired and hungry, they would get some food by themselves.

The children all thought that their mother was verbose, and they all said that they could not worry about us, so their mother lay down and rested with confidence.

The eldest son was fiddling with firewood while looking around vigilantly, and he knew that it was very likely that the first shift would not be peaceful tonight.

Sure enough, as soon as he pulled out the steel drill in the fire and was about to quench it coldly, he heard the sound of "Xi Xi Suosuo" from outside the grass shed, and he knew that he should come or come, so he snorted at the second and third sons on the opposite side, and handed a killing knife to Manmei, beckoning three dogs to his side, and then stood up.

He stood on the pyre and lifted the roof of the hut with his hand to see what was outside, but when he opened his eyes wide and was about to look, it was not the night sky or the night grass that appeared in front of him, but a cold face!

Frightened, his legs suddenly weakened, and he fell off the pyre.

When the second and third sons saw that something was wrong, they hurriedly rushed over to hold on, and the eldest son did not fall into the fire.

All the dogs and wolf cubs also let out a terrible cry, not only in fear but also in courage. The animals outside the hut suddenly heard the shouting, and they were also startled, and moved their bodies, but they couldn't imagine hooking on the thorns on the hut, and even the top of the hut fell far away, and the light of the bright moon suddenly shone into the red ground of the hut, and also stood up in shock. (To be continued.) )