Chapter Eighty-Five: The Rain Passes and the Sky Clears
Just as he was thinking wildly, he saw a thin purple-red cloud slowly drifting over, and then the clouds became thicker and thicker, covering out the sun's rays, and the sky became gloomy and depressed, but it was also much cooler, which was a sign that it would rain soon.
It is not surprising that there is a lot of rain in the summer, but if it rains these days, it is very inconvenient, not to mention anything else, and there is a problem with where to hide from the rain at the moment.
My father hurriedly woke everyone up and discussed what to do, at least there should be a place to hide from the rain when it rains.
The children looked at their father's worries, but they were not worried at all, and said cheerfully, it was okay, they could put a few skins on the platform to keep out the rain, and they thought that the rain was the time for fun, and they did not pay attention to this difficulty.
The father and the second uncle saw that the children knew what they wanted, and they all said okay, so everyone started to do it.
It was a simple matter, they stood on the platform, tied a few pieces of skin to the tree, and tied one piece on one side to protect them from the wind and rain.
At this time, the sky was even more overcast, and it was not even visible from a little distance.
Suddenly, a few lightning flashes near the clouds, followed by rumbling thunder.
The wind rolled between the sky and the earth with dark clouds, and in a blink of an eye, the raindrops the size of beans fell, knocking on the leather overhead.
Fortunately, my father tied an empty bamboo tube filled with water to the outside and let the rain pour in.
The rain fell for more than half an hour, extinguishing the fire under the tree, which was not burning vigorously, and washing the distant mountains and waters into a misty and refreshing sight.
At this time, everyone hasn't eaten breakfast, the stomach is hungry and growling, no way, it is estimated that I will be hungry today, not only the fire under the tree is extinguished, even the firewood is soaked, the problem now is not the problem of eating a full stomach, but what to do today, whether to change places, or just search for things here, if you stay here, how to spend the night at night, how to make a fire, it doesn't matter if you don't eat one or two meals, endure it and it will pass, and even eat something raw is not a big problem, but if you don't eat three meals a day, even the hardest people can't stand itγ
Thinking about it, both of these methods make sense, but it doesn't seem to make sense, and my father can't think clearly in his head, and he is so bored that he is dead.
At this time, the weather played a joke again, after the heavy rain, the weather that should have been cooler did not change much, but became more muggy, maybe because of the anxiety, maybe it was indeed the rain that poured on everything very hot to form water vapor and made the weather even hotter.
Now when encountering problems or questions, the father is willing to ask more for the children's opinions, want to hear their thoughts, on the one hand, he may feel that he is really old, sometimes some can't react, there is hope in the children's meaning, on the other hand, he may want to exercise the children's ability to make decisions, as soon as possible to take charge of the house.
The children listened to their father's considerations, but they couldn't make up their minds, or their father finally decided to stay here and search here today.
Strange as it may seem, the weather cleared at this time, and it didn't take long for the red sun to emerge from the clouds, shooting a fiery glow at everything and people, and from the feeling of the skin, everyone felt hotter and more bored than before the rain.
Considering the height of the platform and the unpredictable surroundings, the father left his cousin and a little wolf to stay on the platform, looking around at any time, and warning everyone at any time when they found danger, while the others hurried down from the tree, the two cousins were responsible for lighting the fire and cooking, and the six dogs were scattered not far from the surroundings to guard the cooks.
The father, the second uncle, and the children, with five dogs and a little wolf, hurried out to look for something, and returned after an hour.
After the father and they left, the cousin slowly burned the fire, looked at the dead python and crocodile next to him, felt a little disgusting, and worried that the maggots would be sick in the heat, so he quickly cut a large piece of meat and put it in the pot to cook, and cut two large pieces of meat and put it on the fire to roast it, the aroma of the barbecue meat wafted to the tree after a while, provoking the cousin on the tree to scream, and cut off a piece of meat and hung it on the tree with a rope, and fed it to the little wolf, and the dogs of the surrounding guards also took turns to come and eat, wagging their tails and walking away one by one, returning to their positions.
After doing this, the two cousins, with the help of the dogs, took the python and the crocodile, went to the river, threw them into the mud, and watched the two things slowly sink and disappear before returning to the tree, burning the fire, and boiling the buds and paste.
Boredom, my cousin suggested going to the neighborhood to pick some wild vegetables to change everyone's appetite, and the cousin in the tree heard the resolute objection, he was worried that there would be danger the day before yesterday, and it didn't seem to be a good place, and there were definitely more than two pythons and crocodiles.
After listening to my cousin's words, my cousin didn't say anything, the day before yesterday really frightened people, and when my father left, he didn't say anything about letting them walk around, so they honestly stayed under the tree and cooked on the fire, and talked without a partner.
The father and his party slowly tried to walk forward along the muddy puddle by the river, scattered the five dogs and the little wolf to guard around, and in order to prevent accidentally falling into the quagmire, everyone tied them together with a rope.
They try to go where there is grass.
The presence of grass means that the soil there is still harder and can be stepped on.
As we walked, we bent our waists, looked at the six roads, listened to all the directions, and carefully observed all the grass and grass that could be seen, for fear that we would accidentally miss what we were looking for.
Estimating that there was a meal, my father was about to ask everyone to go back to eat, and come back in the afternoon, when he heard the second uncle who was walking in the front shouting, and everyone hurriedly walked a few steps forward to see what was happening.
After walking over, I saw the second uncle squatting on the ground with a strange expression, and my father thought that he had been bitten by some animal, so he hurriedly asked what was wrong.
But the second uncle didn't speak, and the father was even more anxious, and stepped in front of the second uncle in two steps to see what was going on, and at the same time asked the eldest son, the second son, and the younger son to scatter with the dogs to be on guard.
This didn't matter, the father squatted down, only to find that the second uncle had a few golden wild rice in front of him, very similar to conventional rice, the top of his head was bent over, the ears of rice were full, and there were not many fruits.
This is exactly the rice that my father had dreamed of! My father cried out with joy.
The children hurriedly came over, saw tears in their father's eyes, and asked him what was the matter, and when they looked down at the rice under his father's feet, they stopped talking, opened their mouths, and were very exaggerated in surprise.
The father saw that everyone was getting too close, and was afraid that they would accidentally break the rice stalks, so he quickly asked everyone to take a few steps back, and called the dogs and wolves, pointed out the rice to them, and told them that this thing must not be touched.
Later, they found a few more trees in the vicinity, and a large area further away, about fifty or sixty trees.
My father did not dare to look for it again, because the time for them to return had arrived, and he was afraid that they would have an accident when they came out to look for him, so he hurried back.