After walking a few times, the road was already very familiar, and the two brothers did not call the dog and the little wolf to follow, but walked side by side after the bamboo was on their shoulders, talking as they went, and their voices were very loud.

Walking to a downhill place, the eldest son didn't stand firm on his feet, and almost fell down with a sliding step, but it happened to be the bamboo on his shoulder that dragged him from behind to shake his footing.

At this moment, he casually turned his head to see what the place that had almost made him slip just now looked like.

It doesn't matter if you don't look at it, he was suddenly startled when he saw it, and he pushed the bamboo on his shoulders with both hands and threw it out of his shoulders, shouted, pulled his second son and ran.

The second son's hands are still holding the bamboo, the eldest son's hard pull, so that the second son's hands are loose, scraping on the bamboo knots, the second son is trying to understand what happened, and then the soles of the feet have been pulled by the eldest son to walk a few steps, only to understand that there must be something terrible behind him, backhand grabbed the eldest son's arm, flying also ran towards home, while flying, while screaming, the terrible and scary sound in the dusk on the river beach far away, suddenly people have goosebumps.

The first to hear the shouts were the dogs and little wolves guarding outside the hut, and before they could say anything to the old master, five or six of them rushed out like arrows in the direction of the little master.

The father was busy making dinner in the straw hut, and the jingle bell made the pot rattle, and when the little ones cried, he heard the children's voices, threw down the wild vegetables in his hand, scooped up the killing knife and rushed out.

When the little one and the father rushed together with the children, they saw that there was nothing dangerous behind them, and the father was about to ask the children what was the matter, but the eldest son said breathlessly, "The snake, the big snake, is over there." ”

Father looked up and saw that there was still nothing behind them.

This time. The second son also understood why the eldest son ran so far with him in one breath, and when he heard that there was a big snake, his face changed, and the whole person froze there, he didn't dare to imagine what would happen if the eldest son didn't pull him away.

After the eldest son rested for a while, he told everyone. It turned out that he slipped a little, and turned around to find a green snake with the thickness of a stick coiled on the bamboo they were pulling, and if it weren't for the snake's curved waist, it would not have been possible to find it.

At this time, all the dogs and wolves had all come to the side of the masters, standing around everyone, vigilantly looking at the gray four fields in the twilight.

In this case, my father decided that everyone should go over and see what it was, otherwise it would not be quiet at night.

The father had a killing knife in his hand. The eldest son had a knife in his hand, and the second son ran to the hut to get a wooden stick with a thorn, and trotted with the dog and the little wolf to the place where they had thrown the bamboo. When they got there, they saw a green snake with a thick bowl coiled on the bamboo, looking around with its head held high, as if looking for something.

When he saw so many animals walking towards him, the green mouth spat out two or three cards of letters, hissing sounds. As if to warn them not to approach.

On the way here, my father had already cut down some horn thorns. And he threw the thorn far away in the direction of the snake, and the snake knew how powerful this thorn was—if only one thorn was pierced into the flesh by it, the flesh would slowly rot in less than half a day, and finally die in the agony—and instead of going forward, he retreated a little.

The father whispered to the children. He was about to take his second son's thorn and tease the green snake, but when the snake swam over to entangle him, the children swarmed up and one went behind and pulled the snake's tail straight in. One went to the front and grabbed the snake by the neck to prevent it from entanglement, while all the dogs and wolf cubs rushed up and bit at the snake's body.

The father arranged to stop, so he grabbed the stinging stick and walked slowly towards the snake.

At this time, the dim light shines on the green snake, which makes people's hearts hairy.

When he was still three or four steps away from the snake, the green snake swayed over his long body with a roar, and in a flash of lightning it wrapped around his father's waist.

The children and the little ones had been waiting for this moment for a long time, and each stared at the snake's body and pounced.

The green snake didn't expect so many opponents to come at the same time, and he shook his body vigorously, trying to sweep these animals away from him, but he couldn't shake them.

At this moment, the four little wolves had already bitten off five or six pieces of snake meat one after another, and the pain made the green snake almost crazy.

After the eldest son broke the snake wrapped around his father, the father lifted the thorn stick and aimed it at the head of the green snake and smashed it down, only to see black, green, red, flower, and purple things spray all over the ground, making the eldest son all over his body, and even spraying a lot in his mouth.

After smashing the snake's head for a while, the snake's body slowly stopped writhing.

Everyone lifted the green snake and threw it aside, turned it over and checked all the bamboo, and found nothing else, so everyone pulled the bamboo towards the grass shed.

By this time the night had crept down on the riverbank, and everyone was walking on one foot at a time, and the dogs and wolves were barking merrily around them, as if they had deliberately wanted to be heard by the nearby animals.

When he returned home, his father went into the hut to cook, and the children cut the bamboo into small pieces and put them away, and looked at the thorns on the shed again, and felt that there was no problem, so they went into the shed to help their father.

Everyone took turns to have dinner, and it was already very dark.

Tonight they ate some wild vegetables and roasted some yak meat, and one of them was full with cold water, while the little ones ate a large piece of yak meat to their heart's content.

Seeing that a few injured little ones seemed to be better, and walked without shaking, the eldest son wanted to set off tomorrow to enter the hole, while the second son wanted to rest for another day, and finally listened to his father's opinion, he also felt that it would be good to let the little ones rest for another day, and when they entered the cave the day after tomorrow, the dog and the little wolf would be basically as good as before.

In the end, everyone decided to leave the day after tomorrow, so that it would be safer.

Since I won't leave tomorrow, everyone feels that today is not sleepy or tired, and in the past, as soon as I ate, I felt so tired that I wanted to sleep, and today is strange.

The children laughed and thought of standing guard and resting in shifts in the second half of the night, and their father was not reluctant, but he wanted to sleep, after all, he was old, and he should sleep when the time came, and an old bone could not withstand the toss.

After the father had gone to sleep, the eldest son and the second son had put together the spirit of the twelve, burned the steel drill, put the killing knife and axe in the place where they were handy, and arranged the shifts of the dog and the little wolf, and they sat down to add wood to the fire, and talked without a match. It's also interesting to say, everyone didn't feel sleepy just now, as soon as the father lay down and the shift was arranged, the drowsiness immediately ran to his eyes, and the second son yawned twice in a row.

When the second son was sleepy, the eldest son quietly picked up a bamboo knot from behind him, shook it, and there was a "bang" sound of water inside, the second son suddenly woke up, reached out and grabbed it and was about to use a killing knife to break it, so anxious that the eldest son hurriedly shouted, "Don't worry, it's okay to drink again in the middle of the night." ”

The second son was pressing his hand on the killing knife and stopped, he knew what the eldest son meant, this water should be drunk when people are most sleepy, that is, reserved for the people standing guard at that time to drink.

The water in Nanzhu tastes different from the water in the bitter bamboo, the bitter bamboo water is clear and sweet, and the taste is very good, a bit like the watermelon water soaked in the ice spring, while the water in the Nanzhu is sweet and sour, and there is a faint milky smell, the taste is very strong, and the refreshing effect is particularly good.

It turned out that this was just now the eldest son found a section of water when he picked up the bamboo outside the shed, he just felt heavy when he put his hand on it, and he shook it with his hand and heard the sound of water, and knew that this was the bamboo water that was rare to touch.

At that time, it was almost dark, everyone was busy, and he didn't have the heart to tell everyone about this discovery, so he quietly brought it into the shed, and now he was a little sleepy, so he deliberately took it out to tease his second son and make him sober.

When the second son saw that he was still a little sleepy, he got up and walked around the shed, and everywhere lay dogs and little wolves, and he walked around the little ones with one foot and one foot and one foot left, for fear that he would wake up when he stepped on them or run into a wound that was growing flesh.

The eldest son was fine, but he did not sleep, so he took a long wooden stick and sharpened it with a killing knife, and he wanted to sharpen a wooden spear, which he might use at night.

In this way, a person circled around the fire, and one person sharpened the wooden spear one by one, and I don't know how many times he turned, there were more than a dozen wooden spears on the ground, which were enough, and there was no need to cut it again, not to mention that his hand holding the knife had already made a faint pain.

The father slept very soundly, and the snoring sounded not long after lying down, and the children even thought about letting their father sleep all night, and they stood at the post all night, anyway, they were young enough to bear it, and besides, there was nothing to do tomorrow, and they could sleep for a while when they were really tired.

In the second half of the night, the night outside the hut was quiet, and everything seemed calm and peaceful, just like in their childhood hometown, so charming and unforgettable.

After a long time, the father rolled over and asked the children if it was time for him to take a shift, and the children said it was still early.

The father did not answer, but still closed his eyes and fell asleep again.

The children were amused when they saw this, and they knew that it was their father's dream, and then they kept their voices softer and quieter, for fear of waking them to sleep.

In the whole straw shed, there was no sound except for the whistling of the dogs and the occasional "Bibo" sound in the fire.

However, in this way, the children felt that time passed more slowly, and it took a long time to see a single firewood burned, and before they found that it was burning one by one, and the firewood burned quickly, they could not help but feel a little irritable, and did not know what to do.

Later, when they came up sleepy, both of them were a little tired and wanted to find a place to sleep. The eldest son slapped his thigh and said, "I almost forgot that there was something good!" )