Chapter 030: The Way Home
The second son and his father couldn't wait for the hoe to dig a pit, so they directly found two places with deep water, and poured the water into the bamboo tube with their hands, but after all, it was very slow, and they didn't get much water in for a long time, but it made everyone upset and anxious.
The water in the creek was small but flowed fast, as if something was pulling them forward, so that the water in the puddle was clear so quickly that it was clear enough to draw water in less than half a bag of cigarettes.
The eldest son didn't care about waiting, lifted the bamboo tube and pricked it into the puddle, and then slowly flattened the bottom of the bamboo tube and pressed it down into the water, and the bamboo tube was bubbling with "coo-dong".
After a while, they filled the bamboo tubes with water, and when they lifted the bamboo tubes, they flew to the grass huts, and the sky gradually darkened, and the sun did not know when it had gone down to the top of the mountain.
Fortunately, when he returned to the straw hut, he found no new changes and problems, and the father looked at the dog and the little wolf, and saw that they did not look nervous or irritable, so he knew that there was no major danger now, so he relieved himself and told the children to stand guard from now on, keep an eye on the surrounding situation, and start cooking himself.
Dinner was made slowly and quickly, and by the time the three cubs and the little ones had taken turns to eat dinner, it had not been an hour in all.
Everyone knows that there may be extreme danger tonight, and they dare not relax in the slightest, and the little ones seem to not know the owner's worries, one by one, they should be dozing off, they should be playing around, they should be walking around, everyone doesn't care about it, I believe that they will naturally be vigilant immediately when they find danger.
After standing for two hours, my father knew that it was not a matter to go on like this, and he had to think of a way, otherwise he would exhaust everyone, not to mention that he would have to set off tomorrow, which would require more physical strength and energy. The most important thing is that we don't know what hardships we will encounter along the way tomorrow.
After thinking about it, my father decided to prepare all the guys' things first, keep them at hand, and pick them up and use them whenever there was a problem, so they put the steel drill in the mud and poked it for a while, and the wet mud on the ground was scalded and squeaked. He also put the killing knife and axe separately, and checked the knife edge of the killing knife and the axe, and tried it very quickly with his hands, and then held the firewood closer to the fire, and also split the fir manuscript into several large pieces, and put them in the hands of the three people, so that he could light them in the fire if he had something to do.
After being prepared like this, my father's mind changed again, and I felt a little sleepy again. It's better to take advantage of this time to split the manuscript brightly, and you can use it directly tomorrow, in case of danger at night, you can also use it directly, so you don't have to panic anymore.
After such a toss, another two hours passed, and my father estimated that it would not be long before dawn, so everyone had to hurry up and sleep and rest, anyway, at this time, they didn't have to care about the danger or not. Everyone just slept and rested together, anyway, the dog and the little wolf had already slept for most of the night.
My father was worried about sleeping too long. So he found a thatch stick and lit it, and put it on the toes of three people, as long as the thatch burned to the feet and burned the flesh, everyone could be woken up.
Before going to bed, the father specially explained to all the dogs and wolf cubs to let them be vigilant. Wake them up at the slightest danger as soon as there is any danger, the little ones nodded as if they didn't understand, and watched their master lie down to sleep with soft eyes.
Although there was a series of strange things yesterday afternoon, and everyone was nervous all night, nothing happened after everyone went to sleep. Even the thatch sandwiched between the toes did not burn to the surface of the feet, but was extinguished in the middle of the day, and everyone slept until dawn.
The first time my father woke up, he saw that the children and the little ones were not there, to see if the straw hut was broken, and everything else was not there, and when he saw that everything was the same as yesterday, he felt at ease.
After a while, the children also woke up, and the hunter's children were used to it, and by this time they would wake up, and no one had to call them.
After breakfast and packing up all their things, the little ones were in good spirits and walked towards the red stone.
Thinking of yesterday's bunch of adventures, everyone has no idea whether they can open the stone or whether there will be any mess when they open the stone, and the children even think that something more scary may appear than yesterday.
But when they came to the bottom of the stone, they were at peace—nothing had changed here, it was exactly the same as it had been the other day, and they thought, since they had come, why should they go in and see what it was like.
The father arranged for all the dogs to stand around the owner to guard the surrounding situation, and all the little wolves were like the owner, facing the stones, ready to deal with the dangerous things that came out at the moment when the stone cave was broken.
Father picked up his axe and slammed it at the stone door, but the whole stone did not react except for the faint echo of the void inside.
He was unwilling, and he changed places like this again, so that he didn't have a temper at all.
The eldest son and the second son took the steel drill and pried it up vigorously against the crack in the stone, but where could they pry it, if they tried so hard, it might break the steel chisel bend, so they quickly stopped and thought of other ways.
My father saw that if he continued like this, he would only delay his work, so he decided to change places to see if there was a better location.
But after looking at the whole circle, my father's heart was cold, and it was the same everywhere, and there was basically nowhere to exert force.
The eldest son looked at the few cow ropes hanging from the branches above the stone gate, and suddenly had an idea.
He told his father, who also thought it was feasible. The eldest and second sons dug out a round stone the size of a basin from a small place next to it with a hoe, and then tied it with several oxen and vines, and if it hung down, it would be just in the middle of the stone door.
After tying the stones, they tied the lower part of the stone with two ox cable vines and pulled the stone up far away, so that the position of the stone became higher and higher, until they no longer had the strength to pull the stone higher, the three of them let go together, let the stone follow the posture of the cow cable vine, swinging down like a swing, and hit the stone door with a "peng" sound, so that the stone door cracked a hole.
Everyone saw that this method was used again, and then pulled the round stone high and put it down, this time only heard a loud noise, the round stone swing smashed the stone door into a large hole more than one person high, and the black rumbling inside the hole could not see anything clearly, but there was nothing strange and scary.
After about half an hour, when the inside and outside of the cave had been exchanged for a while, they lit the torches and took the little ones into the cave tentatively.
After entering the cave, the fir manuscript burned normally, there was no wind blowing, and there was no appearance of extinguishing, indicating that the gas in the cave was the same as the outside, and there would be no danger to people and animals, and they immediately found that the size of the cave was about the same as the stone door, the ground was not very flat sand and gravel, and the walls and ceilings also seemed to have been mined yesterday, exactly the same as the ground, there were no forks, no deep pits, and no depression, more like no one had ever come in, waiting for them to come in.
Everyone walked forward slowly, the dog and the little wolf followed the owner, and then they got into the dark darkness, and then suddenly came out of the darkness, which was frightening, but there was nothing else to disturb, and then everyone slowly got used to it, and they were not worried and afraid.
In this way, everyone eats when they are hungry, drinks water when their mouth is dry, sits down to rest when they are tired, and they don't know how far and how long they have walked, but the food on their backs is about to be eaten up, and the water they drink is only a bamboo tube left even if they save drinking, and the most terrible thing is that when they just go out, everyone feels the heaviest and the most tired to carry the fir manuscript Liang, and there is not much left, and it can be used for two hours at most.
Without food and drink, everyone can still carry it for a few days, but without the bright firelight of the manuscript, everyone, including the little ones, can't stay in the hole deep in the mountains in the blink of an eye, as long as the fire is extinguished, the boundless darkness around them will immediately swallow them.
Thinking of this, the children couldn't help but shiver.
Everyone knows these situations, and they all silently muttered in their hearts, hoping to get out of this hole as soon as possible, which seems to never be able to get out.
At this time, the eldest son who was walking in front found that there was no way forward, this surprise was not trivial, if there was no road ahead, they needed to go back and go out from the entrance, and this little thing in everyone's hands would not be able to support them to go out no matter what.
What to do?
The father, the eldest son, and the second son were all nervously thinking in their hearts, thinking that since someone had brought them here, there must be a place to go ahead, and they would never be left in this deep hole for no reason.
So the father had the second son alone with a fire, and he and the eldest son with an axe and a hoe and knocked them on the wall at the end of the cave to see where the reverberation was empty, and if it was empty, it would indicate that there was a way out.
First they struck the sides of the hole, and there was a dull noise, it was a solid wall of mud and sand, and there was no way out there.
When they finally came to the front of the cave, the sound of the tapping was markedly different, as if there was an empty thing in front of them, and even as if it was only separated by a thin wall from this side, which made everyone happy.
The father immediately rounded the hoe and threw it at the wall, only to hear a "boom", and the whole wall in front of him collapsed like a brick wall, and then a bright light poured into the hole, stabbing people's eyes.
After a while, when everyone slowly got used to the light, they opened their eyes and saw that there was a canyon under the big sun outside, and they didn't have to think about it, so they quickly jumped out, and when they looked around, everyone was even more surprised. (To be continued.) )