"Good mouth!" said the youngest son casually. So everyone felt that their mouths were dry, and they remembered that they hadn't drunk water or eaten for a day, so they hurriedly asked their father if he had anything to eat.

The father picked up the back pot from the ground and shook it gently, but there was no sound of water in the pot, and there was only helplessness. But at this moment, the sky has become completely dark, where to find water to drink, where to get food.

There's no way, so just put up with it.

It was better to be hungry, but I felt more and more dry in my mouth when I was on the fire, and finally I was restless and irritable.

Without his father's arrangement, everyone already knew that it was impossible to sleep tonight, plus there was a lack of water in his mouth and food in his stomach, so he couldn't sleep if he wanted to.

In this way, everyone kept their heads shut and did not speak, and they held a branch in their hands and played with the coals.

While everyone was not knowing how to pass the long night, a son suddenly said, "Where is the dog?

Only then did everyone remember to patronize the fire and dry mouth, and forget that there were dogs.

The eldest son said, "It was as if when we started the fire, they disappeared." ”

But the father was silent, he believed that the hound was a specially trained dog, and without the owner's arrangement, it would not run around and bark, let alone follow anything else in confusion, and he wondered if the hound had found its prey and chased it.

Dogs are good friends of people, and hunting dogs are even more relatives of hunters.

They were all in a hurry, some of them shouted loudly outside, and some of them got up and went out of the cave to shout.

But at this time, it was pitch black outside, and I couldn't see my fingers, and there was no response from the empty mountaintop, and the dark night seemed to swallow even the sound, let alone where to find it.

Everyone was depressed for a while, and even my father didn't know what to do.

In this way, everyone spent several hours in a daze, and in the middle of the night, when the fog was thick, everyone fell asleep.

The youngest son was sleeping soundly, and suddenly a drop of cold water dripped into his neck, and suddenly woke up with a stir, and saw that everyone was sleeping in a dream, and then looked at the fire, the one outside the cave had been extinguished, and the half of the fire in the cave was only burning to a tail, and the open flame was about to be extinguished, and the outside of the cave was dripping rain, so he hurriedly woke everyone up.

Some are dreaming about delicious food, but their throats hurt and it is difficult to swallow, and some see a well water in their dreams, but they can't drink it when they reach their necks.

When they woke up from the dream, everyone felt dizzy and difficult to adapt for a while, but they were all people who had been away for a long time, and soon found that the situation was not good, so they hurriedly started to add firewood to the fire.

A rush until dawn.

After dawn, the rain also stopped, but the dog still did not return.

The father and the children went out of the cave together, walked on the moss and haystacks full of droplets, looked around, and then each found a small nest of water, and leaned down to his mouth, and began to drink.

After a while, I drank a stomach full of water, and everyone was a little uncomfortable.

However, although the feeling of a bloated stomach is no more pleasant than the feeling of being hungry, it can always make people feel more refreshed.

One of the sons said, I have a way to get the dog to find us and walk back.

Everyone was busy asking, what can be done?

"Dogs have the most sensitive noses, especially smells, and hounds can smell familiar smells from seven or eight miles away," he said. Think about what smells dogs are most familiar with, especially our human scents. ”

Everyone gossiped, some said it was the smell of sweat in the hair, some said it was the smell of not taking a bath for half a month, some said it was the smell of stinky feet, some said it was the smell of stinky fart, some said it was the smell of urine, and so on.

But the son who spoke earlier said, "It's the smell of human dung." ”

Everyone suddenly laughed and laughed, but then they thought about it and it was the truth.

So, they went to a place far away from the cave to defecate.

At this time, a breeze blows, and the cold air on the mountain sinks down the mountain to all sides.

They thought that the stench would be able to drift everywhere and make the dogs smell it.

After waiting for a meal, there was no sound, and there was no trace of dogs, but it attracted a group of green-headed flies to buzz together, so it was not disgusting.

At this point, they were desperate, thinking that they would never see the dog again, and they all looked lonely.

When my friends aren't there, life goes on.

The father looked at the place where the hound had lain the previous afternoon, and said to the children in a choked tone, "Let's go, let's go and find something to eat." ”

So the father and the children set out with bows and arrows, hoes, and knives, and they did not go far, but halfway up the hillside on the top of the hill, they went into the woods with the foot of the trees.

On the one hand, it means that the distance between the trees is not dense, and the sunlight can shine directly to the end, on the other hand, it means that there are no extra trees and weeds around the lower part of the tree, and the sunlight can directly reach the feet of the tree, indicating that the tree is tall and covers the sun, so that other plants around it can not grow, and people can easily walk under the tree.

It took a while for everyone to get used to the fact that they suddenly walked into the dark woods from the bright place outside. After adapting, I found that there was a different scenery in the woods, there were no thick leaves under the trees, and there was no dense grass, but it was very smooth and a little smooth, as if there were often animals cleaning.

The father walked forward without saying a word, and the children followed cautiously, looking everywhere with four pairs of eyes, and the father did not say anything, and the children did not know what to look for.

Suddenly, the father, who was walking in front, took a few steps and walked towards a chestnut tree, and the children hurriedly followed.

When they came to the chestnut tree, the children saw that the tree was on a small dirt slope, and there was a slightly mossy hole under the tree, and some dirt was sparsely pulled off from the outside of the hole, which was not obvious from a distance.

But the father, with his experience, found out that there was a situation from afar, and the children knew that the father must have taken a fancy to some animal in the cave. "It's not a snake. ”

One of the sons whispered, startling the other children to take a few steps back.

My father said that it was a mouse hole, and it was estimated that there were no snakes, so he began to dig the hole with a hoe, and after a while he was busy sweating profusely, and the heat above his head steamed up along the waterfall sunshine in the forest.

Several children consciously take turns digging holes.

After about an hour, everyone was so tired and hungry that they almost collapsed, and the water in their stomachs that had been swollen had long since gone.

"Daddy, what the hell are we digging for, it's not looking for mice. Digging like this will only make the rats slip away. ”

One of the sons said, and as he spoke, a gray-black rat came out of the hoe and ran down the hill.

Just when everyone was stunned, another large string of rats swarmed out, seven or eight of them.

Father hurriedly said, dig quickly, there must be goods.

The second son took the hoe and continued to dig along the hole path.

It didn't take long to dig a big hole, the size of a stove, and the surroundings were smooth and slippery, and a thick layer of pine needles was padded at the bottom, and a large pile of chestnuts, hazelnuts, white chestnuts, sharp chestnuts, and pine nuts were piled there, and everyone screamed with joy.

The children hurriedly grabbed a handful and stuffed it into their mouths, but the father peeled it slowly and unhurriedly, as if he had expected such a rich harvest.

After eating a few pieces, everyone figured out how to take them back to the cave to eat.

Leaves, stone chips, rattan baskets, are not suitable.

While everyone was competing with their brains, the eldest son took off his long pants silently, and the second son and the younger son looked at their brother who was half exposed, and they both stretched out their fingers and scraped their faces: "I'm ashamed!"

Ignoring their laughter, the eldest brother turned his pants over, tied a knot in his trouser legs, and began to fill them with dried fruit.

Only then did everyone understand his purpose in doing this, and they all followed his example, picked up the dried fruit and put it in the trouser leg, and filled it with four whole pants.