The father was busy preparing vegetables and meat, the eldest son and the second son were busy putting away the pots and chopsticks, the other was bowing his head and carefully turning the fire into a hot fire, while the dog and the little wolf were scattered around, lying on the ground and silently watching the masters busy.

After taking turns to eat dinner, it was time to stand guard at night.

Originally, according to the situation last night, everyone could have slept and rested, and there was nothing to watch after the door was blocked, but my father felt that tonight's night was particularly unpeaceful, and he didn't know what was going on.

For the sake of prudence, the father decided to stand guard according to the old rules, with a ratio of two to one, sleeping and resting alone, and all the dogs and wolves sleeping in one-third and staying awake in two-thirds, and everyone took turns changing shifts every hour.

Sure enough, it didn't take long for the sound of Xi Xisuo to come from outside the stone house, not the heavy footsteps of the woolly rhinoceros last night, and the father suddenly came to his senses, shouted "not good", and woke up the second son who was sleeping and resting.

Everyone hurriedly divided the fire in half, and the stone next to the doorway, burned it quickly with dry wood, and at the same time prepared all the steel drills, killing knives, and axes to deal with it at any time.

The dog and the little wolf had already woken up, they were too familiar with the creepy sound outside the stone house, and they all seemed to be a little trembling, but seeing the calmness of their master, they all quieted down.

It was not long before the sound of the sound of the rope stretched towards the doorway, and my father pulled out the red steel drill from the fire, and quietly put it into the lookout in the middle of the stone, and poked it out, and then he heard a "zi" sound, as if something had been burned, and then he heard a pungent smell of burning meat.

Then a few more "sizzling" sounds were heard, and the commotion outside the doorway temporarily stopped for a while.

Taking advantage of this effort, the father took back the steel drill that had turned black and not hot, put it in the fire and continued to burn, and the eldest son and the second son had already prepared two firewood sticks that were burning vigorously, and quickly stretched them into the lookout. The burning tails of the fire and the hot red charcoal burned so that the animals outside the house rolled on the ground and became a mess.

In the process, there are several probes trying to get through the air intake tunnel below. The wolf and the puppy bit off their heads one by one, and threw them into the crackling fire, some of which writhed in the fire from time to time.

Only then did everyone see clearly that it was a snake head one by one. The mouth is full of sharp teeth, and the pointed bifurcated letter sticks out of the elder, which makes people sick to their stomachs.

When everyone was in a hurry, they only heard a sound like a dog barking from far and near, and the chaotic scene outside the cave suddenly quieted down, making everyone very strange.

Before everyone could figure out what was going on, they heard the snakes outside the doorway, retreating quickly like a tide, and only heard the sound of snakes on the ground slicing on the grass.

After a while, there was no noise outside the doorway. Except for the occasional sound of an animal munching on a bone.

Then my father became happy, and said with a smile, "This is a mongoose!" The mongoose is not good-looking, but it is the natural enemy of snakes, and it eats snakes, and any snake is afraid when it sees it.

Hearing that there was no danger, everyone sat on the ground, and their bodies suddenly shrank, they were too nervous just now.

Busy for most of the night, everyone's stomachs were already rumbling with hunger. But they are all holding back, because they only have one meal left, and they have to save it for breakfast tomorrow.

Seeing that the children were not sleepy, the father told the children about the previous family affairs.

It turned out to be when the old lady was there. The family had a group of dogs and a few meerkats, and after the grain was harvested, they took them to the nearby mountains to hunt, the dogs generally caught the prey that ran away, and the mongoose was responsible for finding snakes, which had sharp noses, even if the snakes hid in deep holes in the ground for the winter. Meerkats can also be smelled outside the cave.

After the meerkat found the snake hole, everyone began to dig the hole, sometimes dig half a foot deep to find the snake, at this time the snake is sleeping, you can throw it into the basket when you pick it up, sometimes the snake hole is very deep, one or two zhang deep, then you have to give up, for a snake can not dig down a mountain, that is too hard.

However, deep snake holes often have unexpected gains, snakes are very lazy animals, have no claws, do not dig holes, can only grab the holes of rats, or occupy the abandoned holes of other animals to survive the winter, and occupy the holes of rats often have a lot of dried fruits, if you can find such holes it is the best of both worlds.

The father told the children that at that time, why did he raise a meerkat to catch snakes, because the burden of the family was heavy, and he was busy all year round, and he couldn't fill his stomach, and the meat was even less, and he was reluctant to eat a pig himself, so he had to change the salt to eat, and the chickens, ducks, fish and geese were all eaten when the guests came or during the New Year's Festival, and they had to pay food to the old men, so that the elderly in the family, the women who gave birth to children and people who were not in good health usually had nothing to replenish the body, and snake meat not only tasted good, but also a good thing to replenish the body.

Today's mongoose outside can be regarded as a big solution to the big difficulty, what a blessing. In the second half of the night, except for the sound of meerkat chewing and eating, everything else outside the stone house seemed extremely quiet, and everyone was still a little uncomfortable.

Father knew that it should be quiet tonight, so he arranged for everyone to take turns to sleep and rest, so if they tossed and didn't sleep for several days, no one could stand it, what if they encountered greater danger.

When it was almost dawn, the men standing guard could not hold on, and the eldest and second sons fell asleep together, until the father had made breakfast and called them.

Everyone quickly finished breakfast, and a new day began.

After packing up their bags, they continued to walk diagonally along the road that was not the road, that is, the antenna with shallow grass and few long trees, and no one knew whether the road was smooth or not today, so they didn't care how far they had to go, they were all walking to observe the situation on the side of the road, make marks of the route, and pay attention to whether there was anything to eat on the side of the road.

The place where I stayed last night was too worrying, everyone walked very quietly along the way, so that the dog and the little wolf did not make a sound, and tried to avoid the danger after finding it, and if it was really impossible to dodge, it slowly walked by the side, trying not to make contact, not to cause trouble, because other animals have not seen people and dogs, little wolves, seeing that they took the initiative to get out of the way or walk over, there is no bottom in their hearts, and they are also silently watching, and there is no intention to chase or deliberately decide the level.

In the deep forest, safety and self-protection are always the first, generally speaking, offense is also defense, but also a way of self-defense, sometimes defense is also offense, is a way to preemptively ensure their own safety, if you can avoid danger without fighting and grabbing, anyone will choose this way.

On the way today, they found a very good one, picking five or six fist-sized jade fruits, a small handful of purple-red sweat vegetables, a large puff of ice grass, came across a ripe lychee tree, picked a basket full of red lychees, and everyone laughed happily along the way.

By a small stream, several capybaras were fighting, and when they saw a group of animals that they had never seen before, they instinctively felt the danger and quickly drilled into the stream, but the dog and the little wolf saw it, and they could not let it go, and rushed over with an arrow, and caught two of them from the water, and it seemed that today's dinner was over.

In a bush by the side of the road, they found a nest of eggs of birds or other animals, each the size of a goose egg, and there were twelve of them, and they had not eaten eggs for so long, and the smell made people drool when they thought about it, and the children were so excited that they almost wanted to shout.

After stopping and stopping along the way, they felt that they hadn't gone far, it was already noon, and it was time to find a place to spend the night.

By this time they had reached the edge of the woods, and there was no road in front of them, and there were dense bushes everywhere, branches and thorns, and there was no way to go any further.

Originally, my father wanted to use his killing knife to cut a path while walking, but seeing the bushes stretching in front of him, he felt that there was no way to get out, and even if he walked into the bushes, it was a question of where to spend the night.

Thinking about it like this, my father wanted to spend the night at the edge of the deep forest, but there was no place to stay, and there was basically no safety at all.

In the past, when this happens, my father would let everyone scatter and look for them, but standing in the forest and meadow, you can see clearly from far and near, and the terrain is the same, where to spend the night?

After a while, the second son climbed up to a slippery green-skinned plane tree next to him, and he wanted to go to the top of the tree to see the surrounding situation.

Sure enough, he spotted a dark square not far in front of him at the top of the tree, but he couldn't see it clearly.

After telling the father under the tree, the father wanted to let a few dogs come over to have a look, but considering that the dogs could not get through in the dense bushes, he gave up.

If you don't go over, you can't figure out the situation in front of you, you can't figure out the situation, and you can't determine the place to spend the night, it's really a bad person.

Then the eldest son climbed the tree out of breath, and he couldn't see what it was, so he had to give up.

Even so, they were a little reluctant, and looked at other places carefully, and this time they finally found a strange place, saying that it was strange that it resembled both a tree and a tower.

Thinking that the place might be interesting, they quickly slipped down the tree, and as soon as they had said a word to their father, they strode in that direction.

Time waits for no one, they must hurry up, fortunately that place is not far away, only one or twenty feet away from the tree they just climbed, except for the dim light in the woods, the road is still very easy to walk, and there is nothing to obstruct, less than a bag of cigarettes, they have come to that strange place. (To be continued.) )