His father was the first to take the lead in sleeping, but not long after he fell asleep, a dog ran in and pulled the quilt, pulled his trouser legs, and kept pulling out, which meant that there was something outside that his father needed to know or pay attention to, but the dog never screamed, just pulled him hard.

The father took a closer look and found that this was the dog that followed his eldest son to the black hole to find the wild man, and the father sighed in his heart, and said that the wild man had come here again, and he had never seen a wild man here in all these years.

While pondering, the father dressed lightly, called the eldest and second sons, took the killing knife, axe, and spear, and told the men standing guard on the roof of the castle to keep quiet, and they went out on patrol.

The man standing guard did not know about the wild man, and he was willing to rest assured, so two more people came down, and brought a few fires, and they wanted to go out together to see what was going on, and at the same time told the man standing guard to cheer up twelve points, and when he went out, he handed over ten dogs and two little wolves.

Father, seeing their earnestness, felt a little redundant - those savages were their good neighbors, and would only help them, not hurt them.

The dog who pulled him walked at the front of the procession, and led everyone to their iron-making yard, where they found a pile of things in the distance.

When they looked closer, they found a pile of steel drills, killing knives, bows and arrows, and spears, as well as a lot of clothes, including thick cotton clothes, and I don't know who put them here.

Nearby, my father found a few large footprints, which he thought were given to them by the wild man, just to get them home early.

But my father also muttered that these wild men were so powerful, how could they make so many things and do so well at one moment.

Further away. They found a lot of fir manuscripts that had been split into pieces the size of a hand stick and a lot of manuscripts made of bamboo.

In the col, they found several more piles of firewood, which were basically dry wood blocks and were very resistant to burning.

Next to the firewood was a few piles of charcoal, which burned even more thoroughly than your own, which was really a good thing.

With these things. My father thought they were ready to go, that is, they could leave at dawn the next day. Now all that's left is to bring enough food for the road.

So my father, who was ready to set off, hurriedly brought back to the castle the knives, axes, and other tools, and brought back clothes, firewood, and charcoal, and filled most of the yard, while my mother and the girls hurried to prepare for my father and their food on the road, and cooked a basket of potato cobs and potatoes, cooked a large pot of rice, and fried a large bag of dark vegetables. He put the rice and vegetables into several large bamboo tubes, killed a wild boar, let all the dogs and wolves eat the internal organs, and put the rest on wheels, and took off ten pieces of last year's bacon, burned it, washed it, and cooked it. Cut it open and eat.

Then, he loaded the car with two pots, a bag of rice and some salt cubes. Everything is ready.

As soon as the sky was bright, my father's party set off.

The long procession had gone far away, and the mother was still looking out from the castle, just as the mother was standing on the hillside watching her father take the children out hunting, she didn't dare to think too far ahead, she knew. In the turbulent era, it would be very good if people could survive and the family could continue, and I only hoped that my father could bring his relatives into the mountains safely this time.

After my father walked out of the castle gate, he never dared to look back at my mother and the inseparable eyes of everyone. I am afraid that I will be soft-hearted for a while and delay the rescue of others.

Because they don't think about resting, they are going downstream day and night along the way, during the day everyone takes turns sleeping and resting in the car, and at night all the people are vigilant, staring at the eyes and walking at night under the protection of dogs and wolves, even if they eat and drink, they eat and drink while walking, the team basically has not stopped, but all people and dogs, little wolves must not be separated, although they are a little familiar with this road, but these years have passed, who knows what has become of it.

After two days and one night of walking, early in the morning, they came to the place where they had found rice and rape that year.

Here, the river becomes very wide, the river is swamp except for silt, it is very difficult to walk, sometimes even people and cars can sink into the mud, fortunately my father thought of this earlier, tied two ropes to the car, usually the people in front of the car pull the car to walk, the people behind push and walk, everyone can use strength.

Walking here, everyone is familiar with this road, but further down, I don't know what it looks like in front of me, my father just listened to my grandfather and wife and they talked about this road and can walk home, but how far it is, whether the road is good or not, I don't know at all, it is very likely that even grandfather and wife they have not walked.

My father led everyone to walk forward with difficulty, and if the road they had walked before was a road, then the place they were walking now was simply primitive.

On both sides is the lower and lower hillside, in the middle is a river of more than ten zhang, on the edge of the river is the silt that stretches several zhang wide, and the silt grows densely packed aquatic plants, some aquatic plants are taller than people, and there are often small birds in the middle of the aquatic plants to build nests on it.

In the place where the silt and the hard ground by the river meet, it is relatively smooth, and you can basically walk through it, and the car can also walk, but occasionally there are some uneven places, and you need to lift the car to walk through.

Walking and stopping like this, the speed of walking is not much slower, but because the aquatic plants block the view and sometimes those sharp aquatic plant leaves scratch people's faces and hands, everyone feels very irritable and feels much slower than before.

Five or six dogs walked at the front of the line, followed by the eldest son, who was holding a killing knife and cutting down the water plants and mangdongqian on the side of the road with his hands as he walked, so as to make it easier for those who walked behind.

The second and third sons walked at the back of the line, keeping an eye on the roadside, and occasionally looking back to see if any animals were following them—although they were followed by five or six wolf cubs and two dogs, they could not be overdone when they were out and about.

After walking for more than an hour, my father's party came to a place where the river was relatively wide, and there was no silt on the river's side, but a gentle green grassy slope, and in some places there were small inlets, and on the edge of the river, there was a relatively flat place, and there was a large bulging tree on the flat ground. The body of the tree looks like a green apple from a distance, and everyone looks at it and feels familiar, but they can't remember where they have seen it.

My father also felt that the memory was vague, but he felt that the memory was very clear, was it in a dream, or had he seen it when he was a child?

Or have you heard the old people talk about it? I have a headache when I think about it, and I don't have a clue at all.

Walked for several days in a row. My father felt the need to let everyone rest and rest before going on the road, so as not to exhaust everyone.

So, the father arranged for all the dogs and wolves to scatter out to see if there was any danger, and called the people sleeping in the car down, and everyone walked around at will in the vicinity, which was also considered to be a rest, and at the same time by the way to fetch some water by the river, and there was not much water in the bamboo tube.

Also, these days, everyone eats cooked meat and potato sticks. I eat with sour stomach, and I hope to take this time to cook a good meal here.

The father divided all the people into three groups: the eldest son, the second son, and his cousin formed a group to look for wild vegetables nearby, the third son, his cousin, and his brother-in-law formed a group to look for firewood nearby, and the father and his uncle and uncle formed a group to look for stones and set up pots for cooking.

Arrange a stop, and everyone will split up. Subsequently. The father divided the dogs into two groups, eight wolf cubs and six dogs, and went hunting. Four other wolf cubs and six dogs were on guard nearby.

The fresh meat brought to them when they go out is almost the same, and they need to quickly replenish some more, and besides, dogs and wolves are not comfortable eating those grains and cooked meat, so it is better to catch something in the field and eat it yourself.

In fact, the dog and the little wolf are also eager to go out for a run, and they are already impatient with their owners along the way.

Half an hour later. The eldest son's group found some dandelions, cabbage, gray cabbage, purslane, camellia, broom, spiny cabbage, pig's tooth grass, water celery, and mussel shells nearby, and even caught a dozen hand-sized fish and seven or eight loaches and yellow eels in a small pond that was about to dry up. It's enough for them to have a good meal.

The group of the third sons found a lot of dry firewood washed down from the upstream, and it must be good to start a fire.

My father set up a pot in a high place, washed the pot early, boiled the water, boiled the fire, and boiled the rice.

After the rice is cooked, it is packed in several large bamboo tubes before starting to stir-fry.

My father's cooking skills are okay, but if you want to stir-fry, you are not as good as your uncle, who is a famous chef in the neighborhood.

After more than an hour, everyone has eaten and drunk enough, and they are addicted.

At this time, it was almost noon, and according to the rules of hunting in the past, it was time to find a place to spend the night, but today they were in a hurry to rush home, and they didn't care about resting here for the night.

After a while, the little ones who had gone out to hunt also returned, and they caught two wild breeders, one larger and one smaller, enough for them to eat for two meals.

Seeing that they had eaten and had their fill, my father called on everyone to set off.

According to estimates, after walking for half a day today, plus one night, you will be able to walk home tomorrow. As we walked further, the river became deeper and more rapid, the surface of the river narrowed, and the sound of the river flowing through became louder and louder, and when I looked up, the banks of the river were clearly visible, and the slopes that had been slowly undulating had become steep cliffs, towering into the clouds, and the river was squeezing through the middle of the cliffs. My father looked at this formation and wondered where to go, not from the front?

I couldn't make up my mind for a while, in fact, I didn't have to make up my mind, except for the stone mountain in front of me, which stood straight like a person, there was no road at all, and I had to make another decision.

The rocky mountain is bare everywhere, and occasionally a black-brown band floats down from it, which is the mark of the rain on the mountain.

At the foot of the hill there were quite a few trees, some of them two or three people tall, and most of them were small shrubs, mixed with weeds, and looked black and oily in the distance.

When they came to the stone mountain four or five feet away, everyone only stopped.

At the foot of the stone mountain is the rushing river, the white wolf rolling, unfathomable, even when the weather is hot, it is definitely impassable, not to mention that it is the late autumn season, the river water is cold to the bone, and people must be frozen and numb as soon as the water is launched.

The eldest son was a little unwilling, since the old lady said that this road can be walked, it will definitely be walked, and the predecessors must have walked it, and this road cannot be suddenly gone here.

So he took a spear, called some dogs and a little wolf, and walked towards the foot of the hill, where he might see what the river was, and perhaps he would see what it was to be seen.

When he reached the foot of the mountain, he picked up his spear and poked it into the bushes, causing sparks to emerge from the stones under the bushes, and then he picked up his knife and slashed them indiscriminately, and after the trees fell, he did not miss any surprises, and he was so angry that he hated it.

The second son saw that this was not going to work, so he went over and persuaded the eldest son not to lose his temper, it was useless.

In fact, the eldest son has a tantrum, on the one hand, he is really angry in his heart, and on the other hand, he really wants to take a look at the foot of the mountain to see if he can have some unexpected gains.

Seeing that there was nothing he could do, the eldest son had no choice but to follow the second son out of the foothills, but the moment he turned around, he looked up and found that there was about a black thing on the stone wall of a small bay a little forward and further up, and he thought it was very strange.

He glanced at it again, and when he looked closely, it was really a good thing—it turned out that there was really a stone cave, but this stone cave was not only blocked by the stone wall in front of it, but also in front of the stone cave, there was a canopy of artemisia grass more than half a person high blocking half of the exit.

When he found this, he immediately jumped up with joy, and the second son, who had already turned around and walked back, was inexplicably surprised by his action, and hurriedly asked him what was wrong.

The eldest son did not speak, but pointed to the cave in the distant mountain.

Now the second son also saw clearly, it is really a stone cave more than one person high, and it looks very regular from the appearance, and it should have been repaired by someone.

If you look closely, there seems to be a path leading up the steep stone wall to the entrance of the cave where they had been slashing just now. This is enough to confirm that this stone cave is the road ahead.

The second son hurriedly called his father to go over and see, and when his father heard their shouts, he knew that he had made a discovery, so he hurriedly ran over to see what was going on, and took something over with his uncle.

When you come to the foot of the mountain, look up, although there are a lot of weeds and shrubs growing under the stone mountain, and the stone wall is also blown round by wind and rain, but the traces of artificial carving on the stone wall and the carved stone nest are still clearly visible.

When the third son saw this, he was a little excited, grabbed a killing knife, and was about to go forward, but was pulled by his father and said to wait first. (To be continued.) )