Chapter 66: The Empty Valley (4)
Seeing that Xu Mo was standing still and not moving, the old monkey thought that he was going to regret it, and shouted at him a few times, as if he had an angry look. The Mango family responded unceremoniously.
Xu Mo saw that the two monkeys were about to argue again, so he hurriedly waved his hand, stopped the Mango family, and took a few steps back, and the old monkey turned his anger into joy, and called a few times to the two prime-aged monkeys beside him, as if he was commanding something, and the two monkeys stepped forward with courage, set up the monkey on the ground, and left without looking back.
When the Mango family saw them leave, they all cried out for joy. The star fruit and orange stepped forward, picked up the peaches and grapes on the ground, and ate them on the spot, and the dragon pounced on them to fight for them.
When Mango saw it, he suddenly screamed at them a few times, as if he was scolding, and the three monkeys who were grabbing the food suddenly stopped, lowered their heads and did not dare to make a sound.
Mango barked at them a few more times, and the three monkeys obediently took the peaches and grapes in their paws and handed them to Mango, who stretched out his claws and grabbed them and gave them to Xu Mo, Xu Mo smiled, reached out and took them, but put them back into Mango's paws. Mango's face was happy, so he ate it with his spouse and children.
Mango held a peach, nibbled on it, yelled at Xu Mo a few times, walked behind the old mango tree, and waved at Xu Mo again.
Xu Mo thought it had something to do with the mango wine that day, so he stepped forward. Behind the mango trees are piles of tall branches and weeds, which cover half of the mango trees. The mango stretched out his paws to pick up the branches and weeds, and a hole the size of a bowl appeared in the mango tree.
Mango stretched out his paw and pointed to the hole in the tree, signaling Xu Mo to look.
In fact, when it opened the tree hole just now, Xu Mo had already smelled a stronger smell of wine emanating from the tree hole, even if he didn't look at it, he could guess it.
At the moment, I looked down at the tree hole, the tree hole was quite deep, although the hole was small, but the inside was large, it was gourd-shaped, exuding a faint heat, mixed with a musty smell.
The amber wild mango wine was in the hollow of the tree, almost reaching the mouth of the hollow, and there were a few wild mangoes floating in the wine.
When Xu Mo saw it, he couldn't help but be secretly surprised, and thought: Could it be that the wine in this tree hole is actually brewed by the mango family?
He guessed right, the wine in this tree hole was really made by the Mango family.
It turned out that this tree hole was discovered by the Mango family and used to store food. They put the wild mangoes they collected in the hollows of the trees, but the mountain is full of wild fruit trees, and there is no shortage of food. The inside of the tree hole was impermeable, and over time, the wild mango rotted and fermented in the tree hole and turned into fine wine.
Although there is a hole in the body of the old mango tree, it is not dead, and some of the water, dregs and even alcohol fermented by wild mango are absorbed by it.
After the mango family stuffed the tree hole with wild mangoes, they picked up branches and weeds to cover the hole entrance, but because the food in the tree hole could not be eaten, after a long time, they forgot about this place, and waited until the wild mangoes fermented naturally and turned into fine wine, the aroma of wine came out, and the monkey smelled the smell and escaped the aroma of wine, so that they found this place again.
So the wine in this tree hole became a specialty of the mango family. This wine has a light taste, but the fragrance is strong, it is really the most authentic fruit wine, and the mango family likes it very much.
Naturally, they don't know how the wild mangoes they store become fine wine, but since they know that the wild mangoes are put in, the wine will come out. When there was little wine in the tree hole, I instinctively knew that I wanted to put wild mangoes in the tree hole.
That day, Xu Mo saw longan in the valley, and he was collecting wild mangoes, planning to use them for winemaking.
As for today's dispute with another monkey, it was also caused by wild mango wine in the hollow of the tree.
This mountainous area is very large, and there are not only Mango monkeys living in this mountainous area, but each has its own territory, and it is rare to go to the territory of other monkeys, so although the Mango family has good wine, the monkeys elsewhere do not know what to do.
The area near this old mango tree was originally the territory of the Mango family, and the family had occupied this place for a long time, and there were few other monkeys coming. But since the Mango family moved to the valley on the other side with Xu Mo that day, this place has become vacant.
The old monkey family's residence and the mango family are only separated by a mountain, although there is no contact, but they still know each other's existence, and they have always been non-enclaving.
Just a few days ago, the white-eyed little monkey was playful, chasing a few butterflies, and inadvertently crossed the line. This monkey is about the same size as the dragon's eye, and the boundary of the territory is not very clear, so he chased it to the territory of the Mango family.
In the past, there are also monkeys that break in by mistake, but there are always monkeys left behind on the territory of the Mango family, and when they see other monkeys breaking in, they can immediately find out and drive them out.
But this time it was different, after the white-eyed little monkey entered the territory of the mango family, he was still worried at first, but as he gradually went deeper, he found that there was no monkey to stop him, and his courage gradually increased, and he went deeper and deeper, and went further inside.
As a result, when I went deep enough to a certain extent, I smelled the aroma of wine emanating from the tree hole, and I escaped the smell of wine and found this tree hole.
The white-eyed little monkey was overjoyed, so he immediately went back and told the old monkey, and the old monkey came with the other monkeys in the family, and looked around, but did not see the Mango family, thinking that something had happened, and he didn't bother to pay attention to it, so he planned to occupy this place.
Although the Mango family moved to the valley where Xu Mo is located, every two days, they will return to their original residence to check, yesterday when the grapes came to check, they found that their nest was occupied by another nest of monkeys, in a rage, quarreled, and suffered a small loss on the spot.
Grape escaped and told Mango. At that time, Xu Mo was exercising his mood on the mountain, and Mango didn't inform him, so he took his spouse and children and took the dagger that usually kills chickens and rabbits, intending to snatch the territory back.
So there was the battle that Xu Mo had just seen. Fortunately, Xu Mo came early, otherwise, it is difficult to say how far this battle would have developed.
Mango stretched out his paw again and pointed to the tree hole, signaling to Xu Mo to let him drink the wine in the tree hole.
Xu Mo stared blankly at the amber wine in the tree hole, but he couldn't help but be a little distracted, although this natural fruit wine was delicious, but in his opinion, it was nothing.
I thought to myself: Look at this, the Mango family and the other monkeys love this fruit wine, and this wine is indeed good. There are a lot of fruits on this mountain, and when you are idle, do you want to get some fine wine? Drink some in your spare time, and also add some spice to your life.
With his powerful sense of touch, smell, and taste, it is indeed not difficult to make the wine more beautiful, but the difficulty is that he does not know how to make wine.
All he knew about brewing was the words fermentation and distillation, and he didn't know anything else, either the process know-how or the method steps.
But he was not discouraged at this point, thinking that the Mango family could make such a fine wine with only a tree hole. Compared with them, I don't know how much I can do, but I can't do it? It's the same as when I fired pottery, I can't do it once, I don't succeed twice, I don't succeed twice, I come ten times or eight times, try it slowly, sooner or later I can do it, I have a lot of time, and I'm afraid that I won't succeed?
Thinking of this, I immediately had a plan.
The Mango family was invaded by the old monkey family, and although they had been driven away, they were afraid that they would go back and not dare to go back for a while. Xu Mo didn't care about them, so he walked around the neighborhood and watched the surrounding scenery, the mango family followed him, the grapes frolicked with the three little monkeys, but the mango always accompanied Xu Mo.
Xu Mo followed the hillside, and after a while, he came to an upright stone wall, which was seventy or eighty meters high, very flat, as if it had been caused by a huge and sharp knife cut vertically from the air.
At the bottom of the stone wall, there is a cave, the entrance of the cave is not too big, it is almost round, and the diameter is one meter five or six.
The cave was very deep, and when you looked inside, it was so dark that you couldn't see what was in the depths of the cave.
Xu Mo couldn't help but be surprised, looking at the appearance of this cave entrance, it didn't look like it was naturally generated, it seemed to be artificially made, or dug up by giant rats.
Curious, he couldn't help but move forward, wanting to get closer to see what was in the cave.
But at this time, Mango suddenly screamed a few times, stretched out his claws and grabbed Xu Mo's clothes, and pulled back hard.
Xu Mo was startled and looked back, but saw Mango's body trembling violently, with a look of fear, grabbing his clothes, constantly pulling back, and constantly screaming in his mouth, he was very anxious, pointing fingers, obviously preventing Xu Mo from entering the cave.
Xu Mo couldn't help but feel a pang in his heart: What is in this cave, and what mango is so afraid of?
Suddenly I remembered something: The mango was injured that day, could it be in this cave? In this cave lived the fierce beast that injured the mango that day?
Thinking of this, my heart became uneasy, but if I left like this, I couldn't stop my curiosity, and thought: I won't go in, but only look at the entrance of the cave, even if there is danger in this cave, it will not hurt me.
At that moment, he broke free of his clothes from the mango's claws and walked forward, the mango's cry suddenly became terrible, and the intention to stop it became more obvious, Xu Mo waved his hand, signaling that it didn't have to worry, and he only looked at the entrance of the cave.
Mango didn't understand what he meant, and became even more anxious, Xu Mo smiled, stopped caring about it at the moment, and walked towards the entrance of the cave.