Living in the mountains and forests as hunters

Chapter 67

When Dabao saw this small hole for the first time, his first reaction was to rush over, wanting to look inside, but fortunately, An Dalang was quick and grabbed him immediately, and turned his head to look seriously. Looking at Dabao, he reprimanded him:

"Frizzled, what are you looking at? You don't know what's going on, and you don't know if there is any danger in it, so just go up like this, are you going to kill yourself?"

Being so frightened by An Dalang, Dabao was stunned immediately, but his uncle had never been so serious before, the child was naturally frightened immediately, and did not dare to move, An Dalang didn't care about him at this time, he just turned around Walking to his own kang, he took two rags from Zhao Yiyi's sewing dustpan, went back to the small hole again, put one of them on top, and saw that the rags were shaking slightly, It seems that there is a wind blowing over and blowing it out.

Seeing this situation, An Dalang frowned, then turned to Dabao and the others and said:

"Have you seen it? Remember in the future that the first thing you do when you see a cave like this is to measure the wind. If it looks like this, it means that there must be a place for ventilation in the cave at the back. On the contrary, if there is no place, it is just If it is a blocked grotto, then once the small hole is opened, it will be ventilated, the wind will drill in, and the cloth strips will also suck in. This is the simplest way to measure the wind.”

Dabao heard what his uncle said, and knew that he was teaching them, so he nodded immediately. His little head nodded as fast as a chicken pecking at rice. The serious An Dalang couldn't help laughing, but In a blink of an eye, his face sank again, he lit the cloth strip in his hand with the fire in the stove sugar, threw it into the small hole, and continued:

"If there is wind in this cave, then you have to light a fire and go in. If the wind inside is poisonous, you will naturally have a bad smell as soon as you enter. If it is not, then naturally you will not smell anything, only the burning cloth. Taste, this must be done, and it must be carefully identified. In one, there is another problem if there is wind, that is, is this cave connected to other caves, is there another exit, is it something else? Animal caves, this is all a problem. If there is any animal's lair inside, our action means to scare the snake, like a snake, if such a mass of fire enters, he will definitely come here to investigate, and you will know the cave Is it dangerous? Also, if the fire encounters the smell of blood, or the fur of wild animals, there must be a certain smell, so that you can prepare and distinguish. This must be remembered. When a hunter It’s not just a man who knows how to do things recklessly, he also needs to learn to use his brain.”

This is knowledge that is rarely used in the past. If you say you don’t know it, there are plenty of people out there. It’s nothing surprising, but who made them come from the mountains!When hunting, there are still many opportunities to enter the prey's cave. Many times, knowing a little more can save lives. Naturally, you should know everything, not to mention being able to teach children in the field, and you have to speak clearly Yes, there may not be such an opportunity in the future.

After waiting for a while, there seemed to be no movement inside, and there was no change in the smell. An Dalang felt relieved, and beckoned Zhao Yiyi to pull the child away, and carefully expanded the small hole at the entrance of the hole. Expand it a bit, and then throw a piece of burning cloth into it. If you can't be careful, Zhao Yiyi and Dabao can't help but feel their hearts tightening, and they don't dare to blink.

When the small hole expanded to the size of a table and felt the cool wind blowing from inside, the family was relieved. The wind had no animal smell, and there was no other bad smell, which meant that it was An empty cave, this so-called air vent is not a cave for other animals to enter and exit.This made them want to explore again. Think about it, such a cave that came out of nowhere is still so close to their home, but only separated by a distance of about one meter, and there is another air outlet, what would it be like? cave?Besides, let’s talk about the trend of the cave, let’s not talk about where it’s going inside, just say this direction, no matter how you look at it, it’s going to the belly of the mountain, so where is this so-called outlet?
An Dalang carefully confirmed that there is no danger for the time being. He was the first to hold the torch and started to walk inside. After only two steps, he felt a bunch of followers behind him. Zhao Yiyi, Dabao, and Erbao didn't even bother , followed behind, even Zhao Yiyi was holding a big knife, one of the two children was holding a dagger, and the other was carrying a lantern, their eyes were shining with excitement, the three of them directly regarded this place as an adventure land.

An Dalang looked at the three of them, and at the moment he didn't know what to say, and he knew that if they were not allowed to follow him at this time, they probably wouldn't listen. At this moment, he felt that there was really no danger in this cave. He had been hunting for many years. Somehow, he had a premonition, here he didn't feel anything that made him feel uncomfortable, so he simply didn't chase them away, just took the big knife in Zhao Yiyi's hand, and carried it by himself, complaining in his heart: This thing is in his own house. It's a waste in the daughter-in-law's hands, so it's better to hold it by yourself!Anyway, it can be regarded as a defensive weapon, and in the hands of a daughter-in-law, it is a good-looking item.

A big man leads the way, followed by a girl, followed by two little radish heads. This is how a weird expedition team was established. Step by step, carefully walk into the newly opened hole, which is true The strange thing is that An Dalang dug the entrance of the cave with a distance of only two meters, but when he got inside, he found that the mountain wall here is actually very thick. Digging a hole at the weakest part of the cave made An Dalang and Zhao Yiyi speechless after entering the cave and looking around carefully. Should they be grateful to God for saving them a lot of energy?Or should I quickly kneel down and thank the mountain god or something?Anyway, there is such a weird feeling in my heart.

A place like a passage is at their feet. Although the passage is a bit rough and rough, and there are occasional stone thorns around it, it is still a very spacious place, at least horizontally. Look, it has a width of about two meters.Some places on the top of the head are higher, about four or five meters, and some places are lower, requiring people to bend over to walk through. This kind of journey takes a full ten steps, and this is considered to be a new place. This is a The road diverged, one went up and the other went down. An Dalang inserted a torch in a crevice of a stone, and took out another prepared firewood from his body. After lighting it, he prepared to continue walking. He turned his head and looked at Zhao Yiyi wanted to know her opinion.

"You said, where are we going, up or down?"

At this time, Zhao Yiyi squatted down, took out a rope from her arms, picked up a stone from the ground and tied it, then took the other end of the rope, watched the stone hang down, and began to check the rope and the ground. After looking at it for a while, he said:
"I feel that we have only walked five or six meters, but the ground seems to have gone up a lot. The passage itself seems to go up. Dalang, you are trying to take that cloth, and see how the wind blows." Is it blowing from the fork above, or coming from below, let's find this outlet first to be serious."

An Dalang made sense when he heard it, he hurriedly took out the remaining cloth strips from his pocket, held up a new torch to check, he had to walk a few more steps, and look inside the two forks. Otherwise, it would be easy to make mistakes, but when he walked away, he took care of Zhao Yiyi and the two children very seriously, and waited here, not to move around.

And two children!At this time, he didn't have the mind to follow the tricks he had already seen, but he was very interested in Zhao Yiyi's calculation of whether to go up or down by using the stone to hang down. He kept asking questions and turned himself into a good student.

When An Dalang came back, Dabao and Erbao were already experimenting with the rope tied with stones.

"Look, is it tilted?"

"Oh, really, this is similar to the one my uncle used when he was a carpenter! Brother, look, this place is high. Oh, it turns out that this one is flat."

Seeing the two nephews who were still struggling like this in the dark cave, An Dalang was very angry, and slapped them directly on the head, and said in a rough voice:
"Okay, stop playing, go, go stay in the house, watch the house first, and your aunt and I will explore here first, and you can play again later."

Looking at the uncle who was giving full play to the advantages of adults, the two children were very reluctant, but looking at their aunt next to them, it seemed that they had no intention of speaking for them, so they could only bow their heads and walk back.

When Zhao Yiyi heard this from An Dalang's mouth, she thought about it for a while, guessing that An Dalang felt that the cave was a bit deep, and didn't want the two children to follow along.

"What's the matter? Could it be that the cave is too deep?"

"It's not a question of whether it's deep or not. I tried it. There are winds on both the upper and lower roads. It seems that there may be more than one wind outlet here. I don't know if it is dangerous or not, or let the two children leave. It’s better to look further away, okay, let’s go to the top first, I figured, if there is a vent here, it’s probably on the upper part of the stone wall of our house, only this place I haven’t been to, otherwise if there are other places There's no way I didn't know about the hole or something."

Hearing what An Dalang said, Zhao Yiyi couldn't help but think about the location of her cave, the direction of the cave, and the direction of the passage. How about walking above the cave where they live? If you say that, doesn't it mean that there is actually another floor above their house?So what about the small second floor, they have already owned it from the beginning?This is too scary, isn't it!

(End of this chapter)