The mountain crevice was discovered by chance, Chu Chao Hui and Zheng Yuming were hunting at the foot of the eastern mountain, and shot a hare, the hare was not killed by the crossbow, and drilled into the mountain rocks with the arrow, a hare does not matter to the two crossers, but the crossbow is very important, in order to chase the crossbow back, Chu Chao Hui and Zheng Yuming persistently chased after the hare.
Look at the rabbit is about to catch up with the rabbit, but in a flash of effort, the rabbit disappeared, the two men in front of a thirty meters high stone wall to look for, just now the rabbit is disappeared here, when looking for the side of the stone wall, found that there is a one person wide gap, the gap is covered by the weeds and vines, if it is not the winter, the weeds and vines withered, but also can not see that there is a stone gap.
Chu Chao Hui went ahead and walked to the mountain crevice, and was just about to pick at the withered vines when he was shaken by a gust of mountain wind.
"What?" Zheng Yuming walked behind him and noticed that Chu Chao Hui suddenly jumped back a bit.
"There's something odd here." Chu Chao Hui looked up to survey the crevice and realized that it stretched upwards.
"What's odd?" Zheng Yuming only saw Chu Chaohui swaying in front of the stone wall, before he could not feel the situation, Zheng Yuming stood still, he felt that the closer he got to the crevice, the greater the mountain wind.
"There's a strong wind blowing out of the crevice there." Could there be a cave in the crevice?
Chu Chao Hui looked around and looked at the terrain, once again approached the crevice, walking to the position in front of the crevice, Chu Chao Hui's body swayed and then stabilized, his hair was blown around by the wind.
Chu Chao Hui used his hand to pull the withered vines in front of him, pulling out the withered grass underneath, revealing a gap in front of him that accommodated a person.
"What could be inside?" Zheng Yuming had walked over to Chu Chao Hui, and the wind blowing out of the gap was so strong that he had to cover his nose and mouth to speak smoothly.
"It's all grass, have to clean it up to know." Chu Chao Hui turned his head back to be able to answer Zheng Yuming, without turning his head to avoid the wind, it was difficult to speak.
Chu Chao Hui cleaned up about two meters into the mountain crevice, the crevice became larger, can accommodate two people walking side by side, the crevice became wider, Zheng Yuming also followed in to help clean up the weeds and vines, from the mouth of the crevice came in, the strength of the mountain wind in turn weaker. Two people while cleaning up, while looking for the hare, attempting to retrieve the crossbow arrow, but the gap seems to be very long, cleaned up more than an hour, still do not see the shadow of the injured rabbit, the two hands have been unable to pull the vines and grasses, the skin of the delicate point of the hand of Zheng Yuming has been pulled out of the blood blisters.
"It shouldn't be a cave in here." Chu Chao Hui stopped walking and looked up to the top of the crevice, although the air above the crevice was dominated by dead vine branches, the light above the crevice penetrated down effortlessly because all the leaves had fallen off in winter.
"Is there no way out?" Zheng Yuming's first reaction was that if the front wasn't a cave, it must be a dead end. But as soon as he finished saying this, he knew that his guess was wrong, if it was a dead end, what was this strong wind in the crevice? Although after entering the crevice, the strength of this mountain wind was a little weaker than the entrance to the crevice.
"I suspect that the seam was formed by the entire mountain cracking open, and that the seam may run across the east and west." If the slit was running through, there would be an exchange of air, creating this strong wind.
"Across the east and west?" Zheng Yuming got excited, in that case, the other side of the gap was the eastern foothills of the Eastern Mountain Range, and by passing through this gap, they would be able to reach the eastern side of the mountain from the western side of the mountain, eliminating the grueling path of going over the mountain.
"We'll go back today and bring our tools tomorrow to clear the crevice of weeds and see what's really at that end of the crevice."
It was now evening, and it would take the two of them an hour and a half to walk back to the villa from the foot of the East Range, and in this primitive place it was very unsafe after dark, even with a pistol at hand.
The two men had kept the wood at the cottage when they had come out early in the morning today, and had shot two pheasants in the morning, and then in the afternoon had only shot and wounded the hare that had taken refuge in the crevice, and the results of the hunt had been the worst of all, but the discovery of the crevice had made the two men feel that the loss of one of their crossbows had been well worth it.
Back to the villa, wood heard the master's voice, immediately scratching the door with its little paw, wood followed to the forest is too much of a nuisance, Zheng Yuming locked wood in the living room, the villa's doors and windows are sealed, big bugs can not climb in, unlike the yard, weasels and rats often patronize the wood is now just a little puppy, not powerful, slightly larger weasels and rats can easily bite wood, wood is only safe in the portal The only place Woody is safe is in the sealed cottage, where he keeps enough water and food next to his cardboard nest to keep him fed and watered during his house arrest.
Wood after crossing over, IQ seems to improve a little, some things Zheng Yuming as long as you teach it two or three times, wood will comprehend, for example, wood urination and defecation know to go to the restroom, urination and defecation in the underground drainage next to the toilet, Zheng Yuming came back, stool thrown to the commode, urination and defecation with the well water flushed off, it looks like more than two months of wood, no longer like a ten year old big dog when the urine and feces anywhere, can be like a human being as much as attention to the hygiene and will not Dirty living place, this is also Zheng Yuming rest assured that the wood is locked in the villa reason.
When Zheng Yuming and Chu Chaohui returned to the villa, the sky was already dark, as soon as Woody saw the two of them, he looked very aggravated and surrounded Zheng Yuming's feet fluttering his little tail 'whimpering' straight.
Nowadays, Woody was already like a relative to Zheng Yuming, and even though his body was already fatigued, Zheng Yuming bent down and hugged Woody to comfort the little guy.
The two slightly cleaned up and then began to do their own jobs, Zheng Yuming went to make dinner, Chu Chaohui in the yard by the well to clean up the prey, every day to hit the prey have to slaughter and deal with it, deal with the hunting meat hung to the roof of the half-story attic racks hanging to dry for spare parts.
Wear to this time and space a week later, the well water in the yard became clear, at this time, all the pure water in the villa has been used up, Zheng Yuming threw a bit of bleach into the well, the two men and a dog began to use the well water directly, which is not as good as tap water, but better than the water of the forest pond several times, before crossing, the well water is the mouth of the sweet wells, after crossing, Zheng Yuming use the well water for cooking before scooping the mouth tasted the well water to drink! After going down, the mouth and mouth feel a slight sweetness, the water quality of the well water surprisingly did not change.
The moonlight is very bright at night, Zheng Yuming cooking dinner and Chu Chao Hui's slaughter of pheasants, are completed by moonlight, the villa found five candles and three flashlights, two kerosene lamps left behind by Zheng Yuming's grandfather, have not spared the use of kerosene lamps, especially a small bucket of kerosene about a liter of kerosene, which kerosene is still a come to the villa to repair the engine pump of the workers to bring, with the kerosene can be on the hands of the ebony motor oil sticky to wash clean.
That worker fixed the water pump of Zheng's flower and tree base and left, the kerosene for washing hands forgot to take away, and has been left in the warehouse of the workers' room, this forgotten thing is treated as a treasure here, and the two of them counted on this thing to illuminate on the nights without moonlight.
After dinner, Chu Chao Hui routinely smoke a cigarette before going to bed, Zheng family flower and tree base often have flower and tree merchants door to door, the villa is often prepared to entertain the guests of the smoke and tea, Zheng Yuming is not addicted to cigarettes, Chu Chao Hui found eight and a half cigarettes to their own.
In the twenty-first century, Zheng Yuming and Chu Chao Hui are night owls, basically until after eleven o'clock in the middle of the night before going to bed, and crossing here, the two people eat dinner, will only rest for half an hour, they each go back to their rooms to rest, the day's labor, so that the two people once next to the beds to go to sleep, every day, the east is slightly bright, the two people will get up to start a day busy, although it is so hard, these two people never go to lament a little life, the Because they don't have that time, and they don't have that mind, all of their thinking is only focused on how to survive this problem.
The next day before dawn, Zheng Yuming got up, he had to go to the workers' kitchen to make two meals to prepare, before crossing the snacks brought cooked food have been eaten up, there is no cooked food in the villa, to go out for a day you have to do it early and bring it with you. Zheng Yuming used a pressure cooker to cook two pheasants, steamed a large pot of rice, washed some garlic, fried pots of green vegetables. These foods were Zheng Yuming with two large lunch boxes loaded with half when the midday lunch, the rest is the two and wood's breakfast, the more physical effort, the two people's appetite is also the more big, if it is the pre-crossing Zheng Yuming, the amount of food per meal is only half of today.
Both humans had become big appetites after crossing over, only Wood, from big appetite to small appetite, two pheasant legs and a small bowl of white rice mixed with pheasant soup were Wood's food for morning and noon.
Carrying prepared tools and food, Zheng Yuming and Chu Chao Hui in the east at dawn from the villa, wood has been a little accustomed to the treatment of house arrest, protests are no longer strong, just whimpering and low humming to express their own emotions, and when you can not hear the master's footsteps, head into the cardboard box to sleep it's big head, it is said that more sleep can quickly grow the body, the wood to strive to grow into a strong and mighty big wolf dog, strength to conquer the forest, so that it will not be a burden to the master. That way, he won't be disliked by his master as a burden.