1986: Old Stories in Northeast China

"Dad, bring some meat next time you go out to play."

Doudou's words interrupted Chen Tiezhu's thoughts.

He held the little confused kid in his arms, "Doudou, that big tiger is so powerful. Didn't you see how long its teeth are? It can bite you in two."

"Dad, why did the tiger bite Doudou?" Doudou asked in confusion.

"Because it misses meat, so when it sees a tiger in the forest in the future, it will run far away." Chen Tiezhu said.

"Dad, you have to bring meat and feed the tiger meat. It will make friends with Doudou and won't bite Doudou." The little guy said seriously.

Chen Tiezhu tapped her little nose, "It can eat the meat of the old nose at a time. Even if An Dahan feeds it, it is not enough for it to eat a meal."

"Moo..."

An Dahan cried out in dissatisfaction and shook his head.

What the hell are you doing?

Why are you thinking of feeding us to the tiger?

Chen Tiezhu rolled his eyes, and he understood everything.

However, although An Dahan was very dissatisfied with his analogy, Doudou accepted it.

It would be hard to carry such a big piece of meat like An Dahan up the mountain.

He looked so miserable, why is it so difficult to make friends?

Chen Tiezhu thought about it for a while, and took his daughter to turn a corner and headed for the spring on the mountainside.

I have been here so many times, but I have never seen it properly. I can't miss it today.

Even if we come to Erdaoling later, we have to be fully prepared, otherwise it will be really dangerous.

Don't look at him as if he was very calm just now, but in fact, he is also beautiful on the surface and vicissitudes on the inside.

After wandering around the hillside, we finally found the location of the spring, a depression on the mountainside.

This spring is not the kind that bubbles out on the ground, but flows slowly out from the cracks of several rocks on the rock wall.

There is a shallow puddle below, covered with many dead leaves, dead branches and weeds, and the trees on the side grow diagonally, which looks very desolate.

"Dad, this is meaningless, it doesn't bubble up."

After watching for a while, Doudou frowned.

Chen Tiezhu scratched his cheeks, always feeling that it shouldn't be like this.

Looking at the spring of mountain spring water on the rock wall, it is indeed big enough. But now looking at this spring, I feel a little kidney deficiency and prostatitis.

He didn't know why he thought so. It was obviously the first time he saw it, and he always felt that this spring looked very depressed.

"Doudou, since we are here, let's clean it up. In the future, if there are small animals coming here, they can drink some water with them." Chen Tiezhu said.

"Dad, how do you know there are small animals coming to drink water?" Doudou asked curiously.

"Hahaha, just look at these small footprints on the side and you'll know." Chen Tiezhu touched Doudou's little head.

Doudou squatted down and took a closer look. There were indeed a lot of small footprints. Then he lifted his little feet and stepped on the side.

Since he was here, Chen Tiezhu did what he said.

But although Doudou also loved to work, he lost interest after squatting down to help pick up three leaves.

This job was not fun, and the water was cold.

After Chen Tiezhu used a branch to push away the leaves on the puddle, he saw a clue.

Because of the flushing and soaking of the spring water, the puddle has exposed the stone below. And more than one meter away from the spring, there is a very clear, shallow dent, half a meter long.

This is the proof that this is the effect of water dripping through the stone.

It also means that when this spring was not weak, it was built quite far away.

This made Chen Tiezhu very curious. What kind of accident must have happened to make this spring weak.

Judging from the traces here, it has also gone through countless years.

How long does it take for the spring water to flush out the dent? Under such a strong impact, the stone that should have been smooth is now covered with mud carried by the mountain wind?

It's a bit interesting.

With such a discovery, he worked harder.

But as he worked, he found something wrong.

Because he found that there seemed to be traces of watermarks below the spring. And according to the height of this trace, the surrounding depression should have been a large pool.

After thinking about it for a while, he picked up a slightly thicker branch and poked it on the side.

He poked away the soil on the hillside piece by piece, and after seeing a stair-like stone exposed on the top layer, he didn't know what to say.

No matter how magical nature is, it is impossible to carveThere are many traces of chiseling on it, which is obviously man-made.

With his limited knowledge, he couldn't tell which period of history this stone staircase belonged to.

After thinking about it, he covered the soil he had poked up again.

I thought that after Erye's description, I had a certain understanding of Erdaoling. In fact? Nothing.

Because in the cognition of the people in Erdaoling Village, the people in the village moved here later, and there were only a few hunters living here before.

But now looking at this stone staircase, it is obvious that there were people a long time ago.

To put it bluntly, the villagers of Erdaoling are just outsiders.

Put away the messy thoughts in my mind and continue to clean up the dead leaves and branches covering the small puddle. By the way, pull up the weeds on the side and throw them aside.

"Not bad, this is the clear spring flowing over the rocks. Even without the bright moon shining through the pines, it's still beautiful."

After finishing his work, Chen Tiezhu admired it for a while and said with emotion.

"Dad, what's so beautiful about it?" Doudou asked curiously.

"Hehe, tell Dad, why are you so popular?" Chen Tiezhu held the little guy in his arms and asked seriously.

Doudou hugged his neck with his little arms, "Doudou is so amazing and so popular."

"Hahaha, you're not shy at all. Let's go home, what do you want to eat tonight?" Chen Tiezhu asked happily.

"Eat meat, as long as there's meat." Doudou responded happily and gave his own standards.

"You're not picky about anything, your little belly is starting to bulge, and you'll grow into a little fat pig in time." Chen Tiezhu said, tapping the little guy's belly.

"Doudou is a little fat pig, and pigs eat delicious food." Doudou said happily.

"Hahahaha... cough cough cough..."

Listening to his daughter's words, Chen Tiezhu was originally very happy, but then he was choked by the tiger head that suddenly popped out from the hillside and started coughing.

He really didn't expect that the big tiger that was rarely seen in the forest would be seen twice today.

And he felt a creepy feeling in his heart.

His premonition was not omnipotent.

Twice, the big tiger was so close to him, but he didn't even notice it.

And what about Doudou's three little followers?

This time, just like before, they all came behind him and used him as a shield again.

Only Doudou, who was held in his arms, had shining eyes. Make friends, make friends.