The moment the Eye of Time and Space opened, the stone wall that was more than two meters thick was becoming transparent little by little. Xu Jianguo took a quick look and found that it was actually a natural cave of more than ten square meters.
"I didn't expect that the wall of my house is so close to this cave, but why haven't I heard any crying before?" Xu Jianguo thought to himself.
There is a stream falling from a high place in the cave. It does not form a pool, but flows away to an unknown place. Xu Jianguo guessed that this should be a tributary of an underground river somewhere in the remnants of Beimang Mountain.
Suddenly, two black things moved somewhere by the stream. Xu Jianguo looked carefully and finally saw what they were. He also finally understood what the crying sound that Funiu mentioned was.
It turned out that the two black things were actually giant salamanders, which we often call baby fish. They got their name because their cry sounds like a baby crying.
Giant salamanders usually like to live in small streams in mountainous areas that are wider, have slower flows, and are filled with gravels of varying sizes.
Xu Jianguo turned to look at Funiu and asked, "Funiu, is that crying sound you heard the same as a baby crying?"
"Yes, haha, how did you know?" Funiu asked with a silly look.
"Haha, don't be afraid. There should be a cave behind the wall of our house. The crying sound you heard should be made by the giant salamander in the cave." Xu Jianguo said with a smile.
When Funiu heard that it was not a scary thing, she bravely walked in from the outer room. Xu Jianguo picked her up, took a towel from the basin rack, wiped her little face and then put her on the kang.
"Haha, what kind of fish is a giant salamander? Is it delicious?" Funiu's question made Xu Jianguo's head full of black lines. He thought to himself, "You really can't underestimate any foodie."
"My brother has never eaten it either. Let's try it together when we have a chance," said Xu Jianguo.
"Okay, okay!" Funiu was instantly happy and said while clapping her chubby hands.
I took a big box of fruit jelly from the supermarket and opened it for her. The little girl took a bite and shouted that it was delicious.
Xu Jianguo smiled and touched her head, then sat aside, staring at the stone wall in deep thought. He was thinking back to what he had just seen, and always felt as if something was wrong.
A moment later, Xu Jianguo's eyes lit up, he looked at the stone wall again, and then activated the Eye of Time and Space.
The stone wall became transparent again, and the full picture of the cave appeared before Xu Jianguo's eyes.
Following the stream upstream, several rectangular stones appeared in the darkness. This was where Xu Jianguo had felt something was wrong before.
The stone slabs were arranged neatly, and it was clearly a winding stone staircase upwards, but where these stone staircases would lead to was still unknown.
Xu Jianguo's gaze followed the stone steps. The increase in distance and the influence of light made his vision blurred, and he could not see clearly where the stone steps led to.
Xu Jianguo took off his shoes, got on the kang, slowly walked to the stone wall and continued looking.
This time, he saw some vague outlines in the darkness at the end of the stone steps. He thought about it for a long time but still couldn't figure it out.
Suddenly, a light bulb went off in Xu Jianguo's head, and then he knew why the outline looked familiar.
In his previous life, Xu Jianguo bought a 17th-century castle in Europe. There was a wine cellar in the basement of the castle, and in the wine cellar there was a secret room. The outline of the stone door of the secret room was very similar to the outline hidden in the darkness in the cave.
"So, there should be an ancient stone gate at the end of the stone steps, but I don't know where the stone gate leads to." Xu Jianguo thought to himself.
“Quack, quack!”
Xu Jianguo, who was lost in thought in front of the stone wall, was awakened by Funiu's voice. He turned to look at the little guy and asked, "What's wrong?"
"Haha, I'm hungry!" Funiu said.
"Okay, I'll cook right away!"
"I'll eat whatever Gaga cooks!" Funiu said obediently.
Xu Jianguo came to the main room, took out a pork elbow from the space, cleaned it and put it into the electric pressure cooker.
Then cook a pot of rice in a rice cooker.
I took a carrot and a cauliflower from the Space Farm, cut them into pieces, blanched them and set them aside.
An hour later, the pork elbow stewed with rock sugar was ready. Xu Jianguo found two bowls, one large and one small, in the space and filled them with rice. Then he used his mind to debone and slice the pork elbow. The pork elbow slices were evenly arranged on the edge of the bowl, topped with blanched carrots and cauliflower, a lava fried egg in the middle, poured with a spoonful of soup, and finally sprinkled with a handful of chopped green onions, the aroma overflowing.
When Xu Jianguo walked in carrying two large bowls, Fu Niu, who was lying on the kang, was immediately attracted by the rich aroma and stared at the contents of the bowls without blinking.
Looking at the big bowl of colorful rice in front of her, Funiu's saliva began to flow unconsciously.
Xu Jianguo handed her a wooden spoon, then picked up a large piece of elbow meat and put it into his mouth.
Seeing that her brother had already eaten, Funiu started eating without any hesitation, and she wanted to bury her little face in the bowl.
Xu Jianguo looked at Fu Niu who was wolfing down the food across from him, and suddenly realized that if he used a small bowl to serve her rice, it might not be enough, so he would have to use a different bowl next time.
Sure enough, when Funiu finished eating the last grain of rice, she looked at Xu Jianguo pitifully with her big eyes, making him feel both amused and helpless.
"Funiu, are you not full?" Xu Jianguo asked with a smile.
The little girl nodded without hesitation.
"Wait, I'll serve you more!"
"Okay, okay, thank you, haha!" After hearing Xu Jianguo's words, Funiu immediately smiled happily.
A moment later, Xu Jianguo came in again with a bowl of rock sugar pork elbow rice. In order to prevent the little girl from finding fault, he also fried an egg and put it on top.
Placing the bowl in front of Funiu, Xu Jianguo said, "Here, eat! But if you can't eat anymore, tell me, you hear me?"
"Okay, haha!" Funiu answered obediently.
"Be good and eat!"
Funiu continued eating, but this time she ate much slower than the previous bowl.
Xu Jianguo had already eaten up all the rice in the bowl and was now teasing Xiao Hei with the pork bones he had removed.
"Haha, I'm full!" Funiu's voice rang out.
Xu Jianguo turned to look at her bowl and found that she had only eaten half of it. He nodded with satisfaction. He was really worried that the little girl was not hungry or full. It would be troublesome if she ate too much and got sick.
"It's okay, I'll eat the rest. You go and play with Xiao Hei. You've just finished your meal, so you're only allowed to walk slowly and not run. Do you hear me?" Xu Jianguo said.
"Okay, quack!"
After finishing the leftovers in Funiu's bowl, Xu Jianguo threw all the dishes into the dishwasher in the space kitchen and made himself a tea bag. He sat in a chair and was in a daze. The stone door on the stone steps of the cave unconsciously emerged in his mind.
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