Chapter 303 A pound of salt ran away!
Song Dekui removed the leather saddles from the two horses, loosened their bits, and let them eat grass.
Song Liyun began to look for a place to set up camp.
The old horse is tired, and it is also reminding its owner to find a safe place to rest before dark.
The reason why it chooses a place with many stones is because there is little grass here, the field of vision is wide, and it can avoid sneak attacks from natural enemies such as jackals hiding in the grass.
"Tsk tsk tsk, Xiaoyun, this old Ma is quite famous!"
Song Dekui returned with the saddle in his arms. He looked at the flat and spacious area, but there were so many rocks that there wasn't even a place to stand. He frowned and said, "Xiaoyun, what are we going to do? Is your little house big enough?"
Song Liyun also came over and looked at the pile of stones the size of a human head. She nodded and said, "It's okay. We just need to move these stones away and there will be a flat ground. These stones can also be used to stabilize the foundation of the house."
As she spoke, she took out a small silver bag from her bosom...
"etc!"
Song Dekui's eyes widened, and he dropped his saddle and ran over, jumping and skipping.
Song Liyun was a little confused.
Watching Song Dekui running to his side, he first rubbed his hands vigorously in his armpits, then respectfully held the small silver bag in his palms and knelt down.
He closed his eyes and muttered, "Great Immortal, you must bless us with safety! From now on, I will choose the fattest and most abundant animals as sacrifices every year, and the most expensive and thickest incense and candles." After that, he kowtowed three times.
"well!"
Song Liyun smiled bitterly.
The reason why Song Dekui dared to venture into the grassland with him was because of this small silver bag.
This is the lucky bag of the "Budai Monk" mentioned by Song Zhenping.
Ever since Song Liyun decided to keep Uncle Kui, she had discussed with Song Zhenping that she had to tell him about the "lucky bag", otherwise it would be very troublesome to deal with many things and explain them later.
Moreover, in the hearts of the three brothers and sisters, Song Dekui is the only trustworthy relative of the Song family.
Song Liyun once carefully let Song Zhenping accept this "magic product".
Unexpectedly, when Song Dekui heard about the lucky bag that could store things, he believed it instantly.
He even knelt down and kowtowed when he saw Song Liyun display her "magic skills".
After all, the expression "the universe in the bag" was coined by Song Dekui himself at the Budai Monk Temple outside Suijin Town, and was only borrowed by Song Liyun.
Today, the small temple is very popular, and Song Dekui has contributed to it.
Since ancient times, people have burned incense and kowtowed, worshiping only the desires and fears in their hearts. It does not matter whether they are kneeling to gods or objects.
After eating too much, Song Dekui respectfully handed the small bag back to Song Liyun. He was not afraid of the cold and hard ground. He knelt straight and said with bright eyes: "Xiaoyun, show me!"
He loved watching those objects suddenly disappear and reappear, just like the magic tricks at the temple fair, which made him very excited.
But every time he thought about it, Song Dekui felt that he was insulting the sacred object.
As expected of a smart man, Song Dekui finally came up with a good idea, which was that as long as Song Liyun used the "magic bag", he would kneel on the ground and watch.
Song Liyun was speechless at this guy's nonsense!
She didn't waste any time. As soon as her hand passed over it, the pile of stones disappeared instantly, leaving behind a piece of sand.
The old horse lying in the pile of rocks was frightened by this strange situation. It let out a long cry, as if it had a new soul. It jumped up nimbly and fled into the distance.
Song Dekui also jumped up and ran after the horse's butt, shouting, "A pound of salt has run away!"
The man and the horse quickly ran into the weeds.
Song Liyun suddenly became anxious!
These are Lao Ma’s eyes on the grassland, and he cannot make any mistakes.
Also, Song Dekui was running around on the grassland with his bare hands, and it would be dangerous if he encountered a jackal.
Song Liyun no longer cared about the pile of stones. She quickly pulled the Juqing horse next to her, jumped on it, and chased after the old horse and Song Dekui.
The chestnut horse is a gentle mare. She was originally given to Song Liyun by Zhao Tingduo, and now she is in love with Juqing.
When it saw Juqingma running, the husband and wife followed suit and ran beside him.
Song Liyun quickly caught up with Song Dekui with two horses: "Uncle Kui, get on the horse!"
Song Dekui was running so hard that his tongue was hanging out, and he was gasping for breath with his mouth wide open. Seeing the chestnut horse approaching him, he quickly grabbed the reins and mounted it: "Xiao Yun...that old man is up to something."
What does it mean that there is something fishy about Laoyan?
When Song Liyun chased the horse, she found something strange. The horse was running shakily and crookedly, as if it would fall down in the next second, but it didn't die.
Song Liyun and Song Dekui tried to catch it after several attempts.
There were even times when the old horse had already stood still, but as soon as people approached, it rushed out of the encirclement in a dying struggle.
Song Liyun became more and more frightened as she grabbed on. It seemed as if Old Ma could guess human thoughts and his IQ was frighteningly high.
It was obvious that the horse was experienced in dealing with this kind of siege. I wondered how many times it had escaped being hunted by wolves in its life.
Fortunately, no matter how smart the old horse was, it was still an old horse. After tossing back and forth for more than ten minutes, it finally ran out of energy and Song Dekui seized the opportunity to put the bridle on it.
He was led back to the rocky beach in a half-dead state.
After all this trouble, Song Liyun didn't dare to have any more accidents. She first drove a wooden stake and tied the old horse, and then continued to work on the foundation of the house.
Soon, an open space of about 30 square meters was cleared. Song Liyun shook the small silver bag, and a pile of neatly stacked double-sided plywood and long wooden pillars with deep grooves were placed on the ground.
Song Dekui had been watching intently at this point, and when he saw that the wooden board had been taken out, he stopped kneeling and hurried forward to help.
The wooden pillars are spliced one by one with slots and then tied with cowhide ropes to form a long board house frame. Finally, the wall panels with paper cores in the middle of the wooden boards on both sides are fixed into the frame.
Song Liyun asked Carpenter Mu to build the simple wooden house in a month.
Due to technical and raw material issues, a prefabricated house is only ten square meters in size, barely enough for one person.
Song Liyun took out the materials for two sets of prefabricated houses and quickly assembled them into two independent small houses.
The huts are placed three meters apart, so that an open space is formed in the middle of the wooden houses.
Then connect and fix the front and back with wooden sticks, and put a few wooden boards on the top. The open space becomes a stable, and the three horses have a place to shelter from the wind and rain.
In this way, if there is any movement outside, the people living in the small houses on both sides will be able to discover it immediately and find the horses to respond immediately.
As Song Dekui was assembling the prefabricated house, he sighed, "Xiaoyun, how could you come up with the idea of using wood boards with paper sandwiched between them as walls and making this mobile house?
People say you can move overnight, and now you can move overnight."
Song Liyun smiled lightly: "I was thinking about the Di people on the grasslands living in felt tents that are easy to carry, so naturally I wanted to build a house that is easy to disassemble and assemble.
Uncle Kui, even though this house is made of wood and cardboard, once it is built, it is much more comfortable than living in a damp and stuffy dugout."
In fact, Song Liyun had always had this idea since the last time she stayed at the entrance of the Huangsha River Valley for a few nights and the beggar nanny built a felt tent for her.
(End of this chapter)
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