The opening of the cave is very small, and the weeds in front of it that are as tall as a person have been trampled down by You Ren. There are still a few clusters of bells with broken tips hanging at the entrance of the cave. The taller man has to lower his head to enter.
Horses were not even allowed to enter and had to be tied up at the entrance of the cave.
But after entering, the space is very large and the ceiling is very high. The highest point is more than ten meters.
As soon as you enter, you will feel a burst of hot air. The temperature in the cave is generally 17 degrees, which is several degrees warmer than outside.
It's just that the smell is really unpleasant.
The stuffy air and the smell of animal excrement made people sick.
One person who was already feeling uncomfortable simply vomited. The filth makes the air in the cave smell even worse.
Near the cave, there was an area of extremely dim light, and a layer of black bats hung above the cave wall. Several of them were frightened by the movement of people and were scurrying around in the sky above the cave.
It made several women scream in fright.
Zhao Dali looked around and asked people to light a fire to warm everyone first.
After a while, the people who went out to explore the path came back, but no other caves were found.
Li Desheng arranged for some prisoners to clean up the cave, and asked several officials to go out to cut some firewood and rest here for a few days.
Ning Yue really couldn't stand the smell. After cleaning, she took out the dried mugwort leaves in the space, rubbed them a little, and then placed a few small piles around Ying's house.
The moxa smoke dispersed, and everyone finally dared to breathe freely.
Others heard about it, and those who knew it came to Ning Yue to ask for some mugwort leaves.
Ning Yue simply said loudly: "The smell in the cave is too strong. Moxa smoke can prevent diseases, protect health, avoid filth, and can also eliminate odors. Do you want to light some too?"
Everyone said one after another: "We want it too, thank you Madam Ning."
Ning Yue simply gave some to the officials and asked them to light them everywhere in the cave.
For a while, the cave was filled with smoke, like a fairyland.
Someone gave a thumbs up: "Ms. Ning is really resourceful, nothing can trouble her."
Another person said: "I am close to this smoke, and my nose that has been blocked for a day feels a little clearer, and I can smell it now."
Three free men, Yuchuan Yuren and Caiyan, went out to explore the mountains and came back by cutting some firewood.
Ying Lingzhu saw something going on, and after settling down, he placed all the cooking pots and pans outside to catch the rainwater. After catching a pot of rainwater, he first flushed away the dirt at the door, and then went to collect the water for decoction.
Everyone was grateful again.
When Ying Sizhu looked at Ying Lingzhu, who was completely different from before, his cheeks almost cramped.
What's so great, she was just my dog.
Do you know how stupid she used to be? Do you know how submissive she was before?
You treat her like a treasure now, but you are just doing it to flatter Ning Yue's stinky feet!
Because Zhu Baiqian accidentally spread the word that Ying Sizhu was a seductress who sucked male semen, men who looked at her were afraid of losing their male semen and avoided her like a snake or a scorpion.
Everyone saw her slut-like behavior when trying to please Li Shugen, and everyone also looked down upon her parents' behavior of selling girls. They were like lost dogs, being chased away wherever they went.
In the end, he could only squeeze in and settle down under the bat.
Ying Qiqing felt something fall and hit him on the head. He scratched his hair and pulled out an oval black strip. By the firelight, he saw that it was bat guano.
He angrily pushed the sister next to him: "It's all your fault for being unruly, look what you've done to us!"
Ying Sizhu was pushed to the ground in embarrassment, with one palm resting on a pile of bat excrement.
She just tolerated it when others said it. When she followed Li Shugen, he often came to take advantage of her.
Sometimes, because he demanded too much, she had to face Li Shugen's even more excessive demands. Now he was blaming her instead!
Full of hatred welling up in her heart, she curled her fingers, grabbed a handful of bat excrement and stuffed it into Ying Qiqing's mouth.
When Ying Qiqing realized what she had put in her mouth, she screamed, and after a long time of spitting, she punched Ying Sizhu twice on the back, and then she cried aggrievedly in Mrs. Li's arms: " Mom, she fed me bat shit!”
While Mrs. Li patted her sweetheart, she also punched Ying Sizhu: "What are you going to do? He is your brother!"
Ying Sizhu stroked the painful back and gritted his teeth: "He hit me first just now, didn't you see?"
Li: "Then he is your brother, so you can't stand it if he just says something to you?"
Ying Sizhu's expression turned cold, these words were so familiar.
In the past, the person who was asked to be patient was Ying Lingzhu, but now, it was her.
Mrs. Li felt a headache when she saw the cold look on her daughter's face.
From now on, her son will inherit the family name. How can she hold this bowl of water in order?
She turned around and kicked Wu who was watching indifferently: "Are you a deadbeat? The ground is so dirty, why don't you go and sweep it up!"
Wu obediently went out to collect branches to make a broom.
Ning Yue looked at her a little strangely.
Did Mrs. Li and Ying Xun save her life? Mrs. Li had gotten to this point and acted like a mistress, beating and scolding her. Mrs. Wu actually followed her behavior.
Forget it, respecting other people's fate is not something she should worry about.
As soon as Wangcai entered the cave, he was very excited when he saw the bats on the top of the wall. He kept trying to pounce on one or two, but unfortunately they couldn't fly and the bats were too high, so they couldn't reach them.
It squatted down next to Ying Qiqing and looked up expectantly.
Ying Qiqing was still angry when he saw the dog coming to play with the bat at his place. As if to vent his anger, he kicked Wangcai in the side.
Wangcai whimpered and fled back to Ning Yue with his tail between his legs, looking pitiful.
Ning Yue was about to have a seizure.
Ying Lingzhu, who was closer, first asked angrily: "Why are you kicking it!"
Ying Qiqing said disdainfully: "It's just a wild dog. I can kick it if I want. Do you care?"
He had never taken this sister seriously. He had bullied her many times in the past, openly and secretly, and she had never resisted once. Now that a dog dared to question him, he really rebelled against her.
Ying Lingzhu: "What a wild dog? It's my sister-in-law's dog! It didn't hurt you, why do you kick it!"
Li stood up slowly, with a gentle smile on her face that Ying Lingzhu had rarely seen before: "Lingzhu, he is your brother, and we are all part of the same family. How can your sister-in-law care about such a trivial matter? Don't care about it either. Now, girls, it’s better to be more respectful and gentle.”
Now Ying Lingzhu is not like before. She can't control her in daily life, and she has Ning Yue's thigh again. Her brother seems to look after her occasionally, but he can't do it, just hoping that he can still listen to her now.
During the more than ten years of Ying Lingzhu's growth, Mrs. Li was not like an aunt, but more like a master, controlling everything about her.
And Ying Lingzhu is her tool to display to the outside world.
After Ying Lingzhu took the blame for her children, she scolded her a few more times in the name of kindness, and then let her go gently to show her kindness.
Some things she couldn't say were convenient for her to say, so he asked her to speak on her behalf. At this time, Ying Lingzhu became her external weapon again, treating her kindly and harshly, all depending on his mood.
