Accumulate Wealth in Life

Shuzi High Gate (37)

From the time the carriage left the capital, it first went west, then north, then east, and then south. It seems that the journey of four or five days is actually circling around the capital.

Lin Yutong and Fourth Master didn't know if others saw anything. Anyway, they felt that no matter how they circled, they were all within a half-day radius of the capital. It is estimated that these people are also afraid that they will recognize the path, so they never take the official road, and they all go back and forth on the small road. Sometimes they pass through some villages. With such a large group of people, how could the villagers dare to step forward, but they just glanced outside through the crack of the door. Even the wild dogs wandering in the village ran away with their tails between their tails when they saw this battle. These villages have no signs at all, and they are still different from those towns where the population gathers. After all, the town has a name, and there are some decent shops and restaurants. Even if these men don’t go out often, they can’t be sure to come to the vicinity of the capital. Even if you listen to the voices of people around you when you pass by, you can easily judge the approximate location. But they don't go to crowded places! The more they stayed away from officialdom and avoided crowds, the more certain Lin Yutong was that this was near the capital.

After going around for six days, finally one afternoon, the carriage passed through a narrow crevice in the mountain and entered a basin after only a few hundred steps. The reason why it is called a basin is that this place is surrounded by mountains except for a gap in the 'one line of sky' that passed through when entering.

When Lin Yutong got off the carriage, he clearly felt that this place was warmer than outside because the cold wind couldn't blow at all.

It was the **** who brought his party, so it should be the emperor who sent them.

Lin Yutong had a guess, this must be the emperor's dark guard camp. Thinking so, she couldn't help but look at the fourth master, trying to confirm her guess. I saw the fourth master nodded slightly.

Really brought to the dark guard camp's lair!

But if you bring people in so carelessly, you are not afraid that your old nest will be found? Lin Yutong thought so, and immediately denied it. It shouldn't be difficult for them to hide their whereabouts. As long as they arrange for a few more people to go from different routes, it will disturb the audiovisual, and nothing will happen if they think about it. The key is that at this time, everyone's eyes are focused on the capital, and they really don't pay much attention to their whereabouts.

This is like a village built in a basin. At the foot of the mountain, there are some small villagers' courtyards scattered here and there. This basin should not be too small. If it weren't for the special terrain, I would have thought this place was a small village.

Standing here and looking around, I can see smoke rising from the chimneys of every household, even if it is not cooking time, the Ondol must be burnt.

"Fourth Young Master, please come this way." The handsome boy who followed the frame of the two men smiled and pointed to the Fourth Master in a direction completely opposite to Jin Shouren.

Before the fourth master could speak, Jin Shouren shouted from there, "I don't care where you take us to, since we've already reached the place, we have to ask our family to live together. We're not allowed to talk on the way, we're here. The place is not allowed to approach. Even the prisoners in the sky prison, at most, are separated by men and women, and I have never seen such a family apart."

The person who followed Jin Shouren over there should be quite old, although it sounded like a laugh, but his tone was unquestionable, "Look at what you said, Lord Shizi, it's better for a husband and wife to be locked up together than a brother. Mrs. Can you rest assured that it is not in front of you? I advise you, it is better to keep calm..."

Lin Yutong was very suspicious that these people were afraid of gathering them together. If someone attacked them, they couldn't ask someone to make a round. Just imagine, yourself and others are supposed to be in the hands of the emperor now. If someone did not want to **** him and others to threaten Jin Chengan, but assassinated the situation and provoked the relationship between the emperor and Jin Chengan, it would be really troublesome. . Killing is easier than saving. If he really wants to die, the root of Jin Chengan's vein will be completely broken. This feud is over. So, out of an abundance of caution, don't put your eggs in one basket.

The fourth master shook his head at Jin Shouren, motioning him to stop talking. Then he pulled Lin Yutong and Yutong to follow behind the handsome young man.

After walking south for a while, we arrived at the foot of the mountain. The path leading to the mountain is built into steps one by one. After walking down the steps for another half an hour, I arrived at the halfway up the mountain. A small yard is built on the hillside, and the adobe house seems to have been built for a long time. When I entered it, it was clean, with a small earthen kang covered with blue floral sheets. Under the windowsill, there are several new quilts stacked. There were two large packages on the quilt, which should have been their clothes. On one side of the kang, connected to the kang, is a stove with pots and pans. There is a small compartment inside, with firewood, bath bucket, Gong bucket.

The preparations are very complete, and it seems that they will be left here for a while.

"Fourth Young Master, you and Mistress have to be here for a while." He pointed to the stove, "Rice, noodles, grains, rapeseed, and meat are all available here. You can make your own, or we can deliver meals. It's just that we deliver meals... It's a long journey, and it's not too hot here, you have to get hot yourself..."

Lin Yutong smiled: "We do it ourselves. It's just that we have seen the year, so we have to buy everything we should have."

"That's natural!" The young man agreed repeatedly with a sigh of relief.

Lin Yutong's heart sank, because he didn't plan to send them back during the Chinese New Year.

Fourth Master pointed out, "Walking around outside shouldn't be a problem, right?"

"This..." The young man looked outside, "As long as you don't go down the mountain, you'll be fine."

Lin Yutong turned his head and giggled: "Aren't you afraid that we will run across the mountain?" Instead of going down, you can go up!

"Young mistress is joking." The young man's face was filled with self-satisfaction, "Let's invite a few young masters here as guests. It's more dangerous outside than here. Besides, on this mountain...you'll know if you try it. Can you run away?"

The bottom of the mountain is not allowed to go, there should be a lot of people coming and going, for fear of hearing something that shouldn't be heard. The top of the mountain is not afraid to go by himself, that is because there must be a great post on it.

Lin Yutong knew what he wanted to know, so he turned around to add water to the pot, and then made a fire. It's still cold in this room.

The fourth master watched the boy go down the mountain, and stood in the yard and looked down the mountain. The trees on the mountain were all low shrubs. In the cold winter, the bare branches were pressed by the thick snow, and some of them were frozen into tree hangings. , the afterglow of the sun shone down and shone on the trees, shining brightly. But the line of sight was also blocked by these trees, and the basin under the mountain could not be seen at all.

No wonder they dare to keep them here. This angle is really tricky.

After entering the house, Lin Yutong had already boiled the water, "Go wash first..." It was really uncomfortable to be stuck in the carriage along the way.

As soon as the fire was lit, the house became warm. This wall is also a wall of fire.

Washing up, cooking, eating, it was already dark after all the work.

The oil lamp was lit, giving off a dim light. Lying on the hot kang, neither of them could sleep.

"Let's just stay here like this?" Lin Yutong hugged Fourth Master's arm, "If something happens in the middle of this, it will be bad..." Life is in the hands of others, how can one feel at ease in his own hands.

"Yeah!" Fourth Master nodded, "Don't worry, we still have time."

At least for the past few days, you can't be in a hurry.

Lin Yutong turned over, on other people's territory, he just couldn't feel safe. She sat up and gave Fourth Master a pill: "Take this..." Then she poured a pill and ate it herself. Only then did he get up and sprinkle powder on the wick of the kerosene lamp. Anyone who breaks into the house faints when they smell the smell. "Let's take the antidote first, it's fine!" This way, you can sleep peacefully.

That night, the two of them slept very well. When I opened my eyes the next day, the sky was bright. There's really nothing else in the room but two fascinated mice.

Fourth Master pointed at Lin Yutong and smiled: "Is it disgusting."

Lin Yutong grinned, and then blew out the oil lamp: "It's not a big mistake to be careful."

After getting off the kang, the fourth master found a wooden stick in front of the stove, picked up the rat and planned to throw it out, but he was stunned when he saw it. There are dark bloodstains on the mouse's fur and claws.

If the mouse ate some beast that was frozen to death, it should be blood stains around its mouth and beard. Why is it just on the fur and claws? It's obviously stepped on somewhere, or rubbed.

Fourth Master put this one down and picked up the other one, but there were bloodstains on the paws and tail.

"What's wrong?" Lin Yutong was folding the quilt on the kang, and when he turned his head, he saw the fourth master holding a wooden stick and pulling the mouse to see.

The fourth master shook his head: "There are bloodstains on this mouse. It's not their own injuries, nor what they ate, but rubbing against them."

Lin Yutong put the quilt back, and then went down to the kang to look at it. Both of them looked at it carefully, "Maybe there is a small animal corpse that froze to death on this mountain. This corpse was eaten by other big animals, leaving bloodstains..." Before he finished speaking, Lin Yutong shook his head first, this kind of guess was not true at all. If this is something like a frozen rabbit or pheasant, it is eaten by other animals. Then leave bloodstains, and when the mouse arrives, the blood has long been frozen in this weather. Where will you step on or rub against liquid. The mouse is timid, and when other large animals eat, it does not dare to go up to eat. But when they left, the day lily was cold. Even if there was blood, it became a lump of ice.

Therefore, this corpse should be in a warm place. It could be a place where people live, or it could be a cave of some kind of animal.

This is impossible to say.

"Let's cook first." Fourth Master shook his head, "After dinner, let's take a look inside and out."

Both animals and humans are territorial. These two mice will never run over the mountain.

Both Lin Yutong and Si Ye were no strangers to cooking with an earthen stove. There was millet porridge in the pot in the back and pancakes and vegetables in the pot in the front. It didn't take long for a meal.

I ate a meal in a hurry and packed up neatly. The two did not rush out of the yard, but searched back and forth in the house and the yard to see where the mouse got in.

The fourth master went to the yard, and Lin Yutong searched the room inch by inch. Suddenly, her eyes stopped. Next to the stove is a large water tank. Yesterday, the water tank was full of water. I used some last night and today, and there is still half of the tank left. This kind of tank is very heavy, and the labor of an empty tank cannot be easily removed. Now, in the gap between the water tank and the stove, there is a dead leaf scattered. Lin Yutong took the leaf out and saw a little blood on the leaf. It should have been stepped on when the mouse came up.

This means that when the mouse came up last night, the blood it rubbed against had not yet solidified. And the place where the mouse came up should be under the water tank.

"I found it..." Lin Yutong shouted. But as soon as the voice fell, the fourth master didn't answer when he heard the young man's voice reply from outside: "What did you find?"

Lin Yutong stood up after rubbing it, hurriedly messed up the firewood in front of the stove, squatted on the side, stretched out his hand to take off his earring and rubbed one of the earrings in his hand, and said with a smile, "It's just a small thing... …”

The fourth master stepped into the house before the young man. Seeing that everything was in order, he turned his head and said, "There is still water... You have brought it here again."

The place where the water was drawn was a small stream, but now it is frozen, and the water can only be drawn from the well at the foot of the mountain. This boy is here to deliver water. From the bottom of the mountain to the middle of the mountain, a thin layer of ice formed on the bucket.

Seeing that Lin Yutong was holding an earring in his hand and making a mess in front of the stove, the young man smiled and said, "It's not good for us here, there is dirt everywhere, but we have to take good care of these small objects, and if they fall into the dust, It's not easy to find..."

As he spoke, he poured water into the tank.

Following this young man, there were also two silent young men, each carrying a burden and pouring water into the jar. The six buckets of water were filled again.

The young man smiled and said, "Even if you use it, it's easy to carry water."

After watching them leave, the fourth master turned around and closed the door. Pointing to the water tank, "You mean down here..."

Lin Yutong shook his head: "I don't know if there is another mystery here, or it's just a mouse hole."

"Let's go at night." The fourth master took Lin Yutong out, "Let's go out for a few laps first..." It was strange that the old circle was in the house.

The two wandered around the mountain, trapped a rabbit, and when they came back, they peeled and stewed them, so they passed the day.

They went to bed early, and didn't get up again until midnight.

Lin Yutong moved the water tank together with the water in it into the space, and immediately, the expressions of the two of them changed. Because there was a **** hole in front of him.

There was a faint smell of blood inside.

It seems that there is another universe in this mountainside!