Chapter 371 Qin Xiaoyi in the Stone Chamber
"Oh my god, this is a good offer." Shang Zhen exclaimed.
The gate of the yard is still a big red-painted iron gate, and there is a Phoenix brand bicycle parked in the yard. It is indeed a unique good condition in Shilin Village.
There was an elderly man sitting in the yard. Wang Chunlu came out of the main room holding a cup of tea and handed it to the old man:
"Grandma, after you drink your tea, go take a nap."
Shang Zhen walked in boldly and looked around: "Captain, your house is very well organized."
As soon as Wang Chunlu looked up, she found that the monk Ye Xiaomei was real.
Shang Zhen was fine. He entered the yard as if he was at home and looked around. But what about Ye Xiaomei? How did she find this place?
Could it be for Professor Qin? He wanted to get close to her and snatch her reserved spot in the skip-level exam?
Thinking of this, Wang Chunli didn't look happy at all: "What gust of wind brought you two here?"
The old lady looked to be in her eighties if not ninety. When she grinned, only one large front tooth was exposed in her empty mouth:
"Is this your classmate? Go get him a stool and pour him some tea."
Seeing her kind face, Ye Xiaomei quickly declined: "No need, grandma, isn't there a place to sit here?"
Ye Xiaomei said this and sat down beside the water pressure well without any disgust.
Unexpectedly, the grandmother was very kind-hearted and said anxiously, "It's too cold. You can't sit there in such cold weather. Come on, sit on a stool in the house and warm yourself by the fire."
As she spoke, the old lady stood up with the help of a chair, and walked into the main room with the help of a cane. Before Ye Xiaomei was done, she asked if she had eaten, and quickly asked her granddaughter to go to the noodle shop to buy some noodles:
"Don't forget to add more pepper powder later so that your classmates can eat it to warm their bodies."
Shang Zhen was very honest. He touched his belly and said, "I'm really hungry. I didn't even have lunch. Squad leader, please help me."
Wang Chunlu's face looked very unhappy, and it was obvious that she was reluctant, but she really listened to her grandmother.
As soon as Wang Chunlu left the house, the old lady started chatting: "Chunlu, are you doing well in school? You are all classmates, so you must help each other and study hard. In this era, only education can lead to a future."
As she spoke, Lao Tiantian took her handkerchief and wiped the saliva from the corner of her mouth. Originally, her speech was unclear because of Meiya, but she actually spoke as much as Shang Zhen.
Ye Xiaomei has been observing the layout of Wang Chunlu's house. She has to find that stone chamber to find Qin Rong.
Fortunately, Shang Zhen was also talkative: "Don't worry, grandma, we have a good relationship. How old are you?"
Taking advantage of the time when they were chatting, Ye Xiaomei got up and went upstairs.
After walking around, I found that Shang Zhen and the old lady were chatting hand in hand, like long-lost relatives.
"Me too, my parents are dead."
Ye Xiaomei couldn't help but curl her lips when she heard Shang Zhen say that. Even though her father was a beast, he was still alive, okay?
The old lady patted Shang Zhen's hand and said, "What a miserable child! Chunlu's parents were crushed to death when they were clearing the mountain."
As she spoke, the old lady suddenly looked at Ye Xiaomei: "What about her? Are her parents also gone?"
Ye Xiaomei's heart skipped a beat and she quickly waved her hand: "Grandma, my parents are fine, thank you for your concern."
"That's good, that's good." The old lady lifted her sleeves and rubbed her eyes with emotion: "There are too many poor children. Chunlu is a kind-hearted child. A few days ago, she brought home a girl who was also an orphan. The child said she was sick. I don't know when our Chunlu learned medicine, but she cured her."
Ye Xiaomei was slightly startled, and she and Shang Zhen looked at each other.
Shang Zhen winked, and hurriedly smiled and took grandma's hand and said, "Yes, grandma, Chunlu is more fortunate than me. She has a grandma, and my grandma died early. Now I am an orphan."
As he was talking, Shang Zhen really started acting, with tears in his eyes.
The old lady couldn't bear to see the younger generation in such pity, so she quickly comforted him, "Good child, if you don't mind, come often and treat me as your own grandmother."
Ye Xiaomei had already tiptoed around searching the first floor. She discovered that the entire house was made of red bricks, so why was there no stone chamber?
Is it in the yard?
There are side rooms on both sides of the yard. There are chimneys on top, so the one on the east should be the workroom.
With mixed feelings, Ye Xiaomei went in to check around. She saw the stove, the firewood pile, the cupboard, the pallet, and a few carrots thrown randomly on the corner of the wall, but she didn't see the stone chamber.
Ye Xiaomei turned around to leave, feeling a little disappointed, when she suddenly saw a door on the ground in the corner of the workroom with a big pull ring on it.
basement?
Ye Xiaomei didn't know much about life in Shilin Village, but the door was pressed to the ground and it must be a basement.
Ye Xiaomei looked back and saw Shang Zhen chatting with the old lady in the main room. She pulled the pull ring and went down decisively.
What's more, there is a staircase leading down.
Walking down, I found a faint light.
"Who?" someone spoke, the voice echoing in the stone chamber.
Ye Xiaomei's heart was shocked. Sure enough, there was someone living downstairs. She sorted out the questions she wanted to ask again, walked up the last step, and found that half of the stone chamber was piled with jelly vegetables such as potatoes, radishes, sweet potatoes, cabbage, etc.
The remaining half had a stone table, four stone benches, and indeed a fireplace on the wall.
At this moment, Qin Rong walked out from another corner of the stone chamber.
There is a single wooden bed in the corner.
For a moment, their eyes met.
Ye Xiaomei swallowed a mouthful of saliva. Qin Rong's facial features had not changed much, but she was obviously a lot younger, at least in her teens or twenties.
Because the white hair on her temples was gone, and her dark eyes were full of childishness, she did not look at all like the innocence that an intellectual in her thirties or forties should have.
So much so that Ye Xiaomei instinctively felt that she had recognized the wrong person, and swallowed back the words that were about to come out of her mouth.
Plus, there was a look of doubt in her eyes, as if she didn't recognize herself.
Ye Xiaomei asked tentatively: "Teacher Qin, you... don't remember me?"
As she said this, Ye Xiaomei took two steps forward and looked closely at Qin Rong, even trying very hard to see something from her body, but it was all blank.
This is unscientific. Everyone has experienced something to some extent, so how could it be a blank?
Qin Rong instinctively took two steps back and looked Ye Xiaomei up and down: "You are..."
Ye Xiaomei finally came to her senses and realized that she really didn't remember herself.
What's going on? Ye Xiaomei looked her up and down again. She had short hair that reached her ears, a characteristic oval face, and eyes as clear as autumn water under her thick eyebrows. She looked just like Qin Rong, but without her maturity and stability.
"You are not Qin Rong?"
A thoughtful look flashed across the man's face: "Who are you?"
Ye Xiaomei's heart skipped a beat. What was going on? The man in front of her was like a young version of Qin Rong, but if she were Qin Rong, she should remember herself.
"What are you doing?" At this moment, a series of hurried footsteps came down the stairs. Wang Chunlu couldn't help but frown:
"Don't you think it's a bit like a thief to just go to someone else's house and mess around?"
Wang Chunlu's words were sarcastic, but she was obviously not that excited about Ye Xiaomei's intrusion into the storage cellar. Instead, she smiled and stood beside "Qin Rong", folding her arms and said:
"Actually, I brought you here on purpose. She is not Teacher Qin at all. Teacher Qin is indeed dead. This is her daughter."
"..." Ye Xiaomei's head buzzed and she subconsciously took another look: "Qin Xiaoyi?" How is this possible.
Ye Xiaomei pretended to be calm and composed:
"What do you mean by deliberately luring me here?"
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