"No, I've mailed everything I wanted to keep. Your Grandpa Luo and the others are helping to collect it. Now all I need is the train tickets, which I have to buy in the city in advance."
"There's no rush. When the time comes, you can come back to the city with me and buy tickets now to catch the train." They really wanted to catch the train. After all, only a few people could afford to sit in a sleeper berth.
"That's fine, we'll leave after the exam is over."
The old man hasn't traveled far for many years. He was thinking that while he could still move, he would go and see the few old friends he had left. He didn't know how many times he would see them again in this life.
"Okay, it's getting late. The three of you should fill your stomachs and go back to rest. We'll have plenty of time to talk later."
The darkness was gradually replaced by light. Chen Ye got up early as usual and did a set of boxing. After finishing the exercise, he washed off the heat with water from the well. The air in the countryside was so good. It was not as hot as in the city in the morning and was very cool.
"Little sister, come over and have dinner." Cen Zixiang stood at the gate and called people. His little sister rarely came back after going to work, so there was no food here.
"Right away."
After dinner, everyone had some free time. In the past, they could visit neighbors nearby, but now everyone who should leave has left, and all they can do is sit there staring at each other.
"I'll go back and pack up first. I'll bring all the things here with me when I return to the city. Have you found the car that Fourth Brother asked you to find?"
"We've found it. We'll leave after Shuzhu finishes his exams. Have you talked to Grandpa Chen about this?"
"Well, after the exam, Grandpa will go to the city with us first, and then we can buy tickets to leave from the city."
"Okay, I'll go out and make a phone call and ask someone to help buy the tickets."
Gao Fei stood up immediately and said, "I'm going to make a phone call. I need to talk to the captain about something. You can go over and help Ye Zi clean up."
"That's fine. I'll go to Ye Zi first."
Chen Ye returned home and looked around. There was almost only one set of old bedding left in the house. It seemed that there was nothing to clean up. She came back to clean up the secret room at the back, but she looked at Cen Zixiang beside her.
Forget it, the little stuff she has is not enough to make her fourth brother kill people for the treasure. Besides, this guy doesn't have that ability. He is not as good as herself when it comes to swinging a knife.
Chen Ye turned and walked towards the backyard. Cen Zixiang quickly followed: "Little sister, aren't you packing up your things and coming to the backyard? You haven't planted anything in the backyard this year."
They all thought that they would leave here in the summer, so they would not do anything in vain. Even though the vegetable garden was not big, it still required labor.
"Just follow along, why are you asking so many questions?"
When Cen Zixiang saw Ye Zi open the entrance to the cellar, his eyes lit up, but he knew there was nothing in the cellar.
So, was the little sister going in now to retrieve something hidden inside? Wouldn't that mean he would know how the little sister hid things, so that he never noticed anything unusual in the cellar?
People are very curious, especially Cen Zixiang. He hurried to catch up with Chen Ye, for fear of being lost by accident, or being a step late and not seeing how his younger sister opened the mechanism.
Yes, every time he helped Chen Ye take something out of the cellar, he would look around curiously, but he never found a place to hide anything. He thought there must be a hidden mechanism here, otherwise how could he not find anything?
Chen Ye went down the cellar and walked straight towards the small compartment in the cellar. Cen Zixiang followed him closely. If Chen Ye took smaller steps, Cen Zixiang could step on Chen Ye's heels.
Chen Ye was speechless. Her fourth brother had lived two lifetimes, but still felt like a child who had never grown up.
Chen Ye walked to the innermost part of the cellar, raised his foot and kicked twice at an inconspicuous place below, and a hidden, tightly closed stone door opened to one side.
Cen Zixiang saw this from behind Chen Ye and opened his eyes wide in surprise.
Oh my god, the mechanism is real? He thought it was all made up in martial arts novels. This is too magical. Before, he couldn't tell the difference between this place and other places.
"Little sister, you made this mechanism. How did you manage to make it invisible?"
"It's not difficult. I'll tell you when I have a chance. Do you want to come in and take a look?"
"Yes, yes, yes, can I really go in with you?"
"Why are you talking so much nonsense?" Chen Ye muttered, bent down and walked in, and Cen Zixiang quickly followed.
The entrance doesn't look big. Even if you are tied up, you have to lower your head to enter. But after entering, you will find that it is not short at all. Even with the height of Cen Zixiang, he can't touch the top when he stands up straight, and it seems that he can't even touch it even if he stretches his arms.
After Cen Zixiang came in, he looked at the neatly arranged shelves, which were empty and obviously there was nothing on them. Before he could ask, he saw his younger sister walk to a place and open another door in the same way.
However, this door looked much taller, about the same size as the door of a normal house. When the door opened, stairs appeared in front of him. Chen Ye walked directly up the stairs, and Cen Zixiang was amazed.
"Little sister, you are so awesome! How long did it take you to make this? How come I don't know anything about it?"
Chen Ye rolled his eyes without even turning his head: "Look carefully, if I could have made this, then I wouldn't have to do anything but chisel stones every day."
"I discovered this by accident when I was digging a cellar after I moved here. At that time, the cellar was right next to the stone wall at the foot of the mountain. I accidentally touched the stone wall and heard a strange sound. I was curious and chiseled it open to see if there was anything empty behind it."
"After opening it, we discovered this place. This must have been created by someone fleeing from disaster. However, it's probably not entirely man-made. Part of it is natural. It was later developed and became what it is today."
When they reached the second floor, Chen Ye paused for a moment, then opened the door and let Cen Zixiang take a look.
"This is the second floor. It's filled with the previous owner's belongings. It should also be the previous owner's bedroom. I put all the previous owner's things here and didn't plan to use this floor anymore."
The main reason is that she doesn't have that many things to put away. In fact, if it weren't for safety reasons, it would be enough to put her things in one layer.
Cen Zixiang stretched his neck out of curiosity to take a look inside. There wasn't much inside, and they were all tattered. He lost interest. "You mean there are three more floors here?"
"Well, let's go. I'll take you upstairs. I have some things stored on the third floor. There's a ventilated area on the third floor, so things won't get damp easily."
After closing the door to the second floor, he continued walking up the stairs. "The ceilings in here are quite high, almost as high as those in ordinary buildings. I don't know when this was built, but this is definitely not a small project."
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