The wooden bed, table, and wardrobe also indicate that there were people living here in the past. I don’t know who would go to such great lengths to create a habitable place here. Could they be seeking refuge?
Not knowing where the exit was, she could only continue to search for the door along the stone wall.
It turns out that there really is an upper floor, also at a height of four or five meters. The last stone chamber is larger than the two lower floors, about seventy or eighty square meters, and is divided into two rooms.
There was an obvious kitchen with a stove and cupboards. There were even bags of grain in the cupboards, but the grain inside was inedible. Judging from the changes in the grain, no one had been here for at least decades.
The other room is filled with rows of bookshelves. Most of the books on them are in good condition and can still be read. There are not many that break into pieces when touched by hand. Maybe it’s because of the ventilation here?
There are quite a few books on the bookshelf, and there are also several rare bamboo slips, which can be regarded as antiques.
The bookshelf also looked more refined, obviously much more refined and sturdy than the wooden bed in the bedroom below. She leaned in to take a closer look and smell it, and found that the wood should be oak.
Oak can be said to be a very good wood for making bookshelves. It is strong and durable, and the texture is more beautiful and elegant.
The person who lived here before must have been a well-read person, and his family must have been quite well-off. After all, a poor person would not have so many books.
Even the teapot and cups for drinking water look like they are used by a wealthy family. It is impossible for a poor person to be so generous as to build a stone cave that looks like a three-story building. This is not a project that can be done by one person.
This floor not only has many bookshelves and collections of books, but also a large, sturdy-looking desk, on which are also placed pens, ink, paper, and inkstone, and these pens, ink, paper, and inkstone look more upscale than those on the next floor.
There is also a lounge chair against the outer stone wall, which should be used for reading and resting.
Sure enough, there are many small holes carved out on the outer stone wall. Unless you look closely, you really can't see that there are so many tiny holes here.
If the sun is shining brightly, these small holes should let the sunlight in, making it a great place to sit in seclusion and read.
She was considering whether to claim this place as her own, and use it as a place to store her books and study occasionally. She could bring here any books that she couldn't read openly.
That's not right. This is already the third floor. She calculated that it must be at least ten meters above the ground. Why hasn't she found another door to enter?
Finally, a door was found behind a large bookshelf. When it was opened, there was a long passage. Only the part near this side of the passage had been treated, and the rest was pure mud, as if there was a sudden accident and there was no time to clean it up carefully.
Chen Ye was also very brave. She walked along the passage without much thought. She really wanted to know where the other exit was.
After counting my steps, I walked about a kilometer before I felt a clear flow of air. This should be the real entrance to the stone chamber.
Sure enough, the passage ended and the exit of the stone chamber was right above. On the top was a stone slab, which an average person might not be able to push open. Chen Ye also used 70% of his strength to push open the stone slab.
By the way, this stone slab is so heavy, can a weak scholar or an ordinary person push it open?
The area above the stone slab was not the outside, nor was it a wild animal's den. It was just a shallow cave, the kind that most people would probably not even come in to check out.
Moreover, the cave was not big and would touch Chen Ye's head if he stood up straight. Because it was late at night and the trees were still dense, there was no light at all. It was difficult for Chen Ye to judge exactly where this place was.
After all, she was not very familiar with Xishan. She had only been walking around the lower part frequently recently, and had never been up there to take a look.
It seems that I can only come here once during the day to determine the location of the exit here. However, based on the slope, this side should be a little higher up the mountainside.
That stone wall is a great natural hiding place. Through the small holes carved on it, one can observe the situation outside. People outside would never imagine that someone could build a three-story stone chamber to live in seclusion along the stone wall.
Moreover, the person who knew about this place probably no longer exists, or the story has not been passed down, otherwise no one would have come there for so many years.
It is also possible that they knew there was nothing valuable inside, such as gold or silver, so they came here at all costs to look for it.
Then, could she use the stone chamber as her own secret room? Wouldn't she be afraid of someone finding out about it and getting noticed?
Then she would have to go back and cover up the exit she had opened. As long as no one found the exit, she would be the only one who knew the secret.
After thinking it over, she began to search her memory to think of how to hide the hole perfectly and make it convenient for her to move back and forth.
The stone chamber also needs to be cleaned thoroughly. Thanks to the previous resident's meticulousness, he didn't die in there.
Otherwise, after seeing a skeleton today, she really couldn't treat this place as a secret room in the future. After all, it was still a bit disgusting.
Chen Ye didn't sleep late at night. Her eyes were full of energy and glowed green. This was much more awesome than the secret room she had imagined before. As long as her house existed, the secret room would belong to her alone.
She couldn't afford to live in a spacious and bright house, but she had a mysterious and spacious secret room, and suddenly she felt very awesome.
In his next free time, Chen Ye first found the book about mechanisms that the one-eyed grandfather had given him, filled it with it, and enlarged the hole he had dug out and made it regular.
Then I had to find materials to make a good switch and an inconspicuous secret door. This busy work lasted from the chilly spring to the scorching summer.
Chen Ye came out of the cleaned secret room and planned to go out tonight to get back the things she had hidden outside. She had already moved all the books and other things from her grandfather's house into the secret room.
By the way, she should go to the commune when she has time and get a piece of transparent plastic sheet. The small holes in the secret room can allow ventilation and sunlight to come in, but they attract too much dust, so she should block them up a little.
The person who designed the secret room is also a genius. The two bottom floors of the secret room seem to be completely closed, but people have made ventilation holes in the dark. Otherwise, people would suffocate to death if they stayed in for too long.
"Sister, sister, are you in the backyard?"
Chen Ye had just walked down the steps out of the cellar when he heard the loud voice of the person tied up: "Yes, it's in the backyard."
As soon as Chen Ye finished speaking, he saw a big man with a head full of sweat running towards him: "What did you do? Why is your forehead covered in sweat?"
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