059 Centennial Stone House

（1）

"You didn't tell your family about our relationship, did you?"

Ma Xiaolin asked while walking side by side with Zhang Xiaole. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

"Without your consent, I wouldn't be so impulsive, my family must want us to study hard."

Zhang Xiaole said.

"And what did you tell home?"

"I just said that a few classmates were going to come to the mountains to play, but I didn't say anything else."

"That's good, don't talk nonsense."

The four of them made a few big turns along the mountain road before they saw a few rows of houses looming in the valley.

Zhang Xiaole looked in the direction of his home, the previous low house had become a spacious compound at this time, with a high roof ridge that exceeded the surrounding neighbors' houses by a lot, and the courtyard wall was two or three meters high.

Zhang Xiaole pondered, this house is so much taller than the neighbors, it will make the villagers feel that they are suspected of showing off, and it must be his father Zhang Jigu who deliberately wants to do this.

In the countryside, people like to compare the most, and the most worthy of showing off is the house, many farmers have worked hard for more than ten years in order to build a large house, and the homestead must grow high, and the roof must surpass the neighbors, so as to appear faceful. The small mountain village is loose, and the families are scattered among them, and the competition is not only the height of the house, but also the size of the yard and the height of the courtyard wall.

"Xiaole, you're back by yourself! Say, how nice it would be for me to find a car to pick you up at the train station. ”

Zhang Jigu was cleaning up in the yard, and when he saw Zhang Xiaole preparing a duffel bag, followed by two men and one woman, he hurriedly put down the broom in his hand, first said a few polite words to Zhang Xiaole and them, and then shouted into the house. "it, Xiaole, they're back, come out to pick up some guests."

"Oh, Xiaole is back, let's go into the house and sit, come in and sit!"

Xiaole's stepmother and younger brother Zhang Xiaotian were watching TV in the house, and when they heard Zhang Jigu's shout, they quickly turned off the TV and came out of the house, with a smile on their faces that they had never seen before.

In addition to the tall tiled houses in the courtyard wall, there are wings built on both sides, four rooms, each room is very neatly cleaned, the room is a plate of fire, the ground is paved with floor tiles, and the kang is all brand-new bedding.

There are brand-new curtains hanging in the aluminum alloy windows, although the color matching and color patterns look tacky, but the cleanliness and tidiness seem very comfortable, each room is equipped with air conditioning TV, and there are even independent toilets and showers, making it difficult for Zhang Xiaole to imagine that this is the yard where he grew up.

The big house has also been rebuilt on the original homestead, the bedrooms of the hall are covered with floor tiles, and a full set of newly purchased furniture and electrical appliances.

"Brother, what's the matter, you don't recognize it, do you?"

Zhang Xiaotian looked at the newly bought 34-inch color TV in the living room, flanked by a set of vertical stereos, standard farm configuration.

"Xiaotian, you guys are also on summer vacation!"

"Isn't this nonsense, you have a summer vacation, of course we will do it too!"

Zhang Xiaotian stared at the TV and ignored Zhang Xiaole and his classmates.

"Xiaotian, how can you talk, go make tea, your brother's classmate is here, and you are also in high school, why is there no politeness at all?"

Since Zhang Ji's group got sick and Zhang Xiaole sent money to the family, she realized that Zhang Xiaole had become the economic pillar of the family, and her natural attitude took a big turn.

"Xiaole, you can arrange a room for your classmates first, these four rooms are designed by a special master, all of them are built according to the best farmhouse standards, comfortable, all of them are air conditioning."

Zhang Jigu saw that Zhang Xiaotian had no intention of making tea, and he couldn't get angry, just like opening Zhang Xiaole and his classmates.

"Okay, I'm going to take a look, the four of us, why don't we live in one room by ourselves?"

"No, I can live in one room with Sister Meow, and I have to clean up one room to save some electricity!"

When Ma Xiaolin came in, she saw that there were two beds in each room, so she said casually.

"I'm fine, let's live with two people, and have a chat partner."

Mao Yimiao should arrive.

"Xiaole, you don't need one person in one room, let's live in one room."

Sun Liang also echoed, he understood that Xiaole wanted to be generous, but after all, everyone was a student, so he couldn't exaggerate too much.

"Okay, you can live however you want, this is the key, Xiaole, you take your classmates to pick a room."

After the opening of the farmhouse of the Zhang Ji Group, it received several outside guests, which was originally built for business, so the decoration materials used are neutral and have no taste.

"Xiaotian, be careful when you talk to your brother in the future, you know, your brother brought his classmates here, and he can't let him lose face."

While Zhang Xiaole and the others were arranging the room, Zhang Jigu and Zhang Xiaotian exchanged a few words.

"Xiaole, this kid is really generous, and he lives in a house by himself, the electricity bill is not money, his female classmate is a girl who lives a life."

Zhang's mother saw that Zhang Xiaotian didn't react, and was worried that Zhang Jigu would take this matter too seriously, so she shifted the topic to Zhang Xiaole.

"And you, I used to be so kind to Xiaole, but now that the children are older, the palms and backs of your hands are full of meat, you have to pay attention to what you say and take care of the child's feelings."

Zhang Jigu knew what Zhang's mother was thinking, and he also understood her concerns and worries, but his own son himself knew best.

"Okay, if you don't say it, I understand, Xiaole is grown up now, Xiaotian is still young, and Xiaotian will have to count on Xiaole for the money to go to school in the future, I have a sense of proportion."

"It's not easy for Xiaole to go to school, don't put pressure on him, can't we open a farmhouse, how can Xiaotian's tuition be earned."

（2）

"It's not early, let's go to bed first, and go to the mountains early tomorrow morning to play."

Dinner was eaten in the courtyard of the Zhang family, and the cool breeze on the mountain after the sun set made everyone not feel the high temperature of the hot summer at all. The four classmates chatted while eating, and after eating, they played poker in the yard until ten o'clock, when the mountain wind blew, everyone felt tired, and Mao Yimiao proposed to go to bed early.

Zhang Xiaole has never had the opportunity to be alone with Ma Xiaolin, so naturally there is less opportunity to whisper, and when he returned to the house, Sun Liang took a shower and came out, and chatted with Zhang Xiaole again.

"I didn't have the opportunity to be alone with Ma Xiaolin today, is my heart itching?"

"What are you talking about, I don't understand!" Zhang Xiaole turned on the TV and half-lay on the bed pretending to be stupid.

"The greasy end of the two of you along the way, why is there no more when you get to the house, pretending to be serious people, I don't believe that the two of you are not itchy in your hearts, or Sister Meow Meow, let the two of you go to bed early and meet in your dreams."

"Sun Liang, you are really a bastard!"

"I'm a know-it-all businessman, and I know people's hearts best, do you know what it's called?"

"What"

"This is called Xiao Biesheng newlywed!"

"Can you be quieter, I don't want the family to know about the two of us, and the whole village heard you so loudly."

"Hey, what a conscienceless, everyone has followed you, and I'm afraid that people will know, if I am Ma Xiaolin, I will hurry up to meet my parents-in-law."

"It's not over, be careful to sew your mouth shut!"

"You're bullying guests, I have to give you a good review of this farmhouse."

"What's wrong with our farmhouse, it's very good, how clean, I didn't think it would be so good!"

"All farmhouses are like this, your house is clean, but there is no characteristic, the price can't go up, and you can't make any money."

"You know that, too?"

"We've had people running the farm yard for a long time, at least ten years before you were here."

"Oh, I don't understand, I'm sleeping, I'll have to climb the mountain tomorrow."

Zhang Xiaole's purpose is to change the topic, all he thinks about is Ma Xiaolin, and now that the goal has been achieved, he wants to sleep, and he can only see Ma Xiaolin when he is asleep.

（3）

Early the next morning, after the four classmates washed up and ate the breakfast prepared by Zhang's mother, they packed up their equipment and were taken by Zhang Xiaole to play in the back mountain of the village.

"Everyone be careful, I will take everyone to climb the mountain in a while, and the road I will take is not an ordinary mountain road."

Leaving the sight of the village, Zhang Xiaole walked side by side with Ma Xiaolin, walking hand in hand.

"It doesn't matter what path you take, I like to go off the beaten path, but you two should be safe. Do you really use the two of us as light bulbs? ”

Mao Yimiao also couldn't stand the sticky state of this pair of first lovers.

"I don't want to be a light bulb, I have a way, you two can walk hand in hand."

Ma Xiaolin said with a smile.

After two days of passing, everyone became familiar with a lot, and there were many jokes mixed in the conversation.

"I don't care, the old cow eats tender grass, I don't know if our little Liangliang can stand it?"

"Sister Meow, I didn't expect you to be this kind of person, I like it, come on, I can stand it in the old cow!"

"Xiao Liang Liang~"

"Sister Meow~"

"Roll~"

Seeing that Sun Liang was really about to reach out to pull her, Mao Yimiao stopped joking and revealed his true colors.

Several people talked and laughed, and before they knew it, they had climbed to a small hill, and the roofs of the houses in the village were out of sight.

"What's that? How to have a small house? ”

Looking up the hill, you can faintly see a stone building in the pine forest, with half of the roof exposed.

"It's a stone house, I used to come here a lot, my grandparents lived there."

Zhang Xiaole introduced the stone house and said that he started a fire in the mountains to cook when he was a child. Several people quickly climbed to the side of the stone house.

"After my grandparents died, there was no one living in this house."

The wooden door of the stone house was gone, and there were a few sticks of wood and some stones scattered in the room, and there was no trace of the owner at all.

"This house is old, at least two hundred years old!"

Mao Yimiao took a circle of photos, then touched the wall of the stone house, and said lightly.

"Sister Meow, when did you become an archaeological expert?"

Sun Liang quipped.

"From here, dozens of miles to the east is the imperial tomb of the Qing Empire, and hundreds of years ago this place should have been within the scope of the imperial tomb. I have checked the information, and there were several families guarding the imperial tomb for the Aixin Jueluo family in the past, including a Zhangzi battalion established by Zhang Tianhe, which is said to be the earliest army stationed around the imperial tomb. If you guessed correctly, this stone house was not built by Orion, but by the army of the Guardians. ”

"Sister Meow, your homework is really deep, our village is Zhangzi Camp, and it was renamed Zhangjiaying after the founding of the People's Republic of China."

Zhang Xiaole was surprised by what Mao Yimiao knew, but didn't understand why she would be interested in researching it.

"There are garrison troops around the imperial tomb for hundreds of miles, with the Zhangzi camp in the west, the Haozi camp in the north, and the Mengzi camp in the east, and there are at least three families. During the Republic of China, the great warlord Sun Dianying bombarded the imperial tomb, stole a lot of treasures, and the descendants of the three major families were scattered. ”

Mao Yimiao didn't know where to find the information, even Zhang Xiaole hadn't heard of these things, and when he was a child, he heard his grandfather talk about some scattered fragments, and now he can't remember the specific content for a long time.

"Sister Meow, you are not pretending to be mysterious, even if what you say is true, but how can you conclude that this stone house was not built by later generations, but by the mausoleum keepers back then?"

Sun Liang listened to what Mao Yimiao said, and he didn't understand why Mao Yimiao prepared these materials, and a lot of question marks popped up in his mind.

"Do you see anything unusual about the joints between these stone cracks?"

"Stone cracks, what are these white things?"

Zhang Xiaole had lived here before, but he never cared about anything special about the gap between the stones and the stones, listening to Mao Yimiao, after careful observation, he found that the things bonded between the stones were not lime or cement used in ordinary houses.

"If I'm not mistaken, the binder between these stones should be glutinous rice milk."

Mao Yimiao continued, "Using glutinous rice milk as a binder to build the city wall is a common method used by Qi Jiguang when building the Great Wall in Yanshan, and the Qing Dynasty people also learned this method. ”

"Sister Meow, according to what you say, there should be a lot of such stone houses, right?"

Ma Xiaolin asked curiously, her feelings for Mao Yimiao in the past two days were unfathomable.

"There should be more, but it's not easy to say, the task of the mausoleum keeper is to patrol non-stop, there is no need to stop in one place for too long, the stone house built should be used for supplies or storage materials, plus the difficulty of construction, it shouldn't be too much, but if it is distributed according to the distance and route, at least a dozen places can be found around the imperial tomb."

"Xiaole, are there any other stone houses near you?"

"I remember that this is the only one, my grandparents used to live here, and I always thought it was my family. I've been through the woods in the depths, but I've never seen a stone house like it. ”

"Xiaole, I think this thing is quite funny, do you think there will be treasures in this stone house?"

Ma Xiaolin's curiosity and imagination were also mobilized.

"Baby, no, it's a lot of rags!"

After listening to this, Sun Liang looked at the room again, and no matter how he looked at it, he didn't want to have a place to hide things.

"There is really no baby, but you can tell a story, let people come to find the baby, make a treasure hunt route, plus the story of the mausoleum keeper, should be able to attract a lot of tourists to play, if this is used as a selling point of the farmhouse to promote, maybe it can be made into a tourist attraction."

"Xiaolin, I don't see it, you're quite business-minded, I approve!"

Ma Xiaolin proposed treasure hunting as an entry point for tourism, and Mao Yimiao agreed.

（4）

The four of them climbed to the top of the mountain, saw no other stone houses, and after having lunch on the mountain, they slowly descended the mountain.

Back at Zhang Xiaole's house, Zhang Jigu and Zhang's mother prepared a rich farm meal

The meals are all game, stewed chicken with wild mushrooms, cold mountain vegetables, tofu with shallots, and cucumber dipping sauce, all of which are cool and delicious foods.

The three classmates liked it very much, and one praised Zhang's mother's rice for being delicious, Zhang's mother was just happy, and she didn't go to the table, so she returned to the kitchen after serving the dishes and ate with Zhang Xiaotian.

"Mom, you didn't treat me like this before, Brother Xiaole ate in the kitchen, let's eat at the table, how has it changed now?"

Zhang Xiaotian complained while eating.

"You know what? Now that your brother has grown up, he earns all the money in the family, if it weren't for him, would your father's illness be cured, could the family house be built, and your tuition, if you are not convinced, give me a good school, and make money in the future, so that I don't have to chew my tongue here. ”

"I'm full, don't eat, I'll go to the same school to play!"

Zhang Xiaotian put the bowl down on the kitchen table, opened the curtain and walked out of the yard, and met Ma Xiaolin head-on.

"Xiaole, why doesn't your relationship with your mother and brother look good?"

Ma Xiaolin took advantage of the time when no one was there to ask about what Zhang Xiaole heard

"There are some things, I don't want to hide from you, she is not her own mother, she is a stepmother, Xiaotian was born by her."

"What about your own mother?"

When Ma Xiaolin heard Zhang Xiaole talk about this, she was depressed.

"When I was four years old, my mom died"

"I'm sorry to ask you about your sadness"

"It's okay, it's gone, she's good to me now!"

"Tomorrow during the day, can you take me to pay a visit to your biological mother?"

"No, no, let's not go!"

"I'm just going to thank her, thank her for giving birth to you, and let me meet you!"