Chen Laohan saw his home from a distance, and he couldn't hide his excitement, and kept urging Ji Yan, Mei Yuning, and Sun Dayong to go down the mountain quickly.

On the way down the mountain, Ji Yan couldn't help but be slightly surprised when he saw that these houses were still alive and well, and they looked intact from the outside.

In his imagination, this was near the battlefield where the two countries were fighting, and Chen Laohan's daughter, according to Chen Laohan, was taken captive.

Therefore, Ji Yan imagined at the beginning that this place should be the same as the village that was swept away by the devil's three-light policy in the anti-Japanese drama.

However, from a distance, the appearance of the houses in front of me was not damaged at all, and there were no traces of corpse blood or anything like that.

If it weren't for the fact that he couldn't see the people at all, it would even make Ji Yan suspect that this was the peach blossom source in the mountains and forests, where the immortal cultivators lived.

While going down the mountain, Chen Laohan kept muttering something in his mouth, very excited, dancing with his hands.

Although Ji Yan and the others didn't understand what he said, but Chen Laohan's specific experience, along the way, Ji Yan still guessed and understood most of it.

Several families at the foot of this mountain basically live on these two twin peaks.

The Qi Nan fragrant wood that is worth looking for in the Ming Dynasty is in these two deep mountains.

Chen Laohan and several other families live here, and they also pick them themselves, and at the same time act as guides for outsiders.

Because Chen Laohan and these locals believe that there is a mountain god in this mountain, and the existence of Qi Nan fragrant wood in this mountain is a gift from the mountain god, so whether it is a local person to dig or a foreigner to dig, whoever is lucky enough to dig is the meaning of the mountain god.

It's not because of generosity, it's mainly because Qi Nan fragrant wood is really difficult to dig, buried deep in the ground, and there is only a little trace on the surface to follow, that is, ants gather, but there are too many places where ants gather in this mountain, so whether you dig it or not, it is purely a matter of luck.

It's actually a good thing that these locals can think like this, otherwise they are not guilty and guilty.

There is such a treasure mountain in front of them, if they monopolize it and do not allow outsiders to dig it, sooner or later there will be chaos.

For so many years, these locals have held this simple idea and got along with the people who dig fragrant wood from outside the mountain, but they have always been peaceful.

The month before, the locals in the vicinity had been rumored that there was going to be war, for they could see from the high mountains and in the far distance that they could see armies hoarding in the plains a hundred miles away.

Chen Laohan was also going to run south with his daughter, along with several other families living here.

But by coincidence, the four-person team of the Ming Dynasty that Ji Yan saw in the capital came over.

They are Chen Laohan's old customers, and this time they have some extra money, just hoping to take advantage of the high price of domestic incense to make a profit.

Chen Laohan thought that he and his daughter fled to the south, and it was always right to bring more money with them, so he agreed, and told his daughter to wait at home for a few days, and then go south with the Ming Dynasty when he returned.

As a result, after entering the mountain for two or three days, I didn't dig up the Qinan fragrant wood, and after returning home, my daughter was gone.

According to the four Ming Dynasty people at that time, his house was actually not too messy, if it weren't for his daughter's clothes and salutes, it was possible to say that his daughter followed her neighbor south.

However, Chen Laohan believes that his daughter must have been taken captive.

When Chen Laohan accompanied the four Ming Dynasty people down the mountain, the war between Zhancheng and Jiaozhi had already begun, and the Ming Dynasty people naturally had to run quickly.

Chen Laohan himself had nowhere to find his daughter, so he could only follow the Ming Dynasty people all the way to ask for money, hoping that with the money, he could let the government or anyone else help him find his daughter together.

As for how precious the Qi Nan fragrant wood in this mountain is.

Ji Yan was still very curious since he heard about it in the inn of the capital of Zhancheng State, so he quietly asked Mei Yuning later.

Mei Yuning explained to Ji Yan the knowledge of the use of spices in this large family's home.

Ji Yan can be regarded as a little more knowledgeable.

Qi Nan incense, ambergris, and musk are the three famous incense, and the three kinds of incense are better, and the market price in the capital is basically one or two incense in exchange for one or two silver.

Especially Qi Nan Xiang, there are only Yunnan and Guizhou provinces and a few mountains in the Zhancheng State and Jiaozhi State, and these places have to fight recently, so Qi Nan Xiang in the capital is a strange commodity to live in, and the price has skyrocketed several times.

It's no wonder that the Ming Dynasty people in the inn immediately lit up in their eyes as soon as they heard that Zheng He's fleet was coming, and the two countries might want to stop fighting.

It is estimated that it will not be too long, and the four Ming Dynasty people will go north to dig fragrant wood again.

Ji Yan was thinking about these things in his head, but he didn't stop at his feet.

Under the eager urging of Chen Laohan, they walked like a fly, and in the afternoon of this day, they rushed to the front of several families on this flat land.

Chen Laohan led Ji Yan and the others into the small courtyard of his house first.

Mei Yuning and Sun Dayong have both handled cases in Jinyiwei, so from the moment the two of them entered the courtyard, they kept looking around and observing carefully.

Ji Yan felt strange from the mountain, so after entering the courtyard, he was not idle, observing the traces and looking for clues.

After passing through the courtyard, I entered the inner room, which was very simple, with two houses inside and outside.

Judging from the layout and decoration, the inner room should be lived by Chen Laohan's daughter, and the outer house is lived by Chen Laohan.

But these are not the point, Ji Yan, Mei Yuning, and Sun Dayong looked around inside and out, looked at each other, and the thoughts in their minds were the same.

This house, it seems, was not too long ago, or was it inhabited?

Although Ji Yan and others told the Ming Dynasty people in the capital that they were coming to dig ebony, they told Chen Laohan that they were digging Qi Nan fragrant wood.

So Chen Laohan was also very kind, and after bringing them to the house, he was busy boiling water and cooking rice for them.

Taking advantage of the fact that Chen Laohan was busy, Ji Yan made a look, and then he ran to the courtyard with Mei Yuning and Sun Dayong, and the three of them had a different opinion.

Actually, it's all pretty much the same.

Judging from the appearance of the bed, the dampness in the bed, the wood residue left over from the stove, and the state of the water boiling in the pot, Sun Dayong and Mei Yuning judged that there were still people living here about three or four days ago.

Why can it be roughly judged?

Because where someone has moved, the moisture and dew will naturally be wiped off, and the natural water mist should condense at a similar rate in this house, so it can be judged from the shallow water mist in some places and the deep water in some places, and it seems that someone has lived here.

Chen Laohan came back more than ten days ago and couldn't find his daughter, and he must have turned the house up and down, so the water mist in most places at that time should have been wiped out.

And now in this house, the level of water fog near many living facilities is significantly different from other places, so they have come to the conclusion they are now.

However, the humidity in this place is very large, and it is not much different from the domestic climate, so Ji Yan and others are not very accurate in their judgment, but it should not be much worse.

Ji Yan glanced at Mei Yuning and Sun Dayong, and they immediately ran out of the house and entered the houses of several families next door.

After a stick of incense or so, Mei Yuning and Sun Dayong came back from investigation.

There are five families in total.

They each went into two houses to investigate.

As a result, one of the households is also similar to Chen Laohan's house, with signs of recent residence.

The other three families have turned things in their homes, and the house is messy, not quite like the original residents made it when they fled south, because if it is the original owner, this is their own home after all, even if they want to flee, they must have left with the heart of coming back one day, and they are just going to go far away, so there is no need to tear down the home.