It is said that Zhu Qing and Chen Hui chatted late at the moon stream. Take a break for each other. Nothing to say for a night.

After breakfast the next day, Zhu Qing and Chen Hui found Uncle Hua together, and Zhu Qing told Uncle Hua that she wanted to leave Wuling Villa. Uncle Hua said, "Girl Zhuqing, are your injuries healed?" ”

Zhuqing said: "It's totally fine. I can't bear to be here, but I'm still leaving. Uncle Hua, do you know that there is another way to get out of here? ”

Uncle Hua said: "Back then, my master and I did find a way to go out, but for so many years, we haven't used it, and I don't know if the situation has changed." Now I'll take you there. Young master, are you going to leave too? ”

Chen Hui said: "I can't stay here forever. When my father returned, you told him that I would take care of my own safety and reassure him. ”

Uncle Hua put down the work in his hand and said, "I will tell the master what you said." Come with me. ”

Uncle Hua took Zhu Qing and Chen Hui to the waterhole in front of the door, and walked upstream along the stream that poured water into the pool. The brook was more than two feet wide. Flowing in the rocks. They soon left the cottage and continued along the creek towards the mountain.

The creek zigzags around the foot of a hill and extends deeper into the mountain. They walked four or five miles along the creek, and the stream became a shallow water, with stones emerging from the water.

Uncle Hua took them and jumped around on the stones, and after walking a distance, the water turned into a stream again, less than a foot wide.

Eventually, the creek disappeared completely at the foot of a hill.

Uncle Hua said: "There is a section of road ahead, about two miles away, which is the most confusing place, and if you don't do it well, you will turn around in it for a few days and nights and can't get out." Young master, the next time you come in, you must find the nicks left on the stone and walk in the direction indicated by the arrow to come in. ”

Uncle Hua found an artificial chisel mark on a mountain rock. The chisel was a foot long, half an inch deep, and had arrows at both ends. Then go on to look for the next notch.

The topography here is very peculiar, densely covered with many lonely cone-shaped hills with a radius of a few zhang to a radius of more than a dozen zhang, the hills are not connected to each other, the ground is very flat, and it is covered with wild grass and shrubs.

Uncle Hua walked around these hills, looking for the chisel marks on the hills from time to time, and then slowly moved forward along the direction indicated by the chisel marks.

After a few laps, Zhu Qing and Chen Hui were already dizzy, unable to distinguish between east and west, north and south.

Uncle Hua said that this is Erliduo Road, in fact, they have been wandering around there for two hours.

In the end, I finally walked out of the "mountain forest" composed of this hill. Uncle Hua said: "You can go the road ahead."

Chen Hui said: "Uncle Hua, there is a road ahead." ”

Uncle Hua pulled open a piece of mountain vine and said: "There is a crack in the mountain here, and when you enter the crack, you go inside, and it looks like there is more than a mile of road, and the front is impassable, so you climb up two zhang high, and you go out." ”

Uncle Hua said as he untied a cloth bag from his body and opened it, and inside was prepared dry food. He said: "With this, you can stop hunger when you can't catch the village store." ”

Zhu Qing and Chen Hui put away the dry food. Zhu Qing said: "Uncle Hua, you are careful of devils. ”

Uncle Hua said: "Don't worry, young master, take care, when you see the master, tell him to come into the mountain to live, just ask someone to take care of the affairs outside." ”

Chen Hui said with some reluctance: "Uncle Hua, you should also take care." I met my father and told him that the mountain trail had been sealed. ”

Uncle Hua went back. Zhu Qing and Chen Hui pulled away from the mountain and entered the stone crevices of the mountain.

At that time, I don't know what kind of force opened a crack in the mountain on both sides. The crack was wide in some places and narrow in others. The wide area can accommodate three or four people walking side by side, and the narrow place can only be passed sideways.

Looking up, the blue sky is just a zigzag line. The light shines brightly, and although it is very dim, you can still see the feet underneath.

There are rocks and sand underfoot, and from time to time you can see the bones of animals, which may be that the animals stumbled and fell into this natural trap while running. After the corpse decomposes and weathers, only a skeleton remains.

Zhu Qing and Chen Hui walked forward cautiously, but fortunately they did not encounter snakes and insects that could harm people.

Zhu Qing said: "I can't believe how Uncle Chen found this passage back then. ”

Chen Hui said: "When my father was young, he liked to explore and hunt for curiosities, and he basically relied on others to take care of the family affairs for him, while he himself ran outside all year round. ”

Zhu Qing said: "Has the little brother been here before?" ”

Chen Hui said: "When I was seven or eight years old, I heard that there was a manor in the mountains, but I had been studying and had never been there. The first time I came was the one I came with you after I was injured. ”

Zhu Qing sighed: "Uncle Chen is really a strange person. ”

Chen Hui said: "My father's popularity is very good. He has always been generous to others, and he is righteous and squandering money. All the people employed in my family were loyal to my father and did their best. ”

Zhu Qing said: "I can see from the attitude of Uncle Hua's family towards us that it is really closer than relatives. To do this in the world can be said to be a success. ”

Chen Hui said: "Because of this, our family was repeatedly tossed by my father, and the family business expanded day by day. ”

Zhu Qing said: "Wuling Mountain Villa is really a good place. If I could have such a place, I would live in it for the rest of my life until I die of old age. ”

Chen Hui said: "Sister, is this true? ”

Zhu Qing said: "Of course it's true. ”

Chen Hui said: "Then I can tell you right now that Wuling Mountain Villa is yours." You can come and stay anytime. I have already explained to Uncle Hua, your room is thoroughly cleaned every seven days, and it will always be kept tidy and ready to move in. ”

Zhu Qing said: "Thank you, little brother! I don't have a home anymore, my father and brother were killed by Japanese devils, and I don't have a single relative in the world. If I can have a room in Wuling Villa, I will regard it as a gift from God. As he spoke, his eyes turned red.

Chen Hui stopped and said to Zhu Qing sincerely: "Sister Zhu Qing, don't be sad. Chen Hui is telling you the truth, I really like you. But I know we probably don't have that fate. But to give you a Wuling Villa, I can still have the final say. ”

Zhu Qing said: "Good brother, it's hard for you to have this heart. Emotions have their own fate. After fighting the devil, if I don't have anywhere else to go, I will come to Wuling Villa and work with my sister-in-law. I am a child of a poor family, and it is not difficult for me to work. ”

Chen Hui said: "Sister Zhuqing, you don't have to work to eat." If you really take over Wuling Villa at that time, you will be the master. I'm here as a guest. ”

Zhu Qing laughed: "Junior Brother Chen Hui, I am a soldier, if the war is over and I can still decide my own fate, I will come back." I don't want your villa, I just want the room I've stayed in. ”

Chen Hui said: "There is almost a right to decide everything here. ”

Zhu Qing said: "I also have a wish, that is, I can read those books casually. ”

Chen Hui said, "Those books are yours!" ”