Chapter 21: The Bedroom in the Cave
After pushing open a wooden door, there is a long and narrow passageway, and there are many stone chambers on both sides of the passage, and there are wooden plaques on the stone chambers with the names of the rooms written. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
Wu Chao casually pushed open a room closest to him, and the sign on the door said the word tea room. After entering, I saw that there were many tea racks inside, on which exquisite ceramic tea cans were neatly placed. Unlike the lobby outside, these tea cans are covered with a thick layer of dust.
Wu Confusion casually took down a tea can, gently blew off the dust on it, and then slowly lifted the lid, but what came to his face was not the fragrance of tea, but a faint musty smell, which showed that the age of this tea was too old, even the musty smell was about to dissipate.
Wu Wei frowned and quickly closed the teapot and put it back in its place, seeing that this tearoom should have been useless for many years, but why is the hall so clean? Could it be related to the structure of this stone room? Or is it that the owner doesn't like to drink tea, and this tearoom has been like this long before leaving?
"The owner of this stone room may have been gone for many years, or they may have died a long time ago, let's go and see the other rooms. "It's speculation to think about it now, and you may be able to find the answer only by looking at it more.
The second room was hung with a honeyhouse sign, and the two of them were still wondering what a honey room was? Honey was opened, and sure enough, there were jars of sealed honey, many of which were soaked in various candied fruits, and these honeys were very well sealed, and even after so long, there was still no decay. However, it was also as spotless as the Great Hall, so why was this in the same stone chamber?
The two of them searched room by room, some of the rooms were used to store food, and some were used to put fabrics, of course, the food has long been decayed and dried up, but the cloth is still intact, it seems that this is where the daily necessities were once stored. Further down are the kitchens, all of which are covered in dust.
Looking at the scale of this stone chamber, it can accommodate about twenty or thirty people living together. Soon, the two reached the end of the passage, the last room of the passage.
Although he knew that there should be nothing left in this passage, he still pushed open the last door since he came, but after pushing it open, there was not a room as expected, but a huge pitch-black rock blocked the way. This rock is also uneven, it looks disorganized, could it be that the owner of the stone chamber has not completed the construction of this stone chamber?
Just as he was about to leave, he suddenly remembered something, and turned back to look at the big black rock wall carefully.
"Why is the color of this rock different from that of the rest of the chamber?" said to himself, caressing the different rock. The black rock is as black as ink, but it is faintly blood-colored, and I don't know if it is the illusion caused by the firelight. The rock wall is cold to the touch, but it is a bit like iron.
Generally, the texture of the rocks in the same rock layer is exactly the same, but occasionally there are different places, and this difference is mostly ore. Maybe this black rock is a kind of ore, right?
He took out a dagger and poked it gently, the rock was hard and could not be pierced at all, and there was no confusion and no professional digging tools, so he had to give up the idea of digging a piece. But he still held the torch and studied it carefully, and the light of the fire shone little by little against the rock wall, and suddenly he saw that there was a hole in the lower left corner of the black rock! He was happy in his heart, could it be that there was a treasure hidden here? Hurriedly squatted down to check, this was just a cave that could be climbed into by one person, and it seemed to be quite deep.
Wu Confused put the torch in and probed, but the expectations are often good, but the reality is extremely cruel...... The cave is not deep, it is a long strip, about the area of about one side, and there are traces of excavation on the wall of the cave, which is obviously excavated by someone. Wu Confused thought to himself, he must have expected that this was probably some kind of ore, but he didn't know about mining, so he couldn't identify what kind of mine it was.
However, there are some pieces of ore in this cave, so I picked it up and wrapped it in cloth very quickly and put it in my arms, and when I got out of this cave, I would find the forging master to see what it was.
"Let's go to another passageway. Wu Zhi took Zhao Yimu and walked back.
"No doubt, have you noticed it, looking at the fabrics and other items in these stone rooms are actually very ordinary, and they are completely unmatched with those high-end stone furniture. In fact, Wu Wei didn't think that those fabrics were ordinary at all, for him, they were only worn by local tyrants, but in the eyes of Zhao Yimu, a former real local tyrant, it was different.
"So what?" Wu Yu didn't think that Zhao Yimu was going to say anything important, so he just asked casually to talk to her.
"So it's likely that the furniture was made by the people who used to live here, and there was a master carver who lived here!"
"Oh. Sure enough, Zhao Yimu's focus is completely different from her own, and her information has little practical value. The two of them had already returned to the hall. Everything is still the same as when they came in, nothing has changed.
On the other side of the passage is the living quarters, each room is not large, just enough to put a desk and a single bed. The furniture is very simple, not relatively simple compared to the hall, but really very simple, the so-called table and bed are just two simple stone platforms. There were no bedding on the bed, such as mattresses and quilts, and I don't know if they were taken with them when they left, or if the people who lived here didn't need them at all.
In addition to some daily necessities such as simple tea sets, combs, and mirrors on the table, there is only a booklet, and after opening it, I found that the record was only some expenses such as firewood, rice, oil, and salt, and it seemed that the person who once lived here was the person in charge of purchasing.
As we go deeper, the area and furniture of the room gradually become more refined, and it seems that the deeper the room, the higher the status of the owner. With the in-depth understanding, Wu Wei found that this place was likely to be a small sect at one time, and the outermost ten people were all subordinates, responsible for the lives of other people, and the ten people who went deeper were at the disciple level.
The disciple's room was twice as large as the subordinate's, and the bed and table were much more refined, no longer just a simple stone platform. There are some simple patterns on it for decoration, but there is still no bedding, not even a sitting.
After looking at the twenty rooms, Wu Wei sighed in his heart that the life trajectory of these people is too simple, so simple that it is unbelievable, except for the difference in the size of the room and the exquisiteness of the furniture, they are all just one bed and one table.
Of course, the disciple's diary does not record firewood, rice, oil and salt, but it is nothing more than some experience about martial arts, or trivial matters between him and his brothers.
In the deepest part of the passage, there are the last five rooms, but the deeper the room from the door, the higher the status of the owner, so that there are twenty-five rooms in total. After pushing open a room, this room was twice as large as the disciple's room, but the contents of the room did not change at all. What can be read is still the same notepad, but the owner of this house is not low, and the contents of his notebook may be much more valuable.