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Chapter 47 The House in the Valley
Of course, the owner who originally lived here cannot be counted among ordinary people.

Now that he has taken a fancy to this place, Ding Yu intends to find out what is going on here.

Going back to the first house, pushing open the rotten gate, Dingyu entered the yard.This courtyard is the largest among all the courtyards. There are three thatched huts facing south, with a door in the middle and a window on each side.There is also a thatched hut on the west side that is shorter than the main house. Ding Yu peeked in through the dilapidated wooden door, and it was the kitchen.

The yard was covered by weeds and there was no way. Ding Yu took her path-finding stick to beat the grass. The temperature inside was relatively warm, so there were fears that there might still be snakes.

Fortunately, there were no snakes, but a lot of hares and mice were shot out, they ran out thinly, and Ding Yu didn't care, and came to the front of the main house first.

The lock is a big lock head, rusty, but the quality is still very good. Ding Yu found a stone and smashed it for more than ten minutes, but it still didn't move.In the end, instead of breaking the lock, the door frame almost fell off.

With no other choice, Ding Yu had no choice but to abandon the door lock and start tearing down the door frame.It may have been too long, the door was quickly removed and Dingyu leaned on another door to open the dusty house.

The light comes in, but even in broad daylight the house is still a little dark, which is because the thatched house is not good. It is low and opaque, and poor lighting is a characteristic of all houses of this era.

Looking inside through the dim light, the three rooms are divided into two sides, one is the main room and the other is the bedroom.

In the main room, there are dining tables, chairs, altars, high and low stools, and even a multi-treasure shelf, two shelves for vases, and curtains, and the wood looks very good. There was a layer of varnish, and the paint didn't come off at all. Even though it was covered with thick yellow mud and dust, it was still not damaged.

It doesn't look like a decoration for a country family's life.

Turning to the bedroom, a somewhat complicated canopy bed occupies most of the room. The glass mirror inlaid on the dressing table, the basin shelf, the bed curtain, and the curtains are all covered with dust, but the fabric can still be seen. all good.

The bed was even covered with quilts, as if the owner was still there, just returning after going out for a few days.

Ding Yu opened the drawer on the dressing table, inside there were horn combs and a few small boxes, which should be rouge and gouache, and opened the vermilion that had faded.

Two layers of drawers, this is the upper layer, open the lower layer, a few small boxes, open the pearl earrings, necklaces, jade bracelets, agate jade necklaces, and jade rings.

From this look, we can tell that the hostess is a person who likes to dress up and has a good quality of life.

Leaving the bedroom and coming to the main room, there were a few decorations on the multi-treasure shelf, and Ding Yu didn't have the heart to appreciate them, so he glanced at them.Turning around, there is a small study room behind the multi-treasure shelf.It can't be called a study room, it's just a desk, and there is a bookcase taller than an adult on the opposite side of the desk.

The desk is very clean, only pen, ink, paper and inkstone, and a pen holder.He opened the drawer of the desk and found several accounting books inside.The blue page was blank, and Ding Yu opened it and found that it was an accounting book.

I saw a page inside which recorded how many boxes of bottles, boxes of tea, how much gold and silver, and how many firearms were robbed on a trip to the mountain in a certain year and month.The accompanying food was distributed to nearby villagers, and the rest was escorted back to the village.

Looking down, almost all of these are recorded, such as time, place, how many people went out, how many things were brought back, cattle, horses and livestock, and almost every time it was accompanied by a record of how much was distributed to nearby villagers.

And the people who recorded these are obviously not well-educated, and there are many typos and missing strokes.And Ding Yu can also see from these records that this should be a bandit den.

But it's not right, obviously there are a lot of bandits recorded above, but there are only four houses here, so there shouldn't be enough room for so many people.

Ding Yu looked through other things and found that there was a whole drawer full of such accounting books.He opened the one next to it again, this time it wasn't an account book, but a few books of poetry, poetry, and anthology.

Open it and look through it, there are a lot of post-reading thoughts and notes on it, and the notes are graceful and graceful, and it can be seen that it is written by a woman.

And from a page of a prose poem gave Dingyu the answer.

This is indeed not a bandit's stronghold, but the leaders of the stronghold raised their families here.

There are five masters in the cottage, the man who the woman follows is the second master, the mother and child of the eldest master died, and there are no family members, so here are the remaining four masters.

But the cottage is far away from here, in order to protect them, the men arrange them to return here not often.

And the woman who recorded this was rescued by the second head of the family after her family was ruined. She came here willingly, at least this place is far away from the flames of war, so she can save her life.

The women in the other four families were in the same situation as her, and no one was unwilling to be robbed up the mountain.The cottage is not like other cottages that are burned, killed and looted everywhere. On the contrary, most of the villages were persecuted by little devils and ran to the mountains to become bandits. For the nearby villagers, never go down the mountain to harm the local people.

Ding Yu turned over roughly, and there was no record of why the people here left, but judging from the orderliness of the house, they should have left voluntarily, and there were no signs of being turned over or struggling.

Looking at the remaining three houses, although the furnishings are different, they are also neat and tidy, which proves this point.

Seeing that this is the case, Ding Yu felt more at ease.Even bandits can hide their family members here, so it seems that this place is really safe.

And the bandit's lair is not here, as far as she knows from a few words, the two mountains to be crossed belong to the boundary of another city.

Ding Yu turned around and found a passage under the mountain wall. The naturally formed hollow stalactite cave is very dry inside, and there are many stones piled up at the entrance of the cave here.Ding Yu guessed that the stalactite cave existed in the first place, but this passage was opened up later by humans, so that the oval valley in the middle of the two ends can live and hide people.

Dingyu walked along the passage and came out to the foot of a mountain.She turned half a circle from the foot of the mountain again, and climbed halfway up the mountain before returning to the mountain from which she fell.

What a great place!
Although it was farther away, the place was much more secluded for her, even better than the valley she had chosen before.

Because in that valley, only food can be grown, but in such a deep and closed valley, she can not only grow food, but also raise some poultry, so she won't be short of meat in the future!

(End of this chapter)