Traveling through the ages with the hotel, being doted on by four brothers

Chapter 428 Did He Have a Master Before?
Fortunately, she was wearing worn-out clothes, otherwise she would definitely be noticed by others. She didn't know why she had such a firm idea in her mind.

The educated youth site of Yong'an Production Team was a mud brick house with a kang that took up an entire wall. Everyone had to sleep on the same kang, which Xia Chun totally couldn't accept. In addition, she was a person with secrets, and if she lived with everyone else, it would be easy for her to be exposed.

So Xia Chun went to find the team leader and asked him if there was any vacant house in the team. She wanted to rent one. When the team leader's wife saw Xia Chun, a hint of surprise flashed in her eyes.

The team leader said that the house halfway up the mountain was empty. Five brothers and sisters from that family died a few years ago. If she was not afraid, she could choose a house to live in without paying rent, but if anything happened, she would bear the responsibility herself.

Xia Chun was very happy to hear this. It was a haunted house, so there would be no one to compete with her for it, and no one would have to squeeze together with her. This way it would be convenient for her to move to the courtyard and improve her food.

Xia Chun left with her things. Aunt Lin touched the captain's arm and said mysteriously, "Old man, do you feel that this Xia Zhiqing looks a lot like Xia Chan? When she just walked in, I thought she was the grown-up Xia Chan. If Xia Chan was a few years older, she might really look like this!"

What a pity, he died outside at the age of seventeen.

The captain frowned and said, "Xia Zhiqing is from a big city. How could Xia Chan look like her? I think you are old and your eyesight is blurry."

Xia Chun carried his luggage and came to the gate of the courtyard halfway up the mountain. There was no lock on the gate and there was a gap. He could see a large courtyard and four stone houses inside.

Xia Chun hesitated for a moment, then mustered up the courage to push open the gate and went in with his luggage. The place looked very desolate, probably because no one had lived there for many years, but fortunately nothing was broken.

By chance, Xia Chun chose Xia Bin's former house, which was also the house where the five of them lived. After putting down her luggage, Xia Chun closed her eyes and walked into the courtyard. Then she fetched a bucket of warm water from the river and began to clean up the house. Many things in the house could not be used. She could only find someone to make furniture for her, or just not buy it. At worst, she could go to the courtyard to rest at night!

Who made me suddenly have such a magical thing!
Thinking of this, Xia Chun simply stopped cleaning up. From now on, she would just boil some water and make some smoke just for show. If she really wanted to cook or rest, she could go to the bamboo house. There were so many rooms in the bamboo house, she could rest in any room.

After that, Xia Chun began to visit the stone houses halfway up the mountain. The stone houses were built very solidly, and even though no one had lived in them for several years, they did not look dilapidated.

Looking at the old things in the house, Xia Chun seemed to be able to see the warm picture of a family of five living together. She didn't know what had happened to their family that no one was left alive.

After entering the village, she heard the villagers talking, but she didn't hear much, so she didn't understand the whole story. She just felt that her family had a very hard life. It was not easy to survive in this poor era, but they grew up with great difficulty, but they still...

Xia Chun then went to the next door house. The next door house was even emptier, with no signs of anyone having lived there. He guessed that they were living next door.

Several children with different parents and different surnames gathered together for warmth and took care of each other, but they still...

When Xia Chun turned to leave, she almost tripped. When she looked down, she found a slightly tilted stone. She curiously pried the stone open and saw a square gap with a package inside. Xia Chun hesitated to take out the things inside. After saying sorry, she opened the things. Unexpectedly, they were baby products, including a set of baby clothes, a pair of shoes, and a longevity lock made of silver.

Xia Chun felt very strange. How could there be such a thing in their house? It was unlikely that such a thing would appear here.

Xia Chun picked up the longevity lock and looked at it, and unexpectedly saw the word "Xiao" engraved on it. This family has two surnames, Xia and Jin, but no one with the surname Xiao. Why would there be something with the surname Xiao here?
Could it be that among the five children in this family, one is from the Xiao family?
But why was the Xiao family’s child left behind in the countryside?

What exactly happened?
The sky gradually darkened. Xia Chun put these things directly into the bamboo house in the courtyard and kept them there. Then she went out to lock the gate and moved the large water tank behind it to block it. She was afraid that some scoundrels would come in. It would be bad if the villagers mistakenly thought that she was with such a scoundrel.

She just wanted to spend these two years in peace.

After that, Xia Chun went to the courtyard. She first went outside the wall to pick some lychees, and then started eating them. These freshly picked lychees were really delicious.

There are mango, durian and longan trees nearby. Not far in front of the courtyard there are kiwis, wax gourds, passion fruit... She can recognize them because they have fruits hanging on them.

There were some that didn't have any fruits, so she didn't recognize them.

After eating some lychees, Xia Chun went to the kitchen to cook dinner. Before going to the countryside, her parents gave her money, and she also went to the black market to trade ten wild boars, in exchange for a lot of money, tickets and food, so she had no shortage of food now.

She had food, vegetables were planted in the yard, and there were wild vegetables outside the yard. As for meat, there was plenty of it. There were a lot of prey here, and the prey seemed to be tamed and would not hurt her, so it was quite easy for her to catch them.

Xia Chun even suspected that this place had an owner before her, and whether she had benefited from the previous owner to obtain such a treasure.

At night, Xia Chun slept in the courtyard. The temperature in this magical place was almost the same as in summer, not cold at all, and she didn't need a fan. But she didn't feel safe living alone, so she lit a candle and covered herself with a thin blanket.

The next morning, after getting up, Xia Chun had breakfast in the courtyard and then went out. She wanted to light a fire to pretend to have something done. There was firewood that had been covered in dust for several years, but there was no water. There was no well in the yard, so she had to go out to find a water source. This place was too far away from the village, and it was not realistic to go to the village to fetch water every day.

There is water in the courtyard, but you can't use the water in the courtyard all the time. You still have to carry some water back to make it look like there's water there.

I don’t know if this family was too poor or what, but there was no pot on the stove in the kitchen. Even on the stove connected to the kang, there was no pot. It’s very likely that after they died, the villagers came and took away all their things!
Xia Chun took out the iron pot she had bought before going to the countryside from the courtyard, placed it on the stove, then lit the fire and boiled water in the iron pot. After putting a few rotten firewood on the pot, she took out a few bamboos that had been sawed into pieces from the courtyard and put a few of them in the stove. Then she went out to look for water.