Small town adventure

Chapter 8 Another possibility

"How many times have I told you to stop smoking and you just don't listen."

"Well, I will definitely smoke less in the future and try to quit it."

"You! If you can introduce the cigarettes, I can quit eating." Zhang Yun, who had been looking at the room from the side, suddenly said jokingly.He adjusted his glasses, walked towards the two of them, changed his expression and continued, "Just now I went through the things in this room in general, and I came up with a few questions. listen?"

"What's the problem?!" Shui'er couldn't help asking.

When Zhang Yun was in school, he liked to study some unusual things, such as the I Ching and gossip, and he also liked to read reasoning novels, often finding his own unique insights on some ordinary things.The students like to listen to him when they are free, and find it very interesting. For this reason, the students also gave him the nickname Zhang Banxian.Now that he has some insights into today's events, the two of them are of course willing to listen.

Zhang Yun coughed dryly, moistened his throat, and then said: "I took a rough look at the condition of this room just now. Judging from the furniture and other items in this room, this house should be from the period of the Republic of China. The most representative one is this big bed." Zhang Yun pointed obliquely at the old bed not far away, which immediately attracted everyone's attention.He went on to say: "When I was a child, I saw a bed that was almost exactly the same as this bed at my grandfather's house. The whole body was made of mahogany. It was very dark after being used for a long time. I couldn't explain why at the time, so I just I am particularly afraid of that bed, and I dare not sleep on it, so I am very impressed with such a bed. Beds and furniture like this have almost disappeared in ordinary families in this era, and even if they exist, they should be Collectors who like to collect these ancient relics should all enter the history museum.”

"This is the second..." Zhang Yun suddenly paused when he said this, and scratched the table beside him with his finger, picking up a thick layer of dust, and then said: "Just from the thick dust in the room Judging from the layer of dust, there has been no one living here for at least decades. When we first entered the village, we also discovered that not only was there no one in this room, it seemed that there was no one in the whole village. , I haven’t even heard a dog barking, which seems rather strange. It’s also the most worthwhile consideration, could it be that everyone in this village has moved away together?”

"I think it's possible. Think about it. During the years of the Republic of China, there were scuffles between warlords everywhere. Wherever the troops passed by, there must have been devastation and a mess. These ordinary people must be the first to be harmed. At that time, the people here The common people probably knew about the war in advance, so they moved their villages to other places," Shui'er added.

"What you said makes sense. I thought the same way when I first came here, but after I looked through the things in the house carefully, I overturned this assumption. If the people at that time were trying to escape the disaster of war, It must be to take away some valuable things that are more convenient to carry, but I just found some more expensive jewelry and silver coins in a big wooden box, which makes some sense. Even if the situation was imminent, The large army has already arrived at the entrance of the village, and they fled in a hurry before they could take these valuables. There is absolutely no possibility that these valuables will stay here. They must have been looted by those gangsters, so how can they be kept until now? Looking at the furnishings in this room, everything is so orderly, there is no sign of panic at all, and even the dishes and chopsticks on the table are arranged so neatly, which is even more incomprehensible. I Dao thinks there is another possibility..."

(End of this chapter)