The concubine's son Gaomen 37

The carriage left the capital, first walked west, then north, then east, and then south. Ggaax seemed to have walked four or five days, but in fact it was just a roundabout the capital.

Lin Yutong and the Fourth Master didn't know if others saw anything. Anyway, they felt that no matter how they were, they were within a radius of half a day from the capital. I guess these people were afraid that they would recognize the path, so they never walked on the official road, and they would go back and forth on the small road. Sometimes they would pass through some villages. Such a large group of people would dare to go forward, just look outside through the crack of the door. Even the wild dogs wandering in the village would get away from home when they saw this situation.

They ran away with their tails. These villages had no signs at all, and were different from those towns with crowded populations. After all, the towns had names and some decent shops and restaurants. Even if these men didn't go out often, they could not always come to the vicinity of the capital. Even if they passed by, they could judge the general location. But they didn't go to places with a lot of people! The more they didn't walk on the official road, the more they avoided the crowd, the more Lin Yutong was sure that this was near the capital.

After six days of wandering around, finally one afternoon, the carriage penetrated through a narrow crack in the mountain. After walking only a few hundred steps, it entered a basin. The reason why it is called a basin is that this place is surrounded by the mountain except for a gap of "one-line sky" when it came in.

Lin Yutong got off the carriage and obviously felt that the place was warmer than outside because the cold wind could not blow at all.

The eunuchs who brought them to him, so the emperor should be sent to him.

Lin Yutong had a guess, it wasn't that she had arrived at the Emperor's Secret Guard Camp. She thought so, and couldn't help but look at the Fourth Master, trying to confirm her guess. She saw the Fourth Master nodding slightly.

I really took it to the nest of the Secret Guard Camp!

But if you bring people in so carelessly, aren't you afraid that your nest will be found? Lin Yutong thought so and then denied it. It should not be difficult for them to conceal their whereabouts. As long as they arrange a few more groups of people to go from different routes to disrupt the audio-visual video, it will be impossible to think that something will happen. The key is that at this time, everyone's eyes are focused on the capital, and their whereabouts are not so high.

This place is like a village built in a basin. It is surrounded by small village courtyards scattered by the foot of the mountain. This basin should be quite large, with fields intertwined and all cultivated into farmland. If it weren't for the special terrain, I would have thought this place was a small village.

Standing here and looking around, you can see smoke coming from the chimneys of every household. Even if it is not the time to cook, the warm kang has to be burned.

"Fourth Young Master, please come here." The handsome boy who followed the two men's frames all the way smiled and pointed the fourth master in a direction that was completely opposite to Jin Shouren.

Before the Fourth Master could speak, Jin Shouren shouted there, "I don't care where you took us to. Since we have arrived at the place, we must let our family live together. We are not allowed to talk along the way, and we are not allowed to approach the place. The prisoners in the Heavenly Prison, at most, men and women are kept separately. I have never seen a family break up like this."

The person who followed Kim Sum-in there should be quite old. Although he was smiling when he was speaking, his tone was unquestionable. "Look at what the prince said, this couple is not better than brothers being together. Can you rest assured if Mrs. Zun is not in front of you? I advise you to calm down..."

Lin Yutong suspected that these people were afraid of bringing them together. If someone attacked them, they could not ask someone to Bao Yuan. Just imagine that he and others are now in the hands of the emperor. If someone did not think of snatching him and others to threaten Jin Cheng'an, but assassinated and provoked the relationship between the emperor and Jin Cheng'an, it would be really troublesome. Killing is much simpler than saving people. If they really die, the roots of Jin Cheng'an's lineage will be completely broken. The revenge will become enormous. Therefore, out of caution, it is better not to put the eggs in a basket.

The Fourth Master shook his head at Jin Shouren and signaled him not to say more. Then he pulled Lin Yulin Yutong and followed the handsome boy.

After walking south for a while, I reached the foot of the mountain. The path leading to the mountain was built into steps one by one. I walked along the steps for another half an hour before reaching the middle of the mountain. A small courtyard and adobe house were built on the hillside. It seemed that it had been built for quite a while. When I entered, it was clean. A small earthen kang was covered with blue floral sheets. Under the windowsill, there were several brand new quilts stacked. There were two large packages on the quilt, which should be the clothes for them to change. On one side of the kang, connected to the kang, was a stove with pots and pans. There was a small compartment inside, with firewood, bathtubs, and respectful buckets.

The preparations are very complete, and it seems that they will be left here for a while.

"Fourth Young Master, you and the Young Grandma have to be here for a while." He pointed to the stove, "There are rice, flour, grain, rapeseed and meat here. It's okay to make it yourself, and we can deliver the meal. But this is the way to deliver the meal... it's a long way, and it's not very hot here, and you have to warm it yourself..."

Lin Yutong smiled and said, "We do it ourselves. But we have to buy all the things we should have."

"That's natural!" The young man seemed to breathe a sigh of relief and agreed repeatedly.

But Lin Yutong's heart sank, and she didn't even plan to send them back during the Chinese New Year.

The Fourth Master pointed out, "Walking outside, should it be fine?"

"This..." The young man looked outside, "As long as you don't go down the mountain, there will be no obstacle."

Lin Yutong turned her head and giggled: "Aren't you afraid that we will run over the mountains?" If you don't go down, you can go up!

"Young grandma is telling a joke." The boy felt a little complacent, "We invite a few little masters to come here as a guest. The outside is more dangerous than here. Besides, on this mountain... you can tell if you can run out."

If you don’t let go below the mountain, there should be many people coming and going, and you are afraid of hearing something you shouldn’t have heard. You are not afraid of going on the mountain by yourself, because there must be great sentries on the top.

Lin Yutong knew that she wanted to know, so she turned around and added water to the pot and then set a fire. The room was still very cold.

The Fourth Master watched the boy go down the mountain and stood in the yard and looked down the mountain. The trees on the mountain were all low shrubs. In the cold winter, the bare branches were pressed by thick snow, and some of them were frozen into trees. The afterglow of the sun spread out and shone on the trees, shining brightly. But his vision was also blocked by these trees, and he could not see the basin at all.

No wonder I dare to keep them here like this. This angle is indeed tricky.

After entering the house, Lin Yutong had already boiled the water and "Go and wash first..." He held it in the carriage along the way, and it felt really bad.

As soon as the fire burns, the room becomes warm. This wall is also a wall of fire.

After washing, cooking, eating, and the days are getting dark after work.

The oil lamp lit up and the dim light came out. Lying on the warm kang, neither of them could sleep.

"We're just here?" Lin Yutong hugged the Fourth Master's arm, "If there is something wrong in the middle, it's bad..." Life is in the hands of others, so it's not safe in his own hands.

"Yeah!" The Fourth Master nodded, "Don't worry, we still have time."

At least I can't be in a hurry in the past few days.

Lin Yutong turned over and felt unable to feel at ease on someone else's territory. She sat up and gave the Fourth Master a pill: "Take this..." Then she poured one pill herself and ate it. Then she got up and sprinkled medicinal powder on the kerosene wick. As long as the person who broke into the room fainted when he smelled the smell, "Let's take the medicine first, it's okay!" In this way, she could sleep peacefully.

That night, the two of them slept very well. When they opened their eyes the next day, it was bright. There was nothing else in the room except for two fascinated mice.

The Fourth Master pointed at Lin Yutong and smiled: "It's so disgusting."

Lin Yutong grinned and then blew out the oil lamp: "It's no big mistake to be careful."

After getting off the kang, the Fourth Master found a wooden stick in front of the stove, picked up the rat and threw it out. Unexpectedly, he was stunned when he saw it. The rat's fur and claws were all dark blood stains.

If the mouse ate some wild beast that was frozen to death, it should be blood stains around its mouth and beard. Why is it on the fur and claws? It is obviously trampling on somewhere or rubbing.

The Fourth Master put down this one and picked up the other one, which was just blood on his claws and tail.

"What's wrong?" Lin Yutong was folding the quilt on the kang. When she turned her head, she saw the Fourth Master holding a wooden stick and pulling the mouse to look at it.

The Fourth Master shook his head: "There is blood on this mouse. It's not the wounds on their own, nor what they have eaten, but rubbed."

Lin Yutong put the quilt back, then got off the kang to look, and both of them looked carefully, "Maybe there are corpses of frozen animals on this mountain. The corpse was eaten by other large animals, leaving blood stains..." Before he finished speaking, Lin Yutong shook his head first. This speculation was not valid at all. If there were frozen rabbits, pheasants, etc., and they were eaten by other animals, then blood was left. When the mouse arrived, the blood would have been frozen in this weather. There would be no place to step on or rub on liquid. The mouse was timid. When other large animals were eating, it would not dare to go up and eat. But when the people left, the daylily became cold. Even if there were blood stains, it would have become ice lumps.

Therefore, this corpse should be in a warm place. It may be a place where people live or a cave of some kind of animal.

This is not accurate.

"Cook first." The Fourth Master shook his head, "After eating, let's take a look inside and out."

Whether animals or humans, they are territorial consciousness. These two mice will never come over the mountains.

When cooking with a local stove, Lin Yutong and the Fourth Master were not unfair. They cooked millet porridge in the back pot and cooked pancakes in the front pot. It would not take long for a meal.

After a quick meal, they cleaned up. The two of them did not rush to leave the yard, but searched back and forth in the house and the yard to see where the mice got in.

The Fourth Master went to the yard, and Lin Yutong looked inch by inch inch inch inch inch inch inch inch inch inch inch inch. Suddenly, her gaze stopped. There was a large water tank next to the stove. The water tank was full of water, and I used some of it last night, and there was still half a tank left. This kind of tank was very heavy, and it was difficult for a young man to move away easily in the empty tank. Now, in the gap between the water tank and the stove, there was a dead leaf scattered. Lin Yutong took out the leaves and saw a little blood on the leaves. It should have been stepped on by the mouse when it came up.

This means that when the mouse came up last night, the blood that had been rubbed had not solidified. The place where the mouse came up should be under the water tank.

"Finished..." Lin Yutong shouted. But as soon as the words fell, the Fourth Master heard the young man's voice reply outside: "What have you found?"

Lin Yutong stood up after rubbing it, quickly messed up the firewood in front of the stove, squatted aside, reached out to take off his earrings, rubbed it with some soil and squeezed it into his hand, and smiled and said, "Just a little thing..."

The Fourth Master walked into the house first. Seeing that everything was right, he turned his head and said, "There are water... you are here again."

It turned out that the place where the water was fetched was a stream, but now it was frozen, so I could only carry water from the well at the foot of the mountain. The boy came to deliver water. From the bottom of the mountain to the middle of the mountain, a thin layer of ice formed on the bucket.

The young man saw Lin Yutong holding an earring in his hand and making a ball in front of the stove, and smiled and said, "It's not good for us here. There's soil everywhere. But you have to look for these small objects and fall into the dust. It's not easy to search..."

As he spoke, he poured the water into the water tank.

Following the boy, there were two silent young men, one of whom carried a load and poured the water into the tank. Six buckets of water were filled again.

The young man smiled and said, "It's useless, it's not a problem to carry water."

Watching them leave, the Fourth Master turned around and came back, closed the door, pointed to the water tank, "You mean it's underneath..."

Lin Yutong shook her head: "I don't know if there is another mystery below, or it's just a mouse hole."

"Tonight." The Fourth Master pulled Lin Yutong out, "Let's go out for a few rounds first..." It made people feel strange when the old circle was in the house.

The two of them wandered around the mountain and caught a rabbit. When they came back, they peeled and stewed it, so they beat the day to pass.

They went to bed early and did not get up again until midnight.

Lin Yutong moved the water tank and the water inside into the space. Then, the expressions of both of them changed because a large dark hole appeared in front of them.

There was a faint smell of blood coming from inside.
Chapter completed!