Passage Behind the Bookshelf

"I asked Grandpa too, why he wouldn't let anyone else come in, but he only smiled and never told me the reason."

Li Shiyun had wondered about this many times as well.

Why wouldn't outsiders be allowed into such an ordinary study?

But whenever she asked, Old Master Li's face would darken. Over time, Li Shiyun stopped doing things that would anger him.

As she said this, Li Shiyun failed to notice Ye Yuan's strange expression.

The reason for Ye Yuan's expression

was that his perception had just discovered a passage behind the bookshelf.

The passage sloped downward. As for what lay at its end, Ye Yuan's perception could not reach that far.

After all, they were on land, where the range of Ye Yuan's perception was quite limited.

Still, judging by the scale of the passage, it could not have been short.

The passage extended toward the back of the house. Through the window, Ye Yuan could see that behind the house stood a hill covered in peach trees.

The peach trees blanketing the hill looked exceptionally beautiful.

Every tree was laden with fist-sized peaches, tender, rosy, and fragrant.

"Were all the peach trees on the back hill planted by your second uncle?"

Ye Yuan clearly remembered

that Old Master Li had just said

Li Shiyun's second uncle had gone to the peach grove behind the house.

Based on Old Master Li's words, the peach grove on the back hill should have been leased by the Li family, right?

Hearing Ye Yuan's question, Li Shiyun curled her lips and said,

"That's right. I really don't know what my second uncle was thinking.

He was such an outstanding archaeology student at Huaqing University.

Yet after graduating, he buried himself in this remote mountain to grow peach trees."

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