When I came out of Quanjude, it was already half past six.

In June, when it gets dark late, it's a dusk scene and the street lights start to come on.

Compared with many major roads in the imperial capital, Andingmen East Street is not particularly noisy, but it is already wider than most roads in Shanghai.

The urban construction of the imperial capital gave Chen Wen the biggest feeling was two words: atmosphere.

Chen Wen and Tang Jin followed Teacher Ma and walked on the sidewalk on the south side of the street, and the refreshing and dry evening breeze was particularly comfortable on their bodies.

In the imperial capital in 1992, the air quality was still good. There is no haze, the dust is negligible, there are not many motor vehicles on the road, and traffic jams are almost impossible to occur.

Recalling that he and Tang Jin were looking at the night view of the imperial capital in front of the floor-to-ceiling windows of the five-star hotel, which would be walked by Tang Jin holding his arm on the side of the road in the imperial capital, Chen Wen felt sweet in his heart.

Mr. Ma was very chatty, introducing the past and present of the buildings along the way to Chen Wen and Tang Jin, and telling his views on urban greening.

From the alley on the side of the road, I turned into the north end of Jianchang Hutong. This is the second time Chen Wen has walked in from this intersection, and in the afternoon, he and Tang Jin followed the guidance given by Mr. Ma, and entered the alley from here when they visited.

The three of them walked all the way, passing through the courtyard gate of Mr. Ma's studio, and then walked through a variety of houses, and finally arrived in front of a rather magnificent gate.

Chen Wen raised his eyes and looked around. If you go more than ten meters further, you can turn left into a small narrow alley, and the yard of Mr. Zhu he bought is open in the narrow alley.

Standing in Jianchang Hutong, Chen Wen can perceive that there is only a wall between the front yard he bought and the big yard he is about to visit. Chen Wen thought to himself that if he could buy Old Man Wang's courtyard, he could knock out the walls on both sides of the north room in the front yard, so that the two courtyards could truly merge.

The main part of the quadrangle, the main courtyard and the front yard, which the official family surnamed Fu once owned in the former Qing Dynasty, will hopefully be restored to one again after 200 years!

This thought made Chen Wen's heart flood with excitement, well, not a little excitement, but quite excited!

Teacher Ma glanced left and right a few times, but did not see those creditors blocking the door, and there was no one at the gate of the courtyard. He walked to the door and slammed the knocker.

Taking advantage of the fact that there was no reaction in the door, Chen Wen carefully looked at the door.

Two words, magnificent!

The courtyard wall is 3 meters high, the wall is painted with vermilion gouache paint, and the wall is repaired with dark green glazed eaves.

The gatehouse is half a meter higher than the courtyard wall, and the top is a dark green glazed eaves with a spire obliquely, which forms an integrated style with the structural parts of the extended courtyard wall.

On both sides of the door are a pair of stone lions, one male and one female, polished and slippery. At the foot of the main entrance are three stone steps, with stone slabs on both sides of the steps. Three steps up the stairs, connected to the threshold of a bluestone bar. The threshold is a bit old, with low-lying signs of wear in the middle, and the original carved edges and corners of the sides and the door frame are retained.

The gate has two double openings, the door is two and a half meters high, and each door is one and a half meters wide, with a total width of three meters. The door was inlaid with thirty-six brass nails, and on either side of the gap where the two doors closed, two huge knockers were riveted. Between the two doors, there is no bullet lock installed.

On the door on the left, there is a small door, two meters high and one meter wide. The small door is a single inward opening trend, in the middle of the small door, a square hole, twenty centimeters square.

The holes are closed, and the material of the sheet is integrated into the door. At the junction of the small door and the left half of the door, a marble lock is installed.

Chen Wen guessed that the small square hole was an observation opening, which was convenient for the people inside to look at the situation outside the hospital. As for the small door in the door, it should be the small door that is the common passage for entering and exiting, and the gate will not be fully opened.

Chen Wen couldn't help but sigh, this big family is really exquisite! Thinking of this magnificent gate, he will personally go in and out every day in the future, Chen Wen's excitement in his heart is even greater!

Bang bang bang!

Mr. Ma smashed the knocker several times, and finally reacted again.

A crack was opened in the square observation opening, and a faint pair of eyes peered out through the square hole.

"Who?" the voice came from the observer's mouth.

"I, Ma Modu!" Mr. Ma reported his name.

"What are you doing!" the voice was cold.

"I'll step on a horse to see if you're dead!" Mr. Ma scolded angrily.

"What are they doing?" continued coldly.

"They are my friends! Oh, don't worry, they're not here to collect debts! You're endless!" Teacher Ma was impatient.

The observation opening was closed from the inside, and there was a rattling sound, and the pinball lock of the small door was unscrewed.

Teacher Ma didn't wait for the other party to open the door, walked up the three-step stone steps, raised his hand and pushed open the small door vigorously, and broke in first.

"Hey, pony, why are you in such a hurry!"

Chen Wen smiled slightly, took Tang Jin's hand, and the two of them raised their legs and stepped up the steps and walked into the small door.

It will be darker at this time, and Chen Wen wanted to take a look at the scenery in the courtyard immediately after entering the door, but the lights were not turned on in the courtyard of Old Man Wang, and the half-dark area could not be seen really.

"Old man Wang, you're so picky, you can't even turn on the lights!" Mr. Ma complained.

Chen Wen understood, the person who opened the door just now was the owner of the courtyard.

"I need electricity to turn on the lights, and the electricity bill is also money! I am now in negative equity, so I can save a little bit!" Old man Wang stood in the dark, talking, and Chen Wen couldn't see his appearance clearly.

"Let's go and take us to your house!" said Teacher Ma, "Your house won't be completely dark, right?"

Old man Wang didn't ramble anymore, led the way in front, and led the three of them into the huge courtyard of his house in the dark.

With the reflected light coming from outside the wall, Chen Wen could vaguely see part of the scenery.

The four of them left the gate, bypassed a wall, and entered a small courtyard through a round arched stone gate. The layout of this small courtyard is almost exactly the same as the front yard that Chen Wen bought from Mr. Zhu.

The reason why I say almost is because the two sides of the small courtyard are not all side rooms. On the left is a row of smaller wings, and on the right is a corridor!

The right side of the cloister is a wall, above it is a roof that blends in with the building, and on the left side of the courtyard is a wooden parapet. What surprised Chen Wen was that there was also a long row of steps under the guardrail, on which people could sit with their backs against the guardrail!

Chen Wen thought to himself, if this is on a rainy day, sitting on the steps of the cloister, elbows on the guardrail, admiring the rain, it doesn't feel too poetic!

Walking through the corridor of about ten meters, from a square stone gate, into a larger courtyard. Chen Wen, who was just fascinated by the corridor, will not be able to see enough!

I can vaguely see a rockery in front of me, and the light is dim and I can't see the whole picture. Old man Wang led the way, and the three followed, leaving the corridor and walking into the open-air trail.

Chen Wen stepped on the ground with both feet, and felt through the soles of his shoes that the trail under his feet was all paved with cobblestones. There are many plants planted on both sides of the trail, and it is so dark that it is difficult to see what it is.

The trail is not straight, and Chen Wen felt the arc-shaped line after walking for a while. Turning the rockery, I came to the outside of the main house in the courtyard of the second entrance. Before he could step up the steps, Chen Wen smelled a fragrance.

Chen Wen was fascinated by this fragrance, but his taste was limited and he couldn't tell what plant it came from.

"What a fragrant nightshade!" Tang Jin suddenly exclaimed.

Chen Wen took Tang Jin's hand and shook it gently, and Tang Jin's fingers scratched Chen Wen's palm twice.

"Three, please take care of the steps!" Old Man Wang's voice came from ahead.

Walking up, I came to the porch in front of the main house.

Old man Wang entered the house first. There was a click, and the lights came on in the room.

Chen Wen sighed, finally seeing the light!

In the direction of the light, Teacher Ma was in front, Chen Wen and Tang Jin were behind, and the three of them walked into the main hall of the second courtyard.

The light in the room was turned on by Old Man Wang, but it was only a small lamp, and Chen Wen estimated that the power of the lamp was less than 15 watts. Alas, Old Man Wang is really poor now!