Chapter 213: The Mansion Gate
Yu Yao took out a few pieces of paper from the cardboard box and put them on the coffee table, then took out the red sandalwood guqin paperweight and the sealed bag containing the small jade pieces, and put them on it.
Yang Sihai smiled, but immediately concentrated on checking and studying.
"This piano is much smaller than I originally thought!" After reading it, Yang Sihai said, "But this little jade piece is indeed very strange, let's identify and test it first." β
"Ju Yang, can you tell me what the other three things are now?"
"Not today, your special expert procedures haven't been approved yet!"
"Huh?" Yu Yao heard, "When will it be approved?"
"It's Friday, I guess it's next Monday. β
"Good guys, if you don't say it sooner, I'll come back next Monday!"
"I applied yesterday, but the General Administration said it didn't agree this morning, saying that you don't have any qualifications. Fortunately, you found and provided the things, and I found He Wenguang as an expert in the industry as a recommender, and you just agreed before you came. But after agreeing, there has to be a process. Yang Sihai explained, "Don't worry, I will reimburse you for the travel expenses, food and lodging." β
"Hey, I'm not worried about money. You can also take care of the food and lodging, I will arrange it myself, just go to the antique market on the weekend. β
"A yard is a yard. Just give me all the bills when you go back. β
"That's it for now. I'll take my leave and find a place to live!"
"Okay, feel free to get in touch. You and Yang Rui are also familiar with each other along the way, right? He is Lao Yanjing, let him send you, and by the way, I will recommend you to eat, stay and visit. β
"It's not okay if no one sends it, your place is too remote, it's not easy to take a taxi. β
Yang Sihai picked up the phone on the desk and called two. First, a person came over to go through the requisition procedures for Yu Yao, and then Yang Rui came in again.
After saying goodbye, Yang Rui drove Yu Yao again.
"You've been talking for so long, and I want to squint!"
"I can't sign the agreement today, I have to live next Monday, I can only live on the weekend, just go to the antique market, hard Brother Yang." β
When Yang Rui heard this, his eyes lit up, "It's not hard!
"Living together?"
"What! Let's go to the market together! There are so many antique markets in Yanjing, I'll be your guide for the past two days!"
"That's embarrassing. β
"It's okay, I'm thick-skinned. "Yang Rui, hey, hey.
"I mean, I'm embarrassed. Yu Yao understands that Yang Rui now admires his eyesight, and when they go to the market together, they can let him help with their palms. How can a real master easily help others with their palms? He said that he was thick-skinned.
"You're welcome!" Yang Rui said, "You stay and settle down first, I'll invite you to dinner in the evening, what do you want to eat?"
"Or let me invite you, you are all a guide, and you can break the bank again?" Yu Yao said with a smile.
"Anyway, we are the landlords, I know a private restaurant with shabu-shabu, so it's decided!" Yang Rui then asked, "Where do you want to live?"
"Just live near Panjiayuan, right?"
"Yes, Ming'er visited the Panjiayuan morning market earlier. It just so happens that this restaurant is not far away. Yang Rui thought for a while, "Brother, your eyesight is definitely not bad for money, but if you have money, you have to spend it on the blade, there is a Guixi Building near Panjiayuan, four stars, I think it's good." β
"Okay, listen to you. Yu Yao didn't mention that Yang Sihai could be reimbursed.
Yang Rui sent Yu Yao to live in Guixi Building, it was also time for lunch, Yu Yao proposed that he would invite him first at noon, hang the account of the guest room, and have a buffet in the hotel restaurant, but Yang Rui said that he had already agreed with his family that he had to go home to eat at noon, so he took his leave.
At less than five o'clock in the afternoon, Yang Rui came, drove Yu Yao, and arrived in front of a courtyard in the East Fourth Belt.
Yu Yao got out of the car, and judging from the wall, he knew that the courtyard was not small, and the gatehouse was also very tall.
"The mansion with the cross courtyard (the courtyard on both sides of the main courtyard) is magnificent, right? The ancestor of the owner of this house was a second-class member in the late Qing Dynasty. Yang Rui introduced.
"Is this a hotel?" asked Yu Yao.
"How can such a courtyard be a restaurant? The shabu restaurant is nearby, I have reserved a seat, and I can arrive before half past six. Isn't this for you to visit! I have a friendship with the owner of the house!"
Yu Yao was a little surprised, but the guests were casual, and it was not bad to visit.
Rang the doorbell, and after the door opened, a man in his forties came out, with a melon face, looking at his facial features, wearing a casual leather coat, and holding a cigarette in his right hand, "Yang, if you don't come again, I'll find a way to eat!"
"Lao Bai, let me introduce you, Yu Yao! Good friends, antique everyone!"
"Bai Yonghai, please come in!" Bai Yonghai said, but there was a hint of strangeness in his eyes.
Bai Yonghai beckoned Yang Rui and Yu Yao into the courtyard gate, bypassed the shadow wall, and arrived at the first courtyard.
Five main rooms, four beams and eight pillars, and two ear rooms. The courtyard is paved with wide bluestone slabs, and there are several key positions that are still carved. There is also a begonia tree in the courtyard, which is very old.
Yu Yao couldn't help but sigh, "The door of the mansion! Generally, in the courtyard, the main house is three bright and two dark without ears. β
"Mr. Yu is really an expert!" Bai Yonghai cocked his thumb and shook his head again, "Alas, all the things left by the ancestors have been lost, and there is only such a set of courtyards left, and our brothers and sons will live in one another." β
Entering the living room of the main house, Yu Yao saw that this decoration did not match the mansion very well!
It should be full of red sandalwood or pear classical furniture, and the main wall is a picture of the ancient master's large middle hall to look like it!
But this living room is placed with ordinary modern furniture, and there are no calligraphy and paintings on the front wall, and a quartz clock is hung.
"The two of you drink tea first, I'll go get something!" After Bai Yonghai took the teacup, he opened the door and entered the inner room.
Only then did Yu Yao understand, this Yang Rui, how could he let himself visit the mansion gate?
"Brother Yang, you know that there is such a thing, is it interesting to play such a set?" Yu Yao looked at Yang Rui and said in a low voice.
"You've misunderstood my brother! I've made an appointment to see this thing a long time ago. When you come, I thought about it, and let you come with me to visit this kind of old mansion. As for things, hello, wouldn't it be nice to take a look at them together? β
When he said that, it made sense. And when Yu Yao looked at this kind of house, he said in his heart that things must be bad.
Yang Rui said in his ear, "I don't know how many good things were copied from this house back then, and they were returned one after another in the early eighties. But after the old man left, the brothers and sons were not angry, the eldest was a gambler, and the second was lustful; Bai Yonghai was the third, spending a lot of money, and he didn't have a job. Over the years, they have thrown everything away! This one is said to have been turned over by accidentΒ·Β·Β·Β·Β·Β·
As he was talking, Bai Yonghai came out.