Chapter 208: The Huang Family (First Update)
Mei Yixuan finally had the opportunity to live alone, and immediately said without thinking: "The three of us each live alone, and it's best to stay next to each other and not separate." ”
"Okay, okay, Childe, please come with the little one. Lin Yong said, leading the way in front and walking towards a road paved with blue bricks on the right.
Mei Yixuan had the opportunity to look at the layout around the inn.
The front of the Tongfu Inn is very open, it may be for the convenience of the guests to go out, and it may also be due to the fact that there is more room for maneuver in the vehicles, so the livestock shed and the carport are on the left side of the door, close to the courtyard wall in the south, all of which are paved with blue bricks, and the two tall and spacious open slots can accommodate fifty carriages at a time. It's clean inside, and it looks like someone is cleaning it.
On the periphery of the open area is a two-person high brick wall, blocking the sight of those who enter the courtyard, and no one can see what is inside.
On the courtyard wall, four doors were opened in the four directions of due north, northeast, northwest and west, and there were two gatehouses in the door, and there were two young men guarding the door, and they could enter and exit by virtue of the room card issued by the inn, and it was impossible for outsiders to enter without any certificate.
Between the north gate and the northwest gate, there is a slip open pavilion with a long wooden chair inside, which seems to be the place where the young men stay in the summer to welcome guests. Between the north gate and the northeast gate, there is a slip and a pointed tile house, four or five rooms, which may be the place where the young man stays before welcoming guests in winter.
Mei Yixuan didn't know what the scene was like in other directions, but the scenery due west she went to was very beautiful.
In the gardens on both sides of the road, there are green trees, exotic flowers and grasses, green bamboos, and streams seem to be naturally generated, and there are no traces of artificial carving at all. There are mushrooms, fungus, and even small squirrels jumping around in the woods, which is full of game, which makes people feel relaxed and feel very comfortable.
After walking for about ten minutes, a row of antique houses with white walls and gray tiles appeared in front of me. These dwellings are all of the same pattern, with a hard mountain dragon boat ridge, herringbone gables, very high houses, wide eaves, and wide porches.
Rosewood doors and windows, all carved with delicate patterns. At the upper end of the door frame, there is a plaque that reads the number of the house, which represents the room number of the guest's stay.
There are a total of ten rooms in the house, Mei Yixuan chose three rooms that are connected, No. 456, Feifeng and Zhang Yi lived in No. 4 and No. 6, and No. 5 in the middle was given to Mei Yixuan.
Mei Yixuan entered room five and took a closer look.
The area of the room is not small, 50 square meters, and it is divided into three spaces by several folding sandalwood screens carved with exquisite patterns. Facing west by the window, there is an arhat bed, which is covered with flowers, birds and insects, a soft, breathable Suluo futon, and a beautifully made, soft rattan pillow is placed next to it.
Behind a screen of landscape paintings, there is a large sandalwood bookcase, on which are all pen, ink, paper and inkstone, all of which are of the highest quality.
Behind a screen with a hundred birds and phoenix pattern is a small tea room, in which tea sets, tea tables, and tea cans are all high-quality Ru kiln celadon, and there is also a fine rattan soft collapse and brocade embroidered cushions, which can be reclined and comfortable to drink tea alone, enjoying the unique tranquility.
Behind a screen with a patterned pattern, it is a small clean room, which is a bucket, a clean cloth towel, a copper basin, a basin rack, a soaphorn, a water scoop, a water tank, a bath bucket, essence, etc., a bucket and other items are separated by another screen with a peach pattern, and when you pull it gently, it is two spaces, and the privacy is very strong.
In the corner of the room, there is a pot of black orchid. At this time, Mo Lan had already bloomed two light purple and brown flowers, and the faint fragrance lingered in the room, making Mei Yixuan inexplicably happy.
It's just that the room is good, but the price is good, you have to pay a couple of silver a day, and ordinary people really can't afford to live.
After the three of them moved in, the young man named Lin Yong told them that there was a restaurant at the back of the house, and they could go there to eat at night. and ask them if they drink tea,
Mei Yixuan and the others were not hungry just after eating, and seeing that Lin Yong seemed to be a little steward in the inn, they asked Lin Yong about the residence of a few brokers.
As a guy in the inn, he doesn't know the situation in the city, but he still knows the basic situation. Therefore, Lin Yong provided the addresses of the two brokers that he was most impressed with, and Lin Yong specifically mentioned one of them, Huang Ren'an, who was on the same street as the Tongfu Inn, only separated by four households.
When Mei Yixuan heard this, he saw that it was still early, so he took Feifeng and Zhang Yi out of the inn, walked all the way, and walked east along Shizhu Hutong.
At this time, it was not yet the end of the Shen hour, that is, it was not yet five o'clock in the afternoon. The sun was setting in the west, and it was not so hot outside, and dark clouds drifted in the faint southeast direction, and with the swing of the leaves, a cool wind blew in the air, blowing away a lot of the sultry heat.
There are more people in the alley, people are leisurely wandering, stopping in front of various stalls to bargain, and the people who set up the stalls also cheer up and start doing business, all kinds of shouts and shouts come one after another, and the whole alley is really lively.
Mei Yixuan took Feifeng and Zhang Yi without stopping in the alley, and went straight through the bustling crowd and came to Huang Ren'an's house.
The Huang family's house looks the same as the pattern of the Tongfu Inn from the outside, and it is also a five-element gable made of blue bricks, but the carved patterns are different, and the Huang family does not have a pair of stone lions, the gatehouse is similar to the Tongfu Inn, and the color of the door is different from the big red of the Tongfu Inn, but dark red, which is low-key and introverted.
I just don't know what's going on inside, but it's definitely not the same as Tongfu Inn.
At this time, the gate of Huang's house was closed, and there was the sound of children playing inside, but no one came out.
Zhang Yi stepped forward and knocked on the door and asked in a loud voice, "Excuse me, is this Mr. Huang Ren'an's house?"
As soon as Zhang Yi's voice fell, he heard a quiet silence in the courtyard, and a boy's voice sounded, and it turned out to be an official dialect: "Grandpa, grandpa, someone is coming!"
At this time, I heard a sound of footsteps coming from far and near, and listening to the voice, the person who came was a man.
With the sound of opening the door, a burly, nearly forty-year-old, thick eyebrows, big eyes, and a somewhat depressed strong man walked out, this person first glanced at Mei Yixuan and the others, and then hugged his fist at Mei Yixuan and asked: "But this son is looking for Huang? I'm sorry, because there is something at home, Huang is lazy, please sit inside!"
"Excuse me, Xiao Ke Zhao Hong, please don't be surprised. Mei Yixuan also hugged his fists and politely returned the salute.
She was a little surprised by Huang Ren'an's height, don't they all say that southerners are short? This Huang Ren'an is not short, it seems that he can be 1.8 meters, isn't this person a southerner?