"Gantang dense leaves become green, and the phoenix does not come to heaven and earth. Therefore, the people of the country and the city are not available now. ”

Who's little boy in the window, is reading the poems of the Tang Dynasty monk Guan Xiu.

Yumufang Gantang Street, both sides of the street are planted with tall white begonias, but unfortunately the winter wind in front of you is steep, and there are no leaves like green flowers like snow, only the dead branches are left swaying in the air.

Gantang Street is an old street, since the establishment of the capital, many large and small streets in the city have disappeared with the reconstruction and planning of the city, and only half of Gantang Street has barely left.

On both sides of the street are the mixed quarters of the powerful and the commoners, and the high courtyard walls are covered with the traces of years of rain, making the place look like it is covered with a lot of old things.

Young Master Yan Jiu was already a little unable to count how many times he had set foot on this old street, and there were few pedestrians on the street, most of them were wrapped tightly in cotton clothes and walked in a hurry. The winter wind blew at his feet, rolling up the hem of his bamboo-blue coarse cotton robe. Putting his hand in his sleeve and walking slowly under the gantang tree, the reddish light of the setting sun did not add much warmth to the street, which made him look thinner and thinner due to the rapid growth of his body during this time.

Step Galaxy, it's a name full of romance.

Walk and climb the blue tour, and enjoy the galaxy with your hands.

I think I'm a comfortable and chic person.

Before the Bu family was destroyed, generations lived in this place, this street, these begonia trees, this ancient courtyard wall, were the most familiar things in Bu Xinghe's life.

Slowly stepping on the green bricks of the paved street, it seems that he can imagine the scene when he was a teenager and his playmates jokingly chasing each other on the street, maybe he once carved the name of the girl he liked on the trunk of a certain tree, and maybe he would be mischievous and mischievous under which courtyard wall he had sprinkled a bubble of children's urine on his back, and maybe he would ...... With his two dearest friends, they passed side by side under the begonia flowers, and looked forward to their future and common splendid life with great interest.

Today, that is no longer the case.

The place where Bufu used to be located is now a thriving flower and bird market - some people are not even allowed to keep a single brick and tile where the Bu family lived, and they have all been demolished and destroyed, in an attempt to erase all traces of their existence.

When the weather was still warm, Young Master Yanjiu came here, bought a pot of vegetarian orchid, and also visited the flowers, birds, fish and insects shop by the way.

One of the brightest of these shops is called "Returning to the House", at first glance it sounds like a wine store, but in fact it is a bird shop, selling parrots, starlings, wrens, starlings, all the birds can talk, and the guests will call at you as soon as they enter the door, "Childe is handsome and chic, take the slave family home".

When Young Master Yan Jiu went for the first time, there were several guests picking birds in the store, one of them was a pure layman, and he accidentally picked an old parrot.

"Please forgive me, this parrot is not for sale in the shop, in fact, it is also a little old, this year is almost twenty-four years old, you buy this is not very cost-effective, why not pick a younger one, go home and raise it slowly, you can also raise it. The shopkeeper said.

The customer was a little embarrassed, and said slightly annoyedly: "Don't sell it, don't sell it, why do you put this bird in the store?!"

The shopkeeper laughed: "This bird was raised by the owner since he was a child, and when he saw that he was old, he taught him to put it in the store with other birds, so that he would not be lonely." ”

The guest no longer entangled, turned his head to pick other birds, the shopkeeper did not dare to slack off, and personally accompanied the guest to choose.

The twenty-four-year-old parrot is indeed not young, and Young Master Yan Jiu walked over to take a closer look at it out of curiosity. The old parrot was covered in gray fur, and it didn't look very outstanding, I don't know what the guest had taken in it just now, and it didn't have the slightest vigilance and timidity about the approach of people, but tilted its head and carefully looked at Young Master Yan Jiu's face.

"Can you speak?" Young Master Yan Jiu just asked casually.

"Yes, yes, yes. It was able to answer.

"What's your name?" Young Master Yan Jiu occasionally had a childlike heart, and asked it with the corners of his lips curled.

"Little star. It said.

"Who gave you the name?" asked Young Master Yan Jiu.

This time it didn't understand, so it imitated him: "Name, name, name." "The speed of speech is slow, but there is a three-and-four-point image.

"What else will you learn?" asked Young Master Yan Jiu.

Probably because he understood the word "learning", the old parrot shook his head and learned: "Once the sea was difficult to water, except for Wushan, it is not a cloud." Take the second flower bush lazy review, half of the edge of the cultivation and half of the king. ”

It's very toneful, but I don't know who learned this tone.

"Looking back at the Luoxiao River in Gaocheng, the windows of the long pavilion are pressed with microwaves. Narcissus wants to go to the carp, and there are many red tears in the night of hibiscus. The old parrot was still reciting poems, shaking his head and tail very happily.

"Under the three mountains of yellow dust and clear water, it has changed for thousands of years. "Young Master Yan Jiu tested it.

"When I am drunk, I don't know that the sky is in the water, and the boat is full of dreams and the galaxy. "The old parrot is full of wealth, but unfortunately it is not the same poem.

Young Master Yan Jiu listened, his heart suddenly moved, these poems on the back of the old parrot sounded like ......

So he came up with another sentence to test it: "The sea in front of you is small." ”

"There are many white clouds on the clothes!" the old parrot picked up quickly and accurately this time.

Half-edge cultivation and half-edged king.

Narcissus wants to go to the carp.

When drunk, I don't know that the sky is in the water.

The sea in front of you is small, and there are many white clouds on your clothes.

Young Master Yan Jiu heard a heavy impact in his chest, he stared at the old parrot and spit out his voice clearly: "Do you know Yan Zike?"

The old parrot couldn't understand his words, but it had a conditioned reflex: "Qingshang, what did you teach Xiaoxing to say again?!" Yesterday, when I slept until midnight, it yelled coldly, 'It's on fire', and I ran out of the house without wearing my shoes......

Young Master Yan Jiu only felt that the sound of breathing in his nose suddenly amplified hundreds of times in his ears, deep and rapid, so that he couldn't hear all the sounds in the world for a while.

"You, do you know the galaxy?" he finally heard his own voice again, like muffled thunder, rumbling out of his mouth.

"The third master is back!The third master is back!" the old parrot suddenly flapped his wings excitedly, "Tea smoke! Tea smoke! Curtain for the third master! Bamboo Shadow! Pour tea! Bamboo Shadow! Pour tea!"

Young Master Yan Jiu clenched his slightly trembling fists, closed his eyes and took a deep breath.

Say "Yan Zike" to it, it will remember "Qing Shang", and say "Bu Xinghe" to it, but it is only called "Third Young Master", obviously - this parrot was once raised by Bu Xinghe!

Young Master Yan Jiu called the shopkeeper and asked him, "Dare to ask your owner's name?"

"The surname is Chen. The shopkeeper replied.

Young Master Yan Jiu asked him to introduce him on his behalf, but after seeing the surname Chen, he knew that it was false after a little temptation.

The old parrot did not have the slightest intimacy with the surname Chen.

The real owner of this shop is not him.

Who is it? Who will it be? In this place, in this location, a bird shop was built to keep the parrots of Buxinghe here.

Young Master Yan Jiu went to find Cui Xi.

Cui Xi's father, Cui Chunyi, served in the Ministry of Industry, and the architectural plans of the mansion allocated by the imperial court to officials are kept on file in the Ministry of Industry Archive.

Young Master Yan Jiu made a false excuse and asked Cui Xi to help Cui Chunyi ask Cui Chunyi for the architectural design drawings of all the official residences in Yumufang, and found out the design drawings of the current preliminary mansion.

The return of the parrot seller is being built in a place in the courtyard where the owner should live.

Bu Xinghe walked three times at home, judging from the priority, size, and order of the entire Bufu back house building, this courtyard is likely to be the residence of the third young master of his Bu family.

returned to live in the original residence of Buxinghe, and raised the birds he once raised.

The name of the bird shop is called Gui Qu Laiju.

So, who is the behind-the-scenes boss who has returned to the house?

Young Master Yan Jiu used his unforgettable mind to look through his memories. There is such a memory, recorded that his fourth uncle, Mr. Yan Si, chatted with the old lady during a family dinner with Anri, and Mr. Yan mentioned that he had a brother in Beijing who held an important position in the Chamber of Commerce.

Young Master Yan Jiu touched out the token that the fourth uncle of Saibei stuffed for him and his sister, and took this token to find his brother, and he would definitely lend out to help.

So Young Master Yan Jiu took this token to find the brother of Master Yan Si and asked him to help find out the resume of the owner who returned to live in the information file of the Chamber of Commerce.

The Kyoto Chamber of Commerce is a non-governmental business organization appointed and managed by the government, whose main functions are to promote commercial development, maintain market order, and help support the operation of merchants.

Master Yansi's brother is also a civilian, but because of his important position in the Chamber of Commerce, he enjoys some of the privileges of applying to enter the government department to inquire about the information of relevant businesses.

So at the request of Young Master Yan Jiu, the brother went to Qiao Lezi's yamen, found a legitimate excuse to enter the household room, and checked the registration information of individual merchants in the flower and bird market on Gantang Street in Yumufang.

"The boss who returned to live here is Zikai's eldest brother, Yan Zike. ”

It was dark early in winter, and after Young Master Yan Jiu left school and took a car to Gantang Street, the sun had already set in the sky, and at this time, he slowly walked from the street to the flower and bird market, and the night had already fallen. In winter, the flower and bird market is very cold, and the flowers are all moved into the greenhouse, and the birds can't withstand the wind, so they are locked in a house with charcoal fire, and they sleep every day except for eating.

Young Master Yan Jiu knocked on the door of a shop that sold snakes and insects pets, and the shopkeeper of half a hundred let him into the house.

"Young man again?" the shopkeeper turned around with a smile, poured a cup of hot tea and handed it to Young Master Yan Jiu.

He is the only one in this snake and insect shop, and he is both the shopkeeper and the proprietor.

Young Master Yan Jiu took the teacup and held it between his hands to keep warm, with a smile on his face that was not as cold as usual, and it looked more in line with the harmlessness of humans and animals at his age: "A few snakes in the family are getting lazier and lazier, I think it's time to hibernate for the first year, and I haven't taken them through the winter yet, I'm afraid that something will go wrong, so I hurry over and ask you for a word or two." ”

The shopkeeper likes this young man very much, not to mention that he is clean and handsome, and he is kind and polite, he often comes to his store in the past few months, buys him a few snakes, and helps him clean up the glass tank of the snake together.

The shopkeeper's surname is Li, and his ancestors have lived in Gantang Street, which has not only witnessed the changes of the times, but also experienced the ups and downs of the world.

After chatting for a while, drinking a few decades of tea, and talking for a long time, Young Master Yan Jiu only casually talked about the annual art exhibition and painting competition that the academy was about to hold, and took off the painting tube he was carrying, and said to the shopkeeper with a smile: "The junior has painted a few small portraits of people and is ready to take them to the competition, but I don't know which one is better. As he spoke, he spread out the portraits of the characters on the table, and stood quietly to the side to observe the shopkeeper's face.

The shopkeeper looked at the paintings one by one with a smile, and said, "I don't know how to draw old man, so it's good for me to look at all these paintings of you! This can teach people how to pick out only one of them! Look, these faces are painted like real people, and they really look like they are alive! Ho ho

"It's a pity that there is only one entry," Young Master Yan Jiu smiled, "You can pick the one you look at and feel good." ”

The shopkeeper of the "...... with a good face" looked carefully at it, and the meaning of the good face was that the face was familiar and had eyes, and he looked at it and picked it up, and suddenly said "Huh", pointing to the face of the person on one of the portraits, and said with a puzzled face: "This person...... I seem to have seen it somewhere. 166 Reading Network