Jin Yuran said goodbye Xu Shuzheng came out of the Prime Minister's Mansion building and walked to the car that picked him up, he suddenly turned his head to look at the majestic site of Prince Yuanhe's mansion, I don't know why? An indescribable emotion surged in Jin Yuran's heart, and she couldn't help but feel her heart rolling......

Yes! Iron Lion! Iron Lion Alley! This gray brick and stone building really looks like a huge stone lion, sitting here silently watching the vicissitudes of the world, this complex is like a large barracks, in response to an old saying: "iron battalion and flowing soldiers" It has witnessed generations of protagonists in and out, people say: years are like a river! The Iron Lion Hutong is more like a historical river, flowing all the way from the Ming, Qing and Republic of China. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info This was once the maiden home of Emperor Chongzhen's favorite concubine Tian Guifei, the red light hung high in front of the gate, and it was prominent for a while, and it is said that the Tian family at that time was also rich and rival the country; Li Zicheng invaded Beijing, and it became the place where his general Liu Zongmin forcibly occupied Chen Yuanyuan's golden house, so that Wu Sangui "was angry for the red face" after the Qing Dynasty's Prince Gong's Mansion, the Prince's Mansion, and Princess Jing's Mansion have become the seat of the Republic of China Government, and in these historical moments, those prominent or unconspicuous well-known figures are closely associated with this alley.

It's all over the place! Jin Yuran sighed! Life is short, wealth is impermanent, Jin Yuran has seen a lot abroad in these years, and understands a truth: people do not have eternal wealth and glory, and they are only rich for three generations! Only by following the trend of history can we gain a foothold in this society, and the gains and losses of personal honor and disgrace are insignificant compared with the interests of the entire country and nation; if a person wants to live with dignity in his short life, he must not lose his integrity and never forget that he is a Chinese! Right! And tell my children about it! When Jin Yuran mentioned the child in his heart, he immediately thought of his seven-year-old son and his daughter who had never met, and he felt a burst of ecstasy in his heart, and after sitting in the car, he waved his hand and said to the driver: "Go home!" "The car started and quickly drove out of the presidential palace.

Jin Yuran, who was sitting in the car, was thinking all the way: It's been more than four months since her daughter was born, right? What does it look like? Like whom? Like a wife? Right! Beautiful as a wife! When he went to study in the United States that year, his newlywed wife was pregnant, and half a year later, Jin Yuran, who had been studying in the United States, received a telegram from his wife in China, in which his wife told him that he had given birth to a boy, and Mrs. Tai asked him to name the child That's all, and his wife did not complain about him in the telegram. Jin Yuran, a first-time father, was overjoyed, and he immediately sent a long telegram to his wife, in which he not only expressed his apologies to his wife, but also revealed his deep thoughts and sincere comfort to his wife, and finally he named his son Jin Boyang, expressing his deep expectations for his son.

Jin Yuran's wife is called Qi Ruifang, the same age as Jin Yuran, the seventh daughter of Qi Xiang, a scholar in the late Qing Dynasty who served as the governor of Liangjiang, and the youngest daughter of the Qi family. This Qi Ruifang was born smart and clever since she was a child, and she was very loved by her father, and the Qi family specially invited a few tutors for her to teach her, and at the age of fourteen or fifteen, she looked slim and slim, like a flower like jade, she was all fine in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and she would also be a beautiful female celebrity, Jin Yuran went to study in the United States half a year ago, Qi Ruifang got married......

When I gave birth to a son, I was not by my wife's side, and when I gave birth to a daughter, I was still not there, I really couldn't help my wife, but thinking of the lovely daughter I was about to see, Jin Yuran couldn't help laughing out loud, and the driver was startled and hurriedly asked: "Mr. Jin!" Mr. Kim! What's wrong with you? Jin Yuran came back to his senses at this time, and said with a smile: "It's okay!" You drive your car! Saying that, the car drove to the famous Laosao Hutong in Beijing.

This area belonged to Sichengfang in the Ming Dynasty, and the Qing Dynasty belonged to the Zhengbai Banner, and the old Beijingers called this place "Qifu", which was also a banner person settlement in one of the eight banners of the Manchu Qing Dynasty. The alleys are all east-west, the first alley once had the Qing royal family's "co-organized university scholars, officials and scholars, first-class Jiayong Gong" Fudi's house, the second alley east from Chaoyangmen North Street; West stop at the east four north street, the alley is nearly 800 meters long, the width can accommodate three cars in parallel, this alley was the most glorious when there were two "Guogong Mansion" mansions, there is a north-south alley in the middle of the alley, the permanent residents all call it "three feet lane" alley to the south can pass the first alley, to the north can pass the third alley, the third alley once lived in the Daoguang Emperor's close branch of the family, because the clan and the generation is more respectful, so the local people call this alley "Huangshu Hutong" and call their residential house "Huangshu's Mansion" Before the invasion of Beijing by the Eight-Nation Alliance, this place can not be said to be lively, nor can it be said that it is not illustrious, it can be said that it is a place where dignitaries and nobles live, and on the gates of the houses, you can see the "General's Mansion", "Duke's Palace", "Baturu" Mansion and other knighthood plaques everywhere. It can really be described as: hairpins immediately, sedan chair in the order, golden plaques, majestic Dan trees, high-gate mansions, and busy traffic. However, a catastrophe in the year of Gengzi made the aborigines dead and wounded, and there were many "haunted houses" that were very desolate and terrifying, and the Wuchang army was prosperous, and the change of dynasty made things here more people, and now most of the people living here are civilian businessmen and other people who moved in later, which really responded to a sentence in the poem of the ancients: "In the old days, Wang Xie Tang Qianyan, flew into the homes of ordinary people" Jin Yuran sat in a Ford car, closed his eyes and fell into reverie......

Thanks to the driver to recognize the road, the car drove directly to the mouth of the second alley, and then drove along the alley to a gate to stop, this is Jin Yuran's mansion, this courtyard sits in the north and faces south, the high vermilion lacquer door has "poetry and books inherit the generations, etiquette heirloom far away" block carving. The wide steps in front of the gate wear diamond-shaped ornamented steps, show people the glory of this house in the past, there is a stone lion on both sides of the steps, the beast head on the left side of the gate hollow out of the tethered horse stake stone still stands on the ground, the tether hole that has not been used for a long time is no longer shiny, the wind urges the sun to fall mottled, and loses the spirituality of the past, only the Pixiu-shaped horse stone next to it is still silently accompanied by it.

The courtyard has a three-storey courtyard plus a small back garden, because it is daytime, the gate is open, and the middle gate leads directly to the inner house, and you can see the "one-word" shadow wall in the door. As soon as Jin Yuran got out of the car, he was seen by Jin Gui, who was also an old man, and the old man shouted happily: "Young master, you are back!" Hurriedly came out to greet him, Jin Yuran saw Jin Gui and hurriedly greeted: "Uncle Jin Gui!" I am back! How can you be so old? Jin Guiyi heard the young master call him, "Uncle! "Call" you old! Frightened, he was so anxious that his face was flushed, he shook his head and waved his hand and said, "Don't you dare!" Don't dare! If the young master calls it like this, people will say that the slave is too unruly! If the slave wants to die, don't kill the slave! But Jin Yuran was serious, took Jin Gui's hand and said with a serious expression: "You are my uncle!" In the future, you will call me Yuran or Xiao Jiu, and you are not allowed to call me Young Master again, do you know? Jin Yuran's eyes were a little red when he said this, and Jin Gui didn't dare to say anything.

The person who was called Uncle Jin Gui by Jin Yuran is a descendant of the Jin family, and he is also the old man of the Jin family, he is in his fifties this year, he was agile when he was young, and he was good at martial arts, a lancet danced vigorously, and he was also proficient in Xingyi Liuhe Boxing and other internal kung fu, and was good at pointing, wrestling and other personal skills, and ordinary people could not enter his body with seven or eight people, and he was Jin Yuran's father's right-hand man and small follower. The "Boxer Rebellion" movement broke out in the year of Gengzi, and then the "Eight-Nation Alliance" invaded Beijing, Cixi Lafayette took Emperor Guangxu to Xi'an, and the city of Beijing was full of yellow-haired and blue-eyed soldiers wearing white clothes and red clothes. At that time, a large group of Japanese dwarf soldiers wearing black military uniforms also poured into this alley, these soldiers were bloodthirsty and savage, and their actions were even worse than that of robbers and bandits......

In order to protect Jin Yuran, Jin Gui fought with more than ten Oriental devils in the alley with a single knife, cut down seven or eight little devils one after another, and rushed out of the alley with Jin Yuran, but Jin Gui's own family was killed by foreign devils, so Jin Yuran was very respectful and grateful to Jin Gui, and followed Jin Gui to learn kung fu, and after inheriting the title, Jin Yuran also solemnly warned everyone in the family not to treat Jin Gui as a servant.

Jin Gui waved his hand to call a manservant to come and fetch the young master's luggage, and Jin Yuran turned around and told the driver to go back. And Jin Gui was already standing inside the gate and shouted to the backyard: "Mrs. Tai! Young grandma! The young master is back! Jin Gui didn't dare and wasn't used to calling Jin Yuran "Yuran, Xiao Jiu", but his shouts were inaudible to the people in the house, not to mention the young grandmother Qi Ruifang who lived in the last courtyard, it was just a message. But soon I heard a continuous voice in the courtyard: The young master is back! …… The young master is back......! This time I could hear it in the backyard.

Jin Yuran walked through the main hall and entered the courtyard, this is the first courtyard between the main gate and the living room of the main house, next to the main hall on both sides of each side of the two inverted seats, a total of four inverted seats, to be precise, plus the entrance hall should be five main rooms. In addition, there are two small ear rooms between the main house of the gate and the courtyard wall on the east and west sides, that is to say, the width of the whole courtyard should be more than nine standard rooms, and there are four wings on the east and west courtyard walls, standing in front of the corridor of the main house in the courtyard, you can see the hard gable of the east and west wings, and the "hanging fish" decorative pattern on the ridge of the top of the wings is clearly visible. This first courtyard used to be the porter, the manservant, the old mother, the cook, the housekeeper and the private school gentleman and other people's residences, the hand-copying verandah through the main room of the east and west screen door to connect the whole yard, the back of the two courtyards is the same, but not as many as the first courtyard house, is the place where the female family lives. The fourth courtyard at the end is actually a garden, leaving a partial back door, which is the place where the groom, the guard, the patrol, the gardener, etc. live, and the whole courtyard is a hard mountain and tile clear water ridge structure. Now the people in the front courtyard are only Uncle Jin Gui and a few manservants, Jin Yuran looked at a few Maitreya Buddha-like "a ball of harmony lamps" hanging on the corridor of the east and west and sighed, he did not follow the hand-copying verandah to go inside, but directly bypassed the "one-line" shadow wall in front of him, and came to the front of the living room through the corridor paved with large green bricks, and the manservant carrying the suitcase behind followed like a tail.

In the living room quietly, there is only a young maid, she is carefully wiping the hardwood floor-to-ceiling partition and blue screen window in the living room, the mahogany carved eight-immortal table in the center of the living room against the north wall is still lying here, these are all familiar to Jin Yuran, the carved Taishi chairs on both sides of the table sit majestically, and the armrests that lean forward are like the open arms of the master, so that the family (guests) who come from afar feel more cordial, which makes Jin Yuran seem to remember the scene of getting up every morning to greet "Ama and Eniang". The two rows of guest chairs on the left and right in the hall are still as bright as new, but they are ......

Jin Yuran looked at the two rows of empty guest chairs, and he understood that now that time has changed, it is no longer the prosperous era of his ancestors, and he is not at home, where are there any male guests? Even some female relatives went directly to the inner house. The maid who was working looked up and saw Jin Yuran, and quickly crossed her hands and lowered her head to the side, and said in a low voice: "The young master is back!" Mrs. Tai and young grandmother are in the backyard! Jin Yuran wanted to correct her "Young Master! As soon as he said this, he had no intention of saying more, so he replied, "I'm back!" You've done a great job! Then he turned and walked along the cloister through the weeping flower gate on the left and entered the backyard.

The so-called hanging flower door, is a very particular door in the courtyard of the old Beijing eunuch house, there is no column supported on the ground under the eaves of the door, it is overhanging, it occupies the sky and does not occupy an area, the stress pillar on the door is painted with lotus flowers and other colorful paintings, so it is called the hanging flower door, it is the dividing line and the only passage between the inner house and the outer house (front yard), that is, the "two doors" of the old people often say that "the gate does not step out of the two doors and does not come out" is also. And within the second door is the male subordinates of the family are forbidden to enter, into the second door is really into the inner house, just into the hanging flower door, the door of an inner house maid to Jin Yuran saluted to Jin Yuran said: "Young master is good!" Then he stepped forward and took the suitcase from the manservant's hand, and the manservant immediately exited the door of the hanging flower in a playful manner.

The main house of this courtyard is Jin Yuran's mother's bedroom, Jin Yuran saw his mother go out to greet him accompanied by two maids, and there were two old women next to him, this is Jin Yuran's mother's dowry maid back then, and his wife Qi Ruifang was also there, and there was also a girl in front of him, they all received Jin Yuran's telegram, knowing that he was coming home today, and heard the voice of the yard in front of him, and they all rushed to the old lady's door. Jin Yuran stepped forward a few steps forward to salute her mother, and said, "Hello mother! E-Niang is healthy! My son kowtows to you, please say goodbye! As she spoke, she knelt down, and Mrs. Tai stepped forward with tears in her eyes and grabbed her son's arm to prevent him from kneeling, and said, "Okay! It's better to see you than anything else! Mrs. Tai looked at her daughter-in-law beside her, wiped her tears and pointed at Qi Ruifang with a smile and said to her son, "You! You should thank your daughter-in-law! When Jin Yuran heard this, she immediately stood up and said to her wife, "Hello madam! Madame has worked hard! As he spoke, he bowed to Qi Ruifang.

The reason why Jin Yuran was so polite to his wife Qi Ruifang was because it was now the Republic of China, and he felt that husband and wife should respect each other, and everyone laughed when they saw him so polite. Mrs. Tai grabbed Jin Yuran's arm, and the couple helped Mrs. Tai back to the inner living room, Jin Yuran helped Mrs. Tai to sit on the chair, and then Mrs. Tai immediately instructed the servant: "Come to my dark room refrigerator and bring the young master a glass of ice water!" A maid answered. The "refrigerator" mentioned by Mrs. Tai is not the refrigerator used by people now, it is the Futian storage freezer that was basically available in the door of the mansion in Beijing in the past, which is made of wood, the inner small wooden box is lined with iron sheets, and the middle layer of the small wooden box is filled with cotton wool, and the surface is like the popsicle box that everyone is familiar with later, and the ice stored at home is taken out and placed in the box, which is reserved for cold food and drinks.

Mrs. Tai said in her mouth, but she grabbed Jin Yuran's arm with one hand and didn't let go, her eyes looked at her son's face up and down, left and right, tears welled up again, and she kept saying: "Like your father!" It's like! How glad your father would have been to see you doing so today! Jin Yuran also cried, his mother said this more than once, he understood his mother's feelings, his mother has been married to the Jin family for more than 40 years, gave birth to six or seven children, except for the rest who died in infancy, all died in the Gengzi tragedy, in addition to several half-siblings, now only he is left alone, the only one in his Jin family is his mother's sustenance and dependence.

Jin Yuran took the teacup passed by his wife Qi Ruifang with one hand, and said to his mother: "Take care!" The son thanked his mother! Only then did the mother take the teacup and let go of her son's hand, and the couple sat down. sat down and talked, his son Boyang came back from school, Qi Ruifang stepped forward and said, "Boyang see who is back?" Son Boyang gave a gift to Qi Ruifang, "Hello mother!" Turning his face, he saw Jin Yuran and shouted happily: "Amma! Jin Yuran stood up and hugged his son, and said happily: "Good son! Jin Yuran put down his son and said, "Later, Ama will check your study, and Ama has a gift for you!" The son cheered with joy. Qi Ruifang said: "Boyang! Go to grandma! Everyone knows that Bo Yang is Mrs. Tai's sweetheart, Mrs. Tai put her arms around her grandson and stroked his head, while reminding Jin Yuran: "What are you doing sitting here?" Don't want to see your baby girl? Look at you, father! A sentence reminded Jin Yuran, and he hurriedly retired with his wife and came to the backyard through the second hanging flower gate.

When he came to the backyard, Jin Yuran rushed into Qi Ruifang's bedroom in three steps and two steps, and saw his daughter sleeping on the small rattan bed, Qi Ruifang's dowry girl Qiu Ju was holding a jade fan to gently drive away mosquitoes. After Jin Yuran entered the house, he got up lightly, he held the side of the bed, leaned over to stare at his daughter, and said softly: "My baby daughter! The daughter smashed her small mouth, stretched out her fists and kicked her legs and looked very excited, and smiled at Jin Yuran's little face.

I don't know why? Jin Yuran looked at it and shed tears, and his wife handed him a silk handkerchief and said softly: "Look at you! To give! Jin Yuran wiped her tears with a handkerchief, smiled a little embarrassedly at his wife and said, "There are no outsiders, I'm happy!" Then he gently picked up his daughter with both hands and gently raised it above his head, and then slowly retracted it into his arms and close to his chest, as if he was holding his heart and liver. His wife said on the side: "Mrs. Tai gave her a nickname called Niuniu, and the big one is waiting for you to take it!" Jin Yuran hugged her daughter and replied, "Well, good! Good! Good! Hello Niu Niu! It's called Niu Niu! "Holding my daughter is not letting go.

After dinner, his son Jin Boyang is Mrs. Tai's "little stove" in winter, so he has been sleeping with his grandmother, Jin Yuran returned to the bedroom and watched his daughter non-stop, until it was time to feed, and then let Qiu Ju go to the nurse's room. At this time, another bridal maid, Dongmei, brought a large copper kettle of hot water and came in to serve the young master to wash, but Jin Yuran said to Dongmei: "Put it down!" Never mind it! Go back to the house and rest! Dongmei didn't dare to look at the young grandmother, Qi Ruifang nodded and said, "Go!" Dongmei gently retreated and brought the door.

Qi Ruifang was about to pour water for Jin Yuran to wash his feet, but was stopped by Jin Yuran, and he said to Qi Ruifang: "Ruifang! You've done a great job! Today I will serve you to wash your feet! Qi Ruifang was taken aback and then said with a smile: "Oops! I'm not afraid to scare you with such big feet? Jin Yuran said: "Don't be afraid! After saying that, the two of them laughed heartily, it turns out that there is a story here!

Qi Ruifang is the youngest daughter in her mother's family, the youngest daughter in the family, very loved by her parents, at that time girls were happy to bind their feet, and the Qi family was no exception, the sisters of the Qi family were tortured by their feet and cried bitterly, and Qi Ruifang cried even more. Father Qi Xiang has been a minister abroad, and he is a new-school figure in foreign affairs, and when he heard his baby daughter crying, he said: "Forget it!" Let this child go at night and during the day! I have to go to school during the day! But later, Qi Ruifang secretly put the bound feet at night when the adults in the family were not paying attention, which was paid off in the old-fashioned big family, so Miss Seven didn't know how many beatings she had suffered for this, but Miss Seven didn't care about any "three obedience and four virtues". Wrapped in this way, let go of the wrapping, and in the end, she was not wrapped into a "three-inch golden lotus", because the governor had something to say, saying that it was convenient for the girl to go abroad in the future! Since the governor has something to say, the family can't do anything about her, but her mother is afraid that her daughter will be ridiculed when she marries into her in-law's family in the future, so she makes small shoes for her to wear, although most of the toes are deformed, but she is the only Tianzu among the women of the Qi family. Later, when the bride entered the door, the groom shot the sedan chair, and when Qi Ruifang got off the sedan chair to "cross the saddle", her feet were seen by many guests, but no one dared to say it. Finally, after the newlyweds visited the church, when they knelt down to the high hall to accept the red envelope, they were discovered by their mother-in-law, that is, Mrs. Tai, because there were many onlookers, Mrs. Tai's face couldn't hang up, and she suddenly shouted angrily: "Oops! Such a big foot is terrifying! Isn't this a joke due to the lack of femdom? Do you want the face of the Jin family? Hum! "Mrs. Tai is not satisfied with this daughter-in-law! In fact, he was not satisfied with his daughter-in-law's big feet, so he refused to accept the bride's kneeling tea. Jin Yuran is an open-minded European student, and when she heard that her wife was a heavenly foot, she was very happy, and hurriedly took the teacup in Qi Ruifang's hand and knelt down to present it to her mother. Although the bride Qi Ruifang was wearing a hijab on her head at this time and could not see the groom's face, she was very relieved to see her husband so considerate.

In the new room, Jin Yuran took off the bride's hijab, but saw that the bride's eyebrows were like green feathers, her eyes were like apricots, her skin was more creamy, and her mouth was like a dan, Jin Yuran was extremely excited, and she dipped her pen and ink into a poem:

People say that the three-inch golden lotus is good,

Mo Ruotian is even more praised.

The rivers rush through a thousand sails,

Create a new wind to start my family. Qi Ruifang was even more impressed by her husband's open-minded and considerate feelings, and also wrote a poem on the spot:

Shame does not follow Weng's will,

Xidelang is benevolent and virtuous.

In this life, I am a fairy couple,

Biyi Yao Chi across the double luan. Jin Yuran smiled and said, "Mrs. Bigfoot, please!" Qi Ruifang also smiled and said: "Bold gentleman, please!" This is a good story between the two couples on their wedding night, and it is also the reason why the two laughed just now.

When the family had breakfast together the next day, Qi Ruifang asked Qiu Ju to take her daughter out, and Jin Yuran announced in public that she would name her daughter: Jin Jingshu! The source is taken from the meaning of the quiet girl in "The Book of Songs: The Quiet Girl", so far the heroine of this story, Jin Jingshu, has made her debut.

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