After understanding this, Cheng Tianle stopped running around at will, and still honestly watched the paintings every day, watching the daily activities of the MLM gang and the nearby residents, just like watching a silent three-dimensional movie, among which he also went to attend classes every day.

After a few days, Cheng Tianle had an idea, since the place that has not been to can not be reached at will endlessly, so just find a place nearby to take a good turn, Suzhou alleys are quite interesting, just pick the best scenery. As a result, the scope of his observation was no longer limited to the pyramid scheme, but entered a nearby stone alley, and walked a short distance every day.

This alley is not far from the pyramid scheme, but Cheng Tianle has never gotten into it, and has only been to the small restaurant at the entrance of the alley, which is where Yu Fei once invited him to eat 169, Dongtian Blessed Land, and the deep alley of Gusu in Yanjing. Many of Suzhou's high-end establishments are quite expensive because it is a famous tourist city, but the daily consumption of ordinary residents is much lower than that of neighboring Shanghai, which is rich in products and has been the land of fish and rice since ancient times.

The food and drinks in that small restaurant are quite cheap and good, fried snails, boiled edamame, fried stinky tofu, braised pork head meat and other cheap and high-quality appetizers, which can be seen every day. There is also a special dish of shrimp poached eggs that is quite gluttonous, but it is a pity that you can see it but can't smell it, let alone eat it in your mouth. If you can really smell the fragrance of side dishes in the interior of the Yuanshen, then it is not looking at the painting, but the illusion of the Yuanshen.

Cheng Tianle sometimes thinks that when he has time, he will really go over and try the Suzhou side dishes there, which is the most typical local characteristic.

Walking in from the entrance of the restaurant, there is a stone road more than two meters wide, and bicycles and vans can barely drive through, but they cannot go wrong. The lives of modern residents have improved greatly, and some residents in the alley have also bought cars, demolished the original side shed containing briquettes and sundries, and made a place to park. And everyone is very conscious, basically driving in and out from one direction, which was originally a pedestrian alley. It has also become a one-way lane 169 for car dealers, a blessed land, and a smoke path in the deep alleys of Gusu.

There are not many cars here, because the old Suzhou is not big, and life is very convenient, but it is not convenient to drive in this old () city, every time there are cars in and out of the alley. Pedestrians have to stick to the base of the wall to give way, looking at the scenery somewhat unpleasantly. There are always unconscious when there are many people, for example, someone driving in such an alley has to "go in the wrong direction", thinking that there is no car on the opposite side will come, and when there is a real car coming head-on, the alley will be blocked, often a dispute, and even the neighbors will join.

Most of the people on both sides of this alley have small courtyards. The yard is planted with pomegranate trees, loquat trees, oleanders and other plants. Suzhou has been traditional since ancient times, and ordinary people are also very particular about gardening, and the trees and flowers are planted and pruned very ornamentally. There are a lot of modern buildings, a little cluttered, but most of them are old houses, more or less remodeled.

Many of the stone slabs paved in the alley have blurred handwriting, each with its own origin. Many of the courtyard walls on both sides still retain the traditional boundary stones, and the white powder on the walls may have been painted many times. However, the wall base or the exposed masonry reveal a leisurely and calm atmosphere in the chaos. Cheng Tianle even saw a brick, which was obviously several times larger than other bricks in the corner of the wall. It is like a black slate, and there is clearly legible handwriting on it: "Xianfeng made fine materials in the second year of two feet and two inches square gold bricks". It is a traditional official script, which is stamped on the side of the brick with an impression.

The so-called gold bricks are not bricks made of gold, of course, but special floor tiles that were used in ancient times for palaces and other royal buildings. Use delicate and glue-containing clay to beat the blank, this soil is required to be clay but not scattered, powder but not sand, and should be placed in the open air for a whole year, and then boiled with boiling water, remove organic impurities, and then repeatedly fine. Remove the air bubbles from the mud and make it dense and firm. Before entering the kiln, it is necessary to avoid the time and dry for half a year, smoke the bran grass for one month to remove the moisture, and after entering the kiln, it is necessary to burn the whole firewood for a month, and then burn it with pine branches for forty days.

The gold bricks fired in this way have a hard texture and a sonorous sound. There are hundreds of processes before and after, and the processing time is more than two years. This brick is not at all affordable for ordinary people, although it is not a magic weapon, but the processing process also gives it a unique physical properties, although it looks little different from other bricks in the wall, but it contains a very different atmosphere.

Of course, Cheng Tianle can't sense this kind of physical breath in the painting, if he moves to sense it, I'm afraid it will not be a view but an illusion. He only found this brick in the corner of a certain house, and there was writing on the brick, and when he got closer and carefully identified it, he found that it was the legendary gold brick.

This kind of unique gold bricks in the world was only produced in Suzhou in the Ming and Qing dynasties, because the soil of Suzhou is particularly delicate and rich in glue, and Suzhou is close to the Grand Canal, easy to transport, and because there are the best craftsmen here (the fastest update).

Before the gold brick stopped making zuò in the 34th year of Guangxu, it has been exclusively used for the royal palace, but there are also many scattered among the people, mainly in the Suzhou area. I don't know when such a gold brick was built into the courtyard wall, Cheng Tianle saw it and was very emotional, he moved his mind again, and wanted to wait for the opportunity to drill the alley in person in the real world and touch the brick with his own hands.

Walking further through the corner of this wall built with gold bricks, Cheng Tianle reached the deepest part of this alley, he couldn't continue to go further, otherwise it would be a useless waste of divine sense mana, and it would delay the serious matter of tracking the whereabouts of the pyramid scheme. But it was here that he made an unexpected discovery.

There is a large mansion here, apparently repaired, maintained quite intact, although in the painting can not sense the real physical atmosphere, but after all, Cheng Tianle is studying art design, the most beautiful and elegant building in this alley is this courtyard. Its owner's cultivation is obviously not ordinary, the yard is very new, but the overall pattern clearly retains the traditional classical pattern, even if the shape of brick and tile is meticulous. The old materials of antiquity are intertwined with the new materials of modern restoration, and the fusion is almost perfect.

In front of the house, there is no lantern hanging in the ancient way to mark the number of the master's hall, but look at the ancient boundary stones built at the four corners of the courtyard, which is engraved with the word "Xinyuan". Interestingly, there is a flower tile on the lintel of the gate and the backyard door, and in the tile is a fan outline, but the word "plum garden" is written in the fan. It shows that this house was originally called "Xinyuan" when it was built, and later changed owners, and now it is called "Plum Garden", and it is likely that the current owner is surnamed Mei.

In this kind of old alley, although there are many reservations for ancient houses like this, the mansions in the past are often inhabited by many families after liberation, and the separation and reconstruction have lost their original pattern. However, this house is still independent and intact, either someone has bought it and restored it, or it has been kept as it is, just like many old courtyard houses in Beijing now.

It is a traditional custom for a house in Suzhou to be named "Yuan", for example, if someone has the surname Shen, he may name it "Shen Yuan" if he buys a house in Suzhou. Houses like this have private gardens, which is a local folklore. Suzhou has many gardens, which were not tourist attractions in the early days, and were basically just gardens of various houses.

This Xin Garden, or Plum Garden, may also be registered with the Department of Cultural Relics, but it is submerged in this alley and has no reputation, and is now supposed to be a private residence. Of course, its scale cannot be compared with those large gardens, but it is quite spacious as a private residence, and it is a standard three-way courtyard with three entrances and a back.

Judging from the painting, the entrance is a large front yard, with side rooms on both sides, and in the middle of the front yard is a rockery screen, and there are four tall and straight ancient trees in the courtyard, and the canopy unfolds to cover almost the entire front yard. Facing is a one-story main house, through the main house is the patio, there are lotus ponds on both sides, after the patio is the back house of the two-story building, through the back house is a back garden.

Measuring the area of the back garden, it is about 30 by 25 meters square, which is a garden of about 700 square meters. A pond was built in the courtyard, and on the outside of the pond there was a small curved hill with a two-story stone foundation and a pavilion. There are lush trees and wisteria on and at the foot of the mountain, which just block the sight and sound from the back door. From the cloister at the corner of the courtyard, you can walk around the hill to the back door, outside which is a small river, which used to be a place for boats to enter and exit, but now this gate is only a fictitious one.

Cheng Tianle liked this house very much and envied it very much when he saw it, because he himself needed such a place!

Cheng Tianle rented the apartment he lives in now in order to find a suitable "Qingxiu Cave Mansion", which is still the place chosen by the "mouse", which is already the best within the scope of his financial ability. But now there are some things that are not enough, and it is okay to meditate and practice, but it is almost impossible to practice the Dao Fa supernatural powers.

For example, the newly obtained magic weapon of the fangs, Huang Sheng had practiced on the shore of Jinji Lake, and at that time, everyone else gathered around to help use the mana to hold the sound. If Cheng Tianle wants to experience the magic of this magic weapon in the apartment, it is almost impossible, and if he accidentally demolishes the house, even if he can control it, he can't use it, and it is easy to disturb the neighbors.

Now I see such a house, the walls are very high and thick, you can't see it when you close the door, the front yard is almost completely shrouded by big trees, and the patio is surrounded by your own house, even if the movement is loud, it is difficult to get out. Especially in that back garden, the environment is simply amazing, he can swallow the breath of heaven and earth in the pavilion on the hill, and he can also practice all kinds of magic weapons by the pond.

Now that the fourth step of the method has been mastered, the cultivation of "inner breath" and "outer scene" requires the kind of environment that is laid between heaven and earth, but leisurely and undisturbed. !!