Chapter Eighty-Five: The Courtyard (II)
"Mr. Guo is too polite, this is Xiao Li in our reserve, and he knows the specific situation better. Let's talk while watching" Director Zheng said as he walked in front of everyone with agility that did not match his figure.
"Mr. Guo, inside this wall, all belong to this set of courtyards, and the gate is in front, please follow me"
Xiao Li had been explained in advance, knowing that these people were very big, and his expression was very respectful, and while stretching out his hand to lead the way in front, he introduced: "According to records, the house here was built in the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty, and the people who lived in it were all officials with official positions above the six books, and they have been renovated in successive dynasties, and they are still well preserved. “
While speaking, the group has walked to the front of the house, Guo Yi looked up at the door, his heart was slightly agitated, this is really magnificent, in addition to the current building is modern, it is quite difficult to make the ancients this exquisite, more with a strong style of architecture, in recent years, Guo Yi has seen a lot of renovated Jiangnan buildings in the south, these buildings are okay in his eyes, but the new ones are made into four dislikes, it is said that they are still well-known designers.
In that TV series called "Mansion Gate". Guo Yi has seen the gate of this kind of courtyard. But now that you are in the scene, you can truly feel the shock brought by this ancient building.
The two doors on the opposite side, the width and height are more than three meters, like a wall, the gatehouse, the threshold, the door frame, the door nails, the door pillow, the trowel, the animal face door carving, etc., as well as the door on both sides, it can be said that there is no shortage, Zhuang Rui can imagine. In ancient times, when officials walked out of this gate, they were huddled in front of each other.
The gate is surrounded by brick walls. There is color on it, and there are paint paintings on the beams, posts, doors, windows and cornices, but it may have been uninhabited for a long time, and the color has fallen off and faded, and it looks a little shabby.
"Boss Song, Boss Chen, Mr. Guo. Please come in and take a look."
Director Wang held a key that looked like a tong, and it took him a long time to open the rusty lock, which could be regarded as a cultural relic, and pushed open half of the heavy solid wood door with great difficulty. Let the crowd in.
Inside the gate, you are greeted by a small courtyard. And through the guò courtyard into the arched gate. It is a very delicate hanging flower door made of zuò, with exquisite shapes and quite gorgeous. At the eaves pillar behind the hanging flower door. There is also a door leaf, called the screen door, also known as the middle door, the function is similar to the instrument door. It is usually closed, and people enter through the left and right corridors in front of the door. It will only be opened when there is a big event or a distinguished guest.
The cornice of this screen is trowel oil into blue-green, the wood oil is red, the round trowel is oiled into blue, white and black like a halo bead pattern, and the square trowel is a blue-bottomed gold swastika or rhombic pattern. The front eaves front center brocade, flowers, bogu and so on. The weeping lotus stigmas hanging down on both sides are painted in colorful colors according to the carved patterns.
Although after the erosion of time. The colors on these doors are slightly faded. However, you can vaguely see the scenery of that year, and it has also witnessed the rise and fall of a dynasty.
As soon as I entered the door, there was a rhubarb that followed me. It rushed in like a gust of wind, and soon disappeared, this courtyard has obviously been idle for a long time, and the gates are locked, there should be no one in such a scene, if there is someone, Guo Yi can already feel it, although he doesn't need to check it with his sense.
"Little Liu, what about your dog just now? Your pets? ”
Chen Jun only asked after seeing Rhubarb running out at this time, he didn't take Rhubarb as a thing just now, thinking that he was just a stray dog, and he understood by rubbing Rhubarb on Guo Yi's trouser leg before seeing Rhubarb running out.
"He's not a pet, he's a partner."
Since adopting Rhubarb, Guo Yi has not treated him as a pet, and Rhubarb's personality is not suitable for being a pet, although Rhubarb has not shown it now, Guo Yi and Wang Guangyuan can feel its extraordinary.
"Partner?" Chen Jun chattered for a while and then stopped asking, his little cousin is different from ordinary people, even the earth dog can become a partner, don't ask if you don't know, anyway, there are many differences in Guo Yi's body.
Xiao Li, who followed closely behind Guo Yi, said after Guo Yi finished speaking: "Mr. Guo, this is the middle door, which is generally not opened, in fact, it is just a scene, in ancient times, there was a holy decree or a distinguished guest came to the door, the so-called wide opening of the middle door is to open this door, more as a courtesy"
"In the courtyard, all the doors that connect the courtyards are hanging flower doors, which is also a imitation of the shape of the archway, which is very gorgeous and practical."
Xiao Li led the way in front while explaining to everyone that Xiao Li at this time was a little bit like a government worker, but like a little tour guide, who knew everything about this set of courtyards, from the feng shui pattern of the courtyard to an inconspicuous decoration on the hanging flower door, which could be quoted from the classics and told the story, so that Guo Yi and others could listen to it with relish.
After the middle courtyard and the backyard, these three things, the yard, are all places for people to live, generally the next person lives in the front yard, and the younger generation lives in the middle yard. The longest generation lives in the backyard, and some of the wings have been converted into study, living room and kitchen.
Guo Yi has been all the way. Roughly calculated, there are more than 20 rooms that can be used as living rooms, and it is enough to open a small hotel. And these rooms are only half of the entire courtyard, and there is a garden in the front and back, with ponds and pavilions, which shows how luxurious the life of those officials in ancient times was.
"Mr. Guo, what do you think of this courtyard? In the past two years, many people want to buy it, but they haven't sold it in the district, but if Mr. Guo takes a fancy to it, we must give priority? ”
Director Wang didn't know Guo Yi's identity, but before he came, the big boss in the district specially called him over and explained it, so that he could receive it well.
Director Wang, as the confidant of the big boss, knows that this set of yards is the boss's heart, although it has been idle for several years. But I have not been willing to sell, and now this attitude has actually come to a 180-degree turn, and let myself receive it in person, although the director of the office is not the secretary general of the Standing Committee, but he is also very busy, and the leader eats, drinks, and sleeps, and Director Wang has to take care of it.
As soon as he arrived here, he saw the third child of the Song family, this time, he made a fuss in his heart, these forty-nine cities are big, ordinary people really don't know the third child of the Song family, but Director Wang happened to deal with him, of course, it is the kind of relationship that he remembers Song Laosan, but Song Laosan does not remember his kind of dealing, I didn't expect that the only fifth member of the Chen family who has not entered the political world for a while, and is very familiar with Guo Yi like Song Laosan, the relationship is not simple at a glance, as for knowing Chen Jun, it is purely because the big boss is a person who belongs to the Chen family, he followed the big boss to Chen Zhenwu to pay New Year's greetings to Chen Jun, and then saw Song Laosan and Chen Jun's attitude towards Guo Yi, when Director Wang and Guo Yi talked, they were even more careful.
"The yard is not bad, it's quiet, but no one has lived in it for a long time, right?"
Guo Yi couldn't help frowning when he saw the barren grass in the garden, some of which followed the stone road and even extended to the door of the house.
"Mr. Guo, this place has been vacant since the district office building was built, you see that such a large area, it is too troublesome to take care of, and the funds are relatively tight, so it will be shelved......"
Director Wang also told the truth, such a large yard, if it is repaired every year, it will take at least tens of thousands of yuan or even more to maintain the original state, although the tens of thousands of dollars are not much, but it will be used on the knife edge, and subsidized to such an idle yard, it is better to give each person a bonus of a few hundred yuan during the New Year, so that everyone can praise it, and there is no benefit from using it here.
"Mr. Guo, don't worry, if you decide to buy it, we will send someone to clean it up and ensure that you have a new feeling."
I don't know how many people want to buy this quadrangle, but the district has not nodded, but now the situation is reversed, it seems that Director Wang is begging Guo Yi to buy it, which is also easy to understand, as long as Guo Yi buys this courtyard, it is a good fate, this cultural reserve is still under the jurisdiction of the district, and there will naturally be a time to deal with it in the future.
"Little Liu, what did you buy this yard for, wasn't the villa in Ziyu Villa very good last night? If you don't want to redecorate, it's just right to live in it, and you'll have to clean up too much trouble here. At this time, Chen Jun looked at the somewhat dilapidated courtyard and said to Guo Yi
"Fifth brother, the villa is a spare tire, and when I bought it, it was the dowry I prepared for my little sister, and it was not comfortable for my mother and father to live in that place, they liked to be quieter, and there were a few people living in it, and my mother kept talking about the courtyard house she lived in when she was a child, since she had this strength, she should meet his old man's wishes."
After Guo Yi heard Chen Jun's words, he deliberately explained more.
Hearing that it was for his sister-in-law and uncle, Chen Jun didn't say anything more, and as for the other few people who lived in, he didn't think much about it.
Song Laosan next to him heard Guo Yi's words, his face remained unchanged, he knew that the other people who were going to live in should be Wang Guangyuan and Wang Lin, if Wang Guangyuan lived in, then he would have more excuses to come to the courtyard that Guo Yi bought.
Director Wang is different, Ziyu Villa he knows, it is the peach blossom source in the capital, Director Wang has been there a few times, it is really a good place to be quiet in the middle of the noise, and the environment inside makes people like it as soon as they enter, if it is not for being an official in the capital, Director Wang wants to take a bribe to buy a house there. (To be continued......)