Building walls, covering tiles, laying bluestone slabs and bricks are very fast, but there are many carpenters such as doors and windows, and it takes two or three days to carve a door or a window, and it takes two or three days to polish and paint after carving, and it is estimated that the original craftsmen will do it by the end of the year.

Han Xiufeng didn't want to always borrow the courtyard rented by Ao Tongchen, the Jishi of the Hanlin Courtyard, so he simply gave Fugui another hundred taels of silver, and asked the old carpenter found by the Shandong people to measure the size, and went with Fugui to demolish the doors and windows of the houses of those prisoners who were raided by the imperial court, and even picked up the bluestone slabs in several courtyards.

It's easy to dismantle, but how to dismantle is exquisite.

If you really tear down all the doors and windows, the person in charge of the door will not be able to explain to the Internal Affairs Bureau, and if the Internal Affairs Government investigates it, the Chongqing Guild Hall will not be able to get rid of it, so a courtyard can only be demolished three or five doors. In this way, more than a dozen courtyards were demolished, and the missing doors and windows of the guild hall were finally completed.

From the day he started working for the guild hall, he always looked for opportunities to beg Pan Er if he could let him work in the guild hall after the guild hall was built, and if he could give him food.

Thinking that tinkering was indispensable after the hall was built, and the old carpenter's craftsmanship was really good, Pan Eryi said that Han Xiufeng agreed. Unexpectedly, Huo Shenxing, a native of Shandong, also wanted to find an errand for his youngest son, and begged every day, thinking that after the hall was built, no one could work, so Han Xiufeng also agreed.

Since then, the Shandong people and the old carpenter have taken the work of the guild hall as their own work, get up to work as soon as the morning dawns, eat a few bites when they are hungry and continue to work, and work until dark every day, and it only took half a month to repair dozens of doors and windows of different styles to a new look.

After pulling the doors and windows to install the guild hall and helping to do other work, they did not stop the original group of craftsmen were not lazy, so they could only follow the hard work, and until October 28, the guild hall finally had a little appearance!

A dilapidated courtyard has become an antique two-entry courtyard in just half a year, Han Xiufeng is really a little emotional, yesterday he went up and down, inside and outside the hall and went around and around, stayed until late before going back, and this morning he accompanied Ao Tongchen and He Heng to the hall together.

As soon as the two of them walked to the entrance of the alley, Ji Yunfei, editor of the Hanlin Academy, Wang Zhirong, a member of the household department, and Jiang Haoxuan, a member of the criminal department, were also picked up by Pan Er.

Everyone exchanged pleasantries and walked to the entrance of the hall together.

Compared with the dilapidated old courtyards on the north and south sides, the scenery of the hall is really unique, Jiang Haoxuan stopped, looked up at the gatehouse with hollow brick carvings such as "Heavenly Official Blessing", "Magu Birthday Celebration" and "Luming Wutong", and exclaimed: "Blue bricks and tiles, high walls and deep locks, solemn style, full of charm!" ”

Ji Yunfei stroked the white rectangular stone drum carved with the pattern of "Dark Eight Immortals" on the left side of the south gate, and then looked up at the stone drum carved with the pattern of "Lion Playing Ball" on the opposite side, and asked curiously: "Zhixing, this stone drum has cost a lot of money, right?" ”

Han Xiufeng naturally wouldn't say that the pair of stone drums were dismantled from the prisoner's house, and while beckoning everyone in, he said with a smile: "I really can't remember this clearly, I have to go in and look through the detailed accounts." ”

"I just asked casually," Ji Yunfei didn't rush in, but looked at the bluestone slab about seven or eight zhang long at the door, and sighed sincerely: "Even the stone slabs are paved at the door, you can see how much effort you have put into it." ”

Ao Tongchen stroked the gate and muttered, "It's unbelievable that such a large courtyard was built in half a year, and it was built so well." The ancestral hall in my hometown is only so big, and according to the elders, it took seven or eight years to complete it. ”

"It's really not easy, Zhixing, it bothers you, and it makes you tired."

"You two are serious, my heart has taken a lot of effort, and I can't really talk about being tired. After all, this is the capital, as long as there is silver, there is nothing that cannot be done, no matter what kind of craftsman can find it, no matter what materials can be bought. Han Xiufeng smiled slightly, raised his arm and invited everyone to go inside.

Wang Zhirong worked as an errand in the Ministry of Households, and usually dealt with the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and crossed the threshold and said with a smile: "Zhixing, others don't know that I know, if you really say so, the palaces and temples built by the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Internal Affairs will not be completed in a few years." ”

"Master Wang, this is different, the guild hall is the home of our fellow villagers in Chongqing in the capital, and we naturally have to pay attention to our own family's affairs."

"Yes, yes, Zhixing, that's the point."

Ji Yunfei couldn't care about praising Han Xiufeng anymore, because his attention was attracted by the tall grinding brick wall in front of him, on which were engraved a pair of lifelike cranes, standing proudly on the pine, and the exquisite carving was breathtaking.

Ao Tongchen, Jiang Haoxuan and the others were also amazed, seeing that they touched the brick carvings on the wall again, Han Xiufeng couldn't help but smile and said: "Master Ji, Master Ao, don't ask me how much silver I spent on this wall, I want to know how many of you will show you the detailed accounts." ”

"Okay, good, today I only watch and don't talk about silver money, it's too vulgar to talk about silver money!"

Bypassing the wall, the eyes suddenly opened up.

A huge courtyard, the ground is all paved with blue bricks, there are two houses with carved beams and painted pillars on the left and right, Han Xiufeng arched his hand and smiled: "Master Ji, Master Ao, Master Jiang, the left is Wenchang Pavilion, the right is the Xiangxian Temple, the building is built, but there is no plaque, not only Wenchang Pavilion and Xiangxian Temple, all the houses in it are not at all, and I have to ask a few masters to splash ink to reward a few ink treasures, I can take it to find a craftsman to engrave." ”

"It's asking for and rewarding, Zhixing, when did you become so foreign?"

"Yes, Zhixing, just now I said that the guild hall is the home of our fellow Chongqing villagers in the capital, do you need to ask for your own affairs? What's more, this is an inscription, and I am fortunate to be able to inscribe a plaque for the guild hall. ”

"Master Ji, I not only want to ask you to have a few inscriptions, but also ask a few of you to make a few couplets, you can take a look, inside and out, bare, nothing."

"There's no need to ask for it, it's all my job."

"Brother Bowen, the inscription is easy, this couplet is not simple, I am only a shallow learner, I can only make a pair, and I have to think about it."

"Don't be in a hurry, I'll have to think about it."

The whole hall is stretched left and right with an east-west central axis, the main hall is very large and very long, with two exquisite screens separated into the main hall and the east and west two flower halls, both flower halls have doors leading to the inside, into the inner courtyard is a scenery again, four two-storey emblem style wooden buildings enclose a courtyard, there is a rockery in the center of the courtyard, there is a pavilion on the side of the rockery, a small pond is dug between the pavilion and the rockery, and the well is behind the rockery, which is convenient to take water and does not hinder the view.

There are a total of 20 champion rooms upstairs and downstairs, with a wooden ladder on each side of the north and south, and each room has two beds and a desk, and there is an anti-wind lamp on the desk.

The ground on the first floor is paved with bluestone slabs, and the second floor is full of thick and strong wooden floors, Ji Yunfei walked on it, Ao Tongxian listened downstairs, and found that the footsteps were very small, and the candidates would not be disturbed by the sound of walking upstairs if they lived downstairs.

Han Si became an official