Chapter 112: Xiaolou listened to the spring rain overnight
The matter of staying overnight in the natural residence was so happily decided. This gave the three children of the family who were originally going to rush back to Chenzhou City another reason to drink for the long night.
And so they did.
This feast was not given up until the middle of the moon. After the three of them had eaten and drunk, they went downstairs to rest under the service of the servants.
"Three Langjun, can you have fun today?"
At this time, the person waiting downstairs was not the young wine doctor, but an old monk Dingming in a moon-white monk's robe, and he was standing in the middle of the hall, in front of the big stone tablet engraved with the words heaven and earth, looking at everyone with a smile.
"Your store's wine and delicacies can be described as the crown of the Tang Dynasty, we are greedy for a while, and some of them are dissolute, which makes the master laugh. At this time, it is getting late, and it is necessary to disturb all night. Even if they were drunk, the three of them still behaved as they were. Etiquette is almost engraved into the bones of the three of them.
In this era of lineage and bloodline, the scholars used their complicated etiquette to distinguish them from the three classes of agriculture and commerce, just like the etiquette and heraldry that were compulsory for Western aristocrats hundreds of years later, all of which were used to prove their nobility and identify their kind.
"That being the case, please also invite the three Lang Jun to come with the old monk." Dingming flicked his long sleeves and took the lead in walking to the backyard, at this time in the dead of night, Dingming, who was fluttering in white, faintly had an indescribable demeanor of a famous monk.
However, if the two of them are judged, the three of them know the roots before the determination, this man who used to be called a demon, now has a faint bit of Baoguang introverted great morality, and they are all amazed, sighing at the wonder of the world.
Bypass the stone monument of heaven and earth in the lobby, after leaving the lobby, there is a large piece of apricot blossoms, the apricot trees here are transplanted from the nearby mountain forests, they are all many years old, the branches are luxuriant, lush, faint apricot blossom aroma, all of a sudden the three of them diluted a lot of wine, and behind this piece of apricot blossoms, there are a few houses faintly, submerged in this piece of pink and white.
"Good apricot blossoms." The three of them all exclaimed.
"Master Lu once said that if it is not this forest, once you enter the backyard, all the scenery is in your eyes, what is the interest." Dingming looked at this apricot blossom and said quite proudly.
"Shanshui Lang is really a fairy-like character, it is this small inn, and he is better than most of the inns in the world." Looking at the pink and white that filled everyone's field of vision, the three of them couldn't help but admire.
"Three Langjun, let's enter from now on." In the shade of the tree roots, a sheep intestine path is slightly exposed, paved with thin stones, and there is a small stone tablet next to it, and the winding path leads to the secluded place.
After saying that, Dingming personally led the way to the front and went straight inside.
Seeing that this place was so elegant, it was not as tacky as the inn outside, and the three of them were also quite interested, and each left one or two confidant servants with their luggage, and let the other servants go by themselves.
The group walked through the path, and the front suddenly opened up, only to see three buildings appear in front of the three people surrounded by apricot blossoms, and the whole picture of the entire backyard appeared in front of the three people at this time.
It turned out that the apricot blossoms in the middle of the street they saw during the day were so large that they surrounded the entire backyard, and in a fragrant pink and white, the finished characters of the three buildings were arranged, and a vacant space was enclosed in the middle, and there was a wooden pavilion in the center of the clearing, in which there were stone tables and stone benches.
There are four stone roads around the pavilion, respectively connecting the three guest rooms and the front hall, everyone walks along the stone road, only to see a wooden plaque on the wooden pavilion, the three words of Tao Ran Pavilion are written, of course, on the pavilion pillar, there is also a couplet this thing, but also to be cooked by the Juhuang family, and Jun is drunk and intoxicated.
The three of them are used to the subtle poems that pop up from time to time in various parts of the natural residence, and they don't think so, but it also has something to do with Bai Juyi's more straightforward poems.
"Three Langjun, there are only three sets of guest rooms here, and please ask the three Langjun to do their own thing." Dingming turned around and spoke to the crowd.
"Not busy, not busy, it's quite elegant here, wait for me to take a look first." The three of them looked around and felt that it was simply right to stay today.
It turns out that the wonderful thing is that these three rooms are also a little different, and each room is surrounded by other plants, the guest room on the east side, surrounded by a large area of fiery red triangular plum on the outside, and the guest room on the north side, the walls are covered by rice stalks. Behind is a pine forest, next to mulberry, elm, hibiscus, Zhe, all kinds of trees and new strips, with its twists and turns, weaving two slips of hedges. Inside the fence there was an earthen well, and beside it there was a genus of orange trees. The guest rooms on the west side are several houses, with thousands of green bamboos shading.
"These three sets of guest rooms, the secret combination of pine, bamboo and plum, the three friends of the cold, this is by the east, surrounded by red plums, the name is called Yihong Courtyard, and the west is by the main, the green bamboo is the main, the name is called Xiaoxiang Pavilion, and the north is the back, the bamboo fence is the waist, it is called Daoxiang Village. All of them were built according to the planning of the land division. Seeing that the three of them were hesitant, they decided to introduce them to them.
"Shanshui Lang is really ingenious." When the three of them heard these three names, they looked at the three rooms carefully, and the more they looked at them, the more they liked them, and the more they admired this Shanshui Lang.
"At this moment, I finally understand why Uncle Zheng and Zheng Taishou stayed here." Lu Zhuoyu looked at these three houses and said thoughtfully, just looking outside, you can appreciate the extraordinaryness of this backyard guest room.
"Lu Gong is an elegant person, and he has been poetic and drunk all his life, and the place where Lu Gong can stop is extraordinary." Cui Yang and the two also felt the same way. Along the way, although the building materials here are quite simple, but under the ingenuity of Shanshui Lang, there is a faint sense of beauty that is different from the world, if it is not for the simplicity of the materials, this backyard, even compared to their own pavilions, is also different.
They can't help but be amazed, when Lu Zhe left this plan, it was according to the path of the Grand View Garden in later generations, the gardens of the Tang Dynasty were still in the stage of symmetrical beauty, the pursuit of tall and complete, and the decoration was also extremely magnificent. When did the Tang people see the Suzhou garden, which was known as "recreating the world within a stone's reach" and integrating the landscape into it.
It is this kind of asymmetrical beauty of the garden that makes the three of them feel quite shocked, although they did not enter the guest room, but just look at the outside, they feel extraordinary.
When the three of them approached and took a closer look, they felt that the trip was even more worthwhile. Whether it is Yihong Courtyard or Xiaoxiang Pavilion, or even in Daoxiang Village, which looks like a farmhouse, it is extremely clean, although there are not many furnishings in the house, but some common things of the scholars are also readily available, and there are many things that few people have never seen, which is quite comfortable. Although a few people are used to these things, it is not easy for these things to appear in such a pickled town.
Under the leadership of Dingming, the three of them looked at the three rooms in turn, and they were quite satisfied, and they also chose their favorite rooms.
Cui Yuanli chose the Yihong Courtyard with a rich atmosphere, Yang Hongyi chose the Daoxiang Village with a strong sense of retreat, and Lu Zhuoyu chose the Xiaoxiang Pavilion chosen by his uncle last time.
At this time, the moon was already in the west, and the third watch had passed, so he didn't dare to disturb too much, and after someone brought hot water and sobering soup, he went to sleep.
The three Lang Jun had just put their heads on the pillow filled with reed flowers, and they were quite satisfied with the soft pillow, and as the dark clouds covered the moonlight, the spring rain began to fall, and in the sound of the rain, the three of them quickly fell into a deep sleep.