However, although the wall is blue tiles and white walls, this garden is very different from our Chinese garden.

Although there are also undulating terrain and ancient trees towering to the sky, there are no shadow wall rockeries, no winding paths leading to seclusion, and the huge garden is actually unobstructed.

As far as the eye can see, there are large tracts of well-maintained lawns and shrubs, exquisitely manicured and enclosed in a variety of shapes.

In the garden, there is a pavilion with a dome. Six stone pillars support a marble dome, topped with bronze sculptures that glisten in the sun. Interestingly, the six sides of this pavilion are all covered with glass from head to toe, and in the middle are two glass doors that can be opened and closed. On the top, the iron branch is twisted out of the shape of various vines and flower branches, and it is thought to be a frame.

Guan Zhuofan said: "The weather is gradually freezing, and it is cold outside. However, even if the moon is harsh in winter and the north wind is howling, the queen mother can also be in this pavilion, hugging the stove to cook tea, enjoying the scenery and leisure, and there is no invasion of wind, frost, rain and snow. ”

When the royal sister heard this, it was really so, and she couldn't help but smile and nodded.

However, the most interesting thing is not this "glass" pavilion, but the "big water method" in the middle of the garden.

This "big water method" is actually a big fountain pool, six zhang long and four zhang wide. On the edge of the pool, there are 12 groups of statues, and the bottom stands in the water; In the center of the pool, there is also a group of statues. These thirteen groups of statues are made of general bronze, and water is sprayed from different parts on each group of statues.

Spraying snow and splashing jade, under the sun, in the water mist, faintly, there is a seven-colored rainbow.

All the kings and ministers were dazzled by it.

The "water law" is extremely rare in China, the Imperial Palace. Only the Old Summer Palace has had such a thing. It is "Harmonious Fun", "Haiyan Hall", and "Great Water Law". Anglo-French offender. Three mountains and five gardens, one fire burned them. Several "water laws" were destroyed at the same time, or they were wiped out, or the bronze beast heads of the zodiac animals such as "Haiyan Hall" were looted away and scattered overseas. In the past, all kinds of ingenious works remained, and only a ruined wall remained.

Thinking about it in the middle of the night. Aren't you confused, how can you not choke your wrists!

This kind of thing is reappearing in front of me today, mourning the past, and the Queen Mother is full of emotion and sighs.

Looking closely at the shape of this class of bronze statues, the royal sister couldn't help but feel strange in her heart.

The statues are full of people and beasts, all of them are vivid and lifelike, as if as soon as the viewer turns around. They're going to come back to life. The design of the water spray is also very ingenious, such as a group of statues. It was a pair of boys and girls riding a large fish with its mouth wide open and water spurting out of it; In another group of statues, there is a young girl, holding a clay pot diagonally, and water is spurting out of the mouth of the jar.

The portraits are male and female, old and young, almost all of them are Western faces - that's it, but, uh, how...... All dressed so little?

It would be nice to say that the boy with a penny was dressed less, but this adult man and woman—well, the men were all naked, with their muscles and bones bulging, and their muscles knotted; The women showed their shoulders and chests, and some even stretched out their thighs naked, but the "three points" up and down were still covered by clothes, and there was no spring light.

Even the generals with helmets and armor are the same! There is a pair of male and female generals, driving and waving, the man is mighty, the woman is sassy, but the spirit is awesome, but the armor only wraps the torso, and the arms and legs are exposed.

Hey, there are also magnolias in the West?

Looking at the shapes of the clothes and ornaments of these statues, the chariots and horses, they are probably ancient Western figures. I have long heard that the West does not pay much attention to the defense of men and women, and there are also women who open their breasts and expose their breasts in the "outfield". Can...... Isn't that the case? Could it be that the ancestors of Westerners are more ...... than in this world? Shameless?

The Queen Mother didn't know the details, she didn't know what was going on, she stared at the "water law" with dead eyes, and the doubts in her heart didn't dare to ask. Just walking, although trying to make a calm and dignified appearance, the heartbeat is still inevitably faster.

Yu'er and a few of their little palace maids followed behind, some of them were red-faced, and some of them didn't even dare to raise their heads.

What the women don't know is that these statues have actually passed the "improvement" of Guan Baylor. The "original" ones are almost all "dew point" ones. The top of the female is "two points", and the male is "one point", all of which are "frank and clear".

Guan Zhuofan thought that if the original version was really copied, it would be too shocking to frighten the royal sister, and it might be impossible to make a political accident. I can't take such a big step, and I don't have so many eggs to pull on. Therefore, when placing an order, the foreign craftsmen put forward "improvement" requirements, what should be covered should be covered, what should be covered should be covered, and what should be put on clothes should be put on. In this way, there is this scene in front of the royal sister.

Guan Zhuofan peeked at the side, although the Queen Mother said that her expression was different, she was still "upright", and there was no real "loss of color", which proved that the "open process" of these statues was still barely within the range of the royal sister's acceptance, and she couldn't help but secretly breathe a sigh of relief in her heart. Well, a good start.

Walking further, a brown-red mansion is completely presented in front of you.

English country style, square, three-storey high, the porch is extremely tall, ten marble pillars stand proudly under the eaves, six on the front, two on the left and right sides, magnificent.

When designing this house, there were two options: British style and French style, and Kwan Zhuofan repeatedly compared them before finally deciding to adopt the former. This style of architecture resembling a Greek temple was deeply loved by the Puritans of the time in England and North America – not so much to do with it, but the point is: aesthetically, it was closer to Chinese palace architecture.

This mansion, with its shape, is basically the White House of the United States. In fact, even the color is the same as the official residence of the President of the United States - the "White House" before it was burned down by the British was brownish-red.

Climbing up the stairs, the heavy oak carved door slowly opens inward, and a wave of heat hits the face.

Cixi settled down and followed Guan Zhuofan into the door.

The hall is extremely spacious, and the first thing that catches your eye is the depths of the hall, with a very wide staircase in the middle, which rises halfway, separates from the left and right, and then spirals upward.

Yo, I've never seen a staircase this huge!

Chinese palaces, no matter how large the volume, are essentially bungalows, there are stairs, and they must be tortuous and narrow, but as a way to pick up and place items to climb high and low, the real nobles have no chance to use it.

But the staircase in front of me, about one foot and three feet wide, began to narrow after being separated and toproted halfway. The red carpet is laid on the top, and the armrests are carved with oak wood for the whole section, which looks both heavy and luxurious. In the hall, there are many kinds of tricks, but not to mention the rest, just this staircase, it is very imposing.

However, this is not the most attractive part of Cixi, what surprised her the most: this hall is so spacious, not inferior to the main hall of the smaller palace in the Forbidden City, but why is it as warm as spring? After coming in for a while, the "big hair" clothes on my body were a little unbearable!

*(To be continued......)