Chapter 43 Admiration and admiration of Chinese architecture

The county seat of Lin'an County. No. 29 Longqing Street. Outside the gate of Fang's compound.

Out of courtesy, Nakagawa Eiichi did not lead troops to break in directly, he looked up with interest, carefully admiring the Fang family's house-style street gate that was even more magnificent than the Ding family.

The Fangjia Street Gate is a wide and bright gate with three openings, and the two ochre-colored bright gates are neatly arranged, symmetrical, and firmly nailed with thirty-six brass door nails. There are two gatehouses on the east and west sides of the gate, which are used for guards and guards. The roof of the street gate is made of a large ridge and a kissing beast. Set up immortals and beasts on the vertical ridge, make rows of ravine drops on the gable, and apply colorful paintings on the beam on the gate. The door frame and door leaf stand in the middle of the street gate house, and there are three clouds on the eaves pillar. At the root of the door frame, there are door sleeper stones and drum stones. The two stones are connected and are used to support the lower shaft of the heavy door leaf. The drum stone is outside, carved into a drum shape with white marble, and the stone drum is engraved with a lion. The upper shaft of the gate is fixed with a coupling and a hairpin, and the hairpin is four, engraved with flowers of the four seasons. Above the gate, there is a horizontal plaque with a black background and a sub-gold border, on which the word "sub-gold Lishu Fangzhai" is written. The ground of the street gate is more than a meter higher than the street floor, and there are five stone steps of light yellow granite. On the east and west sides of the stone steps, there are two white marble lions with exquisite carvings and majestic majesty respectively. On the east and west sides of the street gate, the courtyard walls are masonry with goose wings. Under the left and right shadow walls, there are white marble upper horse stones and lower horse stones, and next to them are two white marble tethered horse piles with through-holes carved more than one meter high and half a foot square. The whole street gate is complete and orderly, coordinated, integrated, rich and magnificent, solemn and majestic, which completely and fully shows the traditional Chinese architectural system and the ancient and profound cultural connotation.

Eiichi Nakagawa, who often refers to others as a sinologist, has long studied Chinese architecture. Therefore, he was familiar with the construction form of the street gate of the other party's house. He looked at the street door of Fang's house obsessively, and couldn't help but be amazed in his heart.

Delu, the housekeeper of the Fang family, walked out of the gate with square steps and stood still, he held his head high, his hands behind his back, and said in a calm and deep voice: "Master Fang, please." Please come in with me. ”

Nakagawa Eiichi, Qian Wanlin, and the Japanese military police walked up the stone steps and followed Delu into the gate of Fangjia Street. After walking a few steps and seeing the shadow wall facing the door, Nakagawa Eiichi involuntarily stopped, admired the shadow wall carefully and carefully, and the Japanese soldiers who followed behind also stopped.

The shadow wall under the stone steps inside the gate of Fangjia Street is a simple and elegant independent shadow wall, which is visually perfect. It is made of bricks from the ground to the top, and the Sumeru seat is set up below, and the middle is the wall, and the form of the simulated wooden roof truss is made of grinding bricks. Between the two pillars and the fang is the center of the shadow wall. Above, there are eaves and rafters, and the roof is complete, and it looks like a flattened house carved from bricks. The center of the shadow wall is the most common "center four forks" shape, in the center is a diamond-shaped realistic and exquisite crane deer Tongchun brick carving pattern, and the four corners of the shadow wall are four groups of triangular pine, bamboo, plum and orchid carved patterns. The whole shadow wall is noble and noble, implying richness. On the white marble platform in front of the shadow wall, there are several pots of verdant pine and cypress bonsai, giving people a sense of vitality.

Nakagawa Eiichi stood in front of the shadow wall and admired it before he moved his legs, and walked around the shadow wall and walked through a row of outer courtyards sitting upside down in the south room (outer living room, guest room, guard dormitory), and then walked through a high wall in the middle of the three light yellow granite stone steps exquisite hanging flower door, and came to the front yard. The scene in the front yard made Nakagawa Eiichi even more envious.

The high steps in the front yard, the high ridge north room of the front porch and the back of the building, the east and west wings, and the two sides of the hanging flower door, are planted with two stout locust trees up to more than three zhang high at a distance of one zhang, and the crown of the tree is like a cloud, and the thick shade is on the ground. The ground of the front yard is all blue square bricks, the front part of the front yard is empty, the middle is a tall and spacious trellis full of black and purple rose grapes, the grape trellis is placed in the middle of the blue and white porcelain large fish tank with a diameter of more than one meter and half a person, there are more than a dozen red, white, yellow, black, spotted goldfish in the clear water, the tender green aquatic grass open their mouths to spit foam, twist and swing their tails and swim slowly. On the north side of the trellis, a begonia tree and a persimmon tree are planted from the middle to the east and west. The dense shade of the trees can block the hot sunlight of the north house in the summer. The back is also empty, with a row of flower pots blooming. The north room of the five-bay room is tall and spacious, solemn and magnificent, with the conference living room on the east side and the large dining room on the west side, which is used for receiving guests. The four corners of the courtyard are connected by a hand-copying corridor, and the hand-copying corridor is also connected with each courtyard and each house behind the front yard, and the passage between each yard and each house in rainy and snowy weather is not affected in any way. The fully enclosed courtyard of the Fang family is surrounded by the walls of the house, and the houses in each courtyard are connected to each other and separated from each other, which is very suitable for several generations to live together, and there are male and female servants and maids, and the young and old are orderly, the top and bottom are different, and the inside and outside are divided. This kind of master-slave distinction, which is not only divided, but also easy to connect, can respect the internal and external architectural forms and design ideas respectively, reflecting the ancient Chinese traditional clan hierarchical feudal consciousness.

Nakagawa Rongyi walked slowly and saw all the scenes in the front yard, he clearly knew the scenes of the other courtyards of the Fang family, and even more knew how rich and powerful the Fang family was in the local area. He told himself that this was the place where I should work and live.

Nakagawa Eiichi stopped when he walked to the empty field two meters away from the north room, and looked up slightly to see that at the entrance of the north room stood a flat-headed man about fifty years old, slender, calm, and extraordinary.

Fang Daxian wore a pair of gold-trimmed light reading glasses, a light brown light silk gown, and a black tuxedo with round shoes. With a cane in both hands, the jade wrench on the thumb of the left hand is particularly eye-catching. Fang Daxian's eyes were blazing, his expression was calm, neither humble nor arrogant, and he stood tall. He bowed his head slightly and looked down at the well-proportioned and slender Japanese commander standing in front of him, wearing a yellow military uniform, wearing the rank of Zhongzuo on his shoulders, wearing black leather boots on his feet, a pistol and a saber at his waist. He looked at the four columns behind him, the Japanese soldiers who were standing neatly, of average size, short and sturdy, with shiny bayonets on their backs. Finally, Fang Daxian's gaze turned back to the face of the Japanese commander.

The moment Eiichi Nakagawa and Fang Daxian met their eyes, it was an unexpected psychological contest. Both of them felt in their hearts that they had met an opponent.

Qian Wanlin, who was standing behind Nakagawa Rongyi, took a step forward, stood beside Nakagawa Eiichi, took off his top hat, bent over and hunched his back, and said with a flattering smile: "Taijun, this is Mr. Fang Daxian." After speaking, Qian Wanlin half-turned around and said to Fang Daxian: "Master Fang, this is Captain Nakagawa Rongichi, the new commander of Lin'an County of the Imperial Japanese Army. ”

Fang Da nodded slightly expressionlessly, then looked at Qian Wanlin with sharp and disdainful eyes, and asked in a low voice:

"Sanmengzi, what are you doing with so many people coming to the Fang family to find me?"

Qian Wanlin corrected unhappily in his heart: "Qian Wanlin." Master Fang, Captain Qian Wanlin. ”

Fang Da raised his voice slightly and asked, "San Mengzi, what are you doing with so many people coming to the Fang family to find me?" ”

Qian Wanlin heard Fang Daxian's majestic and cold tone and aggressive momentum from the brief and repetitive questioning, which made him feel a chill in his back. He knew that in Lin'an County, in the western Hebei region, and even in the entire North China, if Fang Da first issued a chase order in the rivers and lakes and asked him to die in the third watch, he would definitely not live to be in the fifth watch. He knew that this was not the time to think about what to call himself. Although I feel very unhappy in my heart, I have to endure it now, and there will be opportunities in the future, and it is not too late to settle accounts and regain face with the help of the Japanese forces. Hum! Old boy, you wait, sooner or later, I, Qian Wanlin, will kill you and destroy your Fang family. Let you be proud for a few more days, and now I won't care about the level of the war of words with you. Thinking of this, Qian Wanlin smiled at Fang Daxian, nodded his head, and said respectfully:

"Master Fang, Zhongchuan Taijun has just arrived in our Lin'an County, and he knows that you are a big man in Lin'an County, so he made a special trip to visit him today."

"Visit? Do you also make a special trip? It's not like they're here to arrest someone, is it? ”

"No, no, no. How can it be a catch? I'm really here to visit you. ”

Nakagawa Eiichi took a step forward and stood upright, bowed and saluted, and said loudly:

"Mr. Fang, we meet for the first time today, please take care of us."

Fang Daxian looked at Nakagawa Eichi and bowed slightly in return, and said softly:

"Oh? I'm not here to arrest people. Captain Nakagawa, since you made a special trip to visit me, why did you bring so many heavily armed soldiers with loaded guns? ”

Nakagawa Eiichi was stunned for a moment, his brain teaser was quick, his mind was scheming, and he asked rhetorically:

"Mr. Fang, do you mind our Imperial Japanese Army?"

Fang Daxian said seriously: "Of course I mind, I mind very much." I'm scared. ”

Nakagawa Eiichi looked at Fang Daxian and explained with a smile:

"Mr. Fang, please don't mind, let alone be afraid. I am a soldier of the Imperial Japan, and the Imperial Army soldiers I brought with me are just a small guard of honor, which is a kind of military etiquette, which shows the respect of the other party's husband, not a show of strength, let alone a threat of force. ”

Fang Daxian's head shook like a rattle, and he retorted with a wry smile:

"No, no, no. Captain Nakagawa, your argument doesn't make sense. Someone on my side is just an ordinary person among all living beings, and he doesn't need the etiquette of your Japanese army, and he doesn't need to show me any respect. I see that your position is clearly a show of strength and a threat of force. I'm so scared. ”

Qian Wanlin thought hatefully in his heart: Hmph! Old boy, you still know to be afraid, you are still afraid. There will be something you are more afraid of in the future, and you will be scared to death by then.