What's going on? He's not a strong man, he can break the iron lock with a single click!

Wang Fulin's heart moved, squatted down and picked up the iron lock, only to find that this seemingly heavy big guy turned out to be a Xibei cargo, very light weight, and the most important thing is that on the lock of the girder, there is a visible knife mark, which was actually cut off, and it was probably just hung on the door before. He looked around, and saw that no one was coming to this desolate place at the moment, and that the two gates were only hidden, as if a secret were lying in front of him, and he finally made up his mind, squatted down and plucked a ball of grass, wiped the dust from the door, and then took these bags in his hand, and pushed them open with all his might.

Although there is no fingerprint verification method these days, it is better to be careful!

With an unpleasant creaking sound, the door, which had not been opened for I don't know how many years, slowly opened in front of me. And what is shown in front of him is not the ruins and ruins that he once guessed, and they are desolate everywhere. The road leading to the back door was covered with weeds and fallen leaves, but the walls on both sides stood as if there were owners among them. He thought about it for a while, and simply led the horse directly into the back door, but when he left, he opened the two doors one by one, so as not to find that Xiao Bei was not in a hurry when he turned around to find him.

After leading the horse forward about a stone's throw away, Wang Fulin saw a moon gate in front of him, and there was a garden in the middle. So he left his mount at the gate of the moon,7 and went straight inside. Despite the lack of an owner, the flowers and plants in the small garden are cluttered, but the trees are still lush, even in the middle of the stream. Although there is still a thick layer of fallen leaves. But there wasn't much rancid smell in the water. Obviously, it should be the living water that was introduced from Lianshui back then. When Wang Fulin came to a pavilion in the center, he stood slightly against the railing, and suddenly felt a strange feeling in his heart.

Although the corridor is overgrown with weeds and fallen leaves, and although the garden seems to be cluttered and the precious flowers are all withered and dead, the trees are lush and green, and this garden. The pavilion, even the walls that had been abandoned for an unknown period of time, but could not see many traces of age, and even the houses that he had not had time to visit, could clearly see that someone was maintaining and repairing them. Therefore, the iron lock of Xibei goods at the back door before may be evidence of others coming in and out! Thinking of this, he was interested in this West Garden, which was not included in the Huizhou Mansion Chronicles and had not been mentioned before. Curiosity is even greater for a moment.

Exit from an exit on the other side of the garden and cross a small passageway. I saw several doors open along the wall. He casually picked a door and went in, and found that it was a two-entry courtyard, and both the hall and the corridor were locked. But just like the place he had walked before, the eaves, doors and windows, all of them could see some traces of repair. Until this time, the doubts in his heart had reached the highest point. If the owner of this place was raided because of a crime, how could this place have been seized and sold, and the back door was not sealed, the iron lock was broken, and someone kept coming in to repair it, so what happened?

Wang Fulin, who couldn't figure it out, shook his head and could only come straight out of the small door. Then he walked all the way north and south to the front entrance, and when he passed through the unknown number of doors again, he finally saw the extremely spacious front yard. When he went around to the door of the main hall, when he looked up at the plaque, he saw that the dragon flying and the phoenix dance on the top were written with four big characters "southeast pillar stone". When he squinted his eyes and saw clearly that the payment was more than one size smaller than the text, his eyes widened suddenly.

It turned out to be Wang Daokun's question! Who is the former owner of this place, who can afford such a heavy four words?

At this time, he only groaned slightly, and then walked straight forward. Seeing that the doors of the five main halls were not locked, he suddenly had a sense of anticipation, and immediately reached out to push them, but before his hands touched the two doors, he only heard a hurried voice behind him: "Don't open the door!" ”

Wang Fulin turned around when he heard the sound, and saw that Xiaobei didn't know when or where he came in, and at this time he was standing not far behind him, and the expression on his face was clearly full of pleading, so he simply put down his hand and turned around, but walked straight to the shallow steps and sat down. His relaxed attitude, his straightforward questions, and his tone of course were in stark contrast to the action he had just intended to do. But he didn't seem to have that action before, and he didn't hear Xiaobei's stop, but asked to himself, "How did you get in?" ”

Seeing that Xiaobei's face was slightly red, but he didn't answer, Wang Fulin already knew what was going on: "You won't go over the wall again, will you?" ”

"You have to take care of it!" Xiaobei glared at Wang Fulin with some inwardness: "So what? People who come in over the same wall are not qualified to say me! ”

"You guessed it wrong, I didn't come in through the wall, but through the back door." Although it seemed a little subtle to be in the back door, Wang Fulin smiled at this time, "Moreover, I even brought the horse in, just at the end of the back door." ”

"But the back door is obviously locked......" Xiao Bei was dumbfounded, "Are you prying the door!" ”

Wang Fulin immediately realized that Xiaobei hadn't gone around the back door just now, so she hadn't seen the lock that was placed in the door instead of outside, but not long ago, she must have been here, otherwise how would she know that the door was locked? He shrugged his shoulders, pointed to the main hall behind him, and the bluestone floors on the ground in the front yard, and said lightly: "Don't you see? It's not that there has been no owner here for many years, but there have always been people to repair and maintain, otherwise what we see at this time should be ruined and ruined, and the house is in a state of decay. The lock on the back door had long since been broken through the middle, so it was easy for me to get in. ”

Such an answer was obviously unexpected by Xiaobei. She had only been watching from the outside, and she had never thought that this place was actually defenseless at all, and the inside seemed to be full of fallen leaves, and the lonely appearance of the house was already the result of someone's efforts to maintain it. She bit her lip and whispered for a long time, "I thought this place had long been forgotten......"

It was only at this time that Wang Fulin asked, "Can you tell me the story of this West Garden?" ”

Standing in this familiar and unfamiliar empty world, Xiaobei was silent for a moment, then walked forward with unnatural steps, and sat down beside Wang Fulin in the same ignorance, and then said: "This was once the most lively place in the whole Huizhou, Xu Wenchang, Shen Mingchen, Mao Kun, He Xinyin, countless celebrities gathered in one place, but not just talking about poetry and papers, but talking and laughing, and the canopy was gone. ”

Wang Fulin couldn't help but be slightly stunned when he heard Xiaobei speak in such a tone for the first time. The names that Xiaobei said, some of them were familiar to him, and some of them seemed familiar, and he couldn't help racking his brains to think about them at the moment. After a long time, he only felt a flash of inspiration in his mind, and then Huo Ran got up and said, "Could it be that the old master here is Hu Zongxian and Hu Butang?" No, isn't Hu Zongxian from Jixi? The ancestral house of the Hu family is also there! And I remember hearing people mention in the community that the old garden in Hu Butang's house should be called Lvye Garden...... Well, the name should be right. ”

"The Lvye Garden you mentioned is not in Jixi, but near the Beidu Courtyard in Shexian County, on Beidou Street, which is commonly known as Beiyuan by others." Xiaobei sat there with his cheeks on his cheeks, his eyes were a little hazy, "As for this West Garden, it is mainly occupied by the guests." Mr. Wen Chang is quick to write a poem in a few steps, but the most powerful thing is to write expressions, and almost all of them are written by him alone. Mr. He gave advice, and many major matters were discussed by him and Mr. Mao. The other guests, some can poetry, some are good at military aircraft, among them are students, there are mountain people, and there are also officials who are not allowed to be tolerated and lose in officialdom. ”

"And the Hu Butang you are talking about, just the ancestral home of Jixi, when he was admitted to the Jinshi, he was not from Huizhou to take the exam, he did not grow up in Huizhou, when the governor Zhezhi, he rebuilt the ancestral house of Jixi, and then purchased property outside the city of Huizhou. Here, that is, the West Garden, as well as the North Garden of Beidou Street, were all purchased at that time. As for Jixi's old house, he rarely went there, after all, the transportation there was not as convenient as Fucheng County. Starting from Yuliang Town outside the city of Huizhou, Hangzhou can be reached in four days along the river. ”

Speaking of which, if Wang Fulin still can't hear some clues, then he is not a petty official who is praised by the market for his good brain, but a pig's brain.

Xiaobei continued: "Huizhou Governor He Dongxu was arrogant to him after he hated Hu Butang after his dismissal, and the people sent by the imperial court copied it once, but before Hu Butang committed suicide in the prison, he ordered to send troops to surround this place and Lvye Garden, and put all the Hu family's daughters in prison. When the second son of the Hu family returned to his hometown with the coffin, he learned that his family had suffered such a catastrophe, so he threw his father's coffin under a thatched hut on the side of the road in Ningguofu, and went to avoid the disaster by himself. And the Hu family's ancestral house in Jixi was finally saved thanks to the desperate maintenance of the Jixi County Ling Yu County. ”

Wang Fulin only knew that Hu Zongxian committed suicide in desperation in the prison, and he also thought that this kind of thing might affect his family. But Jin Yiwei copied what he wanted, and after escorting Hu Zongxian back, a Huizhou prefect jumped up and down like this, and even arrested all the female dependents, which was too much. No wonder there is no such person in the famous eunuch temple of Huizhou Mansion. Thinking of the old lady Xu's meaningful entrustment to come here, thinking of this plaque with the southeast pillar stone written by Wang Daokun himself, thinking of Xiaobei turning around and asking him about Wang Daokun, he didn't understand what the old lady Xu was talking about.

It is said that the name before and after his death, Hu Zongxian went from the peak to the abyss during his lifetime, and he has not been rehabilitated after his death, even if the archway of the big governor's square in the city is still there, but it is difficult to calm down after all! (To be continued......)

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