There is nothing surprising about Master Gu's family, although it has spent a lot of financial and material resources to train some scholars, but after all, there is no background of the Shen family, and the family members are not very competitive, and the whole family has produced one and two talents.

No one has ever been an official in Master Gu's branch, and it is very ordinary to build a house.

After Shen Kan came with Shen Qi, he followed Master Gu and Zhou Lian and others all the way, just looking at it and not talking.

However, Shen Qi, who was bent on showmanship, kept boasting, pointing to the buildings along the way and explaining how exquisite the houses in Jinling were and how beautiful the gardens were, but he didn't notice that Master Gu had already shown displeasure.

If you don't have a shortage of money, why hire a young man? Spend a lot of money to invite a master, and at any cost of it, what house can't be built?

Shen Kan laughed secretly in his heart, Shen Kui was young in the end, for the sake of the family's face, he coughed and signaled him from time to time not to show off, but today's Shen Kui was like a chicken blood, and he kept talking.

Seeing that he was endless, everyone frowned, Master Gu was impatient, pointed to a small dirt slope in front of him and said: "Two virtuous nephews, the garden can't be without mountains, but the old man doesn't like strange-shaped rockeries, may I ask what is the method of building rocks into mountains?"

Shen Qi, who was talking happily, immediately stopped talking, thought for a while and said: "Is it not a rockery to form a mountain?" Unless there is an immortal to guide you, you can move a real mountain. ”

"Yes." Master Gu nodded politely, but looked at Shen Kan with expectant eyes.

Seeing this, Shen Yu said, "What can my fifth brother do? Could it be that you can't learn from that fool to move mountains?"

Shen Kan smiled and said, "With the body of eight buckets, he became a five-ding wrestler, and then he was lucky?" Divide a big mountain into dozens of small hills, and look down on it in poor years to hide its clumsiness? Said: It's not difficult. ”

Originally, Master Gu was gradually disappointed by his carelessness, and when he heard the word "not difficult", his eyes lit up, and he said happily: "The old man knows that the virtuous nephew is a genius, and he must have a clever plan, don't sell it, you can build a good mountain, it is better than ten acres of a big house."

"How is that possible?" Shen Qi said in his heart, he found that he was becoming more and more jealous of the fifth brother, he could really pretend, he deliberately looked like a celebrity, but in fact, he didn't even learn half of me, hum!

Shen Kan looked at the dirt slope in front of him, thought for a while, and said: "The hill is easy, but it is difficult to build a little bigger, how many famous gardens in Suzhou, have seen a rockery of more than one acre and a few zhang high in time without seams and patchwork?"

"There's really no way?" Master Gu was disappointed again.

"In fact, looking at it from a distance, it is no different from the real mountain." Shen Kan smiled, "Just like writing an article, it is difficult to conceive the whole article, but it is easy to write piecemeal, but it is difficult to write a good article like this." For example, the eight masters of the Tang and Song dynasties, the articles are all better than others, and there is no need to investigate them word by word, and you can see that it is a masterpiece at a glance. Why? That's because the overall layout is done first, and then the words are modified, so whether you look at it roughly or carefully, it's the same. ”

"Not bad." Zhou Lian nodded frequently when he heard this.

The same goes for everyone else, who came here today with a few brushes, and Shen Kan casually talked about it, which can be said to be talking about everyone's itch.

Li Xiucai in the village was thin and tall, and said: "Brother Mu is right, I really haven't seen each other for a few days, can you continue to talk?"

Shen Kan said with a smile: "I always like to write an outline first, I think you have done a lifetime of learning, and you must set up a frame first, and you will only start writing when you have a successful calculation, right?"

"Not bad." Li Xiucai and Zhou Lian nodded at the same time.

"Therefore, if the skeleton of the article has not yet been laid, write it down with the pen of Wen Sixin, from the beginning to the middle, and then from the middle to the end, which is called writing in writing, and of course, there is often a wonderful feeling of coming naturally."

Shen Kan took a breath and continued: "However, this kind of article can only be viewed carefully, and it is impatient to be tasted roughly, and you can see the traces of patchwork when you taste it."

"Well said." Li Xiucai was very excited, "I didn't come in vain today, although Brother Mu'er said plainly, he is an expert." As he spoke, he gave a thumbs up.

Shen Qi, who listened to it for a while, opened his mouth, looking unconvinced, who wouldn't say this?

However, he forgot that Shen Kan is famous in the village for not being good at reading, and he is not very old, even if these things are heard from the elders on weekdays, but he can speak clearly in his own vernacular, which shows that he understands very thoroughly, so no one present will be stingy.

Shen Kan inadvertently found Shen Kui's expression, out of disgust, and forgot the golden mean, and said: "The same is true of calligraphy and painting. The calligraphy and painting of celebrities and scholars, hanging in the middle hall, looking at it from a distance of more than a zhang, I don't know what is the mountain, what is the water, where is the pavilion and the trees, and the strokes of the words may not be clear to see, but everyone's calligraphy and painting are compared with ordinary people, just looking at the momentum of the whole frame, it will be very praiseworthy. Why? It is also because of the courage and the overall rules are good. ”

"As for the mountains of stones?" Shen Kan looked at Master Gu, "I want to use the method of replacing stone with soil, which not only reduces labor, but also saves material resources, and can also have the ingenuity of natural fluctuations." ”

"That's a good idea." Master Gu was in good spirits, and it was naturally good to save money.

"Dirt Mountain?" Shen Qi sprayed rice for it, and sneered: "I have always used all kinds of strange stones, and the worst thing is also stones, I have never heard of using soil."

"Rare and weird." Shen Kan snorted, "Gu Yuanwai means mountains, not a few Taihu Lake stones, but to pile up a relatively tall mountain, who has such huge financial resources?" If it is all piled up with stones, it is like a monk's robe, it is difficult to find a place without seams, and it is bare, which is why no one uses it, and it is not easy to see. ”

Shen Qi said unconvinced: "Then it looks good with clay?" Maybe we can grow weeds, but I'm afraid they won't bear fruit. ”

"Hehe, you can mix gravel and dirt." Shen Kan didn't care, "The bottom is a broken stone and wooden beam, and the top is soil, so there is no trace of patchwork, so it is also convenient to plant trees, and when the roots of the tree extend down, it will become more stable and not afraid of rain, and the trees are large and leafy, and the grass and wildflowers are all the same, who can tell where is the soil and where is the stone?" If an uninformed person comes here, who can tell that it is made by artificial accumulation? In this way, you don't need to ask for the number of stones, nor do you require half of the soil and stones, you can adapt measures to local conditions, and the soil near you will bring stones, and the stones will bring soil if there are many stones, and the size of the mountain depends on the meaning of the caretaker. ”

Master Gu laughed and said, "You don't need to be too tall, I will be satisfied if I can be a small mountain."

Shen Kui had nothing to say, and he was so annoyed in his heart, why didn't he think of such a simple method in advance?

"Admire." Zhou Lian was very emotional, "The reason why capable people can is because they can think of the details that others ignore." ”

Shen Qi was suddenly unconvinced again, and said, "Since you want Xiaoshan, how can you look good?"

"Yes, yes, yes." Master Gu nodded again and again, "I was about to ask too." ”

This guy is purely here to dismantle the stage, Shen Kan was speechless, and said after a little thought: "Stone is the main thing, supplemented by soil." Because stones can be stacked upright, while soil is prone to collapse, stones must be used as bones. Since ancient times, the pile of height has been made of stone on the outside, and the inside is filled with soil, and the workers can be asked to sprinkle a layer of soil and caulking on the top. ”

"How does it look good? Well. Shen Kan racked his brains in his heart, turned around and looked at the green mountains at the end of his sight, and recalled a few Taihu Lake stones that the old man loved, and said with a smile: "The beauty of the southern mountains is all in the three words 'transparent, leaky, and thin'."

"How?" Shen Yu knew that the general trend was gone, but he was still making the last struggle.

Shen Kan chuckled and said, "Who doesn't know about Suzhou? You're stupid to ask. Mountains are connected to each other, as if there is a road to pass, which is called 'thorough'; There are eyes on the stone, and they are exquisitely surrounded by them, which are called 'leaks'; When the air is upright and independent, it is called 'thin'. However, although it doesn't matter if it is transparent and thin, it can not be repaired too much, because there are eyes everywhere, it looks like a pottery fired in a kiln, there is a kind of size limit, only an accidental eye, is the magic of nature, we are just the move of nature·· Oh, nothing. ”

almost brought out that sentence, Shen Kan missed the convenience of the future generations, although in this era he can drink the pollution-free "a little sweet" at any time, but even if he drinks polluted water every day, he wants to go back.

Who is not good at rockery in Suzhou? Gu Yuanwai naturally understood this, touched his beard, smiled in his chest, and imagined what the hill would look like after it was built.

In order to get more honorarium, Shen Kan earnestly instructed: "If the mountain is thin and small, it should be wide at the top and narrow at the bottom, if the foot of the mountain is too big, even if the shape is beautiful, it is not worth seeing."

"Yes!" Gu Yuanwai agreed.

"There are also stone eyes to avoid being too round, even if you can't find a suitable one, stick gravel next to it, so that it is angular and angular, so as to avoid being too smooth and distorted. In addition, the texture and color of the stone should be the same as possible. ”

"Sure enough, it's an expert!"

"Your compliment, but it's just an axe."

"Admire."

"The boy sacrifices ugliness, and the stones are the same, such as the coarse-grained and coarse-grained ones together, the fine-grained ones and the fine-grained ones together, and the stones of various colors are also grouped together. However, if you divide it too carefully, you will feel that the color is too stiff in the place where the different colors meet, so it is better to take and put it as you like.

As for the stone nature, it is impossible not to obey, if the stone is used against the stone nature, not only is it not durable, but it is also difficult to last. What is Stony? It's the texture of the diagonal vertical and horizontal directions. ”