The group walked through the secluded bamboo path, and the eyes suddenly opened up.

This is the West Garden!

Mo said that Yao Huan, a classmate who wore soy sauce seriously in later generations, was Shen Fuzhi, a well-informed native of the capital, and at first glance saw this good scenery that was "made by people, like the opening of the sky", and couldn't help but praise: "I drop the Queen Mother, Huan'er, this is the fairy palace." ”

Yao Huan muttered: "If the Immortal Palace is like this, strange people want to cultivate immortals to heaven. ”

She responded to her aunt on her lips, and tried to recall the famous painting "West Garden Elegance Collection" that she had seen in the museum of modern society in her previous life.

Many of the top artists of the past generations have painted this theme.

Yao Huan has seen the collections of two museums, one is the "West Garden Collection" of the Song Dynasty Liu Songnian in the National Palace Museum in Taipei, and the other is the "West Garden Collection" by Shi Tao of the Qing Dynasty in the Shanghai Museum.

As we all know, the real value of the National Palace Museum in Taipei is not jade crafts such as Chinese cabbage and braised pork, but calligraphy and painting!

Although Liu Songnian's "Collection of Elegance in the West Garden" is considered by many experts to be an imitation of the Ming Dynasty, compared with the paintings of Shi Tao of the Qing Dynasty in the Shanghai Museum, the former's exquisite brushwork, elegant coloring, rigorous layout, and exquisite painting of mountains, rocks and trees truly show the level of Song painting as the pinnacle of Chinese painting history.

Top art is like this, whether it is calligraphy and painting, or literature and music, it is enough to pull people's hearts without setting too high academic thresholds for viewers, readers, and listeners.

All good art comes from the elegance of life and the throbbing of human nature.

In front of them, as long as you are a mature and energetic person, you don't need to be able to splash ink with a pen, you don't need to play with a key, and you don't need to become a dictionary of obscure words or memorize various literary theories, you will most likely be able to see the beauty of these works.

And at this moment, when this garden, which has fascinated countless descendants, was vividly spread out in front of Yao Huan's eyes, she was even more surprised after careful recollections.

It turns out that today's West Garden, compared with what Liu Songnian's paintings show, is not only vast, but also much richer in content.

In Yao Huan's memory of Liu painting, the West Garden Elegant Collection led by Su Shi during the Yuan You period was divided into five parts: Wang Shu and others watched Su Shi write calligraphy, Mi Fu inscribed poems on the stone wall, Qin Guan listened to Ruan, Su Zhe and Huang Tingjian watched Li Gonglin paint, and the monk Yuantong and Taoist Chen Bixu discussed Zen.

The above five activities are carried out in the open air, or on the side of the stream, or on the rocks, or among the pine forests, although the whole picture is sparse and dense, but it can be seen that the garden is not too big.

And today, after Yao Huan climbed the first high platform with Gao Yu's guidance, the West Garden he saw, as far as the eye could see, could fit at least three or four Bernabeu stadiums.

The most important thing is that although the first impression of this garden is like the aesthetic style pursued by the Song people, simple, sparse and elegant, there are many pavilions and pavilions, located among the verdant plants.

There are also a few rockeries!

That is absolutely not in Liu Songnian's paintings.

The mountain is the skeleton of heaven and earth, and the stone is the skeleton of the garden.

The Taihu Lake stone with a strange hole is stacked into a mountain by skilled craftsmen, there is a small pavilion on it, or a waterfall that pours out silver, flowers and trees are planted all over the stone, the grass is like a tree, and the small pool is quiet and beautiful.

In the middle of the stone mountain, there is also an incense burner, and the green smoke rises up, creating a picture of clouds and mountains covered with fog.

Sure enough, it has the wonder of "a garden, like a thousand miles of rivers and mountains"!

Of course, all these elements of gardening are still as delicate as Song paintings, not seeking to be full and avoiding indiscriminateness, but it is not as full as the Old Summer Palace in the Qing Dynasty and stuffed like a Disneyland.

"Second sister-in-law, Yao Niangzi, you see, the big pavilion by the winding clear stream is the place where the prince and his guests enjoy the paintings. The small pavilion on the left side of it can listen to the piano and play chess; The small Xuan on the right can burn incense and taste tea. ”

Shen Fuzhi listened carefully to Gao Yu's introduction, and saw that today's sky was beautiful, the sky was sunny and the clouds were blue, and the golden wind was cool, so he went straight to the point and asked: "Gao Langjun, the servants over there are busy coming and going, but the banquet should be set up by the stream outside the house?" ”

Gao Yu smiled: "Exactly." The prince is a true celebrity and self-style, and he does not have to follow the stubbornness of the previous dynasty, he writes poetry and drinks alcohol, so why should he be dominated by the flowing water. However, such a pleasant early autumn season, being among the pines under the clouds, listening to the murmuring water, and tasting the delicious food is the ninth elegant thing in addition to the qin, chess, calligraphy, painting, and Mingdanxiangjing. Therefore, when the painting is finished, the guests will all sit by the stream, and your food will be delivered there. ”

Gao Yu was like a director of the Spring Festival Gala, and after explaining all the details, he took Shen Fuzhi and others to the stove house hidden under the pines and cypresses near the big pavilion.

When everyone went in, there was already a lot of rush hour kitchen atmosphere in the house.

Five or six little maids with fancy buns and narrow sleeved skirts in a single color of water blue were counting the large and small, porcelain-colored utensils.

One of the older ones saw Gao Yu come in and hurriedly greeted him.

"Shi Qing, these two ladies are the second sister-in-law of the big owner of the Dongshuimen restaurant Shen and the young owner of the Yao lady, today's banquet, you and a few of them are all under the orders of the second sister-in-law and the lady."

The servant named Shi Qing obediently said "yes", and gave a big gift to Shen Fuzhi and Yao Huanfu respectively, raised his eyes and smiled, but he was a kind face.

Gao Yu pointed to several other little adoptive girls and said their names one by one: "This is rouge, this is garcinia cambogia, this is Sanqing, and this is mud gold." ”

Good guy, a box of paint.

Seeing that Shen Fuzhi and Yao Huan had a look of surprise in their eyes after hearing this, Gao Yu grinned first: "Hehe, the prince loves to paint, don't the little maids all have such names." ”

Gao Yu made friends with Shen Fuzhi in the stove house, and then walked out of the door and went to inspect the painting pavilion.

The most beautiful of all, the maid named Rouge, came up to the ground and lifted the lid of one of the baskets, but exclaimed, "Hey, why are they all in the water, not sheep's, but pigs?" ”

"Don't be rude," Shi Qing frowned and scolded her.

Shen Fuzhi waved his hand disappreciatively, and said in a kind voice: "Qingniang, can the stove be born?" The tired young lady took me to take a look. ”

With an apologetic and courteous attitude, Shi Qing led Shen Fuzhi into the room.

On this side, Ah Si saw that the big master was not in front of him, and suddenly said in a mocking tone: "What about pigs in the water, what about sheep in the water, as long as it is not a human in the water, how can you not eat it?" ”

As soon as he finished speaking, Yao Ruzhou, who was checking the taro, burst out laughing.

Yao Huan suddenly burst into anger.

She was grateful to Ah Si at the beginning, if it weren't for this young man, her aunt wouldn't have come so quickly to save herself by the Bianhe River that day. But gradually, she did find that, as Meituan said intentionally or unintentionally, Ah Si's temperament seemed to be a little slippery, and his temperament was also narrower.

They are like Haidilao door-to-door service, and the host's nanny jokes with a sense of superiority, what kind of big deal is it? The supervisors on both sides didn't say anything, you guy jumped out to get a bargain, and he said so obscenely, what kind of system.

"Ah Si! It's not to pay the rouge lady! Yao Huan stared at Ah Si, his voice was not loud, but his tone was like ice, and he was definitely not the kind of master who did not feel pain or itch.

Ah Si was not as jealous and flattering to Yao Huan as he was to Shen Fuzhi, but when he saw the little master who had always been gentle and happy, his eyes were like an eagle at the moment, and he didn't dare to be tough, so he said to Rouge through the wooden case: "Rouge lady, I am a rough person, and if I speak offensively, you forgive me." My shop is open in the east of Chunmingfang, where the interesting food is not only pig water, if the little lady has a free day, you might as well try it. ”

The little maid named Rouge, the two willow eyebrows had been twisted together, and a pink face was covered with dark clouds, and suddenly heard the three words "Chunmingfang", but he closed his mouth and swallowed a bad breath alive.

She didn't want to make eye contact with Ah Si, so she only sighed sullenly, looked at Yao Huan, and squeezed out a reasonable smile, which can be regarded as a peaceful thing.

The hostess of this house looks okay.

Rouge made a look of curiosity, and took the initiative to ask Yao Huan: "Mrs. Yao, what are you bringing this charcoal and big banana leaves for?" ”