Chapter 110: Dirt-stained stones
On the day of installation, people came and went in front of the Imperial Palace, and the craftsmen were busy in an orderly manner. Suddenly, a crisp sound came, startling Ma Dechun. When he came to the accident site, he saw a small craftsman standing there in a daze, staring directly at the broken glazed tile.
Ma Dechun carefully pieced together the broken glazed tiles, looked at them carefully, and whispered to the surrounding craftsmen: "You can't tell anyone about this, and if anyone confides a word, they will be killed!"
On the way home, Ma Dechun's heart was up and down, he wanted to re-fire the glazed tile was too late, and he couldn't afford to delay the construction period, but he had to make another idea to remedy it and risk the crime of bullying the king! Seeing that the deadline for delivery was just a few days away, he put his heart sideways, and it was better to wait for death than to break through.
After arriving home, he didn't think about tea and food, no matter who came, he didn't see it, he came to the small warehouse alone, blocked the doors and windows, and quietly made his own "glazed tiles".
The news of the completion of the Nine Dragon Wall was played by the emperor in time. The next day, Qianlong took several ministers to watch, and as soon as he entered Xiqing Gate, he saw the golden and brilliant Nine Dragon Wall. When I got closer and looked closer, the nine dragons were lifelike, just like the real ones.
Emperor Qianlong suddenly felt that his eyes were full of brilliance and he couldn't help but admire. He walked to the wall and carefully admired the dragons on each glazed tile, watching from east to west, one by one. Ma Dechun, who was following the crowd, was about to raise his throat, his head was sweating, and his legs were a little weak.
That Qianlong watched it back and forth three times, and he really liked it from the bottom of his heart, praised Ma Dechun's superb craftsmanship again and again, and rewarded him with five hundred taels of silver. After sending off Emperor Qianlong, Ma Dechun's hanging heart fell. If you want to ask Ma Dechun why he is concerned, it is because he skillfully repaired the Nine Dragon Wall.
It turned out that in order to make up for the glazed tile broken by the little craftsman, Ma Dechun tried his best. It took him two days and two nights to carve a dragon with a piece of fine nan wood, and it was hurriedly installed on the first day when Qianlong took the princes and ministers to watch.
After the story was told, Nie Xinyuan pointed to the Nine Dragons Wall and said to Wu Ye'er: "Ye'er, you see, counting from the east, there is a glazed tile on the body of the third white dragon, which was carved by Ma Dechun from Nanmu back then!" ”
Wu Ye'er looked at it carefully for a long time, but she didn't find out which glazed tile was fake, so she could only secretly praise that if this legend is true, then the craftsmanship of this master named Ma Dechun can be called ingenious.
Nie Xinyuan saw that the time was not early, and led Wu Ye'er all the way to the west, to the Internet celebrity ice cellar restaurant on the edge of Cining Palace, which is a cellar made of stone. Since the ice cellar is a semi-underground building, it looks like a huge and low old house from the outside, and it was specially designed to store ice for the imperial palace during the Qing Dynasty for summer food consumption. Today, every household has a refrigerator, and the history of ice storage for the royal elite is a thing of the past. So for a long time, this ice cellar was only used as a storehouse, and wooden boards, gasoline drums, and even tricycles were put into the ice cellar and placed in a random mess. Later, it was developed as a food service area, and it was reborn.
Entering the restaurant, Wu Yeer couldn't help but sigh at the designer's intentions, and the theme of the whole decoration was to organize materials around "ice". The walls at the entrance are wrapped with ice bricks made of glass, and the pillars, fences, etc. are covered with glazed bricks, and the crystal clear glass is cold. Crystal lamps hang on the roof of the restaurant, and the ice cubes hanging under the eaves in winter are hanging and drooping, which looks very interesting.
The two of them tasted the palace food here, and rested for a while before continuing to stroll. The two walked to the Imperial Garden, and Wu Yeer once again felt deceived by the TV series. The Imperial Garden in the TV series looks extremely spacious, but the Imperial Garden in reality is much smaller than imagined. However, although this area is small, it is full of ancient trees and flowers, pavilions and pavilions, craggy mountains and stones, and everywhere reveals exquisiteness. What particularly attracted Wu Ye'er was a Taihu Lake stone with a height of more than 3 meters. It is large on the top, small on the bottom, convex and concave changeable, extremely exquisite, integrated with the surrounding scenery, the momentum is extraordinary, it is really ingenious, it is amazing.
It is said that this Taihu stone was originally an object of the Old Summer Palace, and it was abandoned at a factory outside Xizhimen in Beijing at some unknown time. In the spring of 1959, the unit planned the site and wanted to dispose of it casually. This matter was learned by Mr. Han Tie'an, who was the consultant of the Forbidden City at the time, and he quickly informed Mr. Shan Shiyuan, who was in charge of the ancient gardens of the Forbidden City. Mr. Shan had a discerning eye for treasures, and entrusted Mr. Ma Liangjie, the head of the garden section at that time, to negotiate with the factory to buy it at a price of 100 yuan and place it on the old site of the deer pen in the Imperial Garden, so that this Taihu Lake stone could be rediscovered and shined.
It's a pity that it's winter, and even this cleverly designed imperial garden inevitably looks a little depressed.
In addition to the previous one, Taihu Lake stones can be seen everywhere in the Imperial Garden, among which there is a rockery more than ten meters high, which is made of Taihu Lake stones of various shapes. There is a coupon hole door in the middle of the front of the foot of the stacked stone mountain, there is a plaque with the title of "pile show" on the forehead of the cave door, there is a stone hole in the door, and the stone carving of the stone carving dragon is a well of the brick dome type inside. The stone wall at the foot of the east side of the mountain is also engraved with the word "cloud root" to appreciate the beauty of the stone mountain like stratus clouds.
The strange rocks on the rockery are craggy, the stacking technique is very exquisite, there is a stone road hidden in the mountain stones, go up along the stone steps, it is the Imperial View Pavilion, if you look far away in the pavilion, whether it is the pine and cypress, or the flowers and vines, the scenery of the Imperial Garden, and the majestic Forbidden City, all can be in full view.
Wu Ye'er asked Nie Xinyuan to sit and rest, and she held the mountain stone up the stairs with her hands, seeing that she was about to arrive at the Yujing Pavilion, Wu Ye'er tripped up a little, but fortunately, she was nimble, and she held up with one hand on the ground, avoiding the fate of falling directly to the ground.
Wu Ye'er's palm happened to press on an inconspicuous small stone next to the steps, and between the touches, Wu Ye'er faintly felt a familiar feeling. Wu Ye'er curiously picked up the stone and looked at it, the stone was only half the size of a palm, and the surface was covered with years of soil, so she couldn't see anything special, but she could feel that this stone seemed to be calling herself. The ghost sent the gods, Wu Ye'er quietly put the stones into his pocket under the cover of the mountain rocks, and he didn't have the heart to go to the top of the mountain again, so he simply returned to the bottom of the mountain.
"Why did you come down so quickly?" Nie Xinyuan asked.
This is not a convenient place to talk, Wu Ye'er had to say vaguely: "Just on the mountain, I saw a lot of shops over there, I wanted to go shopping and have a look, if I delay time on this mountain, I am afraid that it will be time to clear the field." ”
The Forbidden City closes relatively early, and it is cleared at half past four in the afternoon every day, Nie Xinyuan raised his hand and glanced at his watch, and sure enough, it was almost four o'clock, so he nodded and said, "Okay, then let's go to those shops to have a look." ”
Wu Ye'er was originally not very interested in visiting the store, but after all, this is the Forbidden City, and the items sold in it, if you say it tall, it is also made by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, if you are not born in such a civilized society, let alone get these things, you can't even enter the palace gate. Wu Ye'er saw that there were models and maps of the Forbidden City for sale, so they each picked one and held it in their arms, planning to build such a palace by themselves when they returned to the secret space, and gave Zhu Zhu and Nie Xinyuan a surprise.
Nie Xinyuan obediently acted as a mobile ATM, consciously went to help his daughter-in-law pay, and said, "Look at you, it's not a valuable thing, baby!" ”
"It's worthless, but I like it, and I have a special purpose!" Wu Ye'er smiled like a little fox.
Nie Xinyuan saw that she was smiling so treacherously, and asked funny: "These things are all paper products, what use can they be?" Is it used for cooking on fire? ”
"I won't tell you! The mountain people have their own tricks! Wu Ye'er smiled even more proudly.
"Okay, if you don't say it, you won't say it, it's just half past four soon, let's go?" Nie Xinyuan reminded.
Wu Ye'er saw that it was about to be time to clear the field, but she still felt that she was lingering, and she was reluctant to leave this gorgeous palace that gathered the wisdom and sweat of the working people, and her watery eyes were still looking everywhere.
Nie Xinyuan could see her nostalgia, and said with a smile: "When you marry in Kyoto, you can come and visit once a day, do you need to be so reluctant at this time?" Let's go, I'll take you to Jingshan Park and look at the crooked neck tree that Emperor Chongzhen hanged! ”
"Don't go, what's there to see in the place where people hang themselves?" Wu Ye'er said speechlessly.
"Then I'll take you to Wangfujing to eat roast duck?" Nie Xinyuan knew that his little daughter-in-law was a carnivore, and asked.
Wu Ye'er nodded with a smile at this time, and let Nie Xinyuan take his little hand and leave the palace that had stood for more than six hundred years.
When he went out, he didn't bring a driver, Nie Xinyuan had to take a taxi and take Wu Ye'er to the famous Wangfujing, and the two had a beautiful meal in a century-old shop, before calling the driver of the Nie family to pick him up and go back to Nie's house.
After arriving home, Wu Ye'er and Nie Xinyuan found that Nie Hongsheng and his wife were not at home, and after asking the housekeeper, they learned that they specially invited a master of Yi Xue, and took the eight characters of the two to ask others to choose an auspicious day.
The two of them are relatively smiling, but they are not resistant to these, although the life is to be lived by themselves, it is not that the two of them will really not give up if they choose a good day and an auspicious day, otherwise how can the current divorce rate be so high? But after all, this is the old man's heart, and he really hopes that the future of the two can be harmonious and smooth, so why should he go to the old man's house?
Wu Ye'er didn't feel tired, but for Nie Xinyuan, shopping was much more tiring than running and climbing, and he didn't want to move as soon as he sat on the sofa in the living room.
"You sit here for a while, and I'll go back to my room and tidy up these things!" Wu Ye'er took today's spoils and went back to her room happily.