Along a fork in the middle, there is a thick, sour-smelling landfill, which clearly says that it is forbidden to throw garbage, but the water juice on the ground is all over the field, and a large area is air-dried. There are crevices where dried vegetables are hidden, and there is a fence behind the garbage heap lined with cattail grass, which I often weave into a grass ring. But inside the fence there was a tall loquat tree, which in season would produce loquat trees, and from a distance the fruit would be golden and shiny.

That eye-catching fruit tree turned out to be a nucleus that I had unintentionally vomited, a wild mature tree, which my mother Su Wei had planted for several years.

Go to the fork on the left, walk to the end of the path, turn to the right, and follow your eyes to the end of the corridor, which is the gate of my yard.

The fence of the corridor has been graffiti with a lot of words, the outer wall is in disrepair, there are many cracks that ants can get into, as long as the wind blows, the white ash fan falls to the concrete floor, the bricks inside the wall are clearly visible, and after a long time, this brick wall looks particularly exposed and sharp.

On both sides of my yard are finely carved stone lions, the height of the stone lions is about more than one meter, I go in and out of the door are picked up by a Mao Chang, in advance he will park the car at the fork, and then use a bicycle to pick me up, and then use the car to send me to the yard after arriving at the fork, but I will ask to lie on it every time to tease the stone lions, but I did not expect that they are important spirit animals to protect the yard. The dragon ball in its mouth is the mechanism to open the door, and if you turn it twice in the left and right directions, the door will open automatically.

When I entered the gate, I was greeted by the fragrance of gardenias, and I looked up to see that the quiet paths on both sides were full of pure white petals, which were cut by a breeze and fell on my oil-paper umbrella, as if to convey a message of confession to me. Every April and May, in this courtyard, looking at it from a distance, it is like being in an ink painting.

Jinyu doesn't like it, every time she is at this time, she will always torture and serve people, and order the clearance to be completed before the fifth watch.

There is a newly painted painting on the big white wall at the end of the path, which was painted by Shen Yaze, the only son of the Shen family, and only one golden dye can paint a phoenix in layers. Helplessly, there was a heavy rain last night, more than 100 people were serving, or the phoenix on the wall was dyed with a little rain, it is said that Shen's father was furious, Ya Ze dissuaded helplessly, and deducted the food stamps of serving people for a month.

At the end, turn a few dozen meters to the right, and you will find the "Semi-Jinghuayuan".

"Banjinghuayuan" is the "paradise" established by Ziyang's three major families.

This courtyard is very hidden, and there are burly servants outside the courtyard, and once you break in, you can't come out again. Someone once discovered this "paradise", and after entering, he never came out. The people of Hengshi are saying that Banjinghuayuan will eat people.

In the semi-Jinghua courtyard, the Shen family is on the left, the Wang family is on the right, and the Gu family is in the middle. Each family has established its own business, and it helps each other in business.

The Gu family's tavern business is the most prosperous, and the two major families also rely on our business output, and the area of the courtyard is more than that of our family.

Even though it is the Republic of China period, the three major families still quote the family "rules" that are resting on their laurels.

Nujiao wears a cheongsam, and goes to a private school at the age of five, and is not allowed to intervene in the family business.

Outside the male protagonist and inside the female protagonist, the male protagonist's thumb must wear an emerald green ring with a custom family name to show the prestige of the family.

There are many preserved ancient buildings in Ziyangli, but there is probably only one type of building like my family's design.

The tile beam is covered with a golden roof, the cinnabar red wall, and the finely carved golden snake of the six top beam pillars is the most distinctive place of the pillar, and under the pillar, it is the picture of a young dragon chasing the giant snake. The metal rings on the gate are buckled and the uneven carved flowers make people afraid to touch. The lobby is large-scale, the splendid building is eye-catching, and from a distance, the whole building is just like the lacquer light of "moving when it is still and moving when it is moving".

The hall is built with a color of ochre blue marble stamping, every two floors, build a transparent water tank, for viewing koi, the water tank can not be easily opened, the master drills a small hole for feeding, the immortal koi is considered a bad omen, must be cleaned up in time, otherwise, the errand will not be kept, but also to deduct a year's grain.

A Mao Chang often said that this thing wastewater, only for appreciation, can not make the fish raise their eyes to look at the sun, in addition to the errand of picking up the clansmen, the most difficult to serve, is the "golden pet" in this.

The reason why Banjinghuayuan is so hidden is not only to protect the building, but also to protect the family.

After all, if you scrape off a gram of gold dust from the exterior wall, you can also go to the pawnshop to exchange for a valuable jade pendant. When the clansmen go out, they also have to pick up and drop off in sections, and once they are kidnapped by the gang, it is a threat to the family business.

Listening to Su Wei mention, the three major families were once established in the center of Ziyang, and the Banjinghua Academy had not yet been established at that time. At that time, the leader of a gang was very cunning, and unlocked the "secret vaults" of the three major families without revealing any clues, and because the number of gangs was not large enough, less than one-third of the gold bars could be taken.

As soon as this incident came out, it caused a sensation in the entire Ziyang.

Later, the Wang family found a gang and not only strangled them privately, but was also made an adult before his death.

In the end, the three families decided to establish a semi-Jinghuain to strengthen the family.

On this day, as soon as the waiter finished washing up for me, Su Wei summoned me to her bedroom.

I knocked on the door and peeked through the crack to see Su Wei preparing tools for a haircut.

I hesitated for a moment, then stroked my sleeve and gently smoothed my hair, as the ends of my hair were about to go over my shoulders again.

"Xining, I found out that your hair has grown last night, if it weren't for your hair curling naturally with me, it would probably be over the shoulders." Su Wei walked up behind me and picked up a comb made of gold sandalwood to straighten my hair.

I sat in front of the mirror, looked at Su Weiluo's kind smile, and slowly stretched out my right hand to hold her hand back, her warm palms covered with wet sweat, full of strange women love to carry handkerchiefs with them, could it be this reason?

"Then I am willing to follow you, when can I also be like Jin'er with long hair and waist?" I looked at myself in the mirror and then turned to look at Su Wei.

"You can't." Su Wei moved my head to the front of the mirror with both hands.

"Why can't I be the only one?" I turned to look at Suvi again and grabbed her hand.

Over the years, I have never disobeyed Su Wei's will, but this "rule" makes me unacceptable.

"Don't ask such questions in the future, you see that my mother also likes short hair, and I can't let my grandfather hear this." Su Wei got up and went to the mahogany table, frantically looking for the scissors, but the scissors were placed on the conspicuous blue cloth.

"You don't like it." I got up and walked to Su Wei's bed, leaned down under the bed, and pulled out an olive-green silver box from the innermost part.

I skillfully open the box, after all, I am the one who has seen the box many times. It contained letters from Su Wei and Teng Zhi, and took out a photo at the bottom and pointed it out to Su Wei.

"This is what your long hair looks like, why is the box under the bed but never dusted? Don't you often take it out and miss it, too? I questioned Suvi.

"If you are unreasonable, grandpa will punish you when you hear it." Su Wei stepped forward, helped me up, and patted the dust behind me for me.

I moved to the vanity mirror, sat down, and looked at myself a little embarrassed, with hair that was neither short nor long, and made me resentful.

She skillfully pulled out a pair of sharp scissors and wiped the lint with a gray-blue handkerchief. This pair of scissors has been around since I was born, and she wraps the entire handle of the scissors with a beige strip of cloth, and embroiders on the handle, tattooing an orange flower that looks like a small daisy.

I once asked Su Wei why she was tattooing flowers on her handles, and she said that it was just to pass the time.

Suddenly, Jin'er knocked on the door and stuck her head out of the crack in the door, and Su Wei was so frightened that she took a step back.

"Mother, can you be gentle?" I glanced back at Su Wei, stroked my hair, and noticed that a piece was missing.

"Mother, you ......" Jin'er's appearance made me stop talking.

"Are you cutting Xining's hair?" Jin'er never calls her elders, and it is estimated that she is spoiled by her grandfather's law.

"Yes, is there anything wrong with you?" Su Wei put down the scissors tremblingly, picked up the handkerchief and wiped it again.

"No, I just want to see Xining's hair cut." Jin'er picked up a handkerchief to cover her face and laughed lowly.

I didn't speak, quietly looked at myself in front of the mirror, slowly picked up the comb, combed my hair with one hand, and held my hair with the other, gently rising and falling.

"I don't have too many requirements for long hair, as long as it's not like the two of you, my mother used to say, long-haired women are delicate and knowledgeable." Jin'er picked up her handkerchief, walked to the mirror again, and began to stroke my hair.

"Don't get me dirty." I leaned forward, took out a hairpin from Su Wei's box, stabbed her, and looked at Jin'er in front of the mirror.

"You dare?" Jin'er took a few steps back.

"Why wouldn't I dare? I hurt you by mistake and were punished for copying the scriptures fifty times, and now I am just as fearless. I turned my head and glared at Jin'er.

"Don't make a fuss, Xining." Su Wei walked up to me and grabbed my arm with both hands.

"You wait for me, I'll tell my grandfather." Jin'er pointed at us, ready to leave.

"Jin'er, Jin'er, please, just be a play." Su Wei pleaded with Jin'er.

Jin'er looked out the door, and her eyes instructed to serve people, and let them go.

"If I don't tell my grandfather, I'll have to cut Xining's hair to look like a man." Jin'er pointed at me and said.

"You ......" I got up to have a debate with Jin'er, but Su Wei came and cut half of my hair with a pair of scissors.

I stayed where I was, watching as the shredded hair fell from my shoulders, landed on my shoes, and turned into black lint.

"That's pretty much it, serve someone, go back." After the servants came, Jin'er left.

"Mother, why didn't you protect me just now? Let Jin'er be presumptuous? I lowered my voice, and the voice echoed in my ears.

"If you follow Jin'er, you'll be fine." Su Wei's eyes were empty and she sat on the edge of the bed.

I rushed out of the room against the wind, and when I tried to intercept me, I jumped into the lotus pond. At this moment, my brain seemed to be soaked in water, leaving only a blank latent consciousness, and a voice was telling me to live.