The design and workmanship of the yard are exquisite.

At the door of the main hall, there is also a cultural relics protection plaque that has only been hung up recently, which reads: 'The Yang family compound sits north to south, and is 24 long from east to west. 58 meters, 26 wide from north to south. 46 meters, construction area of 676 square meters, the foundation steps are surrounded by stones, the main hall, the left and right wings, the entrance hall constitute a courtyard, the doors, windows are carved with flowers and plants, animal patterns, and the main hall is three rooms wide 26. 46 meters, depth 9. 3 meters, 7 heights. 5 meters. The wings are three rooms wide24. 58 meters, depth 8. 2 meters, 7 heights. 5 meters, all of them are wooden structure beam lifting type, bucket type beam frame, hanging mountain top, small green tile roof. The courtyard dam is paved with bluestone, and the width from north to south is 10. 2 meters, east to west length 9. 2 meters. It is a key protected building in Tuxue Town. ’

Su Qin took me around, and I didn't find any clues. There is no doubt that the courtyard is a large family in the Qing Dynasty, but the representative markers in the real sense have been removed, except for the original owner's surname Yang, only the traces left after the use of modern electrical appliances remain.

Just when I was a little disappointed, suddenly, I saw an empty house that was tightly locked. The doors of the house are tall and locked with old copper locks, and the doors and windows are also made of yellow paper and paste, which looks very conspicuous.

"What's inside?" I asked, pointing to the door.

"It's a little weird to say, but there's nothing too special about it." Su Qin recalled: "This room has been locked since I was a child, there is no furniture in it, only a large black pillar in the center of the room. ”

I frowned, "Can you go in and have a look?" ”

"It's not a big deal. Anyway, no one said they couldn't go in, and the big pillars inside seriously divided the living space, and it looked quite uncomfortable, so no one wanted to live there. Su Qin blinked: "But the lock on the door seems to have long been out of key." ”

"It's okay, I have my own way." I pulled ******** out of my pocket and opened the old lock in two clicks.

Su Qin's eyes widened and she said in surprise: "Are you a policeman, or, a thief with a side job?" ”

"Miss, your mind is too jumpy. Isn't there anyone who has studied lockpicking except for the police and thieves? I was dissatisfied.

"Lockpick?" She circled around me curiously: "It's not like, when did the locksmith be well-dressed and look like a little white-faced cowherd?" ”

"Che, I have a friend who works in a detective agency, so I learned some tricks from him." I opened my eyes and said nonsense, and as soon as I opened my hands, the wooden door that had not been opened for a long time made a terrible 'creaking' sound, and slowly and with difficulty opened to both sides.

Pulling down the light switch next to the door, the incandescent light in the center of the room flickered a few times before emitting a dim orange glow. The light swayed through the space, and the room smelled moldy because it had been closed for too long. My eyes blinked a few times, and I finally saw the so-called pillar in Su Qin's mouth clearly.

Your sister, where is this pillar?

It's obviously a torii. A very special arch of chastity. What kind of chaste archway does it need to be hidden in the deepest room of the courtyard?

"When I was a child, I used to come to this room to play, and I always felt that the pillars were a little strange. Looking at it now, it's still weird. Su Qin looked at the archway in the center.

I touched my head speechlessly, the current high school students are too poor in knowledge. I couldn't help but correct her: "Little beauty, this is not a pillar, it is a chaste archway." ”

"The arch of chastity? Is it that the ancient woman maintained her chastity, her husband died and would rather die than marry, and finally died of old age, and the father and the villagers and the government at that time erected an idiot monument for her? Su Qin's face was full of disbelief: "Don't be stupid, that kind of thing is generally in a conspicuous position, and what chaste archway will be hidden in the house." ”

"If you look closely, is it a pillar?" I shrugged my shoulders.

"It's not quite like that." Su Qin touched his hair, and after observing it, his tone hesitated: "When you say it, it seems to be quite like an archway." ”

"What is like, it is original." I felt like I couldn't communicate with her at all, there was a generation gap, even though we were only four years apart in grade. Is it because you have experienced too much and are you too old psychologically?

Turning my gaze back to the archway of chastity, I carefully examined the object that had been hidden for an unknown number of years. Standing in the center of the house, the archway is carved with a flying dragon, and the pillar is mottled. In the middle of the archway is written the words "Liu Shifang, the wife of the Confucian scholar Zhang Xue". Against the backdrop of silent lights, it seems to tell a vivid and poignant history.

The appearance of this archway is indeed different from other chastity arches I have seen. Because the ordinary chastity archway is made of local materials, but most of them will be painted white jade at the beginning, and finally after weathering, the appearance of the original stone will be revealed. But the archway in front of you, because it is in the house, has not been baptized by wind and rain, so it retains its original appearance.

It's all black.

"Su Qin, did you just say that this archway was there a long time ago?" I asked.

"Not bad." Su Qin nodded: "It is said that it was there before we moved in." ”

"Didn't your courtyard house be qualified for tangible cultural heritage some time ago? Did any archaeologists see this archway at that time? What do they say? I asked again.

"When the local cultural relics keepers evaluated whether my courtyard house met the qualifications of tangible cultural heritage, they just entered the courtyard and left after a quick glance, just going through the motions. To be honest, who doesn't know this famous courtyard house in Tuxue Town? Su Qin pouted.

Indeed, even after the baptism of time and war, this gorgeous courtyard still stands majestically. Even if it is covered by high-rise buildings, it cannot hide the obsolescence of its history and the vicissitudes of time. Even ordinary people passing by will be attracted by it.

"There are not many courtyards in the Chuncheng Basin, and there are even fewer courtyards left in Shudi. It is normal to be successfully rated as a cultural heritage, and if the archaeologists had found this rare archway, it is estimated that they would have already begun to interview your family, give a sum of money, and let you move away. Protected this place. I took a deep breath and said seriously.

"This arch of chastity is special?" Su Qin wondered.

"Very rare." I said lightly: "The above tells about the misfortune of a woman. ”

"Cut, which woman buried in the archway of chastity is lucky?" Su Qin disagreed.

"But this woman is particularly unfortunate." I touched the archway and started with a cold hand, as if to explain how miserable the people on the archway were.

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