The north and south ends of the alley were sealed with courtyard walls, and became an inner garden connecting the two mansions. The second house is divided into bamboo, pine and plum courtyards from south to north, the south courtyard is two-bedroom, the north courtyard is three-bedroom, and the eldest son's central courtyard is also the largest.

The second house is no older than the main house, and it was sold by an official of Zhishi. It was only on the basis of the old house that some changes were made, and not all of them were pushed to reconstruction.

The door of the second house is moved to the southwest corner of the inner garden and is close to the position in front of the left of the second house, and a double color painting screen door is made on the inner pillar of the verandah of the second house door, and the door of the second house will not be exposed to the privacy of the women in the garden when it is opened daily.

The left movement of the second house door makes the two-room bamboo garden close cautiously, and facilitates the entry and exit of the three-room house.

Songzhumei three courtyards, each courtyard has a north house main house, and all of them have a row of west wings on the west side of the main house, and the original west wing is divided into a west inner courtyard for the female dependents to live.

The water flow from the Huanhua Creek in the alley to the west of the second house is also introduced from the north, flows through the east side of the garden near the old house, and exits from the south. In the garden, there is a verandah across the water surface at the north and south ends, connecting the two houses, and the east side of the second house is a courtyard gate of the three rooms of Songzhumei, and the verandah is also added to connect the courtyard gate.

In the garden, there is a three-sided verandah with a width of about two meters in the south, west and north of the southwest corner of the main house, the moon gate of the northwest corner of the main house, and the three-room courtyard door in the west, which is convenient for the passage of the two houses on rainy and snowy days.

The easterly wide stream in the garden, known as Lanting, is the most convenient way to get water in the event of a fire.

Lanting planted a peach tree on the west side of the second house, mixed with a few gardenias, and there are spring willows, golden cinnamon, and winter plums on the east side of the main house.

Although Lanting is only more than 50 meters long and more than 2 meters wide, the murmuring water and sparkling water make the small garden much more vivid.

Dense bamboo tents were laid at both ends of the water. In the past, my grandmother would throw fish fry in the autumn, and from time to time she could see fish jumping out of the water and making a splash. Fish are not the koi fish that Miss Lady often eats for fun.

There are crucian carp that my father likes, flat fish that my second uncle likes, and grass carp that my third uncle likes...... Fierce fish such as catfish and mandarin fish are never stocked, and they are still bought from outside when they want to eat occasionally. Once these fish appeared in Lantingli, it was always the father and the third uncle who brought their subordinates to catch them together.

The valets could only enter and leave the outer courtyard in one place; If you have something to do, you can enter the garden in the alley from the door of the second house. Non-owner summoned, house repairs, and heavy objects are not allowed to enter the second gate and the third room courtyard without permission.

The second house is surrounded by water, and the family laughs and says that the second house has a moat river. At a glance, this water town seems to have arrived in Venice.

The second house gate crosses the small water pavilion road in front of the door, and goes to the 15-meter sandwich street where the width of the house is about three carriages in parallel, and it is not easy to collide with the bridge in the gallop, and the left line is less than 40 meters is the main house door, which is considered to be a sound and sound exchange.

If the main house of the main house is still lived by the grandparents, a large family from the main house door in the morning and evening, morning and dusk, a large family shared dinner and then went back to the third room to be hospitalized, harmonious and convenient life, it is really a good layout.

The uncle and nephew chatted a few words, and joked in the newly purchased secondary residence. I also arrived at the gate of the main house.

The adult men of the family were allowed to enter and exit through the gate of the house on a daily basis, and only the concubines who had been troubled had to go through the southeast corner gate with the slaves.

This time, no one dared to stop the two of them from entering through the main entrance, and the newly arranged porter opened the door while asking the third lady how to do it.

The gate is a row of inverted houses built in the opposite direction of the main house, and the second largest door at the east end is six meters wide and divided into two doors. The rooms of the inverted seat room are back to the street, and they all sit south and face north in the direction of the courtyard door, which is cold in winter and hot in summer, and the ventilation and lighting are not good.

The inverted room is four meters deep and four meters high. The first large room on the east side is a car and car room about eight meters wide; Then to the west, there is the six-meter gate; The concierge dwells in a small room with a width of two meters and a half; Then there are two rooms with a total width of 8 meters and 5 rooms facing the second door, and there is a small toilet at the west end of the room, which is convenient for guests; Further west is the courtyard wall of the southwest corner, the remaining twelve meters long of the back cover room, and the door of the room for the male servant to live in is open in the southwest corner courtyard.

The southwest corner courtyard is located at the west end of the outer courtyard, and there is a slightly shallow one room in the courtyard that is about three meters and five deep, and less than six or seven meters long. The main house facing north is a two-room suite with a width of eight meters and five, the middle hall opens to the courtyard for the light, and the west house on the right side opens the door to the hall for the dark, it is a small pattern of one light and one dark due north, and the height of the house is flat and the inverted seat is the house. There is a well dug in the east of it, and there is a manservant's toilet at the west end. There are 38 square meters of open space in the southwest corner of the courtyard, which is considered a small and compact residence.

Generally, the main house in the southwest corner courtyard lives with decent people. When the family is poor and the family is weak, and the main family cannot afford to buy an expanded house, they will also arrange for the concubine to move in.

It is separated from the southwest corner courtyard by a hundred square meters, and the open space of the outer courtyard is the southeast corner courtyard. It is located directly behind the car room, with a three-meter-wide passage through the hall leading to the southeast corner door where the manservant enters and exits. The southeast corner of the courtyard is eight meters wide and more than six meters deep. There are many grooms, sedan chair drivers or stables built in it, the place is narrow, and a courtyard wall is also built to isolate the smell of the stable.

Three-entry house - refers to the whole house with three main portals; three groups of closed courtyards surrounded by houses; The houses and courtyards are symmetrical and coherent from north to south as a whole.

The main gate of the Lin family is in the southeast in front of the house, the second door is in the middle, and the third door is located in the aisle opened by the ear room on the side of the main landlord.

There are three rows of sunny houses facing north in the house, which are entered by the gate in turn, and the first row to the north of the outer courtyard is built in the center of the vertical flower gate, which is also called the second gate, and the courtyard is separated by one entrance and two entrances. Lianxia is a row of study and hospitality places connected by the West Seat Private School, the Hanging Flower Gate, the Council Living Room, and the East Dining Hall, and most of the men in the family enter and exit. The hostess of the house takes care of the affairs and needs to listen to the manservant's reply, which is also carried out in the living room.

The weeping flower gate is four meters wide and five meters deep in the center, and behind it is the corridor aisle on the south side of the main courtyard that is connected with three meters, and the side of the aisle is close to the courtyard with a wide painted curtain, which isolates the sight of the inner and outer courtyards. There is a large spacious house with a depth of 5 meters and a width of 16 meters and a width of 5 meters on the left and right of the two doors.

Walk through the threshold of the pendulum gate and walk through the verandah that connects the second entrance to the main courtyard.

Turn right and there is a big sliding door in the east living room dining room; Then turn to the left, on the right corner is a kitchen with a pile of firewood, six meters wide, five meters deep, and an area of thirty square meters; Further ahead is the east wing for the eldest son, five meters deep and five meters wide, with an area of twenty-five square meters, one bright and one dark; The northeast corner is the east ear room with a depth of 5 meters and a width of 2 meters and an area of 12 square meters, which is used by the young children of the long house; Then turn around the right corner of the two-meter-wide verandah to reach the most noble and tall house in the whole house: the main house of the master.

Walk through the weeping flower door and turn left, followed by a sliding door of the Xixi private school classroom; Then turn right and on the left hand side is the painting wall curtain of the Pingqi West Wing, and behind it is the toilet built between the private school and the west wing, on the root of the west wall; Then there is the west wing room for the second son to live in, which is five meters wide and five meters deep, with an area of 25 square meters and three rooms with one light and two dark; At the end of the west chamber is a transept room on the north side of the west chamber that is two meters wide and five meters deep, which is used for the second son and young children to live in, and there are many nurses to accompany and take care of them; Then turn to the right and meet the people from the east wing, and at the same time arrive at the second row of the north house - the main room of the master, also called the upper room.