Chapter 14: Advanced (20)

It's dawn! In the second half of the night, it rained, and the sound of the rain helped them sleep, and the Modi couple slept more sweetly than ever in their new home. When I woke up, it was already sunrise over Putuo Mountain, the rain had stopped, and the air was exceptionally fresh. At the same time that Mo Di opened his eyes, Zhou Shiming also turned around, and the eyes of the two of them were cast on the hexagonal flower window in the room almost at the same time. It is the main window of this room, facing south, the window is large, divided into three middle and lower sections, the upper and lower sections are trapezoidal, with fine wood squares to form a swastika pattern, the outside is stained glass, transparent but opaque. In the middle are two sliding windows, transparent glass windows, wooden moldings outline the windows in a simple and elegant style, one of which is also treated with fine gauze to prevent mosquitoes.

The room is an irregular pentagonal shape, with a door on the east side, the north wall adjacent to the north room, and the west wall facing each other. Only the south wall, divided into three, is divided into three parts: due south, southeast and southwest, and in the center of the south wall is a hexagonal stained window. The carved Ning-style bed is placed on the north side of the entrance door, close to the north wall, and at the west end of the bed, there is a large Western-style four-door cabinet. Under the hexagonal window on the south wall, there are two small rattan chairs, and a matching coffee table is placed in the middle, which is very warm.

A gust of wind came, blowing the shadow of the sun outside the window, Mo Di and Zhou Shiming exchanged glances, the courtyard outside should be even more surprising. I got up in my clothes and walked out of the door, and there was a passage at my feet, with a door on the right, and a door on the left through the north room. The front is the hall where the night was eaten last night, and there is also a door at the end of the hall, Mo Di knows, it was the door that first walked into the hall last night, although it was a night, this memory is still there. The doors and windows of the hall were tightly closed, and it was dark, so he walked into the hall and pulled the latches on the south-facing windows, pushing them open gently. The light outside the window suddenly reflected in, and at the same time as the light came in, I heard Mo Di exclaim softly: "Wow! ”

Hearing Mo Di's exclamation, Zhou Shiming didn't know what was going on, so he hurriedly ran over, stood beside Mo Di and looked out, and couldn't help but exclaim: "My God!" ”

Outside the window is a small garden, from the gate in, in addition to a cobblestone path against the east wall, the whole square front yard is a huge flower stand, on the flower stand, is blooming with gorgeous wisteria flowers, the purple of the courtyard, reflecting a dreamlike world.

Zhou Shiming ran over quickly, opened the double door on the south side, outside the door, there was a small semicircular platform, outside the platform, five steps extended in a ripple shape, and the far part of the steps had entered under the wisteria trellis. Regardless of wearing a nightgown, let alone wearing slippers, Zhou Shiming ran under the flower trellis like a swallow, screaming, walking, the sun shone on the purple flowers, and then reflected the purple flowers on his body, as if people had become colorful.

In front of the windowsill of the platform, there was no movement, and it was better to watch the scenery on the windowsill than to go under the wisteria trellis. The wisteria trelis in the courtyard, because of Zhou Shiming's entry, the fantastic scenery has a sense of movement, vitality, and all the elements of the landscape.

"Have you seen enough?" Mo Di asked.

"Nope." Sitting on a drum-shaped stone bench, with his chin in his hands and elbows on the small stone table in front of him, Zhou Shiming said: "I want to study here, I want to be in a daze here, and I want to invite a photographer to help me take a few photos here, send them back to Tongcheng, and show them to my mother." ”

"It's a good idea, we'll go to the photo studio in two days and ask for a master." Mo Di also thought it was a good idea and agreed.

"Brother Fu, come down, sit in here, smell the flowers, like a fairy." Zhou Shiming said.

"I'll pick a few later, cook them into wisteria porridge, it tastes better." Mo Di said.

"Porridge with wisteria?" Zhou Shiming's eyes were wide open, burning the piano and cooking the crane, nothing more than this.

"You can also make soup." Mo Di said for sure.

"Brother Fu, you are too beautiful, how can you confuse such beautiful flowers with porridge soup." Zhou Shiming said angrily.

Mo Di laughed and said, "I'll go and see what else is in the backyard, will you go?" ”

"Go." Zhou Shiming replied loudly, jumped up the steps in a few steps, and Mo Di had already opened the door to the direction of the kitchen.

Like the south gate, the outside is also a small garden-shaped platform, which is also a five-step ripple-shaped staircase, the difference is that the backyard is not as splendid as the front yard, and it is not as prosperous. A path leads to the root of the north wall, which divides the backyard in two, and the kitchen and tool room and bathroom are lined up, occupying the western part of the backyard on the left. The eastern part is a small square fish pond, the water surface of the fish pond is very low, almost two meters down from the ground, there is not much water in the pond, there is outlet water on the pond wall, as soon as the water surface of the fish pond exceeds this height, it will flow out naturally, and it is not clear where it flows. Around the fish pond, there is a very delicate stone railing, the railing is composed of a column and a horizontal stone surface, the horizontal surface is a whole piece of large bluestone, carved with some auspicious patterns. On the column head of the railing, there is the shape of a small animal, counted, exactly twelve, and the shape is the zodiac. Approaching the fish pond, Zhou Shiming was speechless in shock, the fish pond turned out to be half a pond of big-eyed bubble goldfish, red, golden, silver, black, colorful, everything.

After walking half a circle along the square fish pond, I came to the northeast corner, which is the end of the courtyard, facing the entrance gate, and the cobblestone road ends here. Mo Enemy returned the same way, opened the east door of the hall, walked down the steps, and looked to the right to see the entrance door, and to the left was the fish pond. This is what this yard is all about, it's really a small yard, suitable for the current small couple to live in, you can add a child, and there is a north house empty. No wonder Xiong Tong and the boss repaired the outer room, which is very suitable, it seems that the second boss Xiong not only has aesthetics, but also can enjoy it.

When he was feeling infinitely nostalgic, he heard Zhou Shiming shouting: "Brother Fu, Brother Fu, come here." ”

Listening to the sound, it is at the back of the kitchen, is there something else over there? Mo Di hurried a few steps, ran over, bypassed the bathroom, and behind it was a narrow aisle, barely able to pass people, maybe it was because he didn't leave for a long time, and there was a thin layer of moss. Zhou Shiming was standing at the end of the aisle, waving to himself.

Mo Di walked carefully through the aisle, and suddenly opened up, and entered under the wisteria trellis in the front yard. "What's wrong?" he asked. What's the big discovery? ”

Zhou Shiming pointed to the bottom of the hexagonal window of the guide house and said, "Brother Fu, look." ”

Mo Di looked in the direction of Zhou Shiming's finger, and was happy, and a step led to the bottom of the house.

"I'll go in and have a look." Mo Di said.

"I'm going too." Zhou Shiming said.

"Okay, I'll go get a flashlight." After Mo Di finished speaking, he ran into the hall through the wisteria trellis, and after a while, he ran down with a flashlight.

There are not many steps down, only eight steps, into the basement, it is not dark inside, there are a few small windows from the top, bringing in light, Mo Ji remembered those small flower tile patterns on the west wall, it turned out to be to fill the light below. The basement is not big, that is, the corresponding part under the bedroom in the south room, and it is not high, Mo Di is standing underneath, just to the top, Zhou Shiming bowed slightly, worried that he would hit the top of his head. The basement is very solid, it is made up of stone strips on all sides, and there are support columns in the middle, and the top of the support columns are beams one by one, and above the ground beams, there is a thick floor, no wonder I walked on it last night, and I didn't find that the bottom is empty, because it is too strong.

"Brother Fu, what do you say is the use of the person who repaired this house to make such a basement, there is no door, there is no way to hide things, it is damp, it can't put things, it is short, and it can't live in people. It won't just be to keep the bedroom above dry! Zhou Shiming asked.

Mo Di shook his head and said to Zhou Shiming: "This place is an air-raid shelter. In the past few years, Guilin has been bombed by Japanese planes twice in three days, which is used to hide*, when the planes bomb, as long as they hide in it, even if the houses above are blown up, the people inside will be fine. ”

"Oh!" Zhou Shiming once again looked at the basement with new eyes, and there was obviously respect in his eyes. The original homeowner raised the foundation of the house, not simply for aesthetics, but for other purposes. At this moment, Mo Di's flashlight hit a small hole in the northeast corner, the entrance of the hole was plugged with a wooden stopper, and a long strip was placed on the side of the hole. Mo Di looked at the length of the strip, and estimated that this hole leads directly to the fish pond outside, no wonder the water level of the fish pond is so low, it is designed to drain the basement.

"This house is nice and I like it." Mo Di said: "After I go to class, I can come back once a week at most, you live here alone, I don't worry about public security, I don't worry about food, I just worry about the mysterious bombing of Japanese planes, with this air-raid shelter, I don't have to worry." You remember, as soon as you hear the alarm sound, no matter where it falls, outside the south gate or east of the Li River, you will get into this basement as soon as possible, and don't come out until the alarm is resolved. ”

Zhou Shiming nodded, and asked a little reluctantly: "Brother Fu, is your school far away from here?" ”

"Far away, about thirty miles." Mo Di said: "Fortunately, there is a bus from Shizijie to Lijia Village, which can be reached in an hour, and I strive to be able to come back on Saturday and go again on Sunday." You live alone, are you afraid? Would you like to find a companion? ”

Zhou Shiming shook his head and said, "You teach me to shoot, and leave me a pistol, whoever dares to come in, I will shoot." ”

"Okay!" Mo Di said: "I left the southern sixteen to you, and I will go to the Guilin Garrison Headquarters to report in a while, and when I return to Guilin, I must go to report it." By the way, ask them where the nearest shooting range is, find a time, and take you to practice. ”

"Don't you need to go to school right away?" Zhou Shiming asked.

"No, I don't." Mo Di said: "The school will start on June 1, just report on time, but when you return to Guilin, you must first tell the local garrison, otherwise, if something troubles them, it will be difficult to hold on to them temporarily." ”

"Hmm." Zhou Shiming nodded and said, "Do you know the commander of the Guilin garrison?" ”

"I don't know. In the Great War in Southern Guinan, all the 16th Group Army was transferred there, and now Guilin basically has no serious 800 combat troops, only garrison troops. Mo Di said: "You give me some money, I will go to the garrison headquarters to report by the way to buy a few military uniforms back, my military uniforms are all in Tongcheng, I can't go to the military academy in civilian clothes." ”

Zhou Shiming nodded, returned to the kitchen from the wisteria trellis, Zhou Shiming changed into home clothes, tied an apron, turned on the briquette stove, and heated up the leftovers from last night. Although the wisteria trellis is a fairyland, and the big-eyed goldfish is elegant, it is not as good as the hunger in the stomach.