In the summer when she was nine years old, she waited for the opportunity to secretly step on the ladder of the craftsman to repair the house, climbed along the gable and sat on the ridge of Mu Shixuan's main house, and what she saw was the courtyard.

The main courtyard is also three entrances, the door of the house is open in the southeast corner of the main courtyard, and it is the shadow wall of the blue brick wall that enters, and the bottom of the front of the shadow wall is painted pink and white, and it is written with a big red blessing character.

Turn left and enter the courtyard first, and stick to the south side of a row of inverted seats, for the male servants and the little maids to live. The north side is in the middle of the hanging flower door into the most regular and bright two-way courtyard, the main house is in the center, beyond the structure of three rooms and five frames, and the two sides are connected with the ear room. There are three wing rooms in the east and west, and the whole courtyard has a hand-to-hand verandah in series, and along the outer wall of the ear room, it is connected to the third into the backyard. However, this is only part of the whole.

If you have money, there are always many workarounds under some hard rules. What should I do if there are many children and grandchildren of a big family, and the house is not enough to live in? Horizontal resolution.

I bought the yard next door and opened it up to build a cross-yard. Each cross-hospital is relatively independent, but they are all connected. Some large households are multi-span and parallel, with more than 100 houses, and one family can occupy half or even the entire street. In terms of the operation of the house deed, each yard is counted separately, and it is not counted on the head of a house. Yanfu is like this, not only there are seven large courtyards on the left, left and right, but also a number of small courtyards on the side, and a small pond is also circled into a small lake.

The courtyard on the other side is far less than the cross-courtyard and total area of Yanfu, but it is not small. There is a cross courtyard in the east and west of the main courtyard, which adds up to three courtyards.

On the side of the east wing of the main courtyard is the courtyard gate leading to the east cross courtyard. Compared with the strict norms of the main courtyard and the simplicity and practicality of the west courtyard, the east courtyard is not only super wide and large, but also has a unique style. Yan Shu was also amazed by this place at first sight.

Unlike other families who like to build more houses, this family uses the east cross courtyard, which is almost twice the size of the main courtyard, as a garden, with almost seven or eight acres of land.

There is a real lake in the southeastern half of this yard. The surface of the lake extends about two or three acres with the shape, the lotus lotus is planted, and the lotus leaf field is divided into waterways, and it is skillfully separated, it is in the flowering period, and it is beautiful. The little Yan Shu held the head of the gable of the house, and her nose was full of the fragrance of lotus flowers wafting from the wind, and her heart longed for it.

In addition to the viewing verandah that runs through the courtyard walls on all sides, there is a bamboo fence courtyard with three stone houses at the northernmost end, and a fruit tree is planted in front of the courtyard, and there is more than half an acre of land. In the middle of the fruit forest to the south is a large flower hall, facing the lotus lake in the south, and you can see people entering and leaving from a distance.

Then there is a three-story painting building in the bamboo forest on the side of the main courtyard on the lakeside, which is much higher than the roof of Yanfu, and is facing the direction of Mu Shixuan. This painting building is more envious of Xiao Yanshu than the lotus. At least Yanfu, there really isn't.

And what makes Xiao Yanshu most curious is not the rockery bridge and the flower field next to it, but a large green plot in the northeast corner divided into long lattice-like plots, what is that? The original body doesn't know, but Yan Shu knows, it's the vegetable field that I want to have the most after playing many vegetable stealing games.

The whole garden is not as subtle and elegant as the Suzhou garden landscape in the previous life, but it is better than the wanton use of space, which is more in line with the northern garden style.

See, that's the difference. They are also rich families in Dongcheng, and how different the yards and lives of each family are.