"Master Bagu's comfortable yard, what does this mean? I thought about how comfortable it was, so I wrote my yard on the plaque. Yue Erpao glanced at the plaque and asked with curiosity on his face.

Keli obviously knew what was going on, shook his head at everyone and explained: "It's not that the yard is comfortable, but it is directly translated in Uyghur language, without considering the aesthetics, of course, the simpler and more straightforward, the better." ”

He paused, and his tone became serious: "If someone who is proficient in Chinese helps them beautify it, it will probably be translated into Bagu Mansion or Bagu Inn." ”

"Let's go, I'll take you in and have a look, and settle down here first."

After Klee finished speaking, they walked into the gatehouse with Yue Guanchao and entered the courtyard, and it was obvious that they could feel the shade here, as if they were completely separated from the heat of the outside world, and there was no trace of stuffiness, and there was a trace of coolness in the coolness.

The space on the first floor protrudes from the stone wall, and the top is completely overhead with transparent glass, and there are climbing green vines climbing the roof, which can not only absorb heat and coolness, but also not make the room look dull and dark.

Along the four walls, there are also a number of long tables and bars in the huge arched windows, behind which you can see a long wine cabinet standing against the wall, displaying many bottles and jars, wine jugs and jars, and vegetable jars, these counters form a circular space on the four walls, completely separating guests from friends.

Looking further to the center, there are more than a dozen square tables and benches on the square flat ground surrounded by the bar, the walls are full of all kinds of dishes they will have, the bar counter to the north has a door that swings back and forth, and when you push the door open, you can go to the hollowed-out grotto, and in the middle is a staircase that can walk up and down, and the walls on both sides are full of recipes.

Although the climate of the people in the territory is hot, the local people still like to eat some barbecue flavors, such as grilled fish, roasted beef and mutton, roasted lamb legs, roasted quails, roasted green peppers, and roasted eggs, as long as they can be burned on the fire, they can be put on the table and filled into the menu.

As for the local food in Moyu, it is even more innumerable.

Hu spicy hoof flower soup, spicy salt-baked peanuts, salt-baked broad beans, sheep's head braised pork, cold beef tendons, red oil beef tendons, yogurt cake, ice residue cold porridge, maren lump sugar, spicy fried skewers, red date dumplings, hot belly meat, braised lamb intestines, lamb kidneys, roasted noodles and lungs, mutton roasted buns, mutton roasted naan, tendon head brain pot, mung bean cold cake, fresh seasonal vegetables, Tibetan butter tea, salted milk tea, Chinese-style meat patties, minced meat noodles, mixed sauce noodles, boiled dumplings, fried chicken in southern Xinjiang...... It doesn't seem to be a famous dish, but they are all real rush dishes, the taste is heavy, the portion is sufficient, if it is a merchant and pedestrian in a hurry, the taste will definitely not feel bad.

Behind the bar, there is another board, a huge wooden sign that draws the floor plan of the entire seven floors, and all the rooms on each floor are drawn in prints, so that you can see the specifications of the rooms, the state of the housing, and the orientation of the floors at a glance.

At this moment, there are already some locals sitting in front of the bar, drinking wheat wine brewed from Kashgar water, the degree is not high, the taste is really good, and a few bearded travelers guess each other's fist strokes, and they can't stop talking.

In another place in the hall, there were also a lot of diners who came to eat, and the smell of the food unique to the territory wafted into the nostrils, and they explained their intention to the buddy, and asked the guy to choose a room with a wide view, counted the money, took the house key, and the store took them into the stairs and walked directly to the room on the fifth or sixth floor.

As mentioned earlier, most of these tulou dwellings are joint houses, building after building, courtyard suites, and the highest guest rooms are also in this pattern!

Push open the courtyard, you can see that there are guest rooms on the front and back, the corridors on both sides of the door can go to the back of the house, you can see that behind the house are two aerial courtyards, here is not only the roof of the lower floor, but also the garden of this floor, the courtyard is overgrown with all kinds of grass, and the surrounding wooden frame supports the roof, which can be seen that the rattan is densely woven and crawled, covering most of the hot daylight.

Under the flower and fruit room, there is a set of round tables and low stools covered with Hetian blankets, on which several clay pots are placed with teapots and cups. The furnishings are very daily.

They walked into the courtyard through the cloister and carefully observed the decoration of the courtyard.

The rammed earth yellow walls are hard and smooth, the curtains and porches are mostly arched, the periphery is decorated with white flower and grass lines, and the windows are mostly glazed windows, and various stained glass spell out the unique gorgeous patterns of southern Xinjiang.

The courtyard is divided into primary and secondary, the room to the north is the main house, which is generally the master of the family or the parents are living, the left and right rooms are the living rooms of the children of the family, and then the next two rooms are under the front porch of the door, which is specially used for servants or guests to live, and there are at least seven or eight houses in a courtyard.

All rooms have doors that extend out of the verandah trellises, on which grapevines can be seen, enjoying the cool and beautiful.

Walk into the main room, you can see that the furnishings in the house are close to the courtyard building of Dunhuang, there is no shortage of furnishings, but the color of the room is much richer than the courtyard building, you can see flower windows, glaze, carpets, colored silk everywhere, with the colorful style of the Western Regions.

Yue Guanchao felt the coolness in the room: "I was still thinking that the top floor would be hotter, but I didn't expect that the top floor would be relatively cool, and it felt cool and comfortable inside and out, what was going on." ”

Buildings are the easiest to absorb heat!

A place like southern Xinjiang is close to the desert and has a dry climate, even if they are in an oasis, walking on the road is still dusty, as long as they are close to the desert, the sand in the desert will be blown in a steady stream, silent in the city, everything that swings up is dusty.

In the case of absorbing heat, the tulou located on a high place should be in a stuffy state, and this cool and comfortable physical environment makes them suspicious.

Klee didn't seem to doubt this, and continued to explain to them: "You said that the kind of houses that absorb heat are mostly tulou in the desert, here in the Hotan Oasis, the vegetation has absorbed some of the heat, and the rammed earth walls of the Gaotai dwellings are thick and hard, filled with straw and stones, this kind of thing absorbs heat quickly and dissipates heat quickly, and this building material ensures that the temperature only stays on the building, and is not absorbed into the tulou and stored in the tulou. ”

"The most important thing is that these high-platform houses have a unique heat dissipation structure, the niche well, the qanats are different from the niche wells, the qanats are for draft water, and the niche wells are for ventilation and heat dissipation."

Afterwards, Klee took Yue Guanchao and them to a place close to the northern stone wall, where there was a window made of fence that I don't know what to do, it looked like a porous mat spread on the kang, the surface was loose and porous, the material was similar to bamboo and wood chips, and it was inlaid on the wall and was firm and tough.

When they got closer, they could feel a cool moisture blowing out of the fence, just like the coolness they felt when they entered the house.

Looking at this thing, Guanchao also understood the reason why the room was in a high place and could be cool and comfortable.

However, it is precisely because this decoration is very strange that it arouses their suspicion and curiosity - why does it blow moisture? Where does it lead?

Keli understood, opened the fixed rivets at the four corners, and the entire grille plate was removed by him, turned on the flashlight and observed carefully, behind the grille plate is a one-meter square passage, like a widened version of the chimney, there are passages on all sides, and you can feel the air flowing out of this chimney, and the whining sound is very clear.

Probably, it is this passage that extends in all directions, bringing a steady stream of cool air to the room.

Kelly went on to explain: "When building a house, the cellar was dug in advance behind the house, and when the house was built, the cellar was sealed, leaving only the porch and the opening facing up, because the walls of these houses were thick, it was easy to create hollow niches, as long as the niche was sealed and the interior wall cloth was opened, a passage in and out of the air could be formed.

In such a structure, no matter how many houses are built, the passages on each floor can be connected to form interconnected niche chimneys for the entry and exit of cold air and humidity.

In fact, these hollow niches are actually chimneys, with air outlets at the top and air inlets at the bottom of the building, so as to circulate moisture in the alcoves.

If you enter the bottom floor along the alcove, you will see that the cellar will dig dozens of meters of wellhead downwards to form a manhole that draws water downward, and at the same time, there are nearly ten air inlets near the cellar, so that the water vapor and the air from the outside world will blow directly through the entire niche through the air intake.

If there were more affluent merchants, they would dig more wells and hire servants to pump bellows in the cellars to pump outside air into the cellars and into the niches.

From this point of view, this kind of niche well was not affordable for the poor people, and it cost a lot of silver yuan to construct it alone, and if you add the well digging and hiring domestic servants, it would cost you a lot of money.

If they are ordinary people, they also have their own methods, they often find the wellhead in the room, and do not use the moisture blown from the wellhead to cool the room, or plant all the vines or creepers on the house, and use plants to block the heat from entering the house.

"And what about winter?" Song Siyuan asked.

Keli nodded: "If it's winter, it's basically not affected, and it's not very cold in winter in southern Xinjiang, and when the temperature difference between day and night is large, these heavy earthen walls can also be insulated, if it's a little colder, you can burn firewood in the cellar to make a fire, and the heat will go down the cellar into the niche well and come to each room."

"However, when it comes to making a fire, it is definitely not a board with a grille, but a wooden board with a tight hoop and bone glue is used to directly close the hole, only allowing the heat to be conducted, and the excess smoke is completely discharged through the flue, so as not to cause danger to indoor fireworks."

"Hey, you see, it seems to be the same group of people who are performing today."

While they were looking at the air duct in the house, Yue Erpao was wandering around the garden alone, and his voice came into the room, arousing everyone's curiosity.