"Huh?" The three of them suddenly grew their mouths, and it took a while for Dai Wenliang to come back to his senses, looked at Liu Ruohan, and muttered in a low voice: "No matter how expensive it is, it is our boss's car, what are you proud of." ”

Liu Ruohan's pretty face sank, glared at Dai Wenliang fiercely, and said loudly: "Your boss has promised me to be my full-time driver and be on call." ”

Dai Wenliang glanced at Yao Lei and Shao Weijie, then looked at Ye Lingtian and Liu Ruohan with strange expressions, and said in unison seriously: "Understood, sister-in-law!"

Ye Lingtian was turning with the steering wheel, and when he heard this, he almost didn't stabilize the steering wheel, and the Audi Q7 drew a small S-shape on the road, which scared a taxi driver who followed behind into a cold sweat.

Touching his nose a little embarrassedly, Ye Lingtian simply pretended not to hear it. Liu Ruohan's face flushed, and she glanced at Ye Lingtian shyly, but her heart was full of joy.

"Fatty, how do you go?" Ye Ling was afraid that a few of them would say something embarrassing, so he hurriedly changed the topic.

Under Dai Wenliang's guidance, the car quickly drove into the inner city reserve. It is located in the northeast of Jingshan Park, not far from Shichahai and Wangfujing, and there are mostly two-storey small buildings on both sides of the alley, most of which are teahouses and taverns and some small shops.

When the owner received the call, he had been waiting at the entrance of the alley for a long time, and when he saw the car coming, he led the way to the alley in front.

Ye Lingtian drove the car slowly, while watching the scenery in the alley, only to see the blue bricks and yellow tiles on both sides, the quaint house doors, and the bright green moss in the cracked cracks in the alley, revealing a sense of vicissitudes of time everywhere.

After walking a few hundred meters, we arrived in front of the courtyard. When a few people got out of the car, Dai Wenliang introduced each other to the owner and Ye Lingtian.

The owner of the house is Zhang Wentao, who is 38 years old in Chinese New Year's Eve and works as a vice president of a state-owned enterprise. This house was left by his ancestors, and after his parents passed away, the house was left to him.

In recent years, the price of the courtyard has risen year after year, if it were not for the embezzlement of public funds to speculate in futures and lose tens of millions, he would be reluctant to sell his ancestral business, after all, no one wants to leave a reputation as a loser.

Zhang Wentao looked at Ye Lingtian with some surprise, but he didn't expect that the person who came to see the house turned out to be a young man in his twenties, and he was dressed so ordinarily.

However, when he saw the Audi Q7 parked at the door, he immediately let go of his contempt, spread out the drawings in his hand, and led a few people to the courtyard while introducing them to Ye Lingtian.

Ye Lingtian looked at the drawings, this is a four-entry composite courtyard, covering an area of 4,260 square meters, including four courtyards: the outer courtyard, the front courtyard, the inner courtyard and the back courtyard, and there are two gardens on the right.

Judging from the drawings, the two gardens occupy a little more than a third of the total area of the house.

This quadrangle is divided into large, medium and small, the layout of the ordinary small quadrangle is simple, generally there are three main houses, there are partitions in the house, divided into one light and two dark or two dark and one bright.

There are two east and west wing houses, and three south rooms, all of which are tiled houses with lying bricks to the top and ridges, and they are also the most common courtyard houses now.

The middle courtyard is generally three into four entrances, the main house has five or seven rooms, there are wooden partitions or floor covers in the house, and some main houses and wing rooms have porches. The five rooms are three main rooms and two ear rooms, and the ear rooms are single-door, the so-called "three positive and two ears".

There are seven rooms, between the main room and the transept room, and there are two suites that communicate with the main room. There are three rooms in the east and west wings, and there is a passage between the wings and the ear rooms, which can lead to the backyard. In ancient times, it was generally inhabited by people with relatively wealthy families.

As for the kind of large-scale courtyard houses, there are many courtyards before and after, and they are extremely particular about the architectural pattern, which are generally compound courtyards, that is, they are connected by multiple courtyards in depth.

The large courtyard building is magnificent, the houses are tall, the courtyards overlap, the front porch and the back building, the hand verandah, the hanging flower door, the shadow wall, and the partition are all very exquisite.

There is a courtyard in the courtyard, there is a garden outside the courtyard, the courtyard and the garden are connected, it is a large residential building, it is not the ordinary people can live, and in ancient times, it was mostly the residence of the dignitaries. Due to the large footprint, there are very few of them now.

Zhang Wentao's courtyard can only be regarded as a medium-sized courtyard, but compared with ordinary medium-sized courtyards, it has two more large gardens.

Ye Lingtian looked at it, the courtyard sat south and faced north, and the gate was opened in the southeast corner of the "Xun" position, which was the highest level of Guangliang gate in ancient times in addition to the palace gate, and the gate was relatively wide and could park many cars. From the gate, it can be seen that the owner of this mansion must have been a minister of the court. ,

The gate is taller than the houses on both sides, and on both sides is the shadow wall of the skimming mountain at an angle of 120 degrees with the cornice of the gate, the brick carving decoration is applied on the eaves, the roof is heightened, and the pier wall is prominent, which makes people feel very magnificent at a glance.

There are several pairs of hairpins on the door, and there are delicate stone drum door sleepers under it, and it is surrounded by brick walls, which are painted with paint, which may be the reason for the age, and the color has fallen off and faded a little, and it looks a little shabby.

When you enter the gate, you will be greeted by a shadow wall, on which the word "Fu" is written in big red letters.

Turn left and you will see the outer courtyard of the house, and on the south side of the outer courtyard, that is, on the side of the gate alley, there is a row of north-facing houses, called inverted seats, which were usually used as guest residences, study schools, male servants, or miscellaneous rooms in ancient times.

Directly opposite the inverted seat is the Hanging Flower Gate, which is the most ornately decorated door in the entire courtyard, and it is also the boundary gate from the outer courtyard to the main courtyard. The so-called "the door does not go out, the two doors do not step" in the two doors, refers to this hanging flower door.

The shape of the pendulum door is exquisite, quite gorgeous, at the eaves pillar behind the pendulum door, there is also a door leaf, called the screen door, also called the middle door, the function is similar to the instrument door.

The screen door is usually closed, and people enter from the left and right corridors in front of the door, and it is only opened when there is a major event or the arrival of distinguished guests.

The cornice of this screen is trowel oil into blue-green, the wood oil is red, the round trowel is oiled into blue, white and black like a halo bead pattern, and the square trowel is a blue-bottomed gold swastika or rhombic pattern.

The front eaves front center brocade, flowers, bogu, etc., the weeping lotus column head on both sides is painted colorful according to the carved pattern.

Passing through the weeping flower gate is the front yard, the front yard is actually a small quadrangle, the perimeter is connected by a beautifully designed hand-copying verandah, and a pendulum gate on the east side leads directly to the inner courtyard.

The inner courtyard is the core space of the entire courtyard, and as soon as Ye Lingtian entered the inner courtyard, he saw two tall jujube trees planted in front of the north room. In ancient times, the inner courtyard was inhabited by the elders, and the younger generations could only live in the front yard.