Listening to Xu Yue's words, Zhang Tianyuan couldn't help touching his nose and said, "Sister Xu, you said so many shortcomings, aren't you afraid that I won't buy it?" ”

"If it were someone else, of course I wouldn't say it, but you're a friend and my savior, so I think I should sue you!" Xu Yue smiled and said, "If you really don't want to buy it, go shopping today." ”

"Then I'd better know more, the shortcomings you mentioned can be overcome for me." Zhang Tianyuan said with a smile.

"It's more than that. The second inconvenience of the quadrangle is heating. There is basically no heating for unified heating, and in winter, each family burns briquettes or honeycomb coal for heating. To burn the stove, you need to install a chimney duct to prevent gas, but every winter there is always a gas smoked to death. ”

"No, even if there is no natural gas now, there is still filled gas, right?" Zhang Tianyuan asked in surprise.

"Hmmm! Now cooking is much better, most of them use canned liquefied petroleum gas, and when cooking on the coal-burning stove earlier, I was so old that I was worried about adding coal, opening the fire door, turning off the fire door, and sealing the fire. If you don't pay attention to the fire and go out, you don't want to eat for an hour.

The third inconvenience is the water and sewerage. There is usually only one water pipe and one pool in a yard. In winter, when the water pipe is frozen, no one can use the water, so they have to contribute some hot water to pour the frozen water pipe. The blockage of the sewer in the pool is also a problem for the whole yard. Anyway, every day when the family has some water, brushes their teeth and washes their faces, they have to run to the yard, which is really inconvenient.

The warmth of the bungalows in the courtyard is also too poor. The north room and the west room are better, the east room is sunny in the west in summer, and the south room is too cold in winter. In fact, it is enough to choke in winter, and as soon as the door is opened, it is 'outside'. The cold wind is pouring into the house, you can wash a dish, pick up a water, pour a water, and go to the toilet! And also. These bungalows are too old, any one of them is more than a hundred years old. Every summer. As soon as the thunderstorm comes, some people who live in the courtyard are worried, and the rain leakage is a trivial matter, and some dilapidated houses may collapse after a gust of wind and rain. 1976 Don. The mountain earthquake, the imperial capital also collapsed tens of thousands of houses, all of which were old bungalows. Therefore, people who appreciate the culture of the imperial capital, including some foreigners, love the Hutong courtyard when they mention it, and they are angry when they hear the word 'demolition'. But the old emperors who really lived in the courtyard thought differently from them. ”

"Hehe, are you being sarcastic about someone like me?" Zhang Tianyuan scratched his head and said.

"It's not ironic anymore. It's just that everyone stands in a different position and looks at things from a different angle. Isn't it fashionable to have a farmhouse now? That's the fun of the city people, but for the country people, what is the good thing about the farmhouse? They'd rather go to the city and go into the restaurant, so it's not comparable. Xu Yue shook his head and said.

"Those who leave the courtyard and leave the hutongs, won't they be nostalgic?"

"Yes, too! Nowadays, many of the alleys no longer exist and have been demolished to build buildings. The people in the alley have moved. Most of them are outside the Third Ring Road. They lived in a building, with toilets, kitchens, water and sewerage, heating, and gas. Once the gate is closed, it is self-contained, convenient and spacious. This time you should be satisfied, right? Hey, it's a long time. Some of the old imperial people looked east and west, and felt that something was missing. What's missing? The affection of the neighbors! Lived in an old neighborhood for decades. The relocation lost contact. When the novelty of the relocation passed, I suddenly realized that it was as if I had been separated from my relatives! Xu Yue replied.

"Hmm. This makes so much sense, if you think about it carefully, rural people move to the city, live in the apartment, especially the older generation, miss the rural life very much, how lively, on weekdays, play mahjong, play cards, chat, how interesting it is. Zhang Tianyuan nodded.

"So, in fact, there are still gains and losses, I think after my parents move away, they will definitely miss the neighborhood here, but if you miss it, come back and see, now the transportation is so convenient." Xu Yue said with a smile.

"That's right!"

"Brother Serpentine, turn into the road in front, yes!" Xu Yue said to the snake lin who was driving.

Snake Lin turned the car into the alley, the road here is relatively narrow, but it can also pass the car, even if it is two cars side by side, it can be done, it should have been expanded later.

The car drove into the alley, and the scenery was completely different from other places, under the shade of greenery, you can see the uncle playing chess on the side of the road, the aunt chatting, and the children playing, you can hear the sound of birds, and the sound of dogs, which is difficult to encounter in the downtown area.

"Yunkai Lu is 3,000 zhang, and there are millions of dark buildings"!

This "million" residence is what is now called the imperial capital courtyard. The type of the courtyard house of the imperial capital is regular, very exquisite, there is a house, there is a yard, there is a gate, there is a second door, there is a verandah, there is a private school, there is a living room, there is a wall, there is a storehouse, there is a kitchen, and the large family even has a garden, a carriage and a horse room.

Close the door and stand on its own. Standing in the courtyard of the imperial capital and looking around, the middle stretches, the corridor sill twists and turns, and there are exposed and hidden. The essence of the courtyard lies in the word "he", which "unites" all the members of a family.

"The courtyard is a little deeper", only in this ancient courtyard can you feel this Chinese poetry.

The courtyard of the imperial capital talks about the pattern, the style, the style, the tradition, the layout of the whole courtyard is strict and bright, so that people have a sense of elegance and comfort, and the courtyard of the old imperial capital is famous all over the world.

When the car stopped, Zhang Tianyuan raised his eyes and looked at the big mansion in front of him, first of all, this door was very magnificent.

"Although this house was built during the Republic of China, but it was a bit chaotic at that time, so this house was built in accordance with the style and scale of the Qing Dynasty Prince's Mansion, originally, the area is nearly 10,000 square meters, which belongs to a huge courtyard, but after some things, only more than 2,000 square meters are left, but even so, it is still absolutely large." Xu Yue also got out of the car and pointed to his courtyard and said.

"This is really magnificent!" Zhang Tianyuan didn't particularly understand the courtyard, but he was still a little shocked when he saw this magnificent gate.

"There is a text in the third chapter of "Dream of Red Mansions": 'After walking for half a day, I suddenly saw two big stone lions squatting in the north of the street, and three beast-headed gates...... The main entrance is not open. Only the east and west doors are entered. There is a plaque above the main entrance, and the plaque has five big characters in the big book: 'Eja Ningguofu'...... and went westward. It's not too far, and it's still three gates. Fang is Rongguo Mansion. According to the description of the large stone lion in the text, this gate should be regarded as the pattern of the prince's palace in the Qing Dynasty. But in such a palace, there should be a 'lion courtyard' in front of the door, and the lion cannot be placed in the place facing the street, and the east and west corner gates should be facing the street. Like the Qing Dynasty's Zheng Wangfu, Liwang's Mansion, Dingwang's Mansion, etc., the stone lions in the mansion are all in the corner gate. This gate is definitely comparable to the gate of Ning Guofu, which was not facing the street before, but later the road was built, and it was facing the street. The stone lion was also smashed, and it became what it is now, which is a pity. Xu Yue said with emotion.

"The stone lion of the Republic of China is difficult to preserve until now, this door has not been destroyed, it is already a blessing, I think the stone lion must be put out in the future, otherwise it always feels like something is missing." Zhang Tianyuan is very confident in his carving skills, and he carves a pair of stone lions in front of the door by himself.

"If you buy this house, you can naturally renovate it yourself. No one else can take care of it. Xu Yue said with a smile.

"By the way, what did you mean by the Lion Yard?"

"As far as the gate of the palace is concerned, there are five prince's palaces. There are three county king's mansions, all of which sit in the north and face south, and there is a door cover in front of the door. That is, a house with doors, windows and walls, with aisles rising above the ground. There is a corner gate on the east and west sides of the house gate. They are all called Asimun, for people to enter and exit. In the Qing Dynasty Fang Ruishi's "Jiaoxuan Suilu", it said: "'There is a door on the left and right sides of the main entrance of the Foreign Officials' Office. It is called the east corner gate and the west corner gate, and the lower officials are all admitted by the corner gate. 'The corner gates, which allow them to be closed on weekdays and open according to the time of day, are designed for the sake of ceremonies. Outside the gate of the house, there are stone lions, lampposts, horse-tied stakes and other facilities such as grass wood. Opposite the gate is the shadow wall. If the two Asi Gates are facing each other from east to west, let people pass, there must be a quadrangular courtyard among them, so there is a pair of stone lions in front of the house gate, so it is also called 'Lion Courtyard'. ”

"Oh, I see."

"Okay, let's not talk about it so much, let's go in and have a look, my mother should be there." Xu Yue pushed open the door, he looked at the east and west sides, and found that the so-called corner gate was long gone, which was also caused by history, but it didn't matter, as long as the house could be kept intact in general, he was already very satisfied.

On the roof of the gate of the palace with tube tiles, large ridges, and kissing beasts, the vertical ridge is set up with immortals and beasts, the gable wall is made of drainage ditch drops, the gate is painted red, and the beams are painted in color, as long as you look up, you can see it, Zhang Tianyuan is carefully observed.

At this time, the door opened a crack, just enough to accommodate one person to enter, probably because the door was too heavy, and it was a bit difficult to open it widely.

Snake Lin parked the car in a parking lot a hundred meters away from here, it is a private parking lot, the charge is a bit expensive, but there is no way, this courtyard is this inconvenient.

Entering the gate, Zhang Tianyuan knew what the concept of the big quadrangle that Xu Yue was talking about, and this courtyard alone was quite shocking.

Generally speaking, the main house of the large courtyard house is the front porch and the back building, and there is a cover room at the back. There is a hanging flower door in the middle of the flower wall in the south of the east and west wings, there are four wooden screens in the door, and the east and west wings have a hand-copying verandah, which communicates with the hanging flower door. Some flower walls are on both sides of the hanging flower door, with two or three leaky windows.

Between the main room and the side room, there is a full moon door, which can go from the aisle to the backyard, and some have a hall, which can be walked through.

In the outer courtyard, there is a flower wall in the east and west, the moon gate in the middle, four wooden screens with green paint, red bucket square characters, the east side is "moving wall book", and the west side is "West Garden Hanmo". You can go through this door to the cross-courtyard.

The south room has a verandah through the mountain, which is a corridor that is opened with a gable wall and connected. In this way, several courtyards are formed that are connected to each other in the east, west, north and south. The most typical large courtyard house in the imperial capital is the palace of the Qing Dynasty, this one is in the goldfish alley and Prince Gong's mansion, this one is located in Shichahai West Street and so on, spectacular and magnificent, but also with a garden.

The scale of Xu Yue's big courtyard house was actually no less than that of the palace and the palace of Prince Gong, but it became smaller later for various reasons, but if it is two thousand square meters, it is enough for Zhang Tianyuan, he just lives alone, it is too big but too deserted, even if you call friends to play, it doesn't need to be as if it is a palace.

The reason why people's palaces are big is because there are subordinates and servants, Zhang Tianyuan at most invited a little nanny and a few gardeners to help take care of the flowers and plants, and it is not good if it is really too big.

"How about Tianyuan, are you still satisfied?" Xu Yue asked as he led Zhang Tianyuan inside.

There was a dog leashed inside the gate, a fierce-looking earth dog, but after seeing the Shinra standing on Zhang Tianyuan's shoulder, he shrank back and didn't dare to say anything. (To be continued......)