At the end of the wooden bridge is a three-step staircase, and up the stairs is a path sandwiched between the rocks, the exit of this road is extremely dangerous, on both sides are steep rocky cliffs, and in the middle is a path, no more than five feet wide, and on both sides is filled with a lot of earth between the rocks, and planted with clusters of flowers, but it is winter, and the flowers have withered, and the branches and leaves have withered, and only the lonely branches are waving in the wind-

He Ruihui stood at the beginning of this mountain road and looked up, at the top of the cliff about two feet high, he could reach the tall blue-gray wall, the majestic building called 'Retreat and Zhai', and its back wall was facing this cliff, with cornices picking out, showing a beautiful and elegant arc in the air.

The mountain road is rugged, not the stone slabs are neatly paved one by one, but it seems that a bunch of stones are placed here in a disorderly manner, and there is a small tree and a few flowers in the middle of some stones, but it is wild and interesting, but it is extremely difficult to walk.

Steward Liang said with a smile: "Lord He, be careful, this garden is humid at night, and there is ice on the stones, so be careful to slippery." ”

He Ruihui smiled: "Thank you for the old steward's suggestion." ”

He looked at it and saw that there was indeed a thin layer of ice on the stone, and if he was not careful, he would have to carry a big heel. He Ruihui is young and healthy, but it doesn't matter, be careful, Liang is in his sixties, but he is also walking steadily, as if he is fine. A family member wanted to support him diligently, but he was thrown away.

This rockery island is so big, how much time does it take to walk from one end to the other? The straight-line distance from the entrance of the mountain road to the retreat is not far, but the twists and turns give people a feeling of a lot of space.

Both sides of the road are full of flowers, and if it is summer, it will be submerged in a sea of flowers, splendid and fragrant. (You can refer to Li Yapeng's version of the scene outside the Dongfang Undefeated Residence on the Black Wood Cliff in the Xiaoao Jianghu.) ）

After three or four rounds, I crossed an arched bridge between two peaks, and I suddenly opened up in front of me.

This is the pinnacle of the entire rockery, a fairly large open space, standing here, it is already condescending, looking around, enough to take the entire Xie Mansion into view, until it is blocked by the high wall around the mansion.

Standing here, you can get a glimpse of how big the entire Xie Mansion is.

Xie Mansion is a good quadrangle, but it belongs to the largest quadrangle, that is, the front door is an alley, and the back door is also an alley - equivalent to a depth across this block, is the distance between the two alleys, about 267 zhang.

Looking down from the mountain, you can see that after the second courtyard of the main hall, there is the third courtyard. This courtyard is the main courtyard, and when you enter the courtyard, it is a circle of corner corridors, and the various buildings in the courtyard are connected by this corner corridor. The railings of the corner corridor in this circle are all the railings of the same stool, and on the outer side of the corner corridor, there are red lacquered pillars the thickness of a person's thigh every other zhang.

The third courtyard has five main rooms, the double volume hooks and matches, the corridor in front of the front is wider and more spacious, the ash tube on the top of the hard hill is the head of the hoop, and on both sides of the main house, there is an ear room on the left and right, which is the pattern of the front porch and the back of the building. There are three wings on each side, and the scale is not small.

At the corner of the east corridor and the main house, there is a horizontal corridor to connect with the road.

Between the ear room and the west wing room on the west side, there is a low wall, and there is a hanging flower door on the wall, leading to the west courtyard.

The garden occupies the east courtyard, and compared with the general garden in the south of the Yangtze River, the west courtyard is much more formal and traditional.

The southernmost part of the west courtyard is the flower hall, with three rooms with surrounding corridors, and the ash tube tiles on the top of the hill pass the ridge roof. And the flower hall across the whole courtyard is far away, sitting north and facing south is a very large main room with three rooms, there is a corridor in front. The front out of the Xuan, the face is wide and three, and the hanging mountain rolls the roof. There are blue gauze cabinets, floor covers, Bogu shelves, etc. in the interior, and there is a Buddhist hall in the west corner.

There are two ear rooms on the east and west sides, three rooms in the east and west wings, the four corners of the courtyard are connected by the corner verandah, and there are two three-foot-high stone platforms in the courtyard, and there is a Taihu Lake stone on the stone platform respectively. Thin, wrinkled, leaky, transparent, exquisitely clear, with heavy mountains and mountains, can be appreciated.

After the third entrance, the structure and layout of the houses in the fourth courtyard are the same as those of the second entrance.

The last entry, the fifth entry, is quite simple, it is a long and narrow courtyard, similar to the shape of "one", this courtyard is more than ten zhang long from east to west, but the width from north to south is less than two zhang. There are no east and west wings, only a row of houses facing north and south, and a full sixteen regular back cover rooms, all of which are large hard mountain tiled roofs with rows of ravine drops.

This rear cover house is flush with the main house, forming a parallel line, usually in the last courtyard, and the general number is the same as the inverted house, but also to fill the width of the homestead as much as possible. In a large quadrangle, the single grade, naturally is the highest main house, tall and spacious, the construction atmosphere is bright, ventilation and lighting and other conditions are very good, followed by the east and west wings, and then the back cover room, and the second, of course, is the inverted seat room.

The main house is lived in by the master's elders, the side room is lived in by the nephews of the later generations, and the inverted seat room is lived in by the servants of the lower family. The back cover room is located at the end of the entire large courtyard, which is very secret, so it is generally the place where the daughters and maids and mothers of the family live.

The fifth courtyard of the Xie Mansion is built with special features: although the courtyard is very simple, and there are no wings or anything like that, but the four back cover rooms in the easternmost part of the fifth courtyard are extra circled, and a fence is built to separate them from the other back cover rooms, forming a separate courtyard.

There are many flowers and trees in the courtyard, as well as bluestone-paved paths, which are quite elegant and clean. The four back rooms were also converted into two-story buildings. The architectural style is biased towards the south of the Yangtze River, which is very elegant and beautiful.

Xie Sheng's daughter has already been married, he is a native of Dezhou, Shandong, a Jinshi of Wanli for thirty-five years, and he was already thirty-six when he was a Jinshi, and his daughter has also reached the age of marriage. Long before he went to Beijing in the 36th year of Wanli, he was already married to a local gentry in Texas, and his life was very happy.

Now in that small courtyard, living is his youngest granddaughter, the third eldest son in the family.

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On top of the platform, there is a tall building.

The building has four floors, and the height is afraid to be up and down five zhang, you know. Where are the high-rise buildings in this era? This high-rise building of about five zhang already gives people a strong visual impact and shocking feeling. Towering tall buildings, towering proudly.

It's just that although this building is high, it does not look clumsy and stiff, but the shape is ingenious, the layout is fine, and there is ingenuity everywhere.

The first floor at the bottom is a wide hall, with three steps in front of the door and stone walls, all of which are made of large bluestone three feet long and one foot thick, and the wood used is fine nanmu, all of which are of the same thickness and thickness of large wood. Only the first floor is two zhang high, the space is large and open, and the large wood in front of the hall is a column, which is even more spacious and majestic.

On the door of this hall, there is a plaque with the words "Retirement and Fasting". Retreat is Xie Sheng's self-name, and he likes this word very much, so the name of the study is Retreat Zhai, which is also the self-named Retreat Mountainer.

Wash and wash, retreat and wash your hands in a golden basin, which has the meaning of returning to the countryside. It's just that if you really think like this in your heart, Lord Xie Sheng Xie is so determined to climb up, and at such an age, he still has such an eager mind, and he has no intention of retiring from officialdom, which is really incomprehensible.

I'm afraid it's just a flaunt.

The hall on the first floor of the retreat was dark, and it seemed that there was no one inside.

He Ruihui couldn't help but sigh with some regret in his heart, he had come to this retreat many times, and naturally knew that the Arhat bed in the hall on the first floor, with a screen, and a few old ornaments, were all made of high-quality golden silk nanmu, which is rare now. There are also a lot of rare and rare curiosities on the Bogu shelf inside, and he wants to play with it again this time, but now it is unlikely. Of course, what interested him even more was that there were a lot of rare books on the dozens of large bookshelves inside. He is a book lover, and this time he is thinking about borrowing a few books after the conversation.

Generally speaking, these four- and five-story high-rise buildings have a staircase leading to the upper two floors in the first hall, and then a staircase to go up in turn. However, this is not the case, and the design is very exquisite—the east wall of the hall on this floor is directly built into the shape of a mountain, and it looks as if it is built against a mountain. On the side of the east wall, there are stone steps, which can be curved to the second and third floors.

And under this step, there is a small house, similar to the ear room, the scale is not large, but the inside is lit.

As if he heard movement outside, the door of the house opened, and two men came out, both in their thirties, with strong physiques and strong martial arts. They didn't know He Ruihui, but they knew Liang in charge, and they all hurriedly saluted respectfully. Through the open door, He Ruihui saw that there was a stove inside, and it seemed that two people were warming up around the stove, and there was a gorgeous shoulder on one side.

Steward Liang just nodded lightly, didn't speak, and directly took He Ruihui up the stairs and went to the second floor.

There is a cloister in front of the second floor, which can be overlooked by the railing, and there is also a plaque hanging on the door, but it is written with the four big characters of "Green Qiqin Terrace".

This floor is the piano building.

Xie Sheng is a good guqin, and few people in the officialdom of Beijing today do not know it. He has always loved to play the piano and play it elegantly, and it is said that his skills are extremely high, although he cannot be said to be heavenly, but he is not far away!

The green Qiqin platform on the second floor is where Xie Sheng stroked the qin after he came. And he is not only good at caressing the qin, but also better collecting, and there are more than a dozen famous guqin pianos in this green Qiqin platform. One of the most precious is a green qin, from which the green qin platform is named.

The third floor is called Shuangqing Room, its structure is extremely wonderful, in which the ground, ceiling, window sash, all use the word "Asia" as the picture, and it is said that the word "Asia" is the word auspicious. Shuangqing Room is the place where Lord Xie Sheng Xie used to chant the wind and make the moon, and often chanted poems here, waved at the window, and splashed ink to paint.

In front of the hall, the bridge is green, and the view of the moon in the curved pond is called "Shuangqing".

The fourth floor is the Invitation Mountain Pavilion.

The Invitation Mountain Pavilion has reached the top floor, and the entire layout area is not large, so there is a circle of space around it, and there are railings on all sides.

This is already the highest point in the entire Xie Mansion, and from then on, you can overlook the entire Xie Mansion, and even look beyond the tall wall to see the outside. This retreat is already five zhang high, plus the stone mountain below, the total height has reached nearly seven zhang, this kind of height, is already extremely rare. In the high, I'm afraid it's in the Forbidden City.

Here, you can get a bird's-eye view of almost the entire North City.

When He Ruihui came here, he couldn't help but feel big, and he spontaneously felt a sense of pride. Look up at the blue sky, look down at the world. Looking around by the railing, I saw silence on all sides, just a dark and gloomy place, but there were many places, all of which were brightly lit and flickering inexplicably. Faintly, there is a subtle sound of silk and bamboo coming from some places, and I don't know whose family is feasting and drinking, inviting singing and dancing.

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