Xu Lian secretly got along with Xu Jifang without telling his family, the two of them have been like glue for the past few days, and today they came to visit Xu Yu who was recuperating together.

The weather is fine, and you can see a palace style door wall from afar, and a royal gold plaque is hung on the majestic gate, and the first emperor writes "British Mansion" himself.

Outside the main gate, there were some sedan chairs and horses, and on both sides stood a row of captains with tall chests and swords, and high-spirited butlers and guards, all of whom came and went, and the gate was crowded with personal soldiers.

From time to time, a four-person official sedan chair flew in, and the deacon handed over the name post, and the steward took it, turned around and ran inside. After a while, a decent housekeeper ran out again, holding the post and saying please.

Xu Lian took Xu Jifang to the side door, and a steward led them in, first bypassing the verandah, and walking to a boxy courtyard for a long time.

The steward didn't go in, but walked to the wall door of the east verandah, Xu Lian explained as he walked: "The second brother lives here, with a separate courtyard, not an inner house, otherwise it will be difficult for you and me to enter." ”

"Oh!"

Xu Jifang, who entered the Guogong Mansion for the first time, concealed his inner shock, and secretly said that there are too many houses, right? The problem is that this is still an outer house, no wonder it is as deep as the Houmen and the sea, not just a metaphor.

When I entered the door, I saw a huge floor-to-ceiling marble screen blocking it, replacing the shadow wall. After turning the screen, walk towards the flower hall of the left corridor, along the way the ancient trees towering to the sky and the flower garden everywhere, a group of birds and flowers in the environment, very elegant.

Beautiful bamboo curtains are hung on the corridor, all half-rolled, and piles of rockeries outside the curtain block the view. Xu Jifang admired in his heart, looking at the past from the natural stone hole, there were vaguely some antique pavilions and pavilions, and when he turned the corridor, his eyes suddenly opened up, and a ten-meter-high artificial waterfall flowed straight down, splashing in the water vapor. The view from the garden is like a fairyland.

Just when Xu Jifang was appreciating it, a few scholars came out of the corridor on the right and said, "Second Master Lian will go to the study and sit for a while, and I'll go in and report it." ”

Xu Jifang was stunned for a moment and asked, "Isn't this the residence of the second son of your mansion?" ”

Xu Lian smiled: "That's wrong, it's the second child's study, and the residence is still in it." ”

"Ahh So far, Xu Jifang has been convinced, and finally saw with her own eyes what it means to be rich.

Another scholar invited them to the study, and Xu Jifang sat down on the next chair with Xu Lian. The chairs are covered with new red embroidered gold chairs, the whole floor is covered with a thick precious brocade carpet, on one side of the seven-hole partition are all kinds of antique jade, on the other side are several rows of large mahogany bookshelves, a dazzling array of books.

After eating a cup of tea, and waiting another quarter of an hour, the scholar came in and asked for it, and the two of them, guided by him in front, came out and turned westward. A long flower-walled road, paved with broken stones on the ground, walked about sixty or seventy steps, and there was a rain corridor on the side.

The entrance to the garden is of the moon cave type. Four large ice orchid lattices are inscribed, with the eye-catching "One Corn Garden" engraved on them, and four women stand in front of the door.

Xu Jifang followed and walked in, facing a high rockery. Surrounded by a row of railings, there seems to be a pavilion attic on top.

The left-hand verandah is gradually rising and distant, with no end in sight. The steward's woman led them to the verandah on the right, and when they reached the foot of the hill, a cave appeared in front of them.

The lady in charge turned back and said, "Come closer here, but if you go far from the main hall, you will have to go around four or five courtyards." Do the two sons like to go shopping, or do they take shortcuts? ”

Xu Lian showed an inquiring look, and Xu Jifang smiled: "It's okay to go this way, it's really not a secret, it hurts in the lower two legs." ”

"Okay, let's come with the slave." The steward's woman smiled, and went to the cave.

Xu Jifang found that this rockery was like a real one, with a textured wall full of images, but it was not scary, and the light was not as dim as imagined.

On one side of the stele is written the words "there is no world", walk through the winding stone path, and there are often translucent stone holes and lantern ledges on both sides.

Out of the cave, Xu Jifang looked, the world has really changed in front of him, the hillside is followed by a stone bridge with nine curved red columns, and the peach trees and willows on both sides are just the time to flourish, half-hidden and half-hidden some ingenious buildings.

A pool of spring water is green and lovely, the water surface is sparkling, people walk on the bridge, the figure is reflected under the bridge and shakes, crystal clear. Xu Jifang was very envious, secretly admired, walked through a few curved bridge railings, looked at the water pavilions on both sides of the pool, or opened the windows near the water, or there were pink walls to block them, or there were rockery flowers and trees guards, and the eaves flew to the building.

A young girl is hidden or visible in it, and the spring breeze blows and sets off the raccoon yarn, which is really dizzying, Xu Jifang simply takes it as a visit to the West Lake.

The center of the nine-curved bridge is a three-storey octagonal pavilion, surrounded by white stone railings, the pavilion is open on all sides, the window is colored with silk yarn, embedded with blue glass, the pattern of the window is carved extremely exquisitely and exquisitely, and there is a plaque of "washing cui pavilion" on it.

It's a pity that the door is closed, and the couplet is the calligraphy of the Northern Wei Dynasty: the sound of crossing the water flute urges the moon, and the people across the lake say that the lotus returns. Under the signature "Xu Yu".

Good words, good unions, good places, Xu Jifang nodded secretly, as soon as he came in, he felt tacky and completely gone, there was no vulgarity and wealth, the building was not carved and painted, but it was interesting and not ordinary, and the details highlighted the luxury of the wealthy family.

Turning the pavilion and walking to the shore, the road is gentle, there is a blue and pink wall in front of it, and the moon cave door is also open, with the words "Deep in the Green Clouds" written on it.

The woman in charge turned around and said, "Please go into the courtyard and sit down, and the slave family will go and ask left and right, so as not to run back and forth." ”

Xu Jifang couldn't help sighing, and walked in with Xu Lian at the moment, thinking that he had reached the end, but he didn't know that there was still a long corridor along the wall on the left and right sides, and in the middle was a cement road, a white stone fence, a variety of bamboos on both sides, and almost no miscellaneous trees.

Because there was a person standing in the distance waving, Xu Lian led him to the verandah on the left, the flower wall was transparent, and he could see that there were many courtyards hidden on the opposite side. Walking and walking, a gurgling spring outside the railing yearns to flow, all poured into a pool, facing a blue screen window, and there is a vermilion balustrade in front of the window.

Walking through the window, there is a floor-to-ceiling wind window in the middle, which is a pattern of three lights and two darkness. Xu Jifang walked in and saw that the tables and chairs were all made of Xiangfei bamboo, and there was no need for any draped pads.

Inside is the big kang with the heart of the purple bamboo vine, the front is equipped with the landing cover of the gourd vine, and a large mirror is hung in the middle, and the mirror has the words "Qingxiangxuan".

The musk brain is half sold in Jinding fire, the sound of insects is new through the green curtain, and the signature is the word "orchid".

Two seven or eight-year-old girls walked in with black lacquer plates, gently put down the two teas, and walked out lightly.

"Thank you." Xu Jifang admired the furnishings in the house and asked, "This is the residence of Second Master Yu?" ”

How do you know that Xu Lian said blankly: "I don't know, I didn't expect it to be so big, almost no less than the inner house Zhengyuan." ”

Xu Jifang couldn't help but say, "It's too luxurious, right?" It's just the residence of the second son. ”

"I see." Xu Lian understood and explained: "This is undoubtedly the new house of the second child and Miss Lanxiang, and after the separation of the family in the future, it will be an independent house with slight modifications, and these courtyard houses are reserved for children." ”

Xu Jifang sighed: "That is, the dignified and wealthy Guogong family, and even the minister can't afford to repair it when he is idle." ”

"Not really." Xu Lian also sighed: "Actually, my third uncle is also very opposed to this, but this inner house is my wife's one-third of an acre, while he is not at home, he will start repairing it with an order, and even the palace will send someone to help, and when my third uncle comes back, it will be repaired." Ha ha! He had nothing to say. ”

Xu Jifang was envious, and said in her heart that she only hated that this world did not allow men to marry men, otherwise, wouldn't she become the son-in-law of the national family? Although the Xu Lian family is not as good as Zhengzhi, it is said that it is also one of the few close branches of the Xu family, and his father Xu Rong seems to be the confidant of Xu Sanye and the county lord, and his words are very weighty, and his family can be called like a prince.

After chatting for a while, the two naturally didn't dare to make love here, and then the housekeeper woman came in from outside and said, "There are not a few places nearby, it should be in Qifeng Tower." If the two sons are rested, they will come with the slave family. ”

"Yes." Xu Jifang smiled bitterly and thumped her thighs and stood up.

Xu Rong complained: "I kind of understand why I ran a horse in the inner house." ”

The woman hurriedly said: "Oh, it's not that the slave family is deliberately negligent, the Sichuan horse has not been at home recently, and was ridden to the main garden by the girls." In a few days, dozens of Japanese horses will come from the Wa country, and their temperament is as tame as the Sichuan horse, and they are much shorter, which is suitable for the girl's family to ride. ”

The two of them followed the woman all the way north, the road was blocked by rocks from time to time, and the corridor passed through the cave, and it was obvious that the ground was higher and higher.

Originally, this promenade was built according to the mountain, chiseled into stone steps, five steps and six steps, about more than 20 poles, not very high and not very steep, horses and sedan chairs are also easy to walk.

There are many handwriting of celebrities on the stone wall on the right hand side, most of them are famous poems or words left by the famous family of this dynasty, there are as many as hundreds of people, probably Xu Hao hopes to leave a precious place of interest to future generations, even if the house may be burned down, this stone wall is likely to be completely preserved, and unknown, there is a complete set of Hongxi classics and the living history books of the emperors of the past dynasties hidden in the mountain, etc.

In this regard, Xu Hao adopted the preservation method of scattered places, and engraved ten sets of precious heritage at a time and divided them into the world.

On the left-hand side is a long balustrade, built against the mountain, where you can sit anywhere, looking out at the pavilions in the distance, only the cornices and corners, and the lush trees are everywhere.

After a while, the two walked to the top, and looked around, there were more than dozens of buildings in the garden, all of which were covered by flowers and trees growing high and low, but the Xicui Pavilion and Qingxiangxuan could be seen completely because of the open terrain. Looking further afield, not to mention the vast main house, the mountain over there is higher than the mountain on this side, and at the end of the line of sight, there is the majestic Forbidden City and its huge outbuildings.

On the mountain, a dusty courtyard full of flowers and trees, the embroidery floor seems to say "listen to the sound of autumn", on one side is a platform piled with bluestone, with stone tables and stone benches, and an autumn leaf gate opposite.

Above is an ancient Greco-Roman villa with lifelike figures carved into snow-white stone pillars, and on the opposite cliff is a traditional high-rise that flies out of its corner and hangs in mid-air. (To be continued......)