After all, Xu Lian secretly got along with Xu Jifang without telling her family. The two of them have been inseparable these days. Today, we will visit Xu Yu who is recovering from illness.￥f

The weather was sunny, and you could see a door wall in the style of a zong palace from a distance. A plaque with gold was hung high on the towering and majestic gate, and wrote the "Britain of England" written by the late emperor.

There were sedan chairs and horses resting on one side of the main gate, and there were rows of lieutenants with chests and swordsmanship standing on both sides. There were military officers coming and going, and the gate was filled with personal soldiers and servants.

From time to time, four people came in the official sedan chairs like flying. The deacon handed over a famous post. The manager took it and turned around and ran into it. Suddenly, a decent housekeeper ran out and held the post and said please.

Xu Lian took Xu Jifang to the side door, and a manager led them in. He first walked around the veranda of the area and walked to a square yard for a long time.

The manager didn't go in, so he walked into the wall door of the Dongshou Corridor. Xu Lian explained as he walked: "The second child lives here, and he is a separate courtyard. He is not an inner house, otherwise it will be difficult for you and me to get in."

"oh!"

Xu Jifang, who entered the Duke's mansion for the first time, covered her shock and thought to herself that there were too many houses, right? The question is still an outside house. No wonder it is like a marquis' door as deep as the sea, not just a metaphor.

When I entered the door, I saw a huge floor-to-ceiling marble screen blocking it, replacing the screen wall. After turning the screen, I walked towards the flower hall on the left corridor. Along the way, the ancient trees and towering flower beds were everywhere, and the environment was filled with birds singing and flowers, which was very elegant.

Beautiful bamboo curtains were hung on the corridor, all half-rolled. The piles of rockery stones outside the curtain blocked the view. Xu Jifang was amazed in his heart. Looking through the natural stone holes, there were vaguely antique pavilions and towers. After turning the corridor, his eyes suddenly became clear. A ten-meter-high artificial waterfall flowed down, splashing water vapor. The scenery in the garden was full of sight, like a fairyland.

Just as Xu Jifang was admiring her, she hit a few book boys out of the corridor with her right head and said, "Once, Master Lian, sit in the study room for a while, I'll go in and report."

Xu Jifang was stunned and asked, "Isn't this the residence of the second young master of the mansion?"

Xu Lian smiled and said, "I'm wrong. It's my second son's study, and his residence is still inside."

"Ah!" At this point Xu Jifang was convinced and finally saw with his own eyes what wealth is.

Another book boy invited them to the study room. Xu Jifang sat on the lower chair with Xu Lian. The chairs were covered with new red embroidered gold chairs, and the entire floor was thick with precious brocade blankets. There were various antique jade artifacts on one side, and on the other side were several rows of large mahogany bookshelves, with a wide range of books.

After eating a cup of tea and waiting for another quarter of an hour, Shutong came in and asked for it. The two were guided by him in front and turned westward. A long flower wall was sandwiched with broken stones on the ground. After walking about sixty or seventy steps, there was a rain corridor beside him.

The entrance to the garden is a moon-hole-shaped pattern. Four large ice garden grids are embedded with a conspicuous "Yi Suyuan" engraved on it, and four women stand in front of the door.

Xu Jifang followed him in, and was facing a tall rockery. It was surrounded by rows of railings, and there seemed to be a pavilion and loft on top.

The left hand veranda is gradually getting higher and farther away, and it is nowhere to be seen. The woman in charge leads them to the right side of the mountain veranda, and after walking for a while to the foot of the mountain, a cave appears in front of her.

The woman in charge turned around and said, "If you walk closer here, if you walk farther away from the main hall, you have to bypass four or five yards. Do the two young men like to stroll around or take shortcuts?"

Xu Lian showed an inquiring look, and Xu Jifang smiled and said, "It's good to go here, it's really not to hide it. Both legs hurt."

"Okay, come with me." The woman in charge smiled and walked straight to the cave.

Xu Jifang found that the rockery was real, with textured walls full of images, but not scary, and the light was not as dark as imagined.

One stele has four words "There is another world" written on it. Walking through the winding stone paths, there are often transparent stone holes and lantern ledges on both sides.

After leaving the cave, Xu Jifang saw that there was a change of world before him. A stone bridge with nine-curved red railings was next to the hillside. The peach trees and willows on both sides were about to flourish, and they were half-hiding and half-hiding to hide some ingenious buildings.

The spring water of a pool is cute and the water surface is rippling. When people walk on the bridge, the figure is reflected under the bridge and sways, and it is clear. Xu Jifang was extremely envious and secretly admired him. He walked through several curved bridge railings and looked at the waterside pavilions by the pools on both sides, or opened windows by the water, or covered by pink walls, or protected by rockery flowers and trees, and flew over the eaves.

Young girls appear and appear in it from time to time. The spring breeze blows and makes the shiny float, which is really dazzling. Xu Jifang simply treats it as a visit to West Lake.

In the center of Jiuqu Bridge is a three-story octagonal pavilion, surrounded by white stone railings, and windows are opened on all sides of the pavilion. The windows are full of crimson gauze and blue glass embedded in them. The patterns of the windows are carved extremely exquisitely, with a plaque "Xicui Pavilion" on it.

Unfortunately, the door is closed, and the couplet is a calligraphy of the Northern Wei Dynasty: the sound of the flute crossing the water urges the moon to go up, and the people across the lake speak to pick lotus back. The following is a signature "Xu Yu".

Good characters, good couplets, and good places. Xu Jifang nodded secretly. As soon as he came in, he felt that the vulgarity was gone. There was no vulgarity and wealth. The buildings were not as magnificent as carved beams and painted buildings, but were interesting and not ordinary. The details highlighted the luxurious background of wealthy families.

I turned the pavilion and walked to the shore. The road was smooth. There was a wall of green pink flowers in front of me. There was also a moon cave door open, which read "Deep in the Green Clouds".

The woman in charge turned around and said, "Please sit in the yard. I will go to the left and right to ask, so as not to run back and forth."

Xu Jifang couldn't help but sigh, and walked in with Xu Lian. She thought that she had reached the end, but she knew that the wall was still a long corridor along the left and right sides. There was a corridor made of cement in the middle, white stone railings, multiple bamboos on both sides, and almost no miscellaneous trees.

As someone stood in the distance, Xu Lian led him to the veranda on the left. The flower wall was empty and you could see many courtyards hidden opposite. As you walked, a gurgling spring outside the railing flowed, pouring into a pool, facing him were green gauze windows, and a vermilion railing was set against the window.

Walking out of the window, there was a large floor-to-ceiling and dark window in the middle. Xu Jifang walked in and saw that the tables and chairs were made of Xiangfei bamboo, and there was no need for any mat. It was natural, and there were bamboo lattices on both sides, and various longevity characters were all made of water.

Inside is a big kang with purple bamboo and rattan heart, with a floor-to-ceiling cover of gourd vines in front, and a large mirror hanging in the middle, with the three words "Qingxiangxuan" on the mirror.

The musk brain is half-extinguished with golden cauldron fire, the sound of insects is fresh and the green window screen is signed with the word "Orchid".

Two young girls, seven or eight years old, walked in with black paint plates, gently put down two cups of tea, and walked out with a little blessing.

"Thank you." Xu Jifang admired the decorations in the house and asked, "Is this the residence of Master Yu Er's residence?"

But Xu Lian said in a daze: "I don't know, I didn't expect that it would be so big, almost no less than the inner school garden."

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

"I understand." Xu Lian understood and explained: "This place is undoubtedly the new house of the second son and Miss Lanxiang. After the separation of the family in the future, a little modification will be a separate house. These yard houses are reserved for their children."

Xu Jifang sighed: "It's just a wealthy and powerful Duke, and even ministers can't afford to practice it."

"That's not." Xu Lian also sighed: "Actually, my third uncle also objected to this. However, this inner house is a one-acre and three-point land of my wife. When he was not at home, he started to repair it at the right time. Even the palace sent someone to help. When my third uncle came back, everything was repaired. Haha! He had nothing to say."

Xu Jifang was envious and said that he only hated that men were not allowed to marry men in this world. Otherwise, wouldn’t he have become the son-in-law of the Duke of the Kingdom? Although the Xu Lian family cannot compare with the Zhengzhi, it is said that it is one of the few nearby branches of the Xu clan. His father Xu Rong seemed to be the confidant of Master Xu San and the princess. He spoke very well, and his family could be better than a prince.

After chatting for a while, the two of them naturally did not dare to be intimate here. At this time, the woman in charge came in and said, "There are not a few places nearby, it should be in Qifenglou. If the two young men have a good rest, come with my family."

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

Xu Rong complained: "I understand why I ran away in the inner house."

The woman hurriedly said, "Oh, it was not because my family deliberately neglected it. The Sichuan horses were not at home recently and were ridden by the girls to the main garden. In a few days, dozens of Japanese horses will come from Japan. They are as gentle as Sichuan horses and are much shorter, so they are suitable for girls to ride."

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

It turned out that this corridor was built according to the mountain, and the mountain was carved into stone steps, with five steps and six steps, about twenty poles, not very high or steep, and it was easy to walk on horses and sedan chairs.

There are many handwritings of famous people on the stone wall on the right hand side, most of which are poems or words from famous masters of this dynasty, and there are as many as hundreds of people. Perhaps Xu Hao hopes to leave a precious scenic spot for future generations. Even if the house may be burned, the stone wall may be preserved intact. And it is unknown. There is a complete set of Hongxi ceremonies and the living history books of emperors of all dynasties in the mountains, etc.

In this regard, Xu Hao adopted the method of preservation of various places, printed ten sets of precious heritage at a time, and hid them in the world.

On the left is a long seat railing, built against the mountain, you can sit around everywhere. Looking at the pavilions in the distance, only the eaves and corners are exposed, and lush trees are everywhere.

After a moment, the two walked up and looked around. There were more than dozens of buildings in the garden, all covered by flowers, plants and trees growing high and low. Only Xicui Pavilion and Qingxiangxuan could see them completely because of the wide terrain. Looking further away, let alone the vast house. The mountains there were higher than the mountains here, and at the end of the sight were the majestic Forbidden City and huge ancillary buildings.

There is a garden full of flowers and trees on the mountain. The embroidery building seems to be written on it, and on one side is a platform made of bluestone, with stone tables and benches, and an autumn leaf door opposite.
Chapter completed!