Chapter 332 Mansion
The car crossed a cement bridge at Shuangxianchang and went around Huanhua Creek. On one side of the concrete road was a clear stream, and behind it was the Qingshui River. On the other side is a row of gardens and teahouses.
“There is Baihuatan Park here,” Jiang Wu introduced: “Old men like to come here to drink tea.”
“The water quality here is much better than the Jinjiang River just now.” Zhou Zhi said with a smile. : "I don't know if I can make tea."
"How is that possible?" Jiang Wu couldn't help laughing: "Although it is called Qingshui River, if you drink this water, you will probably get a stomachache."
"Don't laugh." The godfather said: "Back then, Wangjiang Park and Baihuatan were surrounded by bamboo groves and there were many teahouses. The signboard was 'River Water Tea'."
"The water of Jinjiang River at that time, It can be on the sign."
"What year did it happen?" It was Jiang Wu's turn to be surprised: "How come I haven't seen it before?"
"When Jinjiang was still open to navigation," the godfather said, "Jiuyan Bridge was first called Jiuxian Bridge. It was the water gate and the big wharf of the capital of Shu. Diagonally opposite is Xue Tao's tomb and Xue Tao's Well, which everyone likes The place where we went to drink tea later became Wangjiang Park."
"That may be sooner than I thought..." Jiang Wu was completely speechless.
"I don't know what year or month it will be until the grand occasion of river water tea can be restored..." Zhou Zhi also sighed.
"We will be there soon. Look, there is the thatched cottage."
The thatched cottage is old, the walls are low, and the trees inside the walls are quite old. On the side of the road near the river outside the wall, there is a row of large trees. The Paulownia tree is also a few years old.
Zhou Zhi came here once last year and acted as a guide for his friends. At that time, he didn’t know that there was a cave on the other side of Huanhua Creek.
After passing the thatched cottage, the road becomes desolate and even feels a bit like a wilderness.
There is no municipal planning in this area. It used to be farmland, but now it has been relocated, leaving only a lot of ruins, shrubs, and a few abandoned ponds.
Zhou Zhi paid attention and found that there were no street lights in this area. Then the car entered a place enclosed by a long white wall. After entering, we found that it was a huge gravel parking lot. On one side were factories, sheds, various machinery, and various models of military vehicles. Most of them are military trucks.
"The military region must ensure the Tibet aid mission every year. These are vehicles that run on national highways and require frequent overhauls." Jiang Wu introduced as he walked through the factory.
"It seems like the military is not poor at all..." Zhou Zhi looked at the green trucks on both sides and muttered to himself: "There are so many military vehicles..."
"Don't make trouble!" Jiang Wu Said: "You don't know how much stuff is hauled up every year!"
"Can I pass through here in the future?" Zhou Zhi asked: "Don't sell my house and block the road. Where can I go to cry?"
"Hahaha, then just slide along the white wall. Let's go on the way!" Jiang Wu said with a smile: "But be careful at night, there are many big ones. Wolf dogs, this is also a training ground for military dogs. Are you afraid of dogs?”
“I’m not afraid, I quite like it.”
There is a small road from the factory, and the cement road is a bit old. There were some cracks in the road and grass had grown.
On both sides of the road are thin bamboo forests, forming an avenue of trees, which is quite quiet.
Although it was surrounded by trees, Zhou Zhi discovered that this place was unusual before. For example, the car just passed around a pond. It was a standard circle, surrounded by carved stones and even a rockery.
However, the pond is now full of silt and black water, which shows that there is no one to manage it for some time.
There are also gardens and artificially paved walking paths.
Jiang Wu slowed down so that Zhou Zhi and his godfather could see their surroundings clearly.
The vehicle soon arrived at a door with a cement wall and a metal gate.
The metal door is a Western-style iron door. You can see the workmanship back then. The flower pattern is still very exquisite, but it is now stained with rust.
“We’re here, it’s just inside this door.” Jiang Wu parked the car: “Get out of the car, I’ll show you.” When the door opened, Zhou Zhi’s eyes suddenly lit up: “Oh …”
The godfather also looked ahead: "This house is old."
"This was first the residence of important people who surrendered. Later, they were taken abroad by their children. Before going abroad, they donated this place to Military District.”
"This place is a bit remote, but fortunately it is quiet and has beautiful scenery and good air. After the military region repaired it, it was opened into a nursing home for senior cadres."
"Later, after the military region hospital was repaired, in order to facilitate the veteran comrades health care, recuperation The hospital was moved to the military hospital, and this is what it is like here..."
The place is quite good. The terrain here is considered to be the highest place in the surrounding area. The whole is a long strip separated by two gables. A section on the half way.
Then stone embankments were built on both sides of this section, and jasmine, hibiscus, gardenia, and willow trees were planted on the inside, forming two green belts, one facing Huanhua Creek and the other facing Qingshui River.
On an acre of land surrounded by green belts and gables, there is a bluestone platform at the entrance, and on the platform is a pavilion with red pillars and blue tiles.
In front of Xuanxie, there are rows of wooden chairs on both sides for beauties to lean on. In front of it is an exit, and outside the exit is a pond. An "and"-shaped stone bridge leads to the other side.
In the middle of the word "和" is a curved bridge, and the two horizontal bridges are also small stone bridges, leading to two small pavilions in the pond.
However, for the sake of easy maintenance, there is only shallow water in the pond now, which is ugly.
But you can also see that the entire pond is made of strips of stone. In one place, the shape of the natural rocks is retained, standing on the edge of the pond, perfectly combining natural and artificial.
Zhou Zhi was secretly stunned when he saw it. The artificiality of this pond alone was incredible.
After walking through the curved bridge, we came to the center of the place. A blue brick and blue tile building in the style of the late Qing Dynasty, in which the west wind spread from the east to the east, appeared before Zhou Zhi's eyes.
The first floor of the mansion is elevated, and you need to walk up a few steps to reach the main entrance.
Before entering, there is a long balcony extending to both sides of the building, decorated with Gothic stone columns, which has a colonial architectural style.
The doors and windows are also original, but the quality seems to be surprisingly good, and the lattice windows are not damaged.
Push open the door whose upper part is also made of lattice glass and enter the museum.
The inside of the room turned into a Chinese layout again, with a hall in the middle, two wing rooms on each side, and two side halls outside the wing rooms.
One of the two side halls is arranged in a study style, and is now a utility room where old furniture and bookcases are stacked. The other is round, with glass walls from top to bottom, but it is a glass warm room. room style tea room.
Five rooms, 200 square meters, is really big enough.
The back wall of the main hall is designed to be magical. It is decorated with a lot of solid wood, which is a bit like a church. There is also a window in the middle that is made of colored glass bricks with an upper tip and a lower tip.
There are two depressions on both sides of the church-like decorative wall, and the bottom is decorated with beautiful flower panels and handrails. When you get there, you find a mystery. This is actually the staircase leading upstairs.
Go up the stairs to the second floor, where you will find a rectangular reception room. Opposite the reception room are three doors, leading to three rooms respectively.
There is also a large balcony on both sides of the reception room.
Further up, there is a loft with a steeple. What is different from other lofts is that this is the largest room in the entire mansion, covering an area of 150 square meters.
Directly in front is a large round window similar to the face of a large clock, and there are also large square windows on both sides, making the entire attic look extremely bright.
Now this big attic is also full of debris.
(End of this chapter)