Chapter 627 Auspicious Zodiac Days
On May 1, 1984, the new column "Jiuzhou Fangyuan" launched by the national television station specially arranged a song and dance program to show the development of Shenzhen.
Because just the day before the program was broadcast, the main building of Shenzhen's Guomao Building was topped out, a full month ahead of schedule.
This May Day is also the day when Ning Weimin returns to Majia Garden with Kang Shude.
The weather in Beijing on this day is quite good.
The sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, and the locust trees are blooming.
The fragrance of locust flowers wafts all over the street, and butterflies are flying.
From this aspect alone, it is an auspicious day for house viewing.
Ning Weimin also loves to show off.
With the intention of showing off, he did not drive honestly that day, and took Kang Shude straight to the Weijia Hutong where Majia Garden was located.
Instead, he got smart and rushed to Dongsi Si Tiao to see the No. 5 courtyard he bought.
The result was as expected, he used the emperor's uncle's yard to shock the old man.
"Is this the yard you bought? Okay, you did such a big thing for me quietly, which is enough to surprise me. You kid actually bought it secretly It’s such an amazing courtyard that even the residents have moved away.”
“Well, it’s really nice. It has everything you need, including an inner courtyard, an outer courtyard, a screen wall, a hanging flower door, a screen door, and a back room. Yes, this is a layout only found in wealthy families. The courtyards of ordinary people are not so complete.”
“This house is well built, with exquisite carvings on the gatehouse and screen wall, and even the bricks used to build the walls. High-quality green bricks. The bricks are so dense that they won’t be afraid of rain or attract any rustlers. This courtyard is great! Even if you don’t repair it, I’m afraid the wall won’t fall down if you leave it here for a hundred years. .”
"Hey, the size of the platform of your house is really interesting. Also, the ridge of the house is decorated with "watching beasts", and the green and red paint used is not standard for ordinary people. Looking at the traces, back then the beams on the corridor were decorated with gold painted flowers and plants. Is this house a part of a noble family in the former Qing Dynasty? "It's worth it! How can it not be measured by how much money it costs?" Lack of money. There are countless courtyard houses of this caliber in the city. It’s like antiques. If you miss them, you may never be able to buy them again.”
“Well, you have good eyesight. , good luck, and even more blessings. Looking at your destiny, I’m afraid you were born to gather wealth. If you don’t get rich, I don’t know who else will get rich..."
Kang Shude is indeed a knowledgeable person.
Before he knew the specific origin of this yard, he had already discerned the difference in this house.
He was also sincerely surprised for his apprentice, and every word he said touched on Ning Weimin's itch.
So it’s just like an opera singer meets a theater enthusiast, or a chef meets a gourmet.
Ning Weimin was more satisfied with such a compliment from his master than hearing ten thousand words of praise from others.
He couldn't help laughing, so happy.
"Master, now you know what your apprentice is capable of! To be honest with you, this courtyard is where Daoguang's uncle lived. It is the official residence of the emperor's uncle."
"Wait later for me to repair your Ma's garden and my yard. Then you can live wherever you want. If you want to be a rich man, you will be a rich man. If you want to be an emperor's uncle, you will be an emperor's uncle."
"So to put it this way, you are actually more blessed than me. Who allowed you to have a disciple like me? From now on, just wait and enjoy the blessings with me..."
These words Ning Weimin spoke grandly and boldly, but there was also a hint of cleverness and a bit of arrogance.
This is actually the most objectionable thing to Kang Shude.
If peace were to come to an end, he would definitely have been scolded by the old man.
But today is different after all.
Because he was happy in his heart, Kang Shude not only did not say any unpleasant words, but also nodded in approval for the first time.
"No, this is called fate. Originally, I thought you were so annoying, but I didn't expect that our father and son could actually become master and apprentice. I thought I had already lost it, but it was you who helped me. I got it back. It seems that there is a certain destiny between people and between people. This is what is destined to happen..."
It can be seen from this that Ning The things we did to protect the people were very pleasing to the old man. Of course, Kang Shude's rather fatalistic remarks were indeed made out of his own feelings.
Half an hour later, when his two feet finally stood at the entrance to the west gate of Ma's Garden again, this feeling became even stronger.
Revisiting the old place today, the expression on Kang Shude's face seemed to be a smile but not a smile. He seemed excited and a little confused.
Not for anything else, just because everything in front of him was specious, which made him feel a little dazed.
He lived here as a tenant with Mr. Song from the second year after entering Beijing. It was not until the second year after the founding of the People's Republic of China that he left here and moved to Shan'er Hutong. Small courtyard.
Here, he grew up from eleven to thirty-one years old, learned his skills, started a family, married a wife and had children.
It can be said that the most important time of his boyhood and adolescence was connected with this place.
However, in a blink of an eye, decades have passed, and the street is still the same street, and the alley is still the same alley.
But the people he knew, the people who knew him, even his teachers, old friends, family members, and friends were all gone.
Even the house and the trees on the street are old and have changed a lot. How can he not feel sad?
In his impression, the kindergarten at the east entrance of the alley was the temporary residence of Puyi's biological father Zaifeng in 1949.
The neighbor who moved here after selling the palace and lived diagonally across from him for two years suffered terribly from illness in his later years. The family did not accept outsiders, only doctors came often...
There is also the north side of the garden, next to it The famous Assorted Garden No. 19 was once the residence of Wu Peifu in his later years.
He could not forget that when the legendary warlord was buried in 1940, the procession passed here and lined up for several miles, attracting thousands of people in the capital.
He even remembered this garden. The original owner of the house, Ma Xuchu, got married in 1945.
Because he married Yu Yihua, the daughter of the then pseudo-Beiping mayor Yu Jinhe.
The Ma family held their wedding at the Jingcheng Hotel, chartered more than 100 taxis across Beijing, and surrounded the roads with yellow silk ribbons, which caused a sensation.
Then Japan was defeated and Yu Jinhe was arrested by the Nationalist Government and later died of illness in prison.
And under the arrangement of Mr. Song, this house fell into his hands overnight in an extremely incredible way...
After that, Peking was liberated ...
A few years later, his family was deported due to the "movement" and he inadvertently escaped the renovation of his private house.
Then I struggled in my hometown for nearly twenty years and then returned to Beijing alone...
All these things were almost forgotten in the dust.
Looking back today, it is really like Cao Xue's "A Dream of Red Mansions", that is, it is a dream that is not very real.
It is just like the lyrics in Kong Shangren's "The Peach Blossom Fan".
“I once saw the orioles crow in the palace of the King of Jinling, and the flowers on the Qinhuai Water Pavilion bloomed early, but who knew how easy it would be for the ice to fade away. I watched him build a red tower, I watched him entertain guests, and I watched his tower collapse. This moss-green tile pile, I once slept in love and watched the rise and fall of fifty years to my fullest..."
So when Ning Weimin opened the big lock on the chain that tied the courtyard door, he waited for a long time and couldn't help but yelled, "Old man, what's wrong with you?"
Kang Shu Decai woke up from the confusion in his heart because of his disciple's call.
Attentively, he walked into this garden mansion that once belonged to the richest man in the capital and was inextricably related to him.
The moment I stepped through the door, it suddenly seemed like a dream.
(End of this chapter)