Chapter 1,790 Gao Yongchang

“If previous designs focused on the real parts that make up the architectural space, then this time my senior brother and I’s courtyard focused more on the virtual parts.”

"The benefits are firstly to reduce costs and facilitate maintenance, and then to be more elegant and flexible. In addition, the layout is easy to adjust and the temperament is easy to change."

Knowing what is good is not a skill, but being able to refine it to a theoretical level and talk about it is not simple.

Su You nodded: "It's indeed good. Even to me, a layman, the aesthetic level of your yard is higher than the gardens of the past."

"There is only one problem. The pool in the yard is not small. Although it is very shallow, we must have a nanny at home in the future."

Yi An felt a little strange: "What does the pool have to do with the nanny?"

"Of course it does matter. It would be terrible for a child to fall in."

"Oh daddy!"

Su You smiled and said: "You are already married, why should you be shy? Yi An is good at music, calligraphy and painting. Now it seems that he has a deep research on aesthetics..."

"I know you don't like Yi An's lyrics by Da Su, but he also has a lot of research on aesthetics and was once the dean of the Academy of Fine Arts. You must have a common language."

"He only got two strange stones in Yangzhou. Don't you go and see them?"

When Dasu went to Yangzhou, he got two strange stones. One of them was green, like a rolling hill, with holes reaching up to the back; one of them was white jade.

Dasu liked it very much, "soaking it in a basin of water, placing it among several tables", and admiring it every day.

One day, Su Shi remembered a dream he had had: "I was in Yingzhou, and I dreamed of a government office. The people were no different from ordinary people, and the mountains and rivers were clear and far away, and there were people who were happy enough. On the Gushi Hall, there was a sign named 'Qiu Chi'

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When I woke up and thought about it, Qiuchi was the old place of Wudu. Yang Nan should be the protector, so why should I live there?

Tomorrow I will ask my guest... The guest said: 'Why do you ask me this? This is a blessed land, a small vassal of the cave heaven'."

Reminiscent of Du Fu's poem "The eternal Qiuchi acupoint has a secret connection with Xiao Youtian", I named these two stones "Qiuchi Stone".

Qiuchi Mountain is located in Gansu, with steep sides, but springs can be used to irrigate the fields. The top of the mountain is shaped like a small boat, surrounded by red rock walls. It is the birthplace of Fuxi, the founder of Chinese humanities.

According to records, "Fuxi was born in Qiuchi and grew up in Chengji." When the world was created, his sister Nuwa refined colorful stones to mend the sky, and the remaining stones were discarded in Qiuchi.

Zhang Dunli promised to take the two horses painted by Han Gan and asked him to send the stones to Bianjing City just to have a look at them.

Da Su, with a villain's heart and a gentleman's heart, not only refused to do it, but also wrote a poem to prove the issue of Qiu Chishi's ownership.

The preface reads: "The Qiuchi stone that the servant hid is a treasure that I hope will be passed down from generation to generation. The prince-in-law borrowed it with a small poem, intending to seize it. The servant did not dare not to borrow it, so he used this poem to get it first."

In the poem, he wrote about how he loved these two stones: "The sea stone came to Zhugong, its color is as beautiful as moth green... At first I suspected that Qiuchi would be transformed, but I was afraid that Yingzhou would be frowned upon... The envoy to Qiaonan was diligent, and he paid Yangzhou as a pastor...

Use the Korean basin to hold it, and use it to decorate the jade..."

He also talked about how annoying Zhang Dunli was: "One husband can marry each other by chance, but they still chase each other thousands of miles away... How can a romantic nobleman seize what he wants?"

Finally, compared with Lin Xiangru's return of the intact jade to Zhao: "If you want to keep Zhao weak, you would rather suffer the loss of Qin Qu. Be careful not to allow it, and return it quickly."

He had been careless all his life, but in his old age he was so pretentious for two stones, which made Zhang Dunli laugh and cry.

Han Gan's horse is not worth more than your stone?! You can't even look at it in exchange, is it?

Colander smiled and said to Yi An: "Junior sister, dad not only wants you to inherit the mantle of my old cousin. He is also afraid that we will continue to go north and wants us to go to Jiangnan to have a look."

Su You couldn't help but roll his eyes at the colander: "You are the only one who is smart!"

Yi An smiled and said: "Senior brother has made arrangements. After coming to Daming to see my father this time, I will go to Yangzhou, Zhongshan, and Changzhou to visit the clan uncle and the master."

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Su You actually had a lot of things to do, so the most he could do was take care of the couple's meals and let them arrange their activities freely. He also took a long break to take Yi An and Colander to the piebald stone quarry.

The stone field is really not much fun for ordinary people, but for people with rich imaginations like Su Youyi'an, it is very interesting.

They look at stones as if they were reading paintings and can think of various themes.

If the theme and the pattern are very consistent and so consistent that ordinary people can understand them, then the value of the stone slab will increase.

This is actually a process of picking up mistakes with the help of powerful imagination. Yi An likes this kind of intellectual game very much.

After agreeing to Yi An to make the two slates she picked out - "Frost Leaves on Cold Mountains" and "On the Waterside" - into table screens and send them to Bianjing, Su You sent the young couple on a small steamer along the canal.

Go to Yunzhou.

The children have their own ideas when they are older, and Su You has no control over the arrangements of the colander. It is actually quite compact to cover all these places in twenty days.

The route is quite comfortable. Take a small steamer from Daming to the canal and go down to Changzhou. Along the way, you will pass Liangshanbo, Weishan Lake, Gaoyou Lake, and then you can visit Taihu Lake, Xili River and Jinhu Lake, which are said to be built by Fu Chai for Xi Shi.

The place where Wu Wa Pavilion was located, and the creek where Fan Li and Xi Shi left.

Nowadays, Su Song, Su Shi and Su Che are all close to each other, so it is really convenient to visit them.

The return journey is even simpler. You only need to return to Xiapi, and then you can take the train back to Bianjing.

Su You also prepared a lot of gifts for San Su. Things in the north are cheaper now. He prepared some ginseng and mink skins for the elder brother, and some Qiwan horses from Hebei for Su Zhe's twenty-eighth mother.

Brocade.

What he gave to Dasu was the roasted chili sauce that he cooked by himself.

Just use the pickle jar sent from Yangzhou last time!

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Tokyo, Hoshoji Temple.

This is the largest temple in the Liao Kingdom. It was built in the ninth year of Kaitai in the Liao Dynasty by Emperor Shengzong, known as the reincarnation of Sakyamuni, for his mother, the Empress Dowager Xiao.

Because there are seven huge Buddhas enshrined in the temple, it is also called the Seven Buddha Temple. Each Buddha has a special palace display, surrounded by Buddhist clay sculptures surrounding the Buddha, decorated with gold, silver, jewelry, silk and satin.

Fengsheng Temple is divided into two huge palaces, the east and west, and is home to five thousand monks. They are monks on behalf of the clan nobles, so they also belong to the privileged class.

The monks in the temple indulged in lawlessness, made money by lending money, and robbed the common people, making the people miserable.

On the side of the grand mountain gate, a man who looked like a general was blocked by several great monks outside the side door: "Quickly leave! I have no food for you! The autumn wind of Tan Yue beating the monks is really a joke in the world!"

The man was staggered by the fork, but kept smiling: "Master, Master, I know that there is food in the temple, and life is really hard in Whisling Mountains. At least we can help some, or we can pay the debt first..."

"I owe you money. I'm afraid you, a poor soldier, can't afford it! Let's go, let's go!"

While I was scratching, I heard a voice shouting: "Wait a minute -"

Several monks stopped and saluted a monk wearing kapok cassocks: "Linzu seat."

The monk was the elder of the precepts dean. He came over and looked at the embarrassed soldier: "What's your name?"

"The younger one's name is Gao Yongchang, and he is the general of the Bohai Sea in the Whirlpool Ridge!" Seeing that things were turning around, the man quickly pushed aside the crowd and knelt down in front of the elder: "Lord Buddha, I have pity on the young one. Over there in the Whirlpool Ridge, the sergeants and craftsmen are all very happy.

There’s no food left.”

The elder said: "Follow me."

"Hey..." Gao Yongchang hurriedly followed up: "Elder, as long as you have instructions, the little ones will definitely take care of it for Buddha!"

The elder walked towards the temple without looking back: "You are sergeants and craftsmen. If you don't go to the government to consult the government about these matters that should be dealt with by the court, but you come to my mountain gate, you are looking in the wrong place."

Gao Yongchang laughed along with him: "The elder doesn't know something, but as long as the yamen can do something, I won't trouble the Buddhas."

The elder shook his head: "Liao is the most important military force. I don't believe that even the sergeants' rations would be deducted."

Gao Yongchang said: "That's not true, but there are some troubles in Whisling Ridge. They are all related to the Bohai people. Also, nowadays, the world is getting more and more chaotic, and no one dares to leave his family behind, so he keeps it with him every day when he opens his eyes.

, there are several mouths around you waiting to be filled.”

The elder also sighed: "There are so many hardships in the world of mortals, and the mountain gate is not so clean..."

When they came to the Zen room, the elder ordered the young novice to take out a stack of bills: "These are cake coupons, noodle coupons, and oil coupons. They were first issued by merchants in Beijing, imitating the eagle coupons."

"Later, Xiao Tuohui caused a disturbance, and many officials were short of money, so they sent them to pawn, and a lot of them were accumulated in the temple."

"Now that food prices are soaring, merchants are hoarding food but are unwilling to redeem it according to the face value on the coupons. This is a lack of integrity."
Chapter completed!