National Tide 1980.

Chapter 627 The Zodiac Auspicious Day
On May 1984, 5, in the new column "Kyushu Fangyuan" launched by the national television station, a song and dance program was specially arranged to show the development of Shenzhen.

Because just the day before the broadcast of the program, the main building of the China World Trade Center in Shenzhen was topped out, a full month ahead of schedule.

This Labor Day is also the day when Ning Weimin brings Kang Shude back to Ma's Garden.

The weather in Beijing on this day is quite good.

The sun is shining brightly, the breeze is blowing, and the flowers of the locust trees are blooming.

The scent of Sophora japonica flowers is floating all over the street, and butterflies are flying.

From this aspect alone, it is an auspicious day suitable for house viewing.

Even Ning Weimin loves to show off.

With the intention of showing off, he didn't drive honestly that day, and took Kang Shude straight to the Weijia Hutong where the Majia Garden was located.

Instead, he shook his wits and rushed to Dongsi Sitiao first to see the No. [-] courtyard he bought.

In the end, as he wished, he shocked the old man with the uncle's yard.

"Is this the yard you bought? All right, it's enough to surprise me to do such a big thing for me without making a sound. You kid actually bought another amazing yard secretly, Even the residents have moved out."

"Well, it's really good. Inner courtyard, outer courtyard, screen wall, hanging flower gate, Chaoshou verandah, screen door, rear cover room, everything you should have is there. This is the layout only for rich families, and the courtyards of ordinary people are not so complete. Almost."

"This house is also well built. The gate tower and the screen wall are exquisitely carved, and even the bricks used to build the walls are high-quality blue bricks. The ground bricks are so dense that they are neither afraid of rain nor attract earthworms. Well, this courtyard is very good. It’s gone! Even if you don’t repair it, the wall won’t fall down even if it’s left here for 100 years.”

"Hehe, the size of the base of your house is really interesting. Also, the ridge of the house is made of beasts, and the green and red paint used is not the standard of ordinary people. Looking at the traces, there were still gold-colored paintings of flowers and plants on the corridors of Liang Dong back then. .This house is probably tainted with imperial air, it is part of the residence of a certain clan noble in the former Qing Dynasty, right?"

"It's worth it! Why isn't it worth it? It's not measured by how much you spend, and you don't lack money. A courtyard house of this standard can be counted in the whole capital. This is the same as antiques. Once you miss it, it may last a lifetime." You can't even buy it."

"Well, your eyesight is good, your luck is also good, and your fortune is even more prosperous. I think about your life, I am afraid that you are born to gather money. If you don't get rich, I don't know who else can get rich... "

Kang Shude is indeed a man of knowledge.

Before he knew the specific origin of this yard, he had already seen the difference in this house with sharp eyesight.

He was also sincerely surprised for his apprentice, and every sentence he said was on Ning Weimin's itching.

So it's like a singer meets a fancier who understands opera, and a chef meets a gourmet.

For Ning Weimin to be praised by his master, it is more satisfying than listening to [-] compliments from others.

He couldn't help laughing out loud, very happy.

"Master, now you know what your apprentice is capable of! To tell you the truth, this courtyard was once lived in by Daoguang's uncle. It is the mansion of the emperor."

"I'll fix up your Ma's garden and my yard later. You can live wherever you like. If you want to be a rich man, you are a rich man. If you want to be an emperor, you are an emperor."

"So let's put it this way, in fact, you are more blessed than me. Who made you have such an apprentice as me? From now on, you just wait and enjoy the blessings with me..."

Ning Weimin said these words grandly and heroically, but there was a bit of cleverness and revealing, but also a bit of self-satisfied presumptuousness.

This is actually what Kang Shude dislikes the most.

In peacetime, he would definitely have been scolded by the old man.

But today is different after all.

Just because he was happy in his heart, Kang Shude not only didn't say anything ugly, but even nodded his head in approval for the first time.

"No, this is called fate. Originally, I thought you were so annoying, but I didn't expect us father and son to become masters and apprentices. I thought I had lost it long ago, but you helped me get it back. It seems No matter between people, or between people and this room, there is actually a definite number. This is called what should be in fate, and eventually there will be..."

It can be seen from this that Ning Weimin did these things to please the old man.

Of course, Kang Shude's fateful remarks were indeed made by him.

Half an hour later, when his two feet finally stood at the entrance of the west gate of Ma's Garden, this feeling became even stronger.

Revisiting the old place today, the expression on Kang Shude's face was half a smile, not a smile, he seemed both excited and bewildered.

Not for anything else, just because everything in front of his eyes was specious, which made him feel a little dazed.

He lived here with Mr. Song as a tenant from the second year after he entered Beijing, until the second year after the founding of the People's Republic of China, he left here and moved to the small courtyard in Shan'er Hutong.

Here, he grew up from 11 years old to 31 years old, learned skills, got married, started a business, married a wife and had children.

It can be said that the most important time of his youth and adolescence is connected with this place.

However, with the flick of a finger, decades have passed, the street is still the same street, and the alley is still the same alley.

But the people he knew, and the people who knew him, even his teachers, old friends, family members, and friends, are all gone.

Even the house and the trees on the street are old and have changed a lot. How can he not feel embarrassed?
In his memory, the kindergarten at the east entrance of the Hutong used to be the temporary residence of Zaifeng, Puyi's biological father, in [-].

The prince who sold out the mansion moved here, and lived diagonally across from him for two years as a neighbor. In his later years, he was suffering from illness, and the family did not accept outsiders. Only the doctor often came...

There is also No. 19 Shijin Garden next to the north of Huayuanzi, which used to be the residence of Wu Peifu in his later years.

He can't forget that when the legendary warlord was buried in 1940, the team passed by here, and they lined up for several miles, attracting thousands of people in the capital...

He even remembered the scene when the original owner of the garden, Ma Xuchu, got married in 1945.

Because he was married to Yu Yihua, the daughter of Yu Jinhe, the then pseudo-mayor of Peking.

The Ma family held a wedding at the Jingcheng Hotel, chartered more than 100 taxis across Beijing, and surrounded the roads with yellow silk, causing a sensation.

Then followed by Japan's defeat, Yu Jinhe was arrested by the national 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, the liberation of Peking...

A few years later, he was repatriated because of the "movement" and his family, and inadvertently escaped the renovation of his private house.

Then, after nearly 20 years of hard work in his hometown, he returned to Beijing alone...

All this is almost forgotten in the dust.

Looking back at it today, it is really just like Cao Xue's "Dream of Red Mansions", it is an unreal dream.

Just like the lyrics in Kong Shangren's "Peach Blossom Fan".

"I once saw the hawks singing in the Jinling King's Palace, and the flowers blooming early in the Qinhuai River Pavilion, who knows that the ice will disappear easily. I saw him build up the Zhulou, see him entertain guests, and see his building collapse. I once fell asleep in this pile of moss and green tiles. Watch the rise and fall of 50 years..."

So when Ning Weimin opened the big lock on the chain tied to the big lock of the courtyard door, he waited for a while, and couldn't help but yelled "Old man, what's wrong with you?".

Kang Shude woke up from the confusion in his heart because of his apprentice's call.

Seriously, 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 into the gate, it suddenly seemed like a dream.

(End of this chapter)