Portable Museum

Chapter 24 Five Ridges and Six Beasts
"By the way, how was your chat with Qiu Wenyan?
I can tell you, take your chances.

The little girl is pretty, has a good personality, and her family is well-off, her father is from the district...and will help you in the future..." Ye Lihua pointed out.

"Don't worry, sister-in-law, I promise to win it!

I have already invited Qiu Wenyan to have lunch together, are you coming? "

"I'm not going to be a light bulb anymore.

You boy moves very fast!come on! "Ye Lihua smiled gratifiedly.

"Okay, you go! Go home to get the money at night."

"Okay! Then you are busy, I am leaving!"

Leaving Ye Lihua's office and coming to the big office outside, Zhang Junping winked at Qiu Wenyan and told her that he was waiting outside.

At this time, Qiu Wenyan had already realized that Zhang Junping didn't come to find her in the first place, but she had a guilty conscience and overreacted.

He bared his teeth at Zhang Junping, and told him with his eyes, you wait for me, and turn around and bite you to death.

Zhang Junping came back with a look of waiting in my eyes.

After brief eye contact, Zhang Junping left the Bureau of Light Industry.

BJ Siheyuan is the cultural business card of BJ [-] City, and each set of Siheyuan has research value.

Zhang Junping didn't go anywhere else, just squatted at the entrance of the alley not far from the Bureau of Light Industry, staring at the roof of the courtyard, studying the mythical beasts on the roof.

The roof ridges of ancient buildings can be divided into three styles, hard mountain style, hanging mountain style and veranda style. Among them, the hard mountain style is used by ordinary people, the suspended mountain style is used in commercial buildings, and the veranda style, as the name suggests , is used in the palace, in the past belonged to the exclusive structure of royal buildings.

Ordinary people are not allowed to use it, otherwise they will violate the system, ranging from exile to ransacking their homes.

The roof of the house has five main ridges, vertical ridges, halberd ridges, surrounding ridges and corner ridges.

There are kissing beasts or watching beasts at both ends of the main ridge, and hanging beasts on the vertical ridge.Therefore, a word was derived from it called: five spines and six beasts.

It refers to the five ridges of the roof and the six mythical beasts on the ridges.

In ancient times, not only the roof ridge was particular, but also the arrangement and number of mythical animals on the roof were also particular.

Roof beasts began to appear in the Han Dynasty, and then continued to increase, reaching the peak in the Qing Dynasty, forming a team of roof beasts.

The leader of these mythical beasts is the "immortal riding a phoenix", followed by dragons, phoenixes, lions, celestial horses, seahorses, 狻猊, yuyu, Xiezhi, bullfighting, and Xingshi.

According to the regulations of the Qing Dynasty, the beasts behind the immortals should be in odd numbers, arranged in three, five, seven, and nine.

The number varies according to the scale and level of the building, and the higher the number, the higher the level.Most of them are singular numbers one, three, five, seven, and nine. Only the Golden Luan Hall of the Forbidden City is different. There is a tenth beast "Xing Shi", which is unparalleled in the world.Secondly, there are nine Qianqing Palaces where the emperor handles government affairs daily; there are seven original Kunning Palaces; five East and West Six Palaces; and one to three supporting halls.

Time slipped away while Zhang Junping was studying the mythical beast on the roof.

Soon, it was noon time to get off work.

I saw Qiu Wenyan walking out of the Light Industry Bureau by himself, with graceful footwork, coupled with Qiu Wenyan's excellent figure, it really shines.

After walking out of the Light Industry Bureau, Qiu Wenyan looked around for Zhang Junping.

Zhang Junping quickly waved to Qiu Wenyan, signaling that he was here.

Qiu Wenyan saw Zhang Junping, and still walked towards Zhang Junping in a leisurely manner.

Walking to a place about ten meters away from Zhang Junping, Qiu Wenyan stood still, looked at Zhang Junping, showed two small canine teeth, and said three words: "Big villain!"

Then, with a sweet smile, she turned around and left quickly.

This operation made Zhang Junping look stupid.

"Hello! Comrade Qiu Wenyan, what do you mean?" Zhang Junping hurriedly called her to stop.

"Big villain, eat it yourself! My sister won't accompany you anymore!" Qiu Wenyan turned around and said proudly with her head held high.

Zhang Junping smiled, this girl is really interesting, she releases her own pigeons, she is so upright.

I was afraid that I didn't know that I was being released, so I ran over to say something.

The little girl also doesn't understand her brother's character too much. If you let this happen, that brother's reputation will be completely ruined.

Zhang Junping took a few steps, took Qiu Wenyan's hand with one hand, and put his arm around Qiu Wenyan's shoulder with the other, "Hey, little lady, you're here now, where are you going? Stay obediently and have dinner with brother let's go!"

Qiu Wenyan was directly stunned by Zhang Junping's operation, how could there be such a brazen person?
Just about to struggle, Zhang Junping whispered in her ear: "Don't move, don't you know how charming you are?
If you move around again, I can't help but kiss you! "

In a word, Qiu Wenyan was so frightened that she obediently dared not struggle anymore.

Being held hands and hugging shoulders already made Qiu Wenyan's face glow with shame, but if she was kissed again, she really couldn't live.

Just like that, Zhang Junping walked into the alley and came to the door of a small restaurant.

Zhang Junping also knew that enough was enough, and when he walked into the alley, he let go of his arms around his shoulders, and just held Qiu Wenyan's hand.

In this day and age, it's normal to hold hands in public when falling in love, but hugging shoulders is a bit out of line.

Of course, in private, as long as both parties are willing, nothing goes beyond the outline.

Seeing that Zhang Junping let go of his arms and no longer hugged her, Qiu Wenyan let out a sigh of relief, and did not forget to look around to see if anyone he knew had seen.

Seeing that no one was paying attention to her, he let go of his gripping heart, and finally stepped on Zhang Junping's instep to relieve his anger.

Shaking off Zhang Junping's hand, he walked into the small restaurant with his head held high.

I secretly vowed in my heart that I must order a few more dishes in a while, so that Zhang Junping can eat poorly.

This small restaurant was found by Zhang Junping when he was researching the roof beast.

Through observation, this small restaurant should be one of the better ones around.

The layout of the small restaurant is very characteristic of the times. There is a large banner upon entering the door, and customers are not allowed to be beaten and abused for no reason.

It means that if there is a reason, customers can be beaten and abused.

On the right hand side of the door is a long and tall cash register, which is connected to the kitchen behind.

There is a large window in the kitchen, so you can see the inside at a glance from the outside.

Don't think about the menu in this day and age.

There is a big blackboard on the wall just behind the cash register, which says, dishes are served today.

"Swallow, let's see what you like to eat. Order whatever you want!" Zhang Junping looked like an upstart, patted his pocket, "Brother is not short of money!"

"Hmph!" Qiu Wenyan snorted, protesting, but looked up at the blackboard without saying a word.

"Comrade, here's a piece of vinegared shredded pork, a piece of hot and sour cabbage, and a pound of steamed buns, that's all." Zhang Junping said he wanted to eat poorly, but in the end he only ordered two dishes, one meat and one vegetarian.

"Comrade, I don't want that steamed bun, let me have a pound of dumplings! Filled with pork and green onions." Zhang Junping quickly changed his main food.

"The total is two yuan and thirty cents, half a catty of food stamps, and six taels of meat stamps.

The deposit for plates and bowls is two yuan. "The waiter didn't even lift his head, clacked the abacus beads, and then quoted the price.

The meals in this era are all real ingredients. The ratio of dumplings, meat filling and flour is one to one.

One catty of dumplings, four taels of meat, one tael of green onions, and half a catty of flour.

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