Zhang Yun's ancient life

After eating at noon, Uncle He took Zhang Yun to the yamen, circled the vacant land around their house, took out the registration book of the fields, and collected all the unsold land in Qingshi Town. Find it out, show it to Zhang Yun, and introduce the basic situation of these lands to Zhang Yun while looking at it.

Zhang Yun flipped through the pages and listened carefully, stopping when he encountered something he was interested in, and asked his uncle about the specifics of these lands.

Uncle He is indeed a person who has worked in the county government for more than [-] years. He knows the land situation in the county well and can always find the most cost-effective land for Zhang Yun. With him, Zhang Yun But it saved a lot of effort.

The two of them worked in the side hall all afternoon, and they finally settled Zhang Yun's purpose of coming back to the county government office. Zhang Yun took the money and went to Master Cao to go through the procedures of land transfer. With a large title deed, Zhang Yun bid farewell to Uncle He, and rode home contentedly.

When Zhang Yun came back, Guan Jing had already invited Uncle Zhong who was going to renovate the house for them. Uncle Zhong was leading his apprentices around the courtyard of Zhang Yun's house. with.

These people still have pens and notebooks in their hands. They will stop and discuss from time to time, then record them, and then go back and circle around.

Uncle Zhong is very excited now. He hasn't received such a big job for a long time, and this time the owner gave him a lot of authority, saying that as long as it can be guaranteed, the house built will be spacious, bright, ventilated and bright. Well, the layout of the courtyard is reasonable, and there is no place where there is no taboo to interfere with each other. They will not interfere with everything else, and let him display it as he wants.

If you want to talk about their business, the most fearful thing is to run into a boss who doesn't understand anything, pointing fingers at the side, asking for this and that for a while, changing the original good drawings they planned into a mess In the end, if the house is built, if it doesn't meet their expectations, they will come over and scold them who built the house. I don't even think about it. If he hadn't come here to make trouble, how could this house be built like this? .

Uncle Zhong was very pleased to meet such a sensible boss. Besides, he is getting older now, and he will be 50 in a blink of an eye. After agreeing, Uncle Zhong decided that even if he exhausted all his life's knowledge, he would also build this courtyard well. When he was old and could no longer do the work, he would let his children and grandchildren often help him to come over and look at it. It will be a monument to his life, and when people see this courtyard, they will think that he built it.

Uncle Zhong has always been intoxicated by such thoughts, so much so that when he saw Zhang Yun coming back, he just greeted Zhang Yun slightly, and then led the people inside and out to busy him again.

Seeing his full fighting power, Zhang Yun didn't dare to disturb him. He led the horse into the yard, and asked Guan Jing who came up to him, "Uncle Zhong, what's the matter? Repair it for parents and the others." I didn’t see him like this when I was in the house.”

Guan Jing couldn't figure out what was going on, and replied with some hesitation: "Maybe our family has more work this time, and Uncle Zhong may be afraid that something will go wrong and he won't be able to explain to us, so that's why it happened. "

Zhang Yun didn't have any objection to this. After all, the masters who were invited worked hard, and as masters, they would only be happy.

So Zhang Yun led the horse to the stable, and said to Guan Jing: "The masters have been busy all day, and they have worked very hard. It is almost time for dinner. Tell them to stop all their work and come in for dinner. It’s not too late.”

Guan Jing heard the words and went out and invited all the workers who were working in. Aunt Ma and he knew that there were guests at home today, and they have been busy with this dinner since noon.

Before dinner started, Uncle Guan's family came over. They heard Guan Jing said that the house was going to be built at home, so they asked to come and help. For Guan Jing, the arrival of her parents was really a big help. If he was to entertain, it is estimated that no one on the table dared to move chopsticks except Zhang Yun.

Seeing how Aunt Ma was busy going around, Aunt Guan said to Guan Jing while changing the diaper of little Guan Yu: "Your family should also fill in some people, let Aunt Ma do everything. How can you be so busy?"

Guan Jing heard the words and replied: "I've wanted to add some people for a long time, but Brother Yun said that there is a lot of construction work at home now, and there is no place to live when adding people. Go home and buy some people back."

When Aunt Guan heard the words, she looked at the people in the room and said: "Your family is about to be busy, and Aunt Ma alone is definitely not enough. Otherwise, I will help you find a few people to come over and help you. Please help me."

Guan Jing heard the words and replied: "I originally thought to go to Shixiang Street to hire a few people to come to rescue the emergency, but in the end the hired ones are all unfamiliar, and it is not convenient to use. If my mother has a familiar relationship Let me introduce you to my nimble women, I am willing to pay [-]% more than others to use them for a month."

Upon hearing this, Aunt Guan responded, "Sure, I'll ask you when I get back to see if anyone is willing to come and do part-time work for you."

While they were talking, Uncle Zhong came in with his apprentices. After exchanging pleasantries with Uncle Guan, Uncle Zhong handed over the blueprints they had drawn after a busy day to Zhang Yun and said: " Master, this is the drawing of the house to be rebuilt after we surveyed the land near your home. Come and take a look, Master. If you are not satisfied, please let us know. We can follow your opinion. Change it, if there is no dissatisfaction, then we will construct according to this drawing in the future."

Zhang Yun called the Guan family over, and the two unfolded the blueprint together.

The blueprint showed the floor plan of a large courtyard. In the picture, the courtyards where they lived had not been changed in any way, except that a circle of courtyards was added at the back and outside.

The original yard of Zhang Yun and the others was in a 1-shape, facing south from the north, with the gate opening on the south side. Once entering the gate, it faced the lobby and study room, with a row of wing rooms on the left and right sides.

Bypassing the lobby and the study room is a small garden. Passing through the moon gate in the small garden is the yard where Zhang Yun and Guan Jing live now. The entire layout of the house is drawn down by a long line.

Now they have bought all the land nearby. After the actual investigation, Uncle Zhong decided to keep the original site and add some yards around their yard.

Therefore, on the drawings they drew, the courtyard of Zhang Yun’s house changed from a 1-shaped shape to a convex shape. The original gate and the first courtyard remained the same, but the wall of the back garden disappeared. It is two rows of houses extending along the original courtyard wall, with five rooms in the front row and four rooms in the back row, and nine rooms on the left and right, a total of 18 houses, forming two new courtyards.

The new courtyard is also facing south from the north, but the gates are opened to the east and north respectively. In this way, even if two side doors are opened for the courtyard, the gates of the Zhang family will not be careless in the future. Once opened, people coming and going will enter and exit through these two gates.

In the newly built yard, there are four houses in the back row, and the vacant one is the gate of the back yard. There is a large open space behind the west yard, which is reserved for the barn. In the future, Zhang Yun and his family will The stables, sheepfolds and chicken coops will be moved there, and two rows of houses have been built behind the east yard, this time just the opposite of the front, with four rooms in the front row and a door in the middle. There are five rooms behind.

However, the five houses in the back have two floors. The ones drawn in the picture should be a row of two-story buildings.On the two-story small building and the two sides of the front row of houses near the walls, some places are drawn with charcoal in the picture. Uncle Zhong said that there are reserved flower beds, where trees and flowers can be planted. If the owner doesn’t like it, they can It can also be paved with bluestone slabs, just like an ordinary yard.

Hearing this, Zhang Yun quickly said that this is good, some flowers and plants in the yard are cooler, and then turned his eyes back to their yard, because Uncle Zhong also made a lot of changes there.

Behind the original west wing of their yard, there is an open space of more than one mu of land, which is the vegetable garden and barn of their family now. Now the vegetable garden can no longer be used, and the barn has been moved, so this place is empty again. out.

Uncle Zhong also made use of this place. On the blueprint, he dug a small pond in the place where the vegetable garden used to be, in which he could raise some koi or plant lotus, so that there would be water vapor in the yard, and people would It would be more comfortable to live in. As for the place where the barn used to be, Uncle Zhong built a small pavilion on it, which he said was for watching fish and lotuses.

Another change is that there is an extra door on the east side of their yard, which is connected to the east yard, so that the east garden and the main house can communicate with each other very conveniently.

While looking at the blueprint, Zhang Yun silently calculated the number of houses to be added. Three courtyards were expanded, the two in the front were 18 rooms, and the courtyard in the back was 32 rooms, adding up to 45 rooms in total. Including the original rooms of their house, there are a total of [-] houses that can be used for living, which should be enough.

But he still had a question. He pointed to the small lotus pond in the yard and asked Uncle Zhong: "Uncle, look at the stagnant water in this lotus pond. If it takes a long time, won't it stink in it?"

Uncle Zhong heard the words and replied: "Master, don't worry, you see that there are so many people in our county with lotus ponds, and none of them are smelly. You don't know, there is a kind of fish in our county, we all call it It is the root of the wall. This kind of fish only grows close to the bottom of the pool, and grows up by eating the rotten mud at the bottom of the pool. With it in the pool, no matter how big the stagnant pool is, there will be no rotten smell. A dozen buckets of water are poured into the pond every day, and I guarantee that you will have no problem using this lotus pond for as long as you want.”

That's it, then there is no problem. Zhang Yun discussed with Guan Jing again. Both of them were very satisfied with the reconstruction plan, and finally decided that there is no need to change it and just build it like this.