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After a period of indispensable greetings among the nobles, Yang Cheng was finally ready to enter the castle. Only then did Yang Cheng have time to look at the castle gate. The thick and majestic wooden door was inlaid with exquisite iron wolf head handrails. The two-footed dragon is exactly the same as the scene in the play!

　　 Luo Yue, the fan endured little excitement and patted Yang Cheng's arm, Yang Cheng smiled.

Compared with these unimportant appearances, Yang Cheng pays more attention to details. For example, above the main entrance, there is carved a sentence expressing the family motto in old French: Unc　　je　　One　　will　　I　　Serve). This is to express the respect and maintenance of the Kanavin family to the royal family.

　　 Just at this sentence, the force of Highclere Castle immediately went up a few steps.

However, looking back, the embarrassing scene is in full view. You must know that in the heyday of the castle, there were more than 60 servants serving the life of the earls and the couple. Now there are only less than 20 full-time staff in front of you, and before departure When changing clothes, Carson also revealed a message. Due to rising maintenance fees and tax increases, Highclere has lost about 20% of the land. It is unknown that the seniors of the Carnarvon family learned about this situation. , Will he always jump out and kick his family's younger generation?

Fortunately, the shooting of "Downton Abbey" has brought a lot of income to the earls and the couple. Every year, the visitors who come here make a lot of contributions to the maintenance of the castle, and also let the earls and the couple retain the last trace of dignity, but now it seems , This dignity has reached the time to have to give up.

It’s just that Klin, the old butler, has to go to the tourist ticketing center to help while completing his own job and caring for the family members as always, but this does not affect his maintenance of the castle level. The castle has been maintained for hundreds of years. Everything is still the same. The entire castle is always kept in its best state, but only with such a high level of strict requirements, can the castle be able to receive every guest's visit.

As Klin stepped into the castle, it was completely different from the outside, exquisite and orderly world-the vaulted roof supported by red and blue marble columns, and the old antique furniture were placed in a patchwork. The giant oak staircase, and the double-C logo on the floor representing "Comes　　Carnarvon" implicitly reminds visitors who is the owner of this place, everything is the same as it was a hundred years ago.

　　In the play "Downton Abbey", many of the characters' rooms have major scenes. For example, the place where Lord Grantham negotiated with the butler in the play is often arranged in the castle library.

Seeing reality with my own eyes, I can feel the solemn atmosphere brought by the library. The combination of the gilded roof, the bookshelves and the Ionic columns, and the deep red sofa gives people a majestic and solemn beauty, coupled with dark The red handmade carpets and the rows of precious ancient books placed on the gilded bookshelves exude an unstoppable classical atmosphere.

Out of the library, Klin brought Yang Cheng and Luo Yue to the living room. It was completely different from the atmosphere of the library. There was a light and girlish feeling here. Downton fans would probably remember that it was the sisters in the play chatting. Undoubtedly, Luo Yue recognized it at a glance, and under Yang Cheng's encouragement, he still circulated inside.

　　 Klin joked, "I didn't expect Miss Luo to be a fan of Downton?"

　　 Yang Cheng chuckled, "Yes, when I heard that I could come to the filming location of Downton Abbey, I was so excited."

Klin is getting older, and he especially likes the youthfulness that young people bring to him. "The same scene, I can often see when Hikerlier Castle is open to the outside world, and I am not tired of it. Pride, this is where I have lived all my life."

　　 Yang Cheng smiled and did not answer, he could understand Klin's emotion.

　　 In the living room near the door, a Steinway black piano was placed, and Luo Yue couldn't help stepping forward.

Seeing Luo Yue happily stroking the piano keyboard, Kling couldn’t help but stepped forward and said, “Miss Luo, this living room is not only one of the favorite rooms of the Herbert family in the play, but also the favorite place for our master and wife. This Steinway, produced in 1895, still maintains a beautiful tone to this day. If you can, you can give it a try. This piano hasn't played for a long time."

　　 Luo Yue smiled shyly and didn't get started after all.

　　 It is worth mentioning that the pale green wall in the living room is not wallpaper, but very expensive silk. It was one of the dowry given to her by her father when the fifth Countess Amina was married.

Next, Yang Cheng and the others under the leadership of Klin visited some special rooms, such as a smoking room for men. Since the smoking room is no longer fired, there is no misty smoke as imagined, but a room. Famous painting collection room.

The heritage of the earl family is also in this collection room, such as the world famous painting "Still Life in the Park: Dead Swans, Peacocks and Fruits" by the Dutch painter Jan Vinix, which can be enjoyed by the owner of the castle in his spare time. Three kinds of paintings with completely different styles, this kind of artistic influence can only be accepted by those born in such a family.

　　 Shuttle through the inside of the castle ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ Yang Cheng also found a lot of interesting details, such as a huge bell assembly board in the corridor leading to the back door in the basement.

In the past, a button was installed in almost every room, which could be transmitted to the corresponding bell. As long as someone presses the bell, the assembly board will ring, and you can clearly see whose room it is from, so that the servant doesn’t have to be there all the time. Waiting outside the room to be summoned to work more efficiently downstairs.

　　 Similar installations can be found in the former Beihai Manor Castle, but now that they have been modernized and transformed, these small inventions that seemed to be able to experience human wisdom in the past have disappeared in the dust.

Wandering around Highclere Castle is like walking into a well-decorated history museum. The profound charm of a century-old noble family can be found in this brick and tile or even small ornaments on the table. The collection has been collected for years, and it is just a music room. The wooden writing desk used by Napoleon in the middle is enough to surprise people, not to mention the Baroque ceiling that is not so contending.

　　 There are also 37 historically valuable clocks placed in different rooms, ticking around as the years go by.

　　 In front of a room, Klin, who rarely speaks, suddenly said, "Mr. Yang, can I make a presumptuous request?"

　　 Yang Cheng couldn't help but wondered, "Of course, although I don't know what I can help you, I am willing to listen."

　　 Klin hesitated again and again, slightly choked and said, "If Mr. Yang can invest in the master's hotel plan, I hope that I can still be a member of the High Collier Castle. I don't want to leave here."

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