The Boss of the Yan Family in Siheyuan

The three of them rode bicycles to Beihai Park, bought tickets and walked inside. No one talked on the way. Xu Jingping felt a little embarrassed, so he suggested that Yan Ziyang introduce them to the scenery and history of Beihai Park.

After hearing what Xu Jingping said, Xiao Ziyang started boasting and said: "Beihai Park is located in Xicheng District, Beijing, adjacent to Jingshan Park to the east, Zhongnanhai to the south, and Shichahai to the north. The whole park covers an area of ​​682,000 square meters, of which the water area is 389,000 square meters.

, with a land area of ​​293,000 square meters. The whole garden is centered on Beihai. Palaces were built here in the Liao, Jin and Yuan Dynasties, and they were established as imperial gardens in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. They belong to ancient Chinese royal gardens.

Beihai Park was originally a lake northeast of the capital of Liao and Yan, named Jinhai. There was a small island in the middle called Yaoyu, where the Liao built the Yaoyu Palace. From the third year to the nineteenth year of Dading in the Jin Dynasty, Jin Shizong imitated the Beizong Bianliang Gen

Yueyuan, build Qionghua Island

, and transported a large amount of Taihu stones from Genyue Imperial Garden to build rockery caves, and built the Daning Palace, also known as Taining Palace, in the northeastern suburbs of Zhongdu with Yaoyu as the center. From then on, Beihai basically formed the royal palace today.

Palace garden layout.

At that time, the soil dug out of the Golden Sea was expanded into islands and hills surrounding the sea. The island was called Qionghua Island and the water was called Xihuatan, and buildings such as Guanghan Hall were rebuilt.

The Guanghan Hall is one hundred and twenty feet wide from east to west, sixty-two feet deep, and fifty feet high. It is seven rooms wide. It was used as a meeting place for the imperial dynasty. In the hall is placed the Dushan Jade Sea, and in the Jianyu Hall is the Five Mountains jade couch, and there is also a

There is a jade rockery, and a jade ring iron is hung on the top of the hall. There are two small stalagmites in the hall, each with a faucet, spouting lake water brought up by a water truck from behind the mountain.

In the eighth year of the Yuan Dynasty, Qionghua Island was renamed Longevity Mountain, also known as Longevity Mountain. With Qionghua Island as the center, palaces were built on the east and west sides of the lake, turning Beihai into a rather impressive royal garden.

After Zhu Di, the founder of the Ming Dynasty, moved the capital to Beijing, he expanded and repaired Beihai on the basis of the Yuan Dynasty, but basically maintained the layout of Beihai in the Yuan Dynasty.

During the Xuande period, Emperor Xuanzong and Zhu Zhanji carried out large-scale expansion and repair of Youwansui Mountain. The Yitian Hall was restored in Yuandi, the Xishan Tianyuan Hall was built on the small island south of Yuandi, and the east part of Tuancheng was demolished.

The bridge is filled with earth to connect it to the land.

In the second year of Tianshun, Taisu Hall was built on the north bank of Beihai, which was also called Xi Palace or Summer Palace because it was made of tin. Ninghe Palace was built on the east bank, and Yingcui Palace was built on the west bank.

The eight-hole stone bridge interrupted in the west of Tuancheng was changed to a nine-hole stone bridge, which was called Jin'ao Yuqiao Bridge. The Showa Hall was built on the newly excavated Nanhai Yingtai.

In the seventh year of Wanli, the Guanghan Palace on Wansui Mountain, which had experienced more than 600 years of ups and downs in four dynasties, collapsed, and the main building of the Heavenly Palace on Earth was reduced to nothing.

Until the eighth year of Shunzhi in the Qing Dynasty, for the sake of national harmony, Fulin, the founder of the Qing Dynasty, built a Tibetan-style white pagoda on the ruins of Guanghan Hall and built a white pagoda temple in front of the pagoda at the request of Tibetan lama Nengmu Khan.

The Lama Pagoda was built, and the name of the mountain was also changed to Baita Mountain.

From the sixth to the thirty-sixth year of Qianlong's reign, large-scale repairs and additions were carried out in Beihai. The construction lasted for thirty years and many pavilions, platforms, halls and pavilions were built.

Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty claimed that he could not forget the joy of gardens, so he introduced the essence of Jiangnan gardens, literati freehand brushwork, and landscape gardens into the royal palace, and successively built Beihai's Jingxinzhai, Huafangzhai, Haopujian and other gardens within gardens.

From the eleventh to the fourteenth year of Guangxu, Cixi used naval funds to renovate the Sanhai Building, laid China's first railway along the west and north shores of the lake, and built a small train station in front of Jingxinzhai for Cixi to take a small train to the garden for banquets.

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In the twenty-sixth year of Guangxu's reign, the Eight-Power Allied Forces invaded Beijing and Beihai was trampled. The coalition headquarters was set up in Chengguantang on the north shore. More than 10,000 golden Buddhas in the Wanfo Tower and other treasures in the park were looted.

It was not until the Revolution of 1911 that overthrew the Qing Dynasty that Beihai closed the garden for more than ten years. After some minor repairs, the garden buildings were officially opened as a park on August 1, 14th year of the Republic of China." Xiao Ziyang said in one breath that there are many flowers and I am a little thirsty.

Swallowed.

But the two beauties on the side listened with great interest and looked at Xiao Ziyang with admiration.

"Yan Ziyang, how do you know so much and where did you see it?" Xu Jingtian looked at Yan Xiaoziyang with some surprise and asked. She often reads books, but she doesn't know as much about Beihai Park as Xiaoziyang.

"It's just that the books I read are a bit miscellaneous. If you like it, I'll get you some books another day." Xiao Ziyang touched his head and replied with some embarrassment. The knowledge he mentioned was only learned from reading his father's books.

Yan Jiecheng specially set aside a room at home as a study room. There are tens of thousands of books in it. Some of them were brought here in the previous life, and some were received in this life. Anyway, as long as he sees books that are not in his study room, he will read them.

Buy it, it doesn't matter if you pay a little more for it.

"Okay, I'll go get it with you when I get back later." Xu Jingtian replied happily when she heard that Xiao Ziyang was willing to lend him the book.

A few people chatted and came to the lake. Xu Jingping paid for a boat. After getting on the boat, Xu Jingping walked to the bow of the boat and picked up the paddle and rowed towards Hu Zhongxin. Xu Jingtian and Yan Ziyang were sitting at the stern of the boat chatting.

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At this time, on the lawn of Peking University campus, Xu Jingli was sitting on a chair quietly reading a book. However, this calmness did not last long. After a while, a boy holding flowers in his hands came towards her.

"Xu Jingli, why don't you go home during the holiday?" The boy stopped in front of Xu Jingli, then lowered his head and shouted to her.

Hearing the sound, Xu Jingli closed the book and raised her head to look at the boy: "I said Anhui Tea, can you stay away from me? Don't follow me like a follower all day long. I just want to study now and don't want to fall in love. I advise you to stay away from me."

Just give up on this idea."

"It's my freedom to like you, you have nothing to do with it." After saying this, Hou Kui turned around and sat on the chair side by side with Xu Jingli.

Xu Jingli was so angry that she didn't know what to say when she heard Hou Kui acting rogue. She thought to herself how people could be so shameless.

"How about it? Consider dating me." Hou Kui handed the flowers in his hand to Xu Jingli and said.

"Where did you pick this flower? Why does it look so familiar?" Xu Jingli put her head over and smelled it, then raised her head and looked at Hou Kui and said, you know, there are no flower shops in this era, and there is no place to buy or sell them even if you want to buy them.

"I picked them from the flower bed next to me." Hou Kui said and pointed to the flower bed next to him.

"You..., how could you do this? This is school stuff, how could you pick it at will?" Xu Jingli said angrily.

"What do you know? This is what I call borrowing flowers to offer to Buddha." Hou Kui spread his hands with a proud expression.

Xu Jingli was speechless after hearing Hou Kui's words: "What do you like about me? Why can't I change it?"

"I just like the way you dress."

"You..., okay, just take off your clothes when I get home." After hearing Hou Kui's words, Xu Jingli pointed her finger at his nose and said, before getting up and leaving.

But before she could take a step forward, Hou Kui grabbed her arm.

"What are you doing?" Xu Jingli shouted at Hou Kui.

Hou Kui didn't say anything but took out a small harmonica from his pocket and started playing it. Not to mention, the playing was pretty good, even Xu Jingli who was standing by was stunned.

After Hou Kui finished playing, he finally realized: "I'm talking about Anwei Tea, have you finished it yet?"

"I have a name, my name is Hou Kui." Hou Kui put the harmonica in his pocket and said word by word.

"Yes, Anwei famous tea."

"So I will definitely become famous in the future, and you will definitely live a good life after following me."

"Well, I heard that you are good at writing poems. Write me a love poem." Xu Jingli also had no choice but to do something for Hou Kui, so she wanted to find something to do for Hou Kui.

After hearing what Xu Jingli said, Hou Kui quickly stepped forward and said, "No problem, I will sing one song a day until you are moved."

"Okay, if you write that I'm moved, I'll fall in love with you."

"That's what you said." After hearing Xu Jingli's words, Hou Kui took her arm and asked, fearing that he heard wrongly.

"I said so."

After hearing Xu Jingli's reply, Hou Kui said excitedly: "Okay, then just wait and collect the poems."

"you……."

"Sorry, sorry, I am collecting love poems, collecting love poems." Hou Kui apologized quickly, knowing that he had said the wrong thing.

After hearing Hou Kui's explanation, Xu Jingli shook off his hand and walked towards her dormitory.

Hou Kui stood there and watched Xu Jingli go away, then clapped his hands and walked towards the school gate.

I thought about going home quickly, looking for a few poetry books, reading them, copying them, and sending them to Xu Jingli when school starts on Monday.

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When Yan Jie married, Yan Ziyang left Yan Ziheng and Wu Lili in their room.

The two chatted for a while. When Yan Ziheng heard that Wu Lili liked reading, he took Wu Lili to his study room.

After Wu Lili was pulled into the study room by Yan Ziheng, she looked at the rows of books all over the room and was so shocked that she was speechless.

This was the first time since she was a child that she had seen so many books placed together, especially in a private home.

You must know that books nowadays are not cheap. In terms of cost, this is not a small amount of money.

"Why do you have so many books in your home? After coming back to her senses, Wu Lili asked Yan Ziheng on the side.

"I don't know. Anyway, this study has been around since I can remember. It may be passed down from our ancestors." Yan Ziheng said, rubbing his head. He couldn't find any other reason. After all, there are too many books here.

, collecting these books is simply not something one person can do.

"So your ancestors have a lot of background," Wu Lili said to Yan Ziheng as she walked towards the bookshelf.

"Maybe, take a look and take it if you like it." Yan Ziheng said generously.

"No, this is not your thing. If I take it back, my uncle and aunt won't scold you to death." Wu Lili refused directly. She looked at it and found that these books are very valuable, even if Yan Ziheng gave them to her.

, she won’t want it either.

"I'll lend it to you to read at the head office. Anyway, only my eldest brother at home will look at it occasionally, and no one else will read it. It will just be left here to gather dust." Yan Zi waved his hand and said nonchalantly.

"Okay, let me see if there is anything I am interested in, but you have so many books, I can't look for them one by one." Wu Lili looked at the bookshelf in the room and said with a frown.

If she were to look for it, there would be many books and it would take some time for her to find them.

"Hey, what's here? I'll get you the catalog later." As he spoke, Yan Ziheng walked to the cabinet, opened the drawer, took out a ledger, and handed it to Wu Lili.

"Which book is on that bookshelf? It's all written in this catalog. If you like it, tell me and I'll get it for you." Yan Ziheng looked at Wu Lili as she took the catalog and read it.

He said to her.

The two of them stayed in the study until about four o'clock in the afternoon. Seeing that it was almost time for dinner, Yan Ziheng called out to Wu Lili who was concentrating on reading.

Wu Lili originally wanted to say goodbye and go back to school, but Yan Ziheng kept insisting on treating her to a meal and sent her back on his bicycle.

Wu Lili declined but could only agree, and then the two of them went out. Yan Ziheng rode Wu Lili on his bicycle towards Quanjude.

After all, as a specialty of old Beijing, how can you not eat roast duck when you come to the capital? Although Biianfang’s roast duck is also good, its reputation is not as great as that of Quanjude.

Although the cost of eating roast duck in Quanjude is much more expensive than that at Biafang, given Yan Ziheng's family's conditions, he doesn't mind spending a few more dollars.

When they arrived at Quanjude, they had just taken their orders and sat down when Yan Ziyang walked in with Xu Jingping and Xu Jingtian.

The three of them played in Beihai Park all afternoon and didn't come out until it was time for dinner. Then Xu Jingtian suggested that they come to Quanjude to treat them to roast duck.

"Hey, brother, Sister Jingping, Sister Jingtian, why are you three here?" Yan Ziheng stood up and waved hello after seeing the three of them.

"Ziheng, Lili, you two come over for dinner too." The three of them came to Yan Ziheng's seat, and Xiao Ziyang asked.

While talking, the three of them pulled up chairs and sat down at their table. Since they all came to eat roast duck and met each other, they must sit together.

"Who is this?" Xu Jingtian sat down and asked Yan Ziheng.

She thought that Wu Lili was Yan Ziheng's girlfriend, but she had never met her before, so she asked casually to avoid not knowing her when they met in the future.

"Oh, oh, sister Jingtian, let me introduce to you. This is Wu Lili, whom my brother met when he went to the countryside before. This time he came to visit my house." After saying that, he introduced to Wu Lili on the side: "This is

Sister Jingtian, who is Sister Jingping, they are both my father's goddaughters, and Sister Jingtian is also engaged to my brother."

At first, Wu Lili nodded while listening to Yan Ziheng's introduction, but she was stunned when she heard that Xu Jingtian and Yan Ziyang had made an appointment.

The reason why she came to Yan Ziyang was that she liked him and wanted to be his girlfriend, but before she could take action, he had a girlfriend. How could she accept this?

"Sister Lili, are you okay?" Yan Ziheng saw Wu Lili standing aside and not speaking, so he reached out and pulled her sleeve and said.

Wu Lili finally came back to her senses and said quickly: "It's okay, it's okay, I just got distracted."

"Brother, you can order what you want to eat. We have already ordered it." After hearing Wu Lili's words, Yan Zi asked the three people beside him.