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Love and longing for the sea
Author: Hao Yibo
Wedge (1)
Updated on July 4th, 2008 at 2 1: 19: 10 words: 1693.
Ouyang Xiucai put his left arm behind his back, and in his right hand he held a polished jujube tube with a copper mouth and a copper pot hanging from his mouth. He snapped happily at the mouth of his pipe, and long gray smoke spewed from time to time from his nostrils and corners of his mouth. With a smug and contented smile on his face, he paced back and forth on the neatly paved herringbone blue brick floor, admiring the quadrangle that had just fallen and now belonged to him only.
Last spring, shortly after his mother died, he had the idea of building a house on land.
When my parents were alive, a family of three lived in three rooms in the backyard of their workshop. Although their vinegar shop is doing well, my parents just don't want to build a decent house. Now that his parents have passed away, the 24-year-old single scholar has been thinking hard for months, drawing countless sketches, calculating the money left by his parents, consulting craftsmen and setting the pattern. Known as a "land of geomantic omen" by Panzhou scholars, several scholars and Juren built houses and disposed of a homestead. At the end of last summer, they began to build houses.
A few years later, some scholars in Panzhou built houses here one after another, and gradually formed a taxi street about two miles long.
This quadrangle has five rooms, six in the east wing and six in the west wing. The gate faces south, between the left and right inverted rooms. Small tiles of the same color are glued together with glutinous rice juice, hemp knife, lime and pig blood. There is a corridor more than four feet wide in front of each house, supported by folded thick purple wooden columns. The bottom of the wooden column is a marble single-layer sumeru, and the hanging eaves are hollowed out with flowers, birds, fish and insects.
Then there is another difference in the house here, that is, the scholar built an underground darkroom as high as nine feet and the size of the house at the corner of the upper room and the east wing. The floor and walls of the darkroom are green. ...