Two days later, follow the garden.

The sunshine slanted west in the afternoon fell in front and behind Xiaocang Mountain House. The mottled light and shadows passed through the porch and shone on the crystal clear glass windows, shining brightly. In the yard of Xixuan, a twisted ancient cypress that was only five feet tall was as tall as scales, with green branches and leaves curling in the wind. The Taihu stone standing next to it was exquisite and transparent, like a graceful girl facing it.

The sight moved westward, crossed the corridor, bypassed the "Jinshizang" full of gold and stone antiques, turned south, passed through the "Ring of the fragrance" full of peony in summer, and went westward, and arrived at Xiaomianzhai, where Yuan Mei took a break in the afternoon on weekdays.

This five-room hall is surrounded by tanning and green bananas, with only a small stone path leading to other places, which has a far-reaching and hustle and bustle. At this moment, the house is filled with blue smoke and silver wire and charcoal. Yuan Mei, who is already 79 years old, is wearing a pair of glasses and is sitting on the couch to make a musical note.

Yuan Mei has been fond of Go all his life. In recent years, whether in Jiangning or traveling, he played chess almost every day, and also recorded the winning and losing in detail. His attitude was serious. Even during the time he was in Beihai Town last year, he visited everywhere during the day, and at night he had to pull Zhao Yi, Wang Zhong, Duan Yucai, Jiao Xun and others to play chess with him.

If someone who knows the goods is present at this time, he will be surprised by the chessboard and chess pieces in front of him, and even feel envious and jealous. Because the whole chessboard is spliced ​​with two large pieces of agarwood, the lines and star dots on it are inlaid with thin silver wires, exuding a sweet fragrance that is faint; while the black and white chess pieces are made of rhinoceros horns and ivory, the white is warm, and the black is cool.

A true rare treasure!

Well, this set of chessboards was actually the "trash" that Zhao Xin picked up in the Hue Palace a few years ago. Because he had no interest in Go, and whether it was rhinoceros horns or ivory, they were contraband in another time and space, and they could not be exchanged for money when taken back, so this thing could only be lost in the warehouse in his backyard for several years.

Last year, Yuan Mei was 78 years old and traveled thousands of miles to support the new imperial examination in Beihai Town with a group of disciples. Zhao Xin felt that no matter what the purpose was, he had to express his feelings and give him a gift. When he learned that the old man was playing chess every day, he found this set of things.

Because the gifts were collected when they boarded the boat, they were packed in a suitcase, and there were a lot of people present to see them off, and there were also a lot of gifts, Yuan Mei didn't even bother to see them. When he opened the box and sighed in shock, the "Thunder" had already passed the Tsushima Strait.

He knew very well how precious this set of chessboard was. After returning to Suiyuan, he treasured it in the "Golden and Stone Collection" and never showed it to others. He only occasionally took it out to entertain himself.

"Ba~~"

When the last white piece fell on the chess floor, the seventh game of "Danghu Chess" that happened fifty-five years ago was all set up. Seeing this, Zhong Ji, the concubine next to her, handed over the hot towel in her hand.

After Yuan Mei finished wiping her hands, Zhong Ji held a plate from the table next to her, which contained a square, golden-colored baked cake.

He learned how to make the cake from Beihai Town. After he tasted it for the first time at the dinner where the time travelers were entertaining him and Zhao Yi, he was immediately impressed by its soft and sweet taste.

In order to satisfy the food of "Yuan Da Foodie" and have a comfortable meal, Zhao Xin even used several of his own chefs to make them in different styles every day, and greeted them in turn.

When Yuan Mei left, in addition to the large bags of gifts, specialties, and a thick recipe. After returning to Xiaocang Mountain, he immediately asked the chefs at home to learn how to make them. In the end, these dishes from another time and space were all included in his "Suiyuan Food List".

For example, the ducks originally belonged to the Yu Clan, now have an additional "roasted duck on the stove".

Just as Yuan Mei was enjoying afternoon tea with satisfaction, he suddenly heard a burst of rapid footsteps outside the door. Soon, the door was pushed open, and a young man, eighteen or nineteen years old, walked in quickly.

This man is of medium size, wearing a royal blue dark flower silk robe, a crimson belt, and a braid made of white jade at the back of his head, looking like a rich young man. However, his face, which was originally beautiful and beautiful, looked extremely pale at this moment.

Yuan Mei put down the silver fork in her hand and asked strangely: "Atong, what happened?"

The visitor was Yuan Mei's eldest son Yuan Tong. He saw him quickly approaching and shouting in a hurry: "Father! What is wrong is wrong, what is wrong is wrong! The court is going to attack our family! They want to search Suiyuan and put you under house arrest!"

"Ah!" As soon as these words came out, Zhong Ji, who was standing beside him, suddenly lost her expression and screamed out.

Yuan Mei's snow-white eyebrows suddenly twitched twice, but he still said calmly: "Don't hurry, make it clear."

Yuan Tong hurriedly repeated what E Su said to him at noon, and finally asked: "Father, I'm afraid the government will take action in the past few days, so let's go out to avoid it first?"

Yuan Mei stroked her beard and pondered for a while, shook her head slightly and said, "Atong, have you ever thought that the court could send a prince to the south to take charge in order to be a father, and Brother Qingcun didn't get any news. I'm afraid that it had already set up a net of heaven and earth. According to my guess, not only our family, but also Zhao Yunsong's situation is also not good."

"Then, what should I do?"

"For the sake of the present, I can only ask for help from the one in the north."

"They? I'm afraid they can't do it!"

"You don't understand." Yuan Mei glanced at his son meaningfully, and then told Yuan Tong about how to contact the stronghold in Jiangning City, Beihai Town.

Last year when he was in Beihai Town, Jiao Xun told him the story of his journey from being imprisoned to escaping from birth, which made Yuan Mei and Zhao Yi look shocked. No matter what, they never expected that the prison robbery that caused a sensation in Jiangnan was actually Zhao Xin himself, and there were only two people in total.

However, compared to Jiao Xun and others who escaped from Yangzhou, Yuan Mei did not want to leave Jiangning and was unwilling to give up Suiyuan, which he had worked hard for many years.

This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! This is a private garden that even Heshen, who is rich in the world, is envious, and even Qianlong will not accept it. Its history can be traced back to the "Jiao Garden" built by Wu Yingji in the late Ming Dynasty.

Wu Yingji is one of the leaders of the "Guangye Society of the National Gate". He is good friends with Hou Fangyu, Chen Dingsheng, Mao Pijiang, and Fang Yizhi. He also appeared in Kong Shangren's "Peach Blossom Fan". Well, he is the one who fell in love with Kou Baimen, one of the "Eight Beauties of Qinhuai", at the box meeting.

"Jiaoyuan" was defeated and backward. The land changed its owner three times. The Cao family of Jiangning weaving and the Sui Hede family, who succeeded the weaving, was finally purchased by Yuan Mei for 300 taels of silver forty-six years ago. The reason for the name "Suiyuan" is not because the name of the previous owner contains "Sui" but is taken from the "Sui Gua" in the "Book of Changes". The meaning of Sui time is great. Simply put, it is very important to adapt to the times.

In order to raise funds for the construction of the garden, Yuan Mei has transformed into a landlord, literary master, publisher, training class teacher, and social celebrities over the past forty years. He has made great efforts to make money and invested tens of thousands of taels of silver. This is why the sun rises, the sky is clear, the towers and bamboo trees are rising, and the autumn water is growing long."

Not only did he design the pavilions, towers and flowers and plants he had worked hard to design, more than 300,000 books he collected, as well as various antiques, calligraphy and paintings, as well as wives, concubines, children and children who accompanied him day and night.

Not to mention that he is almost eighty, his wife Wang is seventy-seven. In panic, she is displaced and bumpy, and her body cannot bear it. If she has a short time, it will be too late to regret it.

Yuan Mei was lustful and romantic in this life, and she was full of troubles. She married seven or eight concubines alone. Because the first concubine Tao Ji was quite talented but died early, he thought that "a woman who is talented is a taboo for creation", so he later asked for appearance but not talent.

Nowadays, many concubines have either died or been sent to him. In addition to his wife Wang, only Lu Ji and Zhong Ji are left beside him. Zhong Ji, who looks frightened next to him, is also Yuan Chi's biological mother.

When it comes to Yuan Chi, it is impossible not to say that he has been engaged to the Shen family in Zhuxi and will get married next year. If he escapes, the Shen family will be implicated.

Also, even if a whole family can escape, General Qinglin, Jiangning, will definitely be unlucky. You must know that the entire Jiangsu officialdom is aware of the relationship between the two families.

Although both parties have their own masters, how can they give up after decades of friendship? People dare to give up if they want their son to pass on the message to themselves, and they cannot get Qinglin into injustice!

Yuan Mei is already eighty. For him, in addition to his son's marriage and the continuation of Suiyuan, there is only when the Northern Navy will enter the pass to replace the Qing Dynasty. As for life and death, he saw it three years ago.

It is said that when Yuan Mei was 46 years old, a man named Hu Wenbing showed him the picture and asserted that he would have a son at the age of 63 and die at the age of 76. Yuan Mei did not believe in ghosts and gods all his life, so he just listened to it. Unexpectedly, he really got a son at the age of 63, so he began to believe that his fate would be inseparable from the disaster.

By the 56th year of Qianlong's reign, Yuan Mei, 76, was indeed in poor health. He first had dysentery and dreamed of a monk coming to the door one by one and telling him the exact time of his death. So he asked his colleagues and friends to write a poem to him in advance and made arrangements for his family in advance.

On that New Year's Eve, everyone in Suiyuan was waiting for him to "sit and wait for death". It was unknowingly the first day of the New Year without realizing it. Until a long rooster crowed, it was dawn, Yuan Mei was safe and sound, and the whole family cried with joy.

It was precisely because of this experience that Yuan Mei completely saw life and death, traveled to Tiantai, climbed Huangshan, and even dared to take a boat to Beihai Town.

"Life is like a guest. There will be a journey when it comes. Since it comes for no reason, there will be no reason for it. But when it comes, there will be a way for each to go."

Starting from 1791, with the establishment of the Beihai Military Intelligence Bureau, Beihai Town also began to establish intelligence stations in major towns under the Qing Dynasty. The main task of these intelligence points was not to sabotage, but to collect various commercial information, including prices, draw the city's spatial structure, including streets and bridges, and information on garrison deployment.

There are four intelligence points in Jiangning City, outside Jiangdong Gate, Sanshan Street, and near the "Jinwang Du" at the foot of Taoye Mountain outside the East Gate. Like the intelligence points in Beijing, Jiangning's intelligence station does not have horizontal contact. All collected intelligence will be sent to the headquarters of the Intelligence Bureau every three days.

Before Yuan Mei came back from Beihai Town, Zhao Xin told him privately when he saw him off that if he had any trouble in the future, he could send someone to a felt shop called "Tongxincheng" on Sanshan Street in the city to find a shopkeeper named Chang. He just needs to say the secret code and tell the truth about the matter.

Yuan Tong received his father's instructions and hurriedly came to the city in a sedan chair. Fortunately, Sanshan Street was not long, so he quickly found the shop. As soon as he entered the door, a faint smell of sheep smell rushed into his nose.

The store is not big and there are no customers. When I saw someone coming to the door, a guy with a Shanxi accent behind the counter greeted: "This guest official, do you want to choose a felt? Then you can come to the right place. The felt of the old number is a top-notch product on Sanshan Street. It is plush, thin and dense, all from..."

Yuan Tong was not in the mood to see the felt, and he interrupted with a hurry: "Is there a shopkeeper Chang in your name?"

"Uh, I'm here, please wait." After saying that, the guy turned around and pushed open a small door leading to the backyard, shouting: "Shopkeeper, someone is looking for me in front!"

Not long after, a middle-aged man in his forties walked in from outside the door with his head down. He looked at Yuan Tong twice, then smiled and bowed, "I'm the shopkeeper here. How dare this guest official find Chang?"

Yuan Tong bowed his hand and breathed a deep breath, whispered: "I have an electric refrigerator, I want to change a washing board with a new number, no, the washing machine."

Hearing the other party stumbled and said the secret code, the shopkeeper Chang's expression changed slightly. Then he raised a movable board on the counter and signaled to Yuan Tong: "Customer, please come with me."

After he said that, he winked at the guy. The guy understood, nodded and ignored him.

When Yuan Tong followed the other party into the accounting room next to the door, before he could speak, he heard the shopkeeper Chang say, "You are Mr. Yuan Dafu, Mr. Yuan?"

"Shopkeeper Chang knows Yuan? Sorry, Yuan dares to swear to heaven. This is the first time I have come here for a new account."

"Don't mind, Mr. Yuan. Although Mr. Yuan knows the code, what else can I do if Chang doesn't even know Mr. Yuan and his son? In a place like Sanshan Street where there are many people, it is not an exaggeration to be careful in doing things."

Yuan Tong said in surprise: "How do you know what I look like? We have never seen it before."

Manager Chang smiled and said, "Mr. Yuan is so worried about his affairs. You and Mr. Cangshan went to the north last year. Did you get a pass after getting off the ship? We have archives."

"You mean the photo?" Yuan Tong suddenly realized.

To be honest, the two months he spent in Beihai Town now seemed like dreaming. He saw too many novel things, as if he had entered a kaleidoscope. Compared with the photos, Boli's three million tons steel factory shocked him even more unforgettable.

"Mr. Yuan, what are you going to do today if you need help?"

"Yuan is here to beg you to ensure the safety of my family! Now the government is going to attack my father! I'm afraid it will be too late!"
Chapter completed!