After entering the gate, you will find the outer courtyard.
The yard is neither big nor small.
There is a small gate on the west side, and a small courtyard behind the gate. On the same side as the gate are two servant rooms. Across the courtyard, on the side are the thatched roof and bathhouse of the outer courtyard.
The toilet in the new house, designed by Song Qiu, is not like the previous toilet, and the toilet smells very bad.
Instead, use the toilet to sit empty. There is a cesspool below, with a water tank ready for water. When you are done, the water will rush down, and the filth will go down along the cesspool and flow into the west wall.
In a cesspit covered by a specially built shed.
It will be perfect for fertilizing vegetables when the time comes.
Including the toilets in the inner courtyard, they are treated in the same way.
This is much more convenient than the previous squatting pit where you could still see unspeakable things and had to manually clean it every day.
Next to the toilet, there is a bathroom, and a water channel is specially dug underground. The used water is drained and goes to the cesspool in the same direction as the filth in the toilet.
The same is true for the bathroom in the inner courtyard.
A small door is also opened on the east side, and a small courtyard is secluded. The main room here is an external flower hall for entertaining foreign guests, and there are two guest rooms on the same side as the main door.
Generally, if guests are male guests or if it is inconvenient and cannot be invited to the inner courtyard, they will be received in the outer flower hall.
The three middle rooms are facing the hanging flower door on the second entrance. These three rooms can be used flexibly as accounting rooms or servant rooms.
Next to the door, there is a concierge who guards the door. He is so close that he can hear the knock on the door immediately.
There are eight rooms in the south room, that's it.
There is a hanging flower door leading to the inner courtyard. After entering the door, the corridors on the left and right lead directly to the east and west wing rooms and to the main room, forming a "kou".
Instead of walking through the atrium, you can get to the main house from the corridor after entering the door, which is most convenient on rainy days.
At this time, the courtyard was empty, with no bonsai or green plants. The paint on the doors, windows and corridors was about to dry out, and there was a smell of varnish floating in the air.
There are three main rooms, and the flower hall is in the middle. The largest and most complete six-piece hall furniture set she specially ordered is placed here.
The hand-painted hall at the back leads to the third courtyard. There are two ear rooms on the left and right sides. One can be used as a study room and the other can be used as a small warehouse.
As for the three rooms in the west wing and the three rooms in the east wing, they can be used as guest residences.
There is a road on the left that leads to the west courtyard. There is a huge empty courtyard here. Only a bluestone road is built in the middle. The rest of the empty space is filled with dirt and has not been decorated.
The bluestone road is separated into two large blocks, which are the vegetable gardens that Song Qiu prepared.
How can you live in a village without growing your own vegetables?
Although there are quite a lot of vegetables and fruits grown in the vegetable plot on the farm, that can be used for the inn.
It is convenient to grow it here and eat it yourself.
There is a vegetable garden, and she has a good pastime, so she won't get used to it.
There is also a pressurized water well, which is convenient for washing vegetables and washing hands.
This is what she promised to her mother. She built a new house and lost the vegetable garden.
At present, everything else is empty, but in this vegetable garden, the soil has been loosened and furrowed, and a lot of vegetable seeds have been sown.
At a glance, you can tell that her breasts were planted eagerly.
Although the vegetables come out later than others, the garden will be beautiful only when these vegetables bloom and bear fruit. By then, the vegetables will be too much to eat.
The passage on the right leads to the east courtyard.
The layout is the same as the main courtyard, but slightly smaller. There is one main room with left and right side rooms, and there are only two rooms in the east and west wings.
This place is prepared for guests who like peace and quiet to come to the house.
If you don’t live there, it can be used as a recreational garden.
Because Song Qiu planned to plant a grape vine in this yard, he built a grape trellis and a square wooden pavilion. When the time comes, the grape vines will climb up the pavilion, and it will be green and lush.
When the grapes are full, this yard is absolutely beautiful.
Of course, there are no serious grape seedlings. She saw two wild grapes on Songshan Mountain. They bore fruit in June. The ripe ones were also green grapes, not the black grapes that were often eaten by later generations.
Last year at the end of the year, she and Lihua picked something to eat on the mountain, pinched the skin and put it into her mouth. Well, it was extremely sour.
But Song Qiu still wanted to move another one and plant it in this courtyard, not mainly for food, but for the beauty.
When the time comes, the grape vines are led to the grape trellis outside the pavilion, and a swing can be made under the grape trellis.
All in all, it’s just pleasing to the eye and beautiful to look at.
Go through the big flower hall and go in, and then you will come to the third courtyard, where the left and right hand corridors continue to connect the entire courtyard.
The east and west hatchbacks also have the same layout.
There is only the main room, and the middle hall is just a small living room. The room on the left is larger and has a small ear room that can be used as a bedroom. This is for the old Yuan family to live.
The space on the right is smaller, and is a hallway leading to the final courtyard.
In the small living room, the few of them were sitting together chatting and relaxing, and Song Qiu also specially ordered a set of matching furniture.
The west courtyard with a passage on the left is no longer a vegetable garden, but a very large garden. From the third entrance all the way to the back wall at the back, this area is the garden's territory.
Except for a small artificially dug pond and a pavilion, there is nothing inside at the moment. It is very deserted, but the planning is good. We are just waiting for the green plants that Shen helped find to be delivered.
Once arranged, it looks good.
Song Qiu didn't just wait for the Shen family. She planned to ask Du Chuanfu to drive a mule cart to Zhuangzi, move some fruit trees, such as jujube trees, and find a suitable place to plant them. It would be convenient for him to eat the fruits next year.
She remembered that there were several ginkgo trees on the top of the hill, and she could move two of them down and plant them in the yard.
If Shen helped her find osmanthus and begonia, the combination would be even more perfect.
On the back wall, you can also get some purple bamboo from Ear Mountain and plant it there.
The east cross courtyard on the right flanked by Daotong Road is also a guest courtyard just like the second entrance.
There is no need to build a grape trellis in this yard, just plant some trees and flowers.
Enter through the hall and enter the courtyard at the end.
A small corner courtyard with a row of back rooms.
Crossing a circular arch on the left hand side leads to the large garden.
There is the same circular arch on the right, and there is a small courtyard in the past.
There are no extra houses in the small courtyard, just a two-story small attic standing in it.
The stairs on the first floor are opposite the door.
On the left is the suite wing, and the entrance is the main room.
Passing through the next door to the left is a gauze cupboard with a large wardrobe, which can be used as a cloakroom.
Go further inside through the moon cave door and enter into the bedroom. The small room at the ear of the bedroom is the bathroom.
Entering to the right is a small tea room, and further in is a large study room.
The layouts on the right and left are exactly the same, only the decorations are different.
When shopping at the furniture store, Aling also picked some that he liked.
That's right, on the first floor of this small attic, there are two large suites on the left and right, which is where Song Qiu plans to live for himself and Aling.
It was agreed beforehand that she wanted the left side and A Ling wanted the right side.
The canopy bed she chose was slightly larger than A Ling's. She planned to let Lihua sleep with her when she had free time to play with her.
Going to the second floor, there is an open pavilion with windows all around, allowing you to see everything outside.
She planned to lay a layer of carpet on top, sit on a low table, drink tea and chat, admire the moon when it's sunny, listen to the rain when it's cloudy, relax and have a unique experience.