Chapter 18 The time telling by the water wheel, never missing
Chapter 18 Shui Lei tells the time without any mistakes
Author: Bu Yiqiu
Chapter 18 Shui Lei tells the time without any mistakes
After walking a few steps and crossing the narrow gate, we found the hidden garden where the fire broke out yesterday.
Seeing that the sun was about to rise, Lin Shen was a little anxious to wait. When he saw Yu Qiansi's red clothes crossing the courtyard gate, he immediately stamped his feet and chased after her.
"Oh, you are here!"
Glancing at the servants at the Hou Mansion, he gritted his teeth and whispered softly: "Did you go to burn incense or to do something else? Auntie, let's not cause trouble, okay? Let's finish investigating this case and leave, okay?"
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Now that he was on the territory of Guang'an Hou Mansion, he was really worried about Yu Qiansi's safety.
The amusement in the corners of Yu Qiansi's eyes had not faded. When he saw the scene in the courtyard, he became interested again and was suddenly distracted by the scene in the courtyard.
It's not like she has never seen the mess after a fire, but this yard is really too much.
The dark house glowed with water in the sun, like a drowned man covered in black mud, struggling to stand upright and holding on to the ground without falling.
The large grass and trees in the yard were black and covered with mud. A wall close to the house was also damaged. In addition to fire extinguishing tools such as splash tubes and water dragons, there were many large semi-black stone sculptures in the yard.
They have different shapes, seven or eight horizontally and vertically, lying or standing. They are frightening to see.
But the most concerning thing is the pond facing the house and close to the wall on the other side of the yard.
The pond is not small but very deep. There is an old vine coming out from the rockery next to the pond. Along the light bamboo frame that has been set up in advance on the pond, it winds densely and pavilions like a canopy, covering half of the pond. The mistress of the fire last night,
The pergola was not spared either. The green near the edge showed a bit of burnt black and yellow, and it drooped feebly.
There was nowhere to stay under the pond, and what was covered under the pergola was a strange-shaped giant bronze thing that emerged from the bottom of the pond.
Yu Qiansi walked around and looked around, the usual smile on her lips did not stop, but the corners of her eyes and eyebrows were full of surprise.
"Shuiwei?"
Even Boyi seemed startled by what was in the pond. Dark waves surged in his dark eyes, unable to calm down.
Seeing that she finally discovered the key point, Lin Shen led her over and thought: "That's right! It's probably based on Shui Qi."
Yu Qiansi had never seen a bronze water-making device before. What's more, although this object looks like a water-making device, its use is quite different from that of a water-making device.
At this moment, he and Lin Shen were facing away from the house and toward the pond. They saw that both sides of the pond against the wall were rugged rockeries, covered with creeping plants.
The water side of the water basin is close to a rockery that hangs out. If you look under the pergola, you will see a gurgling stream flowing down from the top. It is falling into the giant spoon, and the pressure of the copper rod in the middle of the water basin is slowly tilting.
, quite a bit of the tranquility of a plain green pond.
At the end of the right side is an integrated copper round hammer. It seems to be quite heavy, and it is working hard with the giant key that is constantly storing water at the other end, as if it is unwilling to be lifted easily.
Under the round hammer is a flat copper surface, the surface of which is hidden under the water.
There is a copper piece attached to the horizontal bar on the left side of the water cone, which hangs straight into a circular copper pipe below. The copper pipe is solid up and down, with only a gap exposed in the middle. You can see at this moment,
The big word "Wu" in the gap is hiding the upper part, and the word "Wei" in the bottom of the word is just showing up.
Through these hollow words, the lush greenery on the rockery is printed, which is quite leisurely and interesting.
Both the pavilion and the copper water basin come out from the bottom of the pond, and there is no place to stay in the entire pond.
Lin Shen explained: "This water flow is drawn from the stream you see in the garden outside. The water flow is calculated in advance. A spoonful will be filled exactly at twelve o'clock. At the last moment of the Yin hour every day, when the giant spoon is full,
All the water will be poured into the pond. The copper hammer on the right will fall, making a huge bell sound, and the bell will ring throughout Nan'an County. And the scale in the middle copper pipe will return because of the stone hammer.
Mao Shi."
Lin Shen stretched out a finger and shook it from side to side, emphasizing each word.
"In the past ten years, there has been no difference at all."
For the past ten years, the people of Nan'an County have long been accustomed to listening to the bells of the Houfu Villa to start their daily life. Even those who are on duty at night and need to keep an eye on the clock every day will also adjust to the bells of the Villa.
Homemade engraving.
Yu Qian rubbed the world in the jade and praised with a smile: "People say that 'the flowers on the shore hide the water bucket', but this one does the opposite. It uses the shore flowers on the rockery to reflect the beauty of the water bucket, and it also has the function of telling the time. There are indeed many
Distinguish elegance."
Lin Shen looked around, but at the end he lowered his voice and whispered a reminder.
"You should be careful what you say. It is said that Empress Mingde designed it herself and gave it to the old lady. The old lady also specially designed the waterway of the entire garden for this thing."
Empress Mingde was the first wife of the late emperor. She was the daughter of the Cheng family who committed suicide within the palace wall after hearing the bad news on the battlefield ten years ago. The old lady came from the Duke of Anguo's palace and had good relations with the Cheng family, even better than those of the Marquis of Guang'an.
The relationship between the Cheng family is even closer.
Lin Shen was worried that Yu Qiansi was not paying attention, so he rambled on about the relationship between these families.
"If you value it so much and even designed the waterway yourself, why was it abandoned in this remote courtyard?"
The hurried "Cheng Family Monument" that night echoed in my ears again? The Queen of the Cheng family? The old lady of the Hou Mansion who was on good terms with the Cheng family?
Yu Qiansi tilted her head slightly and looked at Boyi who had been standing motionless for a long time, with eyes full of water cones.
It is not yet known whether the virtuous bird is born in the egg, or whether the egg is born before the virtuous bird.
Lin Shen cleared his throat, as if talking to an old woman on the street, whispering in Yu Qiansi's ear, with amusement in his eyes.
"Not long after this thing was delivered, something happened to Empress Mingde! It's unreasonable to throw away the gift given by the emperor casually, but it's a bit eye-catching if left outside, so I kept it here."
Yu Qiansi saw that there was a drainage outlet in the pond on the right not high from the water surface. The drainage outlet was about lower than the position where the giant spoon fell. It seemed that the water in this pond had exceeded a certain limit, which would inevitably lead to the huge spoon in the pool.
Drain the water and flow it back into the garden outside. Here is the return ditch they just saw outside the yard.
At this time, when I carefully looked at the gardening design of the entire garden, I had to admire the exquisiteness of the old lady's design. Everyone who saw the flowing water and the pond in the small garden would think that it was to pave the way for the flourishing of flowers and plants in the garden, but they didn't.
It occurred to me that the flowing water is the real protagonist of the garden.
After seeing the subtlety and complexity of Shuizhui, Yu Qiansi immediately understood what the evidence in Lin Shen's letter that pointed directly at Boyi was about.
Yu Qiansi said "Hey" to bring Boyi back to his senses.
He joked: "So surprised, you didn't see this that night?"
Boyi looked distraught and murmured: "It was too dark that night. I only heard the sound of running water and didn't pay attention to it."
"What are you doing if you don't light a lamp when meeting people?"
Boyi stared back attentively, clenching his fists to try not to get angry.
How many times has this happened!
She is really a master of tricks, and it’s her fault that she loses her composure and is always fooled! She is always caught off guard and speaks out.
Satisfied, Yu Qiansi turned around to face the dilapidated house and ordered loudly: "Bring all the insiders here. After I have examined the body and the scene, I will question them one by one."
Lin Shen's eyes lit up, and he could finally see Yu Qian showing off his skills. He quickly waved his hand to his subordinates to do it, while nodding and bending, looking a bit like a hemorrhoid licker.
"I'm just waiting for you to say this. I ordered people to gather all the relevant people in the mansion early in the morning, and I also prepared the records of the pen clerk when I first interviewed them."
As he said that, he took a bunch of new books and presented them with both hands.
Someone on the other side had already obeyed the order and carried out the body and laid it horizontally on the grass.
Yu Qiansi lifted up the white cloth and squatted down to examine it carefully.
To avoid confusion, I drew a sketch to demonstrate what the water dam looks like.
You can find it in the book review area and in this chapter~
The sketch is really rough, just tread lightly hahaha.
