The Tang Family Manor, also located in the small town of Perrin in the Seine-et-Marne province on the eastern outskirts of Paris, covers an area of nearly 300 acres and is almost as large as three Prince Gong's palaces in the capital.
If all of it is used to build courtyards and inner gardens, it will certainly be large enough and magnificent. Think about the description of the Grand View Garden in Dream of Red Mansions. How big is the area?
But when building a modern manor on overseas land, it should include various arenas, gardens, ponds, wine cellars, swimming pools, racecourses, helipads, parking lots, etc. in addition to the main residential villa.
In fact, the area of three hundred acres is just that!
Although he was dissatisfied with Tang Jinxue's cunning, Jing Gao decided to follow Dong Youwei's original plan and take everyone accompanying him to Tang's house for lunch at noon.
It's really uncomfortable to go to the small town of Peilan in the middle of the day to deal with someone casually.
Tang Jinxue had two drinks with Jing Gao, and arranged for the housekeeper Lao Jiang to take Jing Gao and his party to a secluded guest room in the back garden for a lunch break.
Tonight's "Thank You Banquet" is about to begin. Chinese businessmen from all over Europe are coming one after another. It should be quieter in the garden.
At around two o'clock in the afternoon, Jing Gao took a nap and then got up. The body is the capital of prostitution, and he always pays great attention to maintenance and exercise. If you take a nap for more than half an hour at noon, you will be full of energy.
Outside the window are several tall ginkgo trees in the backyard. Listening to the chirping of birds, Jing Gao looked at this tiled house, which looked antique Chinese style on the outside but was actually a modern layout inside. After looking at the landscape paintings hanging in the house, he went out for a walk.
This is a courtyard, with three tiled houses connected to the resting area high above the well. Next door is the residence of Ouyang Wan and Chen Qingshuang. Jing Gao listened to their long breathing outside the window of their respective rooms and knew that they were still sleeping. He didn't call them both and walked out of the courtyard.
"Mr. Jing..." Two of his bodyguards were guarding the entrance to the courtyard.
Jing Gao waved his hand and refused the bodyguards to follow him, "What can happen at the Tang family? Besides, the danger in Paris has been lifted long ago. I have my mobile phone with me."
Dismissing the bodyguards, Jing Gao followed the tree-lined path behind the courtyard to the depths of the Tang family garden to admire the beautiful scenery. Exotic flowers and plants, mountains, rocks, forests, ponds and running water are all available.
But after all, the marks of ax and chisel are very heavy. Not a pure Chinese taste. Speaking of natural pastoral scenery, he had seen it in his hometown of Haizhou in his childhood memories.
His father worked as a factory worker in the city all his life. It was also a good career at that time! Otherwise, I would not marry my mother who works in the neighborhood office. After all, my mother is still a civil servant!
Of course, his father also experienced the wave of layoffs from state-owned enterprises at the turn of the new century.
In my hometown, I still have some relatives from Grandpa Jinggao’s generation. However, with the death of grandpa and grandma in the past ten years, the relationship between these relatives has faded.
It's now 2018. In Haizhou, a small town that may be considered a fourth or fifth tier, a large number of people are moving into the city to buy houses, expand the city, and attract investment. Most of Jinggao's relatives are in Haizhou City.
However, when he was a child, he also went to the countryside to play for a while. It’s so much fun that there’s nothing interesting about it. Oxen, mud and dogs. The rapeseed flowers in April and May are all over the mountains and fields, and they are extremely beautiful.
Also, it’s really quiet in the afternoon. Just like here now. Especially now, at the end of June in the Gregorian calendar, it is almost the time of "double rush". The cuckoo flying overhead in the afternoon has been calling: "It is better to go back! It is better to go back!"
Jing Gao walked casually, his thoughts divergent. After taking two steps, he suddenly found himself in front of a stone bridge and a crescent door. His sight to the front, back, and left were blocked by pavilions, houses, and trees. "Here I go, I'm actually lost!" When I first came here, I thought the Tang family's manor wasn't big enough. I was careless."
Jing Gao picked up his phone and tried to open Google Maps, but it didn't work. The layout of a private estate would never be released to Google.
He thought about it again, searched for WeChat friends on his phone, and felt relieved. When he visited the Tang family for the first time, Tang Jinxue's granddaughter Tang Wenxin asked to add him as a WeChat friend. It may come in handy now.
"Miss Tang, please come and pick me up. I'm..." Jing Gao roughly described the place where he was. He didn't believe that the Tang family manor would be so wicked as to build several identical stone bridges in the back garden.
About twenty minutes later, Jing Gao saw Tang Wenxin, who was slender and naturally beautiful in a light orange dress and midi skirt, appearing in the quiet and beautiful garden.
She was twenty-one years old, and her hair was tied casually with hairpins, hanging down on one side of her shoulders. Wearing high-heeled sandals, we walked along the bank of the artificial river. The light orange short-sleeved dress has a waist-cinching design, with a waist and raised hips. The white calves are slender. The whole person looks slender, elegant and beautiful.
A tall, slender, youthful and charming girl.
"Mr. Jing, good afternoon. Let me take you out!" Tang Wenxin was very smart and never mentioned that Jing Gao got lost. With a smile on her delicate and pretty Guazi face, she asked Jing Gao for his opinion in a soft voice.
This is not because she is acting coquettishly, but because of her voice and habits. With this soft, watery taste. It adds a bit of girlish softness to her.
Jing Gao did not shy away from anything, and said mockingly: "I thought about something, and ended up getting lost at your house. Miss Tang, please don't tell anyone. Oh, I didn't waste your time, right?"
Tang Wenxin glanced at Jing Gao out of the corner of her eye in slight surprise, but she didn't expect Jing Gao to admit that he was lost. To a girl, a road-crazy person may look cute and make people want to protect her, but to a man, it probably means he has insufficient life skills.
And when Jing Gao asked her to help lead the way, wasn't it for his own sake? But he admitted without hesitation in front of her that he was indeed a very unique man.
Tang Wenxin smiled slightly and said, "I won't tell anyone! Mr. Jing, you can call me Xiao Tang or Wenxin. I was drinking tea and chatting with some friends in the pavilion just now. I won't waste time."
Jing Gao smiled and said, "Then it's my fault. So, Wenxin, take me back to the way you came from, just in time for you to pass by. Oh, is there a bathroom nearby?"
Tang Wenxin couldn't help but cover her mouth with a smile, a little embarrassed, but also felt that he was so frank, so she said: "Mr. Jing, come with me!" She led Jing Gao to the crescent door and took a path to the bathroom.
Passing through the crescent gate is a small courtyard and an elegant bamboo forest, followed by a two-room flower hall built against the mountain. The pillars and doors are all in classical style. Tang Wenxin and Jing Gao prepared to go around the path on the side of the "rockery". The bathroom is at the back.
But as soon as the two of them came out of the bamboo forest, they had to stop.
From the flower hall, the sounds of men and women moaning, umming, ahhh, and panting were heard. You can imagine what is going on inside.
