Female President's Bodyguard

A large group of people followed Xu Qing and Guanshi Cang, went straight through the other three courtyards, and reached the back of the main hall.

After the main hall, there are two palace-like buildings.

One of them is slightly smaller than the main hall, about two stories high, and the roof is covered with blue-gray glazed tiles, with dragon ridges and phoenix eaves, which is solemn and magnificent.

He Chunrong saw the staff coming and going in and out of the hall, and knew that this was the manor's office, so he asked intentionally:
"Could it be that Mr. Xu's room is your staff's office?"

Manager Cang smiled and said, "This hall was originally the residence of Director Cang. After he moved out, it was converted into an office. The room specially reserved for guests is still at the back."

The crowd became even more curious, bypassing the main hall, a palace in the shape of a "convex" appeared.

This palace is more magnificent than the previous one, and in order to show its identity, even the glazed tiles on the roof are all painted gold.

On the vermilion palace door, the two door panels are each inlaid with nine vertical and seven horizontal golden door nails.

Seeing this, Hu Shengkang stared at a pair of big eyes. After counting for a long time, he pointed at the gate of the palace and said with a smile:

"Come on, I dare not have nine nails on this door. I'm blinding the door for nothing."

Someone among the guests next to him immediately explained:

"Young Master Hu, who would dare to use such a doornail indiscriminately? Even these doornails are not something ordinary people can use."

After his explanation, this group of ignorant young masters knew:
In ancient times, door nails had three main functions, one for decoration, one for class representation, and one for reinforcement.

Especially in the Qing Dynasty, the gauge distance was stricter and there were clear regulations.

For example, the number of door nails that can be used on the gates of the mansions of princes, county kings, and dukes is: "Prince mansion system, five main entrances, nine door nails vertically and seven horizontally".This is called "nine roads and seven roads".

As for the second-level Shizi Mansion, including the County King's Mansion, Baylor Mansion, and Duke's Mansion, the doornails must be the number that the prince can use, minus [-]%, that is, "seven roads and seven roads".

Below the prince, it is "seven roads and five roads", and until the baron with the lowest title, "five roads and five roads" are used.

Only the emperor at that time was eligible to use the "Nine Routes and Nine Routes", a total of 81 doornails.

The ancients believed that the number "nine" was the extreme number of Yang numbers in the whole world, that is, the largest single number.

Therefore, in ancient times, the number nine was often used to associate emperors, and things related to emperors were mostly related to nine.

For example, the position of the emperor is called "Ninth Five-Year", and the emperor is called "Ninth Five-Year Honor".

If ordinary people use rituals and utensils that only emperors can use casually, they will commit the so-called "crime of usurpation" and will be beheaded.

Right now, this gate follows the ancient system, using "nine and seven" door nails, which means that the owner of this temple is under one person and above ten thousand people!

Even out of fear that using up all 81 doornails would lead to disasters, the implication of "the sky fills up the deficiency" is deliberately taken.

It means that the owner of this palace is already the pinnacle of the manor!Maybe even more noble than the status of the owner of the manor!

After understanding the function of the door nail, Zhang Hengyuan smiled resentfully at Guanshi Cang:
"Dong Cang, a big man among dragons and phoenixes, is indeed qualified to use the etiquette system that only ancient princes can use. It's not surprising."

Unexpectedly, Cang Guanshi shook his head:

"This palace does not belong to Cang Dong."

Hearing the words, everyone couldn't help but gasped, and said in surprise: "Is there anyone more respected than Dong Cang?"

Cang Guanshi didn't speak, and reached out his hand to pat lightly on the palace door a few times.

A few seconds later, the door of the palace was opened, and I saw two middle-aged men with strong physiques standing on the high threshold with stern faces, and asked in a cold voice:

"Master Cang, are the guests here?"

Steward Cang nodded in confirmation.

I saw that the faces of the two middle-aged people immediately became a little more excited, like the water of the spring sun dispelling the chill:

"It really made us wait for too long, seven full years! We guarded this gate and finally waited for its owner."

Everyone was shocked: what?They just guarded an empty temple that no one lived in for seven years?
Dong Cang respected his guest too much, didn't he?

Before everyone came back to their senses, Cang Guanshi had already led Xu Qing into the hall.

I saw that the hall was extremely clean. The entire hall was imitated from ancient furnishings, even the furniture was made of ancient times.

Mr. Yu had sharp eyes, walked to the table and chair in the middle, looked at it in surprise for a long time, and said in surprise:

"Could it be that the furniture in this room are all made of fragrant rosewood?"

Steward Cang nodded and smiled, "Dong Cang specifically confessed that only Jiangxiang Dalbergia is worthy of the identity of that guest."

"Grass!"

Mr. Yu cursed loudly, his family has an industry that makes furniture, although he is not proficient in it.

But he also knows that the whole set of furniture made of rosewood is not affordable for ordinary nouveau riche and rich people who are not on the list.

It is said that the price of a ton of Dalbergia Dalbergia logs has exceeded one million.

During the period, after being processed by the timber factory, the price doubled again.

In this hall, all kinds of furniture weigh at least five or six tons.

"I thought it was expensive. It's only 2000 to [-] million. If my family wants to buy it, they can afford it." After He Chunrong heard the price, he didn't take it seriously, and derogated it based on his family background.

Mr. Yu answered:

"Mrs. Liu, do you eat raw meat when you buy it? I'm only talking about the price of wood!"

"Dalbergia japonica is extremely valuable. If you want to make furniture, it is usually handmade by experienced and skilled carpenters."

"Do you think labor costs nothing?"

As he was talking, Young Master Yu took aim at a carved and hollowed-out chair beside him, and after searching for a long time on the ground clumsily, he finally found the inscription of the carpenter on the leg of the table:

Crazy in the woods!
Young Master Yu was so frightened that he fell to the ground with a wonderful expression on his face.

He Chunrong who was choked by him pouted and said disdainfully:

"Young Master Yu, why are you making such a fuss? Did you touch a scorpion?"

Mr. Yu sat on the ground and struggled for a long time before he stood up in embarrassment, the shock on his face was hard to get rid of:
"Do you know who made these furniture? Tell me and scare you to death!"

"Forest idiot! Old Lin!"

"Lin Zhongchi? There is someone with this name? Is he very powerful?" He Chunrong was full of disdain.

But the surrounding guests, especially those bigwigs with a family worth of about a billion yuan, gasped in unison, expressing their shock!

Lin Zhongchi is the best carpenter in China, and the furniture made by him is a treasure that many rich and powerful families in the country are eager to buy.

It is said that when Lin Zhongchi was the old man of the royal family in Kyoto, he made nearly 4000 million of the "small-leaf red sandalwood carved desk"!
What's more, the grade of that desk is not as good as "Fragrance Rosewood", and the price is not the same.

In other words, the furniture in the entire hall, together, is nearly a billion!

This figure is much higher than the net worth of many bigwigs present.

When He Chunrong heard this number, he was too scared to fart.

All the properties of the Liu family, even if they were sold when the market value was at its highest, were only about [-] million.

However, she immediately returned to her previous shrew state, and sneered:
"Things are good things. But what does it have to do with Mr. Xu?"