Siheyuan, my new life

The main house has an indoor area of ​​at least fifty or sixty square meters. The furnishings in the house have not changed much from what I saw yesterday, except for the addition of some new things.

Several landscape paintings are hung in an orderly manner on the snow-white walls. Although Lin Yu is a complete layman in calligraphy and painting, judging from the majestic style and delicate brushwork of the paintings, they are obviously works of art.

Facing him was a yellow rosewood eight-immortal table with a distinct Ming Dynasty furniture style and four official hat chairs with the same style and material. If it were placed in later times, it would probably cost tens of millions to get it. Lin Yu smiled and shook his head. It was only in this era that he had the opportunity to get these things.

But to be honest, during this period, some precious furniture such as huanghuali and red sandalwood, which were touted to sky-high prices in later generations, are not really that scarce nowadays.

The descendants of the Eight Banners nobles, merchants with a little wealth, and even some so-called scholarly families, which one of them did not have Huanghuali and red sandalwood furniture? Even some landlords and wealthy people who pretended to be elegant had these so-called precious furniture in their homes.

However, during that special period of destroying the four olds, many antiques, calligraphy and paintings, and valuable furniture were destroyed and burned in large numbers, and almost only one in ten thousand remained intact. After all, rare things are valuable, so they were hyped up by some people with ulterior motives, and incredible sky-high prices appeared frequently.

Lin Yu had no intention of hoarding for profit. After all, he was now a transcendent monk, totally different from ordinary people. These things were meaningless to him. Seeing these things that he had no right to touch in his previous life, but now they were just ordinary furnishings in his home, he just wanted to feel comfortable.

Lin Yu reached out and took a file bag from the eight-immortals table, opened it and took out a stack of papers. The top one was a list of items stamped with the official seal of the Logistics Department of the Dongcheng District Branch. The content on it was very simple. In addition to a telephone, office supplies such as pens, ink, paper and inkstone, daily necessities such as firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea, there was also a set of confiscated old furniture and a set of pots and pans.

Lin Yu couldn't help but smile. A black hand-crank telephone was placed on the rosewood flower stand next to the eight-immortal table. Of course, office supplies such as pens, inkstones, and paper were in the study in the west room, and daily necessities were in the wing room. Yesterday, I saw a fully equipped kitchen there. As for the confiscated old furniture, it included the tables, chairs, benches, beds, cabinets, and other things in the house. The so-called pots and pans included those Ming and Qing porcelains and various ornaments. Obviously, these things were the hidden benefits of his deputy director. Ordinary people need to pay real money to buy these things, but for people of a certain status, it is just a trivial matter.

In addition to the list of items, the file bag also contained the title deed and land deed of the house. Hu Dahai had told Lin Yu at the branch office that the house was already in Lin Yu's name. It was a house assigned to him by the unit and purchased by Lin Yu himself. A receipt for the purchase price of 650 yuan was also attached. Of course, the money would be deducted from Lin Yu's salary in batches every month for one year by the branch office's finance department. This was also the reason why Lin Yu could only buy the Siheyuan. If he had chosen the tube building, it would have been impossible. The tube buildings are now allocated to middle and senior leaders, experts and scholars. When they are transferred, the house will be taken back by the original unit and allocated separately.

Lin Yu was excited to be able to spend 650 yuan to buy such a house in the center of Beijing, which also came with a batch of precious furniture, porcelain, calligraphy and paintings. In his previous life, he had worked hard for more than 20 years to buy a two-story townhouse and a building of more than 100 square meters. Now he owns a set of real estate and antiques in the center of Beijing that will be worth several small goals in the future. Although it is not even a drop in the bucket for Lin Yu's current wealth, it can be regarded as wealth that can be left to future generations.

I can't stay alone in this world to experience the world, can I? If I don't get married and start a family for a long time, I will not only have to face the urging of my mother and sister, but also the suspicion of the outside world.

After all, I am now a deputy department-level leading cadre, and getting married and starting a family is also a sign of maturity. In the past, no one paid too much attention to me in the sanatorium, but now that I have left the army and started a new life, getting married and starting a family must be put on the agenda. The longer I delay, the more problems will arise. It would be best to solve this problem within one or two years.

As for his target of a significant other, Lin Yu said that everything depends on fate, but he would definitely not be interested in the women in the original drama. With his conditions, what kind of good girl can he not find?

Lin Yu was not too worried about whether his descendants would have the qualifications to practice cultivation in the future.

Because Lin Yu decided that when choosing a partner, the first thing he had to do was to have the qualifications to practice cultivation. Even if the qualifications were low, with the resources he had, he could still become a high-level cultivator.

When both husband and wife have the qualifications to practice cultivation, their offspring will generally inherit their parents' bloodline and most of them will have the qualifications to practice cultivation. It is not uncommon for cultivator parents to give birth to offspring who have no qualifications to practice cultivation at all, but this situation is extremely rare. However, even if this situation really occurs, Lin Yu will not complain about the world. He will prepare for his child in advance, and at least ensure that he will be rich and healthy throughout his life. After all, the memory of his son in the previous life was not very good.

It's not that Lin Yu is too harsh in choosing his partner. Just imagine, when you have almost endless life, but your partner is just an ordinary person, in just a few decades, your appearance remains the same but your partner has passed away. For a cultivator, this is not just a simple separation of life and death. It is very likely to affect the cultivator's Taoism, thus causing damage to his cultivation or even leading to obsession.

Lin Yu walked into the east bedroom while thinking about something.

The bedroom is slightly smaller than the main house. In the less than 50-square-meter bedroom, there is only a step-out bed and two adult-high wardrobes. From the wood to the workmanship, one can tell at a glance that these two items are products of the same period.

As soon as I walked into the bedroom, a faint scent of sandalwood lingered in my nose. It was obvious that the wood used for the step-out bed and wardrobe must be rosewood.

The step-out bed is also called the "big bed", "step-bed" or "eight-step bed". Because it takes a long time and labor to make a complete step-out bed, it is also called the "universal bed".

In my previous life, I watched a short video introducing the step-up bed. I was attracted by the finely crafted step-up bed in the video at first sight. The bed introduced at that time was a beech step-up bed from the mid-Qing Dynasty. However, the step-up bed in the video that had amazed me could not be compared with the rosewood step-up bed in front of me, either in terms of workmanship or material.

Lin Yu looked at the step-out bed in front of him with joy. He felt a little excited when he thought that he could lie down on this exquisitely crafted bed and rest at will.

A thick cotton mattress was already laid on the big bed, and brand new sheets, quilts, and pillows were also available.

Seeing the two disks, one containing an apple and the other a whole pack of Beijing Eight Pieces, on the small square table in front of the bed, Lin Yu felt even more satisfied with the thoughtfulness of Wang Bo, the office director of the Dongcheng District Branch. Since he was serving him so wholeheartedly, he could not treat him unfairly. He could not just turn a blind eye to it. He would give him two packs of cigarettes next time he saw him to show his appreciation.

After visiting the bedroom, Lin Yu walked into the study in the west room. A huge huanghuali desk nearly two meters high came into his sight. On the desk were neatly placed the four treasures of the study, pens, ink, and manuscript paper. Behind the desk was an official hat chair made of the same material. Judging from the styles of the desk and the official hat chair and the cracks on them, they might be old items from the late Ming and early Qing dynasties.

On the ground next to the desk, there is a blue and white porcelain painting jar (also known as a scroll jar, which was used in ancient study rooms to store framed scrolls of calligraphy and paintings) with a diameter of sixty to seventy centimeters and a height of nearly eighty centimeters. It is filled with hundreds of scrolls of calligraphy and paintings. Lin Yu did not check it immediately, but decided to appreciate it carefully when he has free time later.

Behind the desk, against the wall, was a giant antique shelf that was more than two meters high and more than four meters long. In addition to hundreds of ancient books, there were also many porcelains and jade ornaments of various styles. After a spiritual sense scan, it was found that most of these ancient books were Chinese medicine books from past dynasties, and there were even more than ten court pharmacopoeias from the Tang and Song dynasties. Although Lin Yu did not do much research on antiques and cultural relics, the two jade mountains made of Hetian jade, which were more than one foot high, would be worth a lot of money if left to future generations, not to mention the ancient books that were later hyped as "a piece of Song paper worth ten taels of gold".

When Lin Yu came to see the house yesterday, he didn't find these things in the study. Obviously, he knew that he would read some ancient books on traditional Chinese medicine every day when he was in the sanatorium, so he specially prepared so many ancient medical books.

Obviously, it is impossible for Wang Bo, a small branch office director, to find out his own preferences. This must be the information that Hu Dahai got from somewhere.

Lin Yu just laughed it off. Moreover, these precious books and scrolls were now in his hands and could be preserved. If they continued to stay outside, they would probably be destroyed in no time.

The wing rooms were also filled with various furniture, including tables, chairs, beds, and cabinets. As expected, the materials were either huanghuali or red sandalwood.

In addition to daily necessities such as rice, flour, grain, and oil in the kitchen, there are two pieces of bacon weighing four or five pounds on the chopping board, and the vegetable basket next to it is piled with various seasonal vegetables such as potatoes, cabbage, and peppers.

Lin Yu smiled bitterly and shook his head. It wasn't like he knew how to cook here, so he couldn't waste these things. He simply waved his hand and put them all into the paradise. He would give them to those in need later.

Lin Yu glanced at the cabinet in the corner, then walked out. Under the cabinet was the entrance to the basement. He had checked it with his spiritual sense yesterday. There was a basement below that was five meters long, three meters wide and three meters high, but it was of no use to him. If he wanted to hide something, where could there be a more secret place than his own paradise?