Chapter 96 Autumns Colors Cannot Be Contained In Garden (2/2)
Above the main gate was a four-character plaque of ”Clear Lake Dream Gallery”. The sales lady said that it was a gold lacquer plaque, made from the prohibitively expensive Phoebe zhennan S. Lee tree.
As soon as they walked in, they saw a large rockery made of Taihu Stone, which had various shapes, winding caves, ridges and green mosses. On one side, it was cut like a cliff, where red and gold chrysanthemums were in full bloom.
There was a sweet-scented osmanthus tree beside the rockery. Its branches and leaves flourished like umbrellas. The flowers were all at their peak, gorgeous and incomparable.
Turning around the rockery, they saw a beautiful antique moon gate, with a gold lacquer plaque made of white marble above, engraved with three regular script characters of ”Small View Garden”.
Long Xi smiled and said, ”Small View Garden? It seems that the word 'dream' in Clear Lake Dream Gallery was closely related to A Dream of Red Mansions.”
The sales lady initially thought that she was too young, and did not pay any attention to her. Most of the previous explanations were aimed at Lord Mo Kun. Now, hearing that she discovered something so quickly, she looked at her with new eyes.
With a professional smile on her face, she said to Long Xi, ”This beauty has good taste! It is said that several designers of the Dream Gallery are very fond of the architectural style of the Grand View Garden in A Dream of Red Mansions. There are more than a dozen places named after the buildings in the Grand View Garden.”
Mo Kun asked Long Xi, ”Do you like it here?”
Long Xi nodded, smiled and said, ”The designers are very thoughtful!”
As soon as they entered, they seemed to fall into a sea of flowers. There was a riot of color everywhere, as the flowers showed off their blooms. The air was fresh and the pleasant fragrances of flowers permeated the whole area.
On the right was a cobblestone path, with a stone unicorn, on each side of the entrance. The two large golden hydrangeas on the back of each stone unicorn were skillfully made of innumerable golden hydrangeas of the same size, and tied to the stone unicorn with ribbons. After being decorated in this way, the unicorns seemed to be welcoming the distinguished guests.
The path led to a bamboo forest.
Long Xi smiled and said, ”This is the so-called the winding path, leading to a secluded quiet place.”
They saw green bamboos providing shade, with slender branches, well-proportioned leaves, and overlapping shadows. The autumn sun fell on their bodies as the breeze caressed the leaves and there was a unique lingering charm around the place.
Among the green bamboos, there was a three storeyed archaized building with cornices, red walls, and green tiles. The plaque above the gate had the words ”Xiaoxiang Pavilion”.
The sales lady said, ”This is the show house. Please come in.”
She used a key to open the door, which looked like a carved wooden door, but was actually a metal door, and led the three of them in.
There were a big lawn and a big garden on each side of the road. Amidst them stood a magnolia tree, with particularly beautiful, white flowers.
Walking into the big living room, they saw light green velvet curtains hanging beside the tawny glass windows. There was western-style furniture including a lips sofa and glass dining tables and also Chinese-style furniture such as rosewood old-fashioned tables, padauk low tea-tables, and redwood chairs.
On the snow-white textured wall hung a number of Z Country landscape paintings, while five palace lanterns hung from the ceiling. Looking closely, they turned out to be big electric lamps wrapped in the palace lantern colorful gauze covers.
Long Xi said with a smile to the sales lady, ”It's really a combination of Chinese and Western elements!”
Mo Kun whispered to grandma, ”Does grandma like this place?”
Grandma saw the sales lady standing far away. She laughed and whispered, ”How can we afford it? Our money isn't even enough to buy a bathroom tile!”
Mo Kun laughed and said, ”Nothing is impossible!”
The next room was the bedroom. Mo Kun looked at the decorated bedroom, and could not help being in a jumpy mood. He imagined that he would live a ”sexual” happy life here with Long Xi in the future, which made him so good!
”Xixi, I want to have an unforgettable wedding night with you here, do you know that?”
After visiting the show house and the Small View Garden, they were very satisfied with the environment here.
Long Xi especially liked Zhenxia Pavilion next to Xiaoxiang Pavilion, whose overall layout and interior decoration were similar to that of Xiaoxiang Pavilion, just without any furniture.
When they left, Mo Kun let Long Xi and grandma get in the car first, saying that he needed to go to the bathroom. Then he slipped over to the sales department quietly, gave the deposit with his credit card, and agreed to come over to sign the sales contract on Monday. He would then pay off the money at one time and get the house proprietary certificate.
Mo Kun did not intend to tell this to Long Xi and grandma. He intended to furnish the house and give Long Xi a big surprise on her birthday!
Long Xi received a phone call from Xiaolu in the car.
Xiaolu's tone was very depressed, which indicated that he was in a very low mood. Long Xi asked, ”What happened?”
He said angrily, ”My mother is so infuriating! She still wants me to take the college entrance examination and enter the entertainment circle only after finishing college. I don't agree, so she took the liberty of telling the director she knows, that I have withdrawn from the competition. What a nuisance! I feel that she does not respect me, and still treats me as a child!”
Long Xi said, ”Calm down! Xiaolu, calm down first and have a good talk with your mother!”
Xiaolu said, ”I have nothing to say to her! The program team already disqualified me! I came back by car without telling her. I'm in the car now.”
Long Xi said, ”Cool down!”
Xiaolu said, ”I'm going to talk to Weiwei about life tonight. Life doesn't come again. How can we not cherish it?”