Chapter 131 The Siheyuan
An Yunxi started the car, drove forward for a while, and arrived at the courtyard house rewarded to her by the system - No. 13 Nanfeng Street.
Nanfeng Avenue is an east-west street.
An Yunxi's No. 13 and Aunt Yunshu's house are both located on the north side of Nanfeng Street, and both face south.
The difference is that the Zhou family’s courtyard house No. 41 is actually two courtyard houses with three entrances connected together.
An Yunxi's house is a three-story courtyard house with a cross-courtyard garden.
In terms of area, An Yunxi's set is a little smaller.
The main gate is located in the southwest corner of the entire courtyard, occupying an entire bay.
The vermilion wooden gate is very imposing. The exquisite carvings and paintings on the beams above and the two big red lanterns hanging on the left and right add a touch of refinement to the gate.
There is a pair of round drum stones on the left and right, carved with auspicious patterns of a Qilin lying on a pine tree. The craftsmanship is exquisite and the carvings are lifelike.
An Yunxi took out the key and opened the door of the courtyard.
The first thing that catches your eye is a brick screen wall with a pattern of auspicious clouds and longevity.
To the right of the gate is a gatehouse.
Passing through the doorway on the left, you enter the main courtyard.
There are five rooms in a row, plus two in the western corner, so there are eight rooms in total just as you enter the courtyard.
There is also a small door in the west corner courtyard, which leads to the west wing courtyard.
Passing through the hanging flower gate between the first and second courtyards is the main courtyard of the second courtyard.
Normally, the layout should be five main rooms and three side rooms on the east and west sides.
But the main house here has obviously been renovated like the Zhou family's, and both the main house and the ear room are made into the style of a two-story Chinese-style villa.
The first floor has the living room, tea room, dining room, kitchen, and bathroom, and the second floor has three bedrooms including the master bedroom.
The east and west wing rooms were arranged as guest rooms.
The second courtyard is quite large.
A courtyard frames a piece of heaven and earth.
The sunlight shines through the leaves into the courtyard, creating mottled light and shadows, and the courtyard seems to wake up in the light and shadows.
It quietly tells the story of the years with a calm and elegant posture.
Walk along the winding corridor and around the second main house, and you will arrive at the third courtyard.
A row of two-story back rooms are waiting for the owner to plan them.
Although this courtyard house has been renovated, its overall layout is still the traditional three-in-one courtyard style.
What catches your eye is the courtyard on the west side.
The west wing is the same as the main courtyard in vertical direction, but slightly narrower in horizontal direction, and is generally divided into two parts.
The southern half was built into a garage with a large rolling door leading to the outside and two small doors leading to the interior of the courtyard.
A small door leads directly from the garage to the corner yard in the southwest of the entrance.
Another small door on the north side leads to a large garden.
Following the winding corridor, you can directly come to the second courtyard of the main courtyard.
The garden is filled with pavilions, towers, rockery, flowing water, flowers and green plants to create various scenes with an ancient charm.
Flowers, trees and quaint buildings complement each other, and every place reveals the traces of time and the charm of history.
With a three-courtyard main courtyard of more than 1,200 square meters and a cross-courtyard of more than 700 square meters, the total area of An Yunxi's courtyard reaches 2,000 square meters.
This is definitely a symbol of wealth, identity and status in Beijing.
Not to mention 2,000 square meters, even a courtyard house of 800 or 900 square meters is out of reach for most people.
The set she had was considered top-notch. If it weren't for the system reward, she wouldn't be able to find any way to buy it even if she wanted to.
Every time An Yunxi feels that she understands the system well enough, the system will use a big move to prove itself.
It’s never too much to have such surprises more often.
It seems that her housekeeping team needs to be expanded.
Such a large courtyard must have someone to take care of it.
Thinking of this, An Yunxi immediately called Minghui.
"Butler Ming, I have a courtyard house on Nanfeng Street and I need to hire a few people to take care of it."
An Yunxi thought for a moment and continued, "For the time being, we will need a housekeeper, a doorman and security guard, a gardener, and two cleaners."
She won't be living here for the time being, so it's enough to have a few people like these to take care of the house.
An Yunxi thought that since Minghui and the others were in this line of work, they must have some ways to find people.
"Okay miss, I'll do it as soon as possible."
Professional matters should be left to professionals.
In just three days, Minghui arranged the staff to manage the courtyard according to An Yunxi's requirements.
Butler Xie An, 40 years old this year, has more than ten years of experience as a butler.
The previous host's entire family immigrated abroad, but he didn't go with them because he didn't want to go abroad.
Xiao Guoping, 42 years old, is a doorman and security guard and was previously a Taekwondo coach.
But because he was ostracized by the team and left out of disappointment, somehow he was recruited by Minghui.
Gardener Wu Zhong, 38 years old, used to serve the same master as Xie An, and also stayed because he was unwilling to go abroad.
There are also two cleaning ladies, Tang Aiqun and Zhu Guifen, both in their forties. Their children have grown up and they want to earn a salary to supplement the family income.
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