NOVEL SIMPLE Chapter 184 Repairing the 4-yard
When I hit it with a flashlight, I couldn't see the edges at a glance. It was densely packed with various utensils.
It can be as big as a Qiangongbabu bed or as small as a dressing box.
It can be seen that the Luo family left in a hurry at that time. Many things were just lifted down from above and put away.
There was no time to even take any protective measures.
Over the past few decades, many of the furniture here have grown moldy spots and are full of unpleasant rotten smells. Some of them have even been infested with insects, which have chewed up the wood.
Luo Yunhang glanced at it and trembled with distress. These are furniture made of the best wood!
Huanghuali wood, rosewood, rosewood, iron pear wood, nanmu, chicken wing wood, ebony...
What a waste of resources, what a pity, what a pity!
Down here, there are many bare beds, with different styles and materials.
Luo Yunhang continued to walk through the narrow passage with a flashlight.
In addition to the furniture, there are several boxes of silk and satin in the front. Unfortunately, after so many years, they have long since decayed.
Luo Yunhang continued to walk forward and finally saw the treasures of the old Luo family.
Hundreds of large boxes were arranged in an orderly manner inside. Luo Yunhang opened a few specially, which contained various treasures and antiques.
There are even a few precious ivory tusks.
There are also some precious palace porcelains that have been handed down.
Without enough time to finish reading, Luo Yunhang continued walking inside.
This piece is a collection of precious classics and ancient books left by the ancestors of the Luo family. Fortunately, they were packed in boxes that are resistant to insects and ants. Otherwise, we still don’t know what has happened in the past few decades.
Finally there are a few boxes of gold bars.
Luo Yunhang didn't have time to look carefully one by one, so he decided to protect these things first.
But how to protect it has become a problem again. Many things require the knowledge of repair. Unfortunately, he doesn't understand it now, and the problem has fallen into an endless loop.
Xiang Yizhai can still help with one or two small things, but how should he deal with so many?
Luo Yunhang had a terrible headache.
Before he could figure out a solution, he needed to go back to school.
This semester he can do research projects directly with Master Li.
Unexpectedly, by coincidence, Master Li’s research topic this semester turned out to be the restoration of traditional furniture and decorations in courtyards.
He was still worried that he had no reference, but Luo Yunhang unexpectedly told him that he had two sets of courtyard houses at home, and he also had some furniture that he could bring out for reference.
Master Li was so happy that he immediately went to see these two courtyard houses with Luo Yunhang.
Although the extent of its damage is shocking, these two sets of courtyards are indeed very good subjects, allowing students to see the charming style of courtyards.
So the matter was settled.
The quadrangle directly became the classroom for Luo Yunhang and his ten senior brothers and sisters. For the sake of convenience, Master Li also agreed.
This courtyard is generally classified as a cultural relic building, but it is divided into many sub-categories, including protected buildings, improved buildings, preserved buildings, updated buildings, renovation buildings, etc.
Some places must be preserved as they are, and some things can be transformed to make them more practical.
Specifically, these cultural relic restorers need to judge.
This time, Luo Yunhang made a lot of money. He directly hired a bunch of restorers to help with the repair work without spending a penny.
Seeing the hope of copying the card, Luo Yunhang was very happy. He directly used two million as the restoration funds for the two sets of ancestral houses, mainly used to purchase raw materials, such as huanghuali wood, rosewood, various types of wood, and other necessary materials. Repair some brickwork on the hanging flower door, etc.
Even though it's more than two million, the things you need to use are more expensive, so this money may not be enough.
Master Li knew that Luo Yunhang was rich, so he was not polite to him. Luo Yunhang provided the materials, and he helped lead people to do the repair work. By the way, Luo Yunhang also studied and helped together.
However, with two such big houses, they alone are not enough.
Luo Yunhang paid a high price to hire a team of antique builders to work with Master Li's small restoration team.
In order to strive for excellence, Master Li specially consulted a master from the Antiques Association who was proficient in ancient architectural design, and made a reasonable and outstanding plan and design for the two courtyard houses.
The first item in the renovation plan is to use ancient architectural techniques to create an inverted caisson arch.
The "caisson inverted arch" technology is almost lost. All construction techniques require the use of advanced construction techniques in ancient architecture, so as to restore the original appearance of the courtyard.
The second item is that the dilapidated exterior walls must be stripped off and antique walls must be replaced.
Because the exterior walls are falling off, in order to keep the overall unified appearance of the courtyard and make it more beautiful and durable, during the renovation, the dilapidated exterior walls were stripped off and the antique blue brick walls were reinstalled to restore the historical vicissitudes of the courtyard.
The third is the reconstruction of the cloister
The original wooden structure of the corridor in the old courtyard has long been in decay.
The cloister space has been remodeled, and the cloister has been rebuilt one-to-one using a purely handmade wooden mortise and tenon structure.
This is also a big project that requires a lot of manpower and material resources.
All the previous wooden structures in the garden will be restored to a high degree of one-to-one proportions.
But some classic and irreplaceable places can only be repaired by the skillful hands of restorers.
After finalizing the basic design, construction can begin.
The first step is to remove some things that can no longer be used. This step is handed over to the construction team, with Master Li responsible for supervision.
Luo Yunhang was assigned an important task, which was to find all kinds of wood.
To repair these two courtyards, not just a little bit of wood is needed, but a huge amount of wood.
Under the introduction of Master Li, Luo Yunhang came to Haikou Dingzhen Antique Market, which is the "Huaguoli City" and the largest huanghuali trading market in the country.
When Luo Yunhang arrived at the market, it was only eight or nine o'clock, and it was already crowded and lively.
After years of catastrophes such as palace expropriation, medicinal use, fever relief, felling, and processing of huanghuali, many people have concluded that huanghuali is about to become extinct. To be precise, wild huanghuali trees are on the verge of extinction and raw materials are extremely scarce.
After some inquiries, Luo Yunhang learned that the huanghuali currently sold in the market are mainly tree heads and roots buried in the ground that were cut down before people went to the mountains to dig.
Or they were purchased from daily utensils or beams and window columns that people had previously made with huanghuali.
There are also some planting materials that were planted in front of and behind the house in advance.
Finally, some far-sighted businessmen and enthusiasts purchased the old materials that had been stored in advance, and now they are slowly returning to the market.
Luo Yunhang asked around, but no merchant could provide him with a large amount of huanghuali at one time.