Chapter 381 Professor Fan is here

   "The third grandfather, the fifth grandfather, this is Professor Fan of the Provincial University, an expert and scholar of the Provincial University."

In the courtyard of the brigade, Lu Dong introduced Professor Fan and Ma Ming to Lu Zhenlin and Lu Zhenfei: "This is Ma Ming, Uncle Ma's son."

  Professor Fan shook hands with Lu Zhenlin and Lu Zhenfei, calling him Secretary Lu. Lu Zhenlin quickly waved his hand: "You can't do it, you can't do it, just call me Lao Lu."

   Lv Zhenlin has always been very humble towards those who are truly capable.

   In addition to Professor Fan and Ma Ming, who came along with them, there were also three graduate students, all of whom Lu Dong knew, the three who had dealt with Mengcheng last time.

   The one with glasses thanked Lu Dong again.

  Lu Zhenlin invited Professor Fan into the office for a chat. Professor Fan came here for a field trip and said directly, "Let's go and see the place first?"

   Ma Ming also said: "Lu Dong, why don't you go and have a look first?"

   "Alright." Lu Dong led the way, Professor Fan and his party followed behind, and Lu Zhenlin and Lu Zhenfei accompanied them.

  Get out of the brigade, turn west from Jijie Street, walk a short east-west road, and turn north to the old street of Lujia Village.

   Before reaching the intersection, the ridge of the blue tile roof was revealed. What was more conspicuous than the ridge of the roof were patches of withered and yellow weeds that were half a person high on the roof ridge.

  Professor Fan corrected his glasses and looked over there as he walked. When he came to the intersection and turned north, the old cement road several hundred meters long appeared in front of him, and he couldn't help but stop.

   Although it is the architectural style of the folk houses, it is not very unique, but it is not the same as the style of the old houses on the north side of Quannan Road.

  The old houses on the north side of Quannan Road are not new, and they are not old.

  It is not a big deal by itself, but it is relatively rare for such a street to be connected together.

  The old rural houses are mostly made of adobe, so the value of research and other aspects is extremely limited.

  Professor Fan didn't care too much, and asked directly: "Lu Dong, how long has this house been built?"

   Lu Dong couldn't tell, so he could only look at Lu Zhenlin and Lu Zhenfei, the former said, "I have a memory of hitting me, the old street is like this."

   Lu Zhenfei added: "After the founding of the country and the destruction of the Four Olds, I had to overhaul it once, and I led someone to do the next maintenance."

  Professor Fan did not speak for a while, and walked slowly towards the north. He slid his fingers on the blue brick wall and saw the patterns carved on the blue stripes, and stopped to look carefully.

   "This is a peony." The engraved pattern is not uncommon, Professor Fan whispered: "The flower blooms rich and noble."

More than this one stone, further north, most of the old houses used as the cornerstone of the cyan strip on the side of the street, all have carvings of flowers, birds, insects and beasts, but over the years, with the addition of similar Lu Jianrenhe. Many of the scourges of Lu Dong's naughty things when he was a child are incomplete.

   "Take a picture!" Professor Fan immediately directed the students to work.

   One of the students opened his backpack, took out his DSLR camera, and started taking pictures.

  Ma Ming and a few others also took out the notebook and made corresponding records. Lu Dong glanced at it and couldn't understand the technical terms.

   Walking all the way for nearly 100 meters, Professor Fan suddenly thought of something and said embarrassedly: "Sorry, sorry, when I get busy, my head gets confused, I'm really sorry."

   In any case, this is the host's house, busy patronizing and not talking to anyone, which is somewhat rude.

   Lu Dong saw how hard Professor Fan was working hard in Mengcheng, and then said, "Professor, you are busy, don't worry about us."

   Lu Zhenlin called in a few people watching the fun on the street and asked them to prepare some hot tea or something.

   Came to the middle of the old street, the second grandfather brought out a table and maza, made a pot of hot tea, invited Professor Fan and others to drink some water, and rest for a while.

Professor Fan drank tea and said: "In Quannan, due to the war and some well-known reasons, very few old-fashioned dwellings like this can be preserved on a large scale. The environment is huge."

   Speaking of this, he is not without regrets: "Unfortunately, some of the carvings are damaged."

   Lu Dong was embarrassed to answer: "Children are too skinny, looking at those patterns are annoying, so they play with bricks and stones. Most of them are broken like this."

  Professor Fan nodded slightly and reminded Lu Zhenlin: "Old Comrade Lu, this building is very rare in the current social environment and must be protected."

   Lu Zhenlin replied: "The brigade has made a villager's promise to protect the old street."

Professor Fan has also visited many rural areas. He thought that since the mid-1980s, even if the old houses were preserved, most of them were adobe houses. Naturally, a new house would have to be built to get a daughter-in-law. A new house with bricks and red tiles, such a house with blue bricks and strips, is really one less room if one is removed.

   "You should tell the villagers well." Experts like Professor Fan naturally think about protection first: "Don't demolish these old houses."

  Lu Zhenlin said: "Don't worry, there are relevant regulations in the village. Houses on the old streets are not allowed to be demolished. Those who want to build new houses will go out to approve new foundations. There are many yards around the village."

  Professor Fan said again: "Okay! Good! Then there is the maintenance aspect..."

Hearing this, Lv Dong interjected: "Professor, our Lvjia Village is most famous for its construction and braised cooking. My fifth grandfather used to lead staff to repair ancient buildings. The oldest buildings on the old streets and in the northern village are all It was the fifth grandpa who brought someone to repair it."

  Professor Fan nodded slowly, and he could see that the most recent repair must have been many years ago, and this old house has a strong sense of history.

   But in the eyes of the people of Lujia Village, the old streets are not quaint, but more of a sense of dilapidation of old buildings.

   Ma Ming whispered to Lu Dong: "I wanted to come during the Chinese New Year, but I got stuck and couldn't come. When I saw it today, I really regret that I didn't come earlier."

   Lu Dong smiled: "How can it be so exaggerated."

   Such a well-preserved old house built of stones and blue bricks and blue tiles is indeed rare, but it is not rare.

"What do you say about folklore and history?" Ma Ming couldn't explain it to Lu Dong for a while: "Let's put it this way, you must pay attention to the patterns carved on the stone and the way the ridges of the houses are raised. History is not simple, it must have been wider.”

This point really made Ma Ming speak, and Lu Dong said softly: "In the past, there was only the old street here in Lujia Village, and the Jijie over there was one of the main official roads in Qingzhao and Quannan areas. The official road developed well, but later the official road declined, the Lujia Village was gone, and the Lujia Village also declined.”

   Ma Ming went to Lv Dong's store, and he was inevitably affected, and asked, "Could it be that Qianlong really came to your village and ate your stew?"

   Lu Dong is not good at talking nonsense to his friends, so he can only say: "I don't know this too well."

   On the other hand, Professor Fan and Lu Zhenfei had a great time chatting. Lu Zhenfei’s family background, coupled with decades of experience in the construction industry, he has a lot of knowledge about ancient buildings, and he can also chat with Professor Fan.

   In the past few years, many ancient buildings were severely damaged. Due to the social and economic environment and professional teams, it was difficult to allocate funds to repair them.

  Perhaps in the eyes of people like Professor Fan, even if they can't eat, they have to save the historical sites.

   After all, everyone’s pursuit is different.

   There was no rest for a long meeting, and the group went north again. They also picked a few houses that were recognized as the oldest in the village and went in to have a look. One of them had already moved to Jijie to live in the south of the village.

   Once the house is unoccupied, it will break down very quickly. Professor Fan's heartache is written on his face, and he seems to care more than the people in Lujia Village.

   Finally, the group went up the river bank from the big locust tree, came to the Lujia Food Company, and saw the specially protected columbarium.

  Professor Fan took a look and said, "This style is obviously an early-mid morning architecture."

   Lv Zhenfei told the truth: "Not exactly. I went through several major repairs in the middle. According to my father, my grandfather's generation overhauled it once, his generation overhauled it once, and then I took someone to repair it again."

   Such a building would have been ruined without maintenance. Lu Zhenfei added: "The architectural style has not changed. Many things are original, such as the birch on the roof, which are all handed down from our ancestors."

   Only then did Lu Dong know that the divine beast squatting on the roof was called Biqi.

   It seems that he has heard of this thing, but he forgot the specifics. Lu Dong asked the professional next to him: "Ma Ming, what is a bisque? What's the point?"

   Ma Ming explained briefly: "Have you heard of Longsheng Nine Sons?"

   This Lu Dong still knew, and nodded immediately.

   Ma Ming also said: "Xiaoqi is the seventh son of the dragon. He is eager for justice and righteousness. Many government offices and ancestral halls use it to control their houses. It is said that it can be used as a guardian deity, breed good luck, and avoid disasters and disasters."

   Lu Zhenlin heard the words here and said: "It is to replace the ancestors and watch the descendants of our Lujia Village."

  Professor Fan followed Lv Zhenfei into the columbarium and walked out, and once again warned: "No matter how the factory expands, it must be well protected."

   Needless to say, if it wasn’t for special protection, the factory would have been demolished long ago when it was expanded.

After   , we went to the elementary school again, and Professor Fan and his party looked at the old big stage and the extra-large screen wall.

   These are all built by the older generation when Lvjia Village was prosperous in those days, and it is also a testament to the prosperity of Lvjia Village in its history.

  Professor Fan looked at these and said, "It's not easy to preserve it."

   In fact, decades ago, such things may not be rare, but most of them were dismantled.

   Lu Dong actually sees it more clearly, that is, the clan in Lujia Village is relatively stubborn, and these buildings that are directly related to the Lu family are stubbornly preserved, otherwise they will be gone.

   It is said that Majia Village next door, together with the main street of Qingzhaohe Bridge, originally had a watchtower and a stone shadow wall larger than that of Lujia Village Primary School. Later, for some reason, all of them were demolished and smashed.

   Lu Dong has never seen it with his own eyes, but he heard Uncle Seven say that the watchtower used to observe bandits in the old days was once the tallest building in Shili Baxiang.

   Back to the village committee, the group sat in the office, Lv Dong deliberately talked about some things about the construction of Lvjia Village.

   (end of this chapter)