Deep courtyard

The enemy does not move, I do not move.

The two sat by the floor-to-ceiling windows, facing each other for more than an hour, accompanied by the violent storm, lightning, and thunder outside the window. I can drink tea with my head down.

Huang Yuan was very surprised. Although this tea is not a good tea, the taste is not good and a bit bitter. It may not be refined tea, but it does not have an original earthy fragrance, and a little sugar is added in it. It's Huang Yuan's habit of drinking tea since he was a child. How can ordinary people in China drink tea with sugar?The person on the opposite side doesn't look like someone who knows how to study English tea, and the tea is just local tea.

Who is this person?

Thunderstorms in the summer afternoon came fiercely, but passed quickly, and there was only light rain remaining in more than an hour. The depressed clouds moved away and the sky reopened.

Pu Jiang turned his head and glanced at the courtyard outside the window, got up and opened the latticed glass door leading to the courtyard: "Let's go."

After the showers, the courtyard presents a green and moist scene. All the leaves of the plants are green and the temperature is much cooler than before. However, apart from the smell of grass and soil in the air, the humidity is still quite high.Wearing slippers, the two of them stepped into the well-maintained lawn. Their feet were immediately soaked by the rain, and the sharp leaves covered their feet. It was slightly itchy but not disgusting. They walked to the center of the courtyard one after the other.

All the architectural design and courtyard landscape design of this high-end residential project were designed by W Architects, where Huang Yuan worked, but it was not in charge of the project team where Huang Yuan worked before, and this time it was temporarily stuffed to deal with the client. So he didn't have time to understand the real estate at all, so he could only observe on the spot now.

Every house here is a standard modern style building facing north and facing south. There are no redundant reliefs or curved decorations. There are only scattered square building bodies. All lines are simple and clear straight lines, and large floor-to-ceiling windows. Let the light be transparent and bright, and the walls are covered with off-white marble slabs.Due to the characteristics of the building itself, the courtyard attached to each household is also a square, bounded by a diagonal line. The northeast corner is an L-shaped courtyard, and the southwest corner is an L-shaped swimming pool. In the center of the courtyard, the courtyard is facing the only landscape lake in the entire community in the east, with a wide view and excellent scenery.

The L-shaped swimming pool adheres to the straight line style, with swimming lanes on one side and jacuzzi on the other, which is simple and practical.The courtyard is different from many European-style seemingly luxurious courtyard designs. The minimalist vast lawn is equipped with rectangular bluestone slabs to space the aisles, and even the shrubs are trimmed and arranged into a neat square. It forms a square area, on which a simple post-modern style outdoor sofa and coffee table are placed, which is refreshing and atmospheric.

I have to say that from the time I got off the car in Huang Yuan, all I saw were excellent and tasteful designs. It is rare to see such a design in China that is not exaggerated and extravagant but can show humanity and high-end temperament everywhere.

It’s just that the owner in front of him found the property owner and asked to renovate the courtyard. He was even unwilling to follow the property owner’s suggestion and find a professional garden design company or team. What I know is that Pujiang not only appointed W Building, but also named Huangyuan, a place named Huangyuan, to renovate for him.

Huang Yuan only knows that the owner is a local. Although this is not the center of Shanghai, it is not far from the center of the city, and it is only a late-developed Qiantan land. I already owned a large piece of farmland that was contracted and transferred by other villagers. In addition, I also had a large ancestral house in the suburbs. Therefore, I made a lot of profits from the two demolitions in the past few years, which is fundamental for other local relocated households. incomparable.Although he himself is young, he has been engaged in agriculture and fishery for several years, and has developed several high-end farmhouse and homestay projects around Shanghai. He is not only a second-generation demolitionist, but also a veritable upstart. Shang also sought his assistance.

Therefore, after the owner who knew the developer paid a huge amount of money to move in, he has a high reputation among the owners and the property. Most people dare not offend him easily, let alone refuse his request, not to mention he never mentions making things difficult. He just asked someone from W Construction to renovate the courtyard for him, and he was willing to pay all the expenses according to the market price.

Huang Yuan and his immediate supervisor only knew that an upstart insisted on renovating his courtyard, and they only believed in the original design company, because they would understand the project better, and the subsequent renovation would not conflict with the previous basic building structure.Huang Yuan only thought that the project team that undertook this real estate had already taken on other projects and was busy, and their team was just closing the case.And the only one that the company can send out to deal with this kind of nouveau riche is him, a rookie who has only been in the firm for two years.

After talking resignedly, Huang Yuan followed Pu Jiang, keeping a distance of one or two meters, and asked sincerely, "Mr. Pu, what are your needs for garden renovation?"

Pu Jiang was squatting on the bank of the artificial lake, holding a handful of rotten black soil, studying whether the sediment in the lake is suitable for planting soil, and how to bring the lake water into the courtyard. Hearing Huang Yuan's question, he turned to him smiled.

Huang Yuan was a little dazed when he saw the silly smile with a sudden change in painting style. Pu Jiang was squatting on the stone steps by the lake, next to reeds that grew to half a person's height, and the green plants in the courtyard could clearly see the traces of careful pruning. The reeds and weeds that grew out of the lake were not taken care of.But I have to say that the abrupt reeds are quite harmonious with the dark and sturdy Pujiang River, plus the inexplicable simple and honest smile, the big black eyes with the sun shining in the afternoon, and the sticky hands that make him feel sick A handful of black mud looks like a farmer squatting in the field. Huang Yuan thinks this image is familiar, but with his life experience in the first half of his life, even if his family is in trouble, he has never had the opportunity to get close to him. It is often encountered, but it is the most despised and despised object in the past.

Pu Jiang threw the black mud into the lake, then bent over to wash his hands in the lake water, and after getting up, he directly wiped two handfuls on his trousers.

Huang Yuan frowned, feeling that the job he was about to accept later might not be easy to do.

"I want to renovate this courtyard. The current utilization rate is too low." Pu Jiang faced Huang Yuandao, who nodded clearly and earnestly, and took out a pen and paper from his briefcase that had been dried. Learn about the case and the owner's needs.

"On the north side near the kitchen and dining room, where we came out just now, a row of bamboo is planted to keep out the wind in winter."

—Oh, be practical.Bamboo can also match this, and if it is well designed, it will have a refreshing Chinese style.

"Add a pool and water bucket near the wall at the exit, which is convenient for washing vegetables and carrying water. Let's build it with marble, and the color can match the house as you see fit."

——The point is not the color, the pool bucket is the standard equipment in the farm yard, besides, there are sinks in the kitchen and public bathroom!

"It's better to build a fish pond next to it. It doesn't need to be very beautiful, just a square shape, and put some artificial rocks from Taihu Lake in the corner. But the pond should be deep and not too small. Fresh fish have to be raised at home before eating. A few days. You are professional about water ingress, drainage and waterproofing, so you have to do a good job."

——It is not to raise ornamental fish, but to raise edible fish! ?

"Put a Qianqiu rocking chair at the foot of the opposite wall. It should be bigger enough to seat two adults. Well, at least it can seat big men like the two of us."

——Alright, the north courtyard is already full.

"For all the places near the wall, remove all the landscape flowers and trees, and replace them with fruit trees suitable for Shanghai's climate. The varieties don't need to be special, just the ones that are common on Chongming Island will do."

——This is the transition from bamboo forest to fruit forest?

"And then that's the point."

——I don't really want to hear the point, really.Huang Yuan held the pen in his right hand and was sketching on the paper. Hearing this sentence, the tip of the pen couldn't help shaking.

"This side by the lake, clear everything, don't want those bluestone sofas, coffee tables, tents, parasols, and anything, oh, and the bushes, also clear."

——Then what do you want to put in this field?You can't grow vegetables, can you?

"Just clean it up. I'll do the rest myself. After all, cultivating land and growing vegetables is not your specialty."

—WTF!I just said nonsense, is there still time for me to take it back?

"The most important thing you have to do is to help me design a digital automatic drainage system to effectively introduce the lake water here, and it should be easy to control, including irrigation and spraying."

——Have your neighbors and property agreed?Also digital automation, it seems that it is still a high-end farmer.

"By the way, don't remove the circle of wild reeds around it, it will help us cover it."

——You also know that such a transformation is shameful?

"Originally, the swimming pool was intended to be transformed into a fish pond, but my mother thought it would be too fishy to raise fish in a large area at home, and it might be too obvious to use the lake water, so forget it."

——Doesn’t it taste good when you grow vegetables?I cried for your neighbor, okay!

"By the way, add a row of fences between this side and the swimming pool. You can use low shrubs. Our free-range chickens and ducks can't run into the swimming pool. There should be a space in the corner for chicken coops and duck cages."

—— Stocking...Okay, I understand, it is completely transformed according to the farmhouse!This is your job, your house, we can't manage it, but why do you have to ask me to renovate it for you!Book that!Isn't the landscape architect used for this? ?

Huang Yuan wrote and drew all the needs of the farmhouse-grade Pujiang in his notebook, each of which made his eyelids twitch, and he even had the urge to resign, if it wasn't for the thought that there were still parents at home to support him. Then, according to his previous temper, he must throw everything in his hand on that person's face, and then walk away.And it’s not uncommon to throw notebooks and pens on other people’s faces before. I remember that the tip of the pen that was thrown off brushed the eyes of the tutor my mother hired, and almost blinded the other party. In the end, it was naturally my father. Mom apologized and lost money for him.

After reminiscing about my previous violent temper for a while, I can only sigh now, and go back obediently to report these needs to the supervisor. Next time, I have to bring my colleagues from the survey and technical departments to the site for measurement and evaluation, and then the business department will quote and sign the contract , and then it is my own design. I hope that the drawing can be produced as soon as possible, and then I can throw it to the construction and supervision department, so that I can let go.

"I look forward to your design, and I also hope that you will be the supervisor in the future. You also know that my requirements are more complicated and special, and I don't feel relieved to hand them over to others."

"Sorry, I have other design projects in the future, and our firm has a very professional construction supervision department, you can rest assured..."

"I will greet you, Mr. Zhang, and you can help me with peace of mind."

"..." One sentence blocked Huang Yuan's refusal and explanation. Mr. Zhang is the chief designer of their firm. Although he is not the general manager in charge of operation and management, he has the highest status in the firm.