"Grandpa San and Grandpa Wu, this is Professor Fan from the Provincial University and an expert and scholar from the Provincial University."

In the brigade courtyard, 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 Secretary Lu. Lu Zhenlin quickly waved his hand: "If you can't be treated, you can't be treated, just call me Lao Lu."

Lu Zhenlin has always been very modest to those who are truly capable.

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

The one wearing glasses once again expressed his gratitude to Lu Dong.

Lu Zhenlin invited Professor Fan to the office to chat. Professor Fan came here for a field trip and said directly: "Go and see the place first?"

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

"Okay." Lu Dong led the way, Professor Fan and his group followed behind, Lu Zhenlin and Lu Zhenfei accompanied him.

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

Before the intersection was reached, the green tiled roof was revealed. What was more conspicuous than the roof was the withered yellow weeds half a person on the roof.

Professor Fan straightened his glasses and looked over while walking. When he arrived at the intersection, he turned north and the old street of cement roads several hundred meters long appeared in front of him, and he couldn't help but stop.

Although it is the architectural style of the house and is not very unique, it is different from the style of the old house on the north side of Quannan Road.

The old house on the north side of Quannan Road said that it was new or not, and it was not old. It was obvious that it was not as long as this one.

It’s nothing alone, but it’s rare to connect such a street with a large area.

Old rural houses are more built from adobe, and their value is extremely limited in terms of research and other aspects.

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

Lu Dong couldn't explain it clearly, so he could only look at Lu Zhenlin and Lu Zhenfei. The former said: "I have memories of beating me, this is what Old Street is like."

Lu Zhenfei added: "After Jianguo and the four olds were destroyed in the past? I had a major repair? I took someone to do the rest of the repair."

Professor Fan didn't say anything for the time being? Walking slowly northward? His fingers slid across the blue brick wall and saw the patterns carved on the blue stone? He stopped and looked carefully.

"This is a peony." The carved patterns are not rare, Professor Fan whispered: "Flowers bloom and wealth."

More than this stone is there? Go north? Most of the old houses are the blue stones on the side of the street, and they all have carved patterns of flowers, birds, insects and animals. However, over the years, with the harms of naughty things like Lu Jianren and Lu Dong when they were young, many of them are incomplete.

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

One of the students opened their backpack? Take out the SLR camera and start taking pictures.

Ma Ming and several others also took out the notebook and made corresponding records. What was the specific one? Lu Dong looked at it, but couldn't understand the professional terms.

Walking out nearly a hundred meters all the way? Professor Fan suddenly thought of something and said embarrassedly: "Sorry? Sorry, when you get busy, you are confused? You are really sorry."

No matter what? This is the owner, and it is a bit rude to be busy and not talking to others.

Lu Dong had seen Professor Fan work hard in Mengcheng, and continued: "Professor, you are busy, don't worry about us."

Lu Zhenlin called a few people on the street to watch the fun and asked someone to prepare hot tea or something.

When we arrived at the middle of the old street, my second grandfather moved out the table and stool, 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 war and well-known reasons, very few old-fashioned houses like this can be preserved on a large scale. This is of great significance to studying the rural social environment in the late Qing Dynasty and early Republic of China in Quannan."

Speaking of this, he was very regretful: "It's a pity that some carvings are damaged."

Lu Dong was embarrassed to continue: "The child was too naughty. He looked at the patterns and was so annoying. He would hit bricks and stones to play with them when he had nothing to do. Most of them were smashed like this."

Professor Fan nodded slightly and reminded Lu Zhenlin: "Comrade Lu, this building is very rare in the current social environment, so you need to pay attention to protection."

Lu Zhenlin responded: "The brigade has formulated a promise for villagers to protect the old streets."

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, so he naturally had to build a new house with a wife. The old foundation houses were stripped off and the new houses built into red bricks and red tiles. Such blue brick stone houses were really stripped off and one was missing.

"You have to remind the villagers." Experts like Professor Fan are naturally considering protection: "Don't demolish these old houses."

Lu Zhenlin said: "Don't worry, the village has relevant regulations. Houses on the old streets are not allowed to be demolished. If anyone wants to build a new house, they will go out to approve the new foundation. There are many courtyards around the village."

Professor Fan said again: "Okay! OK! Then there is maintenance..."

Hearing this, Lu Dong interrupted: "Professor, the most famous thing in our Lujia Village is to do construction and make braised cooking. My fifth grandfather used to lead the staff to repair ancient buildings. The oldest buildings on the old street and in the north village were repaired by the fifth grandfather."

Professor Fan nodded slowly, and he could see that the 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 as antique, but more of the dilapidated feeling of old buildings.

Ma Ming and Lu Dong murmured: "I wanted to come during the Chinese New Year. I was stuck and I couldn't come. When I saw it today, I really regret not coming soon."

Lu Dong smiled: "How could it be so exaggerated?"

In this way, old houses that are completely preserved and built with stones and blue bricks and tiles are indeed few that can preserve the entire street, but they are not rare.

"How do you say about folk history?" Ma Ming couldn't explain to Lu Dong for a moment: "So, look at the patterns carved on the stone and the way the houses ridges all have certain considerations. Your Lujia Village is not simple in history, so it must be more extensive."

This really made Ma Ming say. Lu Dong said softly: "In the past, Lujia Village had only the old streets here. Ji Street there was one of the main official roads in Qingzhao and Quannan areas. It was close to the official road and developed well. Later, the official road declined, and Lujia Village disappeared when the large market in Lujia Village disappeared. "

Ma Ming had been to Lu Dong's shop and was inevitably affected. He asked, "Will Qianlong really come to your village and eat your braised cookies?"

Lu Dong was not very irrelevant to his friends, so he could only say, "I don't know much about this either."

On the other hand, Professor Fan and Lu Zhenfei had a lot of fun chatting with him. Lu Zhenfei's family background and decades of experience in the construction industry have a lot of knowledge about ancient architecture, so he can also talk to Professor Fan.

A few years ago, many ancient buildings were seriously damaged, and due to the social and economic environment and professional teams, it was difficult to allocate funds to repair them.

Perhaps in the eyes of Professor Fan and others, even if they can’t eat, they have to save historical sites.

After all, everyone's pursuit is different.

Without much rest, the group went north again and picked up several of the oldest houses in the village and went in to take a look. One of the people had moved to Ji Street and lived in the south of the village.

Once the house is left unoccupied, it will be extremely dilapidated. Professor Fan’s heartache is written on his face, as if he cares more about it than the people in Lujia Village.

Finally, the group climbed the river embankment from Dahuaishu, came to Lujia Food Company, and saw the specially protected ashes hall.

Professor Fan was professional, and when he looked at it, he said, "This style is obviously an early-morning and mid-term architecture."

Lu Zhenfei told the truth: "Not exactly. I have experienced several major repairs in the middle. According to my father, my grandfather's generation had major repairs once, his generation had major repairs once, and later I took someone to practice once."

Such a building has long been dilapidated without maintenance. Lu Zhenfei said: "The architectural style has not changed. Many things are original, such as the veils on the roof, all passed down by our ancestors."

Only then did Lu Dong realize that the divine beast squatting on the roof was called Bian.

It seems that I have heard of this thing, but I forgot it. Lu Dong asked the professional next to me: "Ma Ming, what is Bian? What's the point?"

Ma Ming briefly explained: "Have you heard of the dragon giving birth to nine sons?"

Lu Dong still knew this and nodded immediately.

Ma Ming also said: "Bian is the seventh son of the dragon. He is eager for justice. Many government offices and ancestral halls use it to protect the house. It is said that it can serve as a guardian saint, nurture good fortune, avoid disasters and eliminate disasters."

When Lu Zhenlin heard the words here, he said, "It is to replace the ancestors and look at the descendants of our Lujia Village."

Professor Fan followed Lu Zhenfei into the ashes hall and walked out again, reminding him again: "No matter whether the factory is expanded, it will be better to protect the place."

Needless to say, if it weren't for the purpose of protecting it specifically, the factory would have been demolished long ago when it was expanded.

Later, I went to the primary school again. Professor Fan and his group looked at the old large stage and the extra-large screen wall.

These were built by the older generation when Lujia Village was prosperous, and they were also proof of the prosperity of Lujia Village in history.

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

In fact, it was not necessarily a few things like this, but most of them were removed.

Lu Dong actually saw it clearly, that is, the clan power in the Lujia Village is relatively stubborn, and these buildings that are directly related to the Lu family will be preserved stubbornly, otherwise they would have disappeared long ago.

Let’s talk about the Majia Village next door, along with the main street of Qingzhaohe Bridge, there was originally a watchtower building and a stone screen wall larger than Lujia Village Primary School. Later, for some reason, they were all demolished and smashed.

Lu Dong had never seen it with his own eyes, but he heard from Uncle Qi that the building used to observe bandits in the old days was once the tallest building in the township.
Chapter completed!