She Became A Downfall Noble Lady

Zheng Pengfei followed Jiang Yifan for a day of listening to stories, and on the next day, he accompanied Guan He in drinking for another day. With Guan He’s wedding only a day away, he was dragged along to North City’s Guangsha Construction to see the Garden Layout Map that Ye Xinyan had agreed to make for Guan He.

This garden didn’t require the painstaking effort involved in Official Tang’s renovation project; Ye Xinyan didn’t use her brain at all. Without the limitations of a fixed location, she directly copied a typical small Suzhou garden from the modern era.

She sketched out an outline for Zhou Biyao, highlighted the key styles, and left the rest for Zhou Biyao to develop.

The Suzhou Gardens form a system of their own, tested through the long river of time and generations of literati. The various specifications of the gardens allow for grandeur and breadth in large ones, and delicacy and cleverness in small ones.

Ye Xinyan was just a porter, transferring the essence of her ancestors’ wisdom from memory would result in a top-notch beautiful scene.

With the addition of Zhou Biyao’s foundational drawing skills, the garden map was naturally very pleasing to the eye.

That’s not to say Zhou Biyao possessed artistic skills of extraordinary height. As a young lady, she certainly wasn’t one of those renowned painters, but, after all, she had been formally trained from a young age. When it came to drawing Garden Layout Maps, there wasn’t a single problem.

Moreover, with the conscious accumulation of knowledge Ye Xinyan had done over the years, using her spare time to collect various architectural patterns—such as different kinds of flying eaves, window lattices, carvings, and the like—as templates for later use, as long as she could remember and find them in this era.

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At such times, it was incredibly convenient and quick to simply choose the appropriate styles and ’Photoshop’ them based on Ye Xinyan’s memory.

Yuan Shang handed over the scroll to Guan He with full confidence. This garden, if not Heaven on Earth, was a rare gem in the world, sure to satisfy Master Guan.