Chapter 703

Mulberry garden, as a classical garden completely restored by private capital investment, has been widely concerned. However, the focus of media attention is not the mulberry garden itself, but the significance of capital entering the public garden market. It is generally believed that such an emerging garden without much historical accumulation is difficult to stand out from many famous gardens in Wuzhong, and it is unlikely to recover a large amount of investment through tourism income. Capitalists have never been philanthropists and must have other purposes.

Some analysts pointed out that this was a breakthrough in the real estate market, because with the completion of the mulberry garden, the surrounding second-hand house prices not only did not fall, but also rose steadily in the depressed real estate market. Hu Xing did take the opportunity to hoard two new lands around the mulberry garden to develop real estate projects. One of the properties has been opened and sold out soon, which makes her a lot of money. She expects that the later phase II and phase III projects can obtain more profits, and with the operation of the newly built pedestrian commercial block next to it, all the funds invested in the reconstruction of the mulberry garden will be recovered soon.

Hu Xing's investment was not optimistic at all. It was regarded as a wayward behavior allowed by the compromise made by Mr. Xia to return his beloved granddaughter to the business world. However, after the mulberry garden was put into use, the unexpected property market development led to a sharp rise in her position in the Xia family. Some even half flattered and half truly praised her as a young business genius in front of Xia Wenyuan.

Xia Wenyuan certainly knew that it was just an accident, but he was also happy to see its success. In order to help Hu Xing, he asked his subordinate real estate enterprises to cooperate. With the encouragement of the media and the inclination of government policies, the area centered on the original Liuying lane has rapidly developed a new area development model that has never appeared in the past.

In order to match the mulberry garden, the roads, landscape and public greening in this area are full of mulberry trees. People call this area "mulberry forest area".

Nevertheless, compared with other gardens in Wuzhong, the mulberry garden is still deserted. On the one hand, because it is a new area, the people who originally lived nearby have moved out one after another due to demolition, the environment has changed, but their popularity is no longer as strong as that in the old city. On the other hand, Hu Xing and lifelong flower set the same high ticket price for mulberry garden as those famous gardens on the grounds of recovering their investment, which deterred tourist groups who wanted to visit here. A new garden without any history has no group discount. Who would like to come?

Only a few tourists will really spend money to buy tickets to visit the mulberry garden, and Mei Ziqing is one of them.

It's still cold, but the mulberry trees in the mulberry garden have sprouted. It seems that spring here comes earlier than in other places.

Mei Ziqing was not in a hurry to see the lifelong flowers, but walked slowly in the mulberry garden, enjoying the unusual scenery here like a real traveler.

Perhaps the most striking thing in the mulberry garden is the huge old mulberry tree.

Like other gardens, a sign will be erected next to each old tree to write its name and age. If the person who planted it is very famous or something special happened at that time, there will be a period of its history recorded.

Mei Ziqing walked over and saw the sign in front of the tree saying "red sericulture" and the tree age saying "more than 260 years".

The following is a small word explanation in Chinese and English:

Red sericulture is a very rare tree species, belonging to mulberry family and mulberry deciduous trees. It is said that there once lived a kind of red wild silkworm on the tree, which can spit out red silk. The silk made of its silk was once known as a top-quality product.

As early as the reign of Emperor Qianlong, there was a record in the annals of Wu: "the best silk is the red silk reeled by huasangyuan. Its quality is better than that produced by the weaving house. Or it is said that wild silkworm is fed with human blood, so its silk is red and like blood, and people dare not dress."

According to the measurement of trunk part, the age of this tree is about 260 years, but C14 measurement of its root system and soil found that it is more than 1300 years ago. Experts estimate that the trunk of red sericulture may have been destroyed, but then it grew again.

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Mei Ziqing carefully read every word, then looked up at the tall Huaguan, stood there thoughtfully for a while, and then said two words to herself: "Qingmu..."

She went on. After passing through a small mulberry forest, you can see a lake with nine curved stone bridges on it. There is a willow on the other side of the lake, which is particularly conspicuous in the mulberry forest.

There are more green buds on the willow than on the surrounding mulberry trees, which shows that it has special vitality. Willows hang down, gently brush the water, and swing out thousands of styles in the wind, as if a shy girl was flirting with her lover.

Standing on the stone bridge, Mei Ziqing looked back and saw the tall crown of red silkworm, looking across the lake from the willow.

I don't know why, she always feels that there are some strange things in the air here, just like what is said in martial arts novels. It is full of aura and makes people energetic.

There is a house not far from the other side of the lake. Although its architectural style is quite simple, it is obviously not the same style as other pavilions in the mulberry garden.

Through the roadside sign, Mei Ziqing knew that it was the mulberry management office.

When she came to the house, she found that the door was closed. Judging from the traces on the door, it should have not been opened for a long time. But the house was obviously occupied, and clothes were hanging on the balcony upstairs.

She went round to the back of the house and found a back door. The door is paved with two bluestone slabs into steps, next to which is a basin of star beauties.

Mei Ziqing raised her hand and knocked on the door, but there was no response. No one? She doesn't think it's such a coincidence.

She investigated the flowers of her life and knew that she rarely left after the mulberry garden was completed.

Mei Ziqing released her spirit and felt that the building was not big. If there was a big living man upstairs, she should be able to feel it. However, it was strange that the abundant "aura" around her disturbed her. She found that what was filled here was something similar to spiritual force, forming a field like a magnetic field covering the whole mulberry garden.

"Holy Land!" Mei Ziqing exclaimed.

One of her purposes in Wuzhong was to find the Holy Land mentioned in her father's notes. She has an intuition that the holy land must have a relationship with a garden in Wuzhong. It can be said that this intuition is very accurate, but her search has no result. In the past ten years, she has visited most places in Wuzhong and seen most gardens, including open and unopened ones, except for the new mulberry garden.

Mei Ziqing also came to Liuying lane when the mulberry garden was not built, and heard those rumors. If she had seen the huge red silkworm at that time, perhaps she would have discovered the secret here. However, a clever grafting made her miss the clue of the holy land like Zhenwu Kitano. They only saw a hundred year old willow there.

She looked up at the blue sky and imagined the spiritual power coming from an unknown deep place in the universe. How was this channel established? Is the disappearance and sudden return of Qingmu related to this?

Mei Ziqing put down her knocking hand and prepared to leave temporarily and walk around the garden again.

When she turned around, she saw the basin of star beauty by the bluestone board. She always felt that it was incongruous to put the flowerpot here, just like someone did it on purpose.

She bent down and picked up the flowerpot. She saw a key under the flowerpot.

She smiled. It turned out that the owner of the house was a forgetful man! Only forgetful people leave their keys at the door. What's the age? Why not install an intelligent lock? Fingerprint, voice and face recognition can do anything.

"Aoki..." she thought of the name again. Yes, Aoki is a forgetful person. Professor Meixu often said that his brain was like an old disk full of bad roads. Is this key for him?

Out of curiosity, Mei Ziqing picked up the key and planned to verify whether it was used to open the door. Suddenly someone behind me said, "are you looking for me?"