After walking through the rooms, Zhang Guoqing found that Old Mrs. Cheng must have already had someone meticulously clean them before. Aside from a layer of new dust, even the storage room was spotlessly clean.
The small courtyard, though not large, had everything. The main house and the left and right wing rooms were all fitted with kangs. The south room, used as a study after serving as the living room, was simply furnished.
In the courtyard, there was a tall jujube tree on the left, under which was the entrance to the cellar. In the middle of the courtyard was a pomegranate tree loaded with fruit. At that moment, Ping'an was looking up, circling around the courtyard's pomegranate tree.
There's an old saying in Beijing: "Awnings, fish tanks, pomegranate trees." It refers to the unique summer scenery in Beijing's courtyard houses. In earlier times, the houses often used pomegranate trees, symbolizing many descendants, as decorations, with fish tanks scattered among them.
