At 6:45 in the morning, Liu Zhizhong appeared in the mansion's garden.
It was still the garden he was familiar with, where he had strolled several tis with Qian Xuan and his wife.
However, in the past during these walks, his focus had been on various flowers and birds, and his mind centered around Qian Xuan's words.
After all, during those walks, when Qian Xuan was at his most normal state, he was an erudite and sowhat dominant figure, making conversations with him quite interesting.
Thus, he had never really carefully studied the layout of this villa garden.
But this morning, feeling too lazy to wander alone so early, he suddenly felt inclined to examine the layout.
Upon closer inspection, Liu Zhizhong gradually noticed sothing intriguing and was eventually astonished by its ingenuity!
Holy moly, this layout was absolutely brilliant, incredibly extraordinary!
Overall, the villa's mansion, including the gardens on both sides and the villa itself in the middle, ford a complete topographic and hydrographic layout of mountains and rivers, crafted with ingenuity and profound symbolism!
Damn Qian Family, what kind of family is this?
Simply put, every plant and every water body here held symbolic aning.
Had Liu Zhizhong not previously worked on narration and voiceovers for provincial culture and tourism promotional videos, and viewed nurous docuntaries, he likely wouldn't have noticed the mystery contained within.
But now, he had indeed figured it out.
The entire Qian Family Mansion, where he often strolled, and the area to the right of the villa's main entrance, strikingly represented the geographic features of Hu Yang Province. The area consisted of many flowers and bushes, representing the province's mountain systems, complented by bodies of water, like scaled-down streams and such.
Even several major lakes within the province were replicated to scale, forming either ornantal fish ponds or quite large fish ponds for angling. Qian Xuan had ntioned the largest fish, a bluefish weighing over 100 kilograms, purchased for six hundred thousand, a pair that no one had ever caught.
In such a garden layout, Liu Zhizhong could even pinpoint the location of Yangzhou, clearly identifying the large water channel flowing through, representing Yangjiang. He could even see the Zhang Family's old ho's backyard mountain—Qingfeng Ridge. He spotted Shadong Reservoir in Shadong County, which was represented by a large fish pond! Of course, Qile Mountain Range, where the West Mountain Scenic Area of Yangzhou City was located, was also included, represented by begonias.
And on the left-hand side of the villa's main entrance, having checked on his phone, it turned out to clearly depict the geographic features of neighboring Yunxi Province!
The location where the villa was constructed was estimated to be at the border of Hu Yang and Yunxi Province—beneath Dragon Ridge!
"I'll be damned..."
After comprehending the whole scenario, Liu Zhizhong couldn't help but silently marvel.
What kind of family was this? One house governing two provinces!
Could it be that the Qian Family's influence covered both Hu Yang and Yunxi?
Was this the implied aning behind the construction and layout of the villa?
Subconsciously, Liu Zhizhong started referring to the spot as Hu Yang Garden on one side, and Yunxi Garden on the other.
As the morning approached seven o'clock, Liu Zhizhong was enlightened in such a mansion garden, also secretly shocked.
Indeed, in this world, there were many things ordinary people couldn't touch or understand.
Standing behind Yunxi Garden, at the location of Yungu Lake—a rather large fish pond—he silently let his mind wander, yet inadvertently noticed across Yungu Lake in a pavilion, a woman in a black dress was standing.
Her attire was bizarre!
Her long dress was frighteningly long, obscuring her feet, with her hem dragging on the ground.
Most notably, her sleeves were so long that her hands weren't visible.
It appeared that it wasn't so much a dress as it was a robe.
She also wore a hood-like, black veil, covering her hair, revealing only locks that fell to her lower back.
The woman stood quite tall, nearly 1.8 ters, incredibly slender.
A breeze ca and with it, the robe billowed and the veil fluttered, giving her an aura of mystique and elusiveness.
The pavilion, with its ancient design, the wide pond behind it, and the gloomy woods around it, transported one to a world of martial fantasy. Of course, it would have been even more fitting had she held a sword.
She stood with her back to Liu Zhizhong, seemingly unaware of his presence.
Liu Zhizhong was dumbfounded.
Who was she?
Could it be the housekeeper Qian Xuan ntioned according to Song Zhe, just taking a morning walk by the lake and then heading back?
Of course, beside this mysterious woman, one on each side outside the pavilion, stood two beautiful ladies.
Their attire and appearance were similar to those of the security guards like Shi Jing, though Liu Zhizhong had never seen them before.
However, they looked colder and more lethal.
They silently accompanied the mysterious woman but also noticed Liu Zhizhong, yet paid him no heed.
Liu Zhizhong took a deep breath, cald his mind, and slowly walked towards her to say hello.
After all, he was also about to turn and check out the landscape of the other part of the mansion. If his guess was right, it should be an even larger lake, the foremost in Yunxi.
However, just when Liu Zhizhong was less than fifteen ters away from the mysterious woman, one of the female security guards by the pavilion suddenly turned to stare at him and said sternly, "Don't co any closer, or..."
Liu Zhizhong gave a nervous smile, about to say sothing when the guard suddenly drew a handgun, smoothly chambered a round, and aid it at him, "I can shoot you dead right now!"
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