Yuan Yang, a craftsman from Qingtian, entered the world of Bianjing with the "Building Method" passed down by his grandfather and fifty copper coins. Using Qingtian iron pine as his bones and his "nail-less tenon" skill as his soul, he built the "Yuan Family Residence" on the banks of the Hulong River. Little did he know that this house soaked in the fragrance of rosin would become the mark of the fate of three generations.
From the struggle of being forced to resell the house to save his young son, to the astonishing rise of the three ministers with the "Cross Tie Method"; from the overt and covert attacks of the powerful Zhao family, to the difficult and blackmailing of the Tax Institute, Yuan Yang used the ink bucket as a ruler to measure the harshness of the world, and used a chisel as an edge to split the thorns in the road ahead. He was once falsely accused of "private digging" for culverts, but he dug out bricks from the previous dynasty in the mud; he was once cut off by iron nails, but he created a unique skill of brick tenons, allowing the bones of "Building French Style" to be reborn on the Bianjing beam frame.
When Yuan's residence experienced a "sale-off" crisis, when Qingtian sand and Hulong River water met in the culvert, Yuan Yi, Yuan Yang's son, clenched the wooden sword engraved with miniature nailless tenons and finally understood the word "Shou Zhuo" carved on his father's palm. From the difficulties created by the Bamboo and Wood Market to the sound of books building the school, from the shadow of the Western Xia war to the dawn of the new canal, every beam of this house remembers: the real foundation is never fixed with iron nails. What can withstand hundreds of years of wind and rain is only the bite between wood and stone, and the ingenuity in the blood.
