In the days when I was forced to become a Feng Shui master

As the maid entered the guest courtyard, Yu Ning subconsciously took a deep breath.

The smell of spices is floating in the air, and the smell of soil and rain is mixed together in the water vapor all over the sky, dispelling those filthy ones, leaving only those worth tasting, which will become more fragrant and clearer.

It is fragrant.

The signboard of Qingfangzhai, the most famous spice shop in Chang'an Prefecture, is especially suitable for rainy weather.Mr. Mei likes to burn such a cage of fresh fragrance on rainy days, read and write with the quiet fragrance, or drink tea and play chess, leisurely like a fairy.

In a trance, Yuning thought that he had returned to Chang'an Mansion.

The servant girl knelt down and said: "This place is called Liuxiangju, and the maidservant is named Liuxiangju, and she is the first-class maidservant of Liuxiangju. If Young Master Yu has any orders, just tell the servant girl."

"You go down first." Yu Ning waved his hand, Fu Rong followed behind him, and entered the room with Yu Ning.Steward Wang also entered the courtyard at the back, the difference was that behind him was a group of servants and guards from the National Teacher's Mansion, he silently raised his hand, and the servants and guards behind him dispersed, each busy with their duties up.

The dozens of servants and servants that Zhang Yuanwai had originally prepared for Yu Ning's guest house were all driven out, except for Liu Xiang, who was in charge, none of them remained.

The furnishings in the room are also the same as those in Chang'an Mansion, with a bit of quiet luxury revealed in the elegance.Yu Ning suffered from an occupational disease, so he couldn't help but look around, it was good if he didn't pay attention, but when he noticed, he found that the treasure shelf in the hall of his yard was full of magic weapons.

That is a treasure shelf!not one!Not two either!

He couldn't help but frowned. Too many magical artifacts is really not a good thing, especially if more than a dozen magical artifacts are placed on a treasure shelf with a very small spacing-if they are all buffs, it's fine, equipped with a hundred treasures Most of the heads on the shelf are wearing evil spirits.

As long as people live in this house, they will be seriously ill for three months, or die in severe cases.

He has reasonable grounds to suspect that someone is trying to murder someone.

Guanshi Wang is also a person who can see the aura. He didn't pay attention to it before, but he noticed it when Yu Ning's eyes paused, and after careful observation, he immediately frowned and shouted: "Come on, remove all the things on the treasure shelf .”

Zihe replied yes, and went forward with two other purple-clothed maidservants to take off all the things on top, found Liuxiang and handed it to her, asking her to send it back.

Liu Xiang was a little puzzled, looked at Zihe with a serious expression in front of him, bent his knees and asked: "Sister, can my sister ask... what doesn't Master Yu like? You can ask my sister to tell the master before changing it." A set?"

Zi He said coldly: "The young master means that I would like to ask you to send these things back, and there is no need to replace them with new ones in the future."

"The furnishings on this treasure shelf were carefully selected by our master. Not to mention invaluable, they can also be called boutique..."

"Forbidden." Zihe's eyes drooped slightly, "You can't guess what you want."

"...Yes." Liu Xiang bent her knees, and ordered a few servants to come over and pick up the things together and send them to the main courtyard.

***

Yu Ning took a hot bath, put on a wide long gown, and spread her long hair loosely behind her back.He lowered his eyes to look at the jade fan in his hand, playing with it once in a while.

He carefully thought over the few words he said to Zhou Shilang in the morning, and he could tell from the words... Zhou Shilang didn't believe in Feng Shui.It is also possible that he believed, but he did not believe him.

He also understands Zhou Shilang's difficulty, he can't carry it on his shoulders, and if he takes it to the embankment, it's one thing to get in the way. If something goes wrong, Zhou Shilang can't blame his master.Zhou Shilang is the official history majoring in repairing the embankment this time, and he is responsible for repairing the embankment. He doesn't want to take care of other troublesome things, and he has no time to take care of them.

Everyone has their own difficulties.

Except for the sons and guards who came to "get credit" like him and the guards they brought, after careful calculation, there were only 500 people who really came to repair the embankment.Calculating the time, when they arrive at the disaster area, first, they need to open warehouses to release grain, so that the local people will not have to change their sons to eat; Fourth, we must contact the local government and wealthy households for joint disaster relief.

The so-called strong dragon does not suppress the local snake, although Yu Ning once said that if there is a shortage of money and food, he will ask the local wealthy businessman to donate, but in fact if people bite their teeth and refuse to give, just a few hundred people will conflict with the local family that has developed for a hundred years. I'm sure I can get it right.

In addition, there are follow-up supplies of grain and grass, pebbles for building dams, bamboo fences, stone materials, etc., staffing, money and food distribution. If these are not clearly allocated, there will be chaos at that time.

The source of the Yellow River is the Loess Plateau. The Loess Plateau is all loess areas. Because of long-term weathering, the soil on the Loess Plateau is soft and grainy.The Yellow River slaps on both sides, or the wind blows and dissolves the water, resulting in the fact that the Yellow River is actually muddy water, not clean water.After hundreds of years and thousands of years of scouring, the sediment on the plateau raised the bottom of the river bed, and last year's heavy snow melted the snow, which caused the Yellow River to burst.

Yu Ning checked the information, and generally speaking, there are two main ways to control the flood of the Yellow River:

One is to use water to attack sand.Use the embankment to speed up the speed of the Yellow River and wash away the sediment at the bottom of the river, so that the riverbed becomes lower and naturally the embankment will not burst again.

Second, Kuanhe stagnates sand.It means that the river is widened and dams are built on both sides, so that the water that can be carried by the widened river will naturally increase.

In fact, there is a third way, that is, no matter what beams of water are used to attack sand, and no matter what kind of wide river stagnates sand, just fill the gaps in the original dikes and dams.But judging from the current flow of the Yellow River, it is only a matter of time before the dam is simply repaired and washed away by the water. It is now spring, and this flood is caused by the melting of last year's heavy snow. It is rainy in summer, which is the main reason why the Yellow River broke its banks in the past.

But Gu Guoshi told him that the dam was also repaired last year, so last year, it was just a simple repair of the original dam?So it crashed again this year?Once the dam is repaired, it will take as short as three months and as long as more than half a year. It is not considered unlucky. Does it mean that the dam has just been repaired and returned to Chang'an Mansion and has not rested for a few months. Summer is here again, and the dam should collapse again. Then come back to fix it?

Yuning held in his hand the maps of the Yellow River course from ancient dynasties that Lan Xiao had prepared for him. While comparing the existing maps of the Yellow River, he found the one that was the closest, and then found the corresponding Yellow River water conservancy project for comparison. .

Yu Ning found that his previous thinking had gone into a misunderstanding - it doesn't matter whether he can get on the embankment or not, the important thing is that Zhou Shilang can obtain this information, and then earn something, then that's fine.

After all, he is not a student of water conservancy. If he can rely on these theoretical materials alone to listen to Zhou Shilang's deceitful everything, and he can repair the river embankment, then it is really the luck of the ancestors' graves. Yes, I suggest going back to Hyundai to directly buy [-] lottery tickets with the same number, which guarantees a net profit of [-] million.

There is a huge gap between practical operation and theoretical knowledge. He only has this theoretical knowledge. Can he handle emergencies?Does he know how to calculate the effect of the curvature of the dam on the water velocity?Does he know what material can be replaced quickly and easily when the best material cannot be found?

--cannot.

He has a good hand of cards in his hand, and there is no need to pick the worst card to play.What Zhou Shilang said was right. He went up the embankment. Although it wasn't like what Zhou Shilang said, he couldn't really resist the sand and gravel, but it was really not worth it in terms of capital.It's better to perform their own duties and do what they can do.

Well, let’s start with selecting the relevant materials first, and then copying them and sending them to Zhou Shilang—what Lan Xiao gave him were all typed documents, so he definitely couldn’t just give them to Zhou Shilang directly, some things should be omitted It must be omitted, otherwise Zhou Shilang would not be able to answer when he asked what the "Ming and Qing Dynasties" were.

These things can't be copied by servants, so they can only be done by themselves.Fortunately, Yu Ning has been practicing calligraphy for more than half a year, at least this character... can still be recognized by people.

So Yu Ning sealed off the study room, not even the steward of King Furong or even Sasa's maid could enter, and concentrated on copying his own materials in the study room.Don't look at just such a little information, it is based on the fifth font of the Song Dynasty, and it is a big project to replace it with a brush.

Fortunately, he is also a half-art artist. It is not difficult to draw a watershed map and a structural map of the embankment. It has not reached the stage where copying is impossible.

Of course, things are much more difficult than Yuning imagined, for example, to select useful ones from hundreds of documents first.

……

When Yuning came back to his senses, the lanterns had just come on, and the servants lit bright red lanterns outside and hung them on the wall.

Yu Ning was awakened by Furong's voice reminding him to eat. He looked at the four documents that had been screened out at his hand, and then at the big wooden box at his feet, and couldn't help but sigh.

This has to be screened when to go.

He covered the things on the table, opened the door and went out to take the food box from Fu Rong. Seeing his tired face, Fu Rong couldn't help persuading him: "Master, you are exhausted, you should take a good rest now." , you didn't even eat a bite of lunch, how can this be possible?"

Yu Ning got up by himself mainly to exercise his muscles and bones. He hadn't experienced this kind of continuous five or six hours of desk work for a long time.Hearing what Furong said, he touched his stomach, and then realized that he didn't eat lunch, no wonder Furong couldn't bear to call him at night.

"Forgot." Yu Ning explained, since he just figured out what he should do, the invisible anxiety in his heart finally dissipated.He smiled and said, "I want to drink some soup. What soup have you prepared today?"

Fu Rong was slightly taken aback, and said: "It took an hour and a half to sort out the small stove, and the cook didn't have time to stew the broth, so I boiled a cup of ginseng chicken soup for you."

"That's not bad, I also like to drink." Yuning asked while walking with the food box: "Have you eaten Furong? Everyone has worked hard these days, let the small kitchen work hard these days, and give everyone a few more A meat dish, make up for it. On weekdays, the one-day rotation system is changed to three shifts. We will probably live here for a few months, so that everyone will not be exhausted."

Fu Rong pursed her lips, and Yu Ning's condition returned, she was also happy: "Yes, master... why don't you give everyone an extra month's money? What they want, let them buy it themselves, why bother you to do it for them?" worry."

Yu Ning put the food box on a small table, took out the soup inside without paying too much attention, lifted the lid and drank a couple of sips without caring about getting hot, Fang said: "What's the situation outside? Didn’t you see it? You have to have a place to spend the monthly money.”

"What the young master said is true." Furong responded, and Yu Ning said again: "By the way, after all, I live in someone's house now, and I'm afraid it's not easy to get food and stuff. You can ask Steward Wang to send some money back to this house." In the past, what happened to eating and drinking for free? It’s not worth it.”

"Young master, don't worry, these stewards have already given orders."

"Well, then I won't talk too much, you can figure it out." Yu Ning finished the soup in two or three gulps, then took out the chopsticks from the food box and picked up the chicken to eat, seeing Fu Rong couldn't help but chuckle.She opened the food box, placed the dishes inside on the table one by one, and said while busy: "Master, please sit down! Eat slowly!"

After finishing the chicken soup, Yuning still felt unsatisfied, and asked, "Is there any more soup? Give me another bowl."

Fu Rong is naturally aware of the fact that Yuning likes to drink soup, she took out a cup of soup from the bottom of the self-serving box and put it in front of Yuning, and took out a bowl of rice and asked him to mix it with the soup: "Mr. Just prepare it...Young master, drink less soup, if you drink too much soup at night, you will get hungry in the middle of the night."

"Understood." Yuning rolled his eyes, drank two more mouthfuls of soup, and then began to eat vegetables.

Maybe it was because of a hungry meal, Yu Ning put down his chopsticks after eating twice as much as usual, and touched his stomach with a tangled expression.Fu Rong pulled him to stand up, "Master, why not go for a walk in the yard and have a look, after all, it is a place where you will live for a few months, if there is any hindrance, then it will not be a big deal."

Yu Ning looked at the desk not far away, a little hesitant.Seeing his eyes cast on the desk, Fu Rong tried to persuade him, "Young master must not be able to complete what you want to do overnight. You are already exhausted—you couldn't eat or sleep well in those few days, and you got sick carefully. What you want to do is even more distant."

"That's right." Yu Ning raised her hand to loosen her bun after drying it, and then felt a little more relaxed - at that time, her blood was surging, she thought her hair was in the way, grabbed a hairpin and tied it up Yes, I didn't feel it at the time, but now I feel that my scalp is throbbing. It should be because the pull is too tight. "Let's go, let's go out for a walk with the young master."

"Yes." Fu Rong happily agreed, and quickly turned around to take a cloak and hold it in her hands, and followed Yuning to go out for a walk to digest food.

The torrential rain in the morning had stopped at some point.

The guest courtyard is not big, there is only a small garden, which can be reached in dozens of steps.When Yu Ning came in, he was full of unwillingness, so naturally he was not in the mood to look at the feng shui of the courtyard, but now he looked at it and found that the feng shui of this place is really good.

The house was backed by a big mountain, and it was located at a high position similar to the foot of the mountain. Even though it was pouring rain, there was no stagnant water on the ground.This Yuanwai's house can be said to be very rich, Yu Ning thought about it carefully, from the moment he entered the door, there was a row of marble bricks, which criss-crossed and covered the entire house.

Yuning remembered that there were steps when they came in, but they didn't go down the steps after entering. It can be seen that the foundation of the whole house is higher than the outside - this is the so-called house made by Jin Yuping, rich man Ding Xing.He remembered that Yu Qingzhai in Fushui County seemed to have such a feng shui before. If it weren't for the conflict between the two brothers, it would definitely not have been reduced to the point of bankruptcy.

As it stands now, it does.

Yuanwai is a false official with a name but no power. As long as he has money, he can donate such a background. This Zhang Yuanwai is like this.But the price... as little as 5000 taels, as much as tens of thousands of taels, if you are unlucky and encounter a greedy person, [-] taels is not out of the question.

But looking at Zhuangzi, he guessed that the other party was not short of such a little money.

Yu Ning walked out along the path of his own yard. Not far from the door was a garden, which was winding and secluded, with small bridges and flowing water. From a distance, one could still see the Taihu Lake submerged in the flowers and trees with only a sharp corner exposed stone.

There were two maidservants waiting at the entrance of the garden. When they saw Yu Ning coming, they both bowed and saluted: "I have seen Young Master Yu, but the young master wants to enter the garden to play? Do you want to be accompanied by a maidservant?"

"No need." Yu Ning asked with interest: "Do you recognize me?"

After he entered the guest courtyard in the morning, he never came out again. He also chased away all the servants in the courtyard. These two should be third-class servants, and they probably won't be there in the morning. Come to meet him, reasoning that you should not know him.

One of them said respectfully: "When the honored guests entered the mansion, the housekeeper ordered the servants to remember the appearance of the honored guests, so they dared not be slow in the slightest."

Another person said: "In the dead of night, Young Master Yu, please be careful where you step. If you have an order, Young Master Yu will call out, and there will be servants coming down immediately."

Yu Ning nodded, passed them, and walked deep with Fu Rong.

Fu Rong followed behind Yuning, admiring the scenery in the garden, and when she came to a rockery piled up with Taihu stones, she couldn't help praising: "These Taihu stones are really rare."

"Huh? How do you say it?" Yuning knew about the Taihu Stone, but he didn't know much about it. In his eyes, it was like an ordinary rockery, which was commonplace—after all, no one would deliberately explore a big rockery that he had seen since he was a child. What is the origin?

"Young Master doesn't know something." Fu Rong explained: "The Taihu Stone is produced in Jiangnan Mansion, which is five thousand miles away from here. The Taihu Stone is crisp and easy to damage. The Taihu Stone has to be transported from Jiangnan Mansion to here. And intact, I don't know how much manpower and material resources will be spent on this journey... And the Taihu stones here have different appearances and shapes, and they are the top grade among the Taihu stones. It's worth two or three hundred taels of silver."

Yuning blinked her eyes, trying to count how many Taihu stones there are in this rockery formed by Taihu stones. After thinking about it, forget it. In short, there is only one word: expensive!

Yu Ning was tired after walking for a while, so she found a place near the pond to sit by the railing. There was a pool of carp in the pond. Maybe she was used to eating when she saw someone. After sitting down, Yuning swam one after another. Came over and brought up a pool of splendor.

The servant hidden in the dark came up with a fish food tank, bowed his knees to salute Yu Ning, put down the fish food silently, bowed his knees again, and retreated to the dark place.The whole process did not say a word, and it was so smooth that it was extremely comfortable.

Yu Ning picked up the fish food tank, grabbed a handful of fish food and sprinkled it down, looked at the suddenly lively water below, and sighed: "Furong, why do I feel that the rules of servants in other families are much better than ours? gone?"

"My lord's rule is strict, but I'm just being presumptuous in front of the young master." Fu Rong said with a light smile, "If the young master doesn't like it, I'll tell them next time and tell them to behave themselves."

Yu Ning raised his eyebrows and said: "You are determined and I will not punish you?"

"Young master, forgive me!" Fu Rong curtsied to Yu Ning in a pretty way.

"I'm so good?"

"If you don't believe me, ask Shiliu?" Fu Rong said, "Sixteen, come out."

A gust of wind blew by, and a man in black landed behind Fu Rong, and said expressionlessly: "This time, in order to come out with the young master, I fought with Twelve and Thirteen, and I won."

Before the words fell, his figure disappeared again.

It's always a pleasure to be popular.Yu Ning tossed her hair triumphantly, and spread out the folding fan in her hand in a graceful manner: "Okay, don't flatter, this time you will be rewarded when you go back."

"Young Master, I will give you a big reward!"

Furong looked at Yuning curiously. Yuning's New Year's handicrafts are considered very big. Throughout the entire Qing Dynasty, there is no official family who celebrates the New Year. The servants of the family are silk, fur, and medicinal tea. There is no shortage of meat.Everyone who was rewarded by Yu Ning was beaming. With double the monthly money, he didn't need to buy anything after the new year, but Yu Ning gave away all the food for the new year. "Master, what do you want to reward us for?"

Yu Ning closed the fan and tapped on Furong's head lightly: "The heavenly secret must not be revealed."

Fu Rong stomped her feet and gave him a look, but didn't ask any more questions.

Yuning finished visiting the garden, and deliberately stayed in the garden for a while, to see if he could trigger some side plots, but today, for some reason, the whole garden was quiet, except for the servants, a young master who came out for a stroll No, even the guest courtyards are eerily quiet.

It seems that in the whole manor, only Yu Ning is sober.

"Where does Liu San live?" Yu Ning asked.

Fu Rong thought for a while, and replied: "The third young master Liu lives in the Lianbu courtyard not far from the young master, may the young master go to visit the third young master Liu?"

"Go and see?" Yu Ning wanted to inquire about some news with Liu San. Before they were busy on their way, they were in their own cars, so it was really inconvenient to talk.Liu San's father is the deputy envoy this time, so he should know some information.

Fu Rong said: "Master, you should not go..."

"Why?"

"These few days have been exhausting, the young masters are probably already asleep." Fu Rong glanced at Yu Ning inexplicably, and said that Yu Ning was not in good health. She sat in the small carriage for seven or eight days, and today she looked The afternoon file, so far I have no sleepiness at all.It is really contradictory to say that Yu Ning is in good health, and that he has been injured and recuperated from time to time.

It's good not to mention this, but after mentioning it, Yuning also yawned subconsciously, the feeling of sleepiness hit her heart almost in an instant, her eyelids were as heavy as if there were a thousand pieces of iron on them.Yuning waved his hand: "Forget it, go back to sleep."

"Yes."