ordinary people's house

Xiao Yunlang accompanied Xiao Yuan to Su'an Gongfu. When the Yuan family moved out, only a few servants were left behind. Xiao Yuan knocked on them with the letter bearing the seal of Su'an Gong. How many people know this fourth lady, how many old mothers look at me, I look at you, I don’t know what to say, this fourth lady was very unfavored back then, the Duke of the country didn’t miss her, my mother and fourth aunt I only love Miss Fifth, and in the end, my wife couldn't see her and often took care of her, but in the eyes of servants, she was still a poor little girl.

Who knew that this fourth young lady was so lucky to become Mrs. Uncle? The madam rushed to curry favor with her.

Xiao Yunlang looked curiously at the house he used to come to when he was young with his hands behind his back. Lin Yulan had nothing to do these days and spent almost all day with him. The Yuan family had been out of Beijing for six years, and he had never visited when he married Xiao Yunlang. It was the first time he stepped into Duke Su'an's mansion.

Little Yuan said: "There is no rush to see where repairs are needed, Yunlang, why don't you accompany Yulan to take a look around, and I will just take someone to check the house."

Xiao Yunlang said with some embarrassment: "Then we will come and have a round with you in a while."

Little Yuan smiled and said, "Don't worry."

"Hey."

Xiao Yunlang took Lin Yulan's hand and ran away. Xiao Yuan supported the girl, watched their backs go away, and then sighed softly, saying: "Let's start from the main courtyard."

Xiao Yunlang took Lin Yulan to his deceased mother's boudoir, and said as he walked, "My mother is the only daughter-in-law in the Duke's mansion. Her grandfather and grandmother love her. The yard she lives in is the most exquisite. My mother married into our family. , my grandmother didn’t ask anyone else to live in me later, when my mother brought our brothers back here when I was young, it was in this yard that I lived.”

Lin Yulan's mother-in-law, Mrs. Yuan, is the most gentle and charitable person. Xiao Yunlang said: "My grandmother told me before that since she married my grandfather, she couldn't understand her grandfather's family who only knew how to play with guns and sticks. After giving birth to an uncle, she vowed to raise a Confucian generals came out, who knew that my uncle and grandfather had the same temperament, but fortunately he gave birth to my mother, my mother was also naughty when she was young, my grandmother refused to accept it, and forced my mother to become a lady of the family."

Lin Yulan smiled, "I really can't imagine what my mother-in-law will be like in her early years."

Xiao Yunlang pushed open the courtyard door, the two old ladies staying here were chatting, heard the movement and looked over, Xiao Yunlang had changed in the past six years, they didn't dare to recognize him anymore, Xiao Yunlang said: "Open the door and I'll go in and have a look."

An old lady hesitated and said, "Dare to be this gentleman?"

Xiao Yunlang said: "This is the courtyard where my mother used to live."

"It turned out to be the young master..." The old lady surrounded him in embarrassment, Xiao Yunlang said, "I want to go in and have a look."

"Hey, when the Duke's wife left, she sent all the things left by the eldest girl to the Jinjiang uncle's mansion, and there was already an empty room inside."

"It's okay, I'll just take a look."

"That's it."

Xiao Yunlang brought Lin Yulan in. Madam Yuan's bedroom was still locked. Xiao Yunlang pointed to another small room and said, "I used to sleep in it."

Lin Yulan couldn't help becoming curious, and let Xiao Yunlang happily drag him over. There was a small bed inside. Xiao Yunlang said, "I used to sleep here." He rushed to open the window, pointed to a few willows outside and said, " It’s still the same as before, you see, the courtyard over there belongs to the eldest cousin, and after the eldest cousin got married and went to Tianjin, she seemed to live with some aunt.”

Lin Yulan also knew that the Yuan family had a large population. Xiao Yunlang took him out to see other places after seeing the house he used to live in. He pointed to a rockery and said, "When I was seven or eight years old, I liked to climb on it with my cousin. The eldest cousin didn’t take me, but the second cousin was pulling me. He was also weak. I fell off when I stepped on the air, and my head fell on the stone. Fortunately, there was no scar. Haha, my grandmother even beat the eldest cousin. After a pause, he told him to take me with him no matter what he played in the future."

Lin Yulan said: "Didn't he be ordered not to play with you?"

"Grandfather disagrees. He said that boys should not be pampered when they are young. They just have to play around and be active. He also beat up the eldest cousin. In the end, the eldest cousin hated me to death. As a result Uncle came home and heard about it, so he beat him up again."

Lin Yulan smiled and shook her head, "He really wants to hate you to death."

"Yes, look at the big urn over there. Grandma used it to grow lotus. One day my cousin carried me to see the lotus. Let me think about it. If I was seven years old at that time, my cousin would be thirteen. He carried it on his back. Then I deliberately said to show me the lotus, but in the end I was pushed into the water."

Lin Yulan looked at him in astonishment, Xiao Yunlang smiled and said, "Haha, I really frightened me, my cousin threatened me not to tell the elders, who can hide my appearance, and they beat my cousin again."

Lin Yulan didn't know what to say, Xiao Yunlang continued: "I can't remember, but I heard my grandmother said that my second cousin was very good-natured when he was young, and my grandmother thought he was the embryo of a Confucian general that she could cultivate. Cousin is all pretending, he's really bad in his bones, he has the same temperament as my elder brother, you haven't seen him, and the second cousin looks very similar to my elder brother."

Lin Yulan imagined the appearance of another elder brother, and only shuddered silently.The courtyard not far away is Xinlanyuan where Xiao Yunlang's grandmother lived. The little Yuan family hadn't come here yet, and the door was locked. The gatekeeper didn't know where he went. Lin Yulan looked at the door for a few times and said helplessly. : "Then let's go to grandfather's front yard to have a look."

The two walked along the lake, and Lin Yulan said: "Grandfather's house is so big, it has attracted such a big lake, our house does not have one, and a martial arts training ground takes up all the space, so I used to like to come here in summer. "

Jingchuanhou's mansion also attracted living water, but it was not as spacious as the Su'an mansion. Lin Yulan took Xiao Yunlang by the hand, and suddenly remembered how pampered and pampered his lord was in the past. , the room is filled with ice, and it takes seven or eight little maids to fan it non-stop.

When Lin Yulan stopped, Xiao Yunlang asked curiously, "What do you remember?"

Lin Yulan shook her head bitterly, and said with a smile, "It's nothing, let's go and see my grandfather's yard."

Xiao Yunlang didn't understand why, he smiled and said, "Hey."

Little Yuan is leading people to look at the house from room to room. It is ridiculous to say that she has never stepped into the main courtyard of Su'an Duke's Mansion when she was a young lady here, but this time she is leading people around like a master. , Said that this place is not good, and there needs to be repaired.

When Xiao Yunlang and Lin Yulan came over, she heard Xiao Yunlang laughing: "I don't like to come in when my grandfather is here. He is so serious, but there are many beautiful sisters here."

Lin Yulan frowned and pinched Xiao Yunlang's cheeks, Xiao Yunlang said: "No one in Beijing knows what my grandfather likes, my grandmother doesn't bother to care about it, you don't know how attentive those little girls are, who are better than sister-in-law's house? Who is more eager for you."

Lin Yulan said helplessly, "You're making fun of me again."

Xiao Yunlang said with a smile: "I was young at that time, they didn't like to avoid me, my grandfather loved me, and someone deliberately teased me with things, my grandmother and my mother knew about it, and told me to accept everything, and I took it back They pick and choose and give me all the good ones."

Lin Yulan suddenly sighed softly: "People in the two houses dote on you."

"That's right..." Xiao Yunlang fell silent in the middle of speaking, and looked at Lin Yulan with some anxiety.

Lin Yulan rubbed his head and said with a helpless smile, "Where did you go?"

"...I didn't think about anything."

"Well, well, I was thinking too much."

Little Yuan finally laughed helplessly. She was only a few years older than Xiao Yunlang, and her mother was also one of the concubines who were vying to curry favor with Xiao Yunlang. The Fourth Aunt once wanted to recommend herself and let the Fifth Miss take care of the little nephew. Regardless of the outcome, the incident made the Fourth Miss Xiao Yuan feel deeply ashamed, and she happened to meet Xiao Yunlang on the road. I have to run away, lest people think she is here to climb high branches.

Little Yuan didn't have much resentment for the past, now she has everything, her husband is not young, but he is a hero who is upright and gentle, the three boys have grown up, Respect her, she has flesh and blood again, and she will let go of those things in the past.

"Mother, have you read it all?" Xiao Yunlang smiled.

Little Yuan sighed leisurely: "The house needs popularity. Look here, even though there are many loyal servants who clean it frequently, it still looks dilapidated. I thought it could be repaired in half a year. Now I know that even if I have to rush to work for a year."

Xiao Yunlang thought for a while, and said: "Today, we are still in the filial piety of the country, powerful people are not allowed to marry, most of those good masters have no errands, we can invite as many as we can, let alone worry about manpower, when the time comes Father sent a hundred or ten meticulous people to help the masters, more than enough for a year."

Little Yuan said with a smile: "During this year, my mother will ask people to gradually send back their belongings in the northwest. There will inevitably be damage on the way. We have to watch the house to buy, and we can't leave the house empty. , Tomorrow I will start to buy a little girl, and I will put it in the uncle's mansion and let the nuns take care of it, and I should be able to serve others in a year."

"Where is the mother going to buy people?"

"This is really difficult for me. There haven't been any newcomers in the uncle's mansion for many years. It's not enough for the family to have children. Let's ask a few toothmaids tomorrow."

Xiao Yunlang said with a smile: "Our neighbor happens to be a comprador. I'll ask him. Brother Zuo is a kind man. He never does anything such as forcing a good man into prostitution or separating his flesh and blood. He knows a lot of information. Mother, you said our family is looking for When the toothmaid comes to the door, everyone will know the news, so..."

Little Yuan nodded and agreed: "You are right. Tell your neighbor that as long as there is a little girl in her early ten years old, as many as she wants, she should be good to her. Tell him to tell her that she is going to serve in the Su'an mansion. , that is a first-class family, and the girls are there to enjoy themselves."

"Hey."

"We don't need to care about the male servants, your grandfather and grandmother have their own discretion."

Xiao Yunlang nodded and said, "I see."

Little Yuan looked around again, and said with a smile: "Come on, let's go to Big Brother's yard again, and go to the back yard after walking through the front yard."

At night, Xiao Yunlang felt that his legs were not his own. After soaking his feet, he lay on the bed disconsolately. Lin Yulan sat beside him, and suddenly he reached out and patted his ass for fear of something.

"Ah!" Xiao Yunlang stared at him displeased.

Lin Yulan laughed, and lay down beside Xiao Yunlang, Xiao Yunlang yawned and said, "I haven't felt so tired for a long time, hey, grandma is back, let's ask for a reward."

"Okay, I'll go with you."

Xiao Yunlang nodded in satisfaction, and said, "Do you feel that although you are tired today, you are very happy?"

Lin Yulan thought for a while, and it was indeed so, so she said, "What are you going to do?"

Xiao Yunlang smiled and said: "Isn't it for spring irrigation? I have wanted to go to Zhuangzi for several years. I used to be busy, but now I just have nothing to do. Let's go to Zhuangzi in a few days, okay?"

Before Lin Yulan could speak, Xiao Yunlang ignored his sore legs and got out of bed. He walked to the box that had just been moved here, rummaged a few times, and suddenly took out a peasant's bunt.

Lin Yulan: "..."

Xiao Yunlang gestured the clothes on himself, and said: "I have been making these clothes for two years, and I asked my mother from the sewing room to make them specially. Look, they are all good materials, and I have never worn them... Well, I also Made a set for you."

Lin Yulan said in a complicated mood, "Let me see."

Xiao Yunlang showed him another set.

Lin Yulan also walked over, he pressed Xiao Yunlang's shoulder and said: "Since you have made up your mind, let's go and send a letter to Zhuangzi tomorrow, asking someone to clean the room."

"it is good."

Lin Yulan watched Xiao Yunlang carefully fold the clothes and put them back into the box, and suddenly remembered something, her face suddenly turned red.