Evening Shaohua in the Red House

After breakfast the next day, Li Wan and Daiyu took the girls and women to the new house.

The house is only one street away from the Lin Mansion, and it takes only a short drive to get there.

After entering the door, the mother-in-law opened the curtain, and the maids stepped forward to help them get off the sedan chair.

Li Wan looked up and saw whitewashed walls and black tiles, a gravel-paved corridor, a gallery in the south, the Moon Cave Gate in the west, which is the road leading to the garden, and the Hanging Flower Gate in the north. Nodding his head, he smiled at Daiyu: "I was a little worried about the appearance of the house before, but today I saw that the layout of the house is quite good. I think it was also made by a famous master, which is quite interesting."

Daiyu laughed and said, "Today, please ask the host to show us around."

Li Wan smiled and said, "It's my first time here too."

After hearing this, Aunt Liu smiled and said, "Grandma, please follow me." After that, she led the way ahead.

Everyone entered the door, there were five large halls inside, the halls were fully furnished, tables and chairs were lined up, the Jin family moved quickly, and they disliked the bad luck of the house, and they didn't even want to take many big things with them, so they kept them at a discounted price. The same color of huanghuali carvings is very neat.

After entering the second gate, there are five study rooms in the first department of Xiangdong, all with matching rooms and photo rooms.Entering the courtyard gate to the west, and turning the screen, there are three halls, four photo halls, and two wing rooms facing east. The decoration and furnishings need not be elaborated.

There is a door in the east, which leads to the kitchen. From the kitchen to the south and east, through a door on the first floor, you will enter the garden. There are colorful flowers and trees, spacious pavilions, and a pond several feet wide. There are various goldfish in the pond. Surrounded by stone benches, three sides of the corridor, the east side of the wall with vines and vines, and many exotic herbs are planted along the wall, the fragrance is fragrant and refreshing.

There are twelve zigzag suites along the waterfront, with vermilion railings in front and zigzag corridors inside, all connected by vermilion bridges. After crossing the bridges, there are five spacious halls with corridors on all sides. The Luohan bed is surrounded by twelve marble screens with natural landscapes, eight pear inlaid stone chairs on both sides, and four tea tables.

Li Wan looked at it and asked: "All the household items in each house are in order, what's missing?"

After hearing this, Aunt Liu said hurriedly: "The previous owner's house left many large items at a discount, and the furniture and tables and chairs of each house are already available. The batch of furnishings that were bought yesterday have also been arranged properly. Antique toys, those curtains, curtains, bedding, cushions, cushions, welcome hands, chair drape, door curtains, tents, curtains, quilts, pillows, kang sheets, kang mats, tables

We are still rushing to make it, and it will take a few days to get it. "

Daiyu saw that the house was empty, so she turned her head and said, "Sister-in-law, I don't think there is any need to buy these house furnishings and playthings outside. I will open a list tomorrow, and I will send someone to find them in the storeroom. "

The Lin family has accumulated hundreds of years of antiques and curios that have filled several storerooms, and they will turn to ashes. Since Daiyu is in charge of the house, she has been in charge of everything in the house. She has never paid much attention to these things, and she is close to Li Wan , Only then did this remark.

Li Wan laughed and sighed when he heard this. Sister Lin was too generous, and hurriedly said: "Thank you for your kindness, but how can you get these things out? I asked Guanshi Liu to go to Jinling's shop to pick up some antique decorations a while ago." Come, if you want to come here for a few days, you will be fine."

Daiyu knew Li Wan's temper, and seeing that she insisted on refusing, she had no choice but to let it go.

When I walked to the end of the west, I saw a small and exquisite study on the second floor. There were several rockery piled up in the yard, surrounded by dozens of phoenix bamboos. , a gravel road leads to the steps made of green hills and stones, and under the steps is a hollow old willow whose filaments hang down to the surface of the water and float with the waves.

Daiyu nodded in praise and said: "This study is good. Opposite is the lotus pond. It's really wonderful to read here in summer and enjoy the summer moon and wind and lotus quietly."

Li Wan laughed and said, "Tomorrow, I will leave a room for my younger sister. When I have free time, I will come and live here for a few days. I can study whenever I want."

Everyone laughed when they heard this, and as they were talking, they saw Suyun and Wutong coming down from upstairs, and said with a smile: "Grandma, if you don't go upstairs to have a look, the scenery is really good, even better than the newly built garden in our mansion." Nothing bad!"

So everyone went upstairs together, went to the corridor and leaned on the railing to look into the distance, and saw endless, under the clouds, there were continuous white walls and black tiles, small bridges and flowing water, with red plums and green bamboos in between, just like an ink painting scroll.

Everyone just felt refreshed, and they all praised: "Sure enough, the scenery is not bad, just like the one in the painting."

There are five rooms in the study, three bright and two dark, all of which are made of co-located furniture, all made of asparagus tables, chairs, bed stools, very small and unique, and the couplets on the bright pillars in front of the rooms are pink and green characters, which read : The bright moon shines among the pines, the clear spring stone flows upwards, and the three words "You Huang Zhai" are inscribed on the plaque.

Daiyu laughed and said, "Although they are two old poems, they are really appropriate in this place."

Li Wan said with a smile: "After walking for half a day, my legs are sore, let's take a rest!" Everyone sat down, and the maids brought a box of assorted products, packed tea, fruit and snacks and brought them up.

After they had tea, they left the Chuihua Gate, turned to the west, and entered the Chuihua Gate again.

, is the main courtyard house.

Li Wan saw the five high main rooms facing him, the east and west wing rooms on both sides, surrounded by corridors, and the four corners are connected by corridors, surrounded by a curvilinear flower wall. Looking from the Zhanshan Gate, there are ear chambers on both sides, and the back is still covered with houses. There are two floors, about one or twenty rooms.

Li Wan took a closer look, lowered his head and thought for a while, then called Aunt Liu and said: "Tomorrow, clean up the three side rooms on the east side and keep them for sister Lin; the west side room will be used as a warm pavilion, and the west wing room will be used by Lan'er. , Two rooms in the east wing will be used as storerooms, and the boxes and cages will be placed in the future, and the remaining three rooms will be used as my study, and you can arrange the rest."

Aunt Liu agreed, and said with a smile: "I think it's better to make a small kitchen in the ear room of the east wing, and let the two cooks and women spend the night there. In the future, it will be cheaper for grandma to make soup and water."

Li Wan nodded and said: "This is very appropriate." After thinking for a while, he said to Dan Juxiuzhu: "This house is spacious, you can each choose one to live in tomorrow, you don't have to be crowded together like usual."

Xiuzhu and the others were very happy when they heard this, and they all laughed and said, "Thank you grandma."

After hearing this, Aunt Liu pointed to a small building next to the East Wing and said with a smile: "There are four or five rooms there, and they are prepared to live with grandma's girls, just to make it more convenient."

After hearing this, Daiyu suddenly remembered something, and hurriedly asked, "How many people come to Jiangnan with my sister-in-law?"

Aunt Liu was startled when she heard the words, she thought for a while and said: "The rest of the Rong family have gone back to Beijing, now apart from us, there are three girls, Danju, Xiuzhu and Suyun, and four girls including Wutong. Little girl, there are four daughters-in-law and six wives who are in charge of the grandma's yard, as well as fourteen servants and six servants transferred from Cuiwei Villa, a total of 39 people."

Daiyu shook her head when she heard this, and said, "This house is spacious, I'm afraid it won't be enough for people to stay overnight."

Li Wan thought of this question as soon as he heard it, and fell silent for a moment, there were some people in the farm, but it was too late to transfer people at this time, and after all, he didn't know the details, so he didn't dare to bring them into the mansion casually.

Daiyu said quickly: "If my sister-in-law doesn't dislike it, why don't you call over the people who have been serving in my sister-in-law's yard these days? Ask the housekeeper to pick out a few old servants and family members. One is that they are locals, and they are familiar with all local affairs, and it is cheaper to go out to do errands. You can feel at ease."

After hearing this, Li Wan had no objection, and sighed in his heart that Daiyu was considerate, and laughed quickly: "So I'm going to trouble my sister.

heart. "

Daiyu laughed and said, "It's just a trivial matter. Don't be so polite, my sister-in-law. You're being extravagant." Then she said to Mrs. Liu, "I'll send them over tomorrow. Mammy just do her bidding, you don't have to be polite."

Aunt Liu agreed, and said with a smile: "It's still the girl who is thoughtful. Anyway, in the front yard, there are young servants who follow my brother to watch. Two or thirty people in the other gates are enough."

After hearing this, Li Wan said: "When the time comes, you can watch and clean up a few houses and come out."

Aunt Liu hurriedly said: "There are more than 20 rooms with hoods in the back, which are just for the wives and mothers-in-law. If there are not enough for the front seats, we can pack a few more and come out. It will be enough to live in."

Speaking of entering the upper room, there are eight floor-to-ceiling partitions carved with red sandalwood in the middle. There is a calligraphy and painting in the main room, a few vase stoves and jades on the desk, and another screen in this room."

Aunt Liu wrote down one by one.

Daiyu was about to speak, when she smelled a faint plum fragrance, she couldn't help being a little curious, and said, "Let me look at the backyard." After she said that, she helped the girl's hand, and turned the partition door. There are wooden walls on both sides of the back building.Daiyu stood at the back door and took a look. There were verandas on both sides. Outside the verandas were several phoenix-tailed bananas and a few Xifu crabapples. Behind the main house, inside the flower walls on both sides, there were dozens of cinnabar plants. Mei, whose color is like rouge, and whose fragrance deceives Lanhui, can't help laughing: "No wonder it's called Jiangxueyuan, it really fits the occasion. "

Hearing the sound, Li Wan came over to have a look, and said with a smile, "These rouge plums are just in bloom. It will be snowing tomorrow, and the red and white will look good together."

At that moment, I asked the girl to fold two plum blossoms and put them in vases, and went shopping again. Before I realized that it was noon, everyone went back.

After a few days, Liu Youfu came back from Jinling, bringing a box of antiques, over a hundred bolts of silk and satin, and the income from several shops this year, 900 taels of silver.

The tenants of various farms in the south were also sent over, because they will not return to Beijing this year, and it is estimated that they will be in the south of the Yangtze River for another year. Li Wan had previously specially ordered Liu Youfu to convert all the income from several farms into silver and keep [-]% Send over the rental.

However, this year's harvest is good, and 700% of the rent is already quite a lot. In addition, the silk and satin cloth woven by Zhuangshang's cloth workshop is also a large amount, so this year's conversion of several Zhuangzi's prospects is as much as [-] taels of silver.

The remaining rice, flour, grain and charcoal are enough for them to eat for more than a year. Five thousand catties of regular rice, eight hundred catties of pearl rice, three hundred catties of green japonica rice, and one hundred catties of red rice.

Rice, [-] catties each of fresh fish and shrimp, [-] catties each of smoked fish and air-dried fish, [-] catties of air-dried mutton, [-] cured pigs, [-] hares and pheasants each, [-] chickens, ducks and goose eggs each, wild boar Four cubs, two wild sheep, two hundred catties of fresh muntjac meat, fifty smoked hams, two hundred pieces of bacon, one hundred catties of sauced meat, three hundred catties each of dried mushrooms and dried fruits of various colors, silver Eight hundred catties of silk charcoal and five thousand catties of charcoal.

Li Wan ordered people to pack up some and send them to the Lin family, and other Gu family, Yan Hui's office, and Shen Yi's office also sent some people to send them over, and the rest were moved into the new house.

At this time, all the furnishings in the house had been properly arranged, and Dai Yu decided to choose a dozen servants to serve Li Wan, and spent several days cleaning the house. Moved into a new home.

Coincidentally, this day was also Yingxue's Jiji ceremony. The guest of honor was Mrs. Gu, but the praiser invited Daiyu. Besides, Daiyu, as the young lady of the Jiang family, was also the host, and she was going to the Jiang family to help greet the guests, so He brought gifts early to congratulate him.

The mother-in-law presented the gift list, and Li Wan ordered Danju to take it, took Daiyu's hand and said with a smile: "My sister came early, so come and have a cup of tea first."

Everyone will come through the west ear room.Someone had already opened the soft sapphire blue curtain, and Daiyu saw a narrow couch with embroidered Kang mats on the west side of the window.In the middle is a small kang table with asparagus bamboo, and on both sides are green satin and flowered mattresses.There is a small enamel brazier with short legs in the local area, and a picture of "Dongli Picture" hangs on the wall.

There are four pots of narcissus on the nanmu frame under the north window.There is also a pot of bergamot about three feet high, a foreign glass full-length mirror facing the door, a lotus flower curtain hooked on the inner door, and a carpet on the ground.

On the Nuan Pavilion in the north, there is a tent embroidered with Yuebai Lake crepe and covered with broken branches of plum blossoms. Inside, there are brocade quilts, embroidered quilts, mandarin duck pillows, and two extremely exquisite nets hanging on the tassel hooks, and two grasshopper gourds are tied.On the right side in front of the bed is a dressing table, on the west wall is a picture of a lady painted by Qiu Shizhou, stationery is placed on a small rosewood table in front of the south window, and two rosewood chairs are covered with sapphire blue and gold cushions.

Daiyu smiled and said, "What a delicate room!"

Li Wan said with a smile: "It's just cleaned up here. It's a bit messy. My sister will sit down for a while." While talking, he asked the maids to serve tea, and then said to Suyun: "Order the kitchen to prepare wine and vegetables, and clean up a table and serve them out. "

Seeing this, Daiyu hurriedly said: "Today is a good day for my sister-in-law to move into a new house. I was supposed to drink this Wenju wine, but it just so happens that today is also a gift from sister Yingxue. I have to go to the godmother's house in a while,

I'm afraid it's too late. "

Li Wan was startled when he heard this, and then he remembered this matter, he couldn't help but rubbed his forehead, and said, "What's wrong with my memory, I forgot such an important thing." While annoyed at Xiuzhu and the others, he said: " You don't even remind me."

Xiu Zhu and the others laughed and said, "I've been busy with relocation these days, and everyone is dizzy, so I don't even remember."

Li Wan then called Danju over and said, "Bring me the set of red gold lace and pearl hair noodles I brought."

Danju agreed to go, and after a while, she took a red brocade box. Li Wan opened it and looked at it, then handed it to Daiyu, and said: "I don't want to go to congratulate you, this is a gift for Yingxue, please trouble my sister." Pass it on for me."

Daiyu agreed, told Zijuan to collect it, took another two sips of tea, and then hurried away.

Daiyu had just left this room when she heard her mother-in-law come in and say: "Grandma, someone from the Shen residence next door has come to present a gift, saying it is to congratulate Grandma on her housewarming."

Li Wan was startled when he heard the words, and then realized that it was sent by Shen Yi, and hurriedly said: "Please come in quickly."

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