White Hedge Dream

Chapter 7 New Home

The days in Dongyang Hou Mansion had indeed just begun, but it only took one day for Zhuang Li to change the look of the interior.

It's not that there's a big change, it's just that some of the furnishings have been changed.

Chunyue came in holding a green-glazed lotus stove and asked Zhuang Li, who was standing in front of the desk: "Young lady, do you think this is okay?"

Zhuang Li was setting up the pen stand. Hearing this, he looked over and nodded: "Okay, that's it."

Chunyue placed the lotus stove on the table and looked around. A bamboo flute was hung on the wall. Paper was spread on the table. There were several large and small celadon plates, a wooden box, and a sapphire pen holder. .

Two maids were busy in the inner room, replacing the original tent with plain gauze, and hanging a sachet embroidered with colorful butterflies outside the tent.

Mr. Zhuang brought only one baggage with him when he came in. In addition to two pieces of clothing, there were trivial flutes, plates, sachets, boxes and other items.

Although simple, these trivial things placed indoors immediately add the atmosphere of the owner.

Chunyue knew that commonly used old things could soothe a person's uneasiness when going to a strange place. No matter how calm she looked on the outside, Ms. Zhuang was a young woman in her teenage years. How could she not be uneasy when she suddenly entered the Dongyang Marquis Mansion?

"Are there any lotus flowers in the house?" Zhuang Li asked, after setting up the pen stand, she also looked around the room, and her eyes fell on the flower stand on the window sill.

There is a pot of orchids on the flower stand.

Are you so quick to point fingers? Xue Liu, who had just walked in from outside, said with a smile: "Yes, we have a garden in our house with water and a pond of lotus."

Zhuang Li nodded: "Go and get me a lotus flower to put in the vase."

"Young lady, the lotus flowers haven't bloomed yet." Xue Liu reminded.

Zhuang Li said: "It doesn't matter, I just want lotus buds."

A poor orphan girl knows nothing about beauty and ugliness, so whatever, Xue Liu went out to tell the little girls, and the little girls quickly picked up a lotus bud.

Here Chunyue moved the orchids and brought back a vase. This was an earthenware vase, which looked very inconspicuous.

But the earthenware vase was similar to the dishes Zhuang Li put out, and the incense burner he found was similar. Zhuang Li looked at Chunyue and couldn't help but smile: "Thank you, you are thoughtful."

Chun Yue smiled shyly, saying that it was not the duty of a maid to say thank you and put the lotus flowers in place.

Zhuang Li wrote a few lines on the paper and called Xue Liu in: "This is the taste of my food. You can send it to the kitchen and follow this. If there is anything inappropriate and difficult to make, let them tell me. I Change it again.”

Xue Liu glanced at it and praised with a smile: "Young Madam has good calligraphy."

Being able to praise him meant that he knew calligraphy. Zhuang Li smiled and said nothing.

"Young Madam's taste is very bland." Xue Liu continued, "If you are short of ingredients, just go find them. If you can't make them, ask the people in the kitchen where to use Young Madam's replacement."

Zhuang Li smiled: "I mean, change the cook."

Xue Liu choked, stopped talking, bowed her knees and bowed out.

Watching Xueliu go to the kitchen, Chunyue walked out and whispered to the other two maids, Chunhong and Chunxiang: "You all should be more careful. I don't think the new young lady is easy to mess with." After saying this, she made a gesture in the direction Xueliu left. Nuzui said, "Don't be like her."

Chunhong Chunxiang responded: "Sister, don't worry, we will definitely not be ignorant of propriety."

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Zhuang Li didn't care about the little thoughts of the maids. After decorating the room, he asked others not to disturb him and started burning incense and practicing calligraphy.

The wooden box on the table is opened. It doesn't look big, but it can be pushed and pulled into two layers. One layer contains silver utensils, and the other layer contains colorful spices.

Zhou Jingyun asked her to come to his home, and since she agreed, she knew what she was going to face. If she felt sorry for herself because Mrs. Hou didn't like the cold treatment, that would be disrespectful to Zhou Jingyun. Live yourself.

Zhuang Li picked up a silver spoon and scooped out a little purple powder and put it in a saucer on the table. Then he continued to add various spices, accompanied by white smoke rising from the Boshan stove, but there was no aroma in the room.

The slender white smoke swayed continuously, winding around the pillars, brushing the screen, and gently smelling the lotus buds in the vase.

Zhuang Li put away the wooden box, lowered his eyes slightly, and put the pen down heavily on the paper.

"There is a fish in the North Ming Dynasty, and its name is Kun. Kun is so big that I don't know how many thousands of miles away it is. If it turns into a bird, its name is Peng..."

As her words appeared one by one on the paper, the white smoke in the Boshan furnace floated, and the room seemed to be covered with a veil and blurred.

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Chunhong, who was standing on the porch, suddenly twitched her nose.

"Do you guys smell the fragrance?" she asked in a low voice.

Chunxiang said: "Chunyue found the incense burner for the young lady. The young lady is burning incense."

Chun Yue had turned her head and looked behind her with a dazed expression: "Look, the lotus is blooming." Lotus?

Just now, the young lady ordered a lotus flower to be brought to them. They also murmured to themselves that it would be too tacky to display lotus buds instead of precious orchids.

Chunhongchunxiang also turned his head and saw through the window the lotus bud on the flower stand, slowly trembling and blooming with pink and white fresh petals.

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Aunt Mei stood in the hall and couldn't help but look around.

But after two or three days, this room was unfamiliar to her.

"The young lady is really a scholar," she said, "the room is filled with the fragrance of ink."

Aunt Mei looked at the flower stand again and continued to praise.

"The lotus looks so beautiful in a vase without blooming. I used to only know that it looks beautiful when it blooms."

Xueliu on the side knew that she was just talking nonsense. What's so good about the lotus buds? They are not as good as the remaining lotuses, but...

Xue Liu's eyes were a little dazed, thinking that when she came back from the kitchen that day, Chun Yue and the others must have seen lotus blossoms.

She looked and saw that the lotus was still in bud.

The three people were still stunned and said they closed it again.

What nonsense!

How can the lotus bloom at this time of year, let alone how can it be closed when it opens!

She could only say that they were so nervous that their eyesight was dazzled due to the sudden arrival of the new crown prince's wife.

She was lost in thought, footsteps sounded, and Zhuang Li walked out of the inner room.

Aunt Mei hurriedly saluted and said hello, and then quietly looked at Zhuang Li's outfit. She was wearing a light green dress with high temples. She didn't have any jewelry on her hair. She only had pearls as big as rice grains in her ears. Although the dress was of good quality, she still looked... It was as plain as when I first entered the door.

Women still need jewelry to look bright.

However, the sewing room can provide clothes, shoes and socks, and the jewelry is all in the hands of Mrs. Hou. If she does not give it to her daughter-in-law, the daughter-in-law will have nothing but to continue to be naked.

Aunt Mei's mind wandered and she said, "It's so convenient to have a small kitchen. I ordered a bowl of custard at midnight last night. In the past, I was too embarrassed to bother with the big kitchen."

Zhuang Li said: "But it cannot exceed the regulations. If it exceeds the limit, you can make up for it yourself."

You are really a housekeeper. Aunt Mei smiled and said, "Don't worry, young lady, I will never break the rules."

Zhuang Li nodded, sat down, took the tea brought by Chunyue, and said, "As long as it's within the rules, you don't have to be restricted about what you want to eat."

Aunt Mei responded yes.

Zhuang Li put down the tea in his hand: "You go down to eat, I also want to go to Madam's place."

Although Mrs. Dongyang Hou doesn't need her to study every morning and dusk, she always goes there every few days.

As soon as she finished speaking, Hongxing, the maid from Mrs. Dongyang Hou's side, came in from outside.

"Young Madam," she said with a salute, "Madam is going out today, you don't need to go there."

"Where are Mrs. Hou going?" Xue Liu asked curiously.

Is this what a maid should ask? Zhuang Li glanced at her.

Hong Xing also glanced at Xue Liu and paused for a moment: "Mrs. Hou, go to Ding Anbo's mansion."

The atmosphere in the hall seemed a little stagnant.

Seemingly seeing no one speaking, Aunt Mei forced a smile and said, "Madam, I often go out for a walk. The weather today is neither hot nor cold..."

Xue Liu interrupted Aunt Mei's words and said in a trembling voice: "Madam, are you going to apologize to the Amber family?"

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