The matter of Sanfang's visit to the Hou Mansion was already said, but it was not said that the time was good. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 Although Qin Bai felt that Yao's move was a bit sudden, he did not refuse. The family had lunch, rested for a while, and then went to Kurong Hall in the afternoon. Yao was waiting there.

In addition to Qin Bai and Niu's husband and wife, there are also Qin Hanzhen and Brother Zi'er, as well as Mama Hu, Brother Zi'er's nurse, Qingxing, and Xia He. Uncle Hu, Hu Yong, Li Zi and others are all male servants, and it is inconvenient to enter the inner house, so they have already familiarized themselves with the outer courtyard under the leadership of Uncle Hu. Wu Shaoying and Zhao Mo are outsiders and will not participate.

Yao's enthusiasm was the same as yesterday, but Qin Hanzhen always felt that her smile was a little stiff today. However, looking at her attitude towards the third room, there is nothing unusual, it is estimated that she has something to do, right? Qin Hanzhen did not delve into it, and only focused on this spacious and gorgeous mansion.

The Mansion of the Marquis of Cheng'en is the residence of the Imperial Gift. The ancestors of the Qin family were sealed as marquis, and this mansion was built according to the specifications of the Hou Mansion. When the old marquis Qin Yang inherited, the title should be lowered by a level, and if the lady dies again, the house should be slightly rebuilt to match the title of the Qin family. However, because the old marquis made military achievements, the first emperor authorized him to inherit the original title without having to be demoted, so the house was preserved in its original form. It was not until more than 30 years ago that the Yongjiahou Mansion was martyred, and the first gift was taken back by the first emperor and given to other officials, and the layout of some of the houses was changed. After Qin Song regained this house, he has successively rebuilt many places in the past 30 years, but in general, the orientation of the house has not changed much compared with the old time, so Qin Bai still has a sense of familiarity.

The first Hou Mansion has a total of five entrances. The front yard to the instrument gate is a entrance, here is the outer courtyard. The east and west sides are row rooms, with a total of more than 10 rooms, all of which are nominally called outer study rooms, but in fact, they also have the functions of living room, study, tea room, account room and guest room. Among them, there are three or four in the living room alone, and there are different guests who come to the door at the same time, so that they can be received in different halls, so as not to cause everyone to bump into each other and make the host's family embarrassed. Wu Shaoying and Zhao Mo are now living in the guest room north of the West Pai Room, which is very close to the Qingfeng Pavilion, and they can walk a few steps to get there. This is probably the reason why the Yao family arranged for the two of them to live here.

Behind the east row of houses was originally the courtyard where the pro-soldiers lived, but now there are few people left. Since the Yongjia Marquis Mansion was raided, the old marquis's personal soldiers have either been dismissed or implicated. After the Qin family was rehabilitated, there were not many people who could live to vote again, and Qin Song did not get involved in the affairs of the army, these old people were idle, some left disappointed, some gradually grew old and died, and now only two or three families are still living there. The vacant houses were basically occupied by the subordinates of the Hou Mansion. The south side of the courtyard has now been converted into a carriage shed, which is more than double the size of the old marquis, accounting for almost half of the yard, and the environment is really not very good.

When Qin Bai saw this scene, he felt a little uncomfortable. He insisted on going to see the subordinates of the pro-soldiers, only to find that there were only two old men left who he still knew, one was old and confused, and the other was half-blind, and he couldn't recognize him. As for the rest of the family members, they are basically fresh faces, some of them are not so much the relatives of the old man, but rather the seven aunts and eight aunts, who ran to the old man because he had no children and no daughters, and was easy to be soft-hearted, so he didn't leave. Although Qin Song didn't value the manpower left by his deceased father, the master's mother Xu treated them well, with food, clothing, shelter and transportation, and the supplies were sufficient.

Qin Bai didn't know whether to feel sad or angry in his heart. He remembered that Jin Xiang had said that his elder brother Qin Song had always complained that the Holy Lord was unwilling to reuse him, and even the army directly under the old marquis was unwilling to hand it over to him. Qin Bai thought to himself, just at his brother Qin Song's attitude, who would dare to rest assured that he would hand over the military power to him? For a full thirty years, the Chengen Marquis Mansion still has the foundation left by the old marquis, and if it is not reused, it will not let the old troops be abandoned to this point, right?

In this courtyard, there is actually a slightly less old personal soldier, but at present, he is only staying in the Hou Mansion as a guard. He was a master recruited by Qin Song after he became the Marquis of Chengen, and he originally planned to train him to become a confidant of his own soldiers. But Qin Song has never had the opportunity to meddle in military affairs, so this person can only stay in the Hou Mansion as the head of the nursing home, and by the way, help train the young and strong among the servants and expand the nursing home team. When Qin Song goes out, he will also be an entourage and guard, and maybe a cameo thrasher.

If Qin Song was just not used to the old department left by his deceased father, then this person was always a henchman he found himself, right? Qin Bai was originally a disciple of Jiangmen, looking at the other party's tall and sturdy figure, the calluses on his hands, his walking posture, and the aura revealed in his gestures, he knew that he must be extraordinary, and he was also a good hand at riding and shooting. It's a pity that Qin Song only uses such a good hand as a guardian and a guard, and he is now forty or fifty years old, what hope can he have? If Qin Song is a far-sighted person, and he can't get military power, can't he recommend this person to other generals? With the connections of the old marquis, what kind of difficult thing is this? Twenty years is enough time to train a general who can take charge of himself. Even if the Qin family can't get back the military power, they still have a helper in the army.

But what did Qin Song do? He took someone as his entourage and married him a family girl, and the children born to him, the male was a follower to the master of the family, and the female was either a girl or married to a male servant in the house. This is the treatment of a slave at all! It is thanks to the fact that the chief guard himself is not of high origin, and he is honest and loyal, and he feels that he can eat and wear without worrying about it, and he is satisfied, and he has never complained, otherwise would he not have made a feud in vain?

Qin Bai really felt that his emperor's brother-in-law was unwilling to reuse Qin Song, which was really wise!

He sulked there, and both Niu and Qin Hanzhen noticed it and didn't dare to say anything. Niu was just by his side, silently holding his hand, which was considered to be appeased. Yao didn't notice anything wrong at all, but he felt that the three rooms and his party had been delayed for too long in the courtyard where the subordinates lived. She is now presiding over the middle feed and managing a huge Hou Mansion, which can be said to be a great opportunity, and it is not easy to squeeze out half a day to accompany the third room to visit the house, just for the sake of the elders. Could it be that she really let her spend half a day on this thing?

So she persuaded Qin Bai with a smile on her face: "Third uncle, third aunt, let's go elsewhere, right? If you want to talk to your old friend about family life, come back another day." After saying that, he casually sent those personal guards down.

Qin Bai looked at it, and his heart was even more depressed. Since he was a child, he didn't dare to treat his father's soldiers with such a contemptuous attitude. is a little disrespectful, and the father and the old marquis will scold his son, and even move the board when it is serious. Presumably, brother Qin Song was also treated the same way in the old days. How could Qin Song, now that he is the master of this family, dare to openly ignore his deceased father's court training? Just look at the attitude of the Yao family, you can know that the current Hou Mansion really doesn't take these people to heart.

Qin Bai hated to be angry at Qin Song, but thinking that he hadn't come back after leaving for thirty years, he didn't care about the affairs of his family, and he didn't have any position to say such things. He could only endure this breath silently, and walked away from the courtyard where his soldiers lived.

Behind the west row of houses are the ancestral hall and a block of houses. When Qin Bai came back yesterday, he had already worshiped his deceased father and mother and ancestors in the ancestral hall. But when he came back today, he had a new feeling. Standing outside the threshold of the ancestral hall, looking at the tablet in the hall from a distance, he sighed and bowed his head and left.

As for the house next to the ancestral hall, he was not interested in looking at it. I remember that in the past, it was a small garden, and only a small courtyard was built for the people to live temporarily when they came to Beijing. Now look at the unrecognizable appearance of the land, the house is densely packed together, and I don't know who lives in it. Maybe all of them are servants in the family, right? In today's Chengenhou Mansion, there are really many male and female slaves.

Back in the front yard, walk back along the west row house, and you will arrive at the Yimen. There are aisles and alleys at both ends of the instrument gate, the east side leads to the two-room Fugui Residence, the west side leads to the Qingfeng Pavilion of the three-room residence, at the end of the alley at both ends, there is a small door, leading to the east and west Qingyun Lane, you can go out of the house directly from the southeast and southwest two corner doors, you don't have to go to the front yard gate, and it is convenient for the people of the second and third rooms to enter and exit.

The three-room group entered from the aisle next to the Qingfeng Pavilion first, and this is considered the second door, and it is an inner house to go inside. In the past, Qingfeng Pavilion was Tingyuxuan, and the family of Qin Shutao, the second son of Changfang, now lives here. The courtyard has been remodeled and is now a two-hall building. Because Qin Shutao was not at home, his wives and concubines were all female dependents, and Qin Bai had no intention of entering, so he did not enter the hospital to disturb.

There is a hall on the east side of Tingyuxuan, which leads to the Songfeng Hall behind the Kurong Hall. This is where the male and female hosts of the Chengenhou Mansion, Qin Song and the Xu family live. Songfeng Hall is the main courtyard of the Hou Mansion, and it has always been the residence of the master and the master's mother, but Qin Bai is very unfamiliar with this place. In his memory, this place was used to enshrine the tablet of the old Marquis Yuan and Mrs. Huang, and it was also her former residence. As the step-room, Qin Bai's biological mother, Ye, has never lived here for a day. Qin Bai himself, only when he sacrifices to the dead every year, will come here to kowtow.

Today's Songfeng Hall has obviously been renovated, and it is very different from the appearance in Qin Bai's memory. There are five rooms in the main house, two ear rooms on the left and right, and three rooms in the east and west wings, all with glass windows, spacious and bright. There are pine trees and pomegranates planted in the courtyard, as well as a small rockery composed of Taihu Lake stones, stone tables and chairs, vanilla vines, strange flowers and plants under the corridor, and goldfish are raised in the large tank in the courtyard, which is called a rich and leisurely.

Mrs. Xu is obviously a person who knows how to enjoy life. She was playing leaf cards with a few concubines, and when she heard that everyone in the third room was coming, she hurriedly abandoned the card table and asked the girl to take the dresser and rearrange her dress, so that she could go to meet the little uncle's family. At the same time, she was also afraid that she would move slowly, so she neglected Qin Bai and his party, and shouted the names of several big girls, asking them to invite the third room into the Dongnuan Pavilion, serving fragrant tea and snacks, and entertaining them, and remembering that there were two children in the third room, and told the girls to take a few of the grandchildren's favorite refreshments on weekdays.

It's just that the Niu clan was a little cautious, and secretly urged Qin Bai to leave quickly. Qin Bai looked helpless, stood in the courtyard and raised his voice slightly, and said to the house: "The younger brother just came to recognize the way, so he left, and came to visit my brother and sister-in-law another day." Sister-in-law, please stay. Then he withdrew with his wife and grandchildren.

When Xu heard it in the room, he raised his hand and motioned for the maids to stop arranging her hair, was silent for a while, took off the hairpin that had just been inserted, returned to the card table, and said expressionlessly: "Whose turn is it?" Several concubines did not dare to come out. (To be continued.) )