Chapter 63: Comfort

Qin Hanzhen soon followed his grandfather Qin Bai and grandmother Niu and moved into a new house in Jinling City. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info Lobby Brother Qin Jian is planning for his studies, so he naturally followed along.

The new house is located near the Confucius Temple, which is a quiet place, not far from the neighborhood, and the neighbors who live around it are also serious and knowledgeable people. Since Qin Bai bought a house, the process of tidying up the house and moving has been very low-key, and he has never publicly announced his identity. The people in the neighborhood only said that the new neighbor was an old squire with a lot of money, and he brought his wife and granddaughter and nephew to live in, so they greeted him according to the number of courtesies. Qin Bai also ordered Zhou Xiangnian and Uncle Hu to greet them politely and send some home-made pastries as a meeting gift, but they did not mean to have a deep friendship. Everyone maintains a polite but distant relationship, and they are comfortable with each other.

The house is three-in, in fact, it is a three-way three-way pattern, that is, nine courtyards.

In the middle of the road, the front yard of the main house is open five, there are no east and west wings, both sides along the wall along the eaves of the corridor, convenient for people to walk. The main house is wide and airy, divided into several small rooms with blue gauze cabinets, and there are not only main halls, but also places to do restaurants, tea rooms, outer study rooms, etc., which are used to entertain guests. There is a verandah with a small door leading to the back yard at the east and west ends of the main house, and as soon as the door is closed, the front and back yards are separated. Although there is no formal second door, it is also clear from the inside and outside.

The front yard and the back of the head are the main courtyard, the upright main house has three rooms with two ear rooms, and the pattern of three rooms in the east and west wings, the main house has also built an extra floor, there are also five rooms, it has been cleaned at this time, it is just temporarily empty, and some tables and chairs are placed on the couch and the stove screen for the use of the view. Downstairs in the main house is the residence of Qin Bai and Niu, and Niu pointed to the west wing room for Qin Hanzhen to live in. Dongxiang made a small study for Qin Hanzhen, and Mama Hu and Mama Wei could also take the girl to do needlework there.

There is a row of rowhouses in the backyard, which happens to be the residence of the girls. When the courtyard of the house was newly arranged, Qin Hanzhen specially instructed that the originally sealed wellhead in this small courtyard be reopened to facilitate the use of water, and another room was vacated as a bathroom, and a simple stove was built outside the house, which could boil hot water at any time.

The east and west roads of the house are the same pattern, there are no wings, and there is only one big main house in each of the three courtyards, with either white walls on both sides, or narrow eaves corridors, or planting some trees, and decorating with a few lake stones for decoration. The front and middle courtyards of the East Road were given to Qin Jian and his entourage to live in, and he had to arrange them. The backyard was used as a servant's room.

The west road was reserved for Zhao Mo, and with the same arrangement, the two entourages who had temporarily asked him to stay in Jiangning moved in with their luggage. The backyard is used as a kitchen, and there is a small door that communicates with the backyard of the main road, and the latter also has a small door with the backyard of the east road, which is just convenient for the servants to come and go. Of course, when the key is in the front yard at night, the small doors on both sides will also be locked, and no family members are allowed to walk around at will.

Such a small and compact house, living in Qin Bai's ancestors and grandchildren, adding a Qin Jian and Zhao Mo, and male and female servants, is also well organized, and it does not make people feel crowded.

The house was originally 80% new, but it has been renovated, with the addition of ondol and fire walls, improved stoves and sewers, and even in the winter, the interior is as warm as spring. Zhou Xiangnian specially found someone to rearrange the flowers and trees in the yard, lake stones, pools, eaves corridors, etc., and now there is no decay at all. Qin Bai and his entourage only moved in, and they immediately felt that this house was more comfortable than the six-room ancestral house.

Qin Jian felt that this was simply unreasonable. He spat out to his cousin Qin Hanzhen: "When my grandfather ordered someone to renovate the ancestral house in Qinzhuang, I didn't know who he was looking for, he must have filled his pockets, or he was actually an incompetent person who didn't understand anything." The house that was built looked magnificent on the outside, but it was not comfortable to live in at all. In winter, people are in the house, the doors and windows are closed tightly, and I always feel that the cold wind seems to blow from all directions, and there is cool air seeping under the soles of my feet. I thought that this was the kind of weather in Jiangnan, but now I found out that the house was actually not built! When I return to the capital, I must sue my grandmother!"

Qin Hanzhen smiled and said, "According to what you say, that person may be a little wronged." We didn't feel much warmth in the other rooms. This is what winter in Jiangnan should look like. You will think that this house is good because the heating facilities are well done, but it is also easy to catch fire. Therefore, Brother Lobby should remember to drink more moist soup. ”

Qin Jian glanced at her with a smile and didn't say much. Anyway, he decided now that the ancestral house must not have been renovated. Even the newly bought house of the third uncle and ancestor can make people live so comfortably after simple repairs, and the person who is in charge of the renovation project of the ancestral house only needs a little bit of care, and is he afraid that he will not be able to build a house? It can be seen that it is all his fault!

Qin Jian traveled south all the way, and he saw all kinds of tricks in which people embezzled the money of the master's family. He knew very well that the person who presided over the renovation of the ancestral mansion must not be clean, so he was looking for an opportunity to take the other party and take the opportunity to stop the unhealthy tendencies of the people in the Hou Mansion, lest they treat the masters of the Qin family as fools who are easy to coax and fool at will!

That's for later, though. It is rare to live in such a comfortable house, and the temperature outside is not as cold as the capital, except that it is damp and cold, so Qin Jian simply concentrates on reading in the warm room, and he pays less attention to the various calls and invitations of the brothers. On a cold day, with some rain and snow from time to time, who has time to run outside all day?

Qin Hanzhen also nested in his own room, sitting on the kang, wearing a jacket, and eagerly reciting and copying books. Her homework began to be different from Qin Jian and Zhao Mo. Zhao Mo is more about learning the truth and opening up his mind, Qin Jian began to study the Four Books and Five Classics, and study the skills of scientific examination articles, Qin Hanzhen only needs to be able to memorize the texts and understand the truth of the sages' articles, it's okay, you don't have to study too deeply, let alone learn any eight-strand knowledge, but you can use more thought in poetry and songs, piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and cultivate sentiment.

The piano that was put away before was turned out, and the black and white jade chess pieces that Zhao Mo gave a few days ago were placed on the newly bought chessboard, and they were placed at the corner of the kang, and Qin Hanzhen asked people to buy good paintbrushes, paints and paper from the nearby street market. Qin Jian taught her granddaughter one by one, starting with the simplest white sketches of flowers and birds, and also found many famous paintings for her reference.

Qin Hanzhen has also seen a lot of famous calligraphy and paintings, and his vision is there, and when he went south, he also saw some mountains and rivers, not to mention what he saw and heard in modern times as a foundation, but the kung fu in his hands is not yet at home, and he can't draw what he thinks. She thought that there were no cameras in this era, and if she wanted to keep the images in her memory, the only thing she could count on was the paintbrush, so she calmed down and patiently learned to paint with her grandfather. She learned some basic techniques from Mr. Zeng in the capital, but she could still keep up with Qin Jian's progress.

The days of study are full and busy, but with Qin Hanzhen's temperament, of course, there is no only learning in life. Previously living in the six-room ancestral house, living next to the clansmen, interacting with the clansmen every day, and unfamiliar with the six-room people watching, Qin Hanzhen really felt uncomfortable in everything.

Now it's okay, living in his own house, Qin Jian lives on East Road, except for coming to ask his uncle for homework every day, and coming to eat three meals a day, he usually stays in his own place. The subordinates he brought with him would not dictate the way of life of the three rooms. So Qin Hanzhen can finally eat some of his favorite food, say some jokes and gossip as he likes.

Qin Hanzhen is used to eating rice, but he doesn't like the sweet and silky Jiangnan dishes made by the chef of the ancestral house in the sixth room; the grandmother Niu is talking about her noodles and oily spicy seeds, and she has been talking about them for a long time, and now that she is sick, she doesn't have to avoid them anymore; although her grandfather Qin Bai is the taste of a southerner, after all, he has lived in the north for many years, and his eating habits have inevitably been affected, and he is also a little picky about food. Thanks to the fact that when Sanfang went south, he brought a cook, and Mama Hu was also very good at making pasta in the northwest.

However, occasionally they will go to the nearby restaurants and restaurants, and they especially like to visit those prestigious time-honored restaurants. It's rare to come to Jiangnan, and if you don't taste the local food, wouldn't it be a trip for nothing?

After eating the food, Qin Hanzhen went home and wrote a long letter again, which was still for his second cousin Qin Jinhua, just to be hungry for her. Qin Jian knew about her behavior, shouted despicable more than once, and then went to write a copy herself.

The family lived happily in Jinling City, and Qin Jian did not go back to the clan, but the clan would send the children of the clan every few days to greet them.

The family members of the one room sent by the Feng family to serve as guides and guides for the sixth room have always been responsible for running errands in Jinling City, surnamed Qu, and they have been loyal to their duties these days, and have helped the sixth room a lot. Thinking that their family was sent by the sect, Qin Bai and the Niu family missed the love of the sect very much, and they were also very kind to the people who came. Among them, one or two descendants didn't know whether they were sincere or pretended, they put on a studious appearance, took their own books or articles to Qin Bai to teach questions, or talked to Qin Jian about poetry and papers, whether it was Qin Bai or Qin Jian, they all solved their confusion well.

From the mouths of these people, Qin Bai also knew that because the progress of the clan study was too slow, there were already respected old people in the clan who complained about the use of Qin Ke in the clan, and also said that since Qin Keyong had something to do, he couldn't spare his hand, so he simply handed over the clan study to others to be responsible, which also saved him from hindering the right thing. Now that the patriarch of the clan is teaching his second son Qin Keyong, it seems that he doesn't want to give up this good thing to other heads, so he counts his son's attitude.

Qin Bai didn't care about these things, he just didn't know, Qin Jian had discussed a few words with his clan brothers in private. No one knows whether there is a conclusion or not, but it is true that he has made several brothers again.

A few days later, several brothers from the clan who had used to play with him before came to him. It's not that they are here to encourage Qin Jian to go out to have fun again, the elders in the family are strictly forbidding them to "spoil" the eldest son and grandson of the sixth room. The purpose of their trip was, firstly, to tell Qin Jian the latest news they had heard in the clan, and secondly, to bring Zhao Mo's letter to Qin Jian.

Zhao Mo delivered a letter on the way to travel. It's just that he didn't know that Liufang had moved into Jinling City, so the messenger still sent the letter to Liufang's ancestral house. Along with the letter, there was a heavy box of things.