Chapter 285: The Old Mansion
In the palace the day before yesterday, although Xia Lanxin repeatedly assured that the Chen and Xia families wanted to take over Qin and Jin, they were not in a political marriage. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 infoMurong Wei still wants to meet her second cousin and find out if these words are true and credible.
happily accepted the task, Murong Wei and her sister prepared early, and they worked for Mama Luo to open the warehouse, and found a pair of red gold collars with eight treasures and beads to add joy to the little nephew.
Early in the morning on the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, the two sisters changed their auspicious clothes and quietly left the palace from Donghua Gate.
Afraid of disturbing the old mansion, the trip did not put out the princess's guard of honor, the two sisters shared a Nanmu painted carriage covered by Zhu Yinghua to start, and the two grandmothers and the palace people followed closely in three carriages.
A group of several people were escorted by a team of civilian guards disguised as servants, and they looked like the family members of ordinary rich and noble families.
The carriage went all the way slowly, from Donghua Gate through Zhuque Street, then turned to Guishu Hutong, and went to the old Shilangfu in Sangyu Hutong.
said that it was the old residence of his father, but it was a stranger. The two sisters never lived here, and were both born in the princess's mansion. Murong Hui is younger, and she only has the impression of the palace, and she can't even remember the scenery of the princess's mansion for half a minute.
Murong Wei thought about it again and again, and really remembered the two princess mansions that were connected to her aunt and queen mother, where there were almost the same gardens and courtyards, the same Zhulan cloister and a big stage.
Because my aunt prefers the golden color of the ginkgo tree, there are tall ginkgo trees at the entrance of King An's Mansion and the princess's mansion today, as well as the same lintel and courtyard.
The only impression of the old Shilang's Mansion is the pond where her father and the emperor boated with her, as well as the only pavilion.
Because the Shilang Mansion is small, the pond is also exquisitely repaired, and there are three workshop-style water pavilions in the connection.
My father deliberately did not use beams and pillars and pavilion roofs, but built a tree house with ancient trees, and the branches were covered with green and light pink vines, which seemed to be a jungle of ancient trees. Even the tables and chairs inside are all made of boxwood, which is in the same vein as the ancient vines and old trees.
In the shade of summer trees, spring is late.
In the past, Emperor Chongming was proud, and the young man was a princess again, leading the idle position of the household servant, and there was still a flaw to take his daughter back to the old house occasionally for a boat, and by the way, he appreciated his finishing touches back then.
When Emperor Chongming ascended the throne, he had two worries about state affairs and family affairs, and he never returned here.
Sangyu Hutong is not a big road, only bypass from Guishu Hutong. Walking to Guishu Hutong and lifting the car curtain, the two Murong Wei sisters saw from a distance the tall Dangui Pavilion at the mouth of the Hutong was covered with pavilions, covering half of the Hutong under a thick shade, adding some tranquility and elegance.
Guishu Hutong is secluded and quiet, it is one of the few old streets in the imperial city, and most of the old houses on one street are over the years, and all the famous families and official eunuchs live in it.
People like Qian Weizhen, the head of the household department, and Liu Ben, the imperial historian of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, although they have official residences on Suzaku Street, they also have their own private houses in Guishu Hutong.
When Chen Rujun worked in Beijing in the early years, he bought a house in Guishu Hutong. When I returned to Huaizhou in the past, I knew that there was no hope of returning to Beijing, and the century-old house had been sold.
Although the two alleys are close to each other, the environment and location are very different. Therefore, when she bought the small mansion adjacent to the Shilang Mansion a few years ago, Murong Wei also asked Xia Yuzhi to help find out who lived in the Chen family's previous mansion to see if there was any hope of buying it back.
The house in Guishu Hutong is expensive, it can be said that there is no market, and the Chen family hastily entrusted the deed to the government and sold it very cheaply.
Xia Yuzhi sent someone to inquire, knowing that the old mansion had changed hands several times, and it was no longer the original buyer, so he started from the archives of the Five Cities Terracotta Division, and found out that the old mansion of the Chen Mansion now belonged to a businessman surnamed He, so he ordered Xiao Luochen to come forward and plan to buy it back at a high price.
When Xiao Luochen came to inquire carefully, he learned that the family did not live here for a long time, because they were from Hebei, and often went back and forth between Gusu and Tianjin Wei to do back and forth. I bought the house in Guishu Hutong just to be quiet, so that the ladies of the house can settle down when they enter Beijing, and they will be idle for eight or nine months a year.
Xiao Luochen came a few times a year ago, wanting to talk to the master's house. Who would have thought that there were a few big locks locked on the door of this house, and only an old gray-headed fox who was a caretaker was left in the corner door.
Xiao Luochen wore civilian clothes, and did not say that he was a member of the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses, and came to ask to see the master's family. I think that the owner of the family is rich and rich, and even an old man is very arrogant. It is said that the master's family will go back to Tianjin for the New Year, and they will only enter Beijing in April and May of the next year.
Unable to meet with a gatekeeper, and unable to force the purchase and sale, Murong Wei had to temporarily dismiss the idea of buying back the old mansion, and retreated to the next best thing and bought the mansion adjacent to the old waiter's mansion.
After this today, Murong Wei remembered the mysterious master who had not yet appeared, and was willing to spend a lot of money to buy the idle house in Guishu Hutong. Remembering that the Qian Mansion and the Liu Mansion all had private residences here, Murong Wei became curious, so she ordered the car to be parked under the green laurel tree at the mouth of the alley.
called Mama Luo over, Murong Wei gave a few careful instructions, and asked Mama Luo to find a way to go over and see what kind of family it was.
After waiting for two pillars of incense, Mama Luo returned to the car. While the group was walking, Mama Luo and Murong Wei were talking about the news they had inquired about.
The slave asked Mama Yu to go down to call the door, only saying that she was here to look for relatives, because she was looking for the wrong place, so she had to find the old house of her relatives to ask. "Mama Luo's wide placket is covered with a dark blue silk handkerchief, embroidered with rich and noble gold and jade, and she speaks in a clear manner.
The family surnamed He was cautious, and the two grandmothers who came were dressed in rich and noble clothes, and heard them report that they were the maiden family of the young lady in the old mansion of Chen Ge, and they came to participate in the little young master's full moon banquet today, so they welcomed them in.
When she arrived, she was also affectionate, looking at Mama Luo's dress, Murong Wei smiled and praised this lie for being well written.
Because she didn't wear the princess's court clothes, she only wore a green and embroidered gold thread plum blossom dress, and Mama Luo and the other palace people did not wear palace clothes, but all wore auspicious clothes.
It seems that she came only for a trip to Guishu Hutong today, Mama Luo changed into a light gold curtain, embroidered with a powder blue Sihe Ruyi pattern, a pure gold hairpin on her head, and a solid gold bracelet on her wrist, revealing wealth and auspiciousness all over her body.
Seeing that she cooperated with her lies, she saw that she really looked like the housekeepers and grandmothers of a big family.
It was originally for today's celebration, Mama Luo deliberately chose this outfit. Seeing Murong Wei looking at her clothes and laughing, she laughed out loud and said a joke: "It turns out that not wearing palace clothes has the advantage of not wearing palace clothes, not to mention that Mama Yu is already a little blessed." ”