The joy is that he is in such an unfavorable situation, but also for the Ming Dynasty to hold Jiaozhou, to the Ming Ming in Annan left a glimmer of life, if the imperial court has the heart to exterminate Li Li, it is not impossible to take this as the foundation, and there are still 20,000 soldiers and horses left here, these are all capital, for this, he still has some hope.

Therefore, he was very worried in the past few days, came out of the signing room, took a sharp breath, glanced at the sky in front of him, and said to himself: "Its government is dull, its people are pure, and its government is inspected, and its people are lacking." Woe is where blessing rests; Who knows the extreme: it is not right. It is strange to be reinstated, and good is to be a demon. The mystery of people is long-lasting. It is a saint who is not cut, honest but not slashed, straight but not wanton, and glorious but not shining. I don't know if the fate of the old man is a blessing or a curse?" (Note 1)

With a long sigh, he turned around and entered the back hall.

Wang Tong's general's mansion was renovated on the original general's mansion when he came, he was a native of Beijing, and he had a soft spot for Beijing courtyards, so he was changed into a courtyard.

Today's mansion is much more expanded than before, and the houses in the four main east, west, south, and north directions are independent, and the east and west wings are not connected to the main house and the inverted building itself, and all the houses such as the main house, the wing room, and the inverted seat are all one-storey, and there are no buildings, and the only thing that connects these houses is the verandah at the corner. In this way, the whole mansion looks like four small boxes enclosing a courtyard from above.

This kind of courtyard is connected with the courtyard houses in many areas of the south, and the houses on the four sides are mostly buildings, and at the four corners of the courtyard, the houses are connected, and the houses on the east, west, north and south sides do not exist independently. Therefore, the southerners call the courtyard "patio", which shows that the Jiangnan courtyard is small, like a "well", which inevitably makes people as the name suggests, since the successful reconstruction of this general's mansion, he has not lived elsewhere.

He bypassed a long corridor, a pavilion, and entered the courtyard behind, here is his family, he has a wife and a concubine, gave birth to a son, when he came to Annam, in order to let him suppress Li Li's rebellion with peace of mind, he specially allowed him to bring his family, but he was afraid of impeachment, and only brought his wife Shen, and a few servants, and the rest did not bring anything.

Because it is not intended to live for a long time, so this backyard, did not spend a lot of energy to build, just along the direction of the central axis, built a single-family manor, although it is only a simple construction, but it can still be seen that the heart, first of all, the house frame purlins, columns, beams (柁), sills, rafters, doors and windows, partition doors, etc. are all wooden, and the wooden house shelves are surrounded by brick walls. The beams, columns, doors and windows and cornice rafters should be painted and painted, although they are not as brilliant as the palace garden, but they are also colorful. The wall is accustomed to using grinding bricks and broken bricks to build the wall, and the so-called "Beijing City has three treasures...... Rotten bricks build walls and walls do not fall". Most of the roof tiles are made of green board tiles, the front and back are interlocked, the eaves are loaded with dripping, or do not pave the tiles, all use the green ash to wipe the roof, called "ash shed", and the style can be many.

In addition, this yard is surrounded by walls from the outside, all of which are made of tall walls, making this yard seem very empty, and Mrs. Shen has planted a lot of flowers and trees in the yard in the yard, a few rhododendrons here, a few peonies there, a bamboo flower garden with a few squares, and a few rockeries, but also scattered.

In such a yard, during the day, the flowers and trees in the yard are very beautiful, the flowers are fragrant at night, the air is fresh, and the family sits in the courtyard at night to enjoy the shade, rest, chat, drink tea, and the whole family is happy. The family is in the yard, no matter what they do, outsiders can't see it, this is the most wonderful.

Wang Tong bypassed a piece of green bamboo, passed through a cobblestone path, and saw a small waterhole like the Xuanyue, the water in the pool was extremely clear, there was stillness in the movement, a few emerald green aquatic plants floated in the pool, with the waves, full of ripples, which made people take a look, and suddenly felt relaxed and happy.

Occasionally, a few Matsue perch swim under the aquatic weeds, and the body of this fish is broad and flattened at the front and tapered and flattened laterally. The head is large, and the spines and ridges on the dorsal surface of the head are covered by skin. The mouth is large, and the end position is located. The upper and lower jaws, vomer and jaw all have villous teeth. The supraocular lateral position with narrow and concave interocular spacing. The posterior margin of the anterior operculum has four spines, the upper spine is the largest, and the end is hooked, warped posteriorly and superior. The gill aperture is wide. It is not suitable to be kept in the pond to watch, but Mrs. Shen recited the Book of Jin•The Biography of Zhang Han one day, and learned that the talented son Zhang Han was an official in Luoyang, and when she saw the autumn breeze, she remembered the delicacy of pheasant tail and fourgill perch in her hometown, so she abandoned the official and returned to her hometown.

And wrote a song "Autumn Wind Song" said: "When the autumn wind is beautiful, the Songjiang River is full of perch fat." Three thousand miles of home to return, hatred is rare to look up to the sky and sorrow. "Greatly moved, regardless of Wang Tong's prevention, I insisted that the koi fish raised in the original pond were caught, and then let people send a few perch from Songjiang into the pool, since then this pool of blue waves, it was occupied by this Songjiang perch, although it is not the kind of ornamental type of brocade lithium, but the perch is lively and active, shuttling with aquatic plants and lotus leaves, but also responded to the sentence of moving in the still, still in the movement, but also has a different taste.

Since Li Li sent an envoy to Daming, Wang Tong's mood has been bad, on the one hand, he hopes that the imperial court can settle this matter through peace talks, and he can solve this matter earlier, and then return to his hometown, on the other hand, he is a little worried, once the peace talks are successful, Annan is bound to lose, and he returns to the imperial court, how to face the impeachment of the official, thinking about it, there is no result, to make his heart upset, that is, the pool that he wants to watch carefully on weekdays is too lazy to take a look at it today, and he flicked his long sleeves and went directly into the inner courtyard。

The inner courtyard is much smaller than the outer courtyard, but the layout is much more exquisite, flowers and plants, so beautiful, at this time a woman in an emerald gown walked out.

The pace is swaying and colorful, holding a small fan in her hand, and a panorama of Yangzhou is painted on the fan surface, with clear brushwork, with her jade hand gently shaken, the scenery of the picture scroll is shown one by one.

The woman obviously just got up, although she applied a little powder, but she still couldn't hide the lazy meaning, she pinched the small fan and shook it gently, her long eyes, glanced at the corner of the courtyard on the left, her eyes lit up, after half a month of brewing, a plum blossom planted a year ago has been Lin Han bloomed alone, which makes Mrs. Shen, who loves plum blossoms, how unhappy.

Before approaching, the nose smelled a faint fragrance, fragrance, people can't help but take a few more sips, stay close, see the flowers on the branch, mostly flower double petals or double petals, light yellow or nearly white, the heart of the flower is slightly yellow, calyx purple, very good-looking, Mrs. Shen couldn't help but stretch out her hand and gently stroked it, a person and a flower, fell in the eyes of others, like a lady in the spring, very moving.

Mrs. Shen looked at the flowers for a while, and saw that it was not early, so she reluctantly took a long breath, and walked around the yard with a small fan, this is her alone world, every flower and grass are carefully planted by her, and she has already become her child in her eyes.

After about a cup of tea, there was a heavy footstep on the bamboo forest path in the courtyard, Mrs. Shen only heard a sound, then stood up, stood in the wind, stretched out her snow-white and crystal fingers, gently stroked a wisp of green silk on her forehead to her ear, and then gently patted the dust and flower gimmicks on the long robe, and then she curled up to the footsteps.

Walking only a few dozen steps, you will arrive at a water pavilion, there is a stone table next to the water pavilion, and the tea sets on the table are all available, Mrs. Shen entered the water pavilion, changed the small fan in her hand to two hands in front of the door, and then raised her head and looked at the bamboo forest path in front of the water pavilion with a smile.

At this time, the morning sun was obliquely shining, and a faint light was reflected on Mrs. Shen's face, as if she was covered with a layer of faint glow.

Mrs. Shen is over thirty years old, and they all say that you are like a beautiful flower, but it can't be worth the years of water, but these words are used on Mrs. Shen's body, it seems to have lost its effect, obviously at the age of thirty, but it is born with extraordinarily pink makeup, snow-white and crystal skin is still blown, eyebrows are bent, eyes are like ink, black and bright, with a goose egg face, a smile, all revealing a charming taste.

It's like a peach in the mountains that has been baptized over the years, becoming crystal clear, as long as you bite into one, you can bite out of the water.

At this time, her eyes were slightly bent, her small mouth was just slightly hooked upward, and a faint smile surged onto her face, natural and charming, making people feel like a spring breeze.

Seeing the figure in the sun falling in front of her eyes, Mrs. Shen said softly, "Master, ......?" The voice was tactful, and it was rare that the voice had the tone of Jiangnan Wu Nong's soft words, although it was speaking, it sounded like music, very pleasant.

Wang Tong seemed to have been accustomed to this kind of sound for a long time, and did not feel that it was inappropriate, but still carried his hands behind his back and strode into the water pavilion.

Mrs. Shen waited for Wang Tong to sit down, then accepted the gift, turned around and walked in, in front of the small water pavilion, the morning sun was obliquely shining, and the clothes were fluttering, and there was immediately a back of a beautiful Tingting, so vivid.

Mrs. Shen took a seat, saw her husband's brows tightened, and sighed softly, although her husband said that he was a general of Zhengyi, but he had rarely been happy over the years, and he was physically and mentally exhausted every day for the sake of war and keeping this title, compared to the past, today's status and identity have improved a lot, but he has also lost the joy of the past.

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The country's policy is loose and unconscious, and the people are simple and honest. The country's policies are harsh and cumbersome, and the people are cunning and deceitful. Disaster hides well-being, and well-being hides calamity. Who knows the mystery? There is no standard reference. Normal changes to absurdity, and good transforms into evil. People are confused about this, and time has been a long time ago. Therefore, the saint is square in his actions but not blunt, his language is sharp but not hurtful, his tone is upright but not presumptuous, and he is just and not dazzling.