Chapter 45: Digging a Pool
Ye Sultan was busy in Zhou Minghui's yard with kapok and red beans. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
It's the third day of working here, and the first two days I planted the flowers and plants that were moved before the kapok according to the drawings, and then planted the peony flowers on both sides of the cobblestone path.
Today, I'm going to take the two of them to dig a pool. This work is really tiring, you can't work for a long time, you can only choose to do it intermittently, which means that the time will be extended, and the sooner you start work, the better.
Fortunately, Zhou Minghui is richer than her, and there are no fewer tools she should have, including two shovels, a bamboo basket, and a hoe.
First of all, Ye Sultan measured the size to be dug according to the position of the drawings and made a mark.
Then, Ye Sultan himself was the first to pick up the hoe and began to dig in the center of the mark.
Finally, when the dug mound reached a certain level, Ye Sultan pulled over the bamboo basket prepared on the side and filled it with soil.
The pond is located next to the gazebo, which means that you can enjoy the fish while the pavilion is cool. In addition, this place is closer to the well, so it will be much easier to take care of it in the future.
Zhou Minghui, who had been drinking tea in the pavilion, couldn't stand it anymore when she saw this, she was afraid that Ye Sultan would really pick up the bamboo basket filled with soil by herself next, she got up and walked to the entrance of the pavilion and shouted to Ye Sultan who was two feet away, "Sister, don't be busy, come in and have a cup of tea with my sister." ”
This Ye Sultan is really, this kind of dirty and tiring work is also taken on herself, not to mention that she is a talented person, even ordinary women will definitely not do this kind of work that only men can do like her.
Seeing her and her palace maid carrying the heavy wooden plank into her courtyard before, she was really startled and incredible. Such a weak body, carrying a plank twice as wide as hers, and it was full of flowers. Although they didn't seem to be struggling, they weren't easy at all. Those who don't know still think that she was forced to work as a coolie by her vicious stepmother. It's unbelievable that Ye Sultan can do this job so happily, he doesn't feel that it damages his identity at all, and he is secretly proud, it's weird!
Look at the two baskets of dirt beside her, they should be as heavy as her, and if she really picks them up, she won't even look at them.
As soon as the two bamboo baskets were filled to the fullest, Ye Sultan heard Zhou Minghui's shout, straightened up, and looked at her. I saw Zhou Minghui's usual cyan gown, her hair was simply coiled into a round mustache, and a jasper hairpin was inserted. Standing at the entrance of the gazebo steps, looking at her, waiting for her to respond, there is a great posture that she will not stop if she does not come in.
Ye Sultan is really hard to refuse, two days ago Zhou Minghui was also drinking tea in the pavilion, and called her from time to time, she could push it off, because time was really urgent, and she couldn't waste time.
So, let's go to the rest meeting, I'm really tired after digging for so long.
"Red Bean, I'm sorry for you to carry this basket of dirt over there with Kapok......" Ye Sultan pointed to the place where he was standing on the side and pointed to the place where he had planned to make a small hill, and said in a very polite tone. Hongdou is not her own person, and she is also a little embarrassed to trouble others to do this kind of hard work.
"Yes, talented." Hongdou responded respectfully, and at the same time breathed a sigh of relief, fortunately, she didn't let her pick two baskets alone.
She turned her head again to Kapok who was walking over with a flat pole and said, "Kapok, after carrying these two baskets of soil with red beans, you can do what I just did, and I will go in and drink tea with Zhou Cairen." ”
"Okay, don't worry, just leave it to the slave here." Kapok replied briskly, and his demeanor was not as respectful as that of red beans, but with a little intimacy.
Watching the two of them walk steadily with the soil on their shoulders, Ye Sultan turned around and walked towards the pavilion, patted the dirt off his body two steps away from Zhou Minghui, and then went up the stairs.
"I've kept my sister waiting." Ye Sultan said embarrassedly. Zhou Minghui just stood like this, waiting for her to arrange it and come over.
"You! This kind of work can be left to the next person to do, why bother to do it yourself, we only need to open our mouths as masters. Zhou Minghui waved her handkerchief angrily, her words meant to reproach and teach, but her tone was full of pity.
Ye Sultan listened to a warm heart, bent down to clean his face and hands in the basin of water prepared earlier, and said with a smile and affectionately, "Sister's yard has to be done everywhere, Hongdou has no experience in this area, although Kapok knows a little, but it is far from the climate, I don't feel at ease when I hand it over to them, I can only be tired by myself." ”
"Don't worry, you don't need to do everything by yourself, like just digging and picking mud, those two girls are fine." Zhou Minghui sat down one step ahead of Ye Sultan, poured a cup of tea and moved to the position opposite her.
Ye Sultan cleaned his face and hands, walked to the place where he had been sitting these days, sat down, and unceremoniously picked up the cup of tea in front of him and put it in his mouth.
"Yes, let's get started, and the rest can be handed over to them, it just so happens that I have something to do tomorrow, so I can't come." Putting down the teacup, Ye Sultan answered calmly, and by the way, he explained that he would not come tomorrow. She had planned to go to the Secret Garden tomorrow, but she hadn't been there for a few days.
"Okay, no problem, I'm staring here, these two girls don't dare to be lazy." Zhou Minghui knew in her heart that Ye Sultan might be going to the cold palace, and she was secretly happy in her heart, this time she must know what she was doing. So I readily agreed.
"Thank you, sister."
Over there, Hongdou glanced at the pavilion and saw that the two masters were chatting happily, so they began to whisper to the kapok who was carrying mud in the back.
"I heard that your master treats you very well and lets you eat at the same table."
Kapok, who was originally concentrating on walking, was stunned when he heard her words, and subconsciously replied, "Yes, the master is a good person." There was an element of pride in his tone.
"Will she beat and scold you?"
"Never, since the master flooded, he has been better to me, and he usually doesn't look at me as a person." Kapok still answered truthfully.
Hearing this, Hongdou couldn't help but look back at her, she still couldn't believe it, a master doesn't take down the person as a person, no matter how you say it, the next person is the next person, no matter how good the master is to the next person, it is impossible not to take her as a person. The subordinates still have to serve the master. But what I know about Kapok these days, she is not a person who can lie or brag, and she looks very serious just now.
"Then how do you serve your master on weekdays?" She couldn't help but ask a little more carefully.
"Well, waiting... Since my master recovered from my drowning illness, my master didn't ask me to serve much, washing, dressing, bathing, eating, and bedding, she didn't let me serve, saying that I would do it well. On weekdays, I was busy with the garden, and she helped me boil water and tea. Kapok gushed a lot, she usually doesn't like to talk much, is an inferiority complex, these days working with red beans, are red beans to ask, she replied, never say much, but before asking about the knowledge of planting flowers. But to say that their masters are good is to say that they can't say enough.