Chapter Fifty-Seven: Chat-style Inquiry
It took more than ten days, half digging and half stopping, and the kapok and red beans finally dug the pool almost completely, and the rest of the bottom of the pool had to be done by Ye Sultan himself. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
In the past ten days, Ye Sultan has been weeding in the secret garden in the morning, and after these days, the weeds have basically been removed. The originally incomplete garden was revealed.
Today, most of the flowers are wilted, but they are growing sparsely, and you can only roughly distinguish the original design. But this alone also made Ye Sultan amazed, it was as magnificent as she imagined, and she couldn't wait to see this garden flourishing.
She had seen Mingzhong three times these days, each time she came every three days, and each time she stayed inside and left after a short time, and each time she brought those few snacks, of course, this is what she saw from afar. Every time he invited her in, but she went in once.
She was still a little angry in her heart, angry that he looked down on women, and besides, she felt that the two were not so familiar and not suitable for frequent contact, and besides, she was in a hurry to work.
But she was annoyed that she hadn't taken a good look at the furnishings in the house last time to satisfy her curiosity, and the decoration of the house must have been unusual for anyone who could design such a garden.
In the morning, she went to the secret garden, in the afternoon, she went to Zhou Minghui to help plant flowers, in the morning kapok and they dug the pool, and in the afternoon, the three of them planted flowers together. The style of planting flowers is complicated, and many details have to be finalized by Ye Sultan himself.
This morning, instead of going to the secret garden, she built the bottom of the pond in Zhou Minghui's yard.
The bottom of the pond is first flattened and compacted, then pasted with a layer of mud, dried for two days, and then paved with a layer of sand and gravel, and the sand and gravel can be released into the water, and the water should be exposed to the sun for two days, and the fish can be stocked.
Mud, as the name suggests, is mud and water stepped into slurry, originally it was best to use cement, but at this time there was no cement, and she couldn't get it in this palace.
There is no skill in stepping on mud, but you need to step around barefoot to mix mud and water thoroughly, and it will be dirty. Seeing that the red bean was a little unhappy, Ye Sultan was not reluctant. He and Kapok chose a place at the bottom of the pool, carried a bucket of water, added water to the original mound of soil, stepped on the mud while adding water, and waited for the soil to fully absorb the water and turn into a dense mud, and then shoveled the mud into a wooden barrel to hold it.
Kapok carried the bucket to the edge of the pool, Ye Sultan took a plank, Kapok put a shovel of mud, Ye Sultan quickly pressed it with a plank and flattened it, put a shovel, and spread it until it covered the entire bottom of the pool.
Q: How did Sultan know this? In the past, their Ye family's villa dug a small swimming pool, her body was fine, temporarily living in the villa, just digging the pool with an excavator, those plasterers were about to build the bottom of the pool, and she learned carefully throughout the whole process of loving research. It's just that here it's mud instead of cement, and goose stone instead of tile.
Just bent down and squatted down and got up, Ye Sultan and the others had been doing it for almost a morning, and they were only halfway paved. And Ye Sultan and Kapok were almost exhausted at this time, and they couldn't exert their strength anymore. Ye Sultan looked at the other half of the pool bottom that was not finished and stood up. She decided to stop here today, even though it was still early before the usual manual time, but she was too tired.
Zhou Minghui, who had been staying in the pavilion, watched Ye Sultan and her work while sipping tea as usual.
She has nothing to do every day, it's too boring. But it wasn't because he was bored that he went to the pavilion to see Sultan Ye. If Sultan Ye was not there, she would rather go back to the house and lie down.
She couldn't tell why she wanted to watch Ye Sultan work, and she couldn't say that she was laughing at her, and she couldn't appreciate it.
In fact, she admires her a lot, it is not easy to be able to put down her body and do such heavy and dirty work, and to be so elegant and unpretentious.
Seeing Ye Sultan straighten up, he wiped his sweat violently. The bucket of mud in Kapok's hand was also emptied, and Zhou Minghui understood that they could rest for a while, so he instructed another palace maid to see Mei go and fetch a basin of clean water.
"Sister, come in and rest, this tea has just been brewed, and the water temperature is just right." Zhou Minghui beckoned and shouted at Sultan Ye.
"Eh, come on." Ye Sultan grinned and replied crisply.
After cleaning his hands, Sultan Ye sat down, and as soon as he finished taking two sips, he heard Zhou Minghui ask in a chatting tone, "Sister, it has been rumored in this West Garden recently that you are borrowing a corpse to return your soul." ”
Well? Resurrection of the dead? Ye Sultan looked up at Zhou Minghui. She was concentrating on making tea, and Ye Sultan knew in her heart that at this moment, Zhou Minghui must have wanted to know how she would answer this question.
Resurrection of the soul. She didn't expect this to be the result, she thought it would be 'possessed by a female ghost'!
Ye Sultan lowered his head and took another sip of tea, and asked easily, "Does my sister believe it?" ”
"I don't believe it, it's just ......" Zhou Minghui paused, "My sister's temperament suddenly changed greatly, and she suddenly planted flowers, and she planted so well, this is completely different from a person, and everyone will inevitably guess in that direction." ”
"It's nothing, people have figured out a lot of things after they have been closed by the ghost gate, and it is normal for their temperament to change greatly." The tone of the voice was a little heavy.
Zhou Minghui subconsciously stared at Ye Sultan's face, but Ye Sultan was drinking tea with his head buried in tea, and he couldn't see his face at all, so he couldn't know her expression.
"My sister has indeed suffered from unjustified disasters and has worked hard." Zhou Minghui comforted.
"Thank you, sister, it's not hard, just grow up once." Ye Sultan said lightly, he didn't drink the tea anymore, put down the teacup, looked at Zhou Minghui, and looked like nothing happened.
Zhou Minghui secretly breathed a sigh of relief, if it aroused Ye Sultan's sadness and made her feel down, it would be difficult for her to continue to investigate.
"Did my sister learn this flower planting skill before entering the palace?" Zhou Minghui poured another cup of tea for Sultan Ye, and tried to talk as leisurely as possible, more like chatting.
Ye Sultan picked up the teacup and looked at her and thanked her, this woman is quite bearable, and it took so long before she began to probe her. can make the inquiry into a chatting atmosphere, she is also a capable person, and the people in the ancient palace are just not ordinary.
"Yes, since I was a child, my father was strict and didn't let me learn these things that were not in line with women's morals, but I preferred to tinker with these flowers and plants, so I secretly learned from the old gardener at home, before that, only me and the old gardener knew that I would plant flowers." The Ye family has an old gardener, but he has returned to his hometown a few years ago, and now it is estimated that he has passed away, and they have no way to verify it. This is the rhetoric she has come up with for a long time.
"My sister is so smart, she can learn this realm by secretly learning, even if she can fight with the royal gardener of the palace!" Zhou Minghui praised with a smile.
"My sister has won the prize, I just love to toss a little." Ye Sultan is modest.
"This rumor also says that my sister carries a food basket to the cold palace every day to meet sisters, and they are all that kind of sisters." Speaking of that kind of sister, Zhou Minghui's expression was a little uncomfortable.