10. The Mansion of the Lord
The spring light of March became more and more bright and moving in the afternoon, the occasional sound of the pages turning was mixed with one or two tactful and ethereal bird calls, Yun Qingyan's brush was writing and calculating on the white paper next to the ledger, but the sandalwood abacus was left aside. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
Yun Luan, who was on the chaise longue, felt that this sleep was extraordinarily sound, and it was already an hour later when he was woken up.
"Leaving?" Yun Luan sat up and rubbed his eyes in confusion, "How long have I been asleep?" ”
"About an hour." Yun Qingyan handed a stack of ledgers to Jingyun, and seeing that she was still a little unconscious, she said softly, "Do you want to call someone to serve?" ”
"No need, I'll put on my embroidered shoes and we'll go." I wanted to agree, but after thinking about it, forget it, here is only her maid who can serve herself, but that Jingyun is annoyed when she looks at it.
"Alright," Yun Luan stretched comfortably, "Let's go!" ”
After the three of them got out of the Yushu Building, they got into the carriage, and because they slept for this hour, Yun Luan's spirit was much better.
After taking a bite of the crisp and sweet apple, Yun Luan asked indistinctly, "Where will I sleep when I arrive at your Yun Mansion?" ”
Yun Qingyan stopped rubbing her temples, closed her eyes and said lightly, "There is still a room available in my courtyard, so I asked Jingyun to go back to the house and order it to go down at lunch, and now I think it has been cleaned up." ”
"That's done." Yun Luan nodded when she heard this, she originally wanted to open her mouth to live with Yun Qingyan, but this time she saved her tongue.
She didn't want to live in a serious guest house, not only did she not have an acquaintance to accompany her, but she was not very prestigious.
When she was on the street, someone said that the eldest lady of Yunfu held the power of the backyard in her hands, and she didn't know if it was true, she glanced at Yun Qingyan, who was still closing her eyes and recuperating, and the curiosity in her heart became a little stronger.
The carriage drove out of Changqing Street for a while in the crowded flow of people, and then there were gradually fewer people all the way, and soon came to a quiet street.
Yun Luan pointed to the sedan chair and said in surprise: "You all sit in the sedan chair in and out of the house?" ”
Yun Qingyan was about to get into the sedan chair, and when she heard the words, she stopped and explained to her, "That's not it, it's just an outer courtyard, and the people who live in the house are all protégés and inkmen, and there are differences between men and women, so naturally you should avoid it." ”
"I see." Yun Luan lowered his head and entered the sedan chair, and he was a little more curious about this place.
Although it is an outer courtyard, the avenue in the middle is also open and clear, and evergreen plants and flowers are planted on both sides.
The two compounds are located on opposite sides of the avenue, each with several mahogany gates for entry and exit, and the main courtyard of the Xunguo Mansion is at the end of the avenue.
Yun Luan secretly said in his heart, such a large outer courtyard is inhabited by protégés and ink guests, so it is said that there are still a lot of literati, and there are so many protégés under the Xunguo Mansion at the end of the eight great families, so what should the situation of other families be.
The sedan chair man walked very slowly in order to hold the sedan chair steady, and a light breeze blew through the corner of the sedan window, Yun Luan saw two scholar-like people not far away playing chess on the wooden table, and a few people next to her were watching with relish, which somehow reminded her of those decaying old men in the gatehouse of the Hou Mansion.
Secretly lifted the sedan curtain and took a look, and saw a scholar who couldn't bear to point at the chessboard, Yun Luan rolled his eyes in disgust when he saw this, and said that he was silent about watching chess, this is not as good as the old man of the Hou Mansion!
It was very quiet along the way, and most of the literati liked to be quiet, and they didn't want to make noise here.
It took a long time for the sedan chair to fall to the ground, Yun Luan got up and opened the sedan curtain, and when he came out, he saw a plaque hanging on a mahogany door, with four dragons flying and phoenixes dancing in the mansion of the Emperor of the country, and a slightly lower door was opened on both sides, and more than a dozen guards stood there with solemn faces.
"Come with me," Yun Qingyan turned back to her and said in a deep voice, "Don't wander around later." ”
Yun Luan came back to her senses and looked at her back, only to feel that she seemed to be a different person, her easy-going and gentle in the teahouse had disappeared, replaced by a cold and majestic rejection of people thousands of miles away, is this what she looks like in the mansion?
After entering the Guogong Mansion, Yun Luan could be regarded as seeing her status in the mansion, and there were constantly subordinates saluting Yun Qingyan all the way, until they walked over, they straightened up and continued to work, and Yun Qingyan just nodded as usual and walked over, thinking that she was used to this kind of thing.
Thinking about it, I feel a little uncomfortable in my heart, she is also the eldest daughter, and she is also a county lord, why doesn't she have this momentum when she walks in the waiting house!
Absentmindedly followed Yun Qingyan all the way to the Qinghao Courtyard, Yun Luan looked up and felt that the inside was extremely open and spacious, there were four wings on the left and right, and the innermost main room must be Yun Qingyan's boudoir.
"Hello Miss!" A maid happened to come out, and when she saw Yun Qingyan, she hurriedly saluted.
Yun Qingyan's cold voice sounded above her head, "You call all the people in the courtyard over, I have something to say." ”
"Yes."
The maid hurriedly ran back when she got the order, Yun Qingyan raised her feet and walked slowly towards the main house in the distance, and Yun Luan also followed when she saw this.
Yun Luan walked all the way and saw a few large vats filled with water, thinking that it should be used to raise lotus flowers in summer, it seems that this cold-faced lady likes lotuses.
When I arrived at the main room, Yunluan found that it was not as simple as I thought, and when I went in, I saw not the woman's boudoir, but the main hall used to entertain guests, and there was a slightly smaller side hall on the right, and the door on the left was decorated with two thin curtains, and the bed inside was vaguely visible, and I thought it was her boudoir.
Why do you feel a little familiar, Yun Luan thought about it carefully, and then he knew why he felt that the layout here was familiar, because this is a regulation that can only be worthy of the master mother.
Ordinary boudoir women don't need the side hall of the main hall to entertain guests, just put a few tables in the small courtyard to cook a few pots of tea, and the second hall on the side is to receive the serious masters in the house.
It seems that the rumors outside are true, Yun Qingyan is really in charge of the backyard of the Yun Mansion.
After Yun Qingyan entered the main hall, she sat down on the pear blossom wooden chair on the left, shaking the silk fan calmly, and her face was cold with the majesty of the superior.
This momentum makes Yunluan have an indescribable taste, and it is not what a thirteen-year-old lady should have.
As soon as I sat down, two maids came up and served two teas, and the tea was not yet cooled for half a minute, and there were more than a dozen maids and women standing in the main hall, and there were a few seats in the middle of the bits and pieces.
Yun Qingyan took a sip of tea slowly, swept over these maids with a cold gaze, and quietly counted them in her heart.
Very good, it's all in order.