The corridor, the courtyard courtyard, the rockery and flowing water, the flowers and plants, the small and delicate southern courtyard and the dignified atmosphere of the northern garden, along the way, Xiao is Lou Yuzhu also has a sense of dizziness.

Zhou Cheng led the people away, and said, "The newly bought servant has already arrived before, and you can pick one by yourself when Ming'er waits." ”

With such a large house just cleaning and maintaining the garden, etc., it is impossible to count on the previous rations. "Thank you Brother Zhou."

"Lou Hua and Lou Ming also helped a lot, and my grandfather hasn't been back for more than 20 days."

Lou Yuzhu shook her head and sighed: "The old mansion always says that we are partial and not filial to them, but look at the things they do, we also have to be filial, compare it with our grandfather, tsk!" By the way, did they come after we left? ”

"I've been here, but I was blocked back by Lou Hua." These nagging little things came out of Lou Yuzhu's mouth, and Zhou Cheng was unconsciously annoyed by Daojue's kindness. "It is estimated that this matter is not over yet, and I will definitely have time to find Uncle Lou to go."

"Let's go, we are not afraid, but they should be afraid of us."

Gossip a few words to their own yard, the fence covers the scenery inside, open the courtyard door to see, there are zigzag carved corridors, there are also small courtyards paved with pebbles, a few plantain trees in the courtyard under a delicate pavilion towering, you can make a pot of good tea on rainy days to listen to the rain hit bananas, snow days put down the mats around the inside and become a world of their own, summer sun can also shade and enjoy the coolness.

Walking through the cobblestone path, Lou Yuzhu raised her hand to open the door, and a warm breath came to her face. "What is this?"

"Underfloor heating is buried in the ground."

Hearing this, Lou Yuzhu hurriedly closed the door to don't let the heating run away, loosened the thick cloak and hung it on the hanger next to him, and walked in with novelty in his eyes. A water of Nanmu furniture neatly and orderly discharge, is opposite the wall hanging a huge national color Tianxiang map, the picture on the Bogu shelf has been filled with all kinds of delicate gadgets, then is a soft and comfortable carpet and a few soft chairs, standing on the carpet, the left is the private living room, through the living room there are curtains to cover the faintly visible carved bed, the right hand side is the tea room and the study of the combination, the study to the inside of the moon shadow carved column, through the will find that it is connected with the bedroom.

After a round of shopping, Zhou Cheng picked up the hot tea that happened to the entrance and asked with a smile: "How?" ”

"It was surprisingly good." If he was thinking of eight, he is now reaching twelve. "I guess it will cost a lot, right?"

Between concealment and confession, Zhou Cheng chose the latter without hesitation. "The fourteen thousand taels you left are all used up, and I have three thousand five hundred taels in advance."

"That means that we don't have any money left on our books now, and we still owe you three thousand five hundred taels?"

Zhou Cheng touched his nose and said dryly: "One hundred taels of gold has not moved, there is the word "imperial gift" on it, I mean it is better to keep it for good luck." The cost is large, one is to use a lot of labor to pay for it, and the other is to build furniture in an urgent way, some of which are bought by me when others are not ready to use. ”

"Lou Yuzhu has no choice but to support her forehead, she will spend it in 14,200 days and still owe 3,500 taels, this is really an uncle who spends money!" The money I owe will be given to you when my funds are back, but the rent money for the tea shop I brought back will be kept in my hands. "Fortunately, he brought back the rent money of the pantry by the way, otherwise the deficit in the account would have looked good.

"There's no rush for money."

Lou Ming, who led Xiao Lou Chen over, happened to hear this, touched his nose and smirked at Lou Yuzhu.

He didn't bother to be angry: "What are you doing at the door?" Why don't you come over yet? ”

ran over and sold Zhou Cheng with his mouth open. "The idea of spending money is all from Brother Zhou."

Zhou Cheng knotted.

Xiao Louchen complained about it: "Brother Zhou spends money for us," Zhou Cheng listened more comfortably, but turned his head and Xiao Louchen turned around: "Although Brother Zhou pretended to be a public servant and made Brother Yu's yard better, more beautiful, and more comfortable, but we can't blame him for not it, for the sake of his sweetheart's fiancé, what hissing hurts, Brother Yu hurts~~"

Twisting his ears and lifting it up, Lou Yuzhu said evilly: "If you don't speak, no one will be dumb for you!" ”

Covering his ears that he had not managed to break free of, he took two steps back, Xiao Louchen's eyes were moist and he smacked his mouth and muttered: "This is all a fact, and there is no one to say~~" Seeing that Lou Yuzhu was about to twist again, he immediately covered his mouth and said that he would never say it again.

Zhou Cheng's eyes fluttered, his hands clenched into fists against his lips and coughed lightly, and Lou Yuzhu's ears were hot for no reason.

Lou Ming looked at this, looked at that, and turned his head and snickered.

Lou Hua, who had just entered the door, was inexplicable, and his eyes showed a fox and asked, "What's wrong?" ”

Lou Ming waved his hand again and again: "It's not much, it's not much." ”

The appearance of the two brothers without three hundred taels of silver here made Lou Hua more and more curious, Lou Yuzhu glared at the brothers and said to Lou Hua: "Big brother, don't worry about them, come and sit." After the people sat down, he continued: "There are only so many days left before the first day of the new year, so we should allocate manpower earlier." ”

"I'm thinking about it, too."

Zhou Cheng went out to get the roster, Lou Yuzhu took it and Lou Hua got together to discuss, Lou Ming saw that he couldn't help, so he led Xiao Lou Chen to visit the garden. After lunch, he summoned a group of servants to the main hall.

After consulting Lou Chengyi's husband and wife, he chose an elderly servant with management experience as a housekeeper, and the old servant Huangshan still followed Lou Chengyi because he was inexperienced, and he was accompanied by an errand runner; Liu Kui understands the tastes of the family, so he is in charge of the big kitchen, Fu Linshu is accompanied by two personal servants, and the main courtyard where the husband and wife live is also equipped with special cleaning staff; Lou Hua is the eldest son, and he has an official position, so he has two and two guards who serve him personally, and there are seven or eight people who serve him when he counts the cleaning and handling of the yard; Lou Ming didn't want so many people to follow, so he asked a small servant to follow, and it was enough for two people to clean the yard; Xiao Lou Chen is still young, and the family is not worried that he will live by himself, so he still lives in the main courtyard with Lou Chengyi and his wife; In addition, Lou Yuzhu, in addition to Huang Ying, there is also a close elderly slave brother and two younger ones, and the yard is also equipped with a slave who is in charge of cleaning and maintenance, and the four little slave brothers who do some chores and guard the door, which add up to more than Lou Hua's ration. In addition to these, there were also gatekeepers, yardkeepers, kitchens, washrooms, sewing rooms, coachmen, and horse-feeders, all of whom numbered about forty slaves alone.

Lou Chengyi and his wife were dumbfounded.

Lou Yuzhu smiled: "In the future, the eldest brother will get married, the second brother will get married, and the fourth brother will add a scholar and a little girl, which is still a few." ”

Not to mention how the family adapts to a luxurious life, the old mansion called Lou Chengyi over the next day. Lou Yuzhu was not at ease, and instructed Xiao Lou Chen to follow.

As soon as he came back, he pouted and made a small report. "Grandpa means that on the first day of the new year, let the uncle and the lobby brother receive distinguished guests together."

Lou Yuzhu squinted. When I was busy rebuilding the house, I didn't see anyone to help, and now I have the opportunity to show my face in front of the nobles. "Daddy agreed?"

"No, no, I didn't say yes." Lou Chengyi touched his head in embarrassment, and he still had lingering palpitations in the battle on the day of the announcement, but he didn't dare to promise someone to come over to help at will.

Xiao Louchen dismantled the stage unceremoniously: "If I hadn't dragged my father back, my father might have been rubbed by my grandfather." ”

Chengyi was not angry when his youngest son demolished the building, and he smirked.

Lou Yuzhu thought for a while, and said: "It's not impossible for the uncle and the big party brother to come over to help," it has always been better to block than to let the old mansion break the jar and make trouble, it is better to give some sweetness to deal with the past. "It's just that I asked my dad to say yes, it's okay to help, but you have to follow our arrangement that day."

"You won't bump into your guests, will you?" Lou Chengyi hesitated.

"So we're going to talk about it in the first place, and if we bump into a guest or something else, we won't wipe their butts. After all, we're separated, aren't we? At the beginning, it was also said that glory and wealth have nothing to do with each other, and it makes no sense that we are good, but we still have to use our reputation to fill in the trouble they broke into, right? "Don't worry about Lou Chengyi, Lou Yuzhu still asked Xiao Lou Chen to convey his meaning in the past.

Soon it was Chinese New Year's Eve, and in order not to doze off tomorrow, the Sanfang family went to bed early after eating Chinese New Year's Eve. I didn't sleep for a few hours and started preparing early, but fortunately, with the last experience, the family was busy but not chaotic.

The sky was bright, the old man Zhang led the family to arrive, and then the old man Lou led the old house people to Qi, Liu Ah, who had not appeared for a long time, was supported by Xu Chunting and Ji Xiaorong, even if he changed into the new clothes specially sent by the third room, he would inevitably have a mean face.

Lou Yuzhu frowned, turned his head and quietly befriended Wei Ah Mo and the rest of the village Ah Mo asked them to pay attention to Liu Ah Mo.

After that, Li Zheng also led a few old people in the village to arrive, and then a few good friends of Jiao and Zhai in the town, and the group sat in the main hall to marvel at the atmosphere of the new house.

Not long after, Lou Hua, who had changed into the official uniform of the governor of Jiupin, stepped into the door, and the squires immediately got up to salute, and the old man Lou looked embarrassed and got up meaningfully. Only Liu Ah Mo has never moved since his ass stuck to the stool.

Old Man Lou's face stiffened, and he looked at him again and again.

Liu Ah Mo didn't see it, and stared at Lou Hua sternly: "Don't you kowtow to the elders on the first day of the Lunar New Year?!" ”

Lou Hua didn't hear it directly, Lou Yuzhu laughed angrily: "Ah Mo is old, and he should be a little angry when he gets up." Come on," shouted loudly, and two elderly slave brothers came over, bent their knees and waited for Lou Yuzhu's orders. "Clean up the side room, ask Mrs. Taijun to rest, prepare fragrant tea and snacks, don't be slow!"

The two older brothers immediately held Liu Ah Mo left and right, and 'sent' people to the side room despite the other party's struggle.

Old Man Lou's face was stiff but he couldn't say anything to refuse, Lou Yuzhu glanced at the old housekeepers with different faces, and his eyes were fierce: "Who wants to rest?" ”

Xu Chunting looked away, Ji Xiaorong wanted to mention the pearl downstairs, but Lou Chengli stopped him with his eyes.

This little change didn't affect everyone's mood.

At the end of the hour, the majestic honor guard entered the village gate, and the festive firecrackers sounded all the way, because it was the first worship and the first day of the Lunar New Year, the officials who came to participate were all dressed in official uniforms, and the battle and momentum were only stronger than when the decree was announced!

The procession stopped, the horses were taken under unified management, and the officials who presided over the construction of the building plaque intentionally added the last stone bricks that pressed the foundation, and the sound of firecrackers immediately shook the sky deafeningly.

The father-in-law of the chief administrator of the decree and Pei Sheng pushed the battle, and in the end, Pei Sheng uncovered the three pieces of red silk.

On the building card, the four-character dragon flying phoenix dance is magnificent, and the stone pillars on both sides are "merit through the ages" and "flowing for a hundred generations", these twelve words are carved according to the pen and ink of the Son of Heaven, representing the Son of Heaven and the imperial seal on behalf of the Son of Heaven!

Eight major livestock, all kinds of offerings and incense burners are fully placed, and the chief steward and father-in-law preside over the worship ceremony. With a sharp and hoarse long 'kneeling ~~', a group of kneeling in front of the building, and then read out the sacrificial words, chewing the words of the sacrificial words read out, with three long 'worship ~' words, a group of kowtows three times to get up, which represents the end of the worship ceremony.

At the end of the ceremony, everyone breathed a sigh of relief. The uninvited villagers had to look envious but were not allowed to enter, so they had to disperse, and the officials changed into regular clothes and went inside to take a nap.

Pei Sheng, the father-in-law in charge and the first prefect of Li were invited into the main hall to speak, and there was still an hour before lunch, Lou Hua saw that he led the group to see the place where the double cropping rice was cultivated in the backyard. The rice has been harvested, and there is really nothing to see in the few pieces of fertile land that are suddenly bright, and Lou Hua said that he led a group of people to the back mountain to see their mulberry garden.

Pei Sheng raised his eyebrows, looked at Lou Hua with a mysterious look in his eyes, and quipped: "What? Is there still a treasure in the mulberry garden? ”

"Let the official sell a pass, and the prince will know it by looking at it."

The father-in-law's white and bearded face also flashed with meaning, and said with a smile: "Pei Shizi, don't hesitate, our family is very curious." ”

The cold wind blew and ran to the mountains to see the mulberry garden, and some of the petty officials who fell behind muttered in their hearts that the Lou family was a small family after all, but they didn't know that the people who could do such a grand thing in such an orderly manner would still be shabby? It's their turn to put up the shelves, and that's good.

A bluestone path leads gracefully to the top of the hill, and several large mansions stand among the shadows of the trees and the mulberry trees. The house is guarded by a courtyard, and Lou Ming morning greeted the front of the courtyard, waved his hand and saluted, and then opened the door behind him with the key in his hand.