Chapter 58: The Zhou Family (1)

Second Master Cen's family was embraced into the Zhou Mansion.

Along the way, they took a general glance at the layout of the Zhou Mansion, the courtyard is spacious, the whole mansion covers an extremely wide area, listening to the Lord Zhou said, there are seven or eight hectares of land, which is two or three times larger than the courtyard of the Cen family West Mansion in Hong'an Mansion.

However, the Zhou family has three rooms, wives, wives, concubines, children and grandchildren, plus the servants served, there are nearly 200 people in total. The yard is not big, and it really can't accommodate so many people.

It's just that although the courtyard of the Zhou family is open, the layout inside is ...... Blind eyes!

The five members of the Cen family looked at the layout of the various courtyards of the Zhou Mansion along the way, and felt that they were visiting a wonder. Not to mention those with the quaint blue bricks, dai tiles, white walls and other rough architectural styles of Huaizhou Mansion in the courtyard, the Jiangnan style of pavilions and pavilions, exquisite cloister flower walls and rockery pools. Just said that the flower garden that made the Cen family collectively speechless only planted vegetables was densely packed with silver carp, crucian carp, carp, grass carp, and Wuchang fish...... The lotus pond of all kinds of fish is enough to make people dizzy.

What makes Cen Erniang incomprehensible is why the pool without lotus is called a lotus pond? Also, since she was a child, she has never heard of any lotus pond, only full of fishy smell, dead fish smell and lingering earth smell.

Not only is the scenery completely gone, but it is also smoky.

However, several elders of the Cen family: Master Zhou, Master Tuesday, Master Wednesday and their wives are quite proud of the style of their courtyard mixed with the north and south and the unique "scenery" in it. In and out of words, he boasted that his yard was in the sky and there was nothing on the ground.

Among them, the old lady Zhao and the old lady Zhong on Wednesday who invented the flower garden to grow vegetables and fish in the lotus pond are the most typical.

Since the two entered the courtyard, they have been holding the hands of Lin and Cen Erniang with great interest, and they have been boasting about their unparalleled creativity constantly and proudly. Especially when they walked to the water pavilion in the fish pond to rest, Zhao and Zhong became more and more gushing.

Cen Erniang and Lin only have this regard: hehe......

Mrs. Zhou's old lady Wei saw her two younger siblings talking about their proud works: vegetable garden and fish pond, and won the smiles of Cen Erniang and Lin. Unwilling to stand aside, he said to the Lin family, who looked very much like the noblewoman of the official eunuch family, that when he was building the Zhou family's mansion, he reminded the craftsmen of the feat of integrating the northern and southern architectural styles.

Since the completion of the Zhou family's mansion, there have been countless neighbors in the entire Anping Town who have come to watch the ceremony, all of whom are full of praise for the scenery in the courtyard, and the Wei family, who instructed the craftsmen to build the Zhou mansion, is naturally also praised.

When she, Zhao and Zhong took the Cen family to see the most proud works of their lives, they were quite reserved at first, because she thought that she was the sister of the county magistrate and a highly educated official lady, and she could not boast like her two ignorant village women's younger siblings.

But it was time to accompany the Cen family to take a cup of tea, and the three brothers of Master Zhou, who were leading in front, only cared about asking Cen Erye, Cen Dalang and Cen Sanlang about the situation of Hong'an Mansion and Cen Family. Especially the Lord Tuesday and Master Wednesday, who have never been out of Huaizhou Mansion, took the Cen family's father and son and Lin Siye and other dart masters to ask about the customs and customs from Hong'an Mansion to Huaizhou Mansion.

Wei Shi was not very interested in the conversation of several masters, and he couldn't interject, so he took Cen Erniang, Lin and her two younger siblings a few feet behind Cen Erniang and them, and led Cen Erniang and Lin to slowly enjoy the patchwork scenery in the courtyard. She wanted to get praise from the Lin family and Cen Erniang, who were born in the Hong'an Cen family.

Unexpectedly, Cen Erniang and Lin were too uninteresting, although they were dumbfounded when they looked at the scenery, they were very stingy with words and refused to praise her and her works. Instead, she walked with her two siblings and listened to what they said about the vegetable garden and fish pond that did not flow into the stream, and looked very interested in it.

Wei's heart is vigilant: her two cunning village women and siblings are usually faceless and skinless, and they can pull down and please people. Now the daughters of the Cen family are not close to her, the lady in charge, but they are close to them.

The benefits of the Cen family must not be more to the second or third bedroom. In this way, their big house will not be lost!

Wei, who is snobbish and regards profit as his life, can no longer hold his demeanor. When she saw that Cen Erniang was young, she didn't take her very seriously, and stepped forward to squeeze away from Zhong, who was standing on the left hand side of the Lin family, pulling her to speak, and said with a smile: "Niece and daughter-in-law, don't listen to your second aunt and third aunt, what is the meaning of the vegetable garden and the fish pond?" They don't understand what elegance is, and they spoil my yard, not to mention, and they are very smug! Now you still use those pickles to stain your ears and those of your nieces and granddaughters......"

When Zhao and Zhong heard this, they suddenly lost their smiles and glared at Wei angrily.

The impulsive Zhong directly crossed his waist with one hand, pointed at Wei's face with the other, and shouted: "Sister-in-law, what you said is too much!" What kind of waste, pickled food? I also stained my nephews and daughters-in-law's ears! Mei Niang and Er Niang obviously love to listen to us. I'm afraid that sister-in-law, when you see them close to us, you're scared, right? ”

In the stunned gaze of Lin and Cen Erniang, Zhao also stood next to Zhong to support her: "Sister-in-law, you don't have the ability to please Mei Niang and Erniang. Why are you angry with me and my third siblings? Do you think that if you belittle us, they will be able to take a fancy to you? Look at your jealous stinky face, sister-in-law, it's not disgusting! ”

"Zhao, what did you say?!" Wei was so angry by Zhao's words that her face turned red, and she boasted of being a noblewoman who knew books and etiquette. kept saying in my heart: I can't scold Zhao! You can't do it, it's insulting. His hands were clenched into fists, and he couldn't wait to rush up and tear Zhao apart.

Cen Erniang and Lin Shi didn't come forward to persuade them to fight, seeing that the three of them rolled up their sleeves and wanted to fight, they silently retreated and retreated, afraid of being hurt innocently.

Cen Erniang heard Zhong's loud voice from afar: "The second sister-in-law said that you are insidious and narrow-minded!" Hum! Sister-in-law, although you are the sister-in-law of the county magistrate, you also worked in the fields like us back then, and you haven't read any books. People who haven't even finished reading "Thousand Words", in front of Mei Niang and Erniang, what do they pretend to know? It's a joke! ”

"Cheap, people!" Wei finally couldn't bear it anymore: "Zhong's family, you rotten mouth, cheap and goods, just because you are also worthy of despising the old lady!" Believe it or not, I told Adila to play the board! ”

Zhong Shi played with his fingers and smiled: "Hehe! Sister-in-law, you really dare to say it! What do you think your brother is a prefectural magistrate? He dares to meddle in the affairs of Anping Town? My eldest brother is the head of the town office! I'm not afraid of you. Also, you say that I am a cheap person, what are you, a female cousin with a kind face and a black heart? ”

The Zhao family also helped the Zhong family to scold the angry and speechless Wei family, "Wei Lanhua, you can only fight people!" Do you think that if you have a brother in your family, there will be no one in our family? If you want to scare us with the county lord, do you think my third brother and sister and I are three-year-old children? Although Anping Town is under the jurisdiction of Qing'an County, our town does not recognize any county master, only the town office! ”

"You, you ......" Wei was so angry that the two younger siblings were so angry that smoke rose above their heads, and they almost fainted, clutching their chests, almost out of breath for a long time. But Master Zhou and the others had already gone away, and her son had returned to his courtyard to prepare gifts, and she couldn't find them if she wanted to move the rescuers.

As for Cen Erniang and Lin, they had already been scolded by the three of Wei, and they were shocked, they didn't want to get involved in the war of the three of them, so they left the water pavilion from another way and hid in the pavilion next to the fish pond surrounded by green trees, pretending to watch the scenery.

Even if you smell the smell of fishy water, it is better than being dragged into the battlefield by the three vulgar elders.