Qingyi Building is not an isolated building, the building is surrounded by a wall, and inside the wall is divided into small kitchens, Xiaoice cellars and baths. There are a few cannas planted in the courtyard, with grape trellises and stone tables and benches under the shelves. As soon as the main courtyard gate opens, there is the sparkling Four Seasons Pond opposite, and the full moon door opening on the back wall leads directly to the fragrant flower room.

The building is three-storey, with up to eight rooms on each floor. Zong Zhengke took Xu and Mingyue Mingxin to live on the second floor, and the first floor was divided by the rest of the slaves. The third floor is a storeroom except for a small room.

The room on the third floor was specially divided into a Buddhist hall to house Master Yuanzhen from the Buddha Kingdom of the East China Sea. Originally, according to the meaning of Zongzheng, it was best to choose a quiet and spacious residence at home to worship the Buddha. But his kindness was politely rejected by Master Yuanzhen, and he insisted on cultivating with Zong Zhengke.

The second floor is the girl's living quarter, so there are not too many small rooms. After coming up the stairs on the east side, there is Mingyue Mingxin's shared room and Xu's single room, and the rest of the site is directly a large open room-

Among them is the living room for entertainers; The area of the east room is more than twice that of the west room, in addition to the bedroom, it is also deliberately separated by a large screen of eight Bogutu Huanghuali on the ground, and a warm pavilion is built in the room next to Xu's to prepare for the cat's winter; At the end of the west room is the study.

Xu took Mingyue Mingxin, and then commanded the servants and little girls, and worked for a long time to clean up the entire Qingyi Building. Now that the Xu family is in charge of the aunt, Mingyue and Mingxin are naturally first-class girls, and there are a total of six second-class and third-class girls, which are temporarily vacant. Xu's meaning is to investigate and inspect those little girls first, temporarily mix and call, and then select the best to promote.

In addition to these big and small maids who serve the girls, Qingyi Lou also has two servant women who are responsible for sprinkling and sweeping upstairs, a cook, and two mothers-in-law who sweep and guard the door in the courtyard. All of them were bought by Zong Zheng Zheng in the hands of Ren Yazi under the orders of Man Tangzheng, and the deeds of sale were handed over to Zong Zhengke.

Zong Zhengke is not bad for money, nor is he stingy, the first time the slaves and maids kowtowed to her to recognize the master, she rewarded her generously. She did it with a red face, and the black face was naturally played by the Xu family. After a few days of moving into Qingyi Building, the Xu family disciplined these new slaves and maids in a proper manner, which greatly disappointed some people who wanted to see jokes.

As for loyalty, Zong Zhengke knew that it was not something that could really be obtained with money or power. After a long time, if the slaves and maids are dedicated to her, she will naturally not be treated badly. If she betrays her master, her methods will make that person's life worse than death.

Mingyue Mingxin was already at the gate of the courtyard, and when she saw Zong Zhengke coming back from Helu Tongchun Hall, she went out and hugged her back to the courtyard and went up to the second floor. In the east room, the hot water handkerchief refreshments have already been prepared, the temperature of the tea is just right, and the snacks are not cold or hot.

Mingyue was chattering and telling little jokes, while quickly helping the Xu family to serve Zong Zhengke to change his clothes and comb his hair. As for Mingxin, Xu had already seen that although the girl still named her a first-class girl, she was actually not as trusting and relying on as before. Mingxin himself also knows the color of his eyes, only does his job well, and does not step forward lightly. As long as the girl didn't call her, she stood quietly and waited, not much to say or do.

Xu was a little worried, originally looking at Mingxin as useful, but now he seemed to be disgusted by the girl. Mingyue is meticulous in her work, but her heart is pure and childish, and she is afraid that some things will not help the girl. There are a few good seedlings among the new little girls, but unfortunately they are still young, and it is almost the same to be the next first-class girl.

After pondering like this, seeing that Zong Zhengke had changed into a half-worn lotus-colored homely dress, and was reading a book on the Nanmu carved coral screen couch next to the south window, Xu stepped forward and asked with a smile: "Girl, do you want to pick two more older girls and put them in front of you to try to call?" ”

Mingxin, who was holding a tea set in one hand and pulling a curtain in the other, happened to hear this, and his steps were slightly sluggish, but he still left silently. She knew that it would not take a day or two to regain the girl's trust. And the girl didn't take her away seriously, and was willing to give her a chance, she was already grateful, and didn't dare to have any comment on the girl's decision.

Zong Zhengke glanced at Mingxin's thin but still straight back, and sighed secretly. She knew what the Xu family meant, where was she going to choose someone from the little girl, and she wanted to buy two more people of the right age from the outside to come in for training.

can make Xu's peace of mind, and it is okay to fulfill her wishes. Zong Zhengke pondered for a moment and then said, "After a while, you will see that you will send away the two who are not doing well, and then ask your grandfather to buy two older ones to come in." ”

Xu nodded in response. Zong Zhengke read the book for a while, and then it was time to worship the Buddha. She changed into her old gray clothes and knelt on the futon in front of the Buddha statue, clasped her hands together and muttered scriptures. Mingyue Mingxin also changed her clothes, Mingyue knocked on the wooden fish with a heartbeat, Mingxin slowly picked up the Buddha beans and accompanied her to worship the Buddha.

This dragon whale sandalwood pot-bellied Maitreya Buddha statue is only a foot high is given by the Pudu monk, Zong Zhengke has been collecting it for a long time, and it is not until now that he has settled down and put it out to pay respect. The Buddha statue is placed in the center on the incense table with an ebony edge and a pear heart, and there is a delicate gilded lotus-patterned copper furnace the size of a bowl on the east and west sides, and the furnace has been lit with dragon whale sandalwood. And this incense case is next to the six pillars of Zongzheng Ke's sleep, and the head is constantly carved with beasts and flowers.

In the evening, which was so calm and waveless, there was nothing else to do except for a little girl who came over to the middle of the Helu Tongchun Hall to spread the word. The little girl threw down a sentence and ran away, not even daring to accept Xu's tip.

After Zong Zhengke finished dinner, Xu complained: "I really haven't seen such a grandmother, and I actually let a little girl who didn't keep her head to pass the word." What do you say, since the eldest princess of Qinghe has such blue eyes for you, you have to spend more energy and effort to prepare for the birthday gift, and you must not lose the dignity of the Zongzheng family. ”

In fact, this is still Xu's own remarks, and the little girl only said that the girl prepares her own birthday gift, and she must not lose her decency. Zong Zhengke didn't care, he just smiled when he heard the words, and said to the Xu family: "At that time, I will send two Buddhist scriptures to keep the eldest princess happy." ”

It's really a benefit and no expense. But if this sutra comes from the hands of the Venerable Buddha of the East China Sea, then it is a good treasure that money can't buy. What is rare is that special significance, the eldest princess must be happy to pay such respect to the Buddhist family.

But Xu wanted to speak and stopped, although it is good to send Buddhist scriptures, but how can she show the girl's own ability? Women's four virtues, virtue and words. This last female red, should the girl also pick it up again as soon as possible?

Not to mention anything else, the girl will be married in two years, and it is not too early to start seeing each other's relatives now. Wedding dresses, clothes, shoes and hats to honor the in-laws and grandparents, can you not make your own? Now I pick up the female worker, and when I am proficient, I will be able to make those things in the future. Even if you get married in the future, it is also affectionate to do some embroidery work for your future uncle.

Xu didn't know what his girl had about the future, and he felt that she was going to marry after all, so he still persuaded: "It's natural that this is appropriate, but girl, are you going to copy a Buddhist scripture yourself, and then let the girl or the embroiderer outside embroider it on the kang screen or some other embroidery work, which is more solemn?" "One step at a time.

Zong Zhengke saw that Xu's face was full of hope, knowing that she was bent on planning for her future, and he couldn't bear to brush her mind, so he had no choice but to nod: "Since you want to be solemn, then tomorrow you prepare the silk thread, and I will personally embroider a kang screen." ”

"Good, good!" Xu smiled happily and said busily, "It just so happened that the old lady sent a few exquisite ornaments last time, including a small kang screen with Huanghuali, engraved with bats, sika deer and birthday star, which is just a good color for Fu, Lu and Shou three stars!" She thought that the girl's embroidery work was poor, and the embroidery words would not be out of shape and difficult to see, but she would help to draw a few stitches.

"Auntie is in charge." Zong Zheng Ke Er, she never cared about such trivial things.

Xu Shi responded repeatedly, and asked someone to bring hot water to serve Zong Zhengke to wash, and then took the girls out of the big suite, and went back to his room to rest without mentioning it. This is Zong Zhengke's rule, she never wants people to serve at night.

Not in a hurry to sleep, Zong Zhengke came out of the east room to the study room in the west room, slowly sharpened the ink, spread out the paper and wrote large characters. In the past few days, she has moved and settled, and she has not been able to pay attention to the things outside. After all, she had to ask about the situation outside. Yuan Zhen secretly searched for the whereabouts of the king of Yuyan for her, and I don't know if there is any good news.

No, Yuan Zhen didn't wait, Zong Zhengke waited for her, and she wondered why the little monkey son had not been seen for a long time. With a slight chirping sound, a large hole was poked out of the window paper of the east window, and the snow-white haired elf shot in, cheering and jumping into Zong Zhengke's arms.

Zong Zhengke tied one arm, the brush and ink on his hand were dripping, and he couldn't coax it to cry and laugh: "Little girl, you come down first, be careful to get your ink." ”

Changshou'er scratched Zong Zhengke's neck with her claws, and obediently jumped onto the large black lacquered nanmu case where she was writing. Although the little guy avoided the pen wash of the purple bamboo carving group of baby play lanterns, and also let the brass beam water injection containing a small half pot of water, in the end, he still knocked down the purple bamboo entwined lotus pen holder hanging with several large and small wolf Hao Zihao, kicked the white jade lion paperweight, and stepped into the toad-shaped mud inkstone of the three friends of the carved year.

If it weren't for Zong Zhengke's quick eye to catch Changshou'er, the red sandalwood grass warm inkstone box placed at the other end of the rice paper, the Ganoderma lucidum-shaped silver water bowl with a rosewood base, the bamboo silver spoon and the maple leaf-shaped sweet white porcelain pen licking, I am afraid they would all have to suffer.

Smiling and shaking his head, Zong Zhengke took out a handkerchief to wipe the ink on Changshou'er's feet, and then pointed to the chair on the ground. Changshou'er squeaked and jumped into the chair, curiously pulling the plain satin chair with her paws. When it couldn't settle down, it jumped to the ground again, curiously sniffing the smoke rising from the gilded bronze open incense burner in the corner of the wall.