After seeing Fan Zhenbang, who had re-boarded the carriage, leave, Lin said to Lin Xiaoman: "Let's go!" After that, you will live here. Lin Xiaoman followed her finger and looked.

I saw a courtyard of blue bricks and red tiles standing on the side of the street, and the door of the house was facing the street. Lin stepped forward and knocked on the door, and saw the black door creak open, and an old man in his fifties stood behind the door with his waist bowed.

"Madame, Mademoiselle, you are back!"

Lin said to Lin Xiaoman: "This is Uncle Fan. ”

"Uncle Fan!" Lin Xiaoman shouted.

Uncle Fan saw that it was brought back by Mrs. herself, and he had a plan in his heart, this should be someone brought by Mrs. Fan's mother's family. How dare he hold it up, and even say that he doesn't dare.

Lin didn't pay much attention, Lin Xiaoman followed her in. As soon as you enter, you can see some trees and flowers planted in the middle of the courtyard. On both sides are side houses, and in the middle should be the main house.

This small courtyard feels like the kind of small courtyard house in old Beijing, although it is complete, it seems very narrow, but compared to the thatched house of Lin Xiaoman's family, it is more than a hundred times stronger.

"Haven't the eldest young master and the second young master finished class yet?" Lin Shi went directly into the main room, and after sitting down, he poured tea casually and asked. Although her husband runs a grocery store, there are only two old servants in the family, who are the sons of the Fan family. One is Uncle Fan, and the other is Aunt Wu. Uncle Fan is in charge of guarding the door and doing some rough work such as chopping wood. Aunt Wu cleans the courtyard, the house and cooks.

Therefore, there are some things that still need to be done by Lin, the housewife.

Hearing his wife's question, Uncle Fan lowered his head and didn't dare to raise it. Just when I didn't know how to answer, I saw the chubby Aunt Wu running over panting and asking Mrs. for peace first. Then I praised Miss for becoming beautiful again, and wanted to take the topic away.

When Lin saw her like this, he didn't know that the two little monkey cubs had skipped class again. angrily slammed the water cup in his hand on the table, only to make Aunt Wu feel distressed. You must know that this set of tea sets from Ru kiln is the best set of the Fan family today, and it is usually used to entertain guests.

Seeing her distressed face, Lin still didn't know her careful thoughts. has become even more angry, since the death of his father-in-law and mother-in-law, this old man only regards Zijun and Ziqing as masters, and does not take her as a housewife in his eyes at all.

Every time she reprimanded her son, the Wu family was like an old hen protecting her. Now neither of the two sons is close to her, she is afraid that her daughter will also get close to this old man and be taken crookedly. So, take my daughter with me wherever I go.

This time, I agreed to take care of Sister Chen's Xiaoman, in fact, a large part of the reason is to find a companion for my daughter. In case this old guy says something in front of Zixia, she can also know a thing or two.

Another reason, she really doesn't have much time to take Zixia, although the grocery store is not big, but things are too trivial. When the husband goes to buy goods, there is always someone to take care of him. Invite a shopkeeper to come, one cost is too high, and the other is afraid that people will have two hearts, so it is not as good as doing it yourself.

"Uncle Fan, you go and get the eldest young master and the second young master back for me. If you don't come back before dinner, tell them and dinner will be saved! Lin tried his best to suppress his anger and said to Uncle Fan.

Uncle Fan listened, agreed repeatedly, and withdrew.

Only Aunt Wu stood there with an embarrassed face, but Lin pretended not to see it. just told his daughter to go back to the room first, and then looked at Lin Xiaoman, feeling irritable for a while, thinking about where it would be better for her to live.

Originally, she planned to let Lin Xiaoman share a room with Zixia, but looking at Zixia's table just now, it was estimated that it would be difficult. I can't live in the main house for her, and Zijun and Ziqing live in the east wing, which is not convenient.

She glanced at Aunt Wu, who was still standing still, the place where this old man lived was an inverted room, and there happened to be a small room next to it, and the adults lived too narrowly, and it was almost suitable for a child as big as Lin Xiaoman to live.

"Aunt Wu, this is the child of a relative of my mother's family. After staying at our house for a few days, you take her to the room next to you and help her tidy up. Lin said without raising his eyelids.

Aunt Wu listened, and the corners of her mouth twitched. This Lin clan knew that the place was very small, not much bigger than the corridor. actually asked her to take someone to clean up, and most of the things in that place belonged to hers. Although some things were old, she was reluctant to throw them away, so she piled them up there, piling up more and more.

Now that we have to tidy up the room, we have to move all the things out, and then those things will have to be put back in our own rooms.

But looking at Madame's expression on her black face now, I also know that she helped the eldest young master and the second young master to make Madame unhappy. didn't dare to say anything more, so he stepped forward and went down with Lin Xiaoman.

As soon as she got out of the house, Aunt Wu pulled down her face, and her originally chubby round cake face suddenly turned into a winter melon shape.

"What's your name? Who is Madame's family? She asked politely.

Lin Xiaoman smiled and didn't answer her question, but said, "Aunt Wu, where is that house?" My aunt said that Uncle Fan was going to come back for dinner! If you don't hurry, I'm afraid you won't have time to make dinner! ”

Aunt Wu slapped her thigh, why did she forget this stubble? Madame is back, and the lord is definitely not eating with the guys in the store, but coming back to eat.

She didn't care about Lin Xiaoman's short legs, so she trotted to the one on the edge of the upside-down rooms next to the door, took out the key hidden in her waist, and found one to open the door.

Because the doors and windows of this inverted room are facing north, the lighting is not good at all. In addition, this room has been unoccupied, so as soon as it was opened, a damp and moldy smell came out.

Aunt Wu went in and moved some of her own things, all the things she had, to her own room next door. Then he took out a basin and a rag from the kitchen and stuffed them directly into Lin Xiaoman's hand.

"There was a water tank at the back of the kitchen, and I went to bring water to scrub it. Anyway, if you can't wipe it clean, you can sleep like this at night. After speaking, it didn't matter whether Lin Xiaoman was stable or not, he ran to the kitchen to prepare dinner.

Lin Xiaoman secretly sighed, looked at the small room, after being taken away by Aunt Wu, it was actually spacious enough for her, a child. But the damp and musty smell was still lingering on the tip of her nose, and she pushed open the half of the window of the room, and then opened the door of the room to ventilate.

Because of the small size of the person, she took the wooden basin and brought only a little water, and then wiped it carefully.

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