Two days later, Cheng Cheng got out the drawings for the renovation of the old mansion of the Hou Mansion, and Zhao Wei took them home, and looked at them with his grandmother Zhang and sister Zhao Xiu, discussing which one was good and which one still needed to be modified, and then calculated how much silver it would cost and where it could be allocated.

Zhao Xiu looked at the drawings, imagined it for a while, and felt that if the Hou Mansion was renovated according to the drawings, the effect would be good.

The drawings of the style program have made a lot of changes to the layout of the Hou Mansion. For example, the first entrance of the West Road was originally the courtyard of the old county prince before his death, and there was no change here, but the second guest house and the courtyard where Zhao Jiong and Zhao Jue's father and son lived in the back were all demolished, and rebuilt into a new courtyard with two entrances and a smaller one-entry triple courtyard, the former was used as the residence of the old lady Zhang, and the latter was the boudoir of the eldest girl Zhao Xiu. Behind Zhao Xiu's courtyard is a two-story building that serves as a warehouse, as well as a servant's residence.

The middle road is basically unchanged, only two corridors have been added to the middle council house, and the east road is completely torn down and rebuilt. The east road and the middle road are still separated by a sandwich road, and after turning right at the front door, a row of south houses where the people originally lived has now expanded into a narrow courtyard, which is a new guest house. Behind the courtyard is the garden, which has a separate door to enter and exit. The garden was re-arranged, and water was brought from the culvert of the moat, forming a large pond in the center of the garden, around which were built with various pavilions, rockeries and verandahs. Considering that in the future, if necessary, the Hou Mansion may have a banquet in the garden, Shi Cheng also specially designed a spacious water pavilion, and there is a stage opposite the water pavilion.

The garden is not small. Immediately after that, there was the side courtyard where the three ancestors and grandchildren of the Zhang family used to live during the wake, but now Shi Cheng has knocked down the two-story building where the items were stored behind. The land was connected and four small courtyards were designed, which were distributed in the shape of "Tian", which was probably reserved for the future when the population of the Hou Mansion increased. Behind that, there's the big kitchen.

After Zhang read the entire drawing, he didn't say anything for a long time.

Zhao Xiu understood her mood at the moment. There is nothing wrong with the design of Style Cheng, but he plans to turn the place where Zhao Jiong, Zhao Jue and his son lived into his grandmother's residence. She couldn't accept it. Zhao Xiu himself doesn't care, anyway, the house is going to be rebuilt, and the environment will definitely change a lot. People live there. Memories of the past will never be remembered.

Besides, the Niu family can renovate the main courtyard where the Zhang family has lived for more than 20 years into an unrecognizable state, can't the Zhang family occupy the land where her husband and son once lived?

Zhao Xiu persuaded Zhang's like this, and Zhang couldn't help laughing: "How can you be like this?" This kind of thing. Is it as simple as you say? ”

Zhao Xiu smiled: "Originally, it wasn't that simple. But just think about it, don't you feel more comfortable? And how much trickery they wield? In the end, we lose what we originally gained, and what we once lost, we take back again, and will hold these things in our hands in the future, but they will never have a relationship with them. ”

Zhang smiled faintly and looked at the drawings again. said to Zhao Wei: "Or...... Let me live in the plot of land on the side of East Road, right? Since it's next to the garden, I live there. When you are free, you can take a walk in the garden and feel comfortable. ”

Zhao Wei said: "Grandmother, there is water in the garden, but I am afraid that the place is wet. Have you forgotten? When you lived in a remote hospital, you said that the bones in your legs were sore. ”

Zhang was dumbfounded, looked at the drawings for a while, and then said, "Is there necessarily a pool in the garden?" Although water could be brought from the moat, it was to protect the palace, and ordinary people were not even allowed to fetch a bowl of water in the river. Although our family is not afraid, it is inevitable that it is taboo. It would be bad if someone sneaked into the Imperial City along the waterway from our garden. ”

Zhao Wei comforted her: "Grandmother, don't worry, the canal has a sluice, and the outlet is very small, and people can't swim through." I also told Shi Cheng that it is not necessary to bring living water into the garden, and there was also a pond in the garden in the past, which was stagnant water. It's just that it's troublesome to change the water, and if you don't change the water, it will stink after a long time. Shi Cheng said that stagnant water is easy to attract mosquitoes, and people are still prone to illness after living on the side for a long time. ”

Zhang still shook his head: "That's it, I don't have to take this risk." There may be no water in the garden, and there is a lot less scenery, but the style is hilly and gorgeous, and the garden built will be better than the original. The stage is very good, the verandah is also good, and there are many rockeries piled up of lake stones in the original garden, which makes him want to go again. If you can not attract living water, you will not attract living water. After a pause, "If there is no water, the courtyard behind me will not be damp, and I must still be able to live there?" ”

Zhao Xiu and Zhao Wei glanced at each other, and Zhengse said to her: "Grandmother, it doesn't matter if there is a pool in the garden or not, you can live wherever you like, but if you keep tabooing that land, it won't do you any good." You see, according to the drawings, I still live there. Could it be that you have lived elsewhere in the future, and you don't want to go there to touch the scene, and you won't even come to my yard? ”

Zhang was silent, and sighed after a while: "Okay, where to live is not to live?" Horizontal and vertical is a renovation and reconstruction, so it must have changed a lot, right? It doesn't make a difference where you live. ”

Zhao Wei smiled and said: "Don't say that, it's better to think about it, according to the drawings drawn by the style program, the place where you will live in the future is next to your grandfather's old residence, you can go to see when you want, you can go to see when you want, and even move over to live for two days when you have nothing to do, it's also very convenient, isn't that good?" ”

Zhang Shi laughed when he heard this: "That's right, it's okay to live, but if you can go there often, it's good." The mood suddenly improved, and he asked again: "Have you asked the Ministry of Internal Affairs?" Where do we store all the things we used to have? You've got to get it back. ”

Zhao Wei hurriedly said: "This matter is strange to say. I asked Na Langzhong, and he went back to check the account books, and told me that when he searched the Hou Mansion that day, he did collect a lot of furniture and furnishings, and when the national mourning passed, he could immediately have people send things to our family. It's just one thing, the yard where my grandfather lived that day was sealed with a big iron lock, and the furniture in the main house was not left, and the house was empty, and I don't know what was going on. asked the people in the house, and said that the things had been removed a long time ago, and only the things in the wing room and the inverted seat room were still there. Therefore if our family wants. He could only bring back the things in the wing room and the upside-down room, but he couldn't do anything about the objects in the main room. ”

Zhao Xiu was surprised: "This is strange." Could it be that the Niu family did it? But what did they do with the things in their grandfather's house? ”

Zhang frowned: "When we left the Hou Mansion, I went to the courtyard once, although I only stood at the gate of the courtyard and glanced inside, but I remember that the furniture in the main house is still there, and it is still the same as when your grandfather was alive." ”

Zhao Xiu's heart moved: "So...... My grandfather died in that house, right? ”

Zhang paused: "No, Zhao Jiong and Niu sued me." Your grandfather fainted in the main courtyard and died in the main courtyard. ”

Zhao Xiu muttered in a low voice: "Then their hearts are really big enough, and my grandfather died in the main courtyard." They can wait to move into the main courtyard when his bones are still cold, and drive you and our family to live in the side courtyard, and they are not afraid that their grandfather will not spare them in the spirit of heaven. ”

Zhao Wei blinked: "So." Grandfather would be angry. turned Zhao Jiong upside down from the horse and fell into paralysis. ”

The brother and sister looked at each other and smiled secretly.

Zhang always felt a little uneasy in her heart, ten years later, she had never doubted the words of Zhao Jiong and his wife, but if she thought about it carefully, if the Niu family renovated the main courtyard beyond recognition, it was to erase the traces of her stepmother-in-law's life. The West Courtyard has nothing to do with his husband and wife, why did they have to move all the things in the main house? It was the former residence of the old county prince. It's not the main courtyard where the family lives, so it should be maintained as it was. Even if someone wants to move in, they should not remove the contents of the main house. Those are all relics of the old county prince, and they can't be discarded lightly.

Zhang thought to herself, maybe she should find a time, summon the old servants of the Hou Mansion to ask one by one, and then ask Wang Fulai to write back to his hometown to ask him Lao Tzu Wang Siping, to find out what happened in the west courtyard back then, and what happened when the old county prince died in the main courtyard.

The drawings were sent back to the style Cheng to redraw, but Zhang was now thinking about the events of the year, and he couldn't care about anything else for a while, but he no longer resisted the backyard of West Road as he did before. Zhao Xiu began to look through the ledger and plan to calculate how much money this renovation project would cost. The drawings produced by the style are much larger than she originally expected, and the amount of silver spent is more, and if you calculate carefully, I am afraid that 20,000 taels of silver may not be enough, and it depends on what the drawings of the garden will look like in the end.

When Zhang saw it, he felt a little painful, and hurriedly said: "If there is no pond in the horizontal garden, don't those pavilions need so much?" Then the garden can also be repaired smaller, save more space to come out, and repair more yards, right? ”

Zhao Xiu and Zhao Wei did not object, and wrote down her opinions, and then Zhao Wei handed the drawings back to the style Cheng and said everything that needed to be modified.

Two days later, the style Cheng sent new drawings over. This time, he made a lot of modifications, and changed the design of the courtyard built by the Zhang family and the courtyard of Zhao Xiu at the back, turning it into a large courtyard with three entrances, and a small garden was added to it, which could allow the Zhang family to relax in his spare time. In addition, the East Road Garden canceled the pool, and changed it to a rockery as a flowing water mechanism, and the area was reduced by a quarter, and an independent courtyard was built in the extra place, which was to transfer Zhao Xiu's boudoir. The four small courtyards at the back remain unchanged.

Zhao Wei said: "I told Cheng that my grandmother likes the garden scenery, but unfortunately there is water in the garden, I am afraid of rheumatism, so I don't want him to add a small garden to my grandmother's yard, and you can enjoy the scenery when you go out, which is also troublesome." In the future, there will be water in the garden, not from the outside, but with the use of mechanisms to make the water flow, in fact, every other month, the water will have to be changed. I told him that he didn't have to make a pool, but he insisted that there would be no garden without water. I saw that he was quite clever, so I went with him. ”

Zhang is quite satisfied with the new drawings, seeing that the yard where she will live in the future has been renovated like this, compared with the original, the difference is big, presumably living there, and she will not remember the unpleasant memories of the past, but she has some opinions about Zhao Xiu living so far away from her: "It's so far away, there are no people on East Road on weekdays, Sister Xiu lives there alone, I don't worry." ”

Zhao Xiu smiled: "I won't live alone, there are a lot of girls and mothers-in-law, and my brother lives in the main courtyard, and it is convenient to go back and forth with me across the aisle." I think it's good to live there, and the garden is just a wall away, so I just go to play when I am free on weekdays. ”

Zhang frowned for a while, but he couldn't resist his granddaughter's intentions, but he still agreed.

According to the revised plan, the cost of renovation was a large amount less, but more money was spent on the flowers and trees. However, there are a lot of fields under the name of Jiannan Houfu, and there are also Zhuangzi who specialize in planting various flowers and trees, which saves a lot of money. Zhao Xiu recalculated and found that as long as more than 18,000 taels of silver, he could renovate the old house. When the furniture and furnishings confiscated in the old year were brought back from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and where there was something missing, it would not cost a few thousand taels too much, which was exactly within the budget of 20,000 taels, and he was immediately relieved.

The three of them were all happy, and Zhao Wei immediately got up to ask someone to return the drawings to Shi Cheng, and ordered him to find craftsmen and buy civil engineering materials. At this time, the mother-in-law came to report, and Zhao Yan came.

Zhao Yan took back Aunt Xiaoqian, and asked a doctor for her to take medicine, and saw that her body had improved a little, and her complexion was much better than when she first came back, so she was relieved. The silver he used to redeem his biological mother was given by the Zhang family, and he himself had some small selfishness, so he came to kowtow today to thank him. (To be continued......)