It is now the twentieth day of the first month, and according to the practice of the Hou Mansion, after the fifteenth day of the first month, preparations for the affairs of the new year must begin. Of course, when everything is ready, it will be the end of the month. When they are thirty and they are paid, they can take back the hearts of the people.

The same is true for clan studies, the young master of the house and the children of the clan are now on vacation, and it is said that classes will not start until the twenty-third.

Therefore, Sun Dan still had three days to adapt to the life of the Hou Mansion.

Actually, he didn't have much to adapt to.

His current identity is a little vague, saying that he is a son of the Sun family, but he has to wait until the two patriarchs of Sun Songnian and Sun Henian in the capital check the family tree and nod before he can write the three generations of Sun Dan's ancestors into the family, so he still has to do heavy work in the house to make a living. Let's say that he is a subordinate, he can't write two Sun characters in one stroke, and it's not easy to send him to do too tiring work.

Sun Dan stayed in Sun's house without embarrassment, as if he had been forgotten by people.

In fact, Sun Dan is now just a hired employee of the Hou Mansion. Sun Fu sent someone to lead him to a small courtyard in the outer house, and threw him inside, leaving him alone, and there was no explanation.

The yard is not large, only eighty or ninety square meters, it is a small courtyard house, with three huts, and a large pile of flower manure in the yard, as well as a few hoes and forks, and a row of pruned grape branches and rose branches.

One of the three huts was for tools and planting, one belonged to Sun Dan, and the other lived an old gardener named Mendun.

The old gardener was so old that his back was rickety, his face was full of wrinkles, his front teeth were lost, and he spoke because he didn't care about the wind, and he spoke Sichuan, which made people listen to the clouds.

Sun Dan and Lian Bi talked for a long time before they figured out that the original name of this old man called Mendun was Stuffy, and he was a slave bought by Sun Zhunian, the third master of the Hou Mansion, when he was an official in Sichuan. Now Sun Zhunian has been dead for many years, and the gate pier is too old for anyone to care about, so he was assigned here to work as a florist.

Doordun is a man of few words, he can't kick a few farts, he only knows to carry a small gourd to drink stuffy wine all day long, and his body always exudes a strong smell of alcohol and body odor.

However, the old man is not bad. Seeing that Sun Dan's eyes were black when he first entered the house, he didn't talk nonsense, and took the initiative to help Sun Dan bring a new quilt and a whole set of new clothes, and pointed to an empty room and said, "Your room." Then without waiting for Sun Dan to say the word thank you, he shook his already slightly drunk body and went back to his room.

It is also pure to live with such a person, but in three days you will have to go to the school, and you need to find a clean place to study, and if you are wrapped up in the same large group, you will not be able to study at all. It seems that the two managers are really careful.

Speaking of being a gardener, Sun Dan has little experience. In the previous life, the county government had two flower workers who were holding a large pair of scissors and cutting arrows around the holly trees and June snow all day long, because they were not paying attention and did not know how they were tinkering.

Fortunately, there is an old man at the gate, which will not make Sun Dan become an idle waste.

It's early spring, it's freezing cold, and there's not much to do. The really busy time should be in March, when the spring buds have budded, the flowers in the garden have to be sown, the grapes have to be cutting, and the drains have to be dredged. As for now, Sun Dan and Mendun's main job is to use big scissors to cut off the plum blossoms one by one, and then divide them into several parts, and send them to the ladies in each room respectively, so that they can play with them.

There is a large plum orchard in Houfu, in which hundreds of plum trees are planted, which are so fragrant that people are dizzy. The name of the garden is also good, it is called "Yizhi Garden". Taken from the Song Dynasty Lu Kai's poem "Gift to Fan Ye": "Fold plum and send it to Longtou people." Jiangnan has nothing, talk about giving a spring. ”

This garden is the residence of Mrs. Zhong of the third room of the Hou Mansion, Sun Zhunian died early, and she is such a widow living in the garden. Probably feeling too lonely, Zhong Fu took her niece Jiang Ruoying from Suzhou to Shandong.

Because of her status as a surviving person, Mrs. Zhong does not see guests on weekdays. Every time Sun Dan and Mendun went to cut plum blossoms, they were led by an ugly and stupid little girl who spoke loudly and martially, finished their work under her supervision, and then was impatiently sent away.

This little girl's name seems to be called Fu Rui, and her name is elegant, but as soon as she saw her ugly face and unceremonious face, Sun Dan lost his appetite, and he was really blind to this good name.

I heard that Mrs. Zhong and her niece Jiang Ruoying are both famous beauties, but looking at Fu Hui's appearance, Sun Dan was very disapproving. Since the owner's aesthetic taste is so inferior, it can be seen that there is no place for beauty.

In this way, after working for two days, seeing that it was about to be the day when the family school started, Sun Dan suddenly felt a trace of nervousness, and in a trance, it was like returning to the days when he had just arrived at the university to register.

It feels weird!

Because the door pier is old, his strength is not strong, and he is drunk all day long, Sun Dan is embarrassed to let him climb the tree, every time it is time to cut plum branches, he always jumps to the ladder first, and said loudly: "Old door, let the young man do this, if you fall, it is not up to me to serve you, it is too troublesome." ”

Mendun took a sip of wine: "Sun Dan, you are really good at talking, okay, I won't trouble you, but don't complain when you're tired." ”

"Old man, can't you drink less nine?" Sun Dan kindly reminded him: "If you drink too much wine, it hurts your body, Li Bai is good enough, 'Five-flowered horse, Qianjin Qiu, Hu'er will exchange for fine wine', it looks like he is very bold, and finally he drank his brain confused, and he wanted to go into the water to catch the moon, and finally drowned." ”

Mendun opened his mouth to show a mouthful of rotten teeth, and said: "This surnamed Li is really indiscriminate, and his family doesn't care." ”

"I can't take care of it, I'm all alcoholic, and I'm panicking if I don't drink a meal." Learning Sichuan dialect, Sun Dan joked with the old man: "Speaking of fishing for the moon, I still remember a story of a monkey fishing for the moon." Old door, do you want to hear it? ”

Men Dun nodded: "Idle is also idle, just listen to you swing the dragon gate array." ”

After he listened to the story of the monkey fishing for the moon told by Sun Dan, the door pier smiled, "This story is good, much better than the storyteller." ”

Sun Dan's heart moved, and he said secretly: If you don't have anything to eat in the future, maybe you can go to tell a story. The first few **** still wanted to be a duck herd, but they were really confused.

At this moment, there was a "flutter!" from the room. A coquettish laugh, and a crisp female voice sounded: "Auntie, this little gardener is really interesting, he actually knows Li Taibai's poems, and devalues Li Bai to the point that he is not even as good as a monkey." However, his story is well told. ”

Another slightly older female voice said softly: "Ruoying, the Marquis of Huichang is a century-old famous family, an ordinary domestic servant, what's strange about knowing a few lines of poetry." It's you, who grew up in Suzhou since childhood, and no one disciplined you, and after coming to Shandong, you really have to take care of your temperament. ”

Hearing these two beautiful female voices, Sun Dan was in good spirits. If you guessed correctly, the older one should be Mrs. Zhong in the third room of the Sun family, and the other one is her niece Jiang Ruoying.

"Auntie, what's wrong, what's wrong with my temperament. What kind of famous family do you say, I think Sun Hao in the Sun family's big house is a straw bag at all. Sun Gui in the second room is obscene and cowardly, and when he sees it, it makes people feel annoyed. As for Sun Yue, his eyes are higher than the top, and he may not have real talent and learning. The little girl was scolded by her aunt and was very dissatisfied.

"Okay, okay, who are the nephews of the Sun family, don't you know? Tomorrow you are going to study in the clan school, you are wild, don't make any trouble. Zhong Fu said softly.

"What can you do, huh!"

When Sun Dan heard that the woman named Jiang Ruoying in the room would be his future classmate, he was curious, and couldn't help but look up at the room.

Of course, there was a thick blue curtain hanging at the door of Mrs. Zhong's room, and she couldn't see anything.

But his head annoyed Fleur, who was overseeing the work next to him.

Fleur scolded: "What to look at, leave when you finish your work." ”

The door pier hurriedly said: "Let's go, let's go." ”

Fu Hui didn't give up: "Door pier, you are also an old man who went out in the third room, I know that Mrs. likes to be clean, why do you still get a dirty person to come in and talk nonsense, what monkeys, what moons, what rules." ”

Sun Dan was annoyed in his heart, and was about to speak, when the door curtain suddenly flickered, and a little beauty with a round face ran out and said with a smile: "Although it is full of nonsense, it is interesting, Furui, don't embarrass him." ”

This little beauty is not very old, her facial features are delicate and small, her skin is white and red, and she is simply a porcelain doll when she stands in the snow-white plum blossom bushes, so cute that people can't help but want to pinch her round face.

The little beauty Jiang Ruoying ran to Sun Dan, looked up and down a few times, and suddenly laughed: "I'm in a bad mood these days, and I'm happy when I tell the story of your little guy." Say, what reward do you want? ”

Sun Danben was a little unable to open his eyes by the bright spring of this little beauty, but when he heard her say this, he was a little unhappy in his heart. Although Sun Dan works as a florist in the Hou Mansion, in his opinion, it is just a work-study. Being treated as a slave in vain made him a little annoyed.

He arched his hand: "In Xia Sun Dan, it is my honor to make Miss Jiang smile, so I will leave." ”

"Ah, you are a child of the Sun family!" Jiang Ruoying was a little embarrassed. Treating the children of the Sun family as slaves, if it is passed on, it will really make people laugh!

"It is the descendants of the descendants who succeed the sect." Sun smiled faintly, arched his hand and walked away.

Jiang Ruoying was among the flowers, biting her lower lip lightly, and laughed for a long time: "This person has a bit of a temper, and he is more annoying than me." ”

"You know you're getting annoying." Madame Chung's laughter could be heard in the room.

"Auntie, I hate it!"