Cao Yun and his entourage came by boat, but they changed boats once when the Yellow River turned to the Wei River, from a large passenger ship of 100 stones to a medium-sized passenger boat of 500 stones, and after arriving at the Weihe Wharf in Jingzhao Mansion, they were transferred to a carriage and entered the city, and the various suitcases and cages carried later were handed over to Zhang Ying and others to carry.

Afterwards, Li Yanqing learned that Zhang Ying rented fifty donkey carts to load her luggage, not including Cao Yun's precious books, and her nearly 20,000 books were ready to be packed and transported to Jingzhao by delivery shop.

"Husband, Jingzhao is not bad, it doesn't feel much worse than the capital?" Cao Yun looked at the street scene with great interest all the way, obviously in her heart, Jingzhao Mansion should be a backward small county town.

Li Yanqing rode a horse and followed the carriage, and said with a slight smile: "This is still when Jingzhao is down, if you see Jingzhao Mansion in the Tang Dynasty, then you should be amazed." ”

Cao Yun pouted, "Isn't it Chang'an?" You and I have never seen the layout of Chang'an City! ”

"The lady even has this kind of picture scroll?"

"I don't have it, but I've seen it from my grandfather, and it was also a foreign object that was transferred from the court to the people at the end of the Tang Dynasty, and it was preserved for one or two hundred years, and my grandfather spent 5,000 yuan to buy it."

Li Yanqing nodded, "How is the old man's health?" ”

"It's not bad, this year's heartache has not been committed, Imperial Doctor Zhao said, can only recuperate, not strenuous activities, by the way, when we set off, he and uncle and father also took a boat to Hangzhou."

Li Yanqing knew that the old man must have gone to see the land in Phoenix Mountain, which had been bought by the Cao family at a high price at the beginning of the year, covering an area of about 3,000 acres, including the entire Phoenix Mountain.

Buying that piece of land is not to make money, but a political investment, once the Great Song Dynasty really moved the capital to Hangzhou, that piece of land should be where the palace is located, and the old man who has not left the capital for more than ten years also went south by boat, which shows the importance of this investment.

"Husband, do the two countries really want to fight?" Cao Yun asked worriedly.

"There should be no fight this year, there will definitely be contradictions, but it will be difficult to say in the next two years."

Li Yanqing knew that the fuse of the Song-Jin War would break out in the Pingzhou Zhang Jue incident in the next two months, of course, when the Jin State would attack the Song State, the key was to see the progress of the war between the Western Xia and the Jin State.

In this regard, Li Yanqing's intelligence is very keen, after the beginning of spring, Wanyan Zongwang and Wanyan Zonghan each led 50,000 troops to attack Yunzhou, it depends on whether the Western Xia army can hold on, if it can't hold on, the Western Xia is likely to surrender to the Jin State and become a vassal of the Jin State, and then the Jin State will turn around and attack the Song Dynasty.

For this reason, Li Yanqing wrote to the imperial court in March, hoping that the imperial court would realize the seriousness of the problem and put pressure on the Jin state from the east to relieve the pressure on the Western Xia, but his proposal was rejected by Cai Jing and Wang Hao in a rare unanimous veto, and the imperial court must not destroy the alliance between the Song and Jin countries.

Even if the privy envoy Gao Yu, who had just entered the prime minister, had the intention to help Li Yanqing and send the scroll directly into the palace, but there was still no effect, and the opinion of Zhao Ji, the son of Song Tianzi, was completely consistent with Wang Hao, to protect the hard-won peace, and must not break the covenant and provoke a war between Song and Jin.

This result made Li Yanqing quite regretful, seeing that he couldn't help Xixia, he could only hope that Xixia could play extraordinarily and withstand Jin Guo's sharp attack.

"Furou, will the war affect Jingzhao?" This is Guo Sisi's worry, she now has a daughter, and she is also concerned about national affairs, intentionally or unintentionally.

"Jingzhao will be fine for the time being, as long as they hold Tongguan and Pujin Pass, they can't attack it, but Taiyuan is very dangerous."

"What about the Daimyo's Mansion?" Hu Qing'er, who had not spoken, couldn't help but ask.

Li Yanqing hurriedly interrupted their questions, "The war is just my guess, I don't know if there is one, the three of you are worried about the sky." ”

As he spoke, the five carriages arrived at the new official residence and slowly stopped in front of the gate, and this time Cao Jiaojiao, Li Yanqing's stepmother Yang, and sister Baoniang also followed Cao Yun and them.

Jiaojiao wanted to be with her sister, but the old man agreed to her request for the first time, this little lady's heart became wild, and she slipped out to play all day long, maybe her sister could control her, but it was Li Daqi's arrangement that Yang and Bao Niang came with her.

The outbreak of war between Jin and Western Xia made the capital a little rumored, some wealthy families have begun to gradually evacuate their families to the south, Li Daqi is also starting to transfer Bao Yan Zhai, he is ready to move the headquarters of Bao Yan Zhai to Hangzhou at the end of the year or early next year, and send his wife and daughter to his son in advance, which is also a kind of self-protection of Li Daqi.

In addition to the three of them, there were nearly twenty servants, and they were also willing to follow the mistress to Jingzhao, after all, Jingzhao was also a big place, and the mistress was willing to pay twice the salary, which was enough to attract these servant women to follow.

Li Yanqing took over his son Xiao Baolang from his wife, his son is seven months old, and his personality is relatively quiet, he is still a little afraid of his father, he turned his head to the side, and he was about to cry, Cao Yun hurriedly coaxed him, and the little guy finally let his father hug him.

But her daughter Ah Lian is very lively, she has just turned ten months, she understands a little bit of things, and she knows that the person in front of her is her father, which makes her very happy, Li Yanqing just hugged her in her arms, she put her arms around her father's neck, and kissed her father on the face, which made Li Yanqing laugh.

"Jiaojiao, Bao Niang, let's go into the house!"

Cao Jiaojiao and Bao Niang were extremely excited, the two of them held hands to open the way in front, and Li Yanqing hugged a pair of children and strode towards the house......

Cao Yun entered the house, as a housewife, she needed to have a general understanding of the structure of the house, although she heard her husband say that the house covers an area of fifteen acres, of which five acres are water, but Cao Yun still wants to see it with her own eyes.

The entrance is a shadow wall, on the left is the lower room, and on the right is the functional area, such as kitchens, cellars, warehouses, livestock sheds, etc., all in this area.

Bypass the shadow wall, enter a round door, it is the atrium, there is a circle of corridors around the atrium against the wall, in the middle is a thick plum tree, look at the old bark of the trunk is rough, this big tree has at least a hundred years of history, surrounded by bluestone to build a round altar, protect the big tree, the ground is paved with pebbles, with pebbles also spelled out the dragon and phoenix pattern, there is a stone table and stone bench on one side, and the two sides are planted with holly, roses, spring, plum and other shrubs and flower branches under the corridor.

The red plum has not yet bloomed, but it has already budded, and the two plum trees are blooming brightly, and the pale yellow plum is like jade, so that the whole courtyard is filled with a faint fragrance.

Directly north of the atrium is the main guest hall, on both sides there are ordinary guest halls and noble guest halls, in the east corner is a moon gate, directly leading to the back house, the two sides of the atrium should be the son's solitary residence after getting married, but now one side is arranged as the residence of the stepmother Yang, and the other side is the pro-military barracks.

Li Yanqing thought it through, the black lacquered door of his stepmother Yang's residence is currently locked, and he must enter and exit through the side door of the back house.

Cao Yun walked along the flower bed of the big tree, and then looked at the main guest hall, the furniture was already complete, she immediately entered the back house from the side door next to her, as soon as she entered the back house, Cao Yun's eyes suddenly lit up, a small river actually appeared in front of her, the small river snakes, through the entire back house, and finally into a small lake.

Outside the lake, there is a peache, the two sides are planted with weeping willows, all kinds of pavilions and pavilions are built, the whole back house is built around this lake, there are about four courtyards, there are covered bridges between the yards and the courtyards, and below the covered bridges are small rivers, which branch into four tributaries, which are respectively injected into the lake from the side of the four courtyards.

But at this time, the lake and the river were covered with a thick layer of ice, and I saw Cao Jiaojiao and Li Baoyan skating on the ice, and laughter resounded throughout the back house.

"Big sister, come on!"

Hu Qing'er by the lake was waving to Cao Yun excitedly, Cao Yun walked across the small stone bridge, came to Hu Qing'er's side, and asked with a smile: "You ran fast, what did you find?" ”

Hu Qing'er pointed to a stone tablet and said with a smile: "There is a stone tablet here, it turns out that this place is called Peach Lake!" ”

Cao Yun saw that the stone tablet was engraved with the two big characters of Peach Lake, and couldn't help but shake his head, "It's better to call Peach Lake than to call Heart Lake!" ”

A flash of brilliance flashed in Hu Qing'er's eyes, "Why didn't I think that the shape of the peach and the heart are not the same?" Go back and tell the eldest brother and change the name. ”

At this time, Cao Jiaojiao in the lake shouted: "Da Shuniang, there is another pavilion here!" ”

The pavilion in the middle of the lake is, of course, the pavilion in the middle of the lake, a long stone bridge connects the pavilion to the shore, and the two little ladies have climbed the pavilion, jumping and jumping in the pavilion.

Cao Yun didn't bother to pay attention to them, and hurriedly walked towards her stepmother Yang's courtyard, Yang's courtyard was actually the east courtyard of the atrium, but the gate of the atrium was locked, and it was necessary to enter and exit from the inner house.

The inner house, like the atrium, is a long corridor against the wall, and there are eaves in the corridor, this corridor connects all the residences, and the first door that passes from the left is the courtyard of the Yang family, and there are seven or eight rooms in the courtyard, where the mother and daughter of the Yang family and four maids live.

Yang is packing some of her belongings in the room, and her luggage is also behind, and it has not been delivered yet.

"Stepmother!" Cao Yun shouted in the courtyard, and Yang hurriedly walked out.

The Yang family is nominally Cao Yun's mother-in-law, but not exactly, so they are very polite to each other.

Cao Yun smiled: "Look at what else is missing in the room, the official asked me to write a list for him." ”

Yang looked back and smiled: "The basic household items are there, I also brought some special things, basically there is nothing missing, anyway, there are tiles not far away, it is very convenient to buy, I am going to go shopping with Qing'er when I turn around, Jiaojiao and Bao Niang must also go with you, do you want to go with us?" ”

Cao Yun is a famous lady, the Yang family respects her more, and there is almost no personal friendship, while Sisi is high and arrogant, and the relationship with the Yang family is weak, but the Yang family and Qing'er are both from poor backgrounds, and it is easy to talk about going together, and the two have a very deep friendship.

Cao Yun smiled: "I may have to arrange a place for the servant to live, I don't have time today, let's go together another day!" ”

"It's the same, you're the busiest today, so I won't bother you, you go get busy first! I'll tell you what I need here. ”

"Then I'll go first."

After a few polite words between the two, Cao Yun left the east courtyard and walked quickly towards several small courtyards.