"Which one?" Steward Qiao raised his head and wiped his mouth and asked, just now he kept his head down to eat noodles, and he didn't notice the situation on the craftsmen's side at all, don't look at him This year, he is in his sixties, but he has a great appetite, and a large bowl of noodles has gone down half a bowl in the blink of an eye.

"It's the middle-aged man who squatted in the corner and ate noodles by himself, I don't think he looks like a working person, why is he here?" Li Xiu pointed to the middle-aged man in the corner, when he first started building the house, he had been here all along, and he didn't remember that there was such a middle-aged man among the craftsmen, but he didn't come to the construction site because of Li Jiancheng's affairs in the past two days, so this middle-aged man was probably just here.

"He?" Steward Qiao also saw the middle-aged man following Li Xiu's gaze, and a strange expression appeared on his face at the moment, and after a while, he spoke, "Gongzi Li, this person's name is Wednesday Liang, and you can't blame the craftsmen for disliking him, the main reason is that he is a little special!" ”

"Special? What's so special? Li Xiu looked up and down at the middle-aged man named Wednesday Liang opposite, except that he was relatively thin, his skin was a little whiter than that of ordinary people, and he had no beard, he couldn't see anything special.

Wait, beard! Li Xiu suddenly found that something was wrong at this time, in ancient times, a very important point for men's aesthetics was whether the beard was beautiful? Even if this person is a little ugly, as long as he has a beautiful beard, then he can get a lot of points in appearance, which also makes ancient men almost bearded, as long as it is an adult man, there is almost no one who does not have a beard, but the middle-aged man opposite has no beard, and his chin is very clean, and he does not even have a beard, which makes Li Xiu have some guesses in his heart.

He ...... It can't be a eunuch, right? Li Xiu hesitated for a moment before asking in a low voice, although some men are not born with beards, but this kind of person is too rare, and the only men left who do not grow beards are eunuchs.

"Hehe, childe, you guessed right, this Wednesday Liang is a eunuch, some time ago the princess was injured, the palace sent a few eunuchs to say that they wanted to take care of the princess, but I heard that the princess was very disgusted with the eunuchs, so I asked people to send these eunuchs back, but the other eunuchs left, but this Wednesday Liang cried and refused to return to the palace, the princess was soft-hearted, seeing that he was so pitiful, she let him stay." Steward Qiao smiled mysteriously and said, he is an old man, and he is also an old man in the princess's mansion, so there is nothing he doesn't know about the affairs in the mansion.

"It turns out that the princess doesn't like eunuchs, I said why didn't I see eunuchs around the princess." Li Xiu also nodded abruptly at this time and said, the princess and the prince are qualified to use eunuchs, which is a symbol of royal status, but Li Xiu has never seen a eunuch around Princess Pingyang, only those few maids with strange names take care of him, he was still a little strange at the time, and now he knows the reason.

"No, since Wednesday Liang is a eunuch, I don't think he looks like a person who can work, how can he be assigned here?" Li Xiu suddenly asked strangely at this time.

Since Wednesday Liang is a eunuch, it is not difficult to understand that he was disliked by everyone just now, don't look at the eunuchs of the Ming and Qing dynasties in later generations so arrogant, but in fact, no matter which dynasty, eunuchs are discriminated against because of their physical defects, especially the people of the Tang Dynasty are fierce, and they despise eunuchs even more, their status is actually similar to that of the untouchables in India in later generations, and ordinary people are not even willing to have too much contact with them.

In addition, although the eunuchs in the palace were looked down upon, because they were the ones who took care of the emperor's daily life,

"You really asked the right person about this matter, except for me, I'm afraid that the other stewards in the house don't know!" Steward Qiao said excitedly at this time, gossip is human nature, regardless of age, "When the princess left Zhou Liang behind, she handed it over to Ma Ye to settle, so Ma Ye asked him what he would do, and he said that he didn't understand anything other than serving people, but the princess didn't need him to serve at all, so Ma Ye asked him what else he was capable of, but he thought about it for a long time, guess what he said?" ”

"What did you say?" Li Xiu tried his best to satisfy the vanity of Qiao Steward at this time, and there was always a need for someone to talk about gossip, and now Li Xiu is playing the role of a fool.

"Haha~, don't you know, Childe, the old man was also present at the time, but Liang thought about it for a long time on Wednesday, and finally said that he had worked in the clean room in the palace before, and asked Ma Ye if this was a skill, but Ma Ye's face turned black at that time, and then he threw him to us to do some chores, but his strength is not as good as a woman, and he can't do any work at all."

The more Steward Qiao spoke, the more excited he became, and his voice became louder and louder, Wednesday Liang was not too far away from them, but he also heard it at this time, only to see him look up at this side, and when he saw Li Xiu looking at him, he immediately showed a humble smile again, and then lowered his head to eat again, as if what Steward Qiao said just now was not him.

"A poor man!" After Li Xiu heard the above, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart and said, if you want to use one word to describe this Wednesday Liang, his mind immediately jumped out of the word "humble", although he doesn't know why he entered the palace in the first place, but judging from Wednesday Liang's performance just now, he hopes to make others accept him as a crippled person, and he is willing to give everything for this, even if he puts down his dignity, it doesn't matter, but unfortunately his efforts have failed again and again.

But sympathy is sympathy, Li Xiu is not a bad person, he has to take care of any injustices when he sees them, not to mention that he doesn't know Liang Su this Wednesday, and there is no need to care about this kind of nosy, after all, there are too many injustices and poor people in this world, if Li Xiu sees one and has to take care of one, then he doesn't want to do anything in his life.

After eating, the craftsmen continued to work, and after Li Xiu communicated some of his thoughts about the courtyard to Steward Qiao, he stayed for a while and left, because he still had an important matter to do today.

The new yard is not very far from the original old yard, Li Xiu walked in, and returned home in just a few minutes, spring has come completely, all kinds of spring flowers are also competing to open, Li Xiu's house is planted in front of a few peach trees, the pink peach blossoms almost blocked the door, Qi Niang took Xiao San to play under the peach tree, Yuechan and Liu Er sat in the yard Na soles, from time to time to look out, worried that Qi Niang was lost.

"Brother, when will we be able to live in a new house?" Seeing Li Xiu coming back, Qi Niang immediately pounced in his arms like a cheerful bird and asked coquettishly. Children always have great curiosity about new things, such as Qi Niang, who has been talking about this almost every day since she knew that she was going to build a new house.

"Little girl, you're in a hurry!" Li Xiu also squatted down at this time and scratched Qi Niang's little nose affectionately and said, "But don't be too anxious, the house is about to be built, and then I will dress up the house inside and outside beautifully, and Qi Niang, you can live in!" ”

"Great, how many days will it take!" Qi Niang first cheered, and then asked eagerly, which also made Li Xiu shake his head helplessly, it seems that it is impossible to make children patient.

"Let's wait another month, when the decoration is completed and the house is dry, we can move in!" Li Xiu said with a smile, the main body of the house has actually been built a long time ago, during this time he has been doing some supporting facilities, as well as the decoration inside and outside the house, and due to the conditions, he can't paste wallpaper and tiles like the decoration of later generations, but this is good, at least don't worry about formaldehyde and other excesses, you can move in early.

"A month, that's thirty days, twelve hours a day, if you calculate it like this, ......" Qi Niang said and counted it for a long time with her fingers, and finally it was finally calculated, and she shouted at the moment, "I calculated it, and I have to wait for three hundred and sixty hours, how can I wait for such a long time?" ”

"Haha~, where is a month a long time, and with my brother by my side, a month will pass soon!" Li Xiu smiled again and spoke, stroking Qi Niang's little head with his hand as he spoke.

"But brother, you don't take me with you to build a new house, Sister Yuechan and Sister Liu'er also have a lot of things to do, only Xiaosan accompanies me, and it's boring after a long time!" Qi Niang said pitifully at this time.

The reason why Li Xiu didn't bring Qi Niang was mainly because the construction site of the house was dirty and messy, and it was even more unsafe on the top of his head, and the craftsman who built the house on it was not careful, he might have a falling object from a high altitude, and there was not even a helmet this year, and there were no other protective measures, Li Xiu had to be responsible for the planning of the house, and it was impossible to keep looking at Qi Niang, so for safety reasons, he forbade Qi Niang to follow him, but now that the house is about to be completed, there is no danger, so there is no need to prohibit Qi Niang from going to the new house.

Thinking of the above, Li Xiu rubbed Qi Niang's head dotingly at this time and said: "Okay, from tomorrow, Qi Niang can follow me to the new courtyard, if there is any dissatisfaction, you can also bring it up, and I will ask the craftsman to help change it!" ”

"Really! Thank you, brother! When Qi Niang heard that her brother agreed to take her to the new house, she jumped up excitedly, and finally picked up Xiao San and turned in a circle, which scared Xiao San and screamed, and finally waited until Qi Niang's excitement passed, and she rushed to the yard with Xiao San in her arms, and reported the good news to Yuechan and Liu Er.

Looking at the lively and lovely Qi Niang, Li Xiu also showed a warm smile, the biggest regret in his previous life was that he had no children, but he had no plans to marry in this life, the appearance of Qi Niang just made up for the vacancy of the child, although Qi Niang is his sister, but the so-called eldest brother is like a father, after leaving home, he almost raised Qi Niang as a daughter.

After a long while, Li Xiu stepped into the house, and then took out some things from his room that had been prepared a long time ago, and prepared to go to a place and do something that he had almost forgotten.