Chapter 554: Stratagem 4
The thirtieth year of the Chinese New Year's Eve is a gratifying and congratulatory day, the Dingbian Marquis Mansion is full of lights, and the people who were dismissed when Zhang Ru left the capital in the past have basically returned, and the maid servants set off the Dingbian Marquis Mansion to be lively.
A group of little girls who are no more than fifteen or sixteen years old are laughing while posting window flowers, and occasionally there will be mothers-in-law who are not pleasing to the eye and reprimand, but those little girls will soon reappear.
Dingbian Houfu is not good, this salary is relatively rich, and the master is easy-going, and he is very good to the people below. Ordinary women are not qualified to enter the Dingbian Hou Mansion as maids, these maids are all children of poor families collected by Su Qiqi and Jiang Caiwei from all over the country.
Zhang Ru casually said that the children of the poor were in charge of the family early, which made the two daughters remember it, and because of this, it changed the fate of countless children from poor families.
This way of choosing maids started when I was in Beijing before, and then went to Fuzhou, this method has not changed, and now I have returned to Beijing again, and the two girls have naturally become good people again.
The couplet at the door was inscribed by Li Dongyang himself, and there were four big characters on it and Li Dongyang's private seal. When he got the couplet, Zhang Ru even joked that he would make a plaque of the couplet's banner and frame it well. At that time, Li Dongyang blew his beard and stared, which made Zhang Ru dispel this idea.
The people of the Cloud Rider are wearing brand new clothes, and the style of this dress is somewhat similar to the flying fish suit, except that the embroidery on the clothes is not a flying fish, but a black crow.
No one knows why Zhang Ru has such a bad taste, you must know that this crow represents a hoodoo in this era or in the era in which he lives.
At first, these Soaring Cloud Riders were a little tired in their hearts, but gradually, they got used to dressing like this.
Xiao Muyan ran around in the yard, stopping by a beautiful sister from time to time, listening to other people's praise and smiling.
Xiao Anu and Meng Fu were beside the two-foot-high bluestone brick wall in the courtyard, their backs leaning against the wall, and the corners of their mouths were smiling.
"You said it would be nice if you lived like this every day." Meng Fu looked at the scene in the courtyard and sighed.
Xiao Anu glanced at it coldly, and said lightly: "If there is no you in this courtyard, I am willing to live such a life for a lifetime." It's a pity that there is one more of you here, and I am not very much looking forward to such a day. ”
Meng Fu touched his nose and said sourly: "When did I offend you, why did you bury people like this!" ”
"No, I just don't like your face." Xiao Anu still spoke coldly.
This woman's heart is in the sea, and even Zhang Ru and his two lives can't guess the woman's mind, let alone Meng Fu, a guy with strong machismo.
He is usually the same as Wang Zhou, he doesn't have a door on his mouth, and he doesn't know when he offends someone.
Entering from the courtyard, there is a small courtyard, this courtyard has no flowers and plants, but there is a clear spring surrounding the whole courtyard. Here, it is the back house of the Dingbian Marquis's Mansion.
Most of the ladies live here, but under normal circumstances, except for Zhang Ru and the old housekeeper and a few maids, no one else can enter this place.
The entire courtyard is paved with bluestone slabs, and sword marks are faintly visible on the stone slabs. On weekdays, Zhang Ru practiced in this courtyard, and occasionally went to the moat where he used to stay when he was a teenager.
An old man with gray hair sat on the roof eating an unknown fruit, and did he spit out a kernel?
In the past, there was a row of houses, and the house was divided into east and west compartments, the east wing was the owner's room, and the west wing was the room for hospitality.
The guests who can live in this are all female guests, and sometimes when Wang Zhou's family comes over, Zhang Ru has to go to the outer house to squeeze Fan Wuyi.
Wang Zhou, who was already in good health, stood at the door, did he poke his head out from under the eaves to take a look at Fan Wuyi on the roof. Because of a joke, he was punished by Fan Wuyi today for picking up the fruit pits for a morning.
Fan Tong sat at a stone table not far away, holding a brush in his hand, and there was a white rice paper on the table, which was covered with ink, and there were already a few miserable brush characters written on it.
After he was in good health, he told Zhang Ru that he had nothing to love in his life and wanted to find a feng shui treasure to spend the rest of his life. Zhang Ru didn't say a word and threw him two hundred pieces of rice paper, the handwriting on it was Li Dongyang's, and it was full of the contents of the Spring and Autumn Period.
He said that as long as you can write exactly the same words on it, I will let you go immediately.
Fan Tong, who was just talking, picked up a stone and hit his own foot, and instead of smashing others, he also broke his foot.
He is considered to have a word of suffering.
Jiang Caiwei is competing with a wooden stake in the back house, her biggest hobby every day is to pry Zhang Muyan to practice martial arts, but although the little girl is crazy, she has no interest in practicing martial arts. There was really no way, Jiang Caiwei had no choice but to vent her anger at the wooden man.
Su Qiqi carefully drew with embroidery on the side, stitch by stitch, and from time to time he would look up at Jiang Caiwei, and then look at Zhang Ru who was sitting at the stone table, and smile knowingly.
After bringing his family back from Fuzhou, Zhang Ru spent a lot more time with the two daughters. Sometimes he can look at Su Qiqi's embroidery, and it will be a morning when he looks at it. When he is in a good mood, he will make a trick with Jiang Caiwei and make a difficult difference.
Suddenly, Fan Wuyi on the roof suddenly stood up, stretched out his hand and grabbed it directly in front of him.
Wang Zhou below happened to probe his brain, and when he saw this scene, he was a little confused like a second monk.
He thought to himself, could this old man be crazy? Why don't you stand up and grab the air and play?
Then, Fan Wuyi jumped off the roof, spread out his palm, revealing a small paper ball in his palm, and snorted coldly to Wang Zhou: "Long snack." ”
Wang Zhou stuck out his tongue, but he didn't dare to talk back to Fan Wuyi, his head shrank, and he immediately went to the ground to pick up the kernel.
Fan Wuyi pushed the door open and flicked the paper ball towards Zhang Ru.
Zhang Ru stretched out his hand to take it, and after unfolding it, he looked at it for a long time, and then kneaded the paper ball again, and the two kneaded it, and the paper ball instantly turned into powder.
"I'm almost ready over there, and I'll trouble Fan Lao to come with me when the time comes." Zhang Ru said lightly.
Fan Wuyi waved his hand: "Don't do it, you sent the old man for everything, and the old man is not your subordinate." ”
Zhang Ru begged: "Old Fan, you can help me!" On that occasion, there will be no shortage of masters, and I'm afraid that I won't be able to support it alone. ”
Fan Wuyi turned his head and vetoed: "No way." ”
Zhang Ru Thief smiled: "Then I'll let Mu Yan play with you at night." ”
Fan Wuji instantly became scared: "Don't, you kid knows how to threaten Lao Tzu, this time Lao Tzu helps you, if you dare to threaten Lao Tzu next time, Lao Tzu will definitely roll up and leave." ”