Chapter 378: New Year
During the Lantern Festival, the newly settled mountain area further west of the Raven Farm, adjacent to the Ju'an staff dormitory area, is hanging on the plaque in the mansion of Nanyue, there is the sound of firecrackers, and laughter continues. The gate was open, and all kinds of lamps hung from the end of the neat street went straight into the door. There will be a lantern festival and a market on the main street tonight, and there will be an endless stream of people coming and going.
Lan Sheng came home from the crow farm, and he almost let Nanyue Ling, who rushed out of the door, bounce him, but fortunately, he was quickly carried away by the fruitless eye.
Nan Yueling stuck out her tongue, "Eldest sister is back, it's early today!" ”
Nan Yueling is not a little boy anymore, but he is like the child king of this family, and behind him, in addition to Ah Fu, his former little servant, and now his good brother, as well as Xiao Xiwa, the son of Feng Niang, and Sanbao, the son of Feng Niang.
Lan Sheng looked back at the string of children waiting outside the door, and asked the younger brother with a smile, "Where are you going crazy?" ”
"There is a quiz contest in the academy tonight, and Mr. said that whoever guesses the most will be awarded a painting. It's Master's Snow Forest Chasing Deer Diagram. Nan Yueling loved calligraphy and painting since she was a child, and later abandoned the Book of Changes, and went on a study tour with Boyan and Boxi father and son, and had her own direction of learning after coming back. Today, while earning money in the drawing room built in Ju'an, he is studying the calligraphy and painting styles of famous artists of various schools.
"Didn't you have a lot of Hou Ye's calligraphy and paintings hanging in your study?" In Lan Sheng's opinion, Nan Yueling, who was mixed with Bo Xi all day long and worshiped Bo Yan as his teacher, should be very calm about this kind of reward.
"The picture of the snow forest chasing the deer is a famous painting." Nan Yueling's eyes lit up, and she swore that she would win, and then took the lead and ran out.
"How much silver can an unknown painting fetch for money? Not only did I lose the title of princess, but I also became my cousin's wife. Good deeds see that my life is not bleak, and they may have thoughts out of nothing. Perhaps, I should pretend to be poor? Lan Sheng said as he entered the house.
"The family has some money, but selling paintings seems fake." The small house did not have a concierge, so he turned around and closed the door without any results.
While Lan Sheng was waiting for him, he looked at the new home. There was no garden in the vestibule, and a rectangular square was paved with flower-shaped square bricks, and a stables were built in the downwind area farthest from the door, and the upwind area was used as a martial arts training ground. In the middle is a three-story Yellowstone building, with a total of 36 rooms. A small long window is opened on the front. The upstairs is roofless, like a city tower surrounded by a solid stone wall, and a glazed octagonal wind god tower is built on the top of the spacious building, and you can also see the time. But few people know. There is an observation room in the yellow glazed spire. It is possible to see far away.
Huangshi Building Secondary School Nursing Home. A room of four, currently full, is run by Nimber. The patrol area was expanded to cover the entire staff village. The house of the Nanyue family is getting smaller and smaller, although most of the servants are dismissed, some of them refuse to leave, and there are three people in the chief steward alone, so Ning Bo recommended himself to manage the nursing home. Lan Sheng didn't think much about it, and felt that being able to fight didn't have to be kung fu.
Passing through the middle corridor of the Yellowstone Building, you will enter the main house. Courtyard house, only a corner of the north pavilion and a small flower bed of the garden, the bungalows are close together, but because they are arranged into three folio words, it does not seem crowded and cramped, but there is a sense of intimacy that looks down and does not look up, and the houses are many but not mixed. And, as soon as someone comes in, it's hard not to notice.
"The eldest lady came back early." Xiao Gu was clearing the snow at the corner of the eaves, and when he saw Lan Sheng, he hurriedly got down the ladder to greet him.
This former chief steward of the National Teacher's Mansion, when Wu Mei and Lan Sheng's mother and daughter returned to the house, he was treated coldly by him, but he was actually a loyal person, not a villain who secretly stumbled. And whether it was Wu Mei or Lan Sheng, they could see this clearly, so they didn't care about it and let him stay.
"Chinese New Year's Eve has asked everyone to wait for me to open the table, and the Lantern Festival is still late, which is not good." Knowing Xiao Gu's loyalty, but Lan Sheng couldn't be as kind as the old lady and Yurui, without prejudice, and his temperament was like this, "I don't want you to tell the old lady, I'll come after changing my clothes." "It's like, she still can't call her grandmother, only the old lady.
Chief Steward Xiao is now an old servant, although he still takes care of the main courtyard, but there are only seven or eight servants left, and he needs to do the work of communication himself. He bowed his head and went to the old lady's house.
Lan Sheng came to the small garden behind the main house. The garden is usually closed and locked at night, and there are four two-story small buildings, each of which houses the four thousand gold of Nanyue's family. The small building is divided into two wings, one side where the girls live, and the other side where they live. She likes the high roof and inner ladder of the bedroom, so she still uses the spatial structure in the Eryue Garden, but the interior decoration is not as luxurious as the palace, exquisite and comfortable, using a lot of fabric and wallpaper. There is a sky screen corridor between each small building, the top of the corridor opens a sliding window, the corridor wall is of the same nature as the glazed wall of the Jinwangfu water corridor, but the transparency is higher, and the redwood is used as a supporting column, which is contrasted with the main color of the small building, which is unique and elegant. This design is precisely to avoid such a cold winter, and you have to change your outfit to visit your neighbors.
The appearance of the four small buildings is unified in the materials. The newly developed concrete of Ju'an is solidified into a building body, which is indestructible. It is surrounded by sequoia wood strips to create a sense of three-dimensionality and softness.
The details have their own characteristics: the orchid wall of the orchid house is full of ink grass and water orchid patterns, the Weiju is a promising star platform, and the flower columns are placed on the four sides, all of which are cold plum and snow branches at this time. Ruiju has a separate medicine house, with a lovely arc top shape, like a jade carved flower bud. Shaju Shen Red is used minimally, just the right amount of water-grained porcelain tiles, and a large terrace on the second floor, which leads directly to a breathtaking study. In addition to the windows and doors, the walls of the study are bookshelves, and ladders can be pulled out under each layer of bookshelves. The folding door of the study on a sunny day will open, and a whole wall will disappear, and if you are lucky, you can see the most mysterious little lady of the Nanyue family jumping up and down on the ladder, playing a game of puzzle solving with herself.
Lan Sheng went back to his small building, and after changing his clothes, he walked to the other end of the building, and was about to enter a room, but he heard Wuguo being scolded.
"Scalded! Scalded! Clumsy, or bad-hearted? Seeing that I have become a waste, you want me to die early, don't you! It's Xiang'er's job, you have to grab it, and you're so stupid......" The scolding words are powerful, but the scolding voice is not full of energy, a bit of a paper tiger.
Lan Sheng turned to the door and choked with laughter, "If you really want to talk about it, it's not Xiang'er's job, they are serving your eldest lady and me." Xiang'er and Hongdou, who were looking at the excitement with their eyelids on the side, looked at the two of them unwilling to leave.
followed to no avail, "You too, even if you are your own sister, it's not right to scold like this and not say anything." Sick people should have a proper temper, and if they are too much, they can't let her, because when she gets well, she can't get her stinky temper back, and she will be punished. You go to the firewood room to see if Xiao Sweep has come back, and by inquiring about the news, Sa Huan'er ran away, and I haven't seen anyone else for a few days. ”
Fruitless and bitter-faced, put down the medicine bowl and left.
There was a stack of high quilts stacked at the head of the bed, and there were flowers sitting, his hands unnaturally soft at his sides, looking up at the top of the curtain, even if Lan Sheng came, he didn't blink his eyes to look at people.
She was rescued from a coma, and when she woke up, she found that her hands and feet were broken, and even with the best medicine, it was difficult to recover. At first, she cried loudly and silently, and when there were no more tears in the back, she began to vent her anger at everyone who took care of her.
Xiang'er and Hongdou were scolded and cried, but Lan Sheng persuaded them to treat Youhua as a nursing doll, one ear in and one ear out, so they could laugh at that nonsense just now.
"I haven't seen you for a day, why aren't you as good at scolding as yesterday? Not full? Lan Sheng sat at the head of the bed, raised his hand to push down the medicine bowl on the small table, covered his mouth and smiled, "Ah, it's too bad, Yurui said that this medicine is taken before meals, and if you don't take medicine, you can't eat." Today's Lantern Festival, everyone is very busy, I guarantee that no one will have time to fry you again. ”
Youhua finally glared at Lan Sheng, and then frowned, "Didn't you take revenge?" I was eating chicken thighs in front of your hospital bed, and you were eating crabs in front of my bed. ”
Lan Sheng had actually forgotten about the chicken leg for a long time, but she was born a traitor, and she didn't want to say irrelevant, but instead raised two fingers along Youhua, "Of course, it's enough to take revenge twice." ”
Youhua's eyes widened, "Although I was ignorant when I was a child, weren't you very obedient after you got well?" In order to take care of the family, I can only watch you and Wuguo go out all day long, and be a good girl by yourself. What now? But when he left the palace, he became a waste, lying all day long, eating, drinking, and asking for help. I was angry at you, and I didn't dare to rush you. He was my younger brother, and when the boy changed his first tooth, he was so frightened that he grabbed me and cried, and I thought he was sick, so I went to the pharmacy with my wife behind my back to steal the medicine. Anyway, it's okay if he's a little angry with me. This breath was numb, and the resentment was almost faint in the end.
"You don't have to say that you are so well-behaved, you are obviously spoiled by my mother, and your temper is not better than that of me, the eldest lady." Lan Sheng smiled lightly, took out a clay medicine pot from under the table, poured a bowl of black thick soup, and blew it hot to send the spoon, "Drink it, you will recover after drinking the medicine." I asked Che Feiwei, and he swore to me that not only can you run and jump, but you might even learn to fly. When the time comes, the north and south of the river will follow you. ”
I don't know where the mountain of Tianxuan Dao is, but in just half a month, the distant sky has brought the letter of the master. The letter agreed to accept eighty-one Heavenly Beings, but it needed Lan Sheng's strength.
Only then did Lan Sheng understand that Tianxuan also had his own troubles. Although they are a group of gifted people, and even the origins of the originator and the Wind King are very similar, but they have lost important power in the inheritance from generation to generation. Again and again, they closed the mountain, not for anything else, but to find the door. When they finally found it, they couldn't open it, and they tried all kinds of ways until they heard the rumors that the Wind Collector was now in the sky.
Whether the Wind Cultivator can find the Heavenly Ladder or not, the Heavenly Xuan Dao also has different ideas, but no one can deny that the Heavenly Ladder was indeed once guarded by the Wind Clan, if Lan Sheng is really the Wind Ladder, maybe it is their only chance to open that door.
Lan Sheng didn't care what Tianxuan's plans were, he only thought about the people around him at the moment, if Youhua's life was in danger, then he had to be sent away.
Also, sixteen days. (To be continued......)