Chapter 18 As soon as I entered Zeng's Mansion, I encountered a ghost
After the carriage crossed the royal street, it reached the north-south street in front of it, and turned right.
Yao Huan woke up from the strange feeling of meeting Shao Qing just now, and realized that the car should be driving north. And the north-south street parallel to the Royal Street should be the "Junyi Street" mentioned in "Tokyo Menghualu".
To the south of Junyi Street, a large number of merchants, residences, and lively markets are all under the jurisdiction of Kaifeng Prefecture.
On the north side of Junyi Street, most of it belongs to the area where the palace guards maintain security.
Sure enough, the street scene outside the car gradually turned from noisy to silent, there were fewer and fewer restaurants, and the houses were no longer those civilian houses with snot and bare buttocks sitting at the door, but instead of the deep courtyards of high-rise houses hidden under verdant plants.
"This is the vicinity of the Zhong South China Sea in the Northern Song Dynasty, right?" Yao Huan muttered in his stomach.
After two more pillars of incense, the coachman finally collected the pace of the horse, and Grandma Rong said, "It's here."
As soon as he opened the car door, Yao Huan felt two giant wooden planks pressing towards him.
Obediently, the gate of the house of the former prime minister is bigger than the mountain gate of the temple.
But the door was full of birds, only a small guy saw Grandma Rong, and hurriedly turned around to open the door, calling "Grandma Rong and Shen Niangzi are here".
In response, a little maid about the same age as Meituan came out, wearing a small skirt with duck shell green, and came up to salute earnestly.
Entering the gate, suddenly a large patio, the front is a shadow wall, there is an ear room on the left and right hands, and the flowers and plants under the corridor are flourishing. But it's still quiet.
Grandma Rong peeked at Shen Fuzhi's detective's countenance, and explained: "The cardinal minister doesn't like pomp, the Tao is now the official family is aiming to revive the first emperor's Yuanfeng Xining New Deal, and he wants to use troops in Western Xia, as the prime minister, he should be considerate of the officials' intentions, thrifty and exemplary, no matter how big the house is, twenty servants and maids are enough." ”
What Shen Fuzhi's reaction was, Yao Huan didn't know, but as a person who came from later generations, Yao Huan felt that Grandma Rong's words were really an interesting footnote for later historians to evaluate Zeng Bu.
From the new to the old, the semi-new is not the old, it is old in front of the new party, and it is new in front of the old party.
Left and right, easy to navigate. In addition, the quality of a "nanny-type" prime minister is revealed everywhere, and he has an attitude of wholeheartedly thinking about the little emperor who has just been pro-government, how can he not teach Zhang Dan, who is in Zhongshu Province, to be wary of it.
Passing through the ear porch, but seeing a textbook-like quadrangular compound, the building complex in front of it looks the most complicated, presumably the courtyard of Zeng Bu, the head of the family.
Grandma Rong and the little maid took Shen Fu's mother and children to the east of the moon gate. It was the independent compound where Zeng Bu's eldest son, Zeng Ti, lived.
Behind the moon gate is a water pavilion, which is elegantly and pleasantly arranged.
The main hall behind the water pavilion is in sight, and you can see people shuttling.
At this time, Grandma Rong, who was walking in front, suddenly remembered something, walked backwards, and turned back to Shen and Yao Niang and said, "Auntie, Sister Huan, I almost forgot to ask you, do you want to change your clothes and clean your hands?" ”
added intimately: "The scene will be put up later, I'm afraid it's not too cheap." ”
Shen Fuzhi felt justified and said to Yao Huan: "Aunt and you, let's go for a trip." ”
Grandma Rong then tilted her head and said to the maid who led the way: "I'll wait here, you take the two ladies to the plum blossom house." ”
Yao Huan listened, and he didn't know whether it was the Plum Blossom House or the Plum Blossom Dock, so he secretly sighed - in the end, it was Zengfu, and even the guest guards had elegant names.
It's just that in this way, when I wanted to go to Dongdajie to do on-the-spot food research and try Kaifeng Mansion Internet celebrity dim sum plum buns in the first few days, the shadow area in my heart was a bit large......
The little maid took light steps, leading Shen Fuzhi and Yao Huan across a low stone bridge, and then walked a few steps along the cobblestone path to a house shaded by green bamboo.
Yao Huan couldn't help but open another barrage: This is the plum blossom house, obviously the Xiaoxiang Pavilion.
The little maid pushed open the door that was already hidden, and Yao Huan saw an elegantly furnished entrance, with incense burning on the amber yellow, unknown wood desk, and circle chairs and hangers for hanging robes next to it.
The little maid picked up a lotus-pot-like white porcelain container on the desk, took out four small red dates, and handed them to Shen Fuzhi and Yao Huan.
What is this for? Yao Huan felt inexplicable. Go to the toilet and give two appetizers?
Fortunately, Shen Fuzhi immediately solved her doubts. Shen Fuzhi pinched his fingertips, removed the root of the jujube, and stuffed it into his nostrils one by one.
Yao Huan reacted instantly, it turned out that the dates were blocked in the nostrils to avoid the smell of the toilet.
No wonder that little girl still has to pick one, everyone's nostrils are not the same size.
Yes, the ancients were very particular.
Over there, the little maid had naturally taken the wide-sleeved shirt for Shen Fuzhi first, hung it on the hanger, made a gesture of bowing, flicked the bamboo curtains on several sides of the case, and took Shen Fuzhi into the room.
Yao Huan waited silently for a while, and her aunt came out and said, "Sister Huan, go ahead, be quicker, Mo Jiao Rong and Grandma will wait for a long time."
Yao Huan looked at the maid, still wanting to follow his own intentions, and felt awkward for a while, and almost blurted out: "Someone is watching, but I can't come out." ”
In the end, I was afraid of many things, so I endured it and obediently followed the maid in.
The inner room is much more spacious, and between the two large lattice windows on the left and right, there is a wooden door that seems to lead to the patio behind the door.
There was incense in the room, too, and there were three or four armchairs against the wall, but there was a big round hole in the top of the chair, and there was a toilet underneath.
Yao Huan took off his clothes and belt, sat on the chair, looked down at the floor tiles, and was seriously brewing.
The little maid's face was light and breezy, probably serving more guests from Zeng's Mansion to the toilet, and her business ability to deal with embarrassing scenes was quite skilled, so she automatically turned around and walked to the low cabinet in the corner of the house on the other side, opened the drawer, and took out something like a veil.
Yao Huan hurried to unload the goods, got up and sorted it out with the yellow straw paper that the little maid had handed her, and tied the belt of the skirt, but heard the little maid say "oops" softly.
"Yao Niangzi, there is no water in the basin, the slave should be beaten, the tired lady deigns to move a few steps, and the slave uses the well water to help you clean your hands."
As she spoke, she opened the wooden door, and sure enough, it was a small patio blocked by a school wall.
Yao Huan didn't think about it, so he walked out with her.
The little maid is like a backbone employee on the assembly line, pulling the rope to hit the well water, putting the bucket on the ground, and going to get the scoop of water.
Yao Huan naturally took a few steps forward, leaned over to pick up the little maid's water, and suddenly heard a clattering sound of branches and leaves behind him.
Immediately afterwards, when I saw the maid looking up, as if she had seen a ghost, she made a few "ho" and "ho" as if she was out of breath, threw the scoop, left Yao Huan, spread her legs and fled into the house.