Chapter 184: The Old House

Of course, the Xie family didn't know what happened to the pair of sisters-in-law in Pingnanbo's Mansion. After they saw Xie Pu away, when they returned to the small mansion, it was almost noon. Fortunately, the family had already prepared lunch, and everyone hurriedly had a full stomach, and then went back to their rooms to rest. After a while, everyone freshened up again, took the car to the Xie family's mansion, and sorted out their things.

Xie Mulin followed his family back to the Xie family's mansion in Pearl Bridge, and saw that the home in front of him was already very different from when he left that day, and he felt quite complicated.

The night they left, it was cold, the vegetation was withering, and it had rained, and the mansion looked bleak in the night.

And today, they are standing in front of the mansion, the sun is shining, the sun is shining, the grass and trees are luxuriant, and when they enter the door, the yard has been cleaned up, clean and tidy, where is there any sense of bleakness?

However, this does not mean that everyone is necessarily in a good mood. Even if it was just a quick glance, everyone still noticed that the home was different from before. For example, the broken plaques, furniture, and furnishings in the front hall, the silence in the direction of the carriage and horse shed, the dead flowers and plants on the roadside, and the faint smell of corruption in the air. Even if someone had been found to clean it, the mansion still left traces of being abandoned for nearly a month.

Everyone stood in the middle of the front yard, looking at this familiar and somewhat unfamiliar home, and couldn't help but feel very touched.

Cai Laotian, who had already moved over with his family to see the house in advance, reported to the Wen family: "Except for the wife and the people brought by the wife, only the shopkeeper Mao took the man in and went around, and nothing else was moved. The outer house has been cleaned, but there were remnants of the banquet before, and there has been no wind for the past two days, and the smell cannot be dispersed for a while. The two best horses in the carriage shed are gone, and I don't know who led them, and the rest is not cared for, they all starved to death, and they have been pulled away yesterday, and the cart is good, and the horses can be used directly.

"In the garden, there are flower beds and potted flowers in various yards, because of the rain, most of the ones that are easy to feed are not in a big problem, but they need to be pruned, and there is not a single delicate flower left...... In the greenhouse in the garden, the last few pots of flowers that the eldest lady loved the most were moved, and the rest were all dead, because the people hired before did not know how to do it, and the shopkeeper Mao did not dare to move lightly, so he didn't care about it......"

Wen was distressed to hear this. When she is bored, she also likes to raise a few pots of flowers to pass the time. The flowers in the greenhouse, except for some precious varieties, were brought over by Cao's, and most of the rest of the flowers and plants were taken care of by her. Now it's gone.

But now is not the time to lament that. After listening to Cai Laotian's report, Wen ordered him to continue to guard the door, and ordered his wife to help. She has to take a few children into the inner house to pack things and luggage, and the time is limited, so she must be responsible for everyone's yard, and everyone has a point, and there are few people under each person, so she can only give priority to picking out the soft ones. She had already instructed the shopkeeper Mao to help buy coarse white cloth, but there was no need to divide this part of the staff.

Xie Mulin took Li'er back to Xie Yingzhen's courtyard and lent the little girl Cuijiao to Xie Xianzhi. Wen also pointed out Cai Laotian's wife to Xie Xianzhi's envoy. After all, the latter not only has to clean up his own yard, but also his sister Xie Yinghui's yard together, and maybe he has to go to the upper room to collect the objects left by his biological mother Cao.

Everyone went their separate ways. Although Xie Mulin had Xie Yingzhen's memory, it was also a little difficult to recall trivial matters, so she instructed Li'er to tidy up her clothes, shoes and socks and go to the study by herself. Packing up books and stationery and other things, it is the least likely to make mistakes, anyway, Li'er only knows a few simple words, and she doesn't know too many things, so she can be fooled by Xie Mulin.

Xie Mulin carefully checked Xie Yingzhen's collection and found that this girl was a very well-behaved and honest girl, in addition to the "Three", "Hundred", "Thousand" and "Kindergarten Qionglin" used for school, rhyme books or something, there were several very large books of "Female Training" and "Female Commandment". Although there are a few piano scores and chess scores, they all look new, and they are obviously not the type that Xie Mulin often likes to read. There are also Tang poems, Song poems and the like, but there are very few, and they are basically prepared. Other than that, it's all copybooks and pattern books. This girl practiced calligraphy and embroidery, and she was quite active.

This is probably the standard configuration of the study of the daughter of an ordinary official eunuch, right? Not the type of talented woman. In my memory, Xie Yingzhen's homework seems to be average, less than the top, more than the bottom. The female gentleman invited by the Xie family put all his energy on Xie Yinghui, followed by the more talented Xie Yingrong. The little transparent Xie Yingzhen and Xie Yingfen are just a backdrop for her.

Shemulin sighed. She estimated that she would have to work hard in the future to make her image a little easier to learn in front of everyone, otherwise it would be difficult to explain the things she would know. In addition, there are no medical and health books in Xie Yingzhen's collection, which can be regarded as a BUG. Fortunately, the rest of the Xie family did not delve into it, probably because there was no shortage of this type of book in the outer study. She can explain that she borrowed the book from elsewhere.

In the future, if you have the opportunity, you can copy the books yourself and move some of the contents of the books in the study space. It's normal for manuscripts to be untraceable. If you move back and forth in the capital and Huyin, you can basically fool around if you find a chance to visit a few bookstores or something on the way.

Xie Mulin carefully selected the books he could use, especially some of the more practical ones, and only the entry-level piano and chess scores were selected, so you can read them when you have nothing to do in the future to pass the time. She asked Li'er to get two empty coat boxes over, and packed up the books and study utensils that she wanted to take away, especially paper, pen and ink, and took more of them, so as not to waste everything if she didn't come back for a few years. These things are quite expensive.

At this time, the storage skills she learned online in the past can be used, ensuring that the most things can be stored in the smallest space, without a little waste, and finally directly packed, pasted a seal, and the box was pasted with paper, and it was written on the top what type of items were inside, and it was easy to find.

As for some of the more delicate and valuable ornaments, vases and other things placed in the study, as well as valuable stationery that is more enjoyable than practical, she packed it up separately, and also stored it in different categories, and pasted a seal on the outside of the box, with the name of the thing written on it to make it easy to find. In the end, she pushed all the boxes that she wanted to stay behind to the corner of the house away from the window, and only waited for the dust-proof coarse cloth from Wen's side to cover it tightly, and it was all right.

By the way, she also had to remind Wen that she had to buy some anti-mosquito and anti-snake and rat medicinal materials, so as not to bite the furniture collection with any small things. The anti-ant potion also needs to be matched.

Xie Mulin thought about it, and she didn't know if there was a relevant recipe at home, so she had to turn over the books in the study space when no one was paying attention. She remembered that she had seen that there were relevant formulas on it, and the materials were not rare, and it was good to use them for the whole family.

After a long day of work, the sun is setting in the west. Xie Mulin was covered in sweat and his hands were dirty, and he glanced at Li'er, who was busy packing her clothes, and couldn't spare his hands at all. She didn't want to trouble anyone, so she simply said hello to Li'er, and walked to the front yard by herself, wanting to find someone to wash her hands.

The mansion is too big, but there are few people from the Xie family. Xie Mulin walked all the way to the front yard, but she didn't see a figure, after thinking about it, she simply went to Jinxuantang, there is a well there, and it should be very convenient to fetch water.

She hadn't taken a few steps when she heard a loud knock on the front door, accompanied by a burst of crying. If you listen closely, it seems familiar. Isn't this Xie Yinghui's voice?