Everyone ate and drank enough, and also chatted about family life, and talked about their separation, and after a long time, the food was full of heart, fatigue and surged, and they were a little sleepy.

Xie Pu immediately discovered this, and said with a smile: "It was my negligence, our family will be reunited from now on, there will be time to talk in the future, and there is no need to rush for a while, I shouldn't have left everyone to sit for half a day." The house has been cleaned up, the kang has also been burned, this time it will be warm, why don't you disperse, go back to the house to freshen up and get a good night's sleep, right? After so many days of traveling, everyone must be extremely tired. ”

The Song family is not young, and he is indeed a little unable to hold on, revealing a tired smile: "I won't be polite to you, I am indeed a little sleepy." Just let the girls lead the way, and go and rest by yourself. Ming'er, you have to continue to go to the Yamen on a business trip. ”

Xie Pu got up with a smile and said, "I helped my mother over, and if I said a few more words by the way, it wouldn't take much effort." Besides, I want to stop by to see my mother. He paused, "Su Min and I arranged for my mother and mother to live in the courtyard behind the main courtyard, because it is a house built by the government, the layout is the same, so there is only one courtyard, but the house inside is very spacious and comfortable, the sun is good during the day, ventilation and ventilation, and the heating things in winter are also complete." Because there are a lot of houses in the yard, my mother brought her sister to live in it, which is more than enough. It's just that in this way, you have to live in the same yard with my mother, I don't know ......."

He hesitated. I thought that this arrangement was nothing, but I heard from my wife Wen that on the way from Tongzhou to Beiping City, because the Song mother and daughter had come to the children's ship, the mother, Mrs. Xie, would rather retreat from the cabin than be in the same room with the Song family.

Song smiled faintly: "You have always been filial, you can arrange us to that courtyard, naturally you have a reason, I believe that the house there must be very warm and comfortable to live in." I don't care, I want to talk to my third brother and sister several times, let her let go, don't be careful, not only can I not respond to me, but it will make it difficult for the juniors in the family to follow. But she refused to meet and talk to me once, and I couldn't rush to persuade her, so the trouble has not been solved to this day. However, the third brother and sister have always loved you, the only son, as long as you persuade her, she must still be able to understand. Besides, I won't stay here for long, she just won't see me anymore, and she will just endure it for a few more days. When I'm gone, she'll no longer be afraid of being an eyesore. ”

"You're serious." Xie Pu hurriedly said, "My mother is just playing tricks." I'll persuade her well. It's all a family, and you've always treated her kindly and compassionately, so why should she mess around like this again? It's also a joke that the neighbors see it. ”

Song smiled silently.

Xie Pu helped Song to walk in front, and Xie Meijun followed with the child. They first walked out of the flower hall, passed through the ornate hanging flower gate, and arrived at the main courtyard.

The main courtyard is very spacious, it is a typical courtyard building, the main house has three rooms with two ear rooms, and three left and right wing rooms, all of which are connected by a verandah. Even though it's nighttime, you can see the grandeur of this courtyard just by the light of the lanterns hanging under the verandah.

Xie Pu said: "This is the courtyard where our husband and wife live, the main house is where we live, the left wing room is the big study room I use, and the right wing room was originally vacant, but now it has been cleaned up. If you need to ask Xixi to come to the house to teach, it is also in the right wing. In this way, the children and I do not disturb each other, but it is also convenient for me to keep an eye on the children reading and checking their homework when I have free time. ”

Xie Huizhi heard the words behind him, shrunk his neck, and made a grimace at Xie Xianzhi and Xie Jinzhi, and was glanced at by the latter. Xie Hanzhi secretly laughed beside him.

When turning, everyone can still see that the ear rooms on both sides of the main courtyard seem to have a small courtyard, although it is not fully enclosed, but it can be regarded as a small space. Listening to Xie Pu's tone, it was probably the place arranged for the two aunts.

Xie Pu didn't care if the aunts lived in front of him, but he just followed the Wen family's decision. But when Aunt Dajin saw this, she began to worry about whether she would live too far away from her daughter; Wanqin frowned slightly, worried that she lived under the nose of the main room, and she was afraid that it would not be easy to go out.

Turn the corner, there is a doorway in the lower right corner of the main courtyard, and after going out, there is a straight and spacious passageway, which the family is used to calling the north passage. Correspondingly, the Qingyun Lane, which is connected by the side door for carriages and horses to enter the back house carriage and horse shed, is habitually called the south aisle by the servants.

This house is not the common north facing south, but in order to accommodate the scenery of Shichahai, to ensure that the back garden of this row of mansions can borrow the view of Shichahai, but can not peep into the neighbor's back house, and specially planned, built, is all sitting east and facing west pattern. Even if many people are not used to it, no one dares to ask too much for a large official dormitory that is spacious and comfortable with its own garden and does not cost much rent to live in for nothing. After so many years, the officials who served in the Beiping government basically lived in these standard official residences that were presided over by the imperial court in the early years, the Yanwang Mansion was the board, and the political envoy was responsible for the construction. If you are really not used to it, it is a big deal to buy a private house outside your own house. Anyway, there are many properties to choose from in Beiping City, if you buy land directly outside the city to build yourself, then you can build whatever you want, no one forces you.

After Xie Pu got used to it, he felt that this house was okay, although the light or something might be a little unsatisfactory, but the ventilation was good, and there were enough houses to meet his needs. He didn't lack a comfortable mansion, but he hadn't lived in it for a few days, and compared to the official residences in the underdeveloped areas where he had served as a magistrate in the past, this mansion was really very good.

He also pointed out to the crowd several doorways at both ends of the road: "On the north side of the row are four courtyards side by side, all of the same size and pattern, and I am going to give them four houses to live in." If Brother Chun is closer to any cousin, it doesn't matter where he lives, there are empty rooms in every courtyard. If you want to live alone in a hospital, the front guest house is still empty, and it is convenient to come and go, and no one has disturbed it, which is very quiet. There are also four courtyards at the back of the courtyard where the elders live, right next to the garden. I'm going to give Sister Hui, Sister Zhen'er and a few of their sisters. When I first picked a house, I looked at the plan and picked it without saying a word.

"Even if the garden of this house is not very good, the place is too big, and it takes a lot of effort to take care of it, but just looking at these eight courtyards, it is just for my four sons and four daughters to live in, isn't it a good place for me? So I took a fancy to it at first sight! Later, I inquired and found out that when this house was first built, the then political envoy Si Zuo Senate also had four sons and four daughters, so he specially asked the craftsman to build the house into this pattern. What a coincidence! ”

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