Chapter 61: Decorating the Courtyard
"Why can't it be her?" The Confucian asked rhetorically, and was silent for a while before saying, "Your aunt and I don't have a daughter, she has always wanted to have another one, but unfortunately she hurt her body when she gave birth to Jiming, and it is impossible to have any more children in the future." It's just a coincidence that Wei Jin doesn't have a father and mother, and she has my eyes, and she will take it back and raise it under your aunt's knees, and she will have a daughter's dream. ”
"I don't think that girl Wei Jin will necessarily let you get your wish."
"It doesn't matter if you don't. It's not forcing her, she's willing to be the best, and it's okay if she doesn't want to. ”
Seeing that the fourth uncle was a little tired, Wei Zan said goodbye with interest. After leaving the small farm, he turned his heel and ran to the town to find Wei Jin.
"Let Dabao move to you?"
Wei Jin glanced at him in surprise.
"Didn't my fourth uncle say that he would let Dabao study with me? There are few people there anyway, so it's more convenient for him to live here. Don't you think it's right? ”
"That's not it, I thought you didn't like outsiders following."
"They are all my Wei children, how can they be outsiders. Besides, the fourth uncle likes you, so I can't take care of your family for him. ”
Wei Zhan's straightforwardness made Wei Jin feel less suspicious.
Wei Zan didn't live in the town, he built a big house in the village, a courtyard with three entrances, and a garden.
Next to the house, the village funded the construction of a school, four medium-sized courtyards, and a flower wall and a pond separated from Wei Zhan's house.
The pond was dug on the spot, and the water from the small river outside the village was diverted to make a canal, and the front was widened, and fish were raised and lotus roots were planted. In summer, the lotus leaves are green, and there is a unique taste of boating on it.
When digging the pond, Wei Jin also gave an idea, from the small bridge between the school and Wei Zhan's yard to extend a nine-curved bridge deep into the pond, and built a pavilion at the end, surrounded by water and in the middle of the lotus flowers, especially catering to the romantic feelings of the literati.
On the day when the courtyard of Wei Zhan's house was completed, Wei Jin also came to the door with big treasures and gifts to congratulate him.
Wei Zan lives alone in the backyard, his personal servant Shuwen lives in the wing room connected to the middle of the backyard, the middle courtyard is next to the small courtyard in the backyard, and the three main rooms and two side rooms are reserved for Dabao. Here he will continue to study for five or six years. In addition to opening poetry books, there are also many skills of the six arts of the gentleman (except for the emperor).
The main wing of the courtyard is facing a large garden, on the other side is the guest room, and then the front yard is the place for entertaining. The servants went out at the moon gate between the middle courtyard and the backyard, and the side room against the mezzanine was where they lived.
"See for yourself what you need and ask your sister to prepare it for you. You can also move the things you like, and you also have to find a scholar to help you with your daily affairs. ”
If this is in this branch, the parents in the family will prepare in advance, but Zhangcun is from an old farmer, so it is impossible for them to think about these things. If it weren't for Wei Zhan's suggestion, even Wei Jin wouldn't have thought that it would be time to prepare a scholar for his younger brother.
After thinking about it, Wei Jin planned to go to the city to find a tooth man to buy a child.
Although some people in this village also want to come, but after all, this is a matter of serving people, they are all people from the same village, they don't look up and look down, and their parents are also looking at it, and it is definitely not as convenient as the children who bought it.
Wei Zan also meant this, and also told her the name of the tooth man who helped her buy a helper before, saying that the other party was more realistic and would not cheat her.
Except for the configuration of the scholar, Wei Zan has already helped prepare other things, she only needs to bring daily necessities and clothes for Dabao.
It's just that after entering the small courtyard, she felt that this courtyard was too lifeless, and it might be better if she got some green bamboo or other plants to plant along the wall.
In addition, this yard is not big, and the garden is also small, so it is not possible to make a big rockery pool, but the miniature bonsai garden can be operated. After all, my brother is going to live here for five or six years, of course, how comfortable is it.
Do bonsai Wei Jin will do some, but only the most basic kind. She didn't have the time to do the styling for a long time.
After walking around the yard and writing down what she roughly needed, she hurried back to town.
When I went back, I found someone to go to Dongtao Village to order a lot of bonsai pots. There are round, square, and peculiar shapes.
In addition to opening bonsai pots, you also have to find some miniature rockeries that can be used as bonsai, and this piece will be handed over to the eldest brother-in-law to help find it.
Many rich people have to make rocks to make gardens, some of the rocks are not necessarily useless to move over, but also have to be repaired, what she needs is these repaired and discarded rocks.
It just so happened that the eldest brother-in-law didn't have much effort to find a channel, which was a reading garden built by Zheng Yuanwai in Dongzhen for his son. The eldest brother-in-law is not very good at choosing, so he hurriedly asked someone to drive to pick up the third sister and choose it himself.
Wei Jin made bonsai because her family was famous for its garden bonsai modeling and flower planting. Her family mainly makes flowers and orchard plants, but there is a large bonsai garden company base next to her house, and she also went there to work for a while, making the most basic small bonsai.
This time, I was also interested in cleaning up the garden for my younger brother. Anyway, she doesn't have to worry about the powder shop at home, and the tea garden on the mountain is watched by the master, and it is not her turn to take care of it, so she will be idle.
At the powder shop, she hired two more jobs and handed over the work of making pot helmets. This time to do garden bonsai, she came with four flowers.
It's not good for a little girl to keep the stove every day, and even her skin is rough. You don't have to do it yourself, you can also direct it on the side. More importantly, she wants to slowly teach Sihua how to aesthetics and how to decorate her home.
In the future, Dabao will definitely rise step by step, as his sister, naturally he can't be too vulgar, not to mention proficient in calligraphy and painting, at least you can pick up what people say, and understand what they mean. These are things that take time to train.
Wei Zhan's face turned black when he saw them come back with a cart of messy stones.
Wei Jin smiled flatteringly, and then pulled Sihua'er into the small courtyard, and asked people to move the fired bonsai pot down and put it in the place she designated.
A small pond was dug against the wall in advance, it was not big, almost three or four square meters, dug down two or three meters deep, then tamped the soil, and then flattened the bottom with stone chips, and finally poured into running water, and after clarification, it was a small pond.
The largest rockery was carefully placed by her, and some other messy gravel was piled up at the bottom, so as to ensure that the large rockery would not deviate or even fall over.
There are some sunken places on the rockery, fill it with soil, transplant it into bamboo or some small plants, and wait for a long time, and then slowly grow some moss or something, it will look better.
Little by little, it took about half a month for seven or eight bonsai to be transplanted to life, making the small yard elegant and charming.