In the hot summer, Liujin East Courtyard of the Autumn Mansion, a young man dressed in a family cloth coat took a net to remove insects in the grass and trees in the courtyard.

"The sound of insects in the past two days has made the young lady unable to sleep, so she should be careful. The young maidservant girl on the side specially told the young man in cloth.

This young man who seems to be eighteen or nineteen years old is Ji Fan, who has been in the Qiu Mansion for two months.

Because Ji Fan is clever, he can call falsely, and he is in charge of the servant Qiaoye, but he has changed the bad relationship when he came, and he can get along with him well.

"It's the season, these little insects are naturally going to surge, how can they be caught. Ji Fan took a breath and straightened his waist as if he was very tired.

"Hurry up, if you call again at night, see if Miss doesn't clean you up." "Qiaoye is more for Ji Fan's good.

"Is there so much work to do in the East Courtyard in the Sixth Place? Ji Fan picked up the flower pot, and there were just two crickets hidden underneath.

The young maid came to Ji Fan's side and pestled him with her hand, implying that there were still two little maids in the courtyard, don't say anything out of tune.

"I went out the day before yesterday to see that this hairpin is very good, and I bought it for you. Ji Fan tied the net pocket, wiped his hands with a cloth coat, and took out a small round glass hairpin from the cuffs.

For Ji Fan's false call, the young maid was quite useful, and her face was even a little red, but she took the hairpin but gave him a white look.

As a servant, Ji Fan was in the East Courtyard of Liujin, and he could do some things that maids couldn't do, but it was not rough work.

The entire Liujin East Courtyard, Qiao Ye took two little girls, and the male servant was Ji Fan, unlike women who were not suitable for going out, he could usually go out of the house and go to the street to help buy things.

Liujin East Courtyard is also a back house, a pavilion here, a pavilion there, scattered, graceful and generous, Ji Fan himself lives in a stone house, quite comfortable.

In a family like Qiufu, the master's eating and drinking, the four meals a day are regular and quantitative, and there is a small kitchen, just Ji Fan picks up some food and drink is quite exquisite.

Sweeping the dust during the day, sprinkling and sweeping the courtyard, cleaning all kinds of utensils, dismantling and washing the bedding and curtains, dusting off the dust and dirt cobwebs, dredging the nullah and culverts, and the large basin alone is six in the six into the east courtyard.

As the master of the Liujin East Courtyard, Qiu Yanshan is also very busy on weekdays, not to mention learning piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, but also to practice, she will practice dance in the courtyard and show some swordsmanship.

Walking between the children of the nobles is also something that Qiu Yanshan often does.

Liujin East Courtyard will be thoroughly cleaned once a month, and after dinner, Ji Fan can rest.

Ji Fan, who was boiling hot water, smiled secretly but didn't have to do it every day.

Overall, Ji Fan stayed fairly well in the Qiu Mansion.

"Is Miss Qiaoye keeping vigil tonight? You're tired from a day's work, I'll do it for you." Ji Fan helped the young maid pour the boiling hot water into the bathtub and smiled at her in a low voice.

"That's not good, if our young lady has something to do at night, it's not convenient for you, I'll just let Xiaoshuang and Xiaowan help out." The young maidservant secretly signaled that Ji Fan could rest.

Qiu Yanshan dislikes Ji Fan, and the matter of serving him closely must not be his turn, as a minion, he is just helping to do work and run errands.

The moonlight at night was particularly clear, like pebbles thrown into the water, and the sound of insects was really less.

Ji Fan, who was sitting on the pillar bench, slowly closed his eyes in the frosty moonlight.

Although there are not many large sects in the central part of Hanging Rock Prefecture, there are more than ten large and small dynasties, among which the Dalan Dynasty is the most powerful, and its territory almost occupies most of the central region of Hanging Rock Prefecture.

Tianlan City, as the imperial city of the Dalan Dynasty, is extremely prosperous, when Ji Fan arrived in Luoyu City before, he felt that it was very vast, but compared with Tianlan City, it was a small thing.

Qiufu is also a cultivation family, but under the knees of the ancestors, there are many women and few sons, two of the three daughters have been married, and the other is to worship the cultivation sect, both sons are in the court, one is in the criminal department, and the other is the deputy chief of the guard, which is not a big member.

At present, the people living in the Qiu Mansion have the strongest cultivation, and they are the old ancestor Chang Ying, who has not yet passed the middle stage of Tongxuan.

As for Qiu Yanshan, who entered the East Courtyard of the Sixth Entrance, it was just a minor cultivation on the second floor of Qi refining, and with a family background like Qiufu, in Tianlan City, I am afraid it would not even be a small household.

Putting aside the cultivation family, the food and clothing of the Qiu Mansion are not worried.

Although Qiu Yanshan's cultivation is not high, she can be regarded as the eldest lady of the long house, and she has cultivated it since she was a child, but she is talented in the three generations of children, and she is also very embarrassed in front of her ancestors.

There are a lot of young children in Qiu Yanshan's generation, because the ancestors have a lot of concubines under their knees, there are five ladies in the long room, there are several concubines, and there must be six or seven wives and concubines in the second room.

In addition to the ancestors, among the ladies of the Autumn Mansion, it is more of the wives of the two parties, that is, the first woman to sit on both sides of the main hall when Ji Fan was running for the family.

"Why are you asleep here?"

At night, the young maid Qiao Ye was idle, and when she saw Ji Fan sitting on the porch chair with one leg, she couldn't help but whisper to him.

Ji Fan opened his ordinary eyes slightly, looked at the young maidservant in front of him, and then smiled: "It's cool outside, and it's good to blow the wind." ”

"If it's too hot, use some ice, but don't let Miss know. Qiao Ye approached and said to Ji Fan in a very low voice.

"Forget it, let people find out, you can't pick my skin, and the summer won't be over in a few days. Ji Fan got up with a smile and said.

"Then I'll go to the small kitchen and give you a bowl of lotus seed soup to remove the fire. Qiaoye motioned for Ji Fan to go back to the house and wait.

When he first came, Qiao Ye, as Qiu Yanshan's personal maid, was very difficult to get along with, but under Ji Fan's frequent false flattery, he was very good to him now.

In Qiufu, Ji Fan ate well and slept soundly, although he had to do some work on weekdays, he lived a much more comfortable life than before.

Back in the stone house, Ji Fan stretched his waist, sat on the chair, picked up the teapot, and took a sip at the spout, just like an old lady.

The stone house is not exquisite, a set of tables and chairs, a stone bed, and other than that, there are no big things.

After a while, Qiao Ye came in with a bowl of lotus seed soup.

"Drink slowly, it's not enough for the kitchen. ”

Seeing that Ji Fan was in a hurry, the young maid whispered to him.

"It's so late, don't you want to stop?"

Drinking a bowl of lotus seed soup, Ji Fan said with a comfortable smile on his face.

"Tomorrow, the side room of the parents' room will come to the house, and you can't rest yet, so you have to pay attention to it. Qiao Ye reminded Ji Fan.

When Qiaoye left, Ji Fan lay on the stone bed.

In the early morning of the next day, Ji Fan got up early to clean up and helped Qiao Ye change all the things after cleaning.

After breakfast, seeing Qiu Yanshan coming from Lou in a light gauze shawl, Ji Fan always felt that she was dressed a little revealing.

"In a few days, it will be the Holy Heaven Festival, all the houses in the house have to prepare, although there are not many people who enter the East Courtyard in the sixth, but they also have to arrange arrangements, what to buy You have paid here in Qiaoye, just go out to buy it, and today the ancestor called the opera troupe, so don't follow." Qiu Yanshan glanced at Ji Fan and said to him.

In the Liujin East Courtyard, Xiao Shuang and Xiao Wan's status is relatively low, they are just rough maids, and they can't keep up with Qiu Yanshan's side.

Hearing Qiu Yanshan's words, Ji Fan bowed slightly, and hurriedly sent her and Qiaoye out of the hospital, he was not very willing to follow his master in and out, so it was better to go out to the street to have a leisure.

When he came to Qiu Mansion, Ji Fan also felt that it was not so easy to serve as a servant, and it was already difficult to serve a young lady from a small family, let alone a large family.

"Holy Heaven Festival?"

Ji Fan had only spent a Holy Heaven Festival once when he was in Xuancheng in Cangluan Prefecture before.

As far as Ji Fan knows, Cangluan Prefecture and Hanging Rock Prefecture, as well as Xingluohai, every year in the middle of summer, there will be sacrifices of the Holy Heavenly Festival to show respect for the way of heaven.

Some families with profound backgrounds also attach more importance to the sacrifices of the Holy Heaven Festival, one is to hope that heaven will bless them, and the other is to highlight the family heritage.

"This Autumn Mansion is still too small. ”

After entering the east courtyard of the sixth place, seeing the maids and servants in the mansion in a hurry, looking like they were going to entertain distinguished guests, Ji Fan couldn't help but smile in his heart.

Qiu Mansion is located in the west of Tianlan City, which is not too conspicuous compared to large households, but the streets outside the house are quite lively.

Hanging the small money bag given by Qiaoye, Ji Fan bought some playthings on the street early, and immediately went to the Qingyan Garden, as for the things to be used for the sacrifice, he didn't need to take care of it.

Generally, Ji Fan has nothing to do, and the place he is most willing to come to is the Qingyan Garden in the west of the city, he prefers to listen to music and watch dances, and spend some money to drink some tea in the garden, but he also enjoys it.

What Qingyan Garden introduced today is the breeze drunk, the piano music is like a breeze, and the sword dance is drunk and crying frost.

For Ji Fan, this Qingfeng drunkenness was not exquisite at all, but he was still very interested and intoxicated.

If Yin Bao'er sees Ji Fan like this, she will probably have to laugh at his fault, if someone sings a song and dances, she can lead him away.

After having a meal in Qingyan Garden, Ji Fan kept messing around until the afternoon, and then he returned to Qiufu with two large packages.

"What is this for?"

As soon as he entered the East Courtyard, Ji Fan found that Qiaoye, Xiaoshuang, and Xiaowan were kneeling in the courtyard, and several flower pots were smashed, and even a dwarf pine was cut off.

"Why did you come back?"

Qiu Yanshan obviously had a big young lady's temper, and looked at Ji Fan who was carrying two large packages.

"The servant wanted to make the young lady happy, and went to buy kites and fireworks for the young lady, as well as these things to make lanterns. Ji Fan hurriedly stepped forward to show Qiu Yanshan the contents of the package.

Ji Fan bought a lot of small and small things, as well as rattles and hydrangeas.

"This is who made Miss unhappy, and the slave has to be angry with Miss even if he fights. Ji Fan put down his things and looked at the three girls of Qiaoye who were kneeling on the ground, showing loyalty to Qiu Yanshan.

"Is it just you, a lowly servant? Although Qiu Yanshan looked down on Ji Fan, she was still a little angry that he could say this.

As for the flattering Ji Fan, as a minion, it won't make him too sad.