Chapter 31 Furnishing the Yard
Fang Shi didn't have a good breath and said, "Let's go back first, I'll discuss something with your mother." ”
"Yes, grandmother." Yu Heng pursed his lips and smiled slightly.
"Grandmother, I'll go too." Lin Fan hurriedly got up and saluted the Fang clan.
"Go ahead."
Lin Fan followed Yuheng back to Songxue Courtyard.
"Sister-in-law, it's still cold, where are the well-cultivated flowers and plants?"
To decorate the yard, nothing has been prepared now.
Yu Heng smiled, "I also have a Zhuangzi in the northern suburbs, and I have raised some flowers and plants, and I have sent someone to select them, and they will be delivered in the morning." ”
"Sister-in-law and Zhuangzi!" Lin Fan was surprised, the northern suburbs are on the edge of the capital, and the location is the best.
"Yes, it turned out to be my mother's dowry Zhuangzi."
Lin Fan said enviously, "Sister-in-law is so happy, so much dowry." ”
"You are also very happy, my mother loves you so much."
"yes, I think so too."
"So what's going to happen now?"
Several maids divided the yard into several pieces according to Yuheng's request.
Yuheng took the rice paper and scribbled on it with a homemade quill pen to draw a sketch of the layout.
The yard has not yet been rectified, and the flowers and plants of Zhuangzi in the northern suburbs have been delivered, with seven or eight small saplings the size of a wrist.
The steward of Zhuangzi personally sent it over.
"Old slave Hu Daocai, meet the girl."
Hu Daocai is the chief steward of Zhuangzi in the northern suburbs, and his family works in Zhuangzi, and he is in his forties this year, and he is an honest and honest person.
"Mr. Hu, please get up."
"Thank you, girl."
Hu Daocai stood up, his back slightly hunched, and he stood in front of him.
"Girl, these flowers and trees are carefully cultivated in the Zhuangzi, you can see how to place them, as well as these magnolia and osmanthus flowers."
Lin Fan walked and watched, carefully looking at the various flowers in front of him, and there were a few orchids and camellia that were relatively rare.
"Steward Hu, the weather is so cold, why are these all blooming, and they are still so well raised."
Lin Fan praised again and again, the Shou'an Hou Mansion is really profound.
"If you go back to the girl, there is a hot spring in Zhuangzi, and it just so happens that these flowers are raised next to the hot spring."
Hu Daocai replied.
"There is still a hot spring on Zhuangzi?"
Lin Fan's face was surprised.
"yes, do you want to go to the hot springs?" Yu Heng said to her with a smile.
"Yes!" Lin Fan immediately replied, his eyes were shining, and he looked at Yuheng expectantly.
Yu Heng touched her head, "When the Guangming Temple comes back, we will ask for the consent of my grandmother and mother, and we will go together." ”
"Okay!" Lin Fan nodded happily.
"As long as the girl sends someone to Zhuangzi one day in advance to explain, the old slave will arrange it first."
When the steward heard this, he immediately replied.
"Okay, Hu Guan, these magnolias are planted along the right side of the courtyard against the wall, and these osmanthus trees, plant them on the left, and together with the two osmanthus trees, the flowers and plants will be placed according to the requirements of the moon."
Yu Heng replied and explained to Steward Hu.
As soon as Yu Heng finished speaking, Cai Yue took the sketch drawn by her own girl quite imposingly, and began to instruct her subordinates to place flowers and plants, draw circles and plant trees.
Not to be outdone, the seven cylinders ran up on their feet, grabbed the hoe, found the circle drawn, dug their heads, and after a while, a very deep tree pit was laid.
wiped the non-existent sweat on his forehead, and ran to Yu Heng, "Girl, Qiguan has already dug a tree pit." ”
With a dog-legged smile on her face, Yu Guang skimmed Caiyue, who was pointing fingers, and snorted coldly in her heart, she is a practical person, she doesn't want to have some sisters, she will only do things that move her mouth.
Yuheng took out a handkerchief to wipe her sweat and praised, "It's hard work, seven cylinders are awesome!" ”
Lin Fan also stretched out his thumb, "Qiguan is a good girl." ”
"Thank you, girl, for the compliment, thank you!" Qiguan bowed towards Yuhengyi, and then bowed towards Lin Faner.
made Yuheng drink Lin Fan couldn't help but laugh heartily.
Seven cylinders didn't feel right, touched their heads, and laughed along.
Cai Yue snorted, and knew where the little girl who used brute force could compare to her.
She is the girl's right-hand man, and she is a celebrity in front of her!
"By the way, Steward Hu, is there a rose in Zhuangzi? Other plants that can climb walls are also fine. ”
Yu Heng couldn't hold back a smile for a long time and asked at Steward Hu.
Steward Hu stopped what he was doing, "There are no seeds on the Zhuangzi, but there are wild ones, I don't know when the girl will want them, the old slave will take someone to dig some." ”
"Let's get some when it's warmer in the spring, the best pink and white ones are available."
After speaking, he looked at Lin Fan, "Do you want to get some to plant under the corner of the wall, and when you climb the wall, it will look good when it blooms." ”
"I don't want it, there are so many thorns in those flowers, I don't like it."
Lin Fan couldn't help but get goosebumps in his heart when he thought of the dense thorns crawling all over the walls.
"Then you can plant some wisteria, and when it blooms, the purple waterfall that hangs down from the trees is very beautiful."
Yuheng saw that she didn't like it, so he immediately gave another suggestion.
When Lin Fan once went to Changchun Bofu for a banquet, he saw a tree full of wisteria flowers in his cousin's yard, which was indeed very beautiful.
In the past, she also wanted to plant, but she was alone, and she didn't know where to get saplings.
I mentioned it to the Fang family and Ning Yijun a few times, but the Fang family and Ning Yijun have been living in the back house, and the wisteria is rare and valuable, so there is no way to get it to be planted.
Steward Hu hung his head and thought for a while, and replied, "Girl, the roses are easy to solve, but this wisteria is not very easy to get, and the old slave only knows that there are more than 20 trees planted in the red maple garden, and the price is also expensive." ”
Lin Fan heard that it was not easy to get it, and the price was still high, so he immediately shook his head, "Sister-in-law, I don't want it, get some creepers and plant them, and the green leaves on the wall are also very beautiful." ”
Creepers are much cheaper.
"It's okay, we don't buy more, just buy a few and plant them in your yard to watch, and when the flowers bloom all over the tree, I just come to your yard to enjoy the scenery."
Yuheng said.
Lin Fan thought about his small treasury, the New Year's bags and monthly bills accumulated over the past ten years, almost three hundred taels of silver, gritted his teeth and said, "Then I can just ask for two, one on the left and one on the right side of the yard." ”
The Hu steward should be dispatched, and when the time comes, it will be negotiated and sent over.
Yu Heng saw Lin Fan's painful look and pulled her into the inner room.
"Sister Fan, do you want to open your own shop to make money?"
Yu Heng asked in a low voice.
When he came out of the year, Lin Fan was already sixteen years old, and he didn't even start learning to be a housekeeper.
Yuheng was very curious about why her mother-in-law Ning and grandmother Fang didn't teach her housekeeping, nor did they marry her, and they didn't even mention her family affairs.
But she just got married, and the relationship is not so close, and she is embarrassed to ask.
"May I?" Lin Fan asked worriedly.
"Yes, as long as you want, my sister-in-law will help you." Yu Heng instigated.
"But I only have three hundred taels of silver, and I can't even rent a decent shop in the capital." Lin Fan said dejectedly.
"In partnership with me, I will give half of the silver, and you will give half of the silver, and we will divide it fifty-fifty when the time comes."
"Partnership?"
"Yes, it's a partnership."
Lin Fan's eyes lit up with hope, she also wanted to open her own shop to make money, and she could buy whatever she wanted.
It's so old, she hasn't earned a tael of silver by herself.
"So what are we going to do?" Lin Fan asked.
"Buy spicy chicken powder." Yu Heng thought of the spicy chicken he liked to eat and cook the most in his previous life.
"But we're not going to do it." Lin Fan spread his hands and said distressedly.
Yu Heng patted her head and said, "I will!" ”
"When the time comes, just leave the recipe to someone you trust." Yu Heng said with a smile.
Lin Fan thought for a while, "It's not cost-effective to pay five or five points for sister-in-law, and the same money and formula will be paid." ”
How precious the recipe is!
"Then we are four or six, you are four and I are six."
Yuheng did not shirk and immediately changed his words.
"That's fine." Lin Fan readily agreed, and finally lowered his voice and said to Yuheng, "Sister-in-law, you must not let your mother and grandmother know about opening a shop." ”
Yuheng didn't ask why, and stretched out his hand to reassure Lin Fan.
"Shall you send someone to find a shop first?" Lin Fan then asked.
Yu Heng shook his head, "I still have a shop on East Street that is empty, and the location is good, with a large flow of people, just enough to be available." ”
Lin Fan's mouth grew up, and he hurriedly stretched out his hand to cover it, "Sister-in-law, how many shops do you have?" ”
"I won't tell you." Yu Heng covered his mouth and smiled, and sold a pass.
"That's... Or maybe we're going to have two or eight. "The recipes for the shop are all made by my sister-in-law, and she only paid a little silver, four or six points, and my sister-in-law seems to have suffered a loss.
Although she is also a little reluctant to share so much.
"Forget it, it's just four or six points, who made you my sister-in-law, you should take care of you." Yuheng waved his hand arrogantly and generously refused.
For the sake of her beautiful life in the Lin Mansion in the future, it is not impossible to give up a little benefit.
Lin Fan was moved, didn't want it, grabbed her long sleeves, and whimpered, "Sister-in-law, you're really good." ”
Yu Heng pushed away her head leaning over, "Let's get the shop in order first, and look for someone who is good enough to use." ”
Yu Heng discussed with her.
"If I don't want my mother and grandmother to know, I can't use the people in the house." Lin Fan's face was bitter.
"Let me take care of that man's business."
The shopkeepers of other shops should know the talents in this area, and they can explain it and look for it first.
Lin Fan was even more ashamed, as if he couldn't help anything else except for a few pieces of silver.
Besides, my sister-in-law is not short of those few silvers.
"Don't worry, I'm sure you'll make money in the future." Yu Heng thought that she was worried that she would not be able to return to her roots, and comforted.
"I'm not worried." Lin Fan laughed, when he can make money, he will return to his sister-in-law.
"That's good."
It took a long time to set it up.
The weather is still a little cold, after sweating, the breeze blows, and it is easy to catch a cold, Yuheng instructed Huan'er to boil hot ginger tea for the working servant woman to go to the cold.
Yu Heng called the Hu steward to him.
asked, "Steward Hu, I wonder if we have any extra sweet potatoes on our Zhuangzi?" ”
Vermicelli is best made with sweet potatoes, and the cost of making rice is too high.
"Back girl, there are about 100 catties, most of which are kept for seeding."
"So little?"