Chapter 17: The Courtyard

This is also a small courtyard with one entry and one exit, but what is better than before is that the courtyard has a main room, two small ear rooms, and a small kitchen.

It's all small, but Su Xiyan just likes small yards!

On the right hand side of admission is a banyan tree the size of two people's arms, and next to the tree are a stone table and two stone benches.

The ground is overgrown with weeds, and no one should have cleaned it.

On the left-hand side is a small cloister that does not lead anywhere, but it is just a section, overgrown with vines, which is quite beautiful.

Twenty steps in front is the main house, on the left side of the main room are two ear rooms, and then some behind are the small kitchen, the small kitchen used to be the wall, and the right side was directly connected to the wall.

Su Xiyan liked it very much, turned to the four maids and said:

"This courtyard will be our home from now on! In the future, in addition to the monthly allowance given by the government, I will give two taels of silver every month. ”

There is still a lot of silver from the pit last time, and she is not short of this amount now.

Except for Xiaoyu, the other three were stunned when they heard it! Two two? The monthly allowance given to them by the government is only 500 wen per month!

They are all rough maids, and it is very good that the house can provide food and shelter and 500 wen a month.

Merely... One of the maids was bold and asked with some concern: "Fifth girl, the slave knows that you are only ten taels a month, this is for us, you?" ”

Su Xiyan waved his hand, smiled indifferently and said, "It's okay, what's your name?" ”

"Slave Chun'er, slave Xiaoxia, the old slave's surname is Qian, just call the old slave Qian's mother." The three of them bowed their heads respectfully and replied one by one.

Su Xiyan nodded, looking at it all honestly, and then asked Xiaoyu to take out three taels of silver and distribute it to them, thinking about it for a while, and said:

"It's called "Listen to Yuxuan"! You work hard to clean up today, this is a reward for everyone, and from next month, it will still be two taels per person. ”

After saying it in one breath, Su Xiyan felt a little thirsty.

With a wave of his hand, Xiao Yu made up his mind, and after thanking the three of them, he began to divide his labor.

Seeing that they were scattered, Su Xiyan entered his main room.

At the entrance, there are two sets of reception tables and chairs, and there are some unsightly decorations on the wall in front of you.

On the left side is a side kang, and this is the difference between the south and the north.

In the middle of the kang is a low table with cushions on both sides. Behind is the window, and on the opposite side of the kang is a small mahogany bed, this room is obviously cleaned, and it is quite clean.

It's just that Su Xiyan doesn't have the heart to look at it anymore, she is really going to die of thirst.

I closed the door, closed my eyes, merged into consciousness, and entered my little attic.

Rushed to the Xiaoice box and took out a can of Coke, I hadn't drunk it for a long time, and drank three or four sips in one go.

"Ha~cool!"

Then I cooked a pack of instant noodles in a small electric pot, and I didn't take a bowl, and I ate it directly in a small pot.

"Hiccup."

Su Xiyan hiccuped with satisfaction, she hadn't eaten so presumptuously for a long time, and only when she returned to this small room did she feel that this was her true self.

In the past, no one told how much she had been wronged, and no one would run back to the attic to have a big meal to vent.

At this time, the direction of the window in the attic is exactly facing the window of the outside room, and you can clearly see the scene in the courtyard and the four people who are busy with it.

It was almost winter, and she remembered that she had dressed it in October, when she had just graduated and it had been a month......

Su Xiyan suddenly had the illusion of being in a different world, obviously she was holding a can of Coke in her hand now, and she was still sitting on this yellow sofa.

However, the scenery outside the house is quite different......

"I wonder if grandpa will find out that I'm missing, will he be in a hurry to find me?"

Su Xiyan muttered to himself.

Get up and walk towards the attic door in the space.

In the past, she opened the door and walked down the stairs to her grandfather's Chinese medicine hall, but now she opens the door...

But it's a wall.

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In the next few days, the whole courtyard of Su Mansion was cleaning and arranging.

Listening to Yuxuan is far away, because the old lady still has a place to use Su Xiyan, so she is also "loving" to avoid her morning and dusk.

This invitation other than her is a new rule after arriving in Beijing, saying that it is to start customizing the new Sufu system.

She is happy, every morning, Qian Ma in the small kitchen will go to the big kitchen to pick up their dishes today, although the dishes cooked by Qian Ma are all home-cooked, but the taste is good!

Ah Chun is mainly responsible for laundry, and Xiao Xia is cleaning. Xiaoyu, of course, is a close service, the same bath once every two days, she will go to the attic to take a bath for another day.

Occasionally, I sat on the stone bench under the tree and read medical books, and watched a few maids in the corridor making a line, making trouble.

Qian's mother will also bring some sugar water very intimately, sometimes mung bean soup, sometimes lemonade.

In fact, taking out the lemons in the refrigerator with great fanfare was too eye-catching, so she took some lemon powder and asked Qian's mother to brew it occasionally to drink.

In this way, the carefree days passed for more than ten days.

On this day, Tingyuxuan, who had no one to visit all day, had a maid from the house to report and ask Su Xiyan to go to the old lady's house tomorrow to say goodbye.

Thinking that there was something to say, Su Xiyan rewarded them with a few pennies and agreed.

The next day, I had breakfast early, and after thinking about it, Su Xiyan still went to the space to get a piece of blood pressure medicine, and in order to highlight its preciousness, she specially found a good-looking porcelain bottle to put it.

Then he took the little fish to the old lady's yard.

When she arrived, the three ladies and two sisters were already there, and the old lady didn't say anything because the road was far away.

Of course, Su Xiyan was a sensible and well-behaved offering, handed the small porcelain vase to the old lady, and said in her usual soft and glutinous voice:

"This is the pill that my granddaughter has carefully prepared in the house for more than ten days."

Of course, she can't say that she is enjoying life comfortably these days.

This kind of white pill is not the first time the old lady has seen it, and the medicine that gave Su Yingxue to reduce fever last time seems to look similar to this one, but it is smaller.

So she asked curiously, "What is this?" ”

Su Xiyan continued to behave obediently, and said: "This is my grandfather's ancestral secret recipe, and if there is that situation last time, it will be much better to take it." ”

The old lady was very excited when she heard this, and she was afraid that the same thing would happen again like on the boat.

Immediately carefully let Zhang Mo beside him put it away, and said: "Okay, hey, I used to see you and talk little, but I feel more and more sensible these days!" Your yard is so far away, you don't have to come here deliberately if you don't have anything to do in the future, if there is anything important, your grandmother will let someone inform you. ”

Su Xiyan got his wish, and his heart was ecstatic! Hurry up and thank you.

The five people sitting next didn't say anything, because they had all received the shower gel that Su Xiyan had put in a porcelain bottle before.

Su Xiyan also practiced calligraphy by the way, and wrote the words "bath fragrance" and pasted it on the bottle.

This bath lotion is really easy to use, much better than the soap and rose dew they use on a daily basis. After washing the whole body, there is a faint floral fragrance, and I am a little reluctant to use it.

Listening to Xiaoyu, Aunt Qiu's maid accidentally spilled some and was beaten up.

In fact, there were two bottles of shower gel in her bathroom, and they were filled with the ones they bought the year before, and it seemed that they would expire in a month. It won't really expire anyway, and it will be again in 24 hours.

I'll give them a little bit in the future, hehe, buy people's hearts or something, she will do it too!