"Everywhere, Young Master Du is well-connected and has the help of the Liang family. The villain did not dare to take credit. Mo Jingming said with a smile.

If it was said that he and Du Jinning were still on an equal footing at the beginning, but now that he sees the Liang family's attitude towards the Du family, he treats Du Jinning with no ordinary respect. He really didn't expect that the young master in front of him would have a good relationship with the young master of the Liang family, and let the Liang family devote all the efforts of craftsmen to help her build a house.

He is just a small craftsman, and the status difference between him and the Liang family is too far. The Liang family stretched out a little finger, and he couldn't accommodate himself in this realm.

However, respect is respect, and business always has to be discussed.

He opened his mouth and said, "Young Master Du, can I talk to you?" ”

Du Jinning naturally knew what Mo Jingming wanted to say.

Now that she has made up her mind, she won't go around the bend with Mo Jingming: "Master Mo, what you mean is that Shopkeeper Yao has already told me." I'm sorry, but I can't use this garden for you. ”

Mo Jingming was stunned for a moment, very disappointed. He bowed regretfully: "That's the villain's recklessness." ”

"I'm sorry." Du Jinning said apologetically.

After a pause, she asked again: "How many people are in your construction team?" Do you set it up and do the work yourself, and then divide the profits, or do you have another owner? ”

Mo Jingming didn't know what Du Jinning meant by asking this, but he still said honestly; "We have a team of twenty people, but we have hired dozens of others to do rough work. They did all the menial work such as digging pits and laying soil. As for how much, it depends on the size of the house and the number of houses. I'm the head of the gang, and I take the work, and they all obey me. ”

Du Jinning nodded and stopped talking.

Yao Shuqi said to Du Jinning: "Young Master, you have come from afar with Young Master Qi, and you are tired of carriages and horses, so it is better to go to Young Master Qi's side to rest and rest." When you have lunch and rested, I will take you to the Gongyuan to see the house. ”

"Okay."

Du Jinning was already familiar with Qi Mansion, went to eat with Qi Muyuan, and rested for a while in the courtyard where he used to live, and then went to see the mansion of the Gongyuan with Yao Shuqi.

It was only at this time that Yao Shuqi had time to report to Du Jinning about the purchase of someone: "...... The news was told to me by Young Master Liang. There is a family in this city whose lord has committed an accident in Beijing, and his hometown here in Fucheng has also been beheaded all over the house, and all his subordinates have been sold. So I went to look at it, and picked three families to buy it, a total of eleven people, one of whom was a cook. The old man Zhu who guarded the door was the eldest of the three families. ”

Saying that, he was a little apprehensive: "I don't know if the villain did this properly." If the young master doesn't like this kind of subordinate, the villain can sell them again, and the villain will be responsible for all losses. ”

This kind of subordinate person has benefits and disadvantages.

The advantage is that he understands the rules better, because he has always been a slave, and the original master has committed something again, and he knows more about peace than those who were sold as slaves by their parents from civilian backgrounds.

The disadvantage is that these people used to stay in the mansion, and they will inevitably carry the family customs of the original owner's family. If the family is good, that's fine; If it is not right, this kind of subordinate will have some bad habits.

Moreover, because the master's family was robbed and killed, some people are more taboo and unwilling to have this kind of subordinate. This is also the reason why Yao Shuqi can buy them.

"How long have you been buying? What do you think of them? Du Jinning asked.

"Twenty days. During this time, I asked them to clean the newly built house, and they were quite honest and did not appear to be lazy and slippery. Yao Shuqi said.

It is these subordinates, he asked the chief housekeeper of the Liang family to pick it together. The chief steward of the Liang family has been a housekeeper for more than ten years, and it is the son who inherits his father's business, and his father was also the old housekeeper of the Liang family. He was very experienced in picking people, and he also mentioned it to Yao Shuqi at that time, and said a lot of ways to pick people, Yao Shuqi felt that he was very reasonable, and these people looked good, so he bought it back.

"That's good, leave them behind. If there's something wrong with them, it's never too late to sell them. ”

Worried that Du Jinning was young and didn't understand, Yao Shuqi told him about the taboo again, and said about Steward Liang's help to pick people.

"It's fine. As long as they don't have anything to do with the original master's family, I don't care about that. Du Jinning said, "The Liang family doesn't have to worry about it. Since Liang Xiankuan didn't say anything about this, then this housekeeper was his trust. I am good friends with Liang Xiankuan, and I have no conflict of interest with the Liang family, so Steward Liang has no reason to harm me. ”

As soon as he said this, Yao Shuqi put his heart down.

When he arrived at the Gongyuan, Du Jinning took a look at the courtyard.

It is a very simple courtyard, with three main rooms, two east and west wings, one side of the inverted seat is used as a kitchen and utility room, one side is a firewood room and a latrine, the middle yard is more spacious than the Fuxue side, a vacant lot is enclosed with a fence, and the middle is a vegetable garden. It's just that this yard has not been inhabited for a long time, and the vegetable garden is deserted. Yao Shuqi sent someone to clean up the yard, and the weeds inside had just been pulled out. There is also a well near the kitchen door.

Du Jinning said: "I still live in Qi Mansion these days, and I will live here on the first day of the exam." ”

Yao Shuqi nodded: "Okay." ”

Back in Qi Mansion, Du Jinning told him about the situation, and Qi Muyuan was naturally very happy. Du Jinning asked again: "I'm going to visit Liang Xiankuan tomorrow, will you go?" ”

Qi Muyuan waved his hand: "You go, I won't go." ”

Du Jinning knew that he was a little withdrawn and didn't like to socialize with people, so he was not reluctant. She wrote a letter of worship and asked Yao Shuqi to send someone to send it to the Liang Mansion.

After breakfast on the second day, Du Jinning took Yao Shuqi to Liang's mansion, and Liang Xiankuan was waiting for her at home. When I saw her coming, I was very happy, and as soon as we met, I asked, "What do you think about that house?" How did you come up with the idea of doing that? ”

Although the gardens have existed for a long time, most of them are royal gardens, and they do not pay attention to the layout of flowers, trees, rockery buildings, and most of them are captive animals for the hunting of nobles. Later, in the Tang Dynasty, there were literati who built gardens according to their own landscape maps, but they were only a prototype and could not form a theory of garden construction art techniques. It was not until the Ming and Qing dynasties that garden construction gradually matured.

Liang Xiankuan's family does this, and he has seen a lot of gardens. But it was the first time he had seen such an exquisite garden as Du Jinning, which was why he was so amazing.

Du Jinning naturally can't say that she has seen too much Suzhou gardens in later generations, and she is a plant learner, because the major of garden design involves a lot of plant planting knowledge, she learned garden design by the way. It wasn't difficult for her to design a garden.