In a few days, he will be home.

After thinking about it, Shu Ning made a request to her brother, and the two discussed it for a night, and Duan Ning finally nodded.

Two days later, it happened to be a day off, and he told his uncle and aunt that he was going to take his sister to visit his grandparents, and smoothly led her out of the gate in a carriage. On the way, he excused himself to find a place to avoid the snow under the pretext that the snow was too big, and found a sheltered alley on the street corner.

Duan Ning went up to talk to Tong Ying, Shu Ning heard their voices, held back the excitement in her heart, lifted the curtain a little, and sure enough, she saw Tong Ying who had been away for a long time.

It's been more than a year, and they haven't seen each other for more than a year. Even if there is an occasional exchange of letters, it still can't withstand the desire to meet. Even if it's like now, you can only look at it from a distance, and it's better than never seeing each other all the time.

He had lost a lot of weight, his complexion was darker, but he was in good spirits, and he had a smile on his face, and although he was talking to Duan Ning, his eyes kept looking at her, and he barely blinked his eyelids.

Shuning lifted the door curtain wider, anyway, Ma San'er, who was driving, was a cronie, and he had avoided to the side, and there was a hutong wall on the left and right, and there was no one on the road in front except Duanning and Tongying, so he didn't have to worry about being seen. She also looked at Tongying intently, not caring at all about the wind and snow being swept into the carriage.

Hey? How does he carry a cane? Could it be an injury?

Shuning immediately became worried. Obviously, Tong Ying also noticed her uneasiness, and unintentionally moved the wooden staff in her hand and said a few words to Duan Ning. Then Duan Ning came over and whispered to her: "He asked me to tell you not to worry, he just has some flesh wounds on his feet, and he is almost better." He took the cane because he was always invited to drink, and he could use a foot injury as an excuse when he didn't want to go. Shu Ning was not completely relieved: "So he is actually not fully injured?" If I had known that, I wouldn't have mentioned it. ”

Duan Ning patted her head and said, "He also wants to see you, if he really can't do it, he won't force himself." You're less hearted. I saw him jumping around, and he was very good. With that, he turned around and went back and continued to talk to Tongying. Shuning still looked at Tongying worriedly, and when Tongying saw this, she pretended to be warm and jumped a few times easily, indicating that the injury was really fine, but it made Shuning stare at it.

At this time, the sound of horses' hooves was heard not far away, and it was getting closer and closer. Shuning reluctantly lowered the curtain. But the curtains were lifted again. This carriage belonged to her exclusively, and she had been tampered with very early, and the windows were pasted with a layer of rain-soaked blue veil before the curtain was hung. Looking through the veil, you can see clearly, but the people outside can't see the people inside. Through the veil, she saw two young men walking by on horseback, who seemed to be someone Tongying knew, and greeted him. Duan Ning was afraid that it would arouse the suspicion of others. took the opportunity to say goodbye to Tongying.

Tong Ying laughed with others, pulled them away, and before leaving, he turned his head and glanced in the direction of the carriage, smiled, and smiled so that Shuning's heart was warm, until the carriage came to the door of her grandfather's house. Fang came to his senses.

Duan Ning glanced at her sister with a smile, and whispered: "Come back to your soul, I didn't know that stinky boy could also make ecstasy, don't let my grandmother see the clues, otherwise there will be a good meal." Shuning blushed and said, "My brother saw my sister-in-law at the beginning. Isn't that what it is? Let's take fifty steps and don't laugh at a hundred steps, and the eldest brother doesn't laugh at the second brother. Duan Ning looked left and right, pinched her nose, and said, "You are my sister, where did you come from?!" The brother and sister laughed and entered the courtyard.

The father is in good spirits, but he still scolds when he opens his mouth. Today's scolding is a provincial official I met yesterday, who came to Beijing to report on his work, with a big head and big ears, and a very magnificent car in his clothes. The speech is extremely smooth, which makes people annoyed when they see it.

After listening to him scold him for a cup of tea, Shuning gave him a pair of cotton gloves and cotton socks made by herself, saying that she was honoring her grandfather and grandmother. Please don't dislike the craftsmanship. The father took a look. So he asked his wife to ask someone to accept it, and he went back to the study first. Duan Ning and Shu Ning sent him away. He continued to listen to his grandmother.

The mother's attitude is very kind, and she is very concerned about the marriage of Duanning's son and Shuning. She originally thought that her granddaughter's marriage object was just an ordinary clan Beizi, and she didn't have a big deal, but she didn't expect to make such a great contribution in the war against Galdan, and it would be nice if she could be promoted to the title, but now it seems that the future of that grandson-in-law must be good. She looked at her granddaughter's appearance and nodded slightly: this child is getting more and more beautiful, and it looks similar to her mother when she was young, so she must be able to win her husband's favor, right?

Shuning only felt that her grandmother's eyes were a little weird when she looked at her, and she couldn't help but feel a little creepy. But her mother only kindly asked her how the dowry was prepared, especially the needlework. When he knew that Shuning had done a lot, he nodded with satisfaction and said, "Can you pay attention to your body on weekdays?" This is the most important thing to be underestimated. Why don't I let Mama Cui live with you for a few days? ”

Shu Ning was alarmed in her heart, and hurriedly said: "Mama Cui has already taught her that day, and now her granddaughter drinks tonic medicine and soup every day, and she is in good health."

My mother often writes to point out, so I don't have to. ”

She finally persuaded her grandmother to dispel her thoughts and breathe a sigh of relief in private. Just kidding, if she let that Grandma Cui come again, she wouldn't want to be free.

The brother and sister had lunch before leaving. Before leaving, her mother repeatedly told Duan Ning to bring the child over next time, she hadn't seen her great-grandson for two months, it was weird. Duan Ning hurriedly responded.

Within two days, Duan Ning received a large package of things from Tianyang, which seemed to be paper, all for his sister. When Shuning took a look, she realized that it was the pattern that Tongying had drawn for her new home.

When the emperor issued an edict to give the mansion, he instructed the internal affairs office to supervise the construction, and the location was in Jishuitan. Tong Ying chose an old mansion of a former Ming official, and asked the Internal Affairs Office to rebuild it on the basis of the old house, so as to save time, and then personally drew the construction drawing, and before sending it to the Internal Affairs Office, let the future hostess look at it and give some advice.

Shuning was so happy in her heart that she even felt cordial to those drawings, so she hurriedly took them back to the room, and she didn't even bother to practice the words, so she carefully read them one by one.

This mansion doesn't occupy a lot of land. On the middle road, there is the second gate first, and there is a huge courtyard, the front living room, and the outer study on the left. On the right is the studio, and there are trees in the courtyard; Then there is the main courtyard, the main house, the ear room, the west wing room and the inner study, etc., even the toilet and kitchenette; Behind the main courtyard is the road leading to the garden. East and West Road, the layout is symmetrical. First, there are two small courtyards outside the second gate, and then there are two courtyards on each side, which are slightly smaller than the main courtyard, separated by small gardens. And these two small gardens. It's just planted with some flowers and trees, some rocks, stone tables and chairs.

The back garden is very different. It is located right on the edge of the pond, and a rising stream of water is brought in, forming a small lake, which flows back into the pool. On the surface, it resembles the garden layout of the Fangshan Villa, and there are pavilions and pavilions on the lakeshore. But in reality, there are no mountains, but there are several old trees and more houses. And it's not a pavilion for viewing, but a room that can really live in people.

Shuning probably understood Tongying's intentions. In the hot summer, it would be cool to live in a place like this with flowers, trees, and near water, right?

She looked at these drawings and was very excited, and she couldn't wait to live in them immediately. Still, she pressed it down and came up with a few ideas.

The first is the dwelling place of the servants. As shown on the diagram. There are only two small cross-courtyards outside the two gates that are likely to house servants, and those four courtyards, My best president's wife latest chapter does not seem to be of such a use in terms of scale and structure. She didn't know how many servants there would be in Beizi Mansion, but when she thought of her former Earl's Palace, there were a lot of people.

There should be more of them. This is different from what I thought at the beginning, I originally thought that I would live in Prince Jane's mansion, and when I lived in another courtyard or a small house, I didn't need so many people, but when I officially opened the mansion, it was different. Even if she and Tongying don't pay attention to pomp, if the Ministry of Internal Affairs sends someone over, they can't refuse to accept it. So, she wrote in her reply. You can set up a row of back cover rooms behind the main courtyard, and if you are worried that you will violate the law, you can separate the two sides and build a small courtyard in the middle. It is good as a passage to the garden.

Secondly. There are a few trees in the garden. There are so many houses in here, there should be more trees. And not flowers. Even if you plant saplings now, in ten or eight years, you will be able to grow into a forest, and then the garden will be even cooler.

Third, the water of the small lake is very shallow, according to the drawings, the deepest is not more than four feet, it is relatively safe, but it is not possible to sail, at most there is a small boat or something, it is better to get a small pavilion in the middle of the lake, and it is good to play in the water.

Fourth, the shore of the lake does not need to be too rigid, leave a grassy slope, slowly submerge into the water, and when the weather is good, you can sit on the grass to read a book or fly a kite...... Of course, make sure there are no water snakes in the lake.

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She wrote three pages of paper before she realized that she would have too many opinions? Isn't that too polite? Probably because of the previous renovation of the Zhuang courtyard on the other side of the Juma River, I designed a lot of drawings, and it took three days to make a decision, but I still have some unfinished business, so now when I look at the drawings of this Beizi Mansion, I vent it?

She hurriedly re-read the reply again, and felt that it was better to let it dry for two days first, she needed to calm down.

But Duan Ning soon came to urge. Because Tongying hopes to finalize the drawings as soon as possible, let the people from the Ministry of Internal Affairs give the final plan before the year, and start construction after the New Year, and try to complete the construction as soon as possible, so that the wedding can be held in the new mansion. So if Shuning has an opinion, it doesn't matter if she mentions it.

After hearing this, Shuning's face turned slightly red, and she ended the letter she had written earlier, and handed it to her brother to return it along with the drawings.

Twenty years ago, Zhang Baohe returned with his youngest son, and Xiao Liu's mother and son also entered Beijing, and the Sanfang family was reunited again. This year can be said to be good news, not to mention Tim Ding, the income of various industries is also very ideal. The two shops in the new investment site add up to a net profit of nearly 3,000 taels, which is offset by the newly purchased land and property, and there is still a surplus. Shuning's original intention has been realized, and the income in the future can be used to buy other dowry items.

Therefore, the three rooms are the happiest one

Sifang has already gone to Chengdu to take office, and he has written before, saying that he has settled down, although he is a little unaccustomed to eating, but life is not bad. This can be seen from the New Year's gift they sent back to Beijing.

And the big house has also changed a little recently.

Jin Baoming hung a plaque of the Baron's Mansion at the gate. Now he doesn't have to go to work every day, and he has a lot of leisure time, except for personally inquiring about the daily life and homework of his youngest son and grandchildren, and dealing with the affairs of his clan. He recommended a young cousin and a nephew to join the ranks, although they were only eight or nine rank officials, but they were better than the previous days without official positions.

In addition, he came forward to send several young people in the clan to the official school of the Red Flag, and mentioned to several clan elders that he wanted to set up a clan school to enlighten his children and learn poetry, books, riding and archery. The widows and widows in the clan are lonely, and he condoles them one by one. and give grants. These practices rapidly strengthened the prestige of his patriarch. And because the Li family returned to take charge of the housework after giving birth, he acted thoughtfully and had a decent attitude, which won the trust of the clan, and the baronial mansion was more decent.

Jin Bao also made a gesture of goodwill to the second room and invited their family to go back to the house to worship their ancestors for the New Year's dinner. Although Xingbao didn't know his intentions, he thought that the eldest brother was now a close minister of the Son of Heaven, so he agreed.

Although there are four rooms missing. But the big house and the second and third rooms barely got along well during the New Year. The attitude of the Nala clan was very kind, Wan Ning didn't come home again, and the Suo Luo clan wanted to pay attention to his dignity as an imperial prince, so they politely greeted each other and didn't blush, but let the third room in the middle breathe a sigh of relief.

The appearance of two newborns added happiness to several families. Mingrui is almost half a year old, can already sit up on his own, and loves to laugh. The hands and feet are chubby, like lotus roots, and they are extremely cute. And Li's newborn son, Man Rui, is only two or three months old, and although he is not as beautiful as Mingrui, he is stronger than his brothers and sisters. He yawned all day and blew small bubbles out of his nose. When they saw it, they all laughed.

The miscarriage of Wan Liuha's family is a little unpleasant. Although she was very excited, she came to an end. But he just shook his little hand. Suo Yuluo glared at his daughter-in-law a few times dissatisfiedly, but still didn't say anything after all.

Zhenzhen looked a little strange, and asked her sisters-in-law afterwards to know the truth about Wan Liuha's abortion. It turned out that when she was four months pregnant, Cheng Ning couldn't bear it, so Suo Yuluo took the initiative to accept two people in the house for him, and Wan Liuha was very angry, so he beat and scolded him twice for three days, making the chickens and dogs restless. and it was seven months. Knowing that one of the people in the house was pregnant, she couldn't bear it anymore, and directly took the girl to find the concubine, and the other party's fetus was lost at the same time. She herself was also affected by fetal gas. I was stunned to lose a seven-month-old male fetus. Her husband and in-laws are very dissatisfied with her, if it weren't for her mother's family. I have already cursed.

However, Qingning Shunning and his brothers inevitably laughed at Chengning behind their backs. Because he was beaten and scolded by his wife at home, he was famous in the guard's office. When he used to have black blue on his face, when others asked, they said that he fell, and after many times, someone nicknamed him "Brother Wrestling"; Recently, his eye sockets have darkened, but he justified that he was wearing eye medicine, and others called him "old medicine" instead.

However, in addition to the ridicule, Qingning Shunning also sighed for Chengning. The three of them are relatively close in age, and they have grown up together since childhood, even if the big house and the second room are not in harmony, they are still closer than other brothers. Cheng Ning married such a wife, and they couldn't help but feel sorry for him.

After the New Year, Zhang Bao returned to Baoding early, but he stayed with Xianning. The husband and wife had discussed before, they always brought their son to and fro, and he was not good at his studies, so he was placed in Beijing, and they were worried that his brother and sister-in-law and sister were busy with their own affairs and might not have the time to take care of him, and other people in the house might not be trustworthy, so they decided to hand him over to Xiao Liu and let him study with Mr. Yang with Xiaobao. Therefore, when Xiao Liu took his son back to Fangshan, he took Xianning back. Although Xianning was reluctant to let his mother and brothers and sisters, and his little nephew, he thought that Fangshan Garden was fun, Master Cheng could teach him to ride a horse, and Brother Xiaobao took good care of him, so he obediently agreed, but asked to go back to Beijing from time to time to play.

Tongying sent the final plan of the new mansion, and the Internal Affairs Office only compressed the size of the front yard on the middle road on the basis of the original map, and added a courtyard, everything else is similar to the original map, and the part that Shuning proposed to add before has also been changed. Tongying carefully asked for a detailed drawing of the main house in the main courtyard, with specific dimensions and house layouts on it. Shuning was overjoyed when she saw it, and it seemed that the furniture could be carried out in advance.

On the sixth day of the second month of the 36th year of Kangxi, the emperor once again drove his personal expedition, and Tongying also accompanied him. This time, Duan Ning, as a pen post in the military department, also went to the northwest with the army. Although relatives and lovers have stepped on the battlefield, Shuning and her family are not afraid, because this war must end in victory.

She now faces a major task, which is to officially begin preparing her dowry. Because Tongying has a letter from her side, saying that after the end of this war, she hopes that the two can get married as soon as possible.