The rain is not heavy, it can only be regarded as rain. Several of the servants complained that it was raining at this time, and they could not take out the bedding and dry it again. But Ah Di and Ah Hua were obviously overjoyed, they hurriedly collected the things hanging in the yard, but they had a smile on their faces.

Shuning then asked Adi, "Why are you so happy?" ”

"It's been dry for many days, and of course I'm happy when it rains. Mrs. Adult is really a nobleman, a noble person goes out to attract wind and rain, and as soon as you come, it rains, which is really good. ”

Shuning smiled with the black line, and when she saw what they had taken back, she asked, "Is this bacon?" What's that? ”

"It's dried vegetables, haven't you eaten it? It's best to eat this in autumn, the sun is so strong these days, I dried some bacon and dried vegetables. ”

Huh? Is this the dried vegetable used to make soup? But it doesn't seem to be completely sunburned, and it's still a little cyan, I'm afraid it will take a few more days, right?

The rain stopped after a while, and the sun reappeared. Unlike the others who happily took out the futon to dry, Ah Hua showed a disappointed look, and Ah Di muttered, "Why did you do this?" ”

Wang Ruibao's family happened to pass by her with their own futon, and when they heard this, they gave her a fierce look.

There was a commotion in front of him, and then Changgui's voice said: "The master is back." Shuning hurriedly ran out.

Zhang Bao's clothes were half wet, and he looked a little embarrassed. While asking someone to bring him a dry face towel, Tong asked, "Why don't you find a place to take shelter and come back when the rain passes?" ”

Zhang Bao wiped his face and said: "I met it not long after I came out of the yamen, I didn't cover it all the way, and I didn't bring an umbrella, I thought that the rain was not heavy, so I just came back directly." Look, isn't this going to stop? ”

Tong said: "I heard that it hasn't rained for more than 20 days, but as soon as we came today, it rained." ”

Zhang Bao smiled: "That's good." I just heard from the prefect Liang in the yamen that the grain had been harvested a few days ago, and some vegetables and sweet potatoes were being planted in the fields. ”

Tong Shi said with some surprise: "I thought that after the autumn harvest, it would be farming, and there is still something to plant here?" ”

Zhang Bao smiled even more happily: "Isn't it? It seems that I don't have to worry about running out of food here, I don't have any other skills, but I still have some experience in farming, after all, I also did the thing of returning to Tun back then, didn't I? ”

Shu Ning interjected with a smile: "Amma, don't say it too early, the things grown in Fengtian are different from those grown here." ”

Zhang Bao made a look of rushing people: "Go, you Ama and I are so easy to be a little ambitious, why do you come to pour cold water on me?" Before he finished speaking, he was already laughing.

Shuning hid behind Tong with a smile, grimaced at Zhang Bao, and then turned her head to Tong and said, "Eniang, what are you eating tonight?" I haven't eaten well for more than a month, so I have to make up for it. ”

Tong Shi nodded at her head: "I've already asked someone to buy fresh meat and vegetables, you girl, it's obvious that you're greedy, right?" ”

Shuning said a little embarrassedly: "Why did E-Niang say that about me?" ”

Tong Shi turned his head to Zhang Bao and said: "The locals speak many dialects, we can't understand them, there is a girl who came to help, saying that it is the girl who is a servant in your yamen, named Adi, who knows how to speak official language, and we can only rely on her to buy things for the time being." It's just that this is not a long-term solution, what good way does the lord have? ”

Zhang Bao touched his head: "For the time being, this can only be done, the local dialect is not something that can be learned in a while, let's let the locals help do things first, and when the servants at home learn to hear about it, it will be much more convenient." I think most of those colleagues are from other provinces, so they must also have this trouble, so it is better to ask someone to ask, maybe there will be meat and vegetable sellers who speak official language, and we can just ask them to buy them. ”

After the Tong family recovered their spirits, they quickly took care of the housework in an orderly manner, and the family finally settled down.

In the evening, Wang Er reported that he had learned that the uncle of the Liu sisters lived in the south of Xianyang Street, which was not too far from here, and it was only two quarters of an hour away by car. Tong ordered him to come to the door to report the news. After dinner, the uncle of the Liu family came over in a big car, thanked Zhang Bao and his wife, and took the two nieces home. The Liu sisters and the Tong family said goodbye and agreed to come back in the future.

Mrs. Chen stayed at Zhang Bao's house as a distinguished guest, and only sent a few old family members back to their hometown to report the news, and cleaned up the house where they lived back then.

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The next morning, Shuning woke up from her sleep and only felt refreshed. She got up to wash and comb her hair, and looked at her room again.

This is a typical southern area lady embroidery room, on the second floor, the room is not big, there is a beautiful carved window, facing the Qingyun Lane downstairs, and then there is the fence, and then there are a few extremely tall trees, blocking the view in the distance.

She slept last night in a very delicate gold-carved bed, or a two-step bed. When I saw it for the first time, I couldn't help but burst into tears.

This kind of art, which will definitely be regarded as a museum collection in later generations, can actually sleep on it, and can sleep for several years......

Stop, don't be so shallow-eyed, it's in ancient times! She is a young lady from the official family, and it is very common to sleep in this kind of bed, don't make a fuss and let others laugh, didn't you see Chun Xing's stupid appearance when she saw this bed last night, and she was laughed at by Qiaoyun at that time?

But the more black line, that is, there is a toilet outside the bed, although the barrel is very clean, the lid is very tight, and there is no smell, but sleeping less than two feet away from it, it is still very tangled, so she asked people to put the toilet at the end of the bed last night.

The furniture was very simple, except for the large bed, there was only an equally beautiful dressing table, with many small drawers, a carved wardrobe, a small desk, a chair, a basin stand, and that's it. All the furniture is exquisite, although it is all half-new.

After freshening up, I asked Chunxing, and learned that my father went to the yamen early in the morning, and my mother had not yet gotten up, so she went downstairs by herself, ate a little breakfast in the dining room, and then met Ah Hua who came to collect the dishes and chopsticks.

Speaking of Ah Hua and Aunt Di's sister-in-law, they are actually not simply "helpers". There are two errand servants in the Tongzhi Yamen who are dedicated to Zhang Bao's personal errands, one is called Zhao Asheng and the other is Hu Dong, and Zhao Asheng is Ah Hua's husband and Ah Di's brother. They come to the house to "help", in fact, they come to "help", providing housekeeping services, and then receiving monthly wages. Because most of the officials are not locals, almost every family has such local "helpers".

It seems that in this southern coastal area, the germ of capitalism has already begun.

Ah Hua asked Shuning, "Miss wants to eat at noon?" Why don't you make a soup? (What does Miss want to eat at noon?) Why don't you make soup? ）

Shuning listened carefully, guessed what she meant, thought about it, and said, "It's good to boil pork bones with dried vegetables, so you need to put more ginger." ”

Ah Hua thought for a while, then smiled and said that she understood.

Hey? It doesn't look like the dialect barrier is that difficult to overcome.

Sending Ah Hua away, Shuning felt a little bored and thought, why don't you take a good look at this new home.

This house has a strong Lingnan flavor, and the roof has gray carvings, which looks very exquisite, but the overall layout has a northern color. The houses are made of terrazzo bricks, and there are many wooden structures inside.

Coming in at the gate is a rectangular courtyard, empty, with a flower pot on the side, and a two-story small building on the right hand, where Mr. Su's master and servant live.

On the left-hand side is the kitchen, three houses lined up, with two trees planted in the corners, and a small door that is half-concealed, and you can see that there is a small courtyard inside.

In the front hall is a typical table of eight immortals, high-backed chairs, cranes, and porcelain vases with fresh juju flowers in the vase, and tea tables and chairs for hospitality on either side. The tables and chairs are all in one set, carved with simple floral patterns. She recognized this as the commonly known hosta, but it was actually more like the passionflower of later generations.

There is a small side hall on the left, and outside the door is a small courtyard, there is a well, and two or three bamboo poles are set up in the courtyard, and a few servants' clothes are dried. One door in the corner led to the kitchen, and the other door to the moon cave led to a row of seven or eight servants' rooms.

The flower hall on the right side of the main hall is more elegantly decorated. A round table and stool made of red sour branches, inlaid with pale cyan stone slabs. There were a few antique shelves against the wall, and only two or three worthless vases were placed. There are calligraphy and paintings hanging on the wall, all of which are dilapidated, and when I turn around, Tong should ask someone to replace what he brought with him.

In the past, there was a study, which was said to be a room, but in fact it was missing a wall. On the side of the gap, down the steps, planted a few bushes of bamboo, there is a small corner gate on the side, and behind it is Qingyun Lane.

Although this study is poor in terms of shelter from the wind and rain, the lighting is excellent.

The hallway of the flower hall leads to the back, and there is a small tea room halfway down the road. Diagonally opposite, there was an empty room, with an extremely high ceiling, probably connected to the second floor, and there were many ventilation holes in the wooden walls, so the light was not bad.

At the end of the aisle is a stairwell with doors on three sides, the one on the right leads to Qingyun Lane, the one on the left leads to the dining room, and the front one leads to the backyard.

In the middle of the dining room, there are sour branch tables and chairs, and there are some shelves and cabinets around it, where several large vases are placed, and fresh juju flowers are also inserted. There is a room on the left, which is now occupied by Mrs. Chen, and the aisle next to it leads directly to the left hall that I have just seen.

Back to the stairwell, go up the wooden stairs, it is three sides back, on the left is the embroidery room where she lives, the room on the right corner is now Qiaoyun and Chunxing live, and there is another room, because there are a few beautiful carved windows, the lighting is good, she is planning to use it as her own study. Looking down through the window, it happened to be the left side hall on the first floor. At the end of the hallway, up a short flight of stairs, there is a small door that leads to the landing on the third floor.

Standing on the platform and looking around, you can see that there are many houses like this nearby, presumably the residences of city officials.

The platform is about a zhang square, almost empty, except for a bamboo broom, there are only two dustpans, one is dried fish, and the other is shiitake mushrooms.

Yes, it's all delicious.

Turn around and go downstairs and walk to the backyard, with verandahs on both sides. The front room is the main house where Zhang Bao and the Tong family live. In the middle is the place where the Tong family lives and manages the housework on weekdays, and the one on the left that she thought was the ear room is actually the master room. There is also a stairwell on the right, where Su Yun lives, and there are empty rooms upstairs, and now they have put the luggage they brought, and they will probably use it as a warehouse in the future.

The verandah on the right has an opening that opens onto the garden.

The garden is small, just over an acre, with a pond of half an acre. There is a small bamboo pavilion by the pool, and there are a few willow trees, and a lot of bamboo is planted along the fence, and the grass on the ground is already very tall, and there are a few small flowers. In the corner of the garden, there is a corner door, but when it opens, it is Qingyun Lane, and at the end, there is a closed back door, and the sound of pedestrians walking outside the door is heard.

It looks like this new home is very good, although the sparrows are small, they have all kinds of organs. As long as you tidy up a little more, you can live comfortably.

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When I conceived this house, I took the ruins of the Xiguan Mansion in the Liwan Museum in Guangzhou as a prototype, but made many modifications and added a lot of things, and then eliminated the delicate Manchurian windows made of stained glass, the modern piano in the lady's embroidery room, and the kerosene chandelier with British colors. After all, Xiguan Mansion was a wealthy merchant mansion that emerged in the middle and late Qing Dynasty, and many things in the house were not available in the Kangxi Dynasty.

Interested readers can check it out, although it's not the same, but it's a prototype after all.

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