The second row where the master lives sits on the north and south of the Lianxia, which is located at the north end of the second courtyard of the main courtyard.

There are three main houses in Lianxia, and there are two slightly shorter and even slightly shallow houses on the left and right sides of the main house, and the elephant ears are hung on both sides of the main house: it is called the ear room. In this way, a three-bedroom and four-eared main house pattern of medium-sized people has been formed. Among Beijing officials of the Lin family's level, housing is a good pattern.

The main house of the main courtyard is five meters high, seven meters wide and five meters deep, each room has 35 square meters, and the central hall house faces the south side and opens the door to the courtyard, which is in the same straight line as the hanging flower door. It is the inner hall where the master of the family receives the younger generation, meets relatives, and returns to the daily servants.

The main courtyard is 345 square meters, and there is a well near the kitchen in the southeast corner, and there are flowers and trees on all sides. Lin Wenyu, the youngest daughter of the Lin family, wore the painted wooden pavilion built by the third brother Lin Zhaoxian back then, and it still stands in the northwest corner of the courtyard, but the color is no longer as bright as it used to be.

The west ear room is five meters deep, and the two rooms are eight meters wide, making the hostess's living room - the West Flower Hall; In front of the east ear room near the master room is an eight-square-meter tea room with a shallow two meters and a width of four meters; Behind the transept is a fifteen-square-meter hostess storehouse with an equal width and a depth of three meters.

The two-meter-wide corridor in front of the main house is connected to the east wall, forming a sandwich between the main landlord's ear room and the east wing room, and the west wing of the ear room is located at the east and west ends of the north verandah of the main courtyard.

Tight to the east side of the ear room opened up for the hall, from here to the inner courtyard of the three courtyards.

After passing through the east transept through the hall, the right hand is usually closed, and the northeast corner door for the female dependents to enter and exit; Facing the hall is the northeast corner courtyard of the landlord's head. The depth of the front and back yards of the Lin family house is the same, and the pattern is the same, showing a symmetrical pattern from north to south.

Out of the hall is also called the three doors turn left, come to the third courtyard - the inner courtyard, through the northeast corner gate along the corridor to avoid the wind and rain, to the last row of the north room - the back cover room. It is inhabited by the daughters of the family and the maidservants.

The back cover room is the third and last row of the north house that runs through the east and west of the house, and it is the daughter of the main family who lives in it, the room is four meters five meters high, and the depth is five meters, which is higher than the front yard house.

The northeast corner courtyard is a needlework room, a needlework woman, and an embroidery lady is responsible for guarding the corner door to prevent the female dependents from going out at will. The courtyard in the northwest corner is a pulp washing room, and there is a well outside the courtyard wall.

A moonlit round door is opened on the west wall between the northwest corner courtyard and the rear cover house, which connects the main house and the second house through the inner garden built by the lane. It is the main passage for the activities of the inner courtyard of the female dependents. The mother and daughter of the second room came to the main courtyard to greet the He family in the morning and evening, and they all took this route.

The main house of this type of house sits in the north and faces south, warm in winter and cool in summer; The courtyard is located in the middle of the house, which is open and ventilated, and the sun is abundant; The doors separating the three courtyards are closed heavily to ensure the privacy of the activities of the female dependents and the independence of the family's living space; The height of the house where the main house, children, daughters, concubines, and servants live in the main courtyard is proportional to the height of the status, which looks clear at a glance, and is a popular pattern in Mijing for many years.

Yiyi looked around, and he was quite interested, and from time to time the third uncle would help explain a few words. It took a little more time to come to the door of the main house of the main house.

The maid at the door returned to the old lady in the room: the third master and the eldest lady came, and after a gap of three or five breaths, a maid's crisp voice came from inside: "The old lady has invited the third master to sit down." ”

The two of them then entered the door with their front and back feet, and He was sitting in the back of the middle of the main room, on the carved wooden couch placed on the north wall.

Now that it was a little hot at noon, He changed out of the clothes he had worn when he started his trip to Pine Garden. He is now wearing a long-sleeved silk silk shirt with a new green background and silver silk ice chips, with the same long skirt, covered with a light neon gown after the rain and the weather.

The finely embroidered folded branches and flowers on the borneol silk clothes are still clearly visible through the neon yarn; The silver thread of the ice chips shimmered slightly through the gauze; The flowers are dreamily revealing fragrant stamens, blooming with peach pink, plum white, and apricot blossoms, as if the spring light under the hazy moon is draped on the body.

Such a new and exquisite outfit looks much younger and softer than the old clothes when I first saw him at noon. It's just that the dark and dull temperament that lingers on his body always makes Yiyi uncomfortable.

The first-class eldest girl of the He family still follows the two-person rule of her mother's family, and she is Yanbo and Cuiliu, who have changed a stubble after coming to the Lin Mansion, and she is also eighteen or nineteen years old, and she is about to match others.

There was a steward in the house who came to ask for marriage for herself or her sons, and Lamei decided that the two were made easy by his wife, and persuaded them to wait for the four second-class maids to come up with suitable ones, and then match them better.

He Shi responded to this, and then there was no movement.

When Yanbo and Cuiliu saw that the third master had come to the courtyard, their eyes were at a loss, and their necks flashed slightly.

Yanbo is a year older, more sophisticated, and calms down first. Led Lin Zhaoxian to sit on the left side of the tea table in front of the bed, please sit down, south. Cuiliu also took the eight-treasure sencha warm on the tea stove from the second-class Qiushuang and poured it for the two.

Yiyi couldn't see the mess in the tea bowl, and she choked on the smell, hurriedly left the chair, and stood in front of He.

Yiyi came here to have a business to be solved at home.

She is a nine-pin sesame official who looks at the sun and Shuo Ri and participates in the second day of the month, and she can't go to work with the second uncle to work in the yamen and use the car to synchronize.

The morning dynasty generally arrived at the palace gate at three o'clock in the morning to line up, and it took more than half an hour on the road to run all the way to the speed of the midnight empty avenue.

Waiting outside the palace gate for the high-ranking officials and princes, the people who are qualified to light the lamp to go to the court are coming, and they will cross the dark and heavy Jinshui Bridge together by rubbing the light, so as not to fall into the moat of the imperial city with the black light.

Normally, I set off at half past five and arrived at Yamen at about seven o'clock to start managing the government, and I walked slowly for more than an hour on the road.

It is very inconvenient for uncles and nephews to ride in the carriage together, and it is unavoidable to buy a car.

The Central Plains was heavy on agriculture and poor at animal husbandry, and the horses were like the Humvees of later generations, which were bought and fed with artificial sheds, which were difficult for non-official wealthy households to bear.

He Miaoxiang listened like picking meat: "Whose girl has a special carriage?" ”

"Old lady, if I run to the court by myself, I'm afraid I won't be able to catch up." Yiyi's clear reply made everyone in the room swoon.

The maid's brain supplement: The eldest lady sweats like rain and runs on the road of the last dynasty......

Mother You's brain pumped: The eldest lady who didn't even let her face be seen by her foreign man in the past can run away on the road??? I am really old, and the world is unimaginable!!

He Miaoxiang was angry - the old lady was her reverse scale. In addition to coveting Lin Yun's good looks, she disdains the poverty of the whole house. The grandchildren of the second room respectfully shouted "grandmother" every morning and dusk and the fifteenth anniversary dinner of the new year, and the girl in her uncle's mansion was wronged by herself. But she didn't scream, she was even more aggrieved.

Lin Zhaoxian looked at Yiyi, and she was full of spoiling, which made her choke.

Lamei is a caring person who serves her at a young age, and she knows the master's mind at a glance, and immediately makes a difficulty: "The eldest sister didn't grow up in Beijing, and she didn't know that etiquette and even the order of respect and inferiority were not distinguished." Shouldn't you respectfully address your lady as grandmother? ”

"I haven't forgotten it, but I have been overseas for many years and thought that the rules of Kyoto have changed a lot. Therefore, when my father came home, no one opened the door. As for Madame, she used to call my mother and aunt, right?! The old lady is a common title in the house, and there is nothing wrong with being the safest. When you get close, it's natural for grandmothers and granddaughters to scream. Is it proper for you to talk to me like that? ”