Speaking of cloves, we have to start from when Chu Yun just came back from Europe. After Chu Yun and his mother Dong Yaqing returned to Beiping from Europe, they have been living in a courtyard near the Drum Tower.

This is a small quadrangle, except for two wings in the east and west, there is a row of four rooms in the north room, and then there is a small ear room next to the shadow wall. Although the yard is small, the pattern is very good, boxy, the yard is paved with blue bricks, only a circle of land is left in the center, a grape trellis is erected, and some flowers and plants are planted. There is a large jujube tree against the east wall, and in summer, the dense foliage shades half of the yard.

This set of courtyards was given to his daughter by Dong Yaqing's father when Dong Yaqing and Chu Tianyu got married.

At that time, Chu Tianyu returned from studying abroad in France, taught at Yenching University, and often visited the old master's house with his teacher, so he met the old master's daughter Dong Yaqing. At that time, Chu Tianyu was talented, young and promising, and won the appreciation of Old Master Dong, and thus achieved a good story of a talented and beautiful woman.

The young couple lived together in this courtyard for five years, and it was in this courtyard that Chu Yun was born. It wasn't until Chu Tianyu went to work at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Nanjing that they left this courtyard.

At that time, I wanted to sell this courtyard, but Mr. Dong and Dong Yaqing were reluctant, so they rented it out, and this rent was more than ten years.

Dong Yaqing took Chu Yun to live in her mother's house for a short time, and then moved back to this small courtyard.

Now one of the two rooms on the east side of the north room has become a living room, one is Dong Yaqing's bedroom, the other room on the west side is Chu Yun's boudoir, and the other room has become her practice room.

The west wing room is the kitchen and dining room, and the east wing room is inhabited by an old mother and the maid lilac that Mrs. Dong gave to Chu Yun.

For this little girl, it really took Dong Yaqing a lot of effort.

Chu Yun has lived in Europe for more than four years, and has already developed the habit of living independently, and he doesn't like a little girl to follow him all day long, but he can't bear to brush off his grandfather's kindness, so he has to keep the cloves.

Lilac went from the rigid and old-fashioned old house of Dong Mansion to this fashionable and modern small family without too many constraints, as if she had spanned a century in one day, and felt both novel and a little confused.

Before coming, the old lady specially asked her to serve Miss Hou. So every morning, as soon as Chu Yun got up, Lilac had already made a face wash and waited at the door, Chu Yun practiced, she held tea and a hand towel on the side and stared at it with her mouth wide open, Chu Yun just sat at the dining table, she had already served the meal, brought it over, and then stood behind Chu Yun, ready to serve at any time, no matter how Chu Yun told her to sit down, she didn't sit down, she didn't go when she asked her to eat, until Chu Yun finished eating, wiped her hands with the hand towel she handed and left the dining room, she didn't go to the kitchen to eat.

Chu Yun felt as if he had suddenly grown a small tail, and he couldn't shake it off. For two days in a row, everything was awkward, and I didn't even feel tasteless when I ate. On the third day, she couldn't stand it anymore, so she called Lilac to her, and told her very seriously not to follow her all the time, to let her go back to her room and stay, not to tell her not to come to her, especially during dinner, not to stand behind her, and if she didn't listen, send her back to the old lady's house.