Mr. Wen looked familiar and asked, "This is the Hou Mansion guard?" ”

Li Lao Er smiled and nodded, "Yes, the day before yesterday, I looked through the roster, and suddenly remembered that there were too many famous flowers here, and I was afraid of provoking Xiaoxiao, so I went to the Hou Mansion, discussed with the big housekeeper, and invited a few helpers temporarily, but I didn't expect it to come in handy!" ”

Mr. Wen could hear clearly, but he didn't believe a word.

After all, the person who dragged him to sleep for half the night was waiting for this moment, so how can he look at it and it can't be a temporary idea?!

Li Lao Er smiled, and no matter what he thought, he directly instructed a few guards, "Bother a few brothers, help me ask, whose family are these people, and what are they coming to the door in the middle of the night?" ”

"Yes, uncle, don't worry, we will keep it for you!" The lead guard replied.

Then he asked Cao Laohan to find an empty room, and took the man in black in......

Li Lao Er and Mr. Wen only drank a bowl of tea and ate a few pieces of dim sum for supper, and the result came out.

The leading guard came to report, "Uncle, these people are the Wang family's guardians, and they all carry scissors and sickles, in order to come in and destroy all the famous flowers, and they don't want Baiyuan Garden to open smoothly tomorrow." ”

Mr. Wen frowned, "This Wang family is really calculating, but the manpower selected is too poor......"

The leading guard explained: "Lord Wen doesn't know, these people are all with kung fu, if they are not prepared, it is still easy for them to enter the courtyard and destroy it and then retreat with their whole body.

"But this courtyard has been unguarded before, and we have been hiding in the dark, and when they came to investigate beforehand, they didn't find anything, so they relaxed their vigilance, which is why we took it so easily."

Li Lao Er nodded, "Thank you for your hard work, take good care of these people, don't die." The scissors and sickles are also kept, and their master may come over tomorrow, and I will return them to their original owners when the time comes. ”

The guards understood and retreated.

Li Lao Er instructed Old Man Cao, "Prepare some food for the guards, after all, you have to stay up for half the night, don't stay up hungry." ”

"Yes, owner!" Old man Cao immediately responded.

As soon as he thought that the flowers in the yard were almost ruined, the old man Cao broke out in a cold sweat on his back.

He is 10,000 grateful to these guards who have protected his "heart and soul baby".

Immediately, he helped to light the fire, asked the old woman to roll noodles and cook noodles, and cut all the bacon brought by relatives from his hometown, mixed with chopped beans, and fried the toppings.

The guards were well fed, and asked the four members of the Cao family to go to sleep quickly, and then continued to guard the peace of the hundred gardens.

Early the next morning, as soon as the sky was bright, Old Man Cao got up, looked inside and outside the courtyard, and couldn't help but curse in a low voice.

"These damn things, my roses, have been trampled off several times!"

At last, he called out to his son again, and hastened to get the ladder and put all the vines of the rose in order.

So, when passers-by walked by, they saw the wall again, full of brilliant flowers.

At the third pole of the day, Mrs. Li took Tao Hongying and Jiayin and arrived first in a carriage.

Today, they are all male guests, and it is not convenient for them to come.

But Jiayin is worried about joining in the fun, almost all the flowers here are from her hands, how can she be absent when it opens?!

So, Li Lao Er settled them in the west room of the main house in the backyard.

The room is spacious, and there is a kang, which is convenient for taking a nap when you are tired.

And there is also a small door leading to the ear room, and it is easy for the Cao family to enter and exit.

Mama He and Shui Yun Shui Ling, of course, also followed.

Mama He stayed in the room, while Shui Ling and Shui Yun helped the Cao family's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law take care of the guests' tea and snacks.

Soon, the first guests arrived.

It was Dean Zhou, Mr. Peng, and Mr. Tang, with a few gentlemen who had no classes in the academy today, plus the scholars they carried, and there were more than a dozen people, who immediately made the small courtyard lively.

When Li Lao Er stepped on the auspicious time, he asked Old Man Cao to set off a firecracker outside the gate, which was a celebration of the opening, and it was very low-key and unassuming.

However, the skin of the firecracker is shattered, and it falls in front of the door and under the wall like red snowflakes, and the roses lining the wall have a different kind of beauty.

This makes the people who come to enjoy the flowers one after another, and they already have a sense of amazement before they enter the door.

Everyone has a love for beauty, and the embodiment of beauty in plants falls on flowers!

Being in the midst of flowers, even the most cold-hearted person can't help but show a smiling face and relax his mind.

The guests included colleagues from the DPRK and China, famous people in the new capital, gentlemen from the academy, and relatives and friends of the Li family such as Mrs. Liu and Liu Zhiheng.

There are all kinds of distinguished guests who got the invitation post, and there are idlers who came to join in the fun without getting the post, adding up to 100 people.

So many people want to drink tea, eat snacks, and cut jasper melons, which is not a small project.

Mama He soon went out to help, plus Zheng Feng and Zheng He, she could barely take care of her.

Li Lao Er simply asked people to fill the eaves with chairs, and parasols like the college cafeteria had already been inserted everywhere in the courtyard.

In this way, the guests choose familiar friends to gather and sit down, blowing the wind, eating melons, and enjoying the flowers, which is really comfortable!

Li Lao Er let everyone walk around and see the potted flowers in the courtyard clearly, then he stood in front of the steps, smiled with everyone and said: "Distinguished guests, there were often famous flowers in my brother's restaurant before, and many friends complained to me, and I didn't have the opportunity to appreciate it.

So, I wondered about such a place, full of flowers, please enjoy it, will no one say that our family is stingy in the future? I breathed a sigh of relief! ”

Everyone also laughed and returned the salute.

Li Lao Er smiled and said: "However, after all, I am buying and selling, and I still hope that business will prosper." Everyone is happy to see it, and they want to take their favorite flowers home, and they can enjoy it at any time, and they still have to give silver, and the more the merrier! ”

This time the crowd laughed even louder.

It stands to reason that businessmen are profit-seeking, always with shrewd calculations, and they are not likable.

But Li Lao Er came out so clearly, but he was frank.

Li Lao Er pointed to a pot of blooming rhododendrons in front of him and said: "Everyone also knows that our family is blessed with the emperor's grace, and there is a feng shui treasure like the broken gold beach to settle down, and now we have no worries about food and clothing.

"Our whole family is very grateful to the emperor and Tianwu, so we often think about it, and want to repay it with our meager strength.

"This time, when Baihuayuan opened, our family set a rule that half of Baihuayuan's income should be used to do good deeds in the future.

"Take this pot of cuckoo as an example, if it is sold for ten taels of silver, then five taels of it will be counted as capital, and the remaining five taels will be taken out and exchanged for food, clothing and medicinal materials, and sent to the relief bureau to relieve the old, weak, sick and disabled, and reduce the burden on the court.

"Therefore, we have a fancy for the famous flowers here, and you don't have to buy them with silver, but you can also exchange them for grain, cotton, and medicinal herbs and roots! Anyway, as long as we take out what we need, we can exchange the flowers......"

Three more are served~~