After Yunzhu finished speaking, Cao Xun smiled: "It's good to change, I also think that water lilies are not as delicate and elegant as lotuses." ”

Chapter 25 "Yunzhu has a child's temper, and I don't dare to snub her too much."

Cao Xun was only sixteen years old when he left Beijing, and his father and stepmother were in charge of the house, so it was not his turn to interfere with the arrangement of the garden landscape of the Guogong Mansion. When he returned to Beijing, he was thirty years old, and he had to adapt to the officialdom of the capital and prepare for marriage, and he had no leisure to care about his own garden for the time being.

He goes out early and returns late, he doesn't have much time to spend time in the garden, so he doesn't have to pay attention, Yunzhu, the hostess, is different, she likes flowers and plants, and she also likes to take a walk when the weather is good, so she naturally wants to make the garden everywhere to her liking.

Since the ground is going to be broken, it is better to change everything in one go.

The summer days are long, and after dinner, Cao Xun also went to the garden for a walk.

He wanted to call Yunzhu together, but Yunzhu was tired and categorically refused, so he only asked someone to take the map of the Dingguo Mansion, and she sat comfortably in the room, looking at it and pondering the details of the changes.

Cao Xun walked around with a purpose, and the speed was very fast, and soon after nightfall, he returned to Yunzhu and added several changes to Yunzhu, including the naming of two pavilions.

Yun Zhu pointed to the location of the "Little Accord" on the map, and looked at Cao Xun and said: "As far as I know, your wife likes this attic the most, and often entertains other ladies here, if you want to change your name, you don't change it sooner or later, you have to change it while I do it, I know it, I thought it was all my idea, and I hated me alone, but I let you go." ”

Cao Xun smiled: "I just didn't think about this before, if you mind, I didn't say it just now." ”

What a little Accord, he hasn't been there since he returned to Beijing.

Yunzhu: "I don't mind, but you have something to change anyway, why don't you just use your name this time?" ”

Cao Xun responded first, and then asked her: "Are you still afraid of her?" ”

Yunzhu: "I'm not afraid, but instead of being talked about, I just got married and went against my mother-in-law, so why not do it." ”

Cao Xun: "Even if I come forward, outsiders will guess that it was your idea." ”

Yunzhu smiled: "That's also what you want, if the head of the family doesn't nod, how dare I come nonsense." ”

Cao Xun thought about last night.

She dared to scold him to his face, what else would she not dare?

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At dusk the next day, Cao Xun returned home as soon as he was on duty, called the chief manager Zhang Tai, and explained the renovation of the garden.

Where to change and how to change, he listed it clearly on the map, including which pond to plant white lotus and which pond to plant pink lotus.

Zhang Tai ordered: "Yes, I will start arranging it today." ”

Replacing the pavilion plaque is simple, it takes time to find the right flower and tree, and you have to find a good hand who is good at raising the corresponding flowers and trees.

Fortunately, the Dingguo Mansion is prominent enough and rich enough, Zhang Tai only needs to let out the news, and naturally there are corresponding people to recommend themselves.

Five days later, in the morning, Zhang Tai led a lotus worker to meet his wife, and the staff also brought ten white and red lotus flowers, all of which are famous products that are sought after at the moment.

In the midsummer season, seeing these watery flowers, Yunzhu's mood became better, and she instructed a little maid outside the door: "Go and ask Mrs. Tai to come over and choose flowers together." ”

When the outsider in a plain robe heard this, he quietly glanced at the beauty who was smiling and admiring the flowers, and secretly said that this lady who is the pearl of the Ningguo Mansion and the new head of the Dingguo Mansion looks beautiful and gentle, and she also respects the Mrs. Tai who once regretted marrying her.

It's hot, and Pan hasn't been out much lately, so he's trying on a few new clothes.

Hearing that the main courtyard asked her to go over to choose lotus flowers, Pan only felt inexplicable, and asked the little maid who passed the word, and the little maid was also ambiguous.

Anyway, there was nothing to do, and Pan led Mama Fang beside her to come over slowly.

Seeing her, Yun Zhu smiled and took a few steps forward: "Mother, come and see, which of these lotus varieties are better?" ”

Pan glanced at the two-color lotus flower inserted in the two wooden barrels, and said in confusion: "What does this mean?" ”

Yun Zhu looked surprised: "Didn't Grandpa Guo tell you?" He said that the water lilies in the pond looked unenergetic, and they were going to change to lotus flowers, so let's see and choose. ”

Pan: "...... The water lilies have been raised for seven or eight years, why should they be replaced? ”

Yunzhu: "Grandpa Guo said that when he was a child, all the lotus flowers he raised in the house were raised, and after returning to Beijing, he found that he had planted water lilies instead, and he felt very strange when he walked next to him." ”

Pan gritted his teeth secretly.

When she first got married, the Cao family's pond was indeed full of lotus flowers.

Originally, Pan's also liked lotuses, but once her husband accompanied her to visit the garden, the newlywed Yan'er, the fool actually looked at the lotus flowers and lost his mind, and said to himself that those lotuses were still planted by Cao Xun's mother, and Pan's heart immediately had a thorn in his heart.

She wanted to be a gentle and generous wife, so when her husband was alive, she didn't care about the lotus flowers, and it wasn't until her husband died that she dug up all the lotus flowers left by the other woman.

As a result, now that she is still alive and well, Yunzhu will come to move her things, and she will move out Cao Xun as a cover!

Cao Xun is a big man, he hasn't touched those water lilies after returning to Beijing for so long, how could he suddenly get excited?

It's just that Yunzhu's excuse is good, if she objects, it will become a reckless nostalgia for her sister-in-law!

In front of outsiders, Pan has more face than anyone else, and it is impossible to oppose such a trivial matter.

She could only smile and agree: "It's okay, after watching the water lilies for so many years, it's time to change them to freshness." ”

After speaking, Pan chose four kinds of lotus flowers according to her heart.

Yunzhu: "What a coincidence, I also like these four, and I'll let him look at them when Grandpa Guo comes back." ”

Pan: "......"

Okay, she understands, after Cao Xun "finishes his eyes", the four types she wants will definitely fail.

This is indeed the case, of course, Cao Xun did not have the opportunity to participate in the selection of flowers, and it was all finalized by Yunzhu according to his own vision.

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On the rest day at the end of June, Cao Shao was attracted by the noise in the garden and came to check what was going on.

Bypassing a few clumps of flowers and trees, Cao Shao suddenly paused and looked at the bridge in a daze. There, his eldest brother was dressed in an azure brocade robe and held an umbrella in his hand, and Yunzhu stood affectionately under the eldest brother's umbrella, watching several craftsmen in the pond with great interest...... Dig for water lilies.

Cao Shao was about to hide to the side so that he could sneak a few more glances at Yunzhu when Cao Xun suddenly looked at him.

Cao Shao had no choice but to pull out a smile and walk to the bridge.

Yun Zhu glanced at him, didn't even give a false smile, and continued to look into the water.

Cao Shao stiffly walked around to the other side of Cao Xun, stood alone in the sun, and explained why he came over: "I was reading in the study, and I heard that something seemed to be something here. ”

Cao Xun: "Well, I'm going to replant lotus flowers here. ”

Cao Shao lowered his eyes and looked at Yunzhu's gorgeous skirt two steps away, and a scene from a long time ago came to his mind.

Yunzhu was only thirteen that year, and he was also standing on this bridge, pointing to a piece of water lily underneath and saying disgustedly: "Why did your family change this kind of planting?" It's not pretty. ”

Cao Shao still remembered his answer, relying on the maids under the bridge, he teased her in her ear a little lightly: "When you get married, I will accompany you to plant lotus flowers." ”

Now, Yunzhu has indeed married into their Cao family, and he can change the flower seeds in the Cao family's pool as he wishes, only the person who accompanies Yunzhu has been replaced by the eldest brother.

At this moment, a craftsman threw a freshly torn piece of water lily onto the shore, with dark brown silt at the roots.

Cao Shao felt like that water lily, which had long been discarded by Yunzhu.

"Big brother, you accompany your sister-in-law to continue to stare at this side, I'll go back to my room to read." Cao Shaoqiang smiled happily.

Cao Xun bowed his head and did not forget to care about his younger brother: "Pay attention to rest, don't be too tired." ”

Cao Shao said yes, turned around and got off the bridge.

Yunzhu glanced at his back at this time.

If Cao Shao hadn't come, she really hadn't remembered anything, but as soon as Cao Shao appeared, Yunzhu also remembered that old thing.

In any case, the companionship in those childhood sweetheart years is real.

Yun Zhu suddenly lost the interest in continuing to watch the excitement, and deliberately stayed for a quarter of an hour before saying to Cao Xun: "Let's go, it's starting to heat up." ”

Cao Xun glanced at her and was noncommittal.

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The next morning, Cao Xun was going to the court and got up very early.

When Yunzhu woke up, he learned the news that Cao Shao was sick, and the Pan family sent someone to invite Lang Zhong and would come to the door soon.

With Pan's biological mother here, Yunzhu was not suitable to visit Cao Shao's courtyard as a sister-in-law, so she chose a second-class maid to visit her on her behalf.

Cao Shao lived in the east courtyard of the Dingguo Mansion, and he was so groggy that even if he saw his mother, he couldn't lift his spirit to speak.

Pan Shi was so distressed that he burst into tears: "I was fine yesterday, why did I suddenly get so sick?" ”

Cao Shao could only smile bitterly.

Last night he had a dream that his legs had turned into roots deep in the mud at the bottom of the pond, and that his upper body had turned into a water lily and blossomed. At first, the dream was very beautiful, Yunzhu would lie on the guardrail of the stone bridge and look at him with a smile and talk to him, but suddenly, everything changed, and Yunzhu indifferently ordered someone to pull him out.

Cao Shao was in pain, and a pool of blood flowed when the root was broken, but Yunzhu still had to lose him as if he couldn't see the blood.

A tear slipped from the corner of Cao Shao's eye.

Pan finally reacted, it must have been yesterday when his son bumped into the vixen and Cao Xun's affection, the emotional injury worsened, and the heart disease grew.

After Lang Zhong arrived, he also said that his son was depressed.

Pan was hateful and anxious, she knew that her son would not be able to think about it like this, she should have found a way to prevent Yunzhu from marrying in the first place!

Mama Fang: "It's useless to regret it, if you want me to say, you immediately send someone to Changxing Hou's Mansion to propose, with the beauty of Miss Wenying, the second master has a gentle pillow person, and no matter how deep the old love is, it can come out." ”

Pan: "When Brother Shao'er is ready, I will arrange a matchmaker immediately!" ”

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Cao Xun returned home in the evening, and heard that Cao Shao was sick, so he passed without changing his official uniform.

Cao Shao guessed that his brother would come, but he didn't dare to let himself languish, and drank three meals of medicine in a row, which was already much better at this time, so he specially asked someone to move a rattan chair in the courtyard, and enjoyed the cool while playing chess with the elder, which looked pleasant.

"Big brother, don't worry, I can go to Hanlin Academy tomorrow morning."

Cao Xun asked for the prescription and instructed: "It's hard to play chess, let's rest early tonight." ”

Cao Shao cooperatively asked someone to put away the chessboard.

Cao Xun sent his subordinates away, looked at Cao Shao again, and asked in a low voice: "Yesterday I accompanied Yunzhu to see the craftsman digging lotus, are you ......?"

Before he finished speaking, Cao Shao hurriedly denied it: "Big brother is too worried, I just stayed up late reading and hurt my spirit, it's really not what you think." ”

Cao Xun looked at him: "Eldest brother is like a father, I have the responsibility to take care of you, if you still can't accept it, I will pay attention to it in the future." ”

Cao Shao shook his head again and again, his face turned red: "It really has nothing to do with you, no matter how big brother says this, I don't know how to face you and my sister-in-law again." ”

Cao Xun patted him on the shoulder: "That's fine, Yunzhu has a childish temper, and I don't dare to snub her too much." ”