Chapter 14: The Deep Sea of Houmen
After the meal, Xiaoshan specially left Xiaoqing and Yan'er in the room to ask about some relevant information, mainly to understand the relevant situation of Hou Ye, and the purpose of leaving Yan'er was to let her cover up. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info did this, she was forced by Yan'er to let Xiaoshan be the Hou Ye, but she didn't know a lot of information about the Hou Ye, she still loved the Hou Ye, it was estimated that she was a nymphomaniac, and she didn't know if the Hou Ye was really good to her. Through understanding, Xiaoshan knew that this filial piety was very talented, and he was quite famous outside, both civil and military, polite and polite, and jealous and hateful. However, at home, his biological mother died three years ago, and the family has a stepmother and a half-sister. There is a little bit that this Hou Ye usually doesn't step into the backyard East Garden at home, because that is where the stepmother and sister live, and they don't usually see each other. There are hundreds of people in the family, both dead and alive.
Meng Xiaoshan rubbed his neck, and accompanied by the two maids, he took a walk in this Nuoda Uncle's Mansion, which was not so much a walk as a familiar environment. Xiaoshan remembered, he just lived in the backyard West Garden, this West Garden and the East Garden sandwiched between a middle hall, the three courtyards are connected by garden doors, this garden, mostly with bamboo forests occupy a large area, thin bamboo forests grow together compactly, all kinds of rockeries, stone forests meet, there is a fake river zigzag across the three courtyards, there are lotus leaves lying on the river surface, occasionally a few toads lie on it and quack.
The maid Xiaoqing had a bright smile on her face, her fingers were thin, and she said with the posture of a tour guide: "Master Hou, this is the middle hall, there is an uncle's study and bedroom inside, and there is a place for the uncle to practice outside the room."
Standing in the middle hall, Xiaoshan looked at the study, but saw the door of the study, a couplet, the couplet read:
Half of the room, a few windows, and a few pavilions are heavy
A cup of tea, two books, and three thousand splendid pens
Horizontal batch: the sun and the moon are hidden.
Look at the opposite side of the study again, at a glance, the weapons of the two factions are displayed, a small field in the middle, and there is a target near the fake river, which is for practicing archery. Pushing the door into the study, Xiaoshan saw that there was a case in the main hall of the study, and there was a pen and paper grinding on the case, and the pens were large and small, and the paper should be good rice paper, as for the others, like grinding and grinding, he didn't understand. The study is very large, there are three bookshelves displayed on the left side of the wall on three sides, the shelves are full of books, Xiaoshan slightly turned over, most of them are about the art of war, on the left side of the inside, it is very empty, but there is a big table, there is a big map on the table, the map records the surrounding countries in detail, and there are red marks at many junctions, well, Xiaoshan nodded, "Yes, it is worthy of being the home of Jiangmen." As for the uncle's bedroom, Xiaoshan Ken didn't mean to visit it, but just looked inside from the outside.
Passing through the doorway to the east and walking through another small bamboo forest, Xiaoshan stood on the small bridge of the fake river, looking at the house in the east garden, but seeing a few maids walking back and forth, he, the fake marquis, only looked at it, and still did not dare to visit, and was not very familiar with it, for fear of missing the horse's feet, he turned back and turned back.
Of course, the visit is not over yet, Xiaoshan along the middle hall, across the bridge of the rockery, all the way forward, you can find the inner gate of the house, that is, the door connecting the front and back yards, but on the side of the inner courtyard added a wall wind. The front yard is also divided into the main hall and partial rooms, the main hall is used for meeting guests, and the partial rooms have guest rooms. On the east and west sides of the wall, there are dozens of houses each, most of which are inhabited by subordinates.
It can be found that there are two doors in the whole uncle's house, the south side is a main gate, the backyard also has a back door, the back door steps are very high, the width of the door is not large, four people are more than enough, five people are difficult, the main door panel is very heavy, the steps are quite OK, the board is padd, the two carriages can easily pass, there are two big stone lions sitting on both sides of the door, the stone lion opens its teeth and dances its claws, the stone lion's neck hangs a real wind chime, the small wind blows, the bell "poof...", as if the stone lion is awake.
Through Xiaoqing, Xiaoshan learned that this uncle's mansion went out and went west to Nantiao Street, which is one of the four prosperous streets in Yucheng, the capital.
"Let's go, let's go to South Street to inspect and inspect", Xiaoshan put on the face of the marquis, saying that the inspection seemed to be the central cadres inspecting the local political achievements, and it was nothing more than shopping.
Before the two maids could react, Meng Xiaoshan walked towards South Street in great strides, and that walking posture was really stylish.
The streets of the capital are different, Xiaoshan looks left and right, open shops one by one, there are many teahouses that open restaurants, there are dozens of inns on Guangnan Street, there are a lot of stalls on the street, it seems that there is no 'road pipe' here, there are many caravans coming and going on the road, carriages and donkeys can be seen everywhere, almost causing traffic jams. Of course, there are also full-time cleaning tasks on the street, it seems that the feet and hands are fastened with bracelets, and there are officials watching not far away, needless to say, they must be prisoners who have committed crimes.
Meng Xiaoshan walked elegantly on the street, enjoying the noise of the street, and unconsciously remembered a text he had learned in junior high school, "Selling", which was written about the shouting of selling rock sugar gourds.
"Oops" snorted, "I don't have long eyes, the jade bracelet I just bought."
Xiaoshan hurriedly came back to his senses, only to see a woman, dressed in a light green shirt, bending down and reaching out to pick up the jade ring on the ground. Xiaoshan immediately understood, and hurriedly apologized: "Girl, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to", seeing the broken jade ring on the ground, he hurriedly said: "In this way, I'll buy another one and return it to you."
The woman said angrily while picking it up: "I've been disturbed by you", but she didn't even look at Xiaoshan.
Xiaoshan bent down again and bowed down to apologize: "I'm really sorry for disturbing the girl, please forgive me."
"Master Hou, can I catch up with you" Xiaoqing and Yan'er came smartly, approached Xiaoshan's side, Xiaoshan seemed to see a savior, and said busily: "Xiaoqing, you two came just in time, do you have any money, I just broke this girl's jade ring", Xiaoshan pointed to the woman just now, and found that the woman's eyebrows were crooked, her nose was slightly upturned, her face was like white jade, and her hands were holding the jade ring, with a look of regret, but she didn't mean to look at this side.
"Miss," Xiaoqing looked surprised, "why are you here?"
The woman was also surprised, a pair of eyes as bright as stars in the sky stared over, "Why are you?", and said angrily, "Yes, I think it is not pleasing to my eyes, on purpose." "Hmph..."Yuhuan fell to the ground and ran away.
Meng Xiaoshan looked puzzled, what kind of young lady? I only heard Xiaoqing say: "Master Hou, what's wrong with the young lady? You...", so he didn't say anything. Yes, Xiaoshan thought about it carefully, and then understood that the woman should be the young lady of the uncle's mansion, that is, his cheap sister, but the relationship between them is not very good. Well, Xiaoshan decided to buy a touch of the same and return it to her, and the relationship couldn't be so stiff.