Yuan Fu Nushu

Chapter 115, the world is different

Qi Xi was very grateful, he always wanted to have a butler who was polite, so he was satisfied, and quickly greeted his disciples: "Let's follow this butler."

Butler Zhou is not very polite. Looking at their slightly embarrassed clothes and luggage rolls in the snowy weather, he doesn't want them to enter through the gate. There is another reason. Enter through the gate, according to the layout of the house, After passing the screen wall, a corridor leads to the formal hall. The in-laws are considered distinguished guests, and generally speaking, they wait for the master to come out in the main hall.

In case Mrs. Hou didn't want to see her, and there were distinguished guests waiting in the main hall at this time, it would be ugly to see this bunch of country people.

Let Qi Xi and the others wait in the small living room next to the gate. This pile of luggage rolls will be seen by the family members and guests who come in and out. If the family members talk behind their backs, it will make Mrs. Hou angry. It is still unseemly for the guests to see it. .

He laughed and said: "There are so many things, don't be tired this way. Master, you follow me, and come in through another door, which is the closest to the living room."

He walked out of the gate and walked towards the corner door from the outside.

Qi Yue almost burst into flames, thinking that no matter what your house is, the gate is the closest to the living room. If someone insists on arguing that the quadrangle courtyard seen on the drawings, after entering a gate, if there are two gates on both sides of the long and narrow courtyard, it must be far away from the living room. The living room is near.

This is the Hou Mansion, not a quadrangle courtyard with one entrance and two entrances. If there are a few horizontal courtyards in the Hou Mansion, and a small garden, it must be convenient to walk from the main entrance to the living room.Qi Yue thought so.

If the Nanyang Marquis Mansion must have a corner gate close to the living room, and the in-laws turned their heads to the door and had already reached the main gate, but they changed to enter through the corner gate, if it wasn't an insult, Qi Yue wouldn't believe it anyway.

The sound of "Master", made Qi Xi dizzy, he greeted his disciples with a breezy face, Qi Yue was not easy to get angry, and walked behind sullenly.

Except for Qi Yue, and the cousins ​​in the family, everyone here usually does not have a personal servant, and when they need to go out, the nursing home at home is just like that.

Everyone went to Beijing together and used the nursing home in partnership. There were four nursing homes in total, and it was impossible to take care of the master one by one. Besides, the nursing homes carried the main heavy luggage. Books were the heaviest, followed by bedding and coveralls. If they can't bear it, the masters will share it.

Qi Yue, carrying two new quilts, stepped on the ice and snow with one deep foot and one shallow foot, regretting that he shouldn't contradict his father at home. If he was active in Baihou Mansion, his father might let him lead the team, only himself and his brothers In the words of you guys, at this moment, you are already sitting in the Duke Huguo's mansion with Second Uncle Yuan, and it would be great if you have Second Uncle Yuan in charge of everything, and the brothers laugh and laugh with him.

Adding to his anger, Qi Yue followed behind into the corner door, and saw that there were two small living rooms covered by the corner door, Qi Yue suddenly remembered, and was even more sure that Butler Zhou was playing tricks.

The Qi family doesn't have such a concierge, but there are always large mansions. The gates of many mansions are directly built into a row of rooms, and the gatekeepers sleep inside when they are on duty at night.

There must be a small living room inside the gate of the Hou Mansion, waiting for some unfamiliar guests who can't refuse to use it, why the surnamed Zhou is not allowed to enter, but the naughty one is allowed to step on the ice and snow.

After that, no matter how enthusiastic Steward Zhou was, and asked someone to bring hot tea and a brazier, Qi Yue was also annoyed and didn't want to talk to him.

He is the second in Xinji's perennial school, the most likely person in the Qi family this year, and Qi Xi's nephew, Qi Xi desperately drives him, wants Brother Yue to greet him more, Qi Yue pretends to be blowing Bad head, with a dumbfounded look on his face.

Butler Zhou didn't worry about it either. His enthusiasm was to keep a backup, in case Mrs. Hou was willing to see him, and he came with luggage, so he didn't find the next place. There was a guest room at home, in case Mrs. Hou was willing to stay Well, isn't it, he's trying to save face so that he didn't do anything wrong.

"Master, please wait here. I'll see when Lord Hou will come back, and I'll go back to Mrs. Hou by the way."

"There is work, there is work." Qi Xi bowed deeply to the end.

Next, Qi Xi and his children waited here, waiting, waiting
Yuan Lian sat in the carriage, the one with curtains and brocade awnings, with He Ning and his son, and Song Han's elder brother Song Xun, talking and laughing.

With Yunfei leading the way, Yuanlian also came in through the corner gate, but the carriage went straight into the mansion, Yuanlian couldn't see it from inside the carriage.

The carriage was only that big, and the other children of the He family and the Song family, as well as some students from Xinji Town, sat on the military camp cart.

They let out bursts of exclamation.

Niu Wenwen wrote a letter indicating that the number of people coming to Beijing was first, and Yunfei couldn't afford to bring dozens of carriages to welcome the people who were traveling with Yuanlian. When it is really cold, some rivers cannot be used as a boat, and the ice is too thick to break.

Yunfei couldn't know when Yuanlian would arrive, but he had to wait for three days. Whether it was the Duke Huguo's Mansion or the Princess Mansion, they didn't have the extravagance to have dozens of carriages lying around at home.

The wharf near the barracks is not a merchant ship wharf, otherwise horse-drawn carriages are temporarily hired, and given the prosperity of the capital, there are a hundred of them.

The large cart borrowed from the military camp has no canopy, and it has limited warmth if it is set up temporarily. However, it is good to have a cart to get off the ship on the same day and go to Beijing on the same day. The streets are clean and there are no pedestrians, the courtyard is towering and the pavilions are towering. This is the mansion of Princess Dayi.

The exclamation quickly subsided, and the surrounding pavilions and trees made people feel ashamed. The students on the cart did not expect this to be the majesty of the royal family, but only knew that it silenced them.

Some people came, the carriage stopped slowly, and the leading middle-aged woman smiled and said, "Is the uncle here? Your Royal Highness just asked."

The students shrunk their heads and stared, wishing they could turn themselves into a lump of luggage, so that they would not have to be timid.

Yuan Lian also has no experience of being a guest of a wealthy family. He has visited officials in this province, but this is the princess mansion, so it cannot be compared.

He never thought that the carriage had come in, shouldn't he stop outside the door?
Busy tidying his clothes while getting out of the car, he was in a panic at this moment, after getting out of the car, he didn't have time to see who was around, so he brought a person into the car.

"Liu Gen, follow me, don't be stage fright and don't talk too much."

This year's child prodigy, Zheng Liugen, who is determined to marry Yuan Hui, has no family to send him along. He only brings along an old man who is used to traveling far away.

His father, the shopkeeper Zheng, who was so shrewd enough to do business in Xinji and also find a family property, and gave birth to a son with an extra root, was busy during the Chinese New Year. Dare not to chat with scholars, let his son Duoduo get close to Yuan Lian, eight-year-old Zheng Liugen has no adults in front of him, so he must be nice to his future father-in-law.

This abacus made the shopkeeper Zheng right. After staying behind to ask for a marriage, he was undoubtedly paid attention to by Yuan Lian. Yuan Lian deliberately went to the province to find officials his father was familiar with, and brought up Zheng Liugen's Qiuwei test paper. The writing is balanced and stable, although it is childish, but the format is good and there are no typos. If he studies hard, he may not be able to pass the imperial examination in the next subject.

People go to high places, and Zhen's thinking of her niece's high marriage will drive her daughter's future, which is not wrong.

As for Yuan Lian, he has a strict family education and a simple nature. He doesn't think that if his niece is married high, his daughter should follow suit.

(End of this chapter)