Xianggui

Chapter 181 Listening to the Corner

The housekeeper of this house is Bai Zihua, and the Ding family absolutely trusts the person Zhu Qian gave them.

The housekeeper is temporary. In the future, he will be in charge of the Ding family's overseas properties. He was the shopkeeper of Zhu's shop before.

Bai Xian served as Ding Lichun's servant, and Ding Lichun became his personal soldier when he became an official.

The head of Bai Zihua's family is mainly responsible for tidying up the yard.

He Cong does the housework and guards the door, He Cong's family is mainly responsible for cooking, and He Hui serves Zhang and others.In the future, He Huihui would follow Mrs. Zhang back to the countryside.

Now the Ding family does not have so many servants, but they will definitely need them in the future.

The front yard of Ding's house is a big courtyard. At the front is a wall carved with landscape paintings, and in the middle is a rockery. There are four big trees with luxuriant branches and leaves, surrounded by flowers and plants.The main room is the main hall and the side hall, the east and west wing rooms are temporarily vacant, and the reverse seats are the gatehouse and warehouse.

There is a moon gate on the east side of the front yard. In the past, there were two small courtyards, the east front yard and the east back yard.Ding Zhuang and Ding Lichun live in the east front yard, while Ding Liren and Ding Lilai live in the east back yard.

There is also a small gate on the west side, which used to be two courtyards.The west front yard is the kitchen and miscellaneous rooms, while the Bai family and the He family live in the west back yard.

Bai Zihua still has his own home, and he will go back to his home most of the night.

These courtyards form the outer courtyard.

On the east side of the back wall of the outer courtyard, there is a vertical flower gate, which is the second gate, through which is the inner courtyard.

The inner courtyard consists of three courtyards and gardens, ponds.

The courtyard in the middle is larger, it is a triple courtyard, and it is the main courtyard. There are many flowers in the courtyard, where Ding Zhao and Zhang lived.

There are two small courtyards on the left and right, with three houses in the front and two houses in the back.In the courtyard on the left, Ding Lichun will marry and live in the future, because there is a bamboo forest on the left of the courtyard, which is Cuiyuan.

Lilac lives in the yard on the right.Because a circle of roses was planted under the wall, it was named Rose Garden.Green vines have covered the entire courtyard wall, but the flowering period has passed.

The first three huts are one bright and two dark. They are not big, and the furnishings are exquisite. The furniture is less carved and more decorated.

The east room is Lilac's bedroom, with a carved canopy bed, a light blue gauze curtain, and a large oval glass mirror set on the mirror table.There are more than a dozen sets of clothes in the closet, both inside and outside, which were driven out by Zhu's embroiderer in the past ten days.

Ling'er ran to the mirror and looked at it for a long time, feeling extremely rare.

The Westinghouse is a small study room, and the small bookcase is full of books. These books are all newly bought, and there is a nice smell of ink.Most of them are poems and songs, there are also some enlightenment books and a few story books suitable for little girls.

There is a back door in the living room, leading out to the back yard, where two lilac trees are flourishing.It's a pity that the flowering period has passed, and the trees will be full of purple in the spring and summer next year.

This is fate, she actually planted a lilac tree in her backyard.

Behind the lilac tree are two cottages.

There is a large wooden barrel in one room, and there is a small stove next to it, which can not only bathe but also heat water and heat food.A servant's room, where Ling'er's personal belongings are kept, and she will set up a bed in the hall to accompany Ding Xiang.

Behind the three courtyards are gardens and ponds, and there is a small pavilion in the garden.

Most of the lotus flowers in the pond have bloomed.

There are also two rooms against the back wall, where the mother-in-law lives overnight.

This home is beautiful like a garden.

Ding Xiang is even more sure that this was the other courtyard of the Zhu family before.

Not only has every house been tidied up, but daily necessities such as candles, window screens, oil, salt and rice are also piled up in the warehouse.

Several members of the Ding family lamented that the Zhu family had a heart.

Mrs. Zhang even muttered while watching, "It's too rich, it's too expensive..."

After the visit, Ding Zhao and Mrs. Zhang took a few servants to prepare for tomorrow's banquet.

Ding Lichun led Ding Xiang and Ling'er to go shopping in a carriage, and Bai Xian drove the carriage.

Their area is located in the north of Jiaozhou City, and the carriage drove south to the city.

First, I went to Man Ting Xiang Restaurant, which Ding Lichun has always recommended, for dinner.

Although Ding Lichun is a big soldier, but he has money in hand, he ordered some signature dishes of the restaurant.He also ordered four dishes for Bai Xian and Ling'er at the other table.

After dinner, she went to the study, the ink studio, and the embroidery workshop in turn. Ding Xiang used her private money to buy gifts for her two brothers and good friends.

The embroidery workshop I went to was the top Yalan embroidery workshop in Jiaozhou.

There are also pan buttons for sale here, which are very delicate, but the price is much cheaper than Jiulu Weaving and Embroidery Pavilion.

This is brand effect.

There are also cloth and trinkets from Korea and Fusang.

Ding Xiang is rich, and knowing that her family is not short of money, she bought a lot of embroidery products, the most of which are Koryo cloth and Fusang cloth dolls.

Ling'er couldn't stand her bold shopping style.

She advised in a low voice, "Sister, it's so expensive, buy less."

"Grandpa gave me private money."

"If you spend so much money, it will be spent in a few strokes."

"After the flowers are finished, let grandpa ask for it."

Ding Lichun said boldly again, "Sister is not afraid of running out of money, brother will give it to me."

Ling'er had no choice but to shut up.

Next to Lanya Embroidery Workshop is a Xincai gouache store that specializes in selling rouge gouache.

Ding Xiang wants to buy some good cosmetics for Mrs. Zhang, Aunt Qian, and Ding Shuniang, and also some skin care products for herself and Ding Zhen.

Men don't like to shop around those things, so Ding Lichun and Bai Xian stood at the door to watch them.

Ding Xiang was picking it up with her head down, when two little girls came over.

A little girl's voice floated over, "I went to Lu's residence yesterday, Lu... Her eyes are red, and she cried as soon as she saw it."

Another little girl's voice, "What's wrong with her?"

This voice is very familiar.

Although their voices were not loud, Ding Xiang could still hear them clearly, so she lowered her head quickly.

The first little girl said, "I asked her and she wouldn't say anything." The voice was lowered, "If I don't say anything, I know that she is dissatisfied with that marriage. That family's background will not have a good future no matter what. .She is good-looking, well-born, and high-spirited, and many little ladies are laughing at her. Do you think she can be willing?"

A familiar voice said, "As I expected, I was still wondering why her father fell in love with that person..."

An older girl behind reminded, "Big girl."

The familiar voice was full of displeasure, "Don't gossip when you go home, if it gets out, I will never forgive you."

The two little girls shut their mouths and led the girl to the stairs.

The familiar voice came again, "Sister Wang San, a small businessman came to my house that day, and his style is even better than that of the official lady."

"Who..."

The sound drifted away.

Ding Xiang raised her head.

Even from the back view, Ding Xiang could tell that one of them was Sun Mingjing.

Another little girl was half a head taller than her.

Needless to say, the "small businessman" must be referring to himself. Does he have enough style?
Think about sitting on the arhat bed with Sun Mingjing's aunt, while Sun Mingjing can only sit on the side seat.

She must have felt that she had robbed Miss Guan's place.

Where there are people, there are rivers and lakes, and where there are Sun Mingjing, there are right and wrong.

The little girl is only nine years old, why are there so many things.

Ding Xiang hated that little girl even more.

Another little girl surnamed Wang did not know who it was.

It really complied with the saying "people are divided into groups", if there is no girl to stop, I don't know what else to say.

(End of this chapter)