Ancient Imperial Examination Daily

Chapter 390 Goodbye Liang Xiankuan

"Everywhere, it's Young Master Du who has a wide network and the Liang family's help. The villain dare not take the credit." Mo Jingming laughed.

If it was said that he and Du Jinning had an equal relationship back then, now that he has seen the Liang family's attitude towards the Du family, he treats Du Jinning with extraordinary respect.He really didn't expect that the young master in front of him would be inseparable with the young master of the Liang family, and let the Liang family devote all their craftsmen's efforts to help her build the house.

He is just a small craftsman, and his status is too far from the Liang family.If the Liang family held out a little finger, he would not be able to stay in this land.

However, be respectful, business is always to be discussed.

He said, "Master Du, can I have a talk with you?"

Du Jinning naturally knew what Mo Jingming wanted to say to him.

Now that she had made up her mind, she stopped playing around with Mo Jingming: "Carpenter Mo, shopkeeper Yao has already told me what you mean. I'm sorry, but I can't let you use the construction method of this garden."

Mo Jingming was taken aback for a moment, very disappointed.He saluted regretfully: "That's a villain's recklessness."

"I'm sorry." Du Jinning apologized.

After a pause, she asked again: "How many people are there in your construction team, Carpenter Mo? Are you setting up to do the work yourself, and then distribute the profits, or do you have another employer?"

Mo Jingming didn't know what Du Jinning meant by asking these words, but he still said honestly; "We have a total of 20 people in our own team, but we hired dozens of others to do rough work. Those rough jobs such as digging pits and laying soil are all They do it. As for how much to hire, it depends on the size of the house and the number of houses. I am the leader of this group of people, and I take over the work, and they all follow my instructions."

Du Jinning nodded and stopped talking.

Yao Shuqi said to Du Jinning: "Young Master, you have come all the way with Young Master Qi, and the horses and horses are exhausted, why not go to Young Master Qi's place to rest. After you have lunch and rest, I will take you to the Gong Yuan to see the house. "

"Row."

Du Jinning was already familiar with the Qi Mansion, so he went to have dinner with Qi Muyuan, rested in the courtyard where he used to live, and then went to see the mansion of the Gong Yuan with Yao Shuqi.

Only then did Yao Shuqi have time to report to Du Jinning about the buyer: "...the news was told by Young Master Liang. There is a family in this city who committed crimes in Beijing, and the old family on the Fucheng side is also full of people. All the servants were sold off. I went to have a look and picked three families to buy, a total of eleven people, one of whom was a cook. The old man Zhu who was the gatekeeper was the middle age of the three families. biggest."

As he said that, he was a little apprehensive: "I don't know if the villain did it properly. If the young master doesn't like this kind of servant, the villain can sell them again, and the villain will be responsible for all losses."

This kind of servant has advantages and rewards.

The advantage is that they understand the rules better, because they have always been slaves, and the original master's family committed a crime again, compared to those who were born as commoners and were sold by their parents as slaves, they know how to keep their own.

The downside is that these people used to stay in the big mansion, so they will inevitably carry the family style of the original owner.If the family style is upright, that's okay; if it's not upright, this kind of servant will have some bad habits.

Furthermore, because the owner's family was ransacked and beheaded, some people are more taboo and don't want to have this kind of servant.That's why Yao Shuqi was able to buy them.

"How long have you bought it? What do you think of them?" Du Jinning asked.

"It's been 20 days. During this period of time, I asked them to clean and clean the newly built house. They were quite honest and did not appear to be lazy or slippery." Yao Shuqi said.

It was these servants who he entrusted the head butler of the Liang family to pick out along with them.The head of the Liang family has been a housekeeper for more than ten years, and he inherited his father's business. His father was also the old housekeeper of the Liang family.He was very experienced in picking people, and he was the one who talked to Yao Shuqi at the time, and explained a lot of ways to pick people. Yao Shuqi felt that what he said was very reasonable, and these people looked good, so he bought it back.

"That's fine, keep them. If there's anything wrong with them, it's never too late to sell them."

Worried that Du Jinning was young and didn't understand, Yao Shuqi talked about the taboo again, and also talked about the matter of Butler Liang's help to pick people.

"It's okay. As long as they don't have anything to do with the original master's family, I don't care about it." Du Jinning said, "There is no need to worry about the Liang family. Since Liang Xiankuan didn't say anything about it, then this housekeeper is He trusted me. I have a good relationship with Liang Xiankuan, and there is no conflict of interest with the Liang family, so Steward Liang has no reason to harm me."

Having said that, Yao Shuqi felt relieved.

When he arrived at the Gongyuan, Du Jinning took a look at the courtyard.

It is a very simple yard, with three main rooms and two east and west wing rooms. One side is used as a kitchen and a utility room, and the other side is a woodshed and latrine. The middle yard is wider than the side of the school, and it is surrounded by a fence. Open space with a vegetable garden in the middle.It's just that no one has lived in this yard for a long time, and the vegetable garden is deserted.Yao Shuqi sent someone to clean up the yard, and the weeds in it had just been pulled out.There is also a well near the kitchen door.

Du Jinning said: "For the next few days, I'll just live in the Qi Mansion, and I'll live here on the first day of the exam."

Yao Shuqi nodded: "Okay."

Back in Qi Mansion, Qi Muyuan was naturally very happy when Du Jinning explained the situation.Du Jinning asked again: "Tomorrow I will visit Liang Xiankuan, will you go?"

Qi Muyuan waved his hand: "You go, I won't go."

Du Jinning knew that he was somewhat withdrawn and didn't like to socialize with others, so he didn't force it.She wrote a greeting card and asked Yao Shuqi to send it to Liang Mansion.

After breakfast the next day, Du Jinning took Yao Shuqi to the Liang Mansion, Liang Xiankuan was already waiting for her at home.I was very happy to see her, and asked as soon as I met her: "What on earth is your house thinking? How did you think of making it like that?"

Although gardens have been around for a long time, most of them are royal gardens, and they don't pay attention to the layout of flowers, trees, rockeries and buildings. Most of them are captive animals for hunting by nobles.Later, in the Tang Dynasty, some literati built gardens according to their own landscape drawings, but it was only a prototype and could not yet form a theory of the artistic techniques of garden construction.It was not until the Ming and Qing Dynasties that garden construction gradually matured.

This is what Liang Xiankuan's family does, and he has seen many gardens.But it was the first time he saw such an exquisite garden as Du Jinning, so it was so amazing.

Naturally, it is impossible for Du Jinning to say that she has seen a lot of Suzhou gardens in later generations, and she is a botanist. The major of garden design involves a lot of knowledge about planting, so she learned garden design by the way.It is not difficult for her to design a garden.

(End of this chapter)