delicious little cook

Chapter 148 The New Yard Is So Spacious
The hall of the main room is the fastest moving, with few sundries, mainly furniture. After packing the display utensils, the work is done. There are indoor furniture and decorations for autumn and winter in autumn and winter. The mother is leading the people to arrange the layout at the same time. There is no need to move the bed from Wenling Court. There is also a large bed suitable for the size of the new bedroom. Even the suitcase has another place to go, because the young master is the fastest growing age, and the season changes this year. I don't know if the clothes that come down can be worn next year, and there will be new ones by then.

The most labor-intensive part is the study room. The order of the books on the shelves and tables must not be messed up. These are the books that the third young master arranges every day. He knows exactly where to put each book. If it is messed up, he will lose his temper. of.

It took only one day for Mama Pang to tidy up the main hall and bedrooms in the Zhongming Courtyard, leaving the study room to Bai Kou and the others to tidy up by themselves.

It took two days for Bai Kou and the others to finally pack up the study in Wenling Courtyard, and then spent another day packing up their luggage, and asked the servants to load the carts and take them to Zhongming Courtyard together.

The Zhongming Courtyard is just to the east of Jicheng Hall, with a yard of miscellaneous affairs in the middle. The plaque of the Zhongming Courtyard on the lintel has been polished and polished. The doors between the colonnades in the courtyard are usually closed, and the only way to enter the courtyard is through the veranda, which also prevents people walking outside from directly peeping into the courtyard.

The main rooms of the four courtyards are all open to five rooms, three bright and two dark on the top of the hard hill, and the middle of the first two courtyards are hallways. The maids and servants are arranged according to grades, the first and second class live in the second courtyard, and the third class Maids and maids live in the first courtyard closest to Babu Lane. As for the four groups of rooms on both sides of the corridors of the first and second courtyards, they are reserved for future concubines.

Arranged according to rank, princes and princes have twelve side concubines, first-class dukes and first- and second-rank civil and military officials are allowed to have eight concubines, and canonized princes can have four concubines. Grandchildren have two concubines. Uncles and brothers who do not inherit the title of title rely on their own fame and official position. If they pass the examination, they are eligible to take one concubine. Other than that, there is no special treatment. As for housekeepers and maids, they can do whatever they want. Yes, as long as the body can bear it, the saint doesn't bother to care about it.

The masters live in the third courtyard and the last rear building. Only serious masters can live in the main courtyard. The sons live in the same courtyard with their parents, and the daughters and maids live in the rear building.

The front face of the main house is ordinary, with three bright and two dark five main rooms, and two side rooms on the left and right respectively. During festivals, male relatives talk in the hall, while female relatives play in the back building.

The interior is two rooms deep, and it feels long and narrow when standing at the door. Therefore, the main hall is actually divided into two parts: the front half is the main hall, and the back half is commonly known as the retreat hall. , is a wide garden, with lush flowers and trees, lush and fragrant flowers everywhere, it is really good for girls to live here, and from the back window of the room on the second floor, you can see the big garden with water pavilions.

The whole back building is surrounded by garden corridors, and there are corner doors on the southwest and southeast corners to communicate with the front courtyard. Salary room and other miscellaneous rooms.

In the well room, there is really a well with a well platform and a large pool for washing. The water outlet of the pool is connected to the sewer on the outer wall. into a small world.

And the only one who lives here is Bai Kou.

The first floor of the East Wing is a variety of miscellaneous rooms. The room on the second floor above the head is traditionally used by maids to sleep next to her. Too lazy to climb the stairs, only the first floor is left to live in.

On the first floor of the West Wing, there are two sets, one bright and two dark, with a total of six rooms. Because of the compact layout, the width of each room is not as good as the West Wing of Wenling Courtyard. The doors and windows are slightly narrower, but the depth is slightly longer, which makes up for it. The indoor area is large, and this long room is easy to make reasonable functional divisions.

Gu Yun gave Bai Kou the apartment close to Baoxia, and the apartment next door is the small warehouse in the main courtyard.

Since there is an extra room, it will naturally be furnished as a study. Before he left, Gu Yun promised that Bai Kou would pay for any new furniture he wanted.

Bai Kou threw her baggage on the bed in the new bedroom, turned around and went out. Naturally, the bed had been prepared long ago. There was no need to move the bed and cabinets from Wenling Courtyard. They only needed to pack up their bedding rolls and boxes and bring them here Enough.

The study of the third young master is still in the west room. The pattern of one light and one dark makes the light room the outer room of the study. There is an Arhat couch, which can be used for taking a nap or entertaining guests. The main hall next door is too serious. Just use it when you are eating, and keep it clean. It is the time to use force in the main hall during the holidays.

The bookcases had already been moved to the open room of the study. Bai Kou and Meilun Meihuan didn't have time to rest. They put the books in the boxes on the correct position of the bookshelves according to the notes on each box, and arranged them as closely as possible. The old study in Lingyuan is exactly the same.

After a day of work, the three of them were exhausted and felt that their waists were about to break, but it was still a sense of accomplishment to see the new study room restored to its original state as much as possible.

The other girls helped the three of them tidy up the room and make the bed, and went around the new kitchen a few times, sorting the pots and pans and leftover rice, noodles, grains, oils, sauces and side dishes brought out from Wenling Courtyard. It was placed in the one-acre three-point land of the new kitchen.

The new kitchen is next door to the main courtyard, and the entrance and exit corner door is connected to the northwest corner veranda of the main courtyard, which is the position where you come out from the southwest corner door of the back cover building.

Passing through the corner door is a narrow passageway, opposite the passageway is the moon gate of the new kitchen, and the other moon gate opposite to this moon gate is the passageway leading to Jicheng hall.

The layout of Jicheng Hall and Zhongming Courtyard is the same, except that Jicheng Hall is the highest-ranking vertical courtyard in the Duke’s Mansion. The front hall and back house are built with higher-standard Xieshan roofs, and the carved beams and painted buildings are full of magnificence. The yard is bigger, there are more rooms, and the rest makes no difference.

After the new kitchen was repaired, in addition to providing hot water for the servants of Zhongmingyuan, the daily hot water for the master and wife was also heated here. To avoid disturbing her rest due to the crowd, she no longer went to the back building to raise hot water.

Coincidentally, the prince moved back to the Zhongming Courtyard, and Bai Kou lived in the back building again. All the miscellaneous rooms there were used as a matter of course, and the young master's hot water came from there.

After working all day, everyone was exhausted. The back building was brightly lit. Aunt Su and the maids took turns to boil water and take a bath here. Then they went to the well room to fetch water, wash clothes and hang them in the yard. Although I was a little envious of Bai Kou alone Live here, but they would never dare to live alone.

Bai Kou still longs to be alone, because dealing with all kinds of people during the day often makes her physically and mentally exhausted, and at night she just wants to be alone.

(End of this chapter)