There is Room For the Poor Daughter - Chapter 75

[Chapter 75, Branch]

“Girl, will we just live in this yard from now on? It’s too big!”

Wang Man’er followed Daohua, looking at the new home with great interest.

The Daohua Pavilion is spacious, with three main rooms in the north, one bright and two dark, with ear rooms at the left and right ends, three side rooms in the west, several inverted rooms in the south, a flower shed corridor in the east, and a small piece of reclamation beside it. past flower garden.

Daohua looked at the yard with great interest. Not surprisingly, she will live in this place for the next three years or even longer. Hearing Wang Maner’s words, she pondered for a while: “Father is Zhizhou now, wait for mother to be busy.” When it’s over, there should be a group of servants in the family.”

Wang Man’er: “At that time, will the girl have someone around?”

Daohua shook her head: “I don’t know, let’s see what my mother arranges.” She calculated her face in private. The income and expenditure of the family, the Yan family can’t support too many servants now, even if Mrs. Li wants to add people in the future, she will first focus on the few who often go out to socialize.

“Okay, let’s not talk about this for now, let’s think about how to arrange the yard.”

For a while, the whole Yan family was busy.

Yan Zhigao was busy handing over to Xingzhou magistrate and getting to know Xingzhou officials; Mrs. Li was busy arranging family affairs, and she didn’t dare to take it lightly, for fear of embarrassing Yan Zhigao.

Others were busy setting up the yard and packing up.

Half a month later, Yan Zhigao got an overview of the people and things in the state government, and the rest of the Yan family gradually became familiar with life in Xingzhou.

During this period, Daohua also rearranged her yard. The main room was used as a place for receiving guests and resting, the west wing room was arranged as a study and embroidery room, and the reverse room was reserved for maidservants.

The flower shed on the east side was also planted by her. According to her original intention, she wanted to grow some vegetables and fruits, but under Mrs. Li’s reminder, she planted flowers and green plants instead.

She forgot that the ancient ladies of the official family also had to socialize. If other officials’ daughters came to her as a guest and saw the vegetables in the yard, they might not say anything in front of them, but behind their backs, they would definitely laugh at her.

Not only can’t grow in her yard, even the old lady’s yard can’t grow.

For this reason, the old lady was angry, but in order not to tarnish her son’s face, the old lady suppressed her desire to work.

“Grandmother, don’t be angry, when I buy Zhuangzi, we will plant on Zhuangzi.”

Daohua comforted the old lady in this way.

As soon as the old lady thought it was feasible, she immediately called Mrs. Li and asked her to buy a small one for Daohua when she was asked to see Zhuangzi.

In this way, the matter of Daohua buying Zhuangzi is settled.

“Girl!”

Wang Man’er hurriedly ran into the yard from the outside with a flower pot in one hand.

Daohua took a flowerpot: “What’s the matter, I’m so anxious?”

Wang Man’er said eagerly: “Girl, go to the main courtyard and have a look, the master has passed.”

Daohua Nahan: “My father is going to the main courtyard.” Isn’t the courtyard normal? Why, is there something wrong with Shuangxinyuan?”

Wang Man’er nodded immediately: “I heard from Sister Pingxiao in the main courtyard that the third girl also wants a separate courtyard. My aunt begged the master, and the master went to the main courtyard today, probably to talk about this matter.”

Hearing this, Daohua didn’t look too anxious: “Just talk about it, mother always takes care of the family affairs, father Even if you prefer Shuangxinyuan, you have to ask her what she thinks.”

Mrs. Li has always been fair and impartial in managing the family, and over the years, even Sun, who loves to calculate and care about, can’t say a word of no.

There are indeed more courtyards in the backyard of the state government than in the county government, but not so many. All the children of the Yan family can have one courtyard per person.

There is a reason why Mrs. Li dared to let Daohua live in a courtyard alone.

Daohua is the granddaughter of the Yan family, her father is the pillar of the Yan family, and her mother is the wife of the family. She lives alone in a courtyard. Even if someone in the Yan family feels uncomfortable, she will not show it.

But Yan Yishuang wants to live alone in a courtyard, why?

Because her mother is a concubine?

main courtyard.

After Yan Zhigao entered the room, he even drank two cups of tea.

It’s not that I’m thirsty, but the tea in the wife’s room is given by the eldest daughter. Although it’s just ordinary jasmine tea, it tastes better than the expensive tea bought outside.

Nowadays, in all the courtyards of the Yan family, the only ones who can often eat food from the eldest daughter are the old lady and his wife.

I don’t know if the eldest daughter did it on purpose, but she didn’t give much food every time. Anyway, if he wanted to eat, he had to come to the main courtyard or the old lady’s place from time to time.

Mrs. Li waited for Yan Zhigao to drink the tea, then asked Ping Tong to bring jujube paste cake, said with a smile: “Master, try it, the old lady wants to eat something sweet these days, Daohua fiddled with this cake. ”

Yan Zhigao looked at the cakes on the plate. He didn’t like sweet ones, but he could smell the jujube aroma from the cakes, so he couldn’t help but put one piece in his mouth, chewed for a while, and picked up another piece. Nodding while eating: “It tastes good.”

Mrs. Li smiled: “Then master, eat more. By the way, what is the matter here?”

Yan Zhigao: “It’s nothing, just want to ask, Isn’t there a few yards left in the backyard? If no one lives there, give one to Yishuang. She is eight years old this year and should have her own yard.” The

smile on Mrs. Li’s face remained unchanged: “I’ll take care of the empty yard. I also wanted to discuss it with the master. When I first moved here, everyone was busy, so I divided the yard according to when I was in the county government.”

“Now that the master mentioned the empty yard, I will also talk about it. My opinion.”

Yan Zhigao nodded, and stretched out his hand to the jujube cake.

Mrs. Li glanced at the dwindling jujube cakes: “…the little ones in the family are all grown up now, and it’s time to move out of their parents’ yard. Needless to say, Wenxiu, as the eldest son and grandson, he must have It ‘s in a separate yard.”

Yan Zhigao nodded, agreeing.

Mrs. Li continued: “As for Daohua, as the eldest granddaughter of our Yan family, it is reasonable and reasonable to give her a yard.”

Yan Zhigao nodded again, but any big family has certain preferential treatment for the eldest son and eldest daughter. Although their Yan family is not a big family, but Yan Zhigao also has a heart to revitalize the family, this rule can be learned.

Seeing that he had no objections, Mrs. Li relaxed a lot: “After that, there will be Wen Jie, Wen Tao, Wen Kai, Wen Bin, and Yi Huan, Yi Shuang, and Yi Le. Wen Hui is still young, so it must be I live with the third brother and the others, so the empty yard is their seven points.”

“There are four left in the empty yard, and one must be prepared to invite the master to be a school and teach the girls the boudoir etiquette. So, There are only three yards available for distribution.” After speaking, Madam Li smiled and looked at Yan Zhigao: “What do you think about this, master?”

Yan Zhigao was silent.

Aunt Lin told him before that Daohua already had its own yard, and Yishuang should have one too. He thought it would be no problem, but now that Mrs. Li talked about it, he felt that his thinking was easy.

If Yishuang was given a separate yard, what would the other children do? What’s more, there is also Wen Kai, who is the legitimate son.

Yan Zhigao habitually reached out to get the jujube cake, but who knows, the plate was empty!

Yan Zhigao withdrew his hand embarrassingly, and looked at Mrs. Li: “Madam, what do you think?”

Mrs. Li was not polite, and directly expressed her thoughts: “According to my previous plan, Wen Jie and Wen Bin have always been friends, and they live together. One yard; Wentao and Wenkai can play together, they live in the same yard.”

“In the last yard, Yihuan, Yishuang, and Yile live together. Anyway, the three grew up together and went to school together, with a good temper. We all know it, and we must be able to get along with each other amicably.”

Yan Zhigao pondered for a while, but couldn’t find any reason to refute, and finally nodded: “Let’s assign it like this.”

(End of this chapter)