Chapter 282

Jiang's grandsons are all older than Gu Jingyun, so when Gu Jingyun and Li Baolu went to sit down in Qin's main house, a white-headed old man behind him led twenty or thirty old people, middle-aged people and young people to salute them, saying : "Meet my cousin, my aunt."

Gu Jingyun nodded with a smile, "Nephews, please." He asked Erlin to hand out the gifts he had prepared one by one.

This group of people exited in an orderly manner, and a middle-aged man led another seventy or eighty people into the door. He walked up and stood there. He was less than three years old, and tremblingly climbed over the high threshold, following the adults in front of him. After saluting in a familiar way, she called out in a childish voice, "I've seen my cousin, uncle and grandma."

Li Baolu's heart twitched wildly, and she said softly: "Okay, okay, okay, good boy, get up quickly."

Young and middle-aged people saluting: ...

A smile flashed in Gu Jingyun's eyes, and when the group retreated, a young man led a dozen children up, the servants hurriedly took out the futons, and the dozen children knelt down and said loudly: "I have seen great-cousin uncle, great-cousin Uncle and grandma."

"Get up, get up," Li Baolu grabbed a meaty dumpling, couldn't help but rubbed his cheeks and said, "I feel so sorry for my great-grandmother."

Even the well-informed Jiang could not help but twitch the corners of his eyes, released the child from her hands, and said with a smile: "Siblings like children, so hurry up and have one, and then let the cousin teach it well, maybe it will come out again." A champion, then a father and son double champion will be a good name."

Li Baolu lowered her head and smiled shyly.

"The rooms are all ready for you," Jiang said with a smile, "I'll take you to have a look. If you're not satisfied with anything, tell my cousin, and she'll ask someone to change it for you."

The guest room arranged for Gu Jingyun and the others was in a courtyard to the south of the main house. Gu Jingyun observed all the way and saw a courtyard in the southwest corner guarded by servants, apparently occupied, he couldn't help but stop and asked with a smile, "Sister-in-law three, where is this?" Is the main house inhabited?"

The third cousin's sister-in-law thought about it, and said with a smile on her face: "This is where your fifth nephew lives. Since your third cousin redeemed the main house from the yamen, it has been vacant all the time. It's just a servant to take care of it. It's deserted. We wanted to keep it until Uncle Jiu came back, but a few years ago when your fifth nephew got married and there weren't enough houses in the house, I decided to ask someone to clean up the yard in the southwest corner for him to live in, and wait for our house to be built. Once the new house is finished, let him move back."

Gu Jingyun nodded with a smile, "Marriage is a big event, and it must be more serious. I will explain it to my uncle and aunt later. The younger generation in the family will be very happy to have the help of my uncle and aunt."

"However," Gu Jingyun changed the subject: "Although most of the fields and houses that were confiscated back then were redeemed by the tribe, the accounts that should be settled still have to be settled. We can't let the yamen take advantage of our tribe."

Jiang nodded with a smile on his face, "Exactly. Your third cousin is pedantic and thinks that the treasury can no longer be used to take advantage of that. Since it is redeemed by the family, it can be returned internally, and there is no need to go through the yamen again." , but as you said, there are many clansmen involved in this matter, so we can’t just let the Yamen take advantage of it, otherwise who would have benefited from the ransom money.”

Gu Jingyun nodded, "That's exactly what it means."

Jiang sent the young couple to the guest house and said goodbye, "You guys rest first, I will send someone to call you when you have lunch later."

He ordered two more girls and said: "You came here in a hurry this time, and you didn't even bring a girl with you. It will inevitably be inconvenient in your life. These are the purple shirt and purple radish next to my cousin. You order them first, and I will give them to you later. Prepare a few girls that you can use."

Li Baolu declined, "Thank you for the third cousin, but my husband and I won't stay for long, and the girl we arranged will not last for a few days, why don't I use the purple shirt and purple radish first, but the person who robbed the third cousin, still hopes The third cousin sister-in-law should not blame her."

"It's their blessing that you are willing to use them. I can't ask for more," Jiang said with a smile, "How can you blame me?"

Jiang shi left the two maids behind and left. There were rough servants who obeyed orders in the courtyard. Li Baolu sent them to the gate of the courtyard, and turned around when they were far away.

Ziluo followed behind Li Baolu, and Zishan was already making tea for Gu Jingyun deftly.

Neither Gu Jingyun nor Li Baolu wanted to live here for a long time, even though the main house is the house of the direct branch of the Qin family, so they only brought two sets of clothes and some daily necessities.

From Yuan Shanting and Su Anjian's point of view, it was too trivial to prepare all these things after only staying for two days, but from the point of view of the Qin family, the luggage of Gu Jingyun and Li Baolu was too shabby.

Ziluo winked at Zishan when she saw the three bundles. The guests had so little, they had to report to Jiang's and bring more things, otherwise they would have neglected the distinguished guests.

Gu Jingyun drank a cup of tea and stood at the window looking out without saying a word. Li Baolu pestered him and said, "I heard that the main house has been built for hundreds of years. Can you take me to visit?"

Gu Jingyun smiled and said: "Even if it has been hundreds of years, it needs to be repaired every few years. You want to see the style hundreds of years ago, but it is impossible."

"Then I also want to go and see. If there are interesting and beautiful places, I can tell Niuniu after returning to Beijing. This is her home. How can I not know about it?"

Gu Jingyun asked Ziluo and Zishan to lead the way to visit.

Ziluo hesitated and said, "Young Master Biao, except for the meeting hall and the big garden, the rest of the main house is locked..."

Gu Jingyun smiled and said: "It's okay, let's just go to the big garden and have a look."

The meeting hall is where they sat and accepted the greetings from the younger generation of the Qin family just now, so there is no need to go there again.

Ziluo and Zishan saw that the distinguished guests insisted, and the big garden was not a secret place, and the masters of the family often went there to play, so they hesitated and led the way.

The big garden is in the northwest corner, covering a very wide area. They turned from the guest courtyard in the south corner to the main road, walked down two intersections and then turned. There was a moon gate and a hollowed-out wall screen in front of them. There were green trees in the wall. Looking out, it is clearly winter, but it gives people a feeling of spring, and the greenery inside can also be glimpsed from the hollowed-out wall.

What you can see through the Moon Gate is a rockery with overlapping peaks and ridges and ridges. The gurgling water flows down the rockery, flows through the rocky rocks into the creek at the bottom, turns around the rockery for half a circle, and then goes away.

Following the sound of the water and bypassing the rockery, the eyes suddenly opened up. Green trees and colorful flowers rushed into the eyes, without any gloomy winter.

Seeing Li Baolu's surprise, Ziluo explained: "Runing winter comes later, and the weather is still warm now, so these flowers are still good. In another twenty days, when it snows, there will be fewer flowers in the big garden." .”

"That's also very beautiful," Li Baolu said with a smile, "To grow so many colorful flowers in winter, there must be a very capable gardener at home, right?"

Zishan and You Rongyan said: "The gardeners in the mansion are handicrafts from generation to generation, which is naturally good, but it also depends on the greenhouses in the garden, where the temperature is suitable and the flowers and plants can be continuously supplied, so even the flowers in each house in winter Not less."

"Oh? Are there any houses in the village?"

Zishan covered her face and smiled, "Of course not, the room I mentioned refers to the masters of our second room, this flower room is now..."

"Zishan," Ziluo gave her a dark look, then smiled at Li Baolu, "I don't know Mrs. Biao, this flower house has always been provided by our wife with money, but when there are new flowers in the flower house, we will send some to our relatives, or I invite everyone to enjoy it together, and after a while, my wife can go to the flower room to have a look, choose a few pots of flowers you like and put them back in the room, it will be refreshing to look at in winter."

Li Baolu nodded slightly, and didn't ask any more questions.

At this time, Mrs. Jiang had just returned to her home.

The second bedroom's ancestral house is not far from the main house, and it only takes a quarter of an hour to get there by car. When she got off the carriage, she went directly to the main house. Qin Chengyu, who said he had something to do, was standing at the window with his hands behind his back in a daze.

Jiang sent all the servants away, poured him a cup of tea in person, and answered her words and deeds one by one when she received Gu Jingyun and Li Baolu all the way, and finally sighed: "I'll ask someone to clean up the yard for Lao Wu in a while, and try to be here soon." Move out before he goes."

The main house has always been the residence of the direct branch of the Qin family. Back then, they received a letter from Qin Xinfang in advance, knowing that the court might confiscate the house, so they emptied the treasury of the main house in advance and moved it to the public treasury of the clan.

This is also Qin Xinfang's arrangement.

But in an emergency, there are always many things that can't be moved. Sure enough, within a few days, people from the county government came to search the house. Fortunately, their Qin family has always been a prominent family in Runing, and the order was only for Qin Xinfang's house. He locked the door deliberately and put a seal on it, without damaging the things inside.

And when the news of Qin Xinfang's exile came out, the county magistrate treated the Qin family even more preferentially, because Qin Xinfang committed the crime of treason, but the emperor only exiled him, not even the family. This means that this matter is tricky, and Qin Xinfang's favor has not yet been broken, so he dare not go too far.

Not only the county magistrate at that time thought so, but also the Qin clan, so the family paid a sum of money from the public to redeem the stolen main house and land, because it was the copied property, and the county magistrate felt sorry for him. However, no one in Runing city dared to fight with the Qin family, so they spent very little money.

Qin Chengyu became the patriarch, but still no one in the clan dared to neglect the direct branch. The land was leased to tenants for cultivation, and the income was divided into three parts, one part was placed in the public house, which was regarded as the payment for the redemption, and the other part was placed in the ethnology to support the Qin family. Qin Chengyu and several elders jointly held the education career, and it was reserved for the direct branch.

The main house was also being cleaned all the time, and everyone was waiting for Qin Xinfang to come back.

But one year, two years, and three years have passed, and the emperor's anger has clearly dissipated, but as long as someone pleads with Qin Xinfang, he will either be dragged out to beat him or lose his position.

Gradually, not only did outsiders know that Qin Xinfang would only be able to stay in Qiongzhou for the rest of his life, even the Qin clan had no hope for the return of the direct branch.

In this case, the redeemed fields and houses became more difficult, and some people began to propose to divide the fields and houses.

Fifteen years later, those fields and houses redeemed with public money have long since been distributed to the clansmen, except for the main house, which no one dared to move.

Because that means the majesty of the direct branch and the glory of the Qin family, Qin Chengyu and the Jiang family have long wanted to move in, but he has asked someone to insinuate him a few times, and all the elders in the clan have tried their best to oppose it, even though the direct branch cannot come back. , the main house is not something that the second room can imagine.

Until three years ago, the elders in the clan died of illness one after another, and now only the ancestor of the fourth family is left with a seniority higher than Qin Chengyu, but he is also very old. He just had breakfast in the morning, and he will ask him about it in half an hour. You may not remember what you ate.

That's why Qin Chengyu dared to let his youngest son live in the main house on the pretext that his house was not enough to take advantage of his wedding.