Chapter 742

In the blink of an eye, August 15, the Mid-Autumn Festival, the day of the reunion of the people and the moon has arrived. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

At the night banquet in the palace, the fourth master, as the son valued by the old man Kangxi, had to lead his family to attend, but Erfu still hid in the Zhuangzi to enjoy the peace under the pretext of avoiding illness, and Xiao Qi also avoided the drudgery of entering the palace to attend the banquet.

"Let people prepare more moon cakes with several fillings!" Erfu ordered Yaoqin without looking back while sorting out her makeup in the mirror, today is the opening ceremony of the Boundless Academy she opened, and the ruined temple that has already dispersed the smell of lacquer has already been hung with red silk flowers in a decent manner, just waiting for Erfu, the owner, and the two deans to cut the ribbon.

"Master, don't worry!" Yaoqin responded with a smile, put a golden phoenix head bead hairpin on Erfu's sideburns, and took a water-red cloak full of embroidered flowers, and put it on Erfu's shoulders, and then helped Erfu, who had been prepared, to sit on the soft sedan chair that had been prepared at the door, and went all the way to the renovated broken temple.

The small temple that used to be dilapidated has been renovated at this time.

The three bays of the main hall were partitioned, and the front and rear windows were replaced with the most crystal clear glass to block the wind, turning into three well-lit classrooms, with simple tables and chairs, neatly placed under the podium, and it was exquisite.

"Ping Pong ......"

After a deafening sound of firecrackers, Mr. Hu Yuelin wore a robe embroidered with Hangzhou silk and 10,000 characters and teeth, walked to the steps at the gate of the broken temple mountain, took the gilded loudspeaker sent by the little girl, and made an inaugural speech in an authentic Beijing accent.

"Now we have invited the proprietor and two deans of Wuya Academy to cut the ribbon on stage. Bai Jiao, who was wearing an elegant aqua blue dress, made a cameo appearance in the role of the host, and when Mr. Hu Yuelin just stepped aside, he smiled and invited Erfu who was standing in the crowd.

When Erfu heard this, he lifted the hem of his robe slightly, and came to the steps.

The brand-new gilt scissors, carried by several seven or eight-year-old children on the Zhuangzi, were sent to Erfu and the two deans, and the red silk ribbons fell in response, and the simple and grand ribbon-cutting ceremony was completely over.

Originally, Bai Jiao planned to invite Erfu to say a few words on the stage, but Erfu boasted that her eloquence was not as good as the two old gentlemen, and she also understood the feudal thinking of patriarchy in this era, so she didn't want to come out of this, and with a wave of her hand, she invited the onlookers to the renovated ruined temple.

Oh, don't say it's a ruined temple, it's been turned into a new academy.

As soon as I entered the door, the original potholed yard has been paved with polished and smooth bluestone slabs, and the wings that have been crooked and slanted have also been re-strengthened and rested, and have become classrooms with bright and clean windows, and the dry wells that have not produced water have been re-dug and turned into a rare sweet water well, and the side of the well is a fence carved and polished with good wood, in order to worry that naughty children will run to the well to play and have an accident。

On the fifteenth day of the Mid-Autumn Festival, the two people and the month are reunited.

In order to prepare for this banquet today, Erfu let people buy two big fat pigs in the capital early, and Xiao Qi, who had never seen a live pig, squatted next to the pigsty in the backyard every day to watch, and the little maids were afraid of smoking the delicate little master, and washed with water every day, and took care of a pigsty that should have been stinky, and even the big fat pigs were bathed every day, and they were not lightly tossed.

Bowls of oily and diligent, fragrant white rice, serious sorghum wine roasted knives...... These tenants, who had never eaten meat for more than half a year, were so happy that they didn't care about the proprietor sitting at the top table, so they shook off their cheeks and ate chopsticks with chopsticks.

After eating the banquet noodles full of meat dishes, Erfu also asked people to pack some mooncakes made from the small kitchen and take them away, and each family sent a piece of meat and a small packet of flour.

There is food and take, the children can read and write, these simple and loyal tenants, to the owner of the Erfu is heartfelt grateful, and even to the Erfu who has got up and walked out, Erfu is a little embarrassed, after all, in the eyes of the tenants, the great kindness is just a small thing she does with her hands.

In order to be grateful to the tenants for her, she was more attentive.

After the banquet was dispersed here, Erfu pulled Bai Jiao to a wasteland outside Zhuangzi, and said loudly: " Although the ruined temple has been renovated, it is still too crowded, and now the children have just entered school, and two or three classrooms are enough, but with the children of Fujin coming to study, I am afraid that it will not be enough, so I plan to take advantage of this time to rebuild a more spacious college and a few courtyards here, which will be used to accommodate the private school gentlemen invited from other places, and can also accommodate those children who are too far away from home to stay overnight. ”

"But then you're going to have to spend more. Bai Jiao looked at the large wasteland that Erfu had drawn casually, even if she was used to seeing big scenes, she swallowed her saliva unconsciously, and retorted disapprovingly.

"The money is gone, and you can make it again.

The family members of the eunuchs and wealthy merchants in our dazzling shop are all noble people who regard money as dung, and I don't mind doing more for the children!" Erff smiled disapprovingly and said softly.

Indeed, this man has power and wealth.

Those officials and eunuchs will cost 100 taels of silver to buy a pair of noodles casually, and the dazzling color workshop can earn nearly 30% of the profit from it, so the large expenditure for ordinary people is just a drop in the bucket for Erfu.

Thinking so, Bai Jiao didn't say more, and measured this wasteland with a step.

The location chosen by Erfu is not far from the residents of Zhuangzi, at the foot of the hill where Erfu practiced his guns, and as far as the eye can see, it is overgrown with wild grass and bushes, but there are no potholes and unevenness, that is, there are more gravel and rotten roots, which are not suitable for farming, which will make it more and more desolate.

It was used to build a school, but it was just right.

"If you want to build a school here, it's really a big project, there is no one for a year and a half, you can't build it, according to me, you might as well dismantle the courtyards around the broken temple and expand it directly!" The silver of the wealthy businessmen's dependents is very easy to earn, but it is not blown by the wind, it can be saved, it is natural to save a little, not to mention that this Zhuangzi is the property of Erfu, although the houses where the tenants live are built by themselves, but they are all built by some mud embryos, not to mention the convenience of dismantling, even if it is moved to other places to rebuild, it is also very easy, there is this worry-free, labor-saving, and money-saving choice, why not do it!

Obviously, Erf understood this, too, but she shook her head resolutely.

In her opinion, although the tenants' houses were dilapidated, and if she had paid for them to rebuild them, the cost would have been much less, but in the eyes of those tenants, even if the house was leaky and dilapidated, it was their home.

Home, where can it be moved casually, so Erph would rather spend more money than toss the tenants.

Fortunately, Bai Jiao didn't particularly insist on such a point of view, that is to say, even if she saw that Erfu had made up her mind, she didn't bother anymore, took out the paper and pen on the tray held by Yaoqin behind her, recorded the approximate data briefly, and asked Erfu's request again.

"Requirements, I don't have any special requirements.

The school is a place for reading and literacy, as long as the windows are larger and the light is sufficient, and a large open space is left so that the children can have a place to play while reading, if they can find a water source here, dig a well, so that the children can use water, it can also be more convenient.

As for the children's accommodation, I said it would be best to build a small building.

The residences of private school gentlemen can also be arranged next to the children's residences, so that adults can take care of them, and the children's families can feel at ease. In fact, Erf also referred to the requirements of those modern schools, and the reason why she said that there were no requirements was just because those modern schools grew up like this.

Bai Jiao on the side, but she pouted again and again when she heard it.

If you just build some brick houses, you can just invite craftsmen to come over, but to build a small building, it is not the general grass platform team can do, although this era has not raised any load-bearing problems, but here in the capital, the craftsmen who have the ability to build small buildings, most of them are working in various yamen, of which the Ministry of Industry is the majority, and again it is a certain government office of the Internal Affairs Office that is responsible for repairing the palace.

As Bai Jiao, if you want to deal with these people, it is really not easy.

Don't look at the same craftsmen, this is a huge umbrella of the yamen, it is like being inlaid with gold edges, you have to take out more silver, in order to move these people, in addition, you also need to involve all kinds of relationships, otherwise you have money, it is also in vain, you see which rural nouveau riche can invite craftsmen who specialize in building palaces for the emperor's old man, and build a house for himself.

Thinking like this, Bai Jiao's eyebrows wrinkled unconsciously.

"Is there anything embarrassing?" Erfu asked with a smile when she saw that Bai Jiao was silent.

"It's hard to hire a craftsman!" Bai Jiao was not polite, pointing to the location where Erfu asked to build a small building, and asked helplessly.

This matter is not easy for Erfu, but for the fourth master, the prince, it is something that can be done with a simple sentence, but she has not communicated with the fourth master, but it is not easy to promise anything to Bai Jiao in private, she was silent for a moment, Nunu mouthed, and said: " This is put in advance, after all, this wasteland has to be dealt with, and it will take some work, I will discuss with the fourth master another day, and see if I can ask the Ministry of Engineering to give the college a drawing, as for the craftsmen, you don't expect me to solve it for you, those craftsmen who are used to doing fine work, it is really not something we can afford, that is meticulously crafted at every turn, let them shoot, our academy has not been able to build it for a few years, this has to say that don't run into a major renovation in the palace in the middle, then we have to wait. ”

Bai Jiao also thought about this, but those masters of the Ministry of Industry are more difficult to invite than craftsmen, so she wants to ask these craftsmen who are not good at it to help, but with Erfu's words, everything becomes easier, and she is much more relieved, nodded with a smile, and said: "If there are drawings from the Ministry of Industry, ordinary craftsmen can do it." ”

The two of them stood next to the wasteland again, discussed it carefully, and their bodies were blown through by the mountain wind, so they walked back together.

Today is the Mid-Autumn Festival, a day of reunion.

Bai Jiao, a lonely person, was naturally left in the village by Erfu for the holiday.

As the night outside the room gradually became thicker, Xiao Qi, who had been running outside for a long time, looked at the rising moon, smiled and came to Erfu and Bai Jiao, who were sitting in the room eating melon seeds, urging Eniang and Aunt to come to the courtyard to admire the moon.

To tell the truth, this moon viewing is a very elegant thing, and Erf really doesn't like it.

However, following the customs, whether it is ordinary people, or high-ranking officials and magnates, everyone will enjoy the moon in the courtyard on the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival, she is naturally not good to climb back to the bed early to rest, but this is different, there is Xiaoqi, the lovely daughter by her side, and Bai Jiao, a good girlfriend, to accompany her, you don't have to look at those hypocritical faces, she is also a little interested, let people in the courtyard early, side by side on a few Eight Immortal tables, the table is full of fresh fruits and delicate snacks sent from all over the world, as well as the indispensable moon cakes for the Mid-Autumn Festival。

Alone in a foreign land as a stranger, every festival is full of relatives.

When she first came to the Qing Dynasty, Erph listened to the sound of firecrackers outside the window, and what she missed most was her parents and her brother who loved her in modern times, thinking about whether they would be sad about their departure, and thinking about the helplessness of not being able to be by their side anymore.

With the passage of time, she finally let go gradually, and no longer became more sad when she came to the festival, but before she had time to feel the different modern holiday atmosphere, the departure of Xiao Jiu and Jiu'er made her fall into boundless darkness again.

Erfu looked at the smiling faces around her, poured all the wine in the pot on the ground, and said silently in her heart: "Xiao Jiu, Jiu'er, don't blame Eniang, Eniang will definitely avenge you, and I hope that you will not join the emperor's family in the next life, it is best to devote yourself to the squire's house, have a pair of fathers and mothers who love you, and live the simplest and happiest life!"