Chapter One Thousand and Nineteen

Xiao Qi has no opinion on the layout of the residence, she has lived in the west courtyard with Erfu since she was a child, and she has long been accustomed to Erfu's aesthetics, this listening to Yuzhai's bricks and tiles, grass and trees, is the carving on the window lattice and the Soviet-style color paintings on the cloister rafters, which are also selected by Erfu himself, and explained that Zhao Dezhu and the craftsmen of the Internal Affairs Office have communicated, so listening to Yuzhai in front of her, Xiao Qi looks at how she looks, how she likes it, if it weren't for the large number of palace maids waiting behind her, she can't wait to jump her feet and move over immediately.

Compared with the West Courtyard, it is obviously the newly built Tingyuzhai that is more in line with Xiao Qi's thoughts.

"Don't just look at it, take advantage of the fact that there is still some time to see where there is anything you want to change, say it, E-Niang should also ask you Ama to notify the Internal Affairs Office to come over and repair it, otherwise when you move in, if you want to change it, I'm afraid it will not be easy!" Although the Manchu family's male and female defense is not as strict as the Han family, but there is no one whose girl's yard is casually allowed craftsmen to enter and exit, so what Erfu said is the truth, if you want to change the courtyard after this village and this shop, then you can only wait until the next time the whole house goes to the Old Summer Palace to escape the summer.

Hearing this, Xiao Qi scratched his head and nodded very seriously: "Then Xiao Qi has to think about it." ”

"Okay, then you think slowly, let's go into the upper room to take a look, and then go to the wing room to see, in the future, this one acre and three points of land in the rain is your residence, you should really think about how to arrange it, you can't let Eniang decide everything, Eniang doesn't want Eniang's Xiaoqi to be a stupid girl who has no idea!" Erfu smiled and rubbed the top of Xiaoqi's hair, beckoning Xiaoqi to go to the upper room.

The upper room is five rooms wide, three rooms deep, when the door is opened, there is a partition wall in the north-south direction of the bright room, there are a few long tables in front of the wall, the table of eight immortals and the Taishi chair are a serious hall to be treated, behind the wall is the dark room, the furniture such as the low couch and the cabinet are arranged inside, it is not only the place where the palace maid of the night watch rests, but also the tea room that boils water to make tea on weekdays, and there are some commonly used trivial things such as tea sets, chopsticks and boxes in the cupboard.

In the second room on the east side, there are furniture such as Luohan bed and Bogu frame, which are elegantly and comfortably furnished, here is the place where Erfu specially rests for Xiaoqi to rest and talk and chat with close sisters, and is connected to the bedroom of the east branch, which can be partitioned by a blue gauze cabinet or hung with a bead curtain, because it is a sultry summer at this time, so now the barrier between the east room and the bedroom is a bead curtain of crystal clear glass beads.

In the east corner, that is, in the inner room, there is also a floor cover as a partition, close to the root of the back wall and there is a finely carved shelf bed, hanging a light gauze bed curtain, there is a hanger next to the bed, and the foot pedal and corner table are placed in front of the bed, and in front of the bead curtain partition, the beauty couch is placed by the window, and the beauty couch is a dressing table inlaid with a large bronze mirror with entwined branch pattern and a red wardrobe placed against the wall, there is a cage on the cabinet, and between the dressing table and the wardrobe, it is a small door to the ear room, there is a screen in front of the door, and there is a delicate round table and embroidered pier in the ground, and the table is placed with a tea set with azure glaze, which is the same as Xiao Qi's boudoir in the west courtyard。

The second room on the west side is a study, which is said to be a study, and can also be regarded as a piano room and a classroom.

Inlaid with crystal clear glass windows, against the wall is the whole wall of floor-to-ceiling large bookshelves, in front of the bookshelves are bookcases and Taishi chairs and other ordinary furniture, it seems quite empty, because there is no half page on the bookshelf, and the table is also empty, these things are just waiting to be moved from the west courtyard.

The west corner is a warm pavilion with a big kang, the position of the door is a little lame, you need to go around from the study to the partition, the door is not open to the hall, but to the back wall, the wall is embedded with a gilded copper crane like a candlestick, it is also to avoid the wind and cold, the window is a fire kang, there are kang cabinets and kang tables and other furniture on the kang, next to the kang, there is a pair of Taishi chairs and corner tables on the root of the wall, and there is no dressing table and wardrobe, there are still round tables and embroidery piers in the ground, and the guys such as dressing up are placed in the ear room, and the other side is attached to the wall root is a slip Bogu frame, and now it is also empty, and it is also necessary to purchase furnishings again。

"E-niang, this door is so awkward. Because of the direction of the opening of the warm pavilion in the west corner, Xiao Qi grumbled, but he didn't ask to reopen the door nonsense, after all, the large pieces of furniture in this room have been arranged, and it would be too troublesome to reopen the door again.

In fact, Erf was not very satisfied with this, she had asked about it at the beginning, but the craftsman also had a reason.

Because this listening to the rain is different from the west courtyard, there are heavy courtyards before and after, the back is next to the lotus pond, all unobstructed, there is only a water pavilion that is ventilated on all sides, it can not play the role of blocking the water vapor in the pool, if it is the same as the door of the warm pavilion on the west courtyard, and when it is winter, the cold wind that comes in through the door of the upper room, wrapped in moisture and rushes straight to the warm pavilion, that lives in the warm pavilion, but it is no longer a kind of enjoyment, it is easy to be contaminated with wind and cold and other diseases, especially this listening to the rain is living in the small seven grids of the house, so the craftsman came up with such a somewhat lame design ingeniouslyThe windows by the window are also deliberately designed to be double-layered, all of which are transparent glass produced by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which is cold and windproof, and does not shade the light and sun, and it is comfortable to live in.

That's why Erf agreed to this somewhat out-of-the-ordinary approach.

After she finished talking to Xiao Qi, Xiao Qi nodded sensibly, accepting this somewhat awkward way of design.

Seeing this, Erfu hooked her lips and smiled, pointed to the wings on both sides in front of the upper room, and said softly: "Since there is no problem in the upper room, there is no need to modify it, then let's go to the wing room and take a look." ”

After speaking, she pulled Xiao Qi, who was still a little stunned, and walked out.

Xiao Qi is Gege, there are two big, four small and six palace maids around him, and there is also a grandmother and a housekeeper and two companions, in addition, because Baifu and Xueqiu have been raised in the West Courtyard since they were children, and later after Erfu faked his death and left the house, the little eunuch Geng Lu, who took care of the two dog masters, also belonged to Xiao Qi's envoys, so how these palace maids and servants should place their residences also need to pay special attention.

The east and west wings must be set aside for Xiao Qi's two playmates to live in, and because of the love of feeding Xiao Qi, the grandmother is still leading the errand of the housekeeper, and the residence is also different from other palace maids and servants, so she has to live in the wing, and it is also a shame that when the rain was built, Erfu did not forget to let people build a fenced house next to it, otherwise it would really not be able to live in so many people.

In addition to the wing room and the enclosure room, there is also a small kitchenette next to the water pavilion.

In these places, Erfu led Xiao Qi around, and finally handed over a bunch of keys to Xiao Qi in front of the servants who were waiting behind him, and solemnly explained: " In the future, you will not be a coquettish child by the side of Eniang, the big and small things in this yard, although there are your grandmothers and grandma to take care of, you don't want to be idle, this child Eniang will hand over the key to the inside and outside of this rain to you, and later Eniang will also let Yujie sort out the gifts and money you have received over the years into a book, and send them over without leakage, and you will have to take care of these things yourself in the future. ”

"Ah!" This is going to be in charge of the small courtyard where she lives in the future, Xiao Qi was obviously very surprised, she took the key in a daze, looked back at the upper room of Yu Zhai, and then looked at the palace maids whose faces changed color, and really screamed out out of shape, fortunately, she was still calm, and soon closed her unconsciously opened little mouth, nodded with a straight face, and said, "Xiao Qi will definitely not let Eniang down." ”

She also understands that she is still a beginner, and it is not suitable for her to teach Xiao Qi to learn the skills of governing the family, she originally planned to ask the fourth master to find the old lady from the Internal Affairs Office to teach Xiao Qi carefully, but before she learned that Grandma Sun left the palace, she had been a palace maid and did a good job, so she hit the idea on Grandma Sun's head.

She smiled and glanced at Mama Sun, who was also sluggish, and said softly: "Don't forget what you said today, E-Niang will check your listening to Yuzhai account book every month in the future, if there is anything wrong or missing, E-Niang will punish you for your monthly share, although it will not make you eat and drink enough, but keeping it will make you uncomfortable, so you have to be careful." After speaking, she rubbed Xiao Qi's head again, and rubbed Xiao Qi's smooth and slippery hair bun to mess up, and then led Xiao Qi and Sun Mama and others back to the West Small Courtyard to sort out Xiao Qi's private silver, gold, silver and jade and other things accumulated over the years and various gifts received during the New Year.

In fact, Mama Sun has registered all these things a long time ago, but there are many people in this yard, so she still has to count them carefully, so that Xiao Qi knows what she has in her own heart, and she must let Xiao Qi understand the value of these things, instead of piling them up in the warehouse, and finally don't even know what she has lost, and let the people below empty her family in a daze.

This is also what Aunt Yuxiu specially reminded.

If you can't tell, I really don't know, this Xiao Qi is still a little rich woman hidden in the fourth master's mansion.

Xiao Qi is the most favored Gege in the house, and Erfu is habitually extravagant, just the various gifts she got from Erfu and the fourth master are already worth a lot of money, not to mention the things that the emperor and the palace concubines rewarded when they enter the palace during the New Year's holidays, plus the dowries and bodies that Erfu faked his death and left the house before, and stayed in the mansion, except for a small part given to Hongxuan, most of them were stuffed into Xiao Qi's hands by the fourth master.

At the beginning, the dowry that Guerjia Mansion bought for Erfu was a piece of fine art, only there were more than a dozen large boxes of antique calligraphy and paintings, which were definitely serious ten-mile red makeup, and now most of these things are in Xiao Qi's hands, you can imagine how rich Xiao Qi's family background is.

Mama Sun stared at the little palace maid and moved things out of the warehouse in the same way, compared with the records and various gift lists and other information registered by herself, with Yujie, Shilan and others, she was busy all morning, and finally completed the inventory work, except for a little cloth and fur with natural damage, but there was no lack of any valuable things, only the private body of the silver, and the number on the file is somewhat inconsistent, there are tens of thousands of taels of silver.

After discovering this result, Grandma Sun came to Erfu with a pale face, and knelt on the ground with a pop.

"Grandma Sun, you get up and speak first.

Xiao Qi, this girl learned from me with a lot of money, and there are a lot of broken silver that I usually enjoy casually, which may not be your reason. Erfu said in her heart that Grandma Sun was still a good person, so she didn't want to deliberately embarrass Grandma Sun because of these things, she smiled at Grandma Sun very kindly, and said softly.

"No matter how lenient the master and Gege are, but the slave and maid are responsible for taking care of Gege's private house, and now Gege's private house has lost a lot of money, and the slave and maid are really guilty of forgiveness, and ask the master and Gege to punish him. Grandma Sun did not get off the donkey down the slope, she respectfully handed the file book in her hand to Erfu, and said with a straight face.

"Alas......

You are deliberately embarrassing me, when I left the house, there was a mess here inside and out, some missing, it is also normal, you have to take this responsibility up, it should not be because you want to use this to push the errand I arranged for you, and you don't want to accompany Xiao Qi!" Sometimes, this person with a proper character is a dead brain, and Erfu reluctantly ordered Shilan to step forward to help Grandma Sun up, and deliberately unreasonably make trouble.

"The slave was reluctant to leave Gege's side. Grandma Sun also saw that Erfu really didn't want to blame her, but she didn't insist on pleading again, she pursed her lips, and replied with a trembling voice, she watched Xiao Qi grow up since she was a child, not to mention that Bilf spent more time with Xiao Qi, and it may not be that Bilf still thinks about Xiao Qi's child, but she also really takes care of Xiao Qi with her heart, how can she not have any feelings for Xiao Qi, plus being able to be an errand in the prince's mansion is also good for her and the children in her family, if there is hope, she is naturally reluctant to leave.

Erfu was also quite moved when she saw Grandma Sun's reaction.

Although she once didn't want Xiao Qi and Grandma to get too close, she didn't want Xiao Qi to have no one around her who could be coquettish, especially Grandma Sun is still a loyal person, so many years have passed, and she hasn't done anything to be sorry for Xiao Qi and herself.

"The things in this treasury have been re-registered, and the body and silver have been weighed again, and the points are exactly the same, I will now hand over this file book to Grandma Sun, Grandma Sun must be a good errand for Xiao Qi's side to manage the house, and don't hide it, and must let Xiao Qi learn the ability to manage the family's accounts. Erfu took the file book that Shilan had re-copied, flipped through it page by page, left her own seal for proof, handed the copy into the hands of Grandma Sun, and instructed in a deep voice.