Mingmen Family

Chapter 262
When she walked to the main hall, Bai Rui couldn't help but said, "I think we came here before..."

At that time, Mr. Lu had a cold face, and his young servant Antai even thought they were mad bees and butterflies, so he went to his son's side on purpose.

Thinking about how Lu Guanyi treated his girl yesterday, Bai Rui couldn't help but feel secretly refreshed.

Ye Yaming asked Song Guo: "When your young master lived here, how many servants did you use?"

Song Guo thought for a while, counted with her fingers, and said, "Returning to the girl, when the young master is here, my grandmother and I work together in the kitchen. My grandfather and my father clean the yard. The young master is accompanied by two courtyard guards. There are also An Tai and An Ning who are waiting for the young master. There are only eight people in total. The housekeeper, Grandpa Lu An, has been here for a while, and then returned to Beijing."

"Where do those stewards from Beijing live?" Ye Yaming asked again.

Song Guo shook her head: "I don't know. They don't live here."

Ye Yaming didn't ask any more questions, and walked around the whole house with Song Guo.

After shopping, she breathed a sigh of relief.

The pavilions and pavilions here are carefully constructed, showing the beauty of gardens in the south of the Yangtze River.When she first came here, she thought it was quite big, but in fact it was just a landscaping technique, it seemed wider than Ye's house, but it was not that exaggerated, the area was actually only half of Ye's house.

But half is enough.You must know that the Ye family's house occupies a very large area, and it takes at least half an hour to walk through the entire house.

As for Lu Guanyi's house, only she and Lu Guanyi will live in it from now on. Even if they have children, they will only live as one family.With her and Lu Guanyi's peace of mind, there won't be too many servants.

If the house is too big, it will be very empty.Many houses are useless.No one lives in it, not only the house is prone to decay, but also a safety hazard-who knows if there are people hiding in it?

The current area, in Ye Yaming's opinion, is very suitable.

A hanging flower gate separates the house into the front yard and the back yard.The area of ​​the front yard is small. In addition to the front yard on the central axis, there is another yard on the east and west sides.

After entering the Chuihua Gate and walking for a short while, you will find the main backyard on the central axis. The other four yards are distributed between pavilions, pavilions, plants, and ponds. Lu Guanyi named them simply and rudely according to the location. Courtyard, West Courtyard, South Courtyard, North Courtyard.

Thinking back to when the crown prince gave this house to Lu Guanyi, it was quite new, and the old Songtou's family was also very conscientious in maintaining it. This house is relatively well maintained, and there is no dilapidated place that needs to be repaired.

Song Guo's grandmother, Li Shi, seemed worried, and came out from time to time to look at the intersection.

Seeing that Song Guo finally came back with Ye Yaming and his group, she stood there hesitating for a long time, as if she wanted to go forward, but she didn't dare.

Ye Yaming asked Qingzhi to call her over.

Mrs. Li bowed to Ye Yaming, and said: "My lady. The young master specially asked An Tai to come over and tell us yesterday that except for his study in the outer courtyard, the girls in other places can clean up again. The keys of each house, Mr. They are all given to the girl, and if the girl wants someone to measure the size and remake the furniture, she can come and go as she pleases. There are some books in his study in the front yard, and if the girl wants to read, she can browse through them at will."

Ye Yaming nodded with a smile: "Okay, I'm sorry for the trouble. The mother will take me to the room to have a look."

Houzhengyuan is the residence of the highest-ranking master in the family, so it is generally called Shangfang.

Mrs. Li led them to the upper room.

Ye Yaming first used the key to open the hall in the middle of the upper room, and took a look inside.The ancient architectural patterns and furnishings are all the same. The living room is basically a table, eight fairy chairs, and coffee tables.

She opened the room on the east side and looked again.Not surprisingly, this room will be her bedroom after she gets married.

Because it is the main courtyard, in order to show the status of the owner, this courtyard is larger than ordinary courtyards and houses, both in terms of land area and the size of the house.

This east room is more than 30 square meters. There is a bed in the corner, and the wardrobe is placed at the foot of the bed, about one meter away from the foot of the bed. There is also a screen placed on the other side of the bed, There is a partition in this huge room, which makes the room not so empty.

At the other end, there is a desk next to a bookshelf and a shelf for antiques.However, the bookshelves and antique racks are empty, there is nothing.

There was no curtain or bedding on the bed in the corner, as if no one lived in this room.

Ye Yaming was surprised, and asked Mrs. Li, "Where did you live before?"

"I live in this room," Mrs. Li said, "it's just that the young master hasn't come here for a long time. The old slave was worried that the bedding on the bed would attract ashes and mice, so he put it away and put it in the cage cabinet; the young master put the clothes and clothes here. The same is true for books, the four treasures of the study, and the furnishings on the shelf."

"This time the young master came to An'an. After hearing the letter, the old slave wanted to clean up the house, but the young master sent a message saying that he was staying with Mr. Chen in the inn and told him not to clean up. So this room has been empty."

Ye Yaming turned to Zan'er, "Measure the size of this room."

After Ye Yaming traveled through time, he didn't like the furnishings of the original owner's room, so he had someone rearrange it, and painted some furniture for carpentry.For convenience, she asked Zi Yuan to make a soft ruler out of cloth strips.

Now Zan'er and Song'er are in a group, and Qingzhi and Ziyuan are in a group, each taking a quick measurement with a tape measure.

The ancient houses were all square.There wasn't much furniture in this room, and after a while the two groups of people took the measurements, and Lu'e used a charcoal pen to write down the measurements in the small notebook she carried with her.

Seeing the power of this action, Mrs. Li was taken aback for a while, and she immediately praised: "No wonder the young master likes girls. The way the young lady does things is as straightforward as the young master."

Ye Yaming smiled and asked, "Is the Westinghouse the same size as this?"

Seeing Mrs. Li nodding, she pointed to the room to the east and asked, "What about this room?"

"They're all the same." Mrs. Li said, "The main rooms in this row are all the same size. The east and west rooms are slightly smaller."

The ancients regarded odd numbers as yang numbers, yang numbers as auspicious, and even numbers as yin.Therefore, the number of main houses is odd.

However, ancient buildings are regulated, and the main hall of the emperor has nine rooms in a row; the prince has seven rooms.No matter how rich the people are, the main house can only build five rooms.

Therefore, in the north house of the main courtyard, apart from the hall in the middle, there are two rooms of more than [-] square meters on the east and west sides.

Mrs. Li said again: "This house was rebuilt by His Royal Highness after overturning the foundation of someone else's old house. After it was built, it was given to the son. No furniture."

(End of this chapter)