Bachelor

Chapter 17 Future Classmates
It is now the twentieth day of the first lunar month. According to the practice of the Hou Mansion, after the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, it is time to start preparing for the new year's affairs.Of course, when everything is ready, it will be the end of the month.At thirty, after receiving the wages, people's hearts can only be taken back.

The same is true for ethnology. The young master of Fuzhong and the children of the clan are currently on vacation, and it is said that classes will not start until the 23rd.

Therefore, Sun Dan still has three days to adapt to life in the Hou Mansion.

In fact, he has nothing to adapt to.

His current identity is a little vague. He might be a child of the Sun family, but he has to wait until the two patriarchs, Sun Songnian and Sun Henian, look up the family tree and nod before they can write the three generations of Sun Dan's ancestors into the family certificate. Therefore, he He also had to do heavy work in the government to make ends meet.Let's say he is a servant, he can't write two grandson characters in one stroke, and it's not easy to send him to do too tiring work.

Sun Dan just stayed at Sun's house without embarrassment, as if he had been forgotten by people.

In fact, Sun Dan is just an employee of the Hou's mansion now.Sun Fu sent someone to lead him to a small courtyard of the outer house, threw him inside and left him alone without any explanation.

The yard is not big, only eighty or ninety square meters. It is a pocket courtyard with three huts. There is a large pile of flower fertilizers, a few hoes and forks, and a row of pruned grape branches and rose branches.

One of the three huts is for tools and planting, one belongs to Sun Dan, and the other one lives in an old gardener named Mendun.

The old gardener is so old that his back is bent, his face is full of wrinkles, and his front teeth are missing. When he speaks, he doesn't care about the wind, and he speaks Sichuan dialect, which makes people feel like a cloud.

Sun Dan and Lian Bi Daihua talked for a long time before they figured out that this old man named Mendun was originally named Mendun, and he was a servant bought by Sun Zhunian, the third master of the Hou Mansion when he was an official in Sichuan. After entering the Hou Mansion, everyone hated his name It doesn't sound good, so I changed the name.Now Sun Zhunian has been dead for many years, and Mendun is too old to care about, so he was sent here to work as a gardener.

Mendun was a man of few words, and he couldn't kick a few farts with his kick. He only knew how to drink with a small gourd all day long, and his body always exuded a strong smell of alcohol and body odor.

However, the old man was nice.Seeing that Sun Dan just entered the mansion with his eyes darkened, he didn't talk nonsense, and ran to help Sun Dan get a new quilt and a whole set of new clothes, then pointed to an empty room and said, "Your room." Then Before Sun Dan could say thank you, he swayed his slightly drunk body back to his room.

It would be clean to live with such a person, and in three days he would go to school, and he needed to find a clean place to study, if he was wrapped up with a large group of servants, he would have no way to study at all.It seems that the two Managers Sun are really careful.

Speaking of being a gardener, Sun Dan has little experience.In the previous life, there were two flower workers in the county government who took a pair of big scissors to cut arrows on holly trees and June snow all day long, because they didn't pay attention and didn't know how they fiddled.

Fortunately, with Mr. Mendun around, it wouldn't make Sun Dan a good-for-nothing waste.

It's early spring now, and it's freezing cold, so there's not much work to do.The really busy time would be in March, when the spring buds come out, the flowers in the garden are planted, the grapes are cut, and the drains are dredged.As for now, the main job of Sun Dan and Mendun is to cut off the wintersweet flowers one by one with big scissors, and then divide them into several parts, and send them to the ladies in each room for them to play with.

There is a large plum garden in Hou's mansion, in which hundreds of wintersweet plants are planted, and the fragrance is so fragrant that people's heads are dizzy.The name of the garden is also good, it is called "Yizhi Garden".The meaning is taken from the poem "Gift to Fan Ye" written by Lu Kai, a native of the Song Dynasty: "Zhe Mei met the post envoy and sent it to the people in Longtou. There is nothing in the south of the Yangtze River, so let's give a sprig of spring."

This garden is the residence of Mrs. Zhong, the third bedroom of the Hou Mansion. Sun Zhunian died early, and she is the only widow living in the garden.Probably feeling too lonely, Mrs. Zhong brought her niece Jiang Ruoying from Suzhou to Shandong.

Because she is a widow, Mrs. Zhong doesn't see any guests on weekdays.Every time Sun Dan and Mendun went to cut plum blossoms, they were led by an ugly and stupid little girl who spoke loudly and aggressively. They finished the work under her supervision, and then were dismissed impatiently.

The little girl's name seemed to be Fu Que, which was rather elegant, but when she saw her ugly face and full of impoliteness, Sun Dan lost his appetite, and was really blinded by the good name.

I heard that Mrs. Zhong and her niece Jiang Ruoying were famous beauties, but seeing Fu Que's appearance, Sun Dan felt very disapproving.Since the owner's aesthetic taste is so inferior, it can be seen that there is no beauty anywhere.

In this way, after working for two days, Sun Dan suddenly felt a little nervous when seeing the start of the ethnology school, as if he had returned to the days when he just arrived at the university to register.

This feeling is really strange!

Because Mendun was old, his strength was low, and he was drunk all day long, Sun Dan was embarrassed to let him climb the tree. Whenever it was time to cut plum branches, he always jumped on the ladder first, and said loudly: "Mr. The door, let the young people do this, if you fall, I will serve you, it will be too much trouble."

Mendun took a sip of wine: "Sun Dan, you can really talk, okay, I won't trouble you, but don't complain when you get tired later."

"Old man, can't you drink less wine?" Sun Dan reminded him kindly: "Drinking too much wine can hurt your body, Li Bai is awesome, right?" In exchange for fine wine', he seemed very generous, but in the end his brain was confused by drinking, and he wanted to go into the water to fish for the moon, and finally drowned."

Mendun opened his mouth to reveal a mouthful of rotten teeth, and said, "This man surnamed Li is really drinking too much, and his family doesn't care about it."

"I can't control it, I'm already poisoned by alcohol, and I feel flustered if I don't drink for a meal." Learning Sichuan dialect, Sun Dan joked with the old man: "Speaking of fishing for the moon, I still remember a story about a monkey fishing for the moon. Old man, I want to hear it No?"

Mendun nodded: "Idle is idle, I'll just let you set up a dragon formation."

After he listened to Sun Dan's story about the monkey fishing for the moon, Mendun chuckled, "This story is good, much better than the one told by the storyteller."

Sun Dan's heart moved, and he thought to himself: If you don't have food in the future, maybe you can go to storytelling.A few days ago, I was still thinking about becoming a duck herder, but I was really confused.

At this moment, a "Puchi!" came from the room, and a clear female voice rang out: "Auntie, this little gardener is really interesting. He actually knows Li Taibai's poems and makes Li Bai even worse than a monkey. However, He told a good story."

Another female voice who was slightly older said softly: "Ruoying, the Marquis of Huichang is a century-old family servant. It's not surprising that he can know a few lines of poetry. But you, who grew up in Suzhou without being disciplined, come here. After Shandong, you really have to control your temper."

Hearing these two beautiful female voices, Sun Dan was refreshed.If I guessed right, the oldest one should be Mrs. Zhong from the third bedroom of the Sun family, and the other one is her niece Jiang Ruoying.

"Auntie, what's the matter? What's wrong with my temper? You are talking about a famous family. I think Sun Hao from the eldest family of the Sun family is a fool at all. Sun Gui from the second room is wretched and cowardly. It makes people feel irritated when they see it. As for Sun Yue , the eyes are higher than the top, so you may not have real talents." The little girl was very dissatisfied when she was scolded by her aunt.

"Okay, auntie, don't you know who the nephews and nephews of the Sun family are. Tomorrow you are going to study at the ethnology school. You are wild, so don't make any trouble." Zhong Fu said softly.

"What can happen, hum!"

When Sun Dan heard that the woman named Jiang Ruoying in the room would be his future classmate, he was curious and couldn't help but looked up into the room.

Of course, there was a thick blue curtain hanging on the door of Mrs. Zhong's room, so nothing could be seen.

But his raising his head annoyed Fu Que, who was overseeing the work next to him.

Fu Que scolded, "Looking around, just leave when you're done."

Mendun hurriedly said: "Let's go now, let's go now."

Fu Que refused to let go: "Mendun, you are also an old man who has gone out of the third house. You know that my wife likes to be clean, so why did you invite a dirty person to come in and talk nonsense, what monkeys, what moons, what rules."

Sun Dan was annoyed, and was about to speak, when the door curtain swayed suddenly, a round-faced little beauty ran out, and said with a smile: "Although it is full of nonsense, it is interesting, Fu Que, don't make things difficult for him."

This little beauty is young, with delicate and exquisite features, and rosy skin. Standing among the snow-white wintersweet flowers, she is simply a porcelain doll, so cute that people can't help but want to pinch her round face. .

The little beauty Jiang Ruoying ran up to Sun Dan, glanced up and down, and suddenly smiled: "I've been in a bad mood these days, and I'm happy to be told the story of you as a servant. Tell me, what reward do you want?" .”

Sun Danben was so dazzled by the beauty of this little beauty that he couldn't keep his eyes open, but hearing what she said, he felt a little unhappy.Although Sun Dan was working as a gardener in the Hou Mansion, in his opinion, it was just a work-study program.Being treated as a slave for no reason made him a little annoyed.

He cupped his hands: "I'm Sun Dan, it's my honor to make Miss Jiang smile, so I'm leaving."

"Ah, you are a child of the Sun family!" Jiang Ruoying was a little embarrassed.Treating the children of the Sun family as servants, if it is passed on, it would be a joke!

"It's the descendants of Duke Ji Zong who are incompetent." Sun smiled lightly, cupped his hands and walked away.

Jiang Ruoying froze among the flowers, bit her lower lip with her white teeth, and smiled after a long time: "This man has a bit of a temper, and is more annoying than me."

"You also know that you are annoying." Mrs. Zhong's laughter came from the room.

"Auntie, I hate it!"

(End of this chapter)