Gu Xiyan and Duan Niang followed Liu'er into the yard. The yard was square, with a few two towering osmanthus trees in the middle. By the wall was a corridor of hand-made trees. They wrapped the two osmanthus trees in the middle. After walking through the corridor of hand-made corridor, there was a moon-hole door with goose hatching stones at the door, which was already trampled smooth and smooth. Walking inside, there was a small garden of flowers and trees, full of flowers, full of flowers, fragrant and colorful. Opposite the garden was an n-shaped building, with five main houses and three left and right wings, all with pink walls and red paint, green windows and white gauzes, and a row of bird cages hung under the eaves of the main house. The starlings inside were excited and cheering up and down, and they were chirping, giving a vibrant and lively scene.

Under the bird cage, three middle-aged women in red and green stood, and a little girl not very old as Liu'er. When the four of them saw Gu Xiyan and the others coming in, they looked around curiously.

Liu'er walked to the steps of the main house and replied, "Madam, the second girl is back to pay you my respects!"

The bamboo curtain in the main house was immediately lifted open, and a dignified thirty-year-old woman walked out, and she smiled: "Come in, come in, madam has been waiting for a long time!"

Gu Xiyan knew that those who could serve in this yard could be considered Mrs. Gu's close servant. After hearing the woman say this, she smiled very politely and nodded to the woman.

Duan Niang stepped forward and walked to Gu Xiyan: "I am Duan next to the second girl. My sister is very handsome and I don't know what to call her!"

The woman replied, "My husband's surname is Song. Aunt Duan, please don't be polite. Just call me plum branch."

Gu Xiyan thought of the words of Madam Li when she entered the yard just now, and thought, "Is this person the Madam Song they said?" She was even more careful. Duan Niang was also a very thoughtful person, and she had the same idea as Gu Xiyan at this time. She hurried forward a few steps and shook Song Meizhi's hand, and said enthusiastically: "Madam, don't say that, if it weren't for disgust, what if I call Madam sister?"

Song Meizhi smiled and said, "My sister is an old man around the Grandma, and she was trained by Mrs. Lian. I was afraid that my sister would like me. But when I saw her today, she was such an easy-going and generous person, but she seemed to be petty." After that, Song Meizhi picked up the curtain with her own hands and waited for them to enter the door.

When he entered the door, there was a main hall, a small and short couch with mahogany incense table, a small couch with a blue floor, a pink and white wall, with bright and elegant colors. Song Meizhi led them into the small red painted door on the left side of the main hall. As soon as he entered the door, Gu Xiyan saw the woman sitting on the couch with a mountain-shaped red sandalwood inlaid with mica stone, smiling at him. The woman looked about twenty-five or six years old, with black and plump hair, shining with light, fair and delicate skin, and was about to break, her eyebrows were very ordinary, and her smile was very soft.

Gu Xiyan guessed that she might be Mrs. Gu.

Sure enough, someone immediately placed a ball of mat in front of the woman's couch. Gu Xiyan immediately knelt on the ball of mat and shouted "Mother".

Mrs. Gu's smile froze, as if she was stunned by her "mother". After a while, she said, "Miss Second, please get up quickly, Miss Second."

The smart maid immediately stepped forward and pulled Gu Xiyan up, took the embroidery dormitory and sat down for her, and served tea again.

Duan Niang also continued to bow to Mrs. Gu.

Madam Song personally picked up the mother-in-law, and the maid next to her held the embroidered dormitory and waited for her to sit down at Gu Xiyan's lower head and served refreshments.

Mrs. Gu asked Gu Xiyan affectionately: "I heard Deacon Ding say that the girl was feeling uncomfortable on the road."

It’s not surprising that there are so many people!

Gu Xiyan immediately stood up and replied, "Thank you for your concern. The weather is too hot. I have been resting for a few days. Thanks to Duan Niang and the girls in the house, it is fine now."

Mrs. Gu nodded: "That's good, that's good! Don't be polite, sit down and talk."

Gu Xiyan half-sitted on the embroidery puncturing with a very despicable look: "My daughter is young and ignorant, and she hasn't paid any respects to her mother in recent years. My mother's health is fine!"

Mrs. Gu smiled and said, "Okay", then looked at Duan Niang a few more times, and said, "Miss Duan has worked hard to take care of the second girl in Shuzhou in recent years."

Duan Niang also stood up and replied, "I dare not be a good person. It is the duty of my servant to take care of the second girl, and I dare not be a good person to be a wife and I dare not be a good person to praise her."

Mrs. Gu smiled and called her to sit down, but Song Meizhi next to her used a cautious voice that Gu Xiyan and the others could hear and said in Mrs. Gu's ear: "Madam, it's getting late, look at this..."

Mrs. Gu raised her jaw gently and said with a smile: "You have worked hard all the way. You have arranged the meal and have eaten here. Let's have a good rest. When the master has finished morning tomorrow, I will meet you father and daughter again."

Gu Xiyan said respectfully: "But it depends on the arrangements of her mother."

What I mean is eating supper, but it is actually just referring to Gu Xiyan and Mrs. Gu. The mother-in-law is not qualified to serve the table. The place for the meal is on the square table in the middle of the room. Mrs. Gu sat in the chief, and Gu Xiyan sat on her right. There was only a little girl serving the dishes, with beautiful eyebrows and beautiful eyes, and very flexible hands and feet. She looked about fifteen or sixteen years old. She was called Ye'er. The dish was very simple, with pork belly roast lettuce, stir-fried cabbage, stir-fried water chestnuts, and a bowl of three fresh soup for egg skin vermicelli lean meat. The dish was served with a bowl of white rice, which tasted like the street stall where Gu Xiyan ate.

She was motion sick in the afternoon, and because she was about to see the family of Gu Xiyan, she had no appetite at all. She could not eat after a few bites. However, Mrs. Gu was eating with relish. Seeing that Gu Xiyan had only a few bites, she smiled slightly and said nothing, which made Gu Xiyan very embarrassed and explained: "I, I'm a little motion sick!"

Mrs. Gu nodded with a smile and said, "Then don't force it. I'll ask Ye'er to give you some sour plum soup and prepare a few sesame cakes for you to sip."

Gu Xiyan hurriedly thanked Mrs. Gu.

After dinner, Mrs. Gu personally sent Gu Xiyan out, and Madam Song took the lantern to send Gu Xiyan and Duan Niang back to Wuyuan where they lived.

Wuyuan is not far from the guard garden where Mrs. Gu lives. After going out of the door, I turned right and walked on a tree-lined path. I arrived less than twenty meters away. Two small red painted doors, a fan-shaped black plaque on the lintel, and two upright gilded small characters "Wuyuan" were written in Lishu. The door was half-closed, and the fire inside was bright and a noise.

I pushed the door and went in. There was a small courtyard. The three large rooms in the middle of the courtyard each had a small ear room. Two large trees were thickly embedded beside the steps on the three floors, with lush branches and leaves covering the roof like an umbrella. The two rooms on both sides were covered with red painted floor columns, bluestone slabs, and red painted lattice windows with white summer cloth. They were clean and tidy.

The big red lanterns hanging under the eaves were all lit, making the yard clear, the boxes in the main room were all open, Hengyue was taking Mo Ju and a few more to get things out.

Duan Niang sighed and asked, "Sister Song, don't be too concerned. I just want to ask, it turns out that the girl has been living in Jingxiuyuan, why did she suddenly change to Wuyuan?"

Madam Song smiled and said, "I don't know that four years ago, Cui Baoyi, from Jiangnan County, came to Beijing to open a female school. She fell in love with Jingheyuan, where the imperial concubine lives, and invited Mr. Fang to come forward to tell the master that the master agreed to it because of the mercy. Aunt Cui's female school has been running vigorously in Beijing in the past two years, so she wanted to expand the garden. Jingxiuyuan happened to be Jingheyuan. The two families were also in the same yard. They had been struggling with their wife for more than half a year. The wife really had no choice but to rent Jingxiuyuan to Aunt Cui. The second girl wanted to come back, and the wife muttered for a long time, but she signed a five-year contract with Aunt Cui. It was not easy to chase people before it expired, so she had to feel wronged and wronged. After the Chinese New Year, the Liuting by Yuanxiang Lake was due. Then we would talk to our wife, and it would be good to move there to live!"

Duan Niang was stunned when she heard this and said, "Did you rent Liu Ting to someone? I don't know who you rented?"

Madam Song said: "It's Qin Qing, the eldest aunt from Jiangnan. She specializes in teaching silk strings and asks for an open place. She has no choice but to take the souvenir of her wife's family and sister-in-law. However, she agreed to rent it for only one year and move it in a year. It will expire in winter."

Duan Niang turned green when she heard this: "The dignified Hanlin Mansion actually..."

Madam Song was a little unhappy when she heard Duan Niang say this and said, "My sister is not in charge of the family, so she doesn't know that the food, rice, oil and salt are expensive. Such a large Hanlin Mansion, how can we not use money? You don't know that when our girl entered the door, she couldn't even pay a tael of silver in the tent. If the girl hadn't taken the dowry out, the whole mansion would have drunk Qiufeng!"

Duan Niang was embarrassed and hesitated and couldn't say anything.

I thought Gu Xiyan was worried about having a house before traveling through time. Looking at the courtyard, it was surrounded by green belts, a unique courtyard, tall and spacious... Gu Xiyan liked it at first sight, and she liked it very much, very satisfied. Seeing that the two of them were a little unpleasant about the house, she hurriedly rescued and said, "Madam Song, no, no, I think it's very good, I like it very much. No need to move a place, I will live here in the future!"

Madam Song was happy when she heard this and said, "Miss Second Girl is really a crystal-hearted person, and she is considerate in her work and speaking." Of course, her words were a bit exaggerated and pleased her, and Gu Xiyan would not take it seriously.

Comforting Madam Song, Gu Xiyan yawned at Duan Niang: "Dun Niang, my bones are almost broken by the carriage..."

When Madam Song heard this, she heard the sound of Zhiya and immediately said goodbye.

Duan Niang sighed: "I didn't expect the Gu family to actually..."

Gu Xiyan Qi said: "How did we live in Shuzhou?"

Duan Niang said "um" and looked at Gu Xiyan in confusion.

Gu Xiyan explained: "Where does the living expenses come from?"

"Living expenses?" Duan Niang pondered, "Miss is asking about the monthly routine, right?"

Gu Xiyan nodded.

Duan Niang settled the accounts with Gu Xiyan: "When I first went to Shuzhou, the master gave him five hundred taels, and the eldest girl secretly gave him five hundred taels of silver, a total of one thousand taels. On the way back to Shuzhou, I spent more than one hundred taels. Later, when I arrived in Shuzhou, the master gave him two hundred taels a year. In the first few years, the girl had little money, and she saved a few. In recent years, she had a few more girls, and the girl had some rouge and water powder, so she had no savings. Now I have more than one thousand three hundred taels of silver."

Gu Xiyan asked: "How much does a house in Shengjing cost!"

Duan Niang said, "It's only two, three hundred taels per building!"

Gu Xiyan was a little surprised and blurted out: "So cheap!"

Duan Niang smiled and said, "Where is Shengjing? Under the feet of the emperor, the real good place is the ancestral property. Even if you have money, you can't buy it. The house where you have the Buzhengfang is a little worse, and it's only worth two or three hundred taels per building."

Gu Xiyan didn't understand what the Tu Zhengfang said to her, so she didn't know how to ask in depth, for fear of being exposed. She said, "Tell me what we can do with this thousand three hundred taels of silver!"

Duan Niang chuckled: "What can I do? I'll use it to help the girl get married smoothly!"

Now Gu Xiyan was stunned.

Hengyue and the others had already found that Duan Niang was back, so they all came forward to say hello.
Chapter completed!