"Which?" Manager Qiao asked, looking up, wiping his mouth. He had been raising his head and eating noodles just now, but he didn't notice the situation with the craftsmen. Although he was over 60 years old this year, he had a great appetite. A big bowl of noodles that was rising had already gone half a bowl in the blink of an eye.

"It's the middle-aged man who squatted in the corner to eat noodles. I don't think he looks like a worker, so why is he here?" Li Xiu pointed to the middle-aged man in the corner and said, when he first started building a house, he had always been here. He didn't remember that there was such a middle-aged man among the craftsmen. It was just that because of Li Jiancheng's affairs in the past two days, he hadn't come to the construction site, so this middle-aged man is probably just here.

"He?" Manager Qiao followed Li Xiu's gaze and saw the middle-aged man. He immediately showed a strange expression on his face. After a moment, he spoke, "Mr. Li, this person is named Zhou Sanliang. You can't blame the craftsmen for dislike him, mainly because he is a little special!"

"Special? What's special?" Li Xiu looked up and down at the middle-aged man named Zhou Sanliang opposite him. In addition to being thinner, his skin was a little whiter than ordinary people, and he had no beard, he could not see any special things.

Wait, beard! Li Xiu suddenly discovered something wrong at this time. In ancient times, a very important point in the aesthetic view of men was whether the beard was beautiful. Even if the person was a little ugly, as long as the beard was beautiful, he could get a lot of extra points in his appearance, which also made ancient men almost grow beards. As long as they were adults, almost no one without beards, but the middle-aged man opposite had no beard, and his chin was very clean, not even a beard, which made Li Xiu feel a little guess.

"He... can't be a castrator, right?" Li Xiu hesitated for a moment before asking in a low voice. Although some men are born without beards, such people are really rare, and the only men who don't have beards are castrated.

"Hehe, you guessed it right. Zhou Sanliang is a castrated man. Some time ago, the princess was injured. She sent a few cast members in the palace to take care of the princess. However, I heard that the princess was very disgusted with the cast members, so I asked someone to send these cast members back. As a result, the other cast members left. Only Zhou Sanliang cried and refused to return to the palace. The princess was soft-hearted and saw that he was so pitiful, so he kept him." Manager Qiao smiled mysteriously. He was old and he was also considered an old man in the princess's mansion, so there was nothing he didn't know about the matter in the mansion.

"It turns out that the princess doesn't like eunuchs. I said why didn't I see eunuchs beside the princess?" Li Xiu nodded suddenly at this time and said, "The princess and the prince are qualified to use eunuchs. This is a symbol of royal status. However, Li Xiu never saw eunuchs around Princess Pingyang, and only a few maids with strange names were taking care of him. He was a little strange at the time, but now he knows the reason.

"No, since Zhou Sanliang is a castrated man, I don't think he looks like a person who can work, so why was he assigned to come here?" Li Xiu suddenly asked strangely again at this time.

Since Zhou Sanliang was a eunuch, it is not difficult to understand that he was disliked by everyone just now. Although the eunuchs in the Ming and Qing dynasties were so arrogant, no matter which dynasty, eunuchs were discriminated against because of their physical defects. Especially the people of the Tang Dynasty were fierce and despised even more of the eunuchs. Their status was actually similar to those in India in later generations, and ordinary people were even unwilling to have too much contact with them.

In addition, although the eunuchs in the palace are looked down upon, they are the ones who take care of the emperor's daily life.

"Young Master, you really asked the right person about this. I'm afraid that no other manager in the mansion knows!" Manager Qiao said with an excited look on his face. Gossip is human nature, regardless of age. "After the princess left Zhou Sanliang, she handed it over to Mr. Ma to settle it. So Mr. Ma asked him what he would do. As a result, he said that he knew nothing except serving others, but the princess didn't need him to serve him at all, so Mr. Ma asked him what he had. As a result, he thought for a long time, guess what he said?"

"What did you say?" Li Xiu tried his best to satisfy Manager Qiao's vanity. He always needed to have a supporting actor when talking about gossip. Now Li Xiu plays the role of supporting actor.

"Haha~, you don't know, you are there at that time. Zhou Sanliang thought for a long time before, and finally said that he had done it in the palace clean room before, and asked Mr. Ma if this was a skill. As a result, Mr. Ma's face turned black at that time, and then threw him to us for some miscellaneous work, but his strength was not as strong as a woman, and he couldn't do much at all."

Manager Qiao became more and more excited as he spoke, and his voice became louder and louder. Zhou Sanliang was not too far from them, but he heard it at this time. He looked up at this side. When he saw Li Xiu looking at him, he immediately smiled humbly again, and then lowered his head to eat again, as if Manager Qiao was not talking about him just now.

"A poor person!" After hearing the above, Li Xiu couldn't help but sigh in his heart. If he wanted to use a word to describe Zhou Sanliang, his mind would immediately jump out of the word "humble". Although he didn't know why he entered the palace, judging from Zhou Sanliang's performance just now, he hoped that others could accept him, a broken person, and be willing to give everything for it. Even if he let go of his dignity, it didn't matter. Unfortunately, his efforts failed again and again.

However, sympathy is sympathy, Li Xiu is not a bad person. He has to care about any unfair things when he sees them. What's more, he has never known this Zhou Sanliang, so there is no need to care about such other people's business. After all, there are too many poor people in this world. If Li Xiu had to care about one, then he would not think about doing anything in his life.

After dinner, the craftsmen continued to work. After Li Xiu communicated some of his thoughts about the yard with Manager Qiao, he stayed for a while before leaving because he had an important thing to do today.

The new yard is not very far from the original old yard. Li Xiu walked around and returned home in just a few minutes. Spring has arrived completely, and all kinds of flowers that welcome spring are blooming. Li Xiu's house was planted with a few peach trees, and the pink peach blossoms almost blocked the door. Qi Niang and his mistress were playing under the peach tree. Yue Chan and Liu Er were sitting in the yard to put their shoes in the soles, looking out from time to time, worried that Qi Niang would be lost.

"Brother, when will we live in a new house?" Seeing Li Xiu come back, Qi Niang immediately pounced on his arms like a cheerful bird and asked coquettishly. Children always have great curiosity about new things. For example, since Qi Niang knew that she wanted to build a new house, she has been talking about this matter almost every day.

"Little girl, you are just anxious!" Li Xiu squatted down and shaved Qi Niang's nose intimately and said, "But don't be too anxious. The house will be built soon. Then I will dress up both inside and outside the house beautifully, and Qi Niang, you can move in!"

"That's great, how many days will it take!" Qi Niang cheered first, then asked anxiously, which made Li Xiu shake his head helplessly. It seemed that it was impossible to make the child patient.

"Wait for another month, when the decoration is completed and the house is dry, we can move in!" Li Xiu said with a smile. The main body of the house has actually been built long ago. During this period, he has been doing some supporting facilities and decoration inside and outside the house. Due to the limitations of conditions, he cannot stick wallpaper and lay tiles like the decorations in later generations. But this is good. At least you don't have to worry about excessive formaldehyde and other standards, you can move in early.

"One month, that's thirty days, twelve hours a day. If you count it like this..." Qi Niang said, counting it for a long time with her fingers, and finally finally figured it out. She shouted, "I calculated it, I have to wait for 360 hours. How can I wait for such a long time?"

"Haha~, a month is not long, and with my brother, a month will pass soon!" Li Xiu smiled again, and he stroked Qi Niang's little head with his hands when he spoke.

"But brother, you don't take me with you when you go to build a new house. Sister Yuechan and Sister Liu'er also have a lot of things to do. Only the mistress will accompany me. It will be boring after a long time!" Qi Niang said pitifully at this time.

The reason why Li Xiu did not bring Qi Niang with him was mainly because the construction site where the house was built was dirty and messy, and the top of his head was even more unsafe. The craftsman who built the house accidentally might fall objects from a high altitude. Nowadays, there was no safety helmet and no other protection measures. Li Xiu was responsible for the planning of the house. It was impossible for him to keep looking at Qi Niang. Therefore, for safety reasons, he forbidden Qi Niang from following him. However, the house is about to be completed and there is no danger, so there is no need to ban Qi Niang from going to the new house.

Thinking of the above, Li Xiu rubbed Qi Niang's head in a doting way and said, "Okay, from tomorrow, Qi Niang can follow me to the new yard. If you have any dissatisfaction, you can also bring it up. I'll ask the craftsmen to help you change it!"

"Really! Thank you brother!" Qi Niang jumped up excitedly when she heard her brother agreeing to take her to the new house. Finally, she picked up the mistress and turned around. As a result, she frightened her mistress and screamed. After finally, Qi Niang's excitement passed, she hugged the mistress and ran to the yard to report the good news to Yuechan and Liu'er.

Looking at the lively and cute Qi Niang, Li Xiu also showed a warm smile. The biggest regret in his previous life was that he had no children, but he had no plans to get married in this life. Qi Niang's appearance just made up for the vacancies of the child. Although Qi Niang was his sister, as the saying goes, the elder brother is like a father. After leaving home, he almost treated Qi Niang as his daughter to raise him.

After a while, Li Xiu stepped into the house, then took out some things he had prepared from his room, and prepared to go to a place to do something that he almost forgot.
Chapter completed!