After tidying up the mansion, Xu Yin decided to start a spice planting business.
The mission still needs to be completed. Instead of being rewarded with energy points and random skills, it’s okay to advance the progress bar one or two spaces, otherwise the way home will be really long.
The bandits who killed the original parents were captured and executed shortly after the incident. After the coffins of the original parents were transported back to Luo City, the funeral was completed and they were buried in the mountains behind the Xu family memorial field. It's from the Xu family.
Among them, the hilltop with the best orientation is the cemetery, where the ancestors of the Xu family are buried; some of the other hilltops are planted with fruit trees, some with tea trees, and some are ordinary firewood hills, which are convenient for nearby villagers to cut firewood and hunt. .
This provided her with a lot of convenience, at least it saved her worry and money.
Xu Yin thought that if the Sun family in Fengcheng failed to pick her up this time, they might send someone to the door again. What's more, Sun Zhiqian or Sun's mother might appear on their own.
It wasn't that she was worried about being successfully lobbied by them, but that she was bored and too lazy to deal with them, so she simply decided to move to the mountains for a while.
The name also sounds nice: to keep filial piety to parents.
The Xu family built a quadrangle with two entrances on the top of the tea hill next to the cemetery, where they would come to the cemetery to pay homage to their ancestors during the Qingming Festival and Changzhi Festival.
Xu Yin then decided to live there for the next three years.
The old housekeeper heard Zi Yuan say that the girl would live in Chayuan Mountain and let the old housekeeper take care of the house. He was moved and sad:
"My master and madam will be very pleased to know what I mean to you. However, the tea mountain is humid and dewy, so I might not be able to adapt to it after living there for a long time. Furthermore, shopping there is inconvenient, and the variety of food is not as rich as in the house. I think this time Gonna suffer.”
Zi Yuan conveyed Xu Yin's words: "The girl said that she went to observe filial piety, not to enjoy the blessings. On the contrary, the housekeeper has to bother to guard the house. If the Sun family of Fengcheng sends someone to pick up the girl again, they will say that the screwdriver is not acceptable. If so, just ask the nursing home to fight him out."
The housekeeper nodded repeatedly: "You don't need to give orders from the girl, but I must do my best to guard the mansion for the girl."
With the old housekeeper in charge of the Xu Mansion, Xu Yin was not worried about what the people below would do.
She made a purchase list and asked her servants to buy it.
All tools and auxiliary materials that may be used for growing flowers, herbs and spices are purchased one by one.
In terms of manpower, the maids of the Longxiang Garden only left a little maid whose parents were working in the house to be responsible for the daily sweeping, cleaning and maintenance of the Longxiang Garden. The others followed her to Chayuan Mountain.
Instead of letting them pick their toes in the mansion while she was so busy that she needed to hire someone, it would be better to take them all away. When the time comes to open up wasteland to plant spices, there will definitely be a shortage of manpower.
Isn't the housekeeper worried about her safety? Then bring a few more who are good at guarding the courtyard, leave a few to guard other courtyards, and use the rest to open up wasteland and grow spices.
The monthly money paid to the servants every month is not a small amount!
Xu·Stingy·Yin is online again.
It would take a long time for the carriage to travel from Xu's residence to Xu's family's sacrificial field and clan mountain outside the city.
On the day she decided to set off, after breakfast, Xu Yin took her maid and mother-in-law, a nursing team of twelve people, as well as the chef in the house who was good at cooking vegetarian food, and Xu Kui, who was convenient for her to send out errands, in the old house. The butler set off on his way with tears in his eyes as he watched him off.
Fortunately, we left early. As noon approached, people from the Sun family in Fengcheng really came again.
As Xu Yin expected, this time, the Sun family's mother and son came to the door together.
When she learned that her niece was not at home but had gone to the Xu family cemetery to pay her respects, her grandma secretly cursed "bad luck" in her heart.
He turned around and scolded his son:
"It's all your fault! Last time I asked you to come to Los Angeles to pick up your cousin, you had to go to your classmate's birthday party. Yin Yin must be angry and feels that we don't value her, so she refuses to go to our house of."
"If you don't want to go, just don't go. Why force others to go?"
Sun Zhiqian was thinking about the "You Travel Notes" that was being serialized in the bookstore. He wondered which literary giant wrote it, and it was still interesting to read. Unfortunately, he had read all the volumes that had been published, and he didn't know when the next volume would be printed.
Therefore, he didn't take Sun Mu's scoldings to heart at all.
As for the nominal cousin of the Xu family, he had met her when he was a child and followed his mother to visit his grandfather's house. He had never seen her when he grew up, so he had no impression of her.
It was decided early in the morning that Brother Xiujie would invite him to celebrate his birthday.
Is it okay to miss the birthday party of a classmate and close friend for the sake of a cousin whom I have no memory of?
Sun's mother was furious when she saw how he didn't care.
She has so many plans, for whom!
But I can't say this openly, I can only sulk to myself.
I asked the old housekeeper again and again:
"I wonder if you can contact Yinyin. I am her aunt. I learned that her family has undergone great changes, so I came all the way from Fengcheng to visit her."
"I had exchanged letters with her a while ago, and she promised to go with me to Fengcheng to relax. I was supposed to pick her up in person a few days ago, but I had something to do at home and couldn't get away, so it was only a few days late... …”
The old housekeeper replied in a neither humble nor condescending manner: "I'm sorry! Before the girl went out, she told the old slave that she would observe mourning for the master and his wife for three years. During this period, she would not go anywhere."
"Ah?" Grandmother was stunned, "You want to stay here for three years? She has been living in the cemetery these three years? Isn't she going home?"
"That's what the girl said."
Grandmother: "..."
Xu Yin was caught off guard by this move and was completely confused.
When both parents die, it is the child’s duty to pay filial piety to them, but you don’t have to go to the cemetery to do so!
Can't keep watch at home? Can't you stay at a relative's house? Isn’t it just about eating vegetarian instead of meat, and dressing more vegetarian?
Why have to move to a cemetery and guard the tombstones of your loved ones for three years?
This...that picture alone makes people feel unlucky.
Furthermore, when she makes her filial piety in three years, she will be sixteen years old. By then, many people from the same family as the Xu family will definitely come to ask for marriage, and it will not be her Zhiqian's turn.
The more grandma thought about it, the more frustrated she became, but what could she do?
People have gone to the cemetery to observe mourning, so we can't go to the Xu family cemetery to persuade them, right?
When she thought of the ancestors of the Xu family lying in the cemetery, how could her grandma not feel guilty with all kinds of calculations in her mind.
In the end, I had to return without success.
On the way back to Fengcheng, grandma leaned against the side of the carriage and sighed:
"You're going to have an exam in the hospital in the second half of the year. I thought your cousin is rich. Even if she doesn't want to live with us in Fengcheng, at least we can ask her to lend you a few taels as payment, and it won't be in vain for us to come here. Damn, I didn’t expect…”
Sun Zhiqian suddenly realized: "It turns out that Mom came to Luo City in person to borrow money from my cousin? But Mom, you don't have to worry about the cost of the college exam. Brother Xiujie comes from a well-off family. I greeted him on the day of his birthday party. When the time comes, If the money is not enough, he will help me. We have a good relationship!"
Grandmother snorted angrily, thinking that no matter how rich your classmate was, how could the Xu family be rich?
When she thought of the Xu family's magnificent seven-entry mansion and the vast hectares of fertile land outside the city, grandma was so envious that she couldn't sleep.
Such a big house is actually headed by an old housekeeper.
The only master went to the cemetery to pay his respects and stayed in that gloomy and shabby place for three years. Grandmother felt that this niece was really hard to handle.
But now even if she wanted to train him, she couldn't find anyone, so she had to suppress her dissatisfaction and give up for the time being.
