Chapter 90 Xiaosan Kaifu
Once Li Bing's ceremony passed, it means that he is an adult. Now Li Bing is a dignified prince, so he cannot always live in Li Yuan's mansion. Besides, Li Bing's wedding day has been decided, so he is now facing the situation, which is to buy a house in the capital as the Marquis of Dingbei.
The wedding date of Li Bing and Xiao Shiyun was set for one month later. Since Changsun Wugui was Li Bing's wife, Li Yuan looked at the days and agreed with Dou and Changsun Wuji that the wedding date of Li Bing and Changsun Wuji would be ten days after Li Bing's wedding. In other words, Li Bing now has to deal with his house within one month.
In the future, he would inherit Li Yuan's title, so he moved out of the Duke's Mansion. Although Li Shimin has grown up, Li Jiancheng has no official title yet. Now he is a dependent clan, so he does not need to move out of the Duke's Mansion. Although Li Yuanba has an official position, he is only a general in the army and has no title, so there is no need to open a separate office for the time being. Li Yuanji is not yet adult, let alone consider moving. So what makes Li Bing feel very depressed is that he is the only one who wants to move out.
According to rumors circulating in the court, when the new emperor ascended the throne and Li Bing quelled the disaster of the Eastern Turks, Yang Guang might have to raise Li Bing's title a little further.
The Great Sui Dynasty ritual system stipulates that men and women are not allowed to meet within one month before the wedding, so as Li Bing's wedding day approaches, Xiao Shiyun and Changsun Wugui temporarily moved out of Li Bing's yard and moved to Dou's yard for temporary residence. The miserable Li Bing is now busy attending n Beijing house viewing groups and looking at houses everywhere.
In the early spring, the capital was still cold, but Li Bing did not feel cold at all. He sat in the carriage and wandered around the streets and alleys of Chang'an City every day, hoping to find a suitable house, because he lived in Wuyuan County most of the time and stayed in the capital very little time. So according to our mistress's original intention, he wanted to buy a similar house to live in. However, he was unanimously opposed by Li Yuan and Dou family. They insisted that buying a house was a major event in life and symbolized identity. So he could not just forget it, but he had to screen it carefully, and his family life was difficult. So Li Bing had to tilt his neck all day long and followed the officials of the official second-hand house agency in the Sui Dynasty to look around.
Fortunately, his subordinates had a lot of good backgrounds, so he sent all his subordinates with some abilities to look at him everywhere, which greatly reduced his burden.
Hard work pays off. With the unanimous efforts of all the soldiers of the Dingbei Army, Li Bing finally found a suitable house. He was unwilling to leave the Duke's Mansion. He just walked across the street and arrived in just a dozen minutes. Lin Lei
After finding the house, Li Bing spent 500,000 yuan to buy the house. The house was very large, which was slightly smaller than the Duke's Mansion where he lived. However, Li Bing didn't care much. Anyway, there were fewer people living now, so the house was too big and it was so empty.
After clearing the house with the seller, Li Bing couldn't wait to plan the decoration of the house. The key to how good a house is, it depends on the quality of the decoration. Li Bing is well aware of this principle, so after buying the house, he hired a construction team from the powerful and well-known capital to decorate the house.
The first thing to do is to decorate is the main door. The owner of this house was originally a wealthy businessman, but the business was in a loss. He then built his house before he could live in. Although the house is very good now, it is only built by a businessman's specifications, which does not match Li Bing's identity, so this new house still needs to be overhauled. Li Bing asked the decorator to repair the door again, replace the original black door, and replace it with the yellow door.
, to distinguish it from civilians, there are 63 door nails embedded on the door, a pair of pepper-painted brass on it, and a pair of shiny copper rings. Under the marble steps at the door, two stone lions stand, and thirteen bumps are bulging on the head of the stone lion. Although thirteen bumps are honorable for first-rank officials, Li Bing, as the adopted son of the backer king Yang Lin, is also called the Thirteen Grandpa. Therefore, Yang Guang made an exception and approved thirteen bumps on the stone lion before Li Bing's mansion.
The two stone lions were carved like life. One was stepping on a carved hydrangea under his feet, and his huge head was majestic injecting the open space at the door. It was the male lion, and the other was stepping on a small lion, also known as the Taishi Shaoshi, which was slightly shorter than the male lion on the left. It was the female lion. The pair of lions at the door were so skillful and very majestic.
Just above the door, a roof made of green glazed tiles, a kissing beast on the roof, a fairy beast on the hanging ridge, a drainage ditch on the gables, a red painted door, a beam and a colorful painting. Just below the roof is hung with a large red plaque, and is decorated with brass around it, with four yellow characters on it: Dingbei Hou Mansion. It is full of majesty.
Except for the door repair, Li Bing did not move much in the room inside. After all, the things inside were well-built. He just replaced the furniture and decorations in the living room and bedroom and added some more cultural decorations. This was the end.
Li Bing went back and forth to inspect the new home he was renovating, and he was almost ready, but Li Bing still felt that something was missing. He was walking around in his new mansion to find defects.
He turned on the martial arts room, weapon room, stable, bedroom, living room, kitchen, study room, etc., but he still didn't remember what the defect was. Even the yard was full of plants, a small pond, and rockery, which made the yard full of vitality.
Wait? Vitality! Li Bing finally thought of something. It turned out that although there was some water in the pond, it was just a pool of water. There were neither plants nor some fish fry in the water. It made people feel less angry and found the problem. Li Bing hurried back to the Duke's Mansion excitedly.
"Madam, it's not good, the third young master...he's going crazy!" Dou was cleaning the house in the house. The mistress was going to open a house by herself in a few days. She was really reluctant to let it go. Before she knew it, the children were so old. Just as time passed, a little maid ran in panting.
"What?" Dou was shocked when he heard the little maid's words.
"The third young master didn't know what crazy he was going, he was playing in the pond in the cold weather!" the little maid said panting.
"Hurry up and see me!" Dou was anxious. What happened to Saburo? It was because of the near-term marriage and the day of marriage was approaching. It was soon approaching. What should I do if there was anything other than mental matters?
Under the guidance of his maid, Dou hurriedly passed through the walls. Of course, he passed through the door. After passing the yard one by one, he finally arrived at the pond in the front yard and saw the so-called scene of Di Sanlang going crazy.
It's still very cold now. There is a thin layer of ice on the ground in the pond, but at this time there is a lively scene by the pond. Several burly men, at first glance, were soldiers from the Dingbei Army, all standing in the pond, wandering around. A few people were standing beside the pond, shouting and laughing, "Where are there, don't let it run away, hey, hey, run to the right again, why are you so stupid!" Various sounds came one after another, a lively scene. There are also a few big wooden barrels filled with water next to the pond. Those people were having fun in the water, and even a lot of water was splashed outside the pond.
"What are you doing? Are you holding amphibious combat training?" Dou stood by the pond, with her eyebrows raised. Although she had never practiced martial arts, she reached out her hand like lightning, grabbed Li Bing's little ear, who was still there, and said fiercely.
"Hey hey, mom, let go, your son's ears are about to fall off!" Li Bing was concentrating there, suddenly felt his ears hurt, and then he couldn't help but be pulled ashore.
"It's still painful. Look at what you've ruined here. You jumped into the water in such a cold day and got the disease root! Did your money drop?" Dou twisted Li Bing's ear hard, but looking at his wet pants, he still felt confused and asked fiercely.
"Mom, it's nothing. I just feel that there is nothing in the pond in the new house, and it's lifeless. It's like catching some koi from our mansion and raising it!" Li Bing said with a charming look on his face.
"What? You want to catch some koi, but you don't know that this is your father's treasure. You want to love your father to death! Besides, even if you catch it, wouldn't it be enough for the servants to hold the net? You can also use it to take so many people down and freeze them. Who will go to war with you?" Dou saw that some koi were in the wooden barrels, which were obviously fished out from the pond just now. His face relaxed, and he couldn't help but clicked Li Bing's forehead.
"Yes, why didn't I expect it? Mom, you are so smart, Sanlang Xie Niang gave me some advice!" Li Bing said as if he was anxious. He forgot about it just now, and asked Dou to remind him that the fish could be fished with nets. He quickly shouted at the soldiers: "Come on, go to my yard to change some clean clothes, I'll make a net to continue working!"
The soldiers had been so cold that they were already cold. When they heard Li Bing's words, they all went to An as if they were running away and went straight to Li Bing's yard to change their clothes.
"Mom, don't tell your father, otherwise he will not be willing to give me some!" Li Bing said to Dou quickly. Dou looked at his favorite son lovingly and said with a smile: "You, you know how to draw your father's heart. Okay, I'll pretend that I don't know anything. Who is mom? I love you the most!" Then Dou glared at him with a smile, then turned back to his room.
The koi was so bad that after the Dou family left, the koi was in trouble. Finally, when Li Yuan knew about this, he found out that more than half of his precious koi were plundered by his shameless son. When Li Yuan was about to go to settle the score with Li Bing in anger, he was stopped by Dou family: "Okay, I just caught a few fish? Anyway, it was your son who took it away. The Dou family, and the mistress left the house so early and lived alone, which made him suffer. There were only a few fish, so don't worry about it!" Li Yuan said with a laugh and cry: "Oh, the kind mother is so defeated by her son.
After plundering Li Yuan's koi, Li Bing sent someone to get some aquatic plants such as lotus, and they all threw them into the pond. Now Li Bing's new mansion looks more satisfied.
Of course, what Li Yuan didn't know was that that night, Li Bing secretly ate a braised carp in the new mansion...
Chapter completed!