After a sultry heat, the heavy rain finally poured down.

Xiaoxiao frowned and looked at the rain in the yard: Today is my thirteenth birthday, how could God send me a picture of such bad weather?

"When the rain becomes lighter, we will go to Xingwen Lake." Shanniang also stood by the window with her daughter watching the rain.

"Really?" Xiaoxiao finally looked like a thirteen-year-old girl, laughing happily. Although she looked at the rain, she probably couldn't stop for a day. But it is rare to have parents who cherish them so much in this life.

"When your father comes back from Haiyi Pavilion, we will go to the lake." Shan Niang looked at the banana leaves that were washed green by the rain outside the window, and stroked the top of her daughter's head: "In another year or two, Xiaoxiao will grow taller than Wei's mother."

"In another three or four years, Xiaoxiao will be taller than his father." Xiaoxiao said coldly and humorously.

"You're not serious, you're just like your father." Shan Niang shook her head and smiled.

"Mom, are you still happy last night's cozy garden banquet?"

Shan Niang nodded with a smile.

Last night was the most critical night for my parents' relationship in my previous life. Even Xiaoxiao didn't sleep much all night, and was afraid of something wrong. Until today, I still couldn't let go of my heart. So I even hoped that my father would come home early.

Just as I was in a daze, I suddenly heard the sound of knocking on the window frame.

"Xiaoxiao, let's go to the lake!"

Looking up, it was his father, Tang Qifan, who held an umbrella, but his clothes were still wet.

Xiaoxiao felt warm in her heart and held her mother's hand: "The rain is so heavy today, so my daughter and parents are very happy to enjoy the rain at home."

Shan Niang also smiled and said, "Look at your wetness, come in and change your clothes first."

"It's fun to listen to the rain on the boat!" Qifan smiled and shook his head, then obediently entered the house.

Some of the girls used water to wash their faces, while others went to get clothes, and they were busy making a ball.

Qifan took off his wet shirt: "Did Xiaoxiao go to school today?"

Xiaoxiao nodded: "I went there early in the morning. It rained heavily today, and half of the students in the class did not come."

"It's still my daughter who is always stormy and eager to know." Qifan never stings with praising his daughter.

Shan Niang helped her husband take off her hair bun and wiped her half-wet hair with a dry towel: "Why have you been in Haiyi Pavilion for so long today?"

"For the Shouchang business," Qifan closed his eyes slightly, enjoying the feeling of his wife tucking her hair, "The Master Yun I mentioned to you last time, the one who painted the picture, left Kyoto because of family affairs, and maybe he would never come back."

Xiaoxiao was stunned when she heard Yun Yi for the first time from her father. No, the name he used was Master Yun...

The amount of information is too large, Xiaoxiao can't digest it for a while.

After carefully analyzing the words of my father just now, I quickly summarized three points in my mind:

First, Yun Yi left and left Kyoto; second, Yun Yi seemed to have some connection with Shouchang; third, the most important thing was that my father was not familiar with Yun Yi, and this kind of unfamiliarity was not pretended. My father just talked about her, and he was also kind of kind, as if he was saying "the Xiao Zhang downstairs of our unit", "the second helmet serving plates in the ramen restaurant", "I don't know whose child at the entrance of the corridor is the black little fat man"...

Anyway, it was a natural sense of alienation and strangeness. Xiaoxiao liked his father's feelings for Yun Yi very much. Thinking of this, a big smile appeared on his face.

"Why is Shouchang..." Shan Niang stopped the movements in her hand.

"There are always good girls, so please pay attention to them." Qifan said, looking at the girls in the room: "These are all good in front of us."

The girls were ashamed and blushed with a squint.

"Why do you have to say this in front of them?" Shan Niang smiled and said to her husband, and then said to the girls: "It's okay here, you all have dispersed."

The girls hurriedly blushed and left the house.

"Shouchang is very smart and willing to work hard, and he has your respect," Shan Niang shook her head and smiled, "You promised them just now, they must have a lot of thoughts."

"They? Do you want to give him a few more?" Qifan couldn't help but amplify his voice, "As far as I say, there is only one from beginning to end, which is the best."

Xiaoxiao focused on her head, yes, this is the best.

He heard his father say seriously: "In this way, Haiyi Pavilion has a master who has no painting style. Although Master Yun is not as strong as other masters, he is very smart and can often draw new styles. He has to find a way to make up for this shortcoming."

To make up for Yun Yi's shortcomings, Xiaoxiao naturally had to contribute: "Among those embroiderers, there are many brains and ideas. She was the one who made lace shoes a few days ago! This time at the Wen family rose banquet, the plaids of those servants were also the way she helped me draw them together! She is also good at cutting. But she is not old and is only sixteen years old this year."

"Grid comparison? As a result, I am quite looking forward to the rose feast." Qifan said with great interest, "As for the master of painting, let the embroiderer try it. It is a good thing to cultivate it at a young age."

Xiaoxiao thought about it and asked a question about Yun Yi: "How do our Haiyi Pavilion friends sign the contract except for the slaves who signed the dead contract, other long-term workers or short-term workers sign the contract?"

"Long-term workers sign every ten years and short-term workers sign every two years. The wages are the same, but the more years they work, the more rewards they receive will be received by the year. If those who leave without authorization before the contract period expires, they will be fined and confiscated." Qifan was very happy to share these management matters with his daughter.

Shan Niang also asked with concern: "Is that Master Yun a long-term worker or a short-term worker? But is the appointment time?"

"She has never refused to sign a long-term worker, and we didn't force us anymore. I will leave it to Shouchang for his leave." Qifan's hairstyle had been reorganized by his wife, and a blue gold hexagonal hairpin tied the ink bun, which was evidently rich and noble under the clearness.

Xiaoxiao tilted her head and looked at: "Mom should change to a set of lapis lazuli jewelry. When my father and mother walk together, they should match their clothes and jewelry."

Shan Niang covered her mouth and smiled: "What does that look like?"

"What's the matter? A couple wears a style of clothes, that is a couple outfit! Add to that daughter's words, it's a family-child outfit!" Xiaoxiao said with a serene conscience.

"Okay, let's leave the whole family of three to Xiaoxiao for the rose banquet!" Qifan smiled and took out the purple grass paste from his purse and applied it to his wrist. He was most afraid of mosquito bites. "It's time to surround a green gauze cabinet by the bamboo forest. It's cool and not afraid of mosquitoes."

As the family was talking, a girl came in and reported: "Several flower beds of the Wen family have been completed, and several flower areas have been planted. Please go over and take a look when you have time."

Xiaoxiao nodded: "Have you mentioned those gardening styles?"

The girl couldn't digest Xiaoxiao's words for a while, and only shook her head and said, "I haven't heard of this."

"What gardening style?" Qifan was a curious person and couldn't help asking his daughter.

"One is to trim the shrubs and make the shape they want; the other is to use iron mesh and iron racks to make shapes, insert small flower pots or cultivate soil inside, and use the grown plants to cover the shapes, just like the plants naturally grow into that shape." Xiaoxiao tried his best, but failed to understand what gardening shapes were.

Qifan: Put in a small flower pot?

Shan Niang: Shrub?

The girl suddenly came back and said, "Miss Wen brought this to the girl, and I put it together with other embroidered gifts."

The girl had a small blue and white porcelain basin on her hands, and she had a green and fluffy rabbit inside.

Xiaoxiao said happily: "Dad, look, this is a small gardening look!"

Qifan curiously took the basin of a small rabbit as big as a fist and looked carefully: "There is iron wire here?" The more you look at the basin of rabbits, the more interesting it is. "Let our gardeners learn to learn, and lie a few rabbits and cows in the yard!"

Shan Niang also found it interesting, and remembered the flower bed flower environment mentioned by the girl just now: "I just don't know what the flower environment is?"

Xiaoxiao doesn’t know much about garden knowledge. In his previous life, he only watched a few garden documentaries and garden programs like “Small Garden Renovation”. Now he can only sell it in a rough way.

The Wen family's banquet this time naturally has to be mainly roses. Therefore, we cannot use the decoration techniques of ancient Chinese gardens to decorate the rose banquet, otherwise it will appear a bit inappropriate. If you want to highlight roses, it is best to refer to the Western garden style.

Xiaoxiao cleared his throat and explained to his mother the flower glasses in his own way: "The flower ground is to plant various flowers and plants on both sides of the road, forming a feeling of distant fragrance invading the ancient road." Seeing the hopeful gaze in my mother's eyes, she smiled and said: "If the Wen family's flower glasses are done well, we will ask their gardeners to lead our bamboo forest to several paths in Qingbi Mountain, and try to make some flower ground effects."

Qifan placed the basin of rabbits on his desk: "I will put this here in the future. What other gifts did Xiaoxiao receive today?"

Relying on being the head of the family, I gave the child a birthday gift... "According to the family's practice, my grandmother rewarded the newly made four-season clothes, the sisters gave them their own embroidery pieces, and the classmates in the school also gave them embroidery pieces, and the third aunt..."

Xiaoxiao looked at her father's expression and saw that although the other party was smiling, the unnatural expression still did not escape from Xiaoxiao's eyes: "Have Xiaoxiao gone to see her?"

"I occasionally met in the garden, so I went to her place to sit down." Xiaoxiao pretended to be innocent, and finally said, "Grandmother should know it too."

"What good things did your aunt give you?" Qifan's tone returned to normal.

"The red coral tree dressing table is more than half a person tall, with a round crystal mirror embedded in the middle, and various jewelry hanging on the branches and branches of the corals..." To be honest, early this morning, when this rich gift was carried in, Xiaoxiao kept opening her mouth and staring at it for a stick of incense.

Shan Niang was also shocked when she heard this: "Mrs. I'm too generous to take action. What kind of gift should we give back?"

Qifan disagreed: "Who told her to be rich? She was originally for the younger generation. Could it be that she still asked her children to give her a heavy gift?"

Xiaoxiao nodded and expressed her thoughts: "After my daughter has figured it out, she will do some gardening styles for her third aunt's yard, and she will definitely like it."
Chapter completed!