Chapter 497 The male protagonist's cannon fodder cousin (20)
Xu Yin explained it to him.
After hearing this, the village chief seemed to understand: "According to the girl's statement, you want flowers and vegetables to be planted in the house?"
Xu Yin: "...Almost."
In ancient times without plastic film, it would have been the same as keeping it in the house.
However, the roof and walls can be replaced with straw curtains.
The village chief pondered and then said: "I know where to build the greenhouse that the girl mentioned."
He led Xu Yin to a dilapidated courtyard at the end of the village.
This place was originally a nunnery. Later, a fire broke out and the nuns in the nunnery fled to other places. Later, the place was bought by the ancestors of the Xu family.
The entire nunnery is still very large, but it was burned down by a fire that year and only these ruins are left in front of you.
The villagers were building houses and came here to pick up a lot of usable bricks.
The tiles on the roof that were not burned were also stripped off.
It can be said that except for a few rafters and columns that were attached to the big stones at the base of the wall because they were too heavy to pull out, all the other useful ones were pulled away.
"The girl just said that there is no need for walls. We can just make some straw curtains and hang them up. Is this place suitable?"
Xu Yin walked around the nunnery and found that the ground of the nunnery was all mud, not paved with bricks and stones, and there were weeds everywhere, indicating that things could be planted, and she immediately made a decision:
"I think it's quite suitable, so I decided to settle here. I'll have to trouble you later to hire a few people to tidy up the place. After the New Year, loosen the soil, apply fertilizer, and sow seeds as on the mountain. First, let's see how the flowers and plants grow.
.If it works, I can put up straw curtains next winter and use it as a greenhouse."
The village chief responded one by one.
Unexpectedly, the greenhouse was settled before returning home. Xu Yin was so happy that she gave another sum of money and asked Xu Kui to go to the town to buy a fan of pork and treat the villagers to a sumptuous Laba Festival.
This year, because Xu Mansion is still in the mourning period, it cannot be decorated with lanterns and colorful decorations. Unlike previous years, the doors of the Xu Mansion are opened wide to welcome and give out gifts.
This year, the gate of Xu Mansion is tightly closed, and people can only enter and exit through the side door, keeping a low profile.
Before Laba Festival, the old housekeeper led a group of servants in the house to clean the courtyards, the flower beds and lawns were trimmed without a trace of weeds, and the furniture was polished until it shined.
Just waiting for the owner of the mansion, the girl, to return to the mansion.
The arrival of Xu Yin made the old housekeeper burst into tears.
"Girl, you have worked hard these past six months!"
Xu Yin replied: "I don't work hard, you always work hard!"
While carrying his luggage from the carriage, Xu Kui said smoothly: "Dad, do you have clairvoyance? I didn't even tell you, how did you know that the girl has been planting flowers and mixing perfume in the past six months?
, don’t mention how hard it is to live..."
The old housekeeper was confused when he heard: "What kind of flowers? What kind of fragrance?"
Xu Kui: "...What about that, you don't know?"
Glancing at the girl secretly, he seemed to have said something he shouldn't have said.
Xu Yin was amused by the conversation between the father and son: "Okay, let's go in and talk. What does it look like standing at the door?"
"Yes, yes! Go in and say it, go in and say it!"
After sitting down, Xu Yin sipped her tea and talked to the housekeeper about her... uh, great achievements in the past six months?
The housekeeper was dumbfounded after hearing this: "..."
"Pfft..." Xu Kui couldn't hold it in, turned away and laughed.
Old housekeeper: "..." Brat, I'll deal with you later!
After thinking about it, if the girl can get over the grief of losing her parents and no longer shed tears, she should be busy. Even if she is thin, it will make people feel distressed. If the master and madam were still alive, how could the girl bother so much?
Also hard work.
So, during the Chinese New Year, the old housekeeper went to the big kitchen every day and directed several cooks around to think of delicious food for his girl.
If you don’t eat meat during fasting, you can only eat vegetarian food and pay more attention to snacks.
A few days after Xu Yin returned home, snowflakes began to fall inside and outside Luo City.
She had nothing to do, so she just lazed on the soft couch and read the travel notes and miscellaneous conversations written by some literati of this dynasty.
Over in the kitchen, Jian Tian sent her the dishes and snacks that the chef had recently thought of.
Within a few days, she discovered that she had a double chin.
"..."
emmm... I ate too many pasta snacks made with vegetable oil.
Vegetarian diet can make people fat, but in modern times, I am afraid no one would believe it.
However, the old housekeeper thought that she was fat with so little flesh.
"It seems to me, the girl is about to have a sexual intercourse."
It was quite normal for a fourteen-year-old girl to eat noodles, so she continued to watch the cook tinkering with the dishes, using the few vegetables and pastas available in winter to increase Xu Yin's nutrition in various ways.
Xu Yin: "..."
After the New Year, the snow on the ground finally melted, and she decided to go back to Chashan Villa.
If you continue to eat, drink, and be lazy in the house, you will become a fat ball.
The old housekeeper was worried that she was working too hard.
I didn't know before that she had cleared Chaishan, planted spice flowers, and built a fragrance shop in Xujia Village. Now she plans to build a greenhouse. I don't know where she can sit in the future.
He couldn't let the girl be so busy while he enjoyed the happiness of being a servant in the house, right? So he planned to go to another courtyard to serve her, and if there was anything that needed the girl's help in the future, he would do it.
When Xu Yin heard this, she staggered and said, "No, no, no! With you always in charge of the house, I can keep my filial piety in the other courtyard with peace of mind! If you follow me to the other courtyard, no one will care about the people in the house.
What to do if there is a collective rebellion?”
"..."
It is impossible to rebel, but it is possible to work lazily without anyone watching.
The old housekeeper was hesitant about this.
Xu Yin spared no effort to continue lobbying: "You see, I stay in other courtyards most of the time. When I have something to do, I let Xu Kui run errands, which won't tire me. But you, you are getting older, and the mountains are high and the roads are steep and difficult to walk. I'm really worried.
You go..."
Just kidding! If the housekeeper went there and urged the cook to prepare three meals for her in different ways every day, plus two snacks in the afternoon and one late night snack, would she still be a slender beauty? This is not the Tang Dynasty where fatness was regarded as beauty.
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In the end, the old housekeeper was moved by Xu Yin's affection, understood by reason, and entrusted with a heavy responsibility to persuade him to stay in the house.
With tears in his eyes, he watched the girl's carriage leave until he could no longer see it, then he lifted up his sleeves, wiped the corners of his eyes and returned to the house.
"Oh, the girl is so kind-hearted! She is considerate of the old slave and does not let the old slave run around even though he is old. Instead, he lets the old slave stay in the house and enjoy the blessings..."
Sikong paused slightly while making calculations with his hands, and said in his heart: Even a fool can see that she is afraid of you going. As for why you are afraid, don't you have an idea in your mind? You can almost feed people to a head... Well, in short, they are fattening.
Now, I am at least a little fatter than when I first returned home a year ago.
But the truth would probably shock the old housekeeper, so he should be a kind person and keep shutting up.
Sikong continued to make calculations and accounts.
When the old housekeeper saw that he didn't talk to him and was muttering to himself, he didn't say anything anymore. He got up and planned to walk around the mansion to see where there needed to be repaired, especially the girl's courtyard, so that he could find a craftsman in time if necessary.
As he was going out, he asked casually: "Sikong, are you because you offended people by talking too much in the past and suffered a lot, and now you are like a saw-mouthed gourd?"