Han Meifeng led Yu Rujia to the largest courtyard besides the main courtyard: "Rujia, this is where you will live from now on. Take a look and see if there is anything that needs to be changed. Mom will contact someone to come and make the changes."
The total area of this courtyard is larger than Yu Rujia's house in Shangfen Brigade.
The courtyard doesn't have a front and back yard; instead, the house is enclosed in the middle, surrounded by open space. Originally, there should have been flowers planted here, but the thugs pulled them out, leaving it bare.
The artificial hill and flowing water in the courtyard have been preserved.
As expected of the Xia family's main residence, which has a history spanning hundreds of years, even a small courtyard inside is larger than the main courtyard of some other people's homes.
The main house has three rooms plus two side rooms, three rooms on each side, and three rear rooms, enough for their whole family to live in.
Yu Rujia: "Mom, are you giving us your own yard?"
The main courtyard is definitely where Xia Yuanqiang and Xia Taiping's family live, and this largest courtyard besides the main courtyard should naturally belong to Han Meifeng and her husband.
Now that Yu Rujia's family has moved in, Han Meifeng's courtyard is definitely not as nice as theirs.
Han Meifeng patted her hand: "Rujia, stay here with peace of mind. I wanted you to stay in the main courtyard, but your grandfather is here. If he stays in another courtyard, outsiders will say that our family has no manners. So I can only ask you to stay here."
"As for us, we'll live in the courtyard next to yours. Jingfan and Jingxing will live with us. There are only four of us, so we don't need such a big courtyard. Just stay here and call us if you need anything."
At this time, she did not know that her child had been arranged to move to another courtyard by the Xia family. Han Meifeng said this on purpose so that Yu Rujia, whom she thought was the most filial, could move in with peace of mind.
Once everything is packed, Yu Rujia will no longer think about moving out.
She felt that Yu Rujia had saved the entire Xia family and deserved the best treatment.
If it weren't for not wanting people to gossip about Yu Rujia, she would have wanted her to live in the main courtyard.
She genuinely felt that it was unfair for Yu Rujia to be subordinate to her father-in-law, Xia Yuanqiang.
Yu Rujia glanced at Han Meifeng, who was feeling wronged on her behalf, and genuinely felt that it was unnecessary.
Even if she did take over the main courtyard, she wouldn't dare to live there.
The main courtyard is where outsiders are entertained most often. Even if she doesn't mind the noise or care about her reputation, she doesn't want Xia Yuanqiang to give it to her just because she's fighting for a trivial position like the main courtyard.
She only cares about having a place that is big enough, has enough rooms, and is clean enough; there's really no need for her to stay in the main courtyard.
The courtyard is quite nice now; it's large and quiet. Apart from the people invited by their own family, the elders and guests of the Jing generation don't come here.
Yu Rujia did not argue with her. Han Meifeng was usually good at handling things, but she was always stubborn when it came to her own affairs. She had a million layers of filters on her, no wonder the original owner was able to rely on her power to trample all the direct descendants of the Xia family underfoot.
Fortunately, Yu Rujia lived a long life and had many good things on her hands, so she wasn't so shallow as to lose her principles because of Han Meifeng's mindless favoritism.
Yu Rujia looked in the direction she pointed to; she recognized that courtyard.
It is indeed smaller than theirs. The main house also has three main rooms and two side rooms, while there are only two rooms on each side.
However, it's quite spacious for four people.
Yu Rujia didn't make any pretentious excuses and went straight into the yard: "Mom, this place is nice, I like it."
As the two were talking, they heard Duoxi's protest coming from the other courtyard: "We don't want to live in a separate courtyard, we want to live with Auntie."
Duolu: "Yes, that's right. We need to move our things to which courtyard our aunt lives in."
The children are very attached to Rujia. In the past, if they didn't see her for an hour, they would search everywhere for her.
It got a little better when I was in elementary school; I could go half a day without seeing anyone.
But I still need to see people when I come back.
When Yu Rujia was asked to rescue people, she was away from home for about twenty days. A group of children were frightened. After she returned, the children stayed at home for several days and did not go anywhere. Duole followed her everywhere.
Only after they were certain she wouldn't run off to a place out of their sight did the children slowly return to normal.
Xia Jingxing: "You're all grown up now, how can you still live with Rujia?"
Duoshou asked the pointed question: "Doesn't Fifth Uncle live in the same courtyard as Grandpa and Grandma?"
Xia Jingxing was speechless. There were so many rooms in one courtyard, and he wasn't married. When he moved in, he lived in the same courtyard as his parents.
Using this reason to persuade several children to live in separate dormitories seems untenable now.
Xia Yuanqiang: "Your aunt lives in the courtyard next door. You can see her just a few steps away. You're all growing up and will eventually have to sleep in separate rooms. Take this opportunity to separate. It'll be convenient for you brothers to share a courtyard."
Dorje said indignantly, "Great-grandfather, Fifth Uncle is over twenty years old and still lives in the same courtyard as Grandpa and Grandma. We are so young, we don't need to be separated. I want to live in the same courtyard as my mother."
Xia Yuanqiang glared fiercely at his grandson Xia Jingxing, who had caused the trouble, and the latter tried to shrink his figure as a result of his glare.
When they first moved in, there were limited staff, so they just set up a courtyard and moved in. They didn't say he had to move to a different courtyard. Now the kids are using this as an example, saying they don't want to move to a different courtyard, so how can you blame him?
Xia Jingxing said, feeling quite aggrieved, "How about I go and prepare a courtyard for myself to live in now?"
Dorjee: "We also want to live in the same building as our fifth uncle until we are in our twenties before we separate from our mother."
In other words, Xia Jingxing doesn't have time to clean up the yard now.
Duole agrees with whatever his older brother says, staring wide-eyed in unwavering support: "Yes, Great-Grandpa, we're going to live in the same courtyard as Mom until we're in our twenties."
Duoyi, seemingly understanding but not quite, chimed in, nodding her little head like a chick pecking at rice: "Yes, we should live with Mom."
Xia Yuanqiang couldn't control his great-grandchildren, so he said to Gao Shujing, who was standing to the side, "Jingshu, why don't you try to persuade them? They're getting old, and we can't let them keep squeezing in with you all the time."
Xia Taishun and Gao Xiujuan remarried, and the Xia family regained its status. Naturally, the two brothers, Gao Guojing and Gao Shujing, had to change back to their original names.
Gao Guojing changed his name back to Xia Jingguo two years ago. Gao Shujing was thinking of moving away from Shangfen Brigade before changing it again, so as not to have to explain to a bunch of people.
Upon returning to the capital, he will definitely revert to his original name, Xia Jingshu, and Xia Yuanqiang will start calling him by his original name from now on.
Gao Shujing (who will now revert to his original name Xia Jingshu) understood what Xia Yuanqiang meant. He was simply saying that with the children around, the young couple had to be extra careful when doing anything.
Actually, he didn't care, because Yu Rujia would install a soundproof array in their room. As long as the door was closed, the sounds outside could be heard inside, but no matter how loud the noise inside was, it wouldn't reach the outside.
Therefore, there is no inconvenience involved.
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