Chapter 247: Living in a New Yard
After Yu Siyang got married, Yu Sanbao stopped letting Yu Siyang help in the Yu family shop. He found a job for Yu Siyang to weave bamboo products. Yu Siyang had a simple heart, but his hands were extremely dexterous. The bamboo products he weaved were exquisitely made, ingeniously conceived, and lifelike. They always sold well in the Yu family shop, but he didn't make much money.
But one time, Yu Sanbao took some bamboo products to sell in the state capital, and they unexpectedly sold better. From then on, whenever Yu Sanbao went to the state capital to buy goods, he would bring some of Yu Siyang's bamboo products, and his income increased a lot.
Yu Sanbao simply asked Yu Siyang to specialize in weaving bamboo products at home.
He hired two assistants to work in the shop, which made his work much easier than before.
This way Yu Siyang can spend more time with Awu.
Ah Wu was very happy, especially living in the mountains. She felt much happier than living in the inner house.
Whenever Ah Wu brought Yu Siyang back to Liu's villa, Ah Wu would often drive to the nearby mountains for fun.
Old Lady Liu said that Ah Wu's heart was wild, but in fact she was very happy.
Ah Wu was so happy that he closed his eyes immediately and felt relieved.
Old Lady Liu was relieved, and she tended flowers and planted crops every day, and took Yu Yongliu to study, and her life was very comfortable. In addition, he would go back to the Yu family with Yu Siyang and Ah Wu from time to time to eat, and he became fat and generous. He was originally a thin man, but now he looked like a rich man.
The Yu family's life became more and more prosperous. In late autumn, the Yu family's beautiful courtyard was completed. The white walls, green tiles, and the red-painted gate looked very impressive.
The Yu family's large courtyard is a structure with four small courtyards surrounding the main courtyard. Although they are called small courtyards, they are not small at all. They are big enough for the children in each room to get married and have children.
In each small courtyard, there is a main house, two side rooms, two back rooms, and two small rooms for storing miscellaneous items, making a total of seven rooms, which imply the numbers of yin and yang and the five elements.
As for the main courtyard, it is obviously much larger, leaving enough space for Old Man Yu and Mrs. Wei to grow vegetables, raise chickens and flowers.
The Yu family happily moved into their new home.
Ah Wu's dowry finally no longer had to be stored in the rented house and was carried into the new house like water.
Ah Wu was also very generous. On the day of moving in, she opened her dowry and let her eldest, second and third sisters-in-law choose whatever they wanted.
How could Li Chunhua and the others have the nerve to ask for Ah Wu's dowry?
Ah Wu simply went to each of her sisters-in-law's rooms and took a look around. When she came back, she spent half a day picking out her own dowry. She asked the servant to deliver the items like water to her three sisters-in-law.
There are cloths, ornaments, and porcelain placed in each room, which immediately raises the grade of the entire new house by more than a little bit.
As for Mrs. Wei, Ah Wu was even more generous and directly gave her a shelf full of treasures. As for the bed in Mrs. Wei's residence, Ah Wu took the maids to do everything from covering the bed to putting on the quilt. Yes, Ah Wu originally brought more than one maid Moliu as a dowry, but the Yu family was too small to need so many maids, so the other two maids, except Moliu, were temporarily left in the Liu family's villa. After moving to the new house, the two maids were finally able to come over.
As for the dowry maids, at first there were only two maids who came to help with odd jobs and sweeping. After moving to the new house, Mrs. Xia, who was in charge of the backyard, also came this time.
Mother Wei discussed with Old Man Yu. She found out that her youngest daughter-in-law came from a wealthy family and had many maids and servants, but the other three daughters-in-law had been raising children and taking care of the housework at home for so many years, and they had contributed a lot. So she decided to buy a maid for each of them.
Originally, Ah Wu was also supposed to have a share of the newly bought maid, but Ah Wu's yard already had quite a few maids and servants, so Ah Wu turned it down.
The final arrangement was that the first room had a new maid named Shuangyue, the second room had a new maid named Shuangqing, and the third room had a new maid named Shuanglian.
The family already had two maids, Shuangyun and Shuanghe. Shuanghe continued to stay in the backyard of the commercial shop in the county town to help look after the boys who were studying, while Shuangyun was specifically responsible for looking after Mrs. Wei and Old Man Yu in the main courtyard.
When Ah Wu saw this, she simply changed the names of her two maids to Shuang Xiu and Shuang Jia.
The theme is a "double generation" where good things come in pairs.
As for Xing Xing, she had been living with Old Man Yu and Mrs. Wei, but now she had moved to a new house and finally had her own room. Old Man Yu and Mrs. Wei decorated the room carefully, and Ah Wu sponsored it generously. Xing Xing fell in love with the room the first time she moved into it.
The room she lived in was right next to the main house of Mrs. Wei and Old Man Yu, and was divided into an inner room and an outer room, separated by a screen.
There was a long couch covered with soft brocade in the outer room, and a small round table where Xingxing usually ate and drank tea; under the window with the best light, there was a desk for Xingxing, and behind it was a bookshelf with calligraphy and paintings.
It’s so exquisite.
Yamei came to play once and was so jealous that she didn't want to leave.
As the family now had more and more people, and it could be expected that the family would continue to grow in number in the future, the large round table for dining in the main room of the Yu family was finally expanded from one to two.
During the meal, the small hall was filled with the sounds of talking and laughing, which made Old Man Yu and Old Lady Wei's eyes well up.
Many people in the village came to visit the Yu family's new courtyard, one after another, all with envious eyes.
The unmarried brothers of the Yu family were already popular to begin with, and now they are even more popular.
The woman who was on good terms with Mrs. Wei whispered to her in her ear: "... Do you still remember that niece of Zhang's last time, Li Xuefeng? Didn't she chase after your Huai'er to marry her? Later, she became the concubine of the county magistrate's brother-in-law, saying that she would make your Huai'er regret her rich life!... I don't know how much she regrets it now!"
Mrs. Wei was not very interested in this.
She smiled and said, "Everyone has their own life, there is nothing to compare."
Having said that, Li Xuefeng's aunt Zhang was probably very upset by the Yu family's new courtyard. Although she couldn't turn against the Yu family, she still made some sarcastic remarks, saying that there were so many people in the family and only a few maids were not enough, and her niece lived in a courtyard all by herself, and had three maids to serve her.
Even Mrs. Wei didn't need to do anything. The villagers laughed at her, saying, "What's the point of saying so much? You should first have a big yard to live in and maids to serve you."
Zhang was quite angry and ashamed. When she went back to the county to see her niece Li Xuefeng, who had become a concubine, she muttered to her, "They are so arrogant... a bunch of people flattering the Yu family..."
Ever since Li Xuefeng became the concubine of the county magistrate's brother-in-law Meng Yunchang, she was very beautiful and had just entered the backyard, so she was the most favored.
Li Xuefeng was wearing gold and silver and had fine clothes and delicious food. She was in high spirits at the moment. When she heard Zhang talk about the rich life of the Yu family, she remembered Yu Yonghuai's previous harsh words to her. She curled the handkerchief in her hand and sneered, "I want to see how good their life is now!"