The last time the book said that Mrs. Jin, the ancestor of the Zhang family, went out of the palace to live home, and Emperor Zhengde gave her a piece of land to celebrate her grandmother’s life.
This land is only one street between the east and west of the Zhang family. It is a large mansion where the criminal was seized. Speaking of which, the criminal was more majestic than the Zhang family back then. It was the Weinan Shi family with two princes and marquis.
This Shi family has an extraordinary origin and has been a military general for generations. When Emperor Yingzong of the country was hunting in the north, he was captured by the Oirat. It is known in history that the Tumu Fort Incident. The Oirat army was at the city, and the capital Beijing was about to be destroyed. The men of the Shi family followed the Military Secretary Yu Qian, bravely killed the enemy and protected Beijing.
Later, Emperor Yingzong was released, and his younger brother Emperor Jingtai put him under house arrest in Nangong. The Shi family rescued Emperor Yingzong from Nangong and welcomed him back to the Forbidden City, which is known in history as the Slaying Gate Incident.
The Shi family made great contributions in the defense battle and the incident of winning the gate in Beijing, and was reused. They were powerful in the court and the people. The Shi family had a Duke of Zhongguo Shi Heng and a Marquis of Dingyuan Shi Biao. One family and two Dukes of Dukes, how glorious!
Unfortunately, the Shi family was later exposed for committing a crime of corruption, and the iron certificate of alchemy was seized, and the family was confiscated and the family was confiscated to destroy the clan. Some of the women and minor children were confiscated as official slaves.
The Shi family was so prominent that they built large-scale buildings and built mansions. It is said that although their luxury was not as good as the imperial palace, it was comparable to the prince’s mansion. When the house was confiscated, they found many usurpations, which were even more serious.
The Shi family was confiscated in the fourth year of Tianshun, which was forty-six years ago. The once magnificent and luxurious mansion was disrepaired and declining.
This is really: the humble room and empty hall, the bed was full of scepters; the decayed grass and withered poplars were once a singing and dancing venue! (Note: From the explanation of Zhen Shiyin’s “Good Song” in “Dream of Red Mansions”)
The pavilions and towers are all declining images of “spider silk is full of carved beams”. They cannot be lived in. They must be repaired so that the ancestors of the Zhang family can live their lives here.
The Zhang brothers, Marquis of Shouning and Marquis of Jianchang, jointly supported the ancestor Mrs. Jin, and the east and west governments contributed money and efforts to build the Summer Palace.
If the construction period goes well, you can get it in one year.
Now the slaves in both mansions are busy, and there is no idle person except the baby who is consuming milk.
Brother-in-law E and other guards were temporarily removed to the construction site of the Summer Palace.
A half-grown boy like Jixiang, Black Dolphin, and Changsheng do odd jobs in the warehouse.
Ruyi followed Ruyi’s mother and other women to cook on the construction site.
Time is tight, and this year, they have been temporarily staying at the construction site of the Summer Palace. Fortunately, there are many empty houses here, and they live more spacious than Siquan Lane.
The Summer Palace is undergoing intense renovations. At night, dozens of sea lanterns that can hold fifty kilograms of lamp oil and hundreds of ox horn lamps are lit in the construction site, illuminating like the Milky Way in the sky!
The craftsmen work in two shifts day and night, and they don’t stop working at night, and the silver they spend every day is like water.
In addition, the Zhang brothers were planning to go to the Summer Palace in the futureAfter completion, the ancestors will be here to support their elderly. According to filial piety, the younger generations from the east and west governments will go to the Summer Palace every day to settle the morning and evening for the ancestors to enjoy their happiness.
The Summer Palace and Zhanghuangqin Street are separated by Jiqing Street. It is inconvenient for slaves to lead the way and travel by carriages every morning and evening.
Why not buy Jiqing Street, encircle it into your own back garden, connect it to the Summer Palace, and open a door on each of the garden walls of the east and west governments.
In the future, you will save time by saving morning and evening. You just need to enter and exit through the back door of the garden, without having to walk out of the door.
The entire street needs to be demolished, and the original residents will be compensated for the money and asked them to move out quickly.
The Zhang brothers hit it off, and the East Mansion was responsible for the demolition of East Street and the West Mansion demolished West Street.
I don’t know what method the Zhang family used, but the street was demolished in a month, and the old house was pushed down and merged into the east and west governments.
In the summer of July, the renovation of the Summer Palace has been over halfway through the Summer Palace, and it is eleven years old.
Ruyi, Yanzhi and a group of young maids of similar age, carrying heavy food boxes to deliver food to the warehouse, Jixiang and others were all working here.
Today’s lunch was noodles with toppings such as meat sauce, shredded cucumbers.
The servants sucked the noodles.
Ruyi winked Jixiang, and Jixiang understood it, “Oh, it’s so hot, let’s find a cool place to eat.”
Jixiang Black Dolphin Changsheng held the big sea bowl and went to the base of the wall. Ruyi Rouge was waiting there with an empty food box.
Ruyi took out their extra meal from the interlayer of the food box – it was a pig’s head wrapped in a lotus leaf, with garlic paste soy sauce and vinaigrette drizzled with it. This is Ruyi’s specialty dish.
Half a young man, I’m poor.
Three and a half-old boys can eat a pig’s head!
The three of them swayed their cheeks and ate, and even the vinegar sauce on the lotus leaves was licked clean!
Ruyi smiled and said, “Okay, OK, stop licking, dogs are not as clean as you can!”
Rouge tore the lotus leaves into the grass, “destroying the corpse and destroying the traces.”
Changsheng burped and asked Yanzhi: “Sister, what is the meal for dinner?”
Yanzhi said, “Salty eggs, Ruyi Mother pickled them by herself, and they all flowed oil.”
As soon as he finished speaking, several servants who had just left their heads came over to listen to the movement. They were all slaves from the East Mansion and said, “