dhibooks Chapter 101 Exaggerated Packaging
Chapter 101 Exaggerated Packaging
There were not many things, but putting them together was enough for Wu Youwei to deal with until dinner time.
Chef Fang was happy today, and so was Chef Fang's wife. She is from Shanxi, and she cooks super good noodles, so she directly made stewed noodles at night.
Chunky noodles, salty mushroom gravy.
The side dishes are cold wild vegetables and a bowl of egg soup.
The simple dinner made Wu Youwei eat, the taste is so delicious!
Two days later, many people came to the construction site at the foot of the mountain. Wu Youwei accepted all the orders, but asked them to be honest people and work hard.
Because of the large number of manpower, the project volume is increasing day by day.
But the first thing to be built was not a house, but a fence that was more than two meters high and almost three meters high around Wujia Village.
This does not require any technique, as long as the big stones are rolled up. The stone bricks specially ordered by Wu Youwei are strong, only a circle smaller than the bricks used to build the Great Wall.
Wu Youwei thinks a lot. In modern villages without walls, things are often thrown away. In ancient times, it was directly embarrassing.
Wujia Village is a new village. There are many children, and they are all very small. If they are taken away by someone, they will not be able to find a place to cry, okay?
Besides, in this place in the wild, he would feel unsafe in a village without walls.
Both beasts and men need guarding.
In addition, houses may be built in the future, so the scope will be greatly expanded. In the end, all open spaces that are not fields will be directly expanded. The tall walls make the villagers feel very safe.
Even the people who come to work here are very envious. It looks like a good place at first sight, but it is a pity that Mr. Wu is very foresighted. He bought the land of Moling Mountain, Moling Lake and the nearby Wujia Village. Now these places are all owned, and all belong to Wu Youwei's territory.
In addition, Wu Youwei also built two special courtyards.
This courtyard has three entrances and two entrances on the left and right. There are five inverted rooms in the front, and two servant rooms in the east and west at the back of the courtyard. There is a rockery inside, with a gazebo on it, and a high courtyard wall behind the garden.
The gate of the courtyard is the Ruyi Gate, and to the east of the gate are three stables.
Wu Youwei drew the drawings himself, and asked them to place this yard at the end of all the yards and build a row of houses separately.
And there are many willow trees planted in the back room in the yard, the kind of willow tree that can grow taller than the house.
The trees planted across the front two courtyards are apricot trees.
On the left and right sides of this yard, there are open spaces, with a distance of about three to five meters, which can pass the width of a carriage, and another yard has been built, but the back cover of this yard is not the second floor.
"Master, where is this yard?" Lin Butler looked puzzled.
"This yard is reserved." Wu Youwei said, "Tomorrow and the next year, I want to connect the villa to the sewer.
The two courtyards are mainly because he is afraid that the family members will not be able to live there, especially the maids, who are all beautiful little girls after all, so he has to be more cautious about where they live.
"So that's how it is." Knowing the reason, Lin Butler took the drawings and went to the construction site to explain the task.
In fact, the [-] courtyard houses built by Wu Youwei are enough for everyone and one family to be rich, but Wu Youwei is a person who dislikes trouble, and building a house once is enough. At least their children are married. place to live.Work started outside, and the time passed slowly. A few days later, the housekeeper came looking for him again.
"Master, are you ready for the Dragon Boat Festival?" Butler Lin came to the door just to ask about this matter: "It will be sent out in a few days."
"Isn't everything ready?" Wu Youwei had already prepared it, especially since this was his first holiday after the separation.
"You forgot, you haven't prepared a boxing ceremony for the Wu Mansion." Lin Butler said helplessly: "What do you want to send to the Wu Mansion?"
"I don't want to send anything." Wu Youwei blurted out without even thinking.
"Master, that's not acceptable." Lin Butler also knew the grievances between his master and the other side, but he had to live with it on the surface: "Why don't you take a look, give me something... something from my own village?"
"Would you like to send two baskets of local eggs?" Wu Youwei suggested: "Salted duck eggs are also fine."
"Master, do you think this is a relative from the country?" Lin Butler was speechless.
"But these are the specialties of my village!" Wu Youwei pouted, "Why don't you dig some wild vegetables?"
Lin Butler wiped his face: "Master, don't forget that you still have a aunt in that mansion."
Wu Youwei choked, what a nuisance, this old woman is a trouble!
"Then you can figure it out, and give something that is neither brilliant nor rude." Wu Youwei took out the three keys from the warehouse, and handed him a key: "I forgot, I haven't I'll give you the key, one for you and one for me." The other one, Wu Youwei gave to Xiao Xiao in front of the housekeeper.
Butler Lin went to the warehouse with the key, and found that there was a big gap between the things in the warehouse!
There are cheap porcelain vases, expensive suet jade ornaments, gold-decorated heads, and old silver bracelets.
So Steward Lin worked hard to classify them again. When he moved, he hadn't arrived at Moling Mountain Villa. Although he became a housekeeper later, he didn't get the key to the warehouse. Only yesterday did he find out. The master forgot about it.
Soon, the gift is ready.
The gift to the Wu Mansion was actually a specialty of Zhuangzi, one hundred eggs, one hundred salted duck eggs, fifty goose eggs, one bolt of silk and satin each, four pieces of fine cotton cloth, and none of the coarse cloth, because I knew that the Wu Mansion would not use it either. Coarse cloth, might as well keep it for your own use.
Two cloisonné vases.
A set of four gentlemen with "plum blossom, orchid, chrysanthemum and bamboo" painted respectively.
The most expensive gift was probably the old lady's gift. It was a pair of plain silver hairpins, but the heads of the silver hairpins were inlaid with...exquisite mutton fat white jade.
The engravings on it are in the style of white magnolia flowers, only two, low-key, but very... luxurious.
Just such a pair of hairpins, at least 300 taels of silver, other things are not as expensive as this one, this one is for the old lady to show her filial piety.
In fact, Master Mu's son carved it out of leftover materials, and inlaid it with silver to make it more shiny, but Wu Youwei was reluctant to use gold.
In addition, Wu Youwei asked Chef Fang to make zongzi.
People in the south eat a lot of this thing, but it is rare in the north, but it doesn't mean that everyone can't make it.
The zongzi also had a lot of stuffing, so Wu Youwei simply asked him to wrap the zongzi into a small and exquisite shape, and the stuffing inside was also reversed.
No one knows what kind of stuffing the zongzi they opened is.
Wu Youwei originally wanted to play a trick by wrapping stinky tofu stuffing and sending it to the Wu Mansion, but he found that there was no stinky tofu at home, so he had to give up.
Just for the zongzi, he asked someone to pack four big food boxes, which looked like a lot, and they were placed in a car. In fact, there were three layers inside, and each layer was filled with [-] small zongzi, eggs, etc. broken things.
These three carts of gifts look like a lot, but they are actually not many at all.
Wu Youwei gave full play to the way of modern people, packaging!
Exaggerated packaging!
He packed the two cloisonné vases so big that it seemed like there were eight inside; the four ornaments were also specially placed on shelves, and the outside was wrapped in two layers!
Just these two things are enough to load a car.
The rest of the cloth was loaded into a cart, which looked more real.
Butler Lin couldn't stop it, Wu Youwei insisted on doing it like this, plus the carriage he was riding in, and the carriages of the servants who followed him to the Wu Mansion for the festival, there were five carriages in total, it looked like a lot, but actually... Not much really.
Walking with Wu Youwei, there are also Da Shan Hai Da, Fang Liangsheng, Mu Xiaosheng, and Wu Er.
These five men acted as coachmen.
Wu Youwei's car was driven by Wu Er, Da Shan Dahai and Mu Xiaosheng drove the gift car, and finally followed Wu Youwei to recognize the housekeeper Lin.
There were eight people in total, Wu Youwei brought Xiao Xiao, Lin Butler, and five drivers.
I deliberately got up early in the morning, dressed neatly, and went straight to the Wu Mansion in the capital.
At home, the housekeeper's wife has cooked a large pot of tea eggs and distributed them to the workers. She also made simple pork dumplings for them to eat, and she could take two of them home for the family to eat.
After the Dragon Boat Festival, these people are going to put beams on the house. When the construction here is completed, they should go back to hoe the field. They will not come to continue working until the weeds in the field are hoeed.
Wu Youwei led the people and swaggered to the gate of the Wu Mansion. When the gate saw five cars, he was taken aback for a moment, and then saw the little master coming out of the car, and immediately raised his voice and shouted: "The little master is here!"
Wu Youwei had a dark face: "It's the young master who came, not a devil who entered the village. What do you look like?"
Although Menzi didn't know what a "ghost" was, but looking at the young master's appearance, he probably wasn't a good thing. He smiled, nodded and bowed quickly: "Young master, are you here?"
"Nonsense!" Wu Youwei raised his chin: "Open the door and let me in. There will be etiquette for the aunt and elder brother and sister-in-law later!"
"Yes, yes!" The door immediately opened the middle door and let people in.
At this time, the butler of the Wu Mansion came, and when he saw Wu Youwei, he was so affectionate!
"Little master, you are here. The old lady has been thinking about you for a long time." The housekeeper of Wu's house did not write a draft when he lied. The old lady mentioned Wu Youwei, but in that tone and in what she said, don't mention it.
"Really?" Wu Youwei didn't believe it.
He entered the door, and the car behind also entered the door, Xiao Xiao got out of the car, followed behind Wu Youwei, Lin Butler also got out of the car, and followed the car to the inverted house on the side.
Wu Jun had already received the news in the front yard, and was waiting for Wu Youwei in the living room.
After seeing Wu Youwei walk in, he was stunned for a moment.
Because of Wu Youwei's change... a lot.
Wu Youwei was wearing a gown made of emerald green satin, with an emerald green belt around his waist, and a green mutton jade plaque, which was in the style of "bamboo rewards peace".
He wears a scribe hat on his head, inlaid with the same green mutton fat jade, a folding fan in his hand, and the fan pendant is the same style of mutton fat jade fan pendant.
On the feet are a pair of high-top scribe soap boots with white bottoms.
The boy was already a bit young, with a smile on his mouth, his waist straight, as tall and straight as green bamboo and green pine.
"You have grown up." Wu Jun sighed, but he thought in his heart that it would be difficult to handle when he grew up.
"I've grown up a long time ago." Wu Youwei smiled indifferently: "Brother, won't you invite me in?"
"Come in." Wu Jun turned his head and walked into the house, Wu Youwei followed.
What can the two of you talk about?
Nothing more than some messy things.
Wu Jun asked Wu Youwei: "Mo Ling Villa? Isn't it nice there?"
Wu Youwei choked back with a smile on his face: "Of course, that's the place my father left for me."
"Hehe!" The corner of Wu Jun's mouth twitched: "It can be seen that you are doing well."
"It's not very good." Wu Youwei emphasized: "It's great!"
Outside, Steward Lin and the steward of the Wu Mansion also talked together. They were also butlers, but the steward of the Wu Mansion was inferior to Steward Lin.
Whether it's in bearing or entertainment, he was thrown a block away by Butler Lin.
Going to the room in the backyard, Mrs. Wu already knew that Maid Wu was coming. Tomorrow is the Dragon Boat Festival. If he doesn't come, she can't do it. She will be annoyed if he comes.
Mrs. Wu said beamingly: "I don't know how my uncle is doing these days? Can you give his niece something good?"
"What good things can he have?" Mrs. Wu curled her lips: "My eldest granddaughter is going to be drafted in the palace. Not everyone can give my eldest granddaughter something."
Sitting next to her, Wu Qian'er lowered her head and smiled, she...was about to enter the palace.
What an honor is this?
The matter of Guangzong Yaozu, the family now cherishes her more than ever.
Even the eldest brother can't compare...that useless, what good things can there be?