Liang Zhichen said, "Outside Balibao there is a mansion that is rumored to have been the private property of an officer. However, the officer passed away due to illness more than ten years ago, and his descendants squandered all the family wealth. I coincidentally picked it up for a bargain."
"This will be our new ho!"
The next day, Liang Zhichen led everyone to the outskirts of the town and, sure enough, saw a mansion that was grand and imposing. Although the mansion covered a vast area, its door fras were already decaying. It had many rooms, but they all bore the mark of abandonnt.
Even so, the people of the Dong family, who had never seen much of the world, gaped wide-mouthed in amazent, exclaiming, "To buy this place must have cost a considerable amount of silver, right?"
Liang Zhichen said, "It only cost twenty-five taels of silver. The other party was in a hurry to pay off gambling debts, and since property prices are generally low around here, it didn’t cost much."
The Dong family bead with joy, "This really is magnificent. It’s old, but it’s bigger by half than the He Mansion in our town—" This remark ca from the carefree and plump second sister Dong Xinyuan.
After Dong Xinyuan’s mont of reflection, she was fiercely tugged at by Little Brother Sannian. She foolishly asked, "What’s wrong, Sannian? Why are you pulling ?"
Sannian held his forehead in his hand, covering his face, looking sowhat disdainful. He really didn’t want to admit that this careless person was his second sister.
***
The mansion was indeed large; a rotting wooden plaque hung above the mansion gate with the words "Lin Mansion". It seed that the original owner of the mansion was surnad Lin.
Yun Ge stood outside the mansion, looking up and knocking on the plaque, feeling quite unsatisfied. "Hong Fei!"
"Present!"
Hong Fei swiftly flew forward. With a light tip of her toe, she leaped more than a ter high and stretched her arm to take down the plaque.
Only then did Yun Ge’s expression lighten slightly. But after looking around, she furrowed her brows again.
This was too shabby.
Her Purple Chervil was to live here? Although it was much better than the peasant courtyard in Kaoshan Village, it still amounted to a house of broken tiles and walls. She sighed deeply in her heart. Then she looked again at Hong Fei.
Hong Fei laughed heartily, "Doctor Yun, you rest up. We’ll handle the mansion!"
In the days that followed, Hong Fei, with twenty or thirty female soldiers, clanged and clattered as they bought paint and timber. They refurbished the broken parts, applied fresh paint, and also bought many things from Balibao to furnish the place, transforming the once dilapidated mansion into sothing entirely renewed.
During this period, Dong Huiying was busy with Shu Yu and Shujun, who were both ill, and with Shujun being blind. Even though she knew that Hong Fei and the others were renovating the mansion, when she asked about it, Yun Ge would say, "Don’t worry, I promise you won’t be disappointed."
Dong Huiying: "..."
I just feel that having a place to sleep is good enough. It doesn’t need to be all that luxurious and grandiose, after all... funds are limited!
She touched her purse and suddenly rembered. Hmm, the one in charge of the finances at ho, isn’t that the Eldest Brother?
On the sixth day after moving into the old mansion, it was noon. During these days, a wife and six husbands had been living in a small courtyard within the mansion. The courtyard was quite large and not at all cramped.
As Dong Huiying was preparing to cook, she saw Yun Ge approaching her with a smile, "Everything up front has been mostly taken care of, just these two or three courtyards to the left and right of you are left. Co, let take you to have a look."
Yun Ge, holding Dong Huiying’s hand, led her outside. The once ssy garden had been tidied up, with a brand-new purple wood pavilion erected, a round archway, white walls, and purple roof tiles. And inside each room, everything looked as good as new, with fresh bedding, new furniture, fully equipped, and the beams and pillars were beautifully carved and painted, providing elegance along with the splendor.
It was clear that Yun Ge had good taste, and the hands-on ability of Hong Fei and others was indeed strong.
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