Traveling through the starry sky just for you, I was a koi in ancient times

Wang Jinyi thought that her brother had heard it too, and he was asking exactly what she wanted to know.

"Let's go to the backyard and see your room."

My father was obviously interrupting.

The rooms in the backyard, the two suites in the middle, are my parents' rooms.

The two rooms on the east side are my brother Wang Wendong’s rooms, which are a bedroom and a study respectively.

The suite on the west side naturally became Wang Jinyi's room, and Wang Jinyi chose a suite.

The rest of the rooms were locked. Wang Jinyi guessed that it was probably the storeroom of the second room.

Inside the second gate, on the west side of the courtyard, there are two rows of side rooms, which are the servants' rooms.

The front and back yards are still clearly demarcated by the Begonia Gate. Beyond the Begonia Gate is the front yard, which is the male owner's space. The east side of the cross yard is the servants' housing, and the west side is the stable.

The backyard is located behind the second gate of Haitang, which is usually the space for female relatives and maids to gather.

Seeing Qing'er, Zhu'er and Nanny Wang all coming out from the servants' room, the mother stopped and confirmed some things with them.

Dad brought his two children and looked at each room one by one, starting from the rooms on the east side, and finally returned to the mother's suite in the middle.

The rooms here are obviously smaller than those in Wang's residence. Although they are also suites with one bright room and one dark room, they cannot accommodate any decorations, only practical furniture.

There is no couch in the main room, only chairs and a coffee table, forming a small reception area, with two armchairs and a square coffee table at the top.

The bedroom is behind the wooden folding door with flower windows.

In the bedroom, there is a big bed in the middle, aisles on both sides, and a clothes hanger in each corner.

There is a wardrobe that reaches the ceiling next to the bed. It is made of pure wood and has no decoration. It has 6 double doors. It takes up the entire wall and is divided into many layers.

Everyone's bedroom is almost the same.

However, my brother’s study room on the east side has the same layout as the Wang family’s study room.

The father and his two sons were all sitting on the big chair in their mother's room. Qing'er came over, poured the tea and then stepped back.

Wang Jinyi saw that her brother seemed to be hesitant to speak after looking at his father several times, and she felt a little worried for her brother.

I thought to myself: Are you going to ask or not?

Mother came in and looked at everyone, then sat quietly and smiled. She sat at the head of the table opposite Dad.

Dad poured the tea and pushed it to mother, who picked up the teacup.

"Is there anything else you want to bring? Go back and think about it. We'll move in tomorrow."

Seeing that the two children didn’t seem very happy, I comforted them.

"Jin'er, there's no high threshold here, so you can play in the yard anytime, okay?"

Wang Jingyi complained in his heart: I don’t have the time to run around, I have to get started on my two major businesses!

I must try my best to squeeze into the gate of "Chongwenfang".

But now I still have to support my mother and reply to her with a smile:

"Great, Jinyi, can you add a swing in the yard? Just like the one in my sister's yard. Mother, is that okay?!"

Before his mother could answer, his brother suddenly realized that he had a chance to express his opinion:

"Mom, can I set up a place for morning exercises in the backyard?"

"what?"

“Brother Wen Zhen is learning the six arts of a gentleman, and in order to practice swordsmanship, he reserved a space in the garden of the eldest house.

Mom, I also want to learn, can my family find a master for me?"

My father answered:

"After every ten-day break, Dad will teach you first. When I can't teach you anymore, you can find a master."

After the family discussed a number of miscellaneous matters, they became happy again, and the two children seemed to have forgotten that their father had left.

Just like that, the next day, after bidding farewell to the grandparents, the second family officially moved into No. 9 Yongxing Lane.

Wang Jinyi and her mother were the first group to enter No. 9 Yongxing Lane. Her father and brother did not return until the evening.

Since moving into Yongxing Lane, his father and brother can go home every night. His brother's school is just a few alleys away, so he no longer needs his father to pick him up. The servant Wang Dong goes to and from school with the young master every day.

My father's home was closer to the provincial school, and the four of us would get together for dinner every night.

It's just that everyone is busy.

Daddy moved to the west wing in the front yard for the autumn harvest. The east wing was Daddy's study, but in fact, Daddy seldom went back to the west wing. He often spent the night on the couch in the east wing and went to the government school early the next day.

My mother has been cutting down the number of servants in the second house, leaving almost no extra people. Now the second house is short of staff. Almost everyone has multiple jobs.

For example, Qing'er was in charge of the storeroom in the yard, doing needlework, and taking Zhu Yu to check the servants and work in various parts of the backyard.

The original housekeeper of Wang's house, Nanny Wang, was assigned to the kitchen in the side courtyard.

They took on all the management and purchasing responsibilities. The maid who used to make snacks in the courtyard became a noodle chef in Yongxing Lane, and the old woman who used to cook in the second room became the chef in Yongxing Lane.

The family's original carriage was directly downgraded to a blue cloth two-person carriage. And there were only two left.

These two carriages were originally used by the steward to go out for shopping. Now, the master of Yongxing Lane has only this treatment.

On the table in my mother's room, the account books were neatly stacked, and my third uncle's manuscripts were no longer visible.

The elder brother is the happiest every day, because he can go home to see his parents and younger sister every day.

Despite the increasing pressure from his sister, Wang Wendong was still happy.

Ever since Wang Jinyi was hit by the ink spot in her brother's study.

Every afternoon, I spend an hour practicing pen movements, without fail.

After a few days of persistence, her hands became stiff, her arms ached, and her hands were shaking when she held the spoon. But she still persisted.

Wang Jinyi's enthusiasm for learning sometimes makes his father Wang Shuli feel ashamed.

Every day at the hour of Mao, Wang Jinyi would get up on time and go to his mother's room to recite what he had learned from The Analects of Confucius the day before.

These days, I am about to finish learning half of the 20 chapters of The Analects. After breakfast, I continue to learn new content.

In the afternoon, Wang Jinyi also has to learn women's work.

You know, women's work involves a lot of complicated tasks, such as: weaving, embroidery, tailoring, weaving and so on.

Study for a symbolic hour every day.

This hour made Wang Jinyi miserable. His laziness in his previous life caused him to be so busy and confused in this life.

The first step in learning embroidery was just to split the thread, which made Wang Jinyi's little hands unable to separate into petals.

Then they learned how to match lines, colors, overlay colors, mix colors, and needlework. Wang Jinyi got a headache just by listening to the general ideas.

I want to speak out for the women of this era. They can clearly take advantage of the social division of labor and reduce work, so why waste their best years?

Do all women have to learn this profession? Oh, maybe I came from a previous life and have no foundation in women's work, so it is extremely difficult to learn.

Sometimes my mother would point to a piece of cloth and ask:

"This piece of cloth is used to make a spring shirt for a student around 10 years old. What kind of pattern should it be cut into? What kind of welt should be matched with? What kind of stitching should be used for the collar? What kind of decorations can be matched on the robe? What patterns can be embroidered on the student's robe? ...

Wang Jinyi has been trying her best, putting in the same energy as she did in the college entrance examination in her previous life, but she always fails.

In order to urge her, her mother thought of a way to let Zhu Yu and Qing Yu learn needlework with Wang Jinyi.

Qingyu's embroidery skills improved rapidly, and Zhuyu learned needlework very quickly, and soon mastered a set of rules such as color matching and thread matching.

Wang Jinyi finally understood the truth that every inch has its own strengths and weaknesses.

I have been studying for 20 days, but I am still not as good as the two maids. The only thing I can say to comfort myself is that I have mastered the theoretical knowledge to perfection, but when it comes to work, it is a shoddy job.

Fortunately, I have two skillful maids, so I don’t have to do it myself.

But every time I think of the time in my previous life when I embroidered the Chinese character "Jin" on Chen Zhiyuan's clothes with black silk, I always want to cover my face. Oh! It's so ugly, what should I do? ! It's all left in the previous life and cannot be changed.

Wang Jinyi now discovered that, apart from the memories of his previous life, he had no lost memories, and the knowledge he had learned and his extraordinary ability to understand were almost useless.

Even the results of practicing calligraphy changed from a whole ball of ink to small ink dots.

Wang Jinyi has achieved some results in the past two decades, that is, the first volume of "Journey to the West" was printed and published.

Of course, this kind of book can only be published in ordinary bookstores and cannot enter the gate of "Chongwenfang".

The entire book of "Red Star Over China" has been completed, with a total of 7 episodes. The stories have been compressed and adapted to be more compact.

There are three levels, which are reviewed by my grandfather. The three newly written volumes are being sorted out by my mother.

Starting from today, Wang Jinyi will begin to adapt a certain story, with the twelve beautiful young ladies as the background, and write a story called Yaoyao Sisters.

As soon as the story of "Sister Yaoyao" was told, the mother who was recording the story and Qing'er who was working in front of the door, both burst out laughing.

Wang Jinyi looked at the two of them in confusion...