There is a home in the depths of the white clouds

"I just thought that there was a robbery in this mansion just now, and I asked the housekeeper to take some people to the bank to withdraw money. Maybe the housekeeper took the money and sent it there, instead of withdrawing the nursing home." Wu Jun explained for a moment.

If you say it is on the way, it is really on the way. The place where the money is placed in the front yard is on the west side, a separate room, and the money bank at home is in the yard between the old lady and the wife. There are three separate rooms. A total of 21 people, including the old lady and her dowry, as well as the children of the Wu family, take care of it in turn.

The thief yesterday entered the front yard, and he could actually touch the place where the money was placed in the front yard. There was a lot of cash there, so he could take it and leave.

Instead of taking it, he ran to the backyard.

Although there is a treasury in the backyard, but there is too much money, and you can't move it!

"Didn't you already catch it?" Wu Youwei gagged himself with Wu Jun's words.

Wu Jun choked, what did he say?

Do you want to tell him that the thief you caught was actually the gatekeeper who ate wine and made money last night?

Isn't this a slap in the face?

"I've caught it, I'm afraid there are accomplices." Wu Jun's reaction was exactly the same as that of the people he sent.

"I didn't catch it in the front yard..." Wu Youwei said deliberately: "Could it be that he ran...

"Impossible!" Wu Jun immediately retorted: "The man is still in the front yard, don't worry, he will be caught."

Said very firmly, very sure.

Wu Youwei didn't take it seriously, if it was really that easy to catch, what did you do last night?

"The guard with the beard is so strange. Since he caught the thief, he insisted on breaking into my main room. You all searched it yesterday. Xiaoxiao came in to serve me early in the morning, and there were guards at the door. He insisted What are you going to do in there?" Wu Youwei continued: "And I've never seen him before, so I know everyone in our nursing home, right?"

Wu Jun didn't know why: "He was selected by the farmer at home..."

"He looks...more like a thief." After Wu Youwei finished speaking, he patted his butt and left, leaving Wu Jun alone, his expression changing for a while.

Finally, he said loudly: "Come on!"

The butler came in: "Master.

"Go, grab the bearded man for me!" Wu Jun had already figured it out, the younger brother was being pissed off.

In fact, my brother-in-law is already very honest, he has been squatting in his small yard for the past two months, except for his close friends who send people to visit him every now and then, it doesn't cause any trouble.

He didn't do much about his rudeness last night, but now he came to the door, and even 200 taels of silver couldn't suppress his anger. It can be seen that the bearded man is indeed inappropriate for his job, he just asked someone to check The warehouse, what is in the warehouse of the younger brother, he knows better than anyone else, when the old man passed away, his warehouse was emptied by the servants.

The reason why he gave 200 taels of silver in the past was because he wanted his brother-in-law to see it for the sake of the money, for the sake of this reasonable reason, and not to care about the trivial matter of checking the warehouse.

If there were no big beards to find fault with, the younger brother would definitely not be so angry. He is as soft and gentle as a melon, so what kind of temper can he have?

It turned out that his mother was too aggressive, so he fought back. Now that everyone is peaceful, he has become an invisible person.

"Ah?" The butler was taken aback: "Catch it?"

"Even his parents and family members were arrested by me, and their house was searched, and they were accused of stealing the master's property, so I sent them to the officials." Wu Jun said coldly: "The one in the firewood room, send them to the police one by one." official.

The housekeeper was in a cold sweat, so should he be sent to the court?

"Go ahead, remember what to say and what not to say." Wu Jun turned around and left the living room.

Wu Jun had no choice but to deal with it in this way. The younger brother already knew what happened last night in his words. He already knew that his younger brother was smart, but so what?

As the Wu family, he has to protect the Wu family!

Regardless of whether that Zhang San or Li Si has ever entered the backyard of the Wu family, he must, must, and has never been near the backyard!

Because there are female relatives in the backyard.

The reputation of female relatives is ten times more important than that of thieves.

What is a thief?How much is it worth even if caught?

However, the reputation of the female family members of the Wu family is more important than Mount Tai, and the life of that little thief is as light as a feather.

The younger brother himself is a sensible person, is the reputation of his family members important, or the life of a thief?

If it hadn't angered the younger brother, I'm afraid he wouldn't have come to the door even if he understood, it can only be that the bearded man went too far to protect the courtyard, and the younger brother was angry and asked him to call the shots.

Seeing that his master left without looking back, the housekeeper wiped his sweat and went to deal with it.

Because the breakfast was eaten at Mrs. Wu's place, Wu Youwei's breakfast was left over, which was eaten by the snacks, and the small breakfast was divided by the two bookboys who guarded the door.

Now the two bookboys have become doormen.

Just as Wu Youwei came back, he was in a daze in the study, wondering how Wu Jun would deal with this matter, when day lilies came and reported Wu Jun's results.

After hearing this, Wu Youwei waved his hands indifferently: "That's fine, let people know that the young master is not something everyone can bully.

Hemerocallis was terrified this time, and treated Wu Youwei more respectfully than before.

In fact, not only daylilies, but even Furong and Jasmine are more respectful. As the steward here, Wu Xu's reputation in the lower world is much higher. If he didn't let go and let people in, even a little book boy couldn't stop him. live.

Now that Wu Jun has dealt with the bearded man, it is to save face for the young master. Why is it not for Wu Xu and the others to decide what the young master has done?

All of a sudden, the servants in the small courtyard raised their heads high when they went out.

Just like that, it's the younger year.

23 Tanggua sticky;

24 sweep the house;

25 ground tofu;

26 large stewed meat;

27 butcher a rooster;

28 facial hair;

29 steamed buns;

Stay up all night at [-], twist and twist on the New Year's Eve!

On the 23rd day of the Wu Mansion, Wu Jun brought Wu Ying and Wu Maid together to worship the stove.

No female relatives were brought along, because of the rule that "men do not sacrifice to the moon, and women do not sacrifice to the stove".

Although Xiaonian has started to prepare for the New Year, in fact, he started shopping as early as the fifteenth day of the twelfth lunar month.

24 Cleaning, this day is the working day of all servants, even those who look at 【】 wipe the door with hot water, but unfortunately, because of filial piety, they cannot post couplets.

Wu Youwei was in the study, and Xiao Xiao personally cleaned the study. As for the living room and bedroom, Limeras and the others cleaned it, almost spotless.

25 The kitchen ground tofu, and their breakfast this morning was tofu nao. Xiao was killed, but the steamed buns were not eaten much.

On 26 and 27, chickens and ducks were to be slaughtered, but the family had a filial piety and couldn’t eat them, so the kitchen had to make vegetarian meat.

The vegetarian meat at this time is actually made of soy products mixed with lard. It has a meaty taste, but it is not real meat.

The kitchen made real "vegetarian meat" with vegetable oil, and this is for the masters in the house to eat.

When it happened to be 26, the students seemed to have made an agreement, and they sent someone together to give Wu Youwei a new year gift.

Knowing that he was keeping his filial piety at home, the gift this year was very simple: one hundred eggs, two bolts of plain satin, four bolts of cotton muslin, and a set of pen, ink, paper and inkstone.

Some added two newly published "Handouts of the Classic of Filial Piety".

What excited Wu Youwei was that Li Dongyang, a celebrity, even gave him a New Year's gift. Although it was just some specialties such as dried mushrooms and tofu, it seemed very considerate.

After the gift was delivered, the visitor left, saying that he would not come to the door until the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. After all, other people are busy during the Chinese New Year.

Wu Youwei nodded to show that he understood.

He didn't open these gift boxes until the people left. A few classmates probably feared that he didn't have enough money at home, so they wrapped some cash for him, which they called "lucky money".

Anyway, he was the youngest among them in the imperial examination, and it would not be an exaggeration to say that he was a junior.

Some give 100 taels, all of which are made into auspicious styles such as pen ingots such as Ruyi, Sanyuan and Di. It is not shameful to keep or give away.

There is also a golden leaf, a piece of gold leaf, which weighs a penny, very delicate, and placed in a small box, it is so golden and beautiful.

Wu Youwei put it all away, he didn't want to give it away, it would be nice to keep it!

It's just that after receiving the gift, he started to worry again. He should give the gift, but what to give?

After coming here, he began to observe filial piety, and he has never been out of the house until now, and the book he reads every day is "The Book of Filial Piety".

He didn't discuss it personally, and he couldn't send too expensive things, which didn't match his current situation and status.

The bookmark has already been given out, so I can't bookmark it again this time.

But what can you do without bookmarking?

"Xiao Xiao, tell me, what kind of gift should I give back?" Wu Youwei was worried.

There are some jades in the space, but they are too expensive to suit him; he also has some gold and silver, but he can't give gold and silver directly, right?And they gave it to him, so send it back?That's not the case.

"Master, Wu Xu said that the mansion will prepare a copy." Xiao Xiao scratched his head: "Why don't you ask him?"

"Well, call him!" Wu Youwei then remembered that he still had a manager here.

Wu Xu will be here soon.

Wu Youwei asked, and sure enough, the mansion was prepared to return gifts, but this time the gifts were mediocre, and the mansion would return as much value as the gifts they gave, and the price was about the same.

Of course, the government does not count the money sent in by the people at the bottom of the box and kept from being known.

Quan thought it was the young master's personal meeting, it had nothing to do with the mansion, anyway the money didn't fall into the mansion's public account.

"Then I can't just let the things from the mansion be delivered..." Wu Youwei also scratched his head.

"Master, it's not a small talk, the bookmark you made last time is very good, you see, your two instructors like it very much." Wu Xu is very good at dealing with the world: "Why don't you still make bookmarks?" , exactly, the little one found some good ones for you

Wu Youwei thought for a moment, isn't it!

It's better to be familiar with it than a raw one, and he really doesn't have anything to show right now.

Especially when he has to give presents to the two masters' homes after the next year, others can still fool around, but the two masters can't do it.

"Okay, you can bring the wood here!" Wu Youwei thought for a while: "Go and find me a thick bamboo tube, I'll make some pen holders to match with the bookmarks.

"Yes, little one, let's go!" Wu Xu walked away one by one.

After a while, Wu Youwei found all the things, and Wu Youwei was still puzzled: "Are there any thick bamboo tubes?"

Who knew that it would be good if he didn't ask, but when Wu Xu asked, he smiled awkwardly: "This is the bamboo tube used for making bamboo slip rice in Beijing...

Wu Youwei...! ! "

"But don't worry, these are all unused, they are in stock!" Wu Xu quickly explained: "It is guaranteed to be clean."

Wu Youwei breathed a sigh of relief: "It's not too bad.

"I can't bring you dirty and small ones!" Wu Xu wiped the sweat off his face in embarrassment.

Wu Youwei started to make things. He planned to make a set of three reading sets, namely: pen holder, paperweight, and bookmark.

"Three" also happens to represent the three talents of heaven, earth and man.

The first thing he did was to give something to the two masters. He didn't paint the pen holder. The craftsmanship of the craftsmen of this era is much better than his. Tune Song Head".

On the paperweight is a sentence from Tao Yuanming's "Peach Blossom Spring": the land is flat and open, and the houses are like houses.

It happened that when he crossed, it happened to be the end of the year of the rooster and the coming of the year of the dog.

The bookmark is a sentence from Zeng Zi in the "Xueer" chapter of "The Analects of Confucius": Be cautious in the end and pursue the distant future, and the people's morality will be thick.

The pen holder is "sky"; the paperweight is "earth"; the bookmark is "person".

It just fits his filial piety mood.