It is the 20th day of the first lunar month. According to the custom of the Marquis' Mansion, the affairs of the new year will start to be prepared after the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. Of course, when everything is ready, it will be the end of the month. When it is thirty, after receiving the wages, the people's hearts will be taken back.

The same is true for clan school. The young masters and children in the clan are now on vacation, and it is said that classes will not start until the 23rd.

Therefore, Sun Dan still has three days to adapt to the life of the Hou Mansion.

In fact, he had nothing to adapt to.

His current identity is a bit vague. He said he was a child of the Sun family, but he had to wait until the two clan leaders of Sun Songnian and Sun Henian in the capital to check the genealogy and nodded before he could write Sun Dan's ancestors into the clan's certificate. Therefore, he had to do a rough life in the mansion to make a living. He said he was a servant, and he couldn't write two Sun characters in a single stroke, and it was difficult to send him to do too much work.

Sun Dan just stayed in the Sun's house without embarrassment, as if she had been forgotten by people.

In fact, Sun Dan is now just a hired worker in the Marquis' Mansion. Sun Fu sent someone to take him to a small courtyard in the outer house, throw him inside and ignore him without any explanation.

The yard is not big, only eighty or ninety square meters, and is a pocket courtyard with three small houses. The yard is filled with a lot of flower fertilization, a few hoes and forks, as well as a row of trimmed grape branches and rose branches.

One of the three cottages is for tools and plants, one belongs to Sun Dan, and the other is a veteran gardener named Mendun.

The old gardener was so old that his back was hunched, his face was full of wrinkles, and his front teeth were all lost. When he spoke, he was confused because he didn't care about the wind and his Sichuan dialect.

It took a long time to tell Sun Dan and Lian Bihua that the old man named Mendun was originally named Mendun. He was a slave bought by Sun Zhunian, the third master of the Hou Mansion, when he was an official in Sichuan. After entering the Hou Mansion, everyone thought his name was not good, so they changed his name. Now Sun Zhunian has been dead for many years, and Mendun is so old that no one cares about it. He was sent here to work as a gardener.

Mendun is a taciturn person who can't kick a few butts. He only knows how to drink with a small gourd all day long, and he always exudes a strong smell of alcohol and body odor.

However, the old man was pretty good. Seeing that Sun Dan had just entered the mansion, he looked dark and didn't talk nonsense. He took the initiative to help Sun Dan get a new quilt and a whole set of new clothes, and pointed to an empty room and said, "Your room." Then, before Sun Dan could say the word thank you, he shook his slightly drunk body and returned to his room.

It would be peaceful to live with such people. In three days, you will have to go to school and find a quiet place to study. If you are surrounded by a large group of servants, you will not be able to study at all. It seems that the two General Managers Sun are really careful.

When it comes to being a gardener, Sun Dan has no experience. In his previous life, two flower workers in the county government held a pair of big scissors and cut arrows on the holly trees and June snow all day long, because they didn't pay attention and didn't know how they tinkered.

Fortunately, with Mr. Mendun here, Sun Dan would not become a idle waste.

It is early spring now, and the weather is cold and there is no work. When you are really busy, you should be in March. At that time, the spring buds sprout, the flowers in the garden need to be sown, grapes need to be cut, and drainage canals need to be dredged. As for now, Sun Dan and Mendun’s main job is to use large scissors to cut the wintersweet flowers one by one, then divide them into several portions, and send them to the ladies in each room for them to play.

There is a large plum garden in the Hou Mansion, where hundreds of wintersweet trees are planted, which makes people dizzy. The name of the garden is also good, called "Yizhiyuan". It is inspired by Lu Kai, a native of the Song Dynasty, in a poem "Give to Fan Ye": "Broken plums and meet the postman, I send them to the people of Longtou. There is nothing in the south of the Yangtze River, so I will give you a spring branch."

This garden is the residence of Mrs. Zhong, the third house of the Hou Mansion. Sun Zhunian died early, so a widow like her lived in the garden. Perhaps because she felt so lonely, Zhong Fu took her niece Jiang Ruoying from Suzhou to Shandong.

Because he is a vain, Mrs. Zhong doesn't see guests on weekdays. Every time Sun Dan and Mendun go to cut plum blossoms, they are led by an ugly and stupid little girl who speaks loudly and majestic. They finish their work under her surveillance, and then are sent out impatiently.

The little maid's name seems to be Fuqian, and her name is elegant. But when she saw her ugly face and her face full of rudeness, Sun Dan lost her appetite and wasted this good name.

I heard that Mrs. Zhong and her niece Jiang Ruoying were both famous beauties, but Sun Dan was very dissatisfied with Fu Chi. Since the owner's aesthetic taste was so low, it can be seen that she was not as beautiful as she could.

After working like this for two days, Sun Dan suddenly felt a little nervous when he was about to start school in the school year. In a trance, he seemed to have returned to the day when he had just arrived at university to register.

This feels really strange!

Because the door pier is old and weak, and he is drunk all day long, Sun Dan is embarrassed to let him climb trees. Whenever it comes to cutting plum branches, he always jumps to the ladder first and shouts: "Old door, let the young people do this. If you throw you down, I will serve you. If you have too much trouble."

Mendun took a sip of wine: "Sun Dan, you are really good at speaking. OK, I won't cause trouble for you, but don't complain if you are tired later."

"Old Party, can't you drink less nine?" Sun Dan reminded him kindly: "Drinking too much wine will hurt your body. Li Bai is so cool, 'Five Horse, a thousand gold fur, Hu'er will go out to exchange for fine wine'. It looks very generous, and finally got confused. He wants to go into the water to catch the moon, and finally drowned."

Mendun opened his mouth and exposed his rotten teeth, saying, "This man named Li is really a waste of alcohol, and his family doesn't care."

"I can't control it, I'm poisoned by alcohol, I feel panicked if I don't drink it." Learning Sichuan dialect, Sun Dan joked with the old man: "When talking about fishing for the moon, I still remember the story of a monkey fishing for the moon. Do you want to hear it?"

Mendun nodded: "I am idle, I am just free, so I just listen to you posing the gantry formation."

After he heard Sun Dan’s story about monkey fishing for the moon, Mendun smiled, “This story is much better than what Mr. Storyteller told.”

Sun Dan felt aroused in her heart and said to herself: If there is no food to eat in the future, she might be able to go and tell a story. A few days ago, I was really confused.

At this moment, a giggle came from the room, and a crisp female voice sounded: "Aunt, this little gardener is really interesting. He actually knows Li Taibai's poems, which derogates Li Bai to the point of being even as good as a monkey. However, his story is well told."

Another slightly older female voice said softly: "Ruoying, Huichang Hou is a century-old family and an ordinary servant. What's so strange about how many poems you can do? But you grew up in Suzhou and no one disciplined you. After coming to Shandong, you really have to take good care of your temperament."

When Sun Dan heard these two nice female voices, she was excited. If she guessed correctly, the older one should be Mrs. Zhong from the third wife of the Sun family, and the other one was her niece Jiang Ruoying.

"Auntie, what's wrong with my temperament? What do you mean by a famous family? I see that Sun Hao from the Sun family's eldest son is just a fool. Sun Gui from the second son is vulgar and cowardly, and it makes people feel annoyed when he sees it. As for Sun Yue, he may not have real talent and knowledge." The little girl was scolded by her aunt and felt very dissatisfied.

"Okay, okay, don't you know who the sons and nephews of the Sun family are? You will go to the clan to study tomorrow. You are wild, so don't cause any trouble." Zhong Fu said softly.

"What can happen? Humph!"

When Sun Tan heard that the woman named Jiang Ruoying in the room would be her future classmate, he was curious and couldn't help but look up at the room.

Of course, there was a thick blue cloth curtain hanging at the door of Mrs. Zhong's room, and nothing could be seen.

But his look up annoyed Fu Chi, who was supervising the worker next to him.

Fuqi scolded, "Look at something randomly, leave after finishing work."

Mendun hurriedly said, "Let's go now, let's go now."

Fuqi refused to give in: "Mendun, you are also an old man from the third room. You know that your wife likes purity, so why did you make a dirty person come in and talk nonsense, what monkeys, what moons, what rules are."

Sun Dan was annoyed and was about to speak when the door curtain suddenly shook, and a round-faced beauty ran out and smiled and said, "Although it's full of nonsense, it's interesting. Fu Zi, don't make things difficult for him."

This little beauty is not old, with delicate and small facial features, white skin and red skin. She stands among the snow-white wintersweet flowers and is simply a porcelain doll, so cute that it makes people want to pinch her round face.

The little beauty Jiang Ruoying ran to Sun Dan, looked up and down a few times, and suddenly burst into laughter: "I'm in a bad mood these days, and I'm happy when I told you, the story of you, the servant. Tell me, what kind of reward I want."

Sun Dan was so shocked by the beauty's Qingchun Liangmei that he couldn't open his eyes, but after hearing what she said, he felt a little unhappy. Although Sun Dan worked as a gardener in the Marquis's mansion, in his opinion, he was just working part-time to study. He was treated as a slave for nothing, which made him feel a little annoyed.

He bowed: "In the morning of Sun Dan, it is my honor to make Miss Jiang smile. I will say goodbye."

"Ah, you are a child of the Sun family!" Jiang Ruoying felt a little embarrassed. He treated the child of the Sun family as a slave. It was really funny when he passed it out!

"It is the descendant of Jizong Gong who is not a good player." Sun smiled faintly, bowed his hand and left straight.

Jiang Ruoying was stunned in the flowers, and her teeth bit her lower lip for a long time before she laughed: "This man has a little temper and is more annoying than me."

"You also know that you are annoying." Mrs. Zhong's laughter came from the house.

"Auntie, hate it!"
Chapter completed!