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Chapter Eleven The Gardener

The jingling sound sounded from time to time from the single-wood cart that Yang Lin was pushing. Looking at the broken marks and edges of the road under his foot, Yang Lin was puzzled and smiled bitterly at the young military soldier who led him to the leading road, saying, "How can this brother, command the side servant passage of the yamen? There are so many pieces of gravel on it? And it looks like it was specially paved!"

Hearing Yang Lin's bitter laughter, the young soldier walking in front stopped a little, stood side by side with Yang Lin, and asked back with a strange expression: "Little brother, you are young, you must have just arrived at the Marquis' Mansion to do things for a while, right?"

Yang Lin was stunned and replied with a smile: "You guy, can you tell me this? I am from Jingzhou. When I was planting flowers for Wang Yuan in the countryside, I learned the gardener's craftsmanship. Later, Wang Yuanwai offended any official master. After the house was searched and the childbirth was punished, I followed my cousin to Jiangling to find a job."

The soldier nodded and smiled relievedly, "No wonder you asked this. In fact, these gravel pieces were indeed specially laid out by people in the yamen."

Seeing that Yang Lin's face was still confused and confused, the soldier simply slowed down and walked with Yang Lin and said, "It was strange to take people here for the first time when I went to the commander's yamen to stand guard. Later I learned that it was not only the commander's yamen that there were such gravels, but all the wealthy and powerful people, or the side door areas of the official residence, were paved with such gravels to make a sound."

It seemed that it was rare to find someone who was a few years younger than him to chat and relieve his boredom. The military soldier explained enthusiastically: "Little brother, look, whether it is a high-ranking official residence or a wealthy family, there must be many servants who come and go back and forth in their homes every day, right?"

"There are too many idle people coming and going, so the safety precautions in the mansion are also a problem. As the saying goes, guarding day and night, it is difficult to guard against thieves at home..." When talking about this, when Yang Lin shook his head and heard it, he became more fascinated. The soldiers showed off in high spirits: "These gravels are used to lay here. If the servants pass by, even if they don't push carts and carry things, they will rattle. With the sound, the patrol guards, guards and guards nearby can also be careful to hear it."

"You said that since we can notice it, even if the servants wanted to "what" in the middle of the night, could they still let them run away?" After a pause, the soldier said in an extremely affirmative tone: "If you don't believe me, please pay attention when you return to the Marquis' Mansion. Keep it in the sideways of your Marquis' Mansion, it must be..."

"By the way, why don't you even know this? Didn't you come in through the side door when you enter the Marquis' Mansion?" The soldier talked about this all the time, and suddenly looked at Yang Lin with some confusion, and his face became unconscious.

"Haha, this big brother is right." Yang Lin turned his mind and hurriedly took the military soldier and laughed inquiring, "The Baihua Garden in our Marquis' Mansion is different from that in Beppu. There are two places in total, one in the south of the city and the other in the west of the city. My cousin and I are the flowers and gardeners in the private mansion in the west of the Marquis' city. The yard there is not big, and there are not many maids and servants. Of course, we don't have any habit of paving the side doors of gravel."

"Oh, so that's it." The soldier nodded with consent. His vigilant face just now was just an involuntary habit. Seeing that Yang Lin took out the land in front of him was indeed a pass-through waist sign in the Marquis Mansion in Zhennan. In addition, there was a gardener in the Marquis Mansion a few days ago. He came to the back gardener of the inner mansion to transplant flowers instead of the gardener. Now that a little gardener with a cart has come to deliver flowers to the door, there is nothing strange. Especially the young lady has been very happy about the orchids transplanted from outside the region recently!

The soldier and Yang Lin chatted and laughed softly and walked dozens of steps. Seeing Yang Lin pushing the cart slowly and slowly on the gravel road, he looked a little gasping while breathing. He simply put his hand on the handlebar and helped Yang Lin push forward together.

After walking along the broken road of the exterior wall, the courtyard door wall that was about 100 feet high and about 7 feet wide was revealed to the two of them. After checking the waist card in front of the door, the military soldier helped Yang Lin push the car directly into the small slope of the garden in the courtyard. He then put on his right hand and smiled and said, "Little brother, I'll leave first. Lin Bo's flower room is behind the garden. If you push it forward, you will find it."

"Ha, thank you, this brother." Yang Lin said as he reached into his waist bag and wanted to take something, but when he saw his fingers stretched in, he seemed to have become aggravated, his original smile suddenly became awkward. Although there were dozens of golden leaves in his purse, as he was currently in his capacity, he could not be a little gardener who would like a rich young man to give gold leaves to others, right?

Seeing Yang Lin's face changing suddenly, the soldier laughed and awkwardly, and couldn't help but stare at him strangely, and didn't know what to say for a moment. Fortunately, Yang Lin reacted very quickly. He shook his fingers slightly, but took out a handful of osmanthus pine nut candy from the waist bag and handed it to the soldier. Hee, "Brother, thank you for your help. These sweet sweet fruits were given to me by Mr. Yang, who saw that I was doing well in my life. Unfortunately, I have grown tooths recently and can't eat them. It's better for you to try them when you are having fun."

As the sun shines, the handful of osmanthus pine nut candies in Yang Lin's hand is like amber crystals. The golden amber shell is covered with crystal pine nuts, which looks particularly dazzling. You can tell at a glance that only in the fine dining hall can you make good candies on the ground.

Just as he picked up a pine nut candy, a faint sweet fragrance spread out in his mouth and slowly spread out. He couldn't help swallowing. The soldier was about to speak, but Yang Lin had already stuffed the pine nut candy in his hand into his pocket, and then smiled and said, "Please take it, why are we polite to both of us..."

The soldier smiled. In terms of age, he was only a few years older than Yang Lin. When he was having a joke with Yang Lin, he felt that the little gardener was funny and could be fussy. Now he saw him stuffing candy into his pocket and his words were very straightforward. He simply patted Yang Lin on the shoulder and said very readily: "Good brother, thank you first."

"You called my elder brother, how can you not express your feelings as a brother? Our government office will pay the salary in the future. If you don't have anything to do, you might as well come to the yamen to find me at the next hour. Let's have a few drinks to show your closeness." The soldier paused a little and said a little embarrassedly: "But my brother's alcohol tolerance is not very good, but looking at your young and gentle appearance, you must not be much better, right? Hahahaha..."

Yang Lin laughed, put down the cart on the spot, stretched out his waist and said with a slight smile: "Then thank you brother first. But my cousin has asked Mr. Yang for leave on my behalf, and I will take me on a boat back to Jingzhou to sweep the grave the day after tomorrow. I'm afraid that this time it will take at least three or two months to come back!"

"This is a serious matter. The ancestors' tombs are to be worshipped often." Hearing Yang Lin's tomb sweeping words, the soldier's expression became a little dim. But he was used to being free and easy by nature. Although the previous words were a little lonely, after a few words, he suddenly patted his head hard and laughed: "After talking, I almost forgot to ask, Brother Chu Yuan, where are you, brother?"

"Chu Yuan..." Yang Lin blinked his eyes and wrote down the name of the soldier with his little finger. He dragged his chin and smiled lightly: "Since I became sensible, my cousin has always called me Yang San. When I was in the countryside of Jingzhou, people in the village called me Xiao Yang. The name of the eldest brother is so powerful that it sounds so good. I am so envious of this little villager!"

Chu Yuan shook his head and said seriously: "Good brother, as the saying goes, don't ask whether the name is good or not. A real man does not seek to be kind to heaven and earth, but seek to follow it at will. For thousands of years in ancient times, which king, prince, noble and hero were born to be rich and noble???"

"If you don't want to say that the distant ones, just let's talk about the Marquis of Yang of the Southern Tang Dynasty. When it comes to the name of the famous masters, no one knows whether they are the lowly soldiers in the army or the powerful men of the four dynasties? But Marquis of Yang was not a man who wrote a pen to the court, a young and cute army, and started from a young and cold little man..."

Chu Yuan talked about this all the time, and suddenly felt that he had said too much to the little gardener in front of him. He couldn't help but look around nervously, but seeing that there were no pedestrians coming and going nearby, he whispered in relief: "Xiao Yang, brother was just talking on a whim just now. You are from Mr. Yang's mansion. Don't gossip and repeat the previous words of Brother Hui after you go back."

Seeing that Yang Lin's face only showed a playful smile and couldn't help but answer, Chu Yuan licked his lips, and still gave a little uneasy reminder: "Brother Yang, look at your cleverness, if you have any opportunities in the future, you will definitely be a talented person who can speak. But the words you said to your brother before are too straightforward. You must be afraid to stop after you return home. If some interested people hear these words, I'm afraid you won't know what trouble you will cause!"

Yang Lin nodded pretendingly, patted Chu Yuan’s right shoulder hard and said with a smile: “Brother is so trustworthy as a brother, how could I say it everywhere? We both just can’t understand the words before, so why do we have to let outsiders know about them.”

"Yeah, um..." Chu Yuan waved his hand with a laugh, Lin Lin said farewell: "That's what I'm saying. Brother Wei is on duty, so let's go first. Brother Yang, you can do your own thing."

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"The sun shines in the sky, the flowers smile at me, and the birds say, "Ao early, why did you push the wooden cart? I'll plant orchids, and by the way..." Yang Lin, who had just sang for less than half of his mouth, choked his mouth.

‘Buzz, buzz, buzz.’ I heard a sound of humming sounds, gradually spreading around the garden.
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