The Jiang family's house is very large, but it has been slowly expanded from generation to generation.
By Jiang Sui's generation, the Jiang family's ancestral home had been expanded to nine large courtyards and dozens of small courtyards.
After Jiang Zhai enters, there is a large, spacious and flat yard, where carriages and sedan chairs usually get on and off. On both sides are stables and sedan chairs.
Across the courtyard is the main hall for receiving guests. After going out from the south door of the main hall, there is a spacious corridor that divides Jiang House into two parts: east and west.
To the east are four courtyards and a garden, where people from the Jiang family live.
There are five courtyards on the west side. The first courtyard has three entrances. The front courtyard is where the study is located, and the two entrances behind are the family's medicine garden.
The three courtyards in the middle were mostly occupied by Jiang Su's apprentices and various guests who came to him for advice.
The last courtyard is where the servants and servants live.
Shen Tianshu followed Wang Yuanjiu, walking in the corridor that he had walked through thousands of times, looking around greedily.
Everything in front of me is both familiar and a little strange.
Brick after brick, every plant and tree, they are full of memories, which makes Shen Tianshu’s heart drop.
She had seen the scenery thousands of times before and was already familiar with it, but now she couldn't bear to blink.
Shen Tianshu looked around, and when he glanced across the corridor in front of him from the corner of his eye, he seemed to see a somewhat familiar figure flashing past.
Looking at the back, it looks like she is a woman. The sense of familiarity is very clear, and it doesn’t look like she’s mistaken.
Is it possible that there are still servants in the Jiang family alive? Are they staying here to work now?
But when she turned around to look carefully, there was no one there.
"Manager Wang, are the people working in the Jiang Residence now also people sent from the palace? Are there no original servants from the Jiang family?"
Wang Yuanjiu had collected her purse before, and he was afraid that it must be twenty taels. He was very happy. In addition, Jiang Zhai had nothing to hide, so he was naturally happy to answer it.
"Ms. Tong, now we are the only ones in the Jiang family who are from the palace. The others are actually just handymen who clean the yard. They are all hired from Lai'an County. As for the original servants of the Jiang family, they are really... Nothing is left.
"The Jiang family was really a living Bodhisattva who helped the world and saved people back then. Who can live to death without illness or disaster? They all have to seek medical advice.
"So all the families who come to An County come to see Dr. Jiang for medical treatment. I heard that when the season changes and it is easy to get sick or the weather is too cold in winter, the Jiang family will make free soup and distribute it to everyone in the county. Prevent disease and strengthen your health.
"Tell me, for such a good family, the people in the county are not hard-hearted. How can they not be grateful?"
Shen Tianshu's mouth was full of bitterness and he replied: "Yes! I have also heard that the people in Lai'an County are very grateful to the Jiang family, and they rush to send things to the house during the New Year and festivals, whether it is rice dumplings made by themselves or rice dumplings made by themselves. The newly harvested millet is everyone’s wish.”
"Isn't it!" Wang Yuanjiu clapped his hands and said, "So our family simply posted a notice saying that we would invite local people to clean Jiang's house. There is no need to stay here all day long. We can just do the work at a fixed time and there will be no delay. The family's work can also provide them with subsidies to supplement their family income.
"Oh, there were so many people who came at that time. They were willing to clean the house even if they had to ask for money. Moreover, they were grateful and worked extra hard. We didn't need to worry about every plant and tree in this house. Brick by brick, they cherish it more than their own things!"
"So that's it. Manager Wang is indeed a person sent by the emperor. He is very thoughtful in doing things." After hearing this, Shen Tianshu felt a little disappointed.
I thought that the familiar figure I saw just now must be someone from the county doing cleaning work.
After all, she had lived here for so long in her previous life, and the county itself was not that big, so many people looked familiar to her even if she didn't know them.
She originally thought that there might be servants in the family who would survive and stay in the house to work. Now that this road was blocked by Wang Yuanjiu's words, it seemed that she had thought too much.
The study is in the first courtyard to the west, so it didn't take long to get there.
It is said to be a study, but actually the main room upon entering is a two-story building with five rooms on the front. There are also several wing rooms on the east and west sides where medicinal materials are stored.
The first floor is the study room, and the second floor is the Jiang family's library.
The main room on the first floor is where my grandfather often gives lessons to his apprentices.
The two rooms on the east are the study rooms of Jiang Sui and Jiang Tong, and the two rooms on the west are shared by all the disciples in the family.
Nowadays, the two rooms on the east side remain basically as they were three years ago, while the furniture and furnishings of the two rooms on the west side have been slightly changed for the use of people who come to copy books.
Li Zian brought a total of twenty people to Shen Tianshu to help her copy books.
Fortunately, the Jiang family's study room is spacious, otherwise it would be difficult to accommodate so many people at once.
Wang Yuanjiu led the people to the place and said: "Mrs. Tong, you can read and copy the medical books upstairs and downstairs. However, I want to explain to you first that everything in the small building, except the copied paper, is the same. Not allowed to be taken out."
"Thank you, Mr. Wang." Shen Tianshu nodded naturally.
"You're welcome. When you finish reading the book, just put it on the desk in the main room. Someone will clean it up afterwards."
I don't know whether it was because he didn't have to watch here, or because Fan Yuru had taken care of it, but Wang Yuanjiu said goodbye and left.
Shen Tianshu first went to Jiang Sui's study, found the latest medical records before the accident and his own experience, took them out and handed them to the twenty people in the opposite room, and asked them to start copying.
After finding something for them to do, Shen Tianshu slowly climbed up the stairs.
There are no partitions on the second floor. It is a large room that runs through the whole room. Rows of bookshelves stand neatly. Even the arrangement of books on the bookshelves is exactly the same as in the previous life.
Shen Tianshu held back the tears that were about to burst out of his eyes, and ran his fingers across the rows of book spines on the bookshelf.
Unlike other children, she spent most of her childhood in this small building.
I could never finish memorizing medical records and copying endless punishments. Naturally, I had my doubts and complaints when I was young, but later I gradually became fond of it.
Regardless of whether they were unpleasant or pleasant memories at the time, entering Kyoto has become an out-of-reach happiness.
Sitting in the familiar rocking chair by the window, there was even a medical book on the small table at hand.
In such a familiar scene and environment, Shen Tianshu couldn't help but feel in a trance.
She even imagined that what happened before was just a long nightmare.
I just returned home from an ordinary outing, and the next moment I could hear my grandfather giving a lecture to everyone downstairs, or hear him calling me Tong'er with a smile.
Shen Tianshu closed his eyes tiredly and settled into the rocking chair, as if he had returned to his parents' arms.
The rocking chair rocked gently, shaking the crystal tears from the corners of her eyes...