“The Young Master is back!”
“The Young Master is back!”
After several years, it seemed that Huo Lindong’s servants had never left. Their attitudes were respectful and humble, but their faces were no longer consistent with the ones in Huo Lindong’s memory.
The Duke’s Mansion is still the same as before. As the highest-ranking Duke who was entrusted to Wuhe Province, the Duke’s Mansion was used to extravagance. Even the knocking door at the capital was made of pure gold.
Although the Xiao family began to gradually withdraw from the power center of the Jin Dynasty in the generation of Duke Xiao, they were the descendants of the founding heroes after all.
Compared with those direct descendants of meritorious officials who relied on their past favors to point fingers at the royal family, it was the Xiao family who were more valued and trusted by the Emperor.
Every emperor was not stingy about showing the royal family’s tolerance and kindness to the Xiao family and would always bestow favors during festivals. Therefore, even the governor of Wuhe Province must respect the Xiao family. In this land, the Xiao family’s life was extremely carefree.
Although the current Xiao family was still extravagant and grand, it still vaguely revealed a bit of desolation and decay.
Huo Lindong looked coldly at the maids and mamas who were hiding in the corner watching the fun, as well as the withered leaves that were blown down by the wind but were not swept away in time. The management of the servants of the Duke’s Mansion became quite loose.
When that woman was in charge of the Xiao family, no maid would dare to be so bold and run around the mansion while on duty.
Huo Lindong thought about it. It seemed that the situation in the mansion was worse than he had previously guessed.
He didn’t know what happened so that the three masters in the mansion couldn’t spare the time to supervise the servants in the mansion, and even the chief steward and others were slacking off a lot.
“Young Master, the residence for you and your uncle’s family has been prepared. Before I set off, the Old Duke specially asked this servant to clean up Jingyang Courtyard. All the items inside are things that you, the Eldest Young Master, once liked. Young Master’s uncle and father-in-law will live in Lixiang Courtyard. I have prepared maids and mamas to serve the Young Master’s uncle and father-in-law. They will not neglect them.”
It was a long and dusty journey. The Old Duke was in poor health, and the sky was already dark. It was really inconvenient to go over and pay him a visit right now.
Therefore, the second steward arranged for Huo Lindong and others to wash up and have a meal first, and then they could go to the Old Duke’s place to pay their respects early the next morning.
Jingyang Courtyard is the courtyard of the Duke, who is the heir apparent of the Duke’s Mansion. It is the most beautiful courtyard in the entire Duke’s Mansion. It not only has an independent peach forest, but also an artificially dug lake. In spring and summer, the peach blossoms in the forest are in full bloom, which is so beautiful.
After the great-old Duke passed away, this courtyard became the Old Duke’s. After moving to the main courtyard, it was sealed up. The Old Duke planned to move back to Jingyang Courtyard in his later years for retirement. Therefore, even if his legitimate son and grandson of the family were born, the Old Duke was not willing to give up this courtyard.
As for Lixiang Courtyard, it is a little out of the way, but the advantage is that the yard is large enough and comfortable to live in.
After all, Huo An and others could not be considered real relatives of the Duke family, especially since Huo An, Jiang Baozong, and Diao Jindong were still foreign men.
There are many concubines living in the Duke’s mansion. If they are too close to each other, they will inevitably be suspected of being suspicious.
This arrangement was very appropriate, and no one could find anything wrong with it.
“If the Eldest Young Master needs something, just ask the maid to come to the main courtyard and inform this servant. This servant will definitely arrange the matter properly.”
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Start from today, Monday, March 4th until Sunday, March 10th.
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