Cao Yun and his party came by boat, but when they were turning to the Wei River, they changed the boat once, and changed from a large passenger ship of 1,000 stone to a medium passenger ship of 500 stone. After arriving at the Wei River Wharf in Jingzhao Prefecture, they then took a carriage and entered the city. The various suitcases and cages they carried were handed over to Zhang Ying and others to carry.

Afterwards, Li Yanqing learned that Zhang Ying had rented a total of fifty donkey carts before loading her luggage, which did not include Cao Yun's treasured books. She was ready to pack nearly 20,000 books and then sent to the shop to Jingzhao.

"Husband, Jingzhao is not bad, I feel that it is not much worse than Jingzhao City?" Cao Yun looked at the street scene with great enthusiasm all the way. Obviously, Jingzhao City's Mansion should be a backward small county town in her heart.

Li Yanqing rode his horse and followed the carriage and said with a smile: "This is still the time when Jingzhao was in decline. If you see Jingzhao Mansion during the Tang Dynasty, then you should be amazed."

Cao Yun curled his lips, "Isn't it Chang'an? Do you think I have never seen the layout of Chang'an city structure!"

"My wife has even such picture scrolls?"

"I didn't, but I saw it from my grandfather. It was also a foreign object that had been trampled from the palace to the people in the late Tang Dynasty. It was preserved for a hundred or two years. It cost 5,000 guan to buy it."

Li Yanqing nodded, "How is the old man's health?"

"It's pretty good. I haven't had an old problem of heartache this year. Doctor Zhao said that he can only rest and not engage in strenuous activities. By the way, when we set off, he, his uncle and father also took a boat to Hangzhou."

Li Yanqing knew that the old man must have visited the land in Phoenix Mountain. The land had been bought by the Cao family at a high price at the beginning of the year, covering an area of ​​about 3,000 acres, including the entire Phoenix Mountain.

The land was not for making money, but a kind of political investment. Once the Song Dynasty really moved the capital to Hangzhou, the land should be the place of the imperial palace. The old man who had not left the capital for more than ten years also took a boat south, which shows the importance of this investment.

"Husband, is the Song and Jin dynasties really going to fight?" Cao Yun asked worriedly.

"It shouldn't be able to fight this year, there will definitely be conflicts, but it will be hard to say in the next two years."

Li Yanqing knew the fuse of the Song-Jin War, and the Zhangjue incident in Pingzhou would break out in the past two months. Of course, when the Jin Kingdom attacked the Song Kingdom, the key is to look at the progress of the war between the Xixia and the Jin Kingdom.

In this regard, Li Yanqing's intelligence was very sharp. After the beginning of spring, Wanyan Zongwang and Wanyan Zonghan each led a 50,000 army to attack Yunzhou. It depends on whether the Western Xia army could hold on. If it could not hold on, Xixia would likely surrender to the Jin Kingdom and become a vassal of the Jin Kingdom. At that time, the Jin Kingdom would turn around and attack Song.

For this reason, Li Yanqing wrote to the court in March as early as possible, hoping that the court would realize the seriousness of this problem, put pressure on the Jin Kingdom from the east, and relieve the pressure on the Xixia. However, his proposal was rarely rejected by Cai Jing and Wang Fu, and the court must not destroy the alliance between the Song and Jin Kingdom.

Even though Gao Qiu, the Privy Councilor who had just entered the prime minister, was willing to help Li Yanqing and send the memorial directly into the palace, it still had no effect. Emperor Song Zhao Ji's opinion was completely consistent with Wang Fu. He wanted to protect the hard-won peace, and never disrupt the alliance and provoke a war between the Song and Jin Dynasties.

This result made Li Yanqing quite regretful. Seeing that he could not help Xixia, he could only hope that Xixia could perform exceptionally and withstand the sharp attack of the Jin Kingdom.

"Husband, will the war affect Jingzhao?" This is Guo Sisi's concern. She now has a daughter and is also concerned about national affairs intentionally or unintentionally.

"There will be no problem for the time being, as long as they defend Tongguan and Pujin Pass, they cannot attack, and Taiyuan is very dangerous."

"Where is the Daming Mansion?" Hu Qing'er, who had not spoken, couldn't help but ask.

Li Yanqing quickly interrupted their questions, "War is just my guess. I don't know if you three are you. Don't worry about it."

While talking, five carriages arrived at Xinguan House and slowly stopped in front of the gate. This time, Cao Jiaojiao, Li Yanqing's stepmother Yang, and sister Baoniang also came with Cao Yun and the others.

Jiaojiao wanted to be with her sister, but the old man agreed to her request for the first time. The little girl's heart became wild and she sneaked out to play all day long. Perhaps her sister could control her. As for Yang and Baoniang, it was Li Daqi's arrangement.

The war broke out between the Jin Dynasty and the Western Xia, which made the capital a little panic. Some wealthy families have begun to gradually evacuate their families to the south. Li Daqi is also starting to transfer Baoyanzhai. He is planning to move Baoyanzhai headquarters to Hangzhou at the end of the year or early next year, and send his wife and daughter to his son in advance. This is also a kind of self-protection for Li Daqi.

In addition to the three of them, there were nearly twenty servants, who were willing to follow their mistress to Jingzhao. After all, Jingzhao is also a big place, and the mistress is willing to pay twice the wages, which is enough to attract these servants to follow.

Li Yanqing took his son Xiao Baolang from his wife. His son has been seven months old and has a quiet personality. He is still a little afraid of his father. He put his head aside and pursed his mouth to cry. Cao Yun quickly coaxed him, and the little guy finally let his father hug him.

But her daughter A Lian was very lively. She had just been ten months old and understood a little bit and knew that the person in front of her was her father, which made her very happy. As soon as Li Yanqing held her into her arms, she hugged her father's neck and kissed her heavily on her face, making Li Yanqing laugh.

"Jiaojiao, Baoniang, let's go into the mansion!"

Cao Jiaojiao and Baoniang were extremely excited. They held hands and set off in front of them. Li Yanqing hugged a pair of children and walked towards the mansion.

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Cao Yun entered the house. As a housewife, she needed to have a rough understanding of the structure of the house. Although she heard from her husband that the house covers an area of ​​fifteen acres, of which five acres are water surface, Cao Yun still wanted to see it with his own eyes.

The entrance is a screen wall, the left is the lower room, and the right is the functional area, such as the kitchen, cellar, warehouse, livestock shed, etc., all in this area.

Bypassing the screen wall and entering a round door, you will be the atrium. There is a circle of corridors around the atrium, and in the middle is a thick plum tree. Look at the rough skin of the trunk. This big tree has a history of at least a hundred years. It is made of bluestone around to protect the big tree. The ground is covered with pebbles, and the dragon and phoenix patterns are also made of pebbles. There are stone tables and benches on one side, and the sides are planted with holly, roses, welcoming spring, wintersweet and other shrubs and flower branches.

The red plums have not yet bloomed, but they have already formed buds. The two wintersweets are blooming brightly, and the light yellow wintersweets are like jade, making the entire courtyard filled with a faint fragrance.

On the north side of the atrium is the main living room, with ordinary living rooms and noble living rooms on both sides. In the east corner is a moon gate that directly leads to the back house. On both sides of the atrium, the son should be living alone after he got married, but now it is arranged as the residence of his stepmother Yang, and on the other side is the personal military barracks.

Li Yanqing thought it through very carefully. The black painted door of his stepmother Yang's residence is currently locked and he must enter and exit through the side door of the back house.

Cao Yun walked around the big tree flower bed, then looked at the main living room, and the furniture was complete. She then entered the back house from the side door next to her. As soon as she entered the back house, Cao Yun's eyes lit up. A small river actually appeared in front of her. The river was winding and snaked, passing through the entire back house, and finally poured into a very small lake.

The lake water looks like a peach, with weeping willows planted on both sides, and various pavilions and towers were built. The entire back house is built around this lake. There are about four yards, and there are bridges connected between the yard and the yard. Below the bridge is a small river. The river is divided into four tributaries and flows into the lake from the four yards.

But at this time, the lake and the river were covered with a thick layer of ice. I saw Cao Jiaojiao and Li Baoyan skating on the ice, and laughter resounded throughout the back house.

"Sister, come!"

Hu Qing'er was waving to Cao Yun excitedly by the lake. Cao Yun walked across the small stone bridge and came to Hu Qing'er, and asked with a smile: "You ran fast, what did you find?"

Hu Qing'er pointed to a stone tablet and smiled and said, "There is a stone tablet here, it turns out that this place is called Taohu!"

When Cao Yun saw the two big words Taohu engraved on the stone tablet, he couldn't help but shake his head, "It's better to call Taohu than to call it Xinhu!"

A strange color flashed in Hu Qing'er's eyes, "Why didn't I expect that the shapes of peach and heart are not the same? I turned around and told my elder brother and changed the name."

At this time, Cao Jiaojiao in the lake shouted: "Da Shuniang, there is still a pavilion here!"

The pavilion in the middle of the lake is of course the pavilion in the middle of the lake. A long stone bridge connects the pavilion to the shore. The two little ladies have climbed up the pavilion and jumped and jumped inside the pavilion.

Cao Yun was too lazy to pay attention to them, so he hurriedly walked towards his stepmother Yang's yard. Yang's yard was actually the east courtyard of the atrium, but the gate of the atrium was locked and he needed to enter and exit from the inner house.

Like the atrium, the inner house is a long corridor against the wall, with eaves on the corridor, which connects everyone's residences. The first door from the left is the Yang family's yard, which has seven or eight houses, with Yang family mother and daughter and four maids living.

Yang was packing some of the items she carried with her in the room, and her luggage was also behind and had not been delivered yet.

"Step Mother!" Cao Yun shouted in the yard, and Yang hurriedly walked out.

Yang is nominally Cao Yun’s mother-in-law, but not exactly so they are very polite to each other.

Cao Yun smiled and said, "Look at what else is missing in the room. The official asked me to write a list for him."

Yang looked back and laughed, "I have all the basic household items, and I have brought some special things, basically nothing is missing. Anyway, there are tiles not far away, so it is very convenient to buy them. I am going to go shopping with Qing'er. Jiaojiao and Baoniang must also go with me. Should Yunniang go with us?"

Cao Yun is a lady from a famous family. Yang respects her more and has almost no personal friendship. Sisi is noble and arrogant and has a relatively weak relationship with Yang. However, Yang and Qing'er are both from poor families and can easily talk about each other. The two have a deep relationship.

Cao Yun smiled and said, "I may also have to arrange a maid's residence. I don't have time today, so let's go together another day!"

"That's right, you are the busiest today, so I won't bother you anymore. You can go and do it first! Let me tell you what I need here."

"Then I'll go there first."
Chapter completed!