The Three Spirit Stones

The Earl's Mansion today is even more lively than during Chinese New Year!

Killing chickens and ducks, boiling water, cleaning, hanging red lanterns, the servants were all busy and happy with happy faces!

In the west side hall, three people were sitting around a table covered with food. Maids and servants were standing in a row under the corridor outside. Some of the brave ones were secretly watching them through the half-open windows.

When Ah Cai saw these dishes, she couldn't help but exclaim, "Ah! Finally I can eat something normal!"

Mrs. Cheng was amused by her. She felt that this daughter-in-law was not only beautiful and cute, but also could make people laugh to death with her words.

She kept picking up food for them and said, "If you like it, eat more. Come, try this, and this..."

Ah Cai quickly covered the bowl and said, "Mom, don't give me any food. Don't you know what I like to eat?"

She knew that she was picky about food and didn't want to waste food, so she didn't like others serving her food. Only Cheng Yu knew her taste habits.

Mrs. Cheng was stunned for a moment, and Cheng Yu quickly said, "Mom, don't worry about her. She has a very picky taste. Let her do it herself."

"Come on, eat something too, don't just focus on us,"

He picked up a piece of meat and put it in his mother's bowl. Mrs. Cheng immediately smiled with relief and put the meat into her mouth and tasted it carefully. She felt that the meat today was so delicious!

After eating and drinking, Ah Cai finally had the energy to look around her future home.

This house is very big. After walking a short distance from the main gate, you will enter a hanging flower gate, then walk through a large inner courtyard, and then to the main hall. There is a side hall on each side of the main hall. They are now in the side hall on the west side.

This side hall should be the place where people usually eat. In the middle is a square mahogany dining table inlaid with jade, and there are several paintings and calligraphy hanging on the wall. There is an antique shelf next to the wall with some antiques and porcelain on it. The windows are made of mahogany, arranged in auspicious lattice patterns of various styles. A layer of window paper is pasted on the mahogany lattice. The door is also a mahogany lattice door, with a thick door curtain embroidered with gold thread hanging on it.

Ah Cai felt it was very fresh, she felt like visiting the Forbidden City.

Look here, touch there, push down the window, and poke at the window paper.

Everyone thought Ah Cai was very fresh. A young girl went to her husband's house to meet her mother-in-law for the first time. She didn't look nervous or shy at all, and her clothes were strange.

She was there enjoying the scenery, and others treated her as the scenery.

Mrs. Cheng wanted to be alone with her son, so she asked him to take Ah Cai back to her own yard to bathe and change clothes.

After saying goodbye to his mother, Cheng Yu took Ah Cai back to his own yard.

Walking on the corridor, Ah Cai looked at the group of maids following behind and secretly asked Cheng Yu,

"Dad, oh no, husband,"

It is still difficult for her to change her name.

"Is your family very rich? Even richer than Sister Jin's family?"

"Why do you ask?"

"Your family has at least dozens of servants, but the Jin family only has seven or eight. How can you afford so many without money?"

Cheng Yu burst out laughing. How can we compare two different times like this?

The productivity here is backward, and everything has to be done by manpower. Moreover, human life is worthless here, and people will often risk their lives for a living.

This child who grew up in a honey pot!

Cheng Yu was in a good mood today and wanted to tease her, so he said, "Actually, my family has more than just a few dozen servants. We also have several farms and more than a dozen shops. There are hundreds of these servants in total."

Ah Cai opened her mouth in surprise.

He continued, "I don't know if my family is richer than the Jin family, but my family is definitely more powerful than his family."

"My father is an earl, a third-class title. In our place before us, he would be considered a founding general. What do you think? Is he impressive?"

Ah Cai's eyes sparkled with excitement. She said in surprise, "How amazing! So you are the son of an official!!!"

Cheng Yu found it very funny!

This guy is very biased in his studies. He only studies science and engineering and does not learn history. You should know that many titles in the Northern Song Dynasty were honorary titles, and whether one has power or not depends on what department he works in.

The two walked along the corridor and turned the corner. Suddenly, the view in front of them opened up. It turned out to be a garden.

There is a row of willow trees planted in the garden, and next to the willow trees is a pond. A rockery was built on the side of the pond near the corridor, and there are more than a dozen withered lotus leaves in the pond!

"…Wow! It's so big! Your house is so big!"

Seeing this garden, Ah Cai exclaimed in amazement again!

"How big is your house?"

"About three acres of land!"

"Three acres??? That's more than 1,700 square meters!"

Acai was calculating in her head. A square meter of a house in S city would cost at least 20,000 or 30,000 yuan. It might be more valuable in the capital of Bianjing. This house is more than 1,700 square meters, so it would cost at least 40 or 50 million yuan!

Wow! Get rich!

"Maybe!"

"Dad, oh no, husband,"

She suddenly came up to Cheng Yu and hugged his arm, saying like a little pug trying to please its master, "So you are the real rich man. From now on, I have to hold on to your thigh tightly."

This made Cheng Yu laugh out loud. He picked her up and said, "Okay, then you have to hold me tight, we are going to fly now."

After saying that, he picked her up and ran, and she was so happy that she giggled like a string of silver bells!

……

The two returned to the courtyard where Cheng Yu had lived before. Mrs. Cheng had people clean this courtyard every now and then. She was afraid that if her son suddenly came back, he would not be able to get used to living in a dirty courtyard.

In this life, she finally got what she wanted!

There is a stone screen when you enter the courtyard, and behind the screen is a patio with two side rooms on the east and west sides. After walking through the patio is the main hall, with an ear room on each side, a study on the left, a bedroom on the right, and a small kitchen, servants' room and bathroom.

Ah Cai looked at the main hall, which was furnished in a similar manner to the side hall where she had eaten before, with the exception of an extra bed. Then she went to look at the bedroom, which had a bunk bed.

When Cheng Yu saw the bed he had slept in since he was a child, he felt a sense of familiarity and immediately lay down on it.

"Is this your boudoir?" Ah Cai asked

Cheng Yu smiled and said, "Women's rooms are called boudoirs, while men's rooms are called rooms."

"Oh, then this will be my boudoir from now on,"

Cheng Yu: …

"Where is the toilet?" she asked again.

He got up and took her behind the screen, where there was a urine bucket, and pointed at it and said, "This,"

"...This???" She couldn't believe it. "Sleeping in front? Peeing in the back?"

"Uh..., it's always been like this,"

He doesn't feel well now.

"...Take it out, now, right now,"

Ah Cai was a little angry.

"Okay, okay, I'll have it taken away."

After saying that, he called someone in to take away the urine bucket.

A maid named Dongmei came in and took away the urine bucket. She was wondering if she didn't put the urine bucket in the room, would she have to run out to pee in the middle of the night?

"Where's the poop?"

Ah Cai suddenly realized that there was an important question.

"Um..., outside,"

Cheng Yu said with a guilty conscience,

Then, he took her to an inconspicuous corner outside, where there was a simple hut made of wooden boards.

This hut is supported by four wooden pillars, with a vat underneath. People squat on it and poop into the vat. When it is almost full, someone will take it out to make fertilizer.

This kind of toilet is cool in winter and warm in summer, and waste is recycled and not wasted...

Acai is a little bit collapsed!

Where are the rich people? Is this kind of toilet a standard for rich people?

"Ah~~," she grabbed Cheng Yu's collar, stamped her feet and shouted, "I will never poop in this toilet~~"

Cheng Yu grabbed her little hand and said with amusement and embarrassment, "I'll have someone clear out a room and get you two clean toilets. Don't be angry! Don't be angry!"

"Right away, immediately,"

"Okay, okay,"

The maids and servants in the courtyard were all shocked to see the new lady yelling at their prince, pulling and tugging at him, but the prince was not angry at all and kept trying to coax her with a smile.

In this feudal society where men are superior to women, which wife or concubine would dare to treat her husband like this?

Everyone thought that this new lady was incredible!

Cheng Yu finally managed to coax Ah Cai into the bathroom to take a bath.

There is a screen in the bathroom, and behind the screen is a wooden barrel filled with hot water and sprinkled with many flower petals.

She didn't have much of an issue with the bathroom, but she disliked the petals being in the way, so she had them all fished out.

Before taking a shower, she took out the things in her backpack in the bedroom.

Cheng Yu walked over to see what she brought?

There were several sets of underwear, face cream, hand cream, lipstick, a mirror, seven or eight bars of soap, a dozen toothbrushes, five or six tubes of toothpaste, a bottle of shampoo, a large bundle of ballpoint pens, a fountain pen, two bottles of ink, two notebooks, seven or eight packs of tissues and other daily necessities.

Moreover, she even brought her cell phone back with her. He asked her, "Why did you bring your cell phone back? There is no battery here."

"I know, so I brought two fully charged power banks,"

"I mean, if the power bank runs out, your phone is useless,"

"I have to bring it with me. I feel uncomfortable without my phone."

Well, it’s a common problem among modern kids – being addicted to mobile phones.

She took the toiletries to the bathroom, and the maid brought them some clean clothes and asked them to stay in the bathroom to serve her, but they were not used to it and asked everyone to leave.

Cheng Yu really wanted to take a bath together, but he was afraid that he could not control himself. He had just returned and had not paid homage to his ancestors yet, but he was already committing adultery in broad daylight. If his mother knew about it, he would definitely be scolded.

After they washed and changed their clothes, he sent Ah Cai back to the bedroom to rest. It was already afternoon.

He planned to tell a huge lie to his mother!