Chapter 11: Hoya House

Cheng's inner courtyard.
Although the inner courtyard has the word "yard", it is not as simple as a mere courtyard.
The Cheng family is located in the northwest corner of Yunfeng City, occupying almost one-fifth of the entire Yunfeng City.
And in such a large boundary, seven became the outer courtyard of the Cheng family, and the third achievement was the inner courtyard of the Cheng family.
The outer courtyard is so vast that it can already be regarded as a faintly independent small town. Even the outer courtyard is surrounded by a not-so-small family-protecting city wall.
And the people living in the outer courtyard are roughly the nursing home, the chariot servant, the accountant who settles the rent and sale of various fields, and the subordinates who do hard work.
As for the inner courtyard, the Cheng family and their close servants naturally live.
The Cheng family has flourished and multiplied in Yunfeng City for five generations. As a large family of Wang people, there are naturally many Dingkou families, but most of the distant collateral families have been sent out of the Cheng family to live in other parts of Yunfeng City.
Only relatives within three generations remained in the Cheng family's inner courtyard.
This was decided by Cheng Qingfeng, the previous generation of Patriarch of the Cheng family.
Just like many other big families, as long as the longest and strongest in the family are still alive, then the relatives of his generation are still family members and will live together.
But as long as the old Patriarch passes away, then a major cleanup will begin, leaving only the close relatives of the contemporary Patriarch at home.
This is also a way for large families to keep the population from being too large to make ends meet.
Therefore, in the inner courtyard of the Cheng family today, there are close to two hundred children in the three generations of the Cheng family.
It's just that the status and identity of this one are far behind.
Those who are close to the contemporary patriarchs naturally have a higher status and status, and those with a slightly distant blood relationship are less appreciated, and sometimes their status is not as good as that of a maid like Cong Zhu.
However, even the Cheng family, the lowest-ranked and least valued relatives, would have one or two callers, so counting, the Cheng family's inner courtyard should have no fewer than five hundred people.
And the large and complex inner courtyard structure often makes people who come back for the first time dizzy.
Countless houses and terraces, countless garden water pavilions.
The strange mountains and rocks are hidden, the trails and trees are all quiet, and the end is dazzling.
Of course, as a big family based on martial arts, here you can see more of the training grounds, there are quiet and clean places, and there are also empty martial arts grounds. "Boy, are you dizzy?"
Cheng Yuan dragged Cheng Hao all the way inward. Seeing that he hadn't uttered a word or swept left and right, he was immediately satisfied, ready to raise a few words.
"Remember from now on, don’t rush to places you shouldn’t go, don’t provoke people who shouldn’t provoke. Your world is just next to Master Ziang. Take care of a good master, and the master may be rewarded if he is happy. , Enough for your family to eat and drink for several years!"
Cheng Hao nodded slightly.
Unlike what Cheng Yuan said, he was really not dizzy. Not only was he not dizzy, but he also clearly remembered the structure of the Cheng family's inner courtyard he had seen in his mind.
Now even without Cheng Yuan leading the way, he alone can easily walk back to the east gate of the inner courtyard.
This is the advantage of the powerful spirit.
After following Cheng Yuan around for a while, he finally reached the center of the inner courtyard.
He stopped in front of a house full of green bamboos.
"This is the house of Young Master Ziang. I'll go to the door and give you a call. You have to go in by yourself."
Cheng Yuan dragged Cheng Hao aside, and whispered: "If you become successful in the future, don't forget that I brought you into the inner courtyard today."
"Naturally I dare not forget. Even Cheng Cheng's family was chosen by Yuan Guan."
"Huh?" Cheng Yuan was taken aback after hearing this, what else?
As a subordinate officer, when was he responsible for selecting people? That's all the work done by subordinates.
"You may not remember Yuan Guanshi. I am the little beggar you brought back from the street last year."
Hearing what Cheng Hao said, Cheng Yuan really had a little impression.
It was on the third day of the New Year's Eve at the beginning of last year. It was snowing heavily. As a servant, he rarely had a day off and could return to his home in Yunfeng City to accompany his relatives.
In that year, Cheng Bozhan, the head of the Cheng family, was happy, so he rewarded almost all the managers of the Cheng family's inner and outer courtyards with a large sum of money, and allowed them to each have a day off.
So the excited Cheng Yuan drank a few sips of wine with several inner courtyard stewards at noon, and left Cheng's house at 10 o'clock in the evening and walked towards his own home.
It was at that time, in the thick snow of Long Street, he saw Cheng Hao, who was squatting among the beggars and begging.
Because he was in a good mood, he kindly came up for a while and took Cheng Hao back to Cheng's house for a job.
Fortunately, this was the case. Otherwise, with the cold and heavy snow at the beginning of the spring that year, Cheng Hao would not survive the next year.
Calculating from this, Cheng Yuan can really be said to save Chenghao's life.
But of course, the current Cheng Hao is no longer the Cheng Hao he used to be, and he is not really grateful to Cheng Yuan because of this. The main reason for saying this is to have a relationship with the subordinate officer of the foreign court.
In order to facilitate future cultivation, Cheng Hao must still leave Cheng's home to exercise.
After entering the inner courtyard, it is naturally different from staying in the outer courtyard.
When he was still in the outer courtyard, he stayed in the lower ward at the stables.
The so-called subordinate houses are not actually a place where they live together, but are scattered in various locations in the outer courtyard according to the work of subordinates.
And because Cheng Hao's stables had to raise horses, it was set up in a large open space outside the wall of the Cheng's outer courtyard.
You have to look into it carefully. In fact, the counsel house under the stable can't be considered as part of the Cheng family, and it is precisely because of this that he can leave at any time to go outside.
Otherwise, with Cheng Hao's current method, it would be a problem to leave the gate of Cheng's house.
Put the soul mark on Cong Zhu, the maid at the east gate of the inner courtyard, and draw Cheng Yuan a little bit, then it will be much less difficult for him to leave the Cheng family in the future.
It's not that Cheng Hao didn't want to plant a soul mark on Cheng Yuan. It was really impossible to do so at present.
As a steward, Cheng Yuan also had the cultivation base of a martial artist, and he was also a middle-rank martial artist, which was beyond the control of Cheng Hao today.
Cheng Yuan's heart moved slightly when he heard Cheng Hao's words. This little servant was obviously grateful to him. If he can use it properly, then maybe there will be something he can use in the future.
Don't think that Cheng Ziang is already a useless person, but that is only a useless person in the eyes of the Cheng family, and in front of his little servant, he is still the master!
One sentence can determine his life and death, the rich and noble master!
And Cheng Hao is now Cheng Ziang’s servant, this...