Si Xi said, "Hmm, then I'll go back and report to Mr. Feng exactly as it happened. Fifth Master, I take my leave."
The carriage sped off, and Chen Jie, followed by Xiao Hu, entered the courtyard. It was then that Xiao Hu remarked, "Master, this courtyard is really nice, much better than our house at home; it's all built with blue bricks. Look at these walls."
Xiao Hu excitedly slapped the blue brick courtyard walls.
Back in Xiantao Village, Chen Jie's home had a fence made of tree branches, and the house itself was made of yellow mud with a thatched roof on top—it was quite modest.
But the small courtyard given by Peng Shizhong was all constructed with blue bricks; it wasn't big, but it had style.
Xiao Hu was thrilled. Xiao Hu had seen impressive houses before—the White Tiger Hall was certainly grand, yet Xiao Hu felt no attachment to it. But this modest courtyard, at most just not rudimentary, made Xiao Hu overjoyed beyond measure.