Riding a horse to the Xuanting Marquis Mansion, the open Zhumen magnates gathered, and the visitors were endless, Bailiyan (Wei Xian) signaled Sikong Nan to stop outside the mansion, and he got off the horse and handed the name card to the servant who welcomed the guests.

"In the next decision, Wei Xian was invited to visit the Hou Ye and the princess, please give me a word."

The door man took the name card and glanced at it, and immediately smiled:

"It turned out that General Wei was coming, and I will go to Tongyu immediately, please wait for the general."

"Then there will be labor."

It should have been ordered by the Marquis of Xuanting, otherwise the door would not be so diligent.

After a while, an old man in his early fifties with a blue silk straight coat walked out behind the door, although he had never seen the Marquis of Xuanting himself, but this person would definitely not be the Marquis of Xuanting, nor would he be the elder of the Marquis of Xuanting, so he could only be the chief steward of the Hou Mansion.

The old man came quickly and saluted in front of him:

"Ma Qing, the steward of Xiahou Mansion, has seen General Wei."

"The horse steward is exempt from courtesy, and at the invitation of the Hou Ye, he came to the appointment, and asked the steward to pass it on."

"Yes, yes, General Wei, please follow the old man into the mansion."

Ma Qing was very polite, presumably Xuan Tinghou took care of it, otherwise how could he be so polite to receive a guest who came to the door for the first time.

Signaling Sikong Nan and the others to continue to stay outside the mansion and not make trouble, Bailiyan followed Ma Qing into the Hou Mansion.

Today, there are a lot of visitors, the front hall is crowded with guests visiting the Xuan Tinghou, the gifts are actually stacked directly under the verandah, and the account room is making a book, while driving the servants to move the gifts into the treasury.

Legend has it that the Marquis of Xuan Ting, who is greedy for money and is extremely greedy for money, but all the benefits are all accepted according to the order, and those who come will not refuse, and this is indeed the case today.

Bailiyan couldn't help but wonder why Jiang Hai's father married his daughter to such a leopard who regarded wealth as his life, and also made a marquis, which was suspected of transgressing the etiquette system.

Passing through the front hall, Ma Qing took a detour and didn't go to the front hall, Bai Liyan couldn't help asking:

"Steward Ma, shouldn't Master Hou entertain guests in the front hall, this seems to be going to the atrium."

Steward Ma smiled:

"What General Wei said is extremely true, the Hou Ye is indeed entertaining guests in the front hall, and it was the lady who ordered the general to be led to the backyard, and the others are unknown."

"Oh......" Bai Liyan replied softly, thinking that Princess Lanyuan had already recognized her son-in-law, otherwise she wouldn't be able to go straight to the backyard in broad daylight to see her.

The backyard belongs to a part of the inner house, and there are atrium and atrium after the front hall, the atrium is the highest etiquette for large families to receive VIP visitors, and the backyard belongs to the inner house, and outsiders are generally not allowed to enter.

All the way through the atrium, you can smell a quiet fragrance of flowers from afar, and the temperature in the North Sea is high in winter, so flowers bloom all year round, and winter is no exception.

Baili Yan doesn't know what kind of flower fragrance comes from, but few big families will plant trees with such a clear fragrance of flowers, like Princess Lanyuan's elegant taste and carefully cultivated famous flowers.

As soon as I stepped into the backyard, I could see that the corridor was standing in the center, and the two women were dressed in silk clothes and sat with their backs to Baili Yan'an, talking and laughing, and holding a piece of white silk tattooed in their hands, which couldn't help but give people a good impression of everyone's beautiful and gentle and virtuous lady. Bai Liyan turned to think that these two women should be Princess Lan Yuan and her daughter Qiao Fu'er.

Ma Qing saw that Baili Yan looked at the corridor with a divine light, so he said:

"Wait a minute, general, and go down to Mrs. and Miss Hou."

"Then there's Rauma in charge."

Ma Qing walked quickly towards the corridor, and when she saw Princess Lan Yuan, she bowed and said something, Princess Lan Yuan looked back at Bai Liyan, her eyebrows showed a little joy, and she said something to her daughter beside her, only to see Qiao Fu'er squirming with her back to Bai Liyan for a long time and not looking back, Princess Lan Yuan's face was even more joyful, and she came face to face with Ma Qing alone.

Seeing Princess Lan Yuan coming forward, Bai Liyan didn't dare to slack off, and walked a few steps forward to salute:

"Wei Xian has seen Her Royal Highness the Princess."

At this time, Princess Lan Yuan was full of elegant smiles, and she looked up and down for a long time, and her eyes were full of joy:

"General Wei is magnificent, and he is really handsome and extraordinary."

"The youthful elegance made Mrs. Hou smile."

After speaking, Bai Liyan took out a bag from his arms and handed it forward, and there was a weight the size of an orange falling in the bag, but the weight was much lighter than gold and silver.

"This is Wei Xian's little heart, and I hope Mrs. Hou will accept it with a smile."

"Huh...... General Wei is polite. ”

Such mundane things as receiving gifts are of course not done by members of the royal family with status such as Princess Lan Yuan. So with a look, Ma Qingxin, the steward on the side, stepped forward to take the bag handed by Bai Liyan, and he also felt puzzled in his heart.

Even though Princess Lan Yuan fell in love with Bai Liyan, she gave a bag of tips when she met for the first time, and she was embarrassed by the fact that Ma Qing, a general manager who had definitely seen the market.

He accepted the bag, and suddenly felt less heavy, thinking that it obviously wouldn't be gold or silver, but it didn't look like jade. Most of the jade objects are flat, or square and spherical with sharp edges and corners, and the objects of the brocade bag are a little round and irregular to the touch, and I really can't think of what it will be.

But don't worry, another wonderful thing about the host asking the subordinate to take the gift over is that the host opens the gift in front of the guests, which is really rude, the subordinate can peek twice in private, and then find an opportunity to reveal the news to the host, this is why Princess Lan Yuan wanted to let Ma Qing take the gift.

When Princess Lanyuan led Bailiyan to the courtyard, Ma Qing quickly opened the bag, looked down, but saw that there seemed to be nothing, but there must be something, so he opened the bag again, and faintly saw a transparent object lying in it, reached out and fished it out to take a closer look, and almost fell to the ground without being startled.

That's right, inside the bag is a round and irregular crystal. But not natural, it's artificial glass. Of course, nowadays no one knows that the ingredient of natural crystal is silica, which can be refined from quartz.

Come to the Hou Mansion on a blind date, send some gold and silver on the cheesy, where can the Hou Mansion lack a few tens of inch silver, if it is hundreds of thousands, Baili Yan is also reluctant, to send the most scarce, the most face-saving luxury, such as pearls, agate, crystal and jade, etc., among which crystal pearls are the most valuable.

A piece of crystal varies according to the size, as little as dozens of inches of gold, more than hundreds of thousands, directly send money seems tacky, where is the crystal so elegant. Of course, then again, it's just Bailiyan's opportunism.

Ma Qing carefully put the crystal into his bag, and couldn't help but think that this Wei Xian was so generous when he came to the door for the first time, no wonder Mrs. Hou appreciated it so much, she must have the means to reach the sky.

Princess Lan Yuan asked as she walked, asking mostly whether her parents were alive at home, what merits she had made in her military career, and she didn't forget to ask about the family affairs of Jiang Min, the Duke of Guangxin. In the end, he said that the county lord Jiang Rong said that her daughter was at a loss, and Bailiyan would treat her daughter well in the future.

Of course, this layer of words has not been said thoroughly, as a prospective mother-in-law, even if she has fallen in love with Baili Yan, but the business has not been finalized, first knock on the drum in Baili Yan's ears, and in the future, it will be good to listen to her words and watch her deeds, if she doesn't like it, Princess Lan Yuan can withdraw from this family business at any time with a thick old face.

After saying that for a long time, Princess Lan Yuan had been leading Baili Yan to stroll around the periphery of the backyard, allowing the county lord of Naqiao to sit in the corridor and peep secretly from afar.

At first, I glanced at it, my chest was like a rabbit jumping around, and I immediately blushed my cheeks with the spring tide, and when I was young, I bowed my head and silently embroidered two stitches of white silk in my hand, and then I looked at it silently, and the peach on my face was even more red.

Baili Yan seemed to be the chosen blind date, and was restrained by Princess Lan Yuan, so she couldn't take the opportunity to look at the eyes of the county lord of Qiao, so she could only let the county lord of Qiao cast her eyes from time to time, let her look at it, quite a bit like holding the pipa and half-covering her face.

After a long while, Princess Lan Yuan saw her daughter look at Baili Yan in the afterglow, and thought that her daughter must have intentionally fallen in love with him, so she said with a smile:

"General Wei thinks he's tired of walking, why don't you rest with me in the verandah for a while?"

"Mrs. Xie." Bai Liyan owed herself, thinking that it was finally time to get down to business.

Nowadays, under the constraints of feudal etiquette, most of the ladies are hidden in the deep house and do not show their faces easily, and they don't even go out of the house a few times a year, and there are few opportunities to contact strange men.

The vast majority of the ladies are like Lord Qiao, stealing spring desires in their hearts and not daring to cross the thunder pool by half a step, even if they are ordinary women, like Xiao Niang, if there is a better environment, how can it not be a small jasper-like girl.

When Lord Qiao heard the news that the footsteps were approaching, his chest thumped violently, and he blushed and moved his back again, wishing that there was a crack in the ground at this moment, for fear that the living would see her.

Princess Lan Yuan smiled without saying a word, her eyes swept across Bailiyan's face like a dragonfly, seeing that his eyes fell on his daughter, thinking that this marriage was also a match made in heaven, but he didn't expect his daughter to be able to fall in love with him at a glance.

Thinking of this, Princess Lan Yuan restrained her smile and said:

"Fu'er, there are guests at home, and I haven't seen General Wei yet."

"Mother...... "Lord Qiao said in a delicate voice with a twisted waist, his face was like a fire, the pink was red, and the red was as transparent as the jade beads.

Emotional Bailiyan has never seen such a posture, there is such a shame in the world that she dare not look at a woman, and she can't help but think in her heart, this can't be a pretentious "Dongshi" girl. However, Princess Lan Yuan is handsome, and she shouldn't be far from coming to Lord Qiao.