Bai Liyan understood at this time that Lu Jia was provoking him and sowing discord. He decisively sank down, his face was spicy, and he reprimanded sharply:

"Shut up! Ben Hou is loyal and dutiful to the king, why does Xian Guo want to harm Ben Hou, it is clear that you are sowing discord. If you say such vicious words again, don't blame Benhou for driving you out of the house. ”

Lu Jia was unmoved, straightened the sleeves of his robe, and said calmly:

"It's not that this is alarmist, but that's true. Yongxing Hou covers the sky with one hand, Xihuan does not allow Your Excellency, the prince can tolerate Your Excellency, who can Yongxing Hou count on to help at that time, is King Zhi? He is old, and the prince is a brave man. In the face of the siege of the Jin Kingdom, the Xian Kingdom, and the Song Kingdom, he was still too busy to take care of himself, so why provoke the Jin State for the sake of Your Excellency.

Looking at the world, only I am willing to help you to maintain your dignity forever, Yongxing Hou may wish to weigh his own power, this envoy will leave today, and he will come again another day. ”

Lu Jia stood up and saluted and retreated, and Bai Liyan said unhappily:

"Don't send it!"

"Hehe......"

Lu Jia smiled calmly, giving people the feeling of being completely sure that he could eat you, and Bai Liyan saw it in his eyes, and his face still pretended to be annoyed and angry.

After he left, Zhou Kong came up from the back hall and whispered:

"The dog thing is really bold, and he actually came to the door to sow discord in broad daylight."

"Hmph, ignore him, even if he is clever and clever, it will not help."

"But what he said still has some truth, Xihuan and the prince have to guard against it." Zhou Kong said worriedly, leaned down and leaned beside Bai Liyan and said, "I don't want you and the children to have any strengths and weaknesses. ”

Bai Liyan stretched out her hand and climbed on Zhou Kong's shoulder, and whispered comfortingly:

"Don't worry, it won't be that day."

"Well, I believe you."

Xihuan has always been a threat, and the prince's situation is becoming more and more incomprehensible.

Bailiyan is now focusing more on expanding the economic market and holding more economic power in his hands, and it doesn't matter if other superficial rights are really given up when he is forced to do so. What really worries Bai Liyan is that in the environment of human rule, it is common for monarchs to abolish the law, and it will be a tricky thing for Jiang Yu to turn back history after he comes to power and seizes power.

Xianwang Jiang Hai was born in troubled times, how can he have his own environmental limitations, and Jiang Yu is basically not, what he inherited is a great river and mountain, if you take it for granted that Bailiyan can do it, others can also do it, and it will become inevitable to reverse history.

Around the time of Mo Shen, Wei Qi rushed back to the Hou Mansion, and Bai Lifang was reluctantly invited back to his home.

"Is there anything Daddy is looking for Fang'er?" Bai Lifang looked at the sky with her cheeks puffed out, looking like someone owed her a debt.

Bai Liyan shook his head, quite a feeling of hating iron but not steel, if it was his son, he would have done it a long time ago.

"You've always wandered around in disguise like a man, and you don't know how to keep some women's ways. Look at your sisters, they are all more sensible than you. ”

"Doesn't Dad often say that men and women are equal, what's wrong with me going out for a walk. Oh, I know, Dad is looking at Fang'er as an eyesore, and thinks Fang'er is married, right? ”

Baili Fang's mouth was unobstructed, and Baili Yan's eyes rolled angrily:

"As you don't know how to be polite, which in-laws in the world dare to ask you to be a daughter-in-law, and you don't restrain yourself."

Bai Lifang ignored Bai Liyan's face and said:

"Hmph, I don't want to get married, what's wrong with being happy all your life."

"If you are a woman, you must do your best to give birth to children and raise women, and it is disrespectful not to have children. You are happy and happy alone, and when you are old, you are ready to be alone until you are old. ”

"Can I hire someone, can't I hire someone to be happy with me if I have money?"

"How dare you talk back!"

Bai Liyan was angry, Bai Lifang was a little scared, and hurriedly hid behind Xu Wei and said:

"That's it, is there anything you can't do if you have money?"

"What do you know, your father and your mother will die sooner or later, there is no man in the family, who will you rely on in the future, how do you know that you will not fall into the middle of the family in the future. Now I know every day that when I go crazy, your mother poured you in. From today on, without my permission, I am not allowed to leave the Hou Mansion at a step, and whoever dares to step out will be discounted for my father. ”

The next moment he looked at Xu Wei, he said again:

"Xu Yan, you are also so old, don't you know how to let Miss be more restrained. From today onwards, you will show me her, and if she runs away, I will take you to ask for her guilt. ”

"Hehe, I only listen to the eldest lady at home, and your words don't count."

Xu Yan pretended to be stupid and was stunned, and took out Jiang Rong as a shield, Bailiyan was really angry:

"Do your thing, the eldest lady has me to say."

Xu Rong, this loach, the older he gets, the more slippery he becomes, he has been snorting silently for decades, only Jiang Rong is the first to do things, Jiang Rong's orders are holy decrees, and Bailiyan's words are regarded as the wind in his ears. Jiang Rong herself was profligate in her early years, and her adopted daughter was also profligate, thanks to Jiang Rong's trapping him Bailiyan back then, and if she was a bystander, she would have been beaten to death earlier.

After the cabinet meeting broke up the next day, Bai Liyan privately reported Lu Jia's affairs to King Xian in detail, and the part about the crown prince and Xihuan was slightly embellished, so that the internal contradictions could not be superficialized. King Xian's attitude was ambiguous, and he did not give further instructions, but his expression was quite serious, and it should not be difficult to understand what Bai Liyan wanted to convey to him indirectly.

After Bai Lifang was grounded, Xiang, Xuan, and Caiyun were banned from going out at home from the school circle. On June 30, the Dragon and Phoenix Meeting was held as scheduled in the Yongxing Hou Mansion, nominally the two families of Luhou and Yongxing, Princess Lanyuan did not want to miss the opportunity to bring her children and grandchildren to the meeting.

The reason why Xuanting Hou Qiaolian did not arrive, on the one hand, Qian Fang was busy, this slave of money was more willing to look at the color of money, although Princess Lanyuan was beautiful like a fairy back then, but she couldn't withstand the ravages of the mask of the years, and now she is an old pearl and a yellow pig and a dog, and in recent years, her daughter has supported her, and her face has become more and more ugly. On the other hand, Qiao Lian can't be the master, whether he comes or not, he can only cause trouble for Princess Lan Yuan, so it's better not to come.

Yongxing Mansion is extremely lively outside, the carriages and horses are endless, there are both riding horses and dressing up gracefully, there are also sitting on four wheels "luxury car", if you study carefully, it is not difficult to find that they are all luxury vehicles produced in Yongxing City.

Xue Chong, the Marquis of Lu, and his brother Xue Cheng brought a group of Xue children and nephews to visit, and Bai Liyan and Jiang Rong and Qiao County Lord's Mansion greeted each other:

"The care of Luhou and Zhonghou Huiran made the house shine, and Yan Bei felt flattered, and there was a courtesy here."

Baili Yan bowed and saluted, Jiang Rong and Qiao County's husband and wife competed to salute, Lu Hou, Zhong Hou and others were busy saluting in return, Lu Hou Xue Chong said:

"Yongxinghou is really polite, today is the old man's trouble, but Yongxinghou is happy to come out to greet him in person, and the old man really doesn't want to go."

On the side, Zhonghou Xue Cheng took over and said:

"What the eldest brother said is very true, I think it is better to hurry up and give the gift."

"Hmm." Lu Hou twisted his white beard and nodded, his eyes turned to the middle-aged man beside him, who was dressed in blue brocade and dark skin, and said, "Yi'er, I will get a gift for my father soon." ”

"No."

Xue is also the eldest son of Xue Chong, the Marquis of Lu, and is Chinese New Year's Eve four years old today. Xue Chong also has a second son, Xue Jiang, who is thirty-two years old at the age of Chinese New Year's Eve. Xue also has two sons, the eldest son Xue Shu is 15 years old this year, and the second son Xue Ding is 12 years old this year. The second son, Xue Jiang, has many sons and daughters, but he is still young.

Zhonghou Xue Cheng also has two sons and many daughters, the eldest son Xue Ping is twenty-seven this year, has three wives and concubines, and has four children, only the second son Xue Song was born and raised late, just and crowned, twenty-one this year, and has not yet married a wife.

The main targets of this Dragon and Phoenix Club are Xue Chong's eldest grandson Xue Shu, Xue Cheng's second son Xue Song, and other nephews of the Xue family as backups.

Regarding "Zhonghou", in fact, it is not a marquis, it is an honorific title for the younger brother of the successor of the marquis, if it is the third brother, it is called the uncle marquis, and the fourth brother is called the Ji Hou, but it is rarely called so. Those who can be called Zhonghou and are allowed to be called so basically have to meet the two basic prerequisites of brotherhood and family harmony, so Zhonghou is rarely used as the title of the direct brother of the marquis.

Lu Hou is the head of the salt lords, and he will never be stingy in giving gifts, but there are hundreds of years of conventions. Because salt played a pivotal role in the era of backward agricultural productivity, it was the first gift given by the marquis and even the salt baron.

Salt has the meaning of longevity, and at the same time, it has been a scarce material for 20 years, and sending salt is actually similar to sending real money.

But it also depends on who it is, obviously it is not possible to give salt directly to the king of salt, and it is not possible to give salt to gifts on important off-site occasions, relatives and friends and inconsequential contacts usually use salt as souvenirs, gold, silver, cloth, silk, etc.

The more salt sent, the less gold and silver are soft, indicating that the relationship is general, such as giving favors to small traders in the market, you can send a lot of salt, anyway, there is something in the sea. The less salt you send and the more delicate and soft valuables you have, the more intimate the relationship.

The first gift that Lu Hou gave to Baili Yan this time was a grain of salt. Yes, it is a grain of salt, but this grain of salt is really a bit big, and it is not accurate to say that it is "a grain of salt", it is a fist-sized salt crystal, which is a salt crystal particle formed by salt under natural conditions.

Generally, salt boiling can not be boiled out of salt crystals, natural drying can produce salt crystals, but not so big, can produce such large salt crystals, can only be a salt lake in the cold area, the salt lake water evaporation is slow, salt is slowly diluted layer by layer out of water, and finally form large salt particles, and even boulder-like salt crystals.

Seeing this, Bai Liyan hurriedly asked:

"Lu Hou, this salt crystal is not from Xianguo."

Lu Hou wanted to come up with a colorful head, but Bailiyan saw the clue and was very surprised:

"Yongxing Hou also recognizes Yanbao."

"Originally, Luhou called it Yanbao, but in fact, this is also salt, which took months and years to complete, because it was taken from the salt lake. I think there is no salt lake in my country, and this salt treasure should come from abroad. ”

"Hahaha......" Lu Hou laughed very happy: "Yongxing Hou is really well-informed, yes, this salt treasure is produced in a salt lake in the southwest of Xu State, after the four seasons of spring, summer, autumn and winter, it is a rare treasure, it is the nephew of Ben Hou and his nephew. ”

"I see, thank you for the kindness of Luhou, Benhou should treasure it himself."