This, this, Wu Ye didn't know what quantifier to use to refer to this merman, anyway, the merman at this time did not have a bit of a fierce appearance, there were several thick iron chains tied to his body, and the place under the head that was originally the neck of the human was pierced by iron chains, and the wound had healed, so it can be seen that this merman has been staying here for a while. Above its head hung a golden object, spinning and making a pleasant sound. Passers-by see the novelty of the mermaid and are interested in it, so they will enter the store to have a look.

Wu Ye patted the coachman lightly and asked, "What kind of shop is this, why do you put a shark at the door?" ”

The coachman smiled: "That's the Zhili Hall opened by the ink man, specializing in all kinds of exquisitely designed objects, and there are also things brought by overseas foreigners, ordinary people can't understand it, only the ink people can communicate with foreigners, and they will make their things very smart." ”

Wu Ye's eyes lit up, he didn't expect that the famous ink master would open a store in such a prosperous place as Linzi, it was really hidden in the city.

Seeing that Wu Ye was interested, the coachman hurriedly explained: "Actually, the people in this shop have only learned something from behind Mozi's apprentices, and they are not real ink masters, but the things he sells are all designed by Mozi himself, and the owner of this shop is ingenious, and the things he makes are often used in unexpected ways, and the people of the Mo family don't mind him opening a shop in the name of the ink man, so it is maintained." If Wu Gongzi is interested, when he settles down, the villain will bring Wu Gongzi over to take a look. ”

"Hmm"

The car quickly turned ahead and left the main road. Linzi City has been expanded several times, and even ordinary roads are spacious and flat, and horse-drawn carriages have been moving very fast. The coachman said proudly: "Wu Gongzi, don't look at the fact that there are so many people coming and going in Linzi City, in fact, there are not many real locals, most of them are traders and scholars who travel to study, this big city is actually three families, the Jiang family, the Tian family, the Bai family, and Mrs. Qi Wang is the Tian family, so it will become two families." I heard from the people in the house that Mrs. Bai intends to marry the Tian family, and Linzi will be a family from now on. We, who are subordinates, also feel that there is light on our faces. The chauffeur who was honored did not notice the loneliness on Wu Ye's face.

In fact, what the coachman said is not an exaggeration at all, only the Bai family at the end of the three surnames occupies a whole corner of Linzi City, close to the inner city, covering an area of hundreds of acres, so big that it loses the meaning of building a wall, Linzi has no outer city wall, behind the White Mansion is a solid inner city wall, the carriage returns to the house to pass through a whole area, this area is inhabited by the distant relatives of the Bai family and people with foreign surnames, and the carriage also walked for an hour in this area to the real core of the White Mansion. A huge archway lies on the road, five rooms and six columns, carved dragons and painted phoenixes, auspicious clouds and flowers, magnificent, carriages and horses enter from the side door in turn, all people hold their breath and condense, dare not have the slightest noise.

When the carriage was still some distance away from the residence, everyone got out of the car, and the people went to the south courtyard with the goods, and Bai Luo returned to the Bai Mansion, and he did not act freely as he did outside, so he immediately packed up and went to the north room to report the details of the road to the ancestors.

Wu Ye was led to the guest room on the periphery of the East Courtyard to settle down and rest, the size of the White Mansion is completely beyond Wu Ye's imagination, the East Courtyard where Bai Luo lives is afraid that it is the size of half of Hongshui City, because all countries have the habit of supporting the guests, and some high-ranking guests often live in the Lord's Mansion, so in addition to the few houses in the East Courtyard of Bai Luo, many rooms are built for the defectors, and it is enough to be proud of being able to find a house in the East Courtyard of the White Mansion, even if it is the most inferior two-person shared room.

Wu Ye was naturally led to a first-class guest room in a separate courtyard. After the reception respectfully introduced some rules to Wu Ye, he politely retreated, and Wu Ye stood alone in the courtyard, looking at the huge camphor tree in the courtyard, and was a little distracted for a while.

The camphor tree is like a canopy, covering most of the sunlight, and the broken light falls on Wu Ye through the gaps in the leaves, swaying with the wind, Wu Ye can't help laughing at himself, and Bai Luo has been walking together for more than a month, Bai Luo has never said anything about the Bai family, let alone ordered Wu Ye to do anything as the eldest lady of the Bai family, and truly achieve an equal gentleman's friendship, in the eyes of others, it is more of a corporal of Lixian, deigned to befriend Wu Ye, a person who had no background, in addition to cherishing his talent, his admiration was also overflowing.

Originally, Wu Ye didn't think too much about it, but it wasn't until he saw the huge foundation of the Bai family that he realized that the gap between the two was far bigger than he imagined, and the difficulties and challenges he had to face might be more than he expected.

While Wu Ye was thinking, someone had already knocked on the door to visit, and the courtyard was not closed in the first place, so someone knocked on the door and came in directly. This person's body is not tall, it can be compared to Wu Ye's shoulders, and his appearance is not close to handsomeness, and a mouthful of teeth has almost broken through the package of his mouth, Wu Ye thought to himself that if this person walked and hit the wall, it must be the teeth knocked out, not the nose.

Although the person who came looked ugly, he acted and spoke neatly, and after seeing Wu Ye's appearance, he was slightly stunned, but it was by no means a self-ashamed expression, and said with a smile: "When I saw Steward Yang personally send someone to the upper courtyard, I knew that a master was coming, and I came to see what was going on when I was curious, I hope my brother won't blame me for being abrupt." ”

Wu Ye said: "Where, when I first arrived in Baifu, I couldn't find a clue like a headless fly, but fortunately I had a brother to help solve my doubts, and I couldn't ask for it." ”

The person introduced himself: "Under the surname Yan, the name of the baby, Ju Guo Yuncheng people's family, come to Baifu for more than a year, sit in the east courtyard, just next door to the brother, this courtyard has been no one to live for a long time, two days ago someone came to clean, I began to wonder who will live in, I haven't slept all night, today as soon as the brother came in, I was impatient to come over to see what it was." ”

Wu Ye beckoned Yan Ying to sit down on the stone bench in the courtyard and said, "My surname is Wu, my name is Ye, a person from the Qin State, and I feel like I am at home with Brother Yan at first sight." ”

"Sympathetic, sympathetic." Yan Ying took out a pot of wine from her arms, placed it on the stone table, and took out two more wine glasses, obviously coming prepared. The two of them began to drink and talk in the courtyard in the warm sunshine, mainly Yan Ying was introducing the situation of Baifu, although as a guest of Baifu, but Yan Ying's comments on Bai's were very sharp, from contacts to business, all of them commented on their heads, and they talked about it for an hour, and the meaning was still unfinished and spread out from Bai's, when it came to the relationship between Jiang's and Tian's, a face that was not good-looking, and it was even worse after drinking, and what he said was also shocking.

Wu Ye didn't dissuade or interject, he just drank with him, and his expression never changed, he didn't understand how such an open-mouthed person could stay in Bailuo's Upper Courtyard for a year, and it should have been swept away a long time ago, the only explanation was that he did it on purpose, this person named Yan Ying came to test Wu Ye, but this was from his own idea, or was sent by others, it is unknown. Wu Ye himself is also a person who is not afraid of big things, so he simply accompanied Yan Ying to drink like this.

Yan Ying talked eloquently, a pot of wine quickly bottomed out, and she felt that she was not happy, so she pulled Wu Ye up and said, "Take you to a good place, and the two of us brothers will continue to drink." As a result, there was no pull on the first time, Yan Ying originally wanted to test the strength of this friend who looked very good, and added a little force when he stretched out his hand, but the result was unexpected, the other party did not move at all, so he used fifty percent of his strength, and still did not pull the other party for half a point, so he simply tore through the camouflage and used seventy percent of his strength, Wu Ye still smiled slightly, and did not move like a mountain.

Yan Ying let go and smiled: "Brother Wu is a little interesting." But you must go to this place today, because you owe it to me. After speaking, Wu Ye couldn't help asking, so he simply put his arms on Wu Ye and got up, Wu Ye saw that Yan Ying didn't seem to have malicious intentions, and it was not good to excuse himself.

The two of them quickly walked out of the upper courtyard, and then crossed a bay of blue ponds, and came to a crowded courtyard, where there was a lot of noise. Wu Ye asked hesitantly, "This is here?" ”

Yan Ying said with a smile: "This is the lower courtyard, but there is also a hidden dragon and a crouching tiger inside, there are many like-minded brothers, and the martial brothers will definitely take advantage of the excitement and return with a full load." ”

Pushing open the courtyard door, the courtyard was full of seven or eight tables, it was lunch time, all kinds of people were eating around the table, and when they saw Yan Ying coming in with a handsome boy, they immediately burst into laughter. Wu Ye was a little confused.

Yan Ying scratched his head embarrassedly, walked straight to the table in the center, took out a grain of gold from his arms and put it in front of the old man in the main seat, the old man had a childish face, his face was full of red light, he looked at the gold, and then looked at Wu Ye, and said with a smile: "Aren't you Yan Ying sharp-toothed, why did you take the initiative to confess to me, a bad old man, today." ”

Yan Ying waved his hand and said: "It's not a shame to admit defeat with Old Man Xun, alas, if you want to blame it, it's because I believe too much in Miss Bai's aesthetic vision, I thought that our Linzi Eight Immortals could make a complete one, but I didn't expect this guy from Yushu Linfeng to come, he looks different and doesn't conspire with each other." ”

Old Man Xun didn't save any face for Yan Ying, and said with a smile: "If it is really the Eight Immortals of Linzi, this young man can make up a Lu Dongbin, but who called you the Seven Monsters of Linzi... One by one, they seem to be crooked, and they are embarrassed to blame the young man for being upright. ”

"It's not just upright, it's just chic that destroys human nature." An older woman came up and looked at Wu Ye repeatedly, her eyes were full of friendliness and closeness, which made Wu Ye very embarrassed, like a new aunt who came to see her mother-in-law. The older woman laughed and explained to Wu Ye what had happened.

It turned out that two days ago, someone saw the next person cleaning the room in the upper courtyard, and knew that there was another doorman to move in, but it is very interesting that there are seven doormen in the upper courtyard under the Bailuo Gate, six men and one woman, the only woman was originally Wu Guoren, famous for her exquisite embroidery, known as "hand born hundred flowers, brocade mountains and rivers", six male doormen are also geniuses, but the most talked-about is the appearance of these six men, it is really amazing, Yan Ying is already very good, and several other people can only use "ghostly workmanship", "Creation is magical" to describe it.