Chapter 240: Visiting
Coming out of Ye's room, Jin Shu began to prepare to visit Xiao Xuanyi. Of course, since it is a home visit, the gifts that should be prepared still have to be prepared. However, according to people of Xiao Xuanyi's status, ordinary yellow and white things may be a bit cheesy. Therefore, Jinshu prepared some special products brought from Ren'an County, as well as some food and wine made by himself.
After Steward Xu knew that she was going to visit General Dingyuan's mansion, he was worried that Jinshu might not know the way, so he also arranged for a small servant to drive her there. The carriage passed through the lively street market and walked for about half an hour to reach the gate of General Dingyuan's mansion. Unlike Zhao Hui's Zhongwu General's Mansion, there were still two guards standing at the door of Dingyuan's General Mansion, and the door was also wide open.
Without Jinshu's instructions, the little guy driving the car took the initiative to talk to one of the guards, and after he identified himself, the guard first glanced at Jinshu before turning around and going in to report. Soon, someone from the house came out to greet the guests.
The person who came was a girl in a pink dress. She's about to be a maid in the house!
"May I ask if the girl is a distinguished guest from the Zhongwu General's Mansion?"
After seeing Jinshu nodding, the maid respectfully invited her into the house, "Girl, please come with the slave." The general was in the study to handle official business, and the butler had already gone to invite him. ”
"I'm tired." Jinshu followed her into the General's Mansion.
Jin Shu originally thought that Zhao Hui's mansion was luxurious enough, but he didn't think that he really felt what luxury was when he saw Xiao Xuanyi's mansion. Sure enough, the official position is a few levels higher, it's different! However, what Jinshu didn't know was that this mansion was the old mansion of the Xiao family, and it was not comparable to ordinary official residences.
The maid led the person into the front hall, quickly served a pot of hot tea, and put on the snacks before retreating in an orderly manner.
On the other side, he was going to invite Xiao Xuanyi's housekeeper, but halfway through, he ran into General Xiao who was walking in the garden, so he told him the news of the visitor first.
General Xiao is now at home, moving his body all day long, or studying calligraphy, and he no longer cares about the affairs of the court. But the biggest headache for him is the lifelong event of his only son, seeing that all men at Xiao Xuanyi's age have become biological children, and even other people's children have grown up, but he still has no movement at all. How could Old General Xiao not be in a hurry?
However, every time he mentioned it, Xiao Xuan always found an excuse to prevaricate. For this reason, there have been countless cold wars between father and son. Sometimes General Xiao is very angry, and even directly beats people. However, after all, he is old and is not Xiao Xuanyi's opponent at all, so in the end, he is often so angry that he almost vomits blood.
Therefore, when he heard the housekeeper say that a girl came to find Xiao Xuanyi, General Xiao was immediately interested, and hurriedly asked the housekeeper: "What does that girl look like?" How old ...... are you?"
After a series of questions, the housekeeper was also asked, so he had to say: "The old slave is not very clear, I only know that the one is from the Zhongwu General's Mansion." If you want to know, sir, why don't you go to the front yard and see it yourself! ”
As soon as the butler's words fell, Old General Xiao nodded and hurriedly went to the front hall. Seeing this, he couldn't help but sigh, and hurried to find Xiao Xuanyi in the study.
Jin Shu had been sitting in the front hall for about four or five minutes when he saw an old man with gray hair walking in from outside. The other party first glanced at the brocade book expressionlessly, and then sat straight on the main seat.
Although Jin Shu had never seen the old general Xiao, he had heard the name of the old general from Steward Xu before he came, and then looked at the other party's actions, and guessed the identity of the person sitting there.
There is room for the little girl in the countryside