After Xiao Yu returned to the Ming Garden, Lin Yinping was fiddling with a jade ruyi on the table, which was made of rosewood as the branch, with the best red jade without half of the variegated as the main material, inlaid with agate, tourmaline, coral, ivory, jadeite and various colored gemstones, and the tail was decorated with a long red spike. However, the most amazing thing is that the head of Ruyi is made of a rare five-color jade, white, purple, yellow, cyan, red, five colors stand side by side, ingenious.

In addition, there are two half-human-tall blood coral trees, as well as nine sets of various colored jewelry, each placed in nine exquisite red sandalwood boxes, which are now also placed in the Ming Garden.

Murong Yan retreated from Daliang City in a hurry, if there is no shortage of gold and silver, but I am afraid there are not many of these things. Therefore, eighty percent of these things were taken out by the Xiao family of Houjian, especially the Ruyi, maybe it is the marriage of the queen of Houjian, it can be said that the Xiao family has invested a lot of money this time.

These are all the "gifts of marriage" that Qu Cang brought back from Julu City, and Xiao Yu hasn't figured out how to put it in the warehouse yet, so he can only put it in the Ming Garden for the time being.

Xiao Yu casually glanced at this priceless Ruyi and asked, "Has Huaiyu come to you?"

Lin Yinping put down Ruyi in his hand, nodded and said, "I just left." ”

Xiao Yu walked behind the screen, opened his hands, and asked the maid to take off the python robe on his body and put on a normal clothes, and asked through the screen, "What are your good ideas?"

Lin Yinping shook his head and said: "It's not that you don't know, I'm not right with your precious sister Xiao Yue, I'm not good at talking about this matter, I talked too much, and she thought I was going to push her into the fire pit." ”

Xiao Yu bypassed the screen, waved his hand to signal the maid to retreat, and said with a smile: "It's mean, it's not that serious." ”

Lin Yinping glanced at him, "Anyway, I don't dare to get involved." ”

Xiao Yu walked behind Lin Yinping, pressed his hands on her shoulders, and said softly: "Sister-in-law is like a mother, what do you care about with a child, this matter is still up to you." ”

Lin Yinping squinted comfortably like a lazy cat, and said with a smile: "Don't put a high hat on me, I know how many pounds and taels I have, I really can't do this, but I can recommend someone to you." ”

Xiao Yu asked, "Who?"

Lin Yinping said softly: "Ye Xia." ”

Xiao Yu was stunned for a moment, then stroked his palms and smiled: "Madam, you are still thoughtful, how can I forget Ye Xia's girl?"

Lin Yinping slowly got up with his waist up, picked up a letter from his dressing table, and said: "Murong has sent a letter, she has already taken a boat from Weiguo to the north, and then from the northeast to Julu, and will come to our northwest in a few days, Ye Xia has listened to her the most since she was a child, and I will talk to her when the time comes." ”

Xiao Yu, who finally let go of a piece of his heart, had a faint smile on his face, and said, "Then there is Mrs. Lao." By the way, there are two people in the city today, a man and a woman, do you want to go and see them?"

Lin Yinping was not interested, "What is there to look at? There were a lot of them in the royal court back then, and there was a missionary from the temple with a big nose, blue eyes, yellow hair, and he also taught me to paint, but this guy was an old man who was not serious and always liked to paint women without clothes, so he was later driven away by his father. ”

Xiao Yu then remembered that Lin Yinping could indeed paint, but unlike the traditional Danqing technique, this painting technique does not pay attention to artistic conception but pays attention to realism, and it also uses various colors of paint.

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Xiao Yu's palace was originally the proprietor's palace, covering a huge area, almost a small palace. After two years of renovation, it has been completely renewed. This made Matthews and Elena, who temporarily lived in the palace, completely dazzled.

To be sure, Matthews had been to the castles and estates of many great nobles and lords, but none of the lords' castles and manors could compare to the mansions of the great lords of the East. To him, the mansion was like a huge labyrinth, with a hundred twists and turns, and he and Elena walked for a full time with magic fire, but they didn't see a single duplicate building. And what surprised him even more was that in this magnificent mansion there was a huge artificial rockery, on which were distributed four gorgeous buildings full of oriental style, connected by a plank road, a waterfall like a silver belt passed through the gap between the four buildings, and fell into the waterhole below, there is a waterway in the waterhole, which has been connected to the turquoise lake of the former mansion, which is not ingeniously conceived. It's just that Matthews can't figure out where the source of this waterfall is, you must know that this is already the highest point of the entire city, and it is impossible to connect with the cyan river outside the city, is it the power of the arcane?

Matthews had asked Elena about this, but Elena couldn't give an answer unless she could climb the mountain called "Xiaoxiang" and see it for herself before she could draw a conclusion.

It's a pity that Bai Shui Duan refused their request, because there was no will of the prince and princess there, and idle people were not allowed to enter.

In Bai Shui Duan's view, Matthews and the two are no different from the people in the royal court before, they are all idle people who cheat to eat and drink, etc., the old prince Lin Yuan was very interested in these people when he was alive, and he made a lot of offerings in the royal court, Bai Shui Duan learned the language of the people at that time, and then Lin Yuan died, these people naturally dispersed in a hurry, I thought that the people would not appear in front of him again, but I didn't expect the new prince Xiao Yu to have this sign again.

Damn the Lusters.

Bai Shui Duan scolded in his heart, and his gaze at Matthews and Elena was a little unkind.

Matthews was aware of it, but remained silent and only secretly guarded, while Elena was completely absorbed in her surroundings. According to Uncle Camur, the northwest region is one of the most barren areas of the Zheng Empire, but there are such magnificent buildings on such a barren land, I wonder what the real prosperous place of the Zheng Empire should be?

With a dream of gold rushing, Elena is already immersed in her fantasy world.

Along the way, there were guards in armor and swords standing still, or maids shuttling back and forth, and when you counted them carefully, there were hundreds of them. This is already considered a small army in the West.

When Matthews learned from Qu Cang's mouth that as the king of the northwest and the grassland, Xiao Yu's personal guard was full of 5,000 (3,000 in the tiger camp plus Qu Cang's department and other regular guards), Matthews was completely shocked, in the West, the entire strength of a duke was only like this, and this was just Xiao Yu's guard.

Matthews finally couldn't hold back and asked the question he had been hiding in his heart for a long time, "So how many troops does His Royal Highness have in the Prince?"

Qu Cang, who knew Xiao Yu's thoughts the most, naturally understood the meaning of his prince to show off his strength, so he pretended to say indifferently: "If the grassland and the northwest are combined, there will be 400,000 troops. ”

Matthews' mouth opened wide.

What is the concept of 400,000? At present, there are many countries in the Western world, and the population of the largest kingdom is only 4 million, while the average small principality has only a few hundred thousand people, and these hundreds of thousands also include the elderly, weak, women and children, and the number of men in the prime of life does not exceed 100,000. Raising an army of 5,000 men out of 100,000 people is already considered a desperate army.

And this king of the East had an army of 400,000.

And how many people should he have in his land?

If this army comes to the West, who will be able to resist it?

Matthews suddenly had the urge to end this trip to the East as soon as possible, return to his hometown, and warn the foolish big men to stop dreaming about the riches of the East, which is the lair of the dragon, and if you want to get wealth from the dragon's claws, you will have to pay with your life.

Matthews felt himself slightly dizzy, he forcibly held back this feeling, and said with a slight tremor: "Honorable General, I think His Royal Highness must be the most powerful lord in this empire. ”

After Bai Shui Duan translated this sentence to Qu Cang, Qu Cang shook his head and said: "To be honest, it used to be, but now it's not." Now that the old prince's family is dominant, the other three of us have to look at the face of Dongdu. ”

On weekdays, Xiao Yu has a mouthful of Xiao Lie, but in the end, the two are still father and son, Xiao Yu does not mean that others can follow Xiao Yu's example, so in the northwest, the prince refers to Xiao Yu, the little prince refers to Xiao Jin, and the old prince is Xiao Lie.

After the translation of the white water paragraph, Matthews's face was pale and his expression was in a trance: "Are you saying that there are four lords like His Royal Highness the Prince, and His Royal Highness's father is the most powerful lord, oh Lord, this is really a crazy world!"