Chapter Eighty-Five: Re-gifting and Opening the Way
The courtyard of the Taishi Mansion is very large. How big is it? It can no longer be described as a courtyard, or even a manor.
In Bai Sheng's eyes, Cai Jing's home is very similar to the parks in the city in later generations, with its pavilions, curved bridges and water pavilions, rockeries and strange rocks, and strange flowers and plants. The difference, of course, is that there are not so many layered buildings and houses in the park.
The housekeeper of Cai's Mansion bent down slightly to lead the way in front, his attitude was very respectful, and Bai Sheng and Wanyan Wulu followed behind, walking calmly, like a young couple with a talented and beautiful appearance.
The butler's attitude was determined by Bai Sheng's gift.
Time came and went, and I didn't know where to get a jade horse, and stuffed it to Bai Sheng as a stepping stone to enter Cai's mansion, and then stayed in the restaurant to continue to eat chicken, anyway, a gold ingot can eat a lot of chicken, and you can call another can after eating a can.
This jade horse almost lifted Bai Sheng's status to the sky. Not to mention the age and texture, just say that the volume of this jade horse is ten times larger than Zhao Mingcheng's set of jade pots. The gift receiving office has its own Cai Fu appraisal experts, and it was identified on the spot that this horse is an ancient jade treasure in the Yin Shang period, and it is directly marked as a priceless treasure. Then the housekeepers and servants of the Cai Mansion felt that they were shorter than Bai Sheng.
Could it be an ordinary person who can come to visit the sick with a priceless treasure?
Bai Sheng was reluctant to take Wanyan Wulu into the Prime Minister's Mansion, even if Wanyan Wulu was soft and hard, he was indifferent, but Shi Qian's words changed his mind, Shi Qian said that if you don't bring this beauty in, others will think that you are going to other people's wives. Bai Sheng thought about it, it was really like this, so he changed his original intention.
The Taishi Mansion is not only a vast area, but also has many servants in the mansion, Bai Sheng walked all the way, and the maids and servants he saw were all walking in line, often no less than ten people in a row, and these male and female servants shuttled between the various courtyards in the mansion, doing all kinds of chores, was this still a person's home? He felt that even the palace was nothing more than that.
He didn't know that in fact, the contemporary Song Dynasty palace was far worse than the Cai family except for the specifications of the building and the number of harem concubines was better than the Cai Jing family, such as the quality of life in terms of clothing, food, housing and transportation.
After five or six courtyards, turn more than a dozen turns, a long corridor appeared in front, look at the past from a distance, the long corridor is divided into two rows full of people, at first glance there are always hundreds of people, but there is no noise, the atmosphere is very solemn.
"Are these all guests who have come to visit the Taishi?" Bai Sheng asked the housekeeper, and said in his heart that it was no wonder that only people entered this Taishi's Mansion and no one went out, so it was all piled up here.
"Yes, Childe, please. The butler continued to stretch out his hand and motioned for Bai Sheng to enter the corridor.
Bai Sheng and Wanyan Wulu continued to move forward, and before they entered the corridor, they had already caused a commotion in the two columns of guests. Who is this? It's almost noon, is this still here to visit the Taishi's illness? Is this unclear that he came to the Taishi's Mansion to have lunch in the autumn breeze?
People want to see who has the audacity.
The housekeeper who led the way walked to the entrance of the corridor and stopped, and handed over to another housekeeper who was guarding the entrance, and handed over a note in the butler's hand, and the housekeeper took it and read it, and sang: "Welcome to Bai Lu and Miss Bai, please enter the No. 1 seat in the Tianzi waiting area." ”
Who is Bai Lu? After giving a gift at the gate, he always had to sign it, Bai Sheng didn't want to leave his name in the sign-in book, and he couldn't hold the calligraphy, so he asked Wanyan Wulu to sign in. And Wanyan Wulu didn't want to leave her Jurchen name, so she took the right and followed Bai Sheng's surname, and changed her name to Bai Lu, which made Bai Sheng laugh, and said that if you marry me, you can naturally change your name like this, but don't you have a husband?
As soon as the butler's roll call came out, the guests were in a commotion again, and the voices of surprise arose. The eyes of the two rows of guests near and far were all focused on Bai Sheng and the others, and many people did not dare to talk loudly, so they could only ask each other one after another.
He that is near will say,
"Whose son-in-law is this Bai Lu? Isn't it the daughter of the right prime minister?"
"How is it possible, I have seen Bai Shizhong's daughter, although her appearance is still beautiful, but where can she catch up with this Bai Lu beauty?"
"That's it, don't talk about it, Lao Bai is sitting inside, how can there be a father and daughter who come to give gifts in two batches?"
The distance is to guess the weight of the gift:
"What kind of gift do you say this Bai Lu is giving?
"How do I know? It must be the heaviest gift from others! It seems to be heavier than what Zhao Mingcheng sent just now!"
It turns out that in this corridor, the guests are seated according to the weight of the gifts, regardless of the size of the visitor's official position. The so-called waiting area is to divide the corridor into three areas: heaven, earth and man, the Tianzi area is closest to Cai Jing's bedroom, the second is the ground number, and the person number is the farthest.
This means that the heavier the gift, the more chance to see Cai Jing's face, as for those officials who give lighter gifts, waiting in the area of the place and person, there is no possibility of entering Cai Jing's bedroom at all, but they can't pat their butts and leave, they must wait until dark to leave to show their sincerity to visit the leader. Fortunately, the Beijing officials of the Song Dynasty only went to work in the early morning every day, and they didn't have to do anything serious the rest of the time, otherwise such a sycophant would be really difficult to shoot.
Just an hour ago, Zhao Mingcheng, the alternate governor of Laizhou, didn't know what heavy gift he had given, and he entered the Tianzihao waiting area, which was a sensation at that time and attracted everyone's admiration. And now this belated Bai Lu has been arranged in the Tianzi number, and it is the first, obviously surpassing Zhao Mingcheng, how can it not be shocking?
Ignoring the two lines of officials who were talking like flies, Bai Sheng and Wanyan Wulu walked into the corridor, and the officials' eyes followed their figures.
Some of them looked at Yan Wulu carefully, and began a wonderful evaluation: "Well, Bai Lu." The so-called leaves are pale, the white dew is frost, and the so-called Yi people are on the water side...... It's a good name!
Some people envy Bai Shengdao: "This son is also a dragon and phoenix among people, and he is really a good match when he stands with Miss Bai, this is simply a golden wind and jade dew!
"I don't know ......"
After walking through the waiting area and entering the area of the place, a person suddenly got up and stopped Bai Sheng, lowered his voice and said, "Brother Bai, please take me to Tianzihao." ”
"Huh?" Bai Sheng looked at the woman in white in front of him, her value was no worse than that of Wanyan Wulu, the difference was only the difference between crescent moon eyes and apricot eyes, but each had its own beauty, and they were all among the best, so he couldn't help but be stunned and asked, "Do I know you?"
Yan Wulu was not happy here, so he stretched out his hand and pushed towards the woman in white, and asked in a low voice: "What are you doing?
Bai Sheng took a side look, and knew that Wanyan Wulu's push was carried by internal force, because the fox fur on her arm had swelled, and her heart said badly, where is this where you are jealous? Isn't this trying to kill me? Just as he was about to stop him, he saw the woman in white move lightly, and somehow went around to his side, and Wanyan Wulu's push failed.
This woman's martial arts are not weak! I can't see anything else, but at least my footwork is very mysterious! When Bai Shengzheng was surprised, he suddenly felt a cold in his ears, and it seemed that the woman's nose had rubbed against his earlobe, guessing that the woman was trying to whisper something, so he didn't dodge it.
I only heard her whisper in her ear: "Your Pan Jinlian is about to die, do you want the antidote to the withered blood?"
"Huh?!" Bai Sheng was taken aback, and immediately turned to face the woman in white, "Who are you?"
The woman in white smiled like a flower, took a half step back and said, "If you take me over, I'll tell you." ”
After Yan Wulu's move failed, he already knew how powerful the other party was, so he stopped making a move, and his eyes were fixed on the face of the woman in white, very hostile.
"Okay, you come with me. Bai Sheng had to agree, but when he spoke, his eyes looked at the housekeeper who was leading the way in front of him.
The butler was waiting for them back, and he didn't seem to think that Bai Sheng had any rules like this, and at the same time as Bai Sheng moved, he continued to walk forward, leaving only the guests in the area of the number of places to complain: "Isn't it?