Chapter 32 Qufu
"This is Qufu?"
Bai Ya looked up at the manor in front of him, this manor is located on the outskirts of Fuling City, covering a huge area, with high walls and two open black oil gates.
Looking inward, a gravel path winds its way to the house, lined with tall maple trees. Because it is autumn at this time, the garden is full of red, and the scenery is elegant at a glance.
If a literati or arrives here, they will inevitably compose poems and vent the overflowing emotions in their chests.
"The two eldest brothers are invited, in the White Cliff of Xiaqingcheng, come here to visit Mrs. Fang, and hope to make a report. ”
Bai Ya stopped the carriage, threw the whip on the carriage, and took a few steps forward and hugged his fists towards the two gatekeepers at the gate of Qufu.
These two people had already seen Bai Ya driving over, and they just came to give gifts, and they didn't pay much attention to it.
In addition, after Hu Sanniang's persuasion, he also prepared three pairs of jade bracelets, one pair for Mrs. Fang, and the other two pairs for his mother-in-law and future objects.
This gift is quite shabby for people who come on a blind date. But most of the gold in White Cliff was given to the night fox, and there was no way to do it. Besides, he was born in Qingcheng Daomen, so it's good to get a favor, and there is no need to give heavy gifts.
"Come to see Old Taijun Fang?" the two porters glanced at each other, a smile appeared on their faces, and asked cautiously, "I don't know what the relationship between the little brother and the old lady is, but do you have a post?"
Reading novels in Bai Ya's previous life, I could always see some porter dogs looking down on people, and as a result, they were slapped in the face.
In fact, except for the nouveau riche, the concierge of the big families is all human spirits. First of all, they represent the voice and face of a family, and some families will even arrange the children of the family in the concierge so that they can learn to behave with others.
Even if you refuse a visitor, you will be very tactful and will never offend others easily.
"This ...... In a hurry to come down, he did not prepare to worship the post. If the two eldest brothers are not good to report, then they will notify the housekeeper in the house, and say that Qingcheng is coming. ”
Bai Ya was a little difficult, he couldn't say that he was the grandson-in-law of Lao Taijun, after all, this marriage had not yet been decided on the bright side.
The two porters heard Bai Ya say this, and they suddenly knew in their hearts. They didn't know about the Xianwu Sect, but since the visitors were very confident that they could enter the mansion, they had to report back, and it was up to the housekeeper to decide later.
One of the porters politely asked Bai Ya to wait, and immediately ran in to report.
He went in for only a moment, and then came out with two people, an old man and a young man.
The older one was wearing a soap robe and dressed as a subordinate, and he should be one of the housekeepers of Qufu. Another relatively young man was dressed in Confucian clothes and wore a Qiaoshi crown, and his temperament was elegant.
"If you miss the distance, I hope to forgive me!" The young man in Confucian clothes bowed deeply when he went out, and asked with a smile, "In Xiaquliang, I have seen Brother Bai Shi, but Brother Bai Shi is from Qingcheng?"
Hearing the young man Qu Liang call himself his brother, Bai Ya suddenly smiled.
Brother Shi is the name of the peers or juniors of the world, and two people who have a plain life cannot be called Brother Shi. The other party is hiding the identity of the martial artist of the sect for himself in front of outsiders, but on the other hand, it also shows that this person should know the existence of the Xianwu sect.
"Yes, I came from Qingcheng, and the one in the carriage was Senior Sister Hu Sanniang, who came to meet Mrs. Fang on this trip. Bai Ya returned the salute and replied with a smile.
"Please forgive me for taking the liberty of being down, I don't know what Brother Bai wants to see Old Taijun Fang for?"
Qu Liang no longer hesitated, and immediately ordered the housekeeper behind him to arrange for the carriage to enter the mansion, and he himself accompanied Bai Ya and Hu Sanniang to go inside, and asked tentatively.
"Huh?" Bai Ya was stunned for a moment, and immediately knew that Qu Liang should not know about the marriage, and immediately asked with a smile, "I don't know what the relationship between Brother Qu and the old lady is?"
"Under is the third brother of Qufu, and the old lady is the great-grandmother below. Qu Liang hesitated for a moment and said.
"Great-grandmother?"
Bai Ya was stunned, he learned from Liu Yu that Mrs. Fang and Mrs. Wan, who came to Qingcheng last time, were mother-in-law and daughter-in-law. And the object of his marriage this time is Mrs. Wan's daughter. In other words, he is probably a generation higher than Qu Liang.
"This ...... Old Taijun Fang had come to Qingcheng a few months ago, and this time he was ordered by his master to pay a return visit!" Bai Ya couldn't say it too white, so he had to be vague, after all, this matter was not 100% decided, and he was unwilling to claim to be the grandson-in-law of Qufu.
What's more, this marriage will not be carried out in a big way, in Liu Yu's words, it is not even a Ming media marriage. The gap between the three views of a warrior and a secular mortal is too great, and it is difficult for the woman to become Bai Ya's wife.
Qu Liang frowned when he listened to Bai Ya's reply, Old Taijun Fang had gone out a few months ago, he knew it, but he didn't know where the old man had gone, and according to what his elders said, Old Taijun Fang seemed to be there to ......
"Could it be that this is the ...... in front of you" Qu Liang's pupils suddenly shrank, and he looked at Baiya again.
"Brother Qu, Brother Qu?" Bai Ya saw the young man looking at him in a daze, and greeted him a little uncomfortably.
"Ahem, it's rude!" Qu Liang hurriedly came back to his senses, welcomed Bai Ya and Hu Sanniang into the front hall living room, ordered someone to serve tea, and said with a fist, "I'm going to go back to the old lady here, and please wait." ”
"It's okay, Brother Qu is himself!" Bai Ya knew that the other party had noticed the truth, and immediately smiled back.
"Tsk, this Qu family is really a big dog!" Seeing Qu Liang go out, Hu Sanniang finally spoke, "Did you see the phoenix feather warbler in the yard just now, it is a rui bird worth five hundred gold, and it can only be caught if you go deep into the wilderness." ”
"Phoenix feather warbler?" Bai Ya tilted his head and thought about it, there seemed to be a few birds with bright feathers in the birdcage in the garden pavilion.
"Look, this picture of a lady, this seems to be Tang Yin's real handiwork!" Hu Sanniang suddenly looked at a painting on the wall, her eyes straightened, "I actually hung this kind of thing in the reception room, a big dog, a big dog!"
Seeing her like this, Bai Ya began to regret bringing her over.
"Don't worry, my mother won't embarrass you. Hu Sanniang glanced at Baiya and said with a smile.
"Brother Bai, great-grandmother is invited!" Bai Ya and the two stayed in the reception room for a while, then saw Qu Liang coming back and beckoned them to the backyard.
The two followed Qu Liang through the reception room in the front hall and walked towards the backyard, and after walking for a long time, they realized that the inside of Qu Mansion was really big!
Qufu is a standard six-entry compound, and imitates the pattern of the Jiangnan garden water pavilion, and digs a big lake in the manor. The whole manor has countless pavilions and water pavilions, the corridor on the lake is tortuous and meandering, the lotus leaves on the water surface are emerald green, the frogs are singing and flying, and the ladies and ladies on the fence are playing fish, which is a quiet and elegant landscape.
Hu Sanniang, a spicy and heroic woman in the rivers and lakes, is actually a lot quieter when she enters here, I don't know if she is pretending, or if she is really affected by the environment.
The two of them were dizzy in the manor, and after walking through several porches, they finally stopped in front of a hall in the back house.
"I've seen the old lady, the junior Bai Ya has asked you to say goodbye!" When he entered the lobby and saw Old Taijun Fang sitting on the main seat with a smile, Bai Ya hurriedly asked for peace.
He is not yet an adult grandson-in-law, but he doesn't have to kneel.
"Eh, good boy, don't be polite, sit down!" Old Taijun Fang squinted her eyes with a smile and beckoned Bai Ya and the two to sit next to her.
At this time, Bai Ya had time to look at the other people in the hall.
In the hall at this time, in addition to the old lady Fang and the servants standing on both sides, there was also a middle-aged scribe with a beard sitting on the right side of the old man's house. Seeing that his face is somewhat similar to Old Lady Fang, it should be a certain son.
"This is my son Qu Changfeng, the head of the seventh house, the lady Wan you have seen is his brother-in-law, you can call him the seventh uncle!" The old lady saw Bai Ya sitting down, so she introduced the middle-aged scribe.
"I've seen Uncle Seven!" Bai Ya's eyes flashed, and he hurriedly saluted, but there was a trace of doubt in his heart.
Liu Yu once told him that the woman who had set up a relationship with him this time was Mrs. Wan's youngest daughter Qu Qiang.
Because of the unequal status of Xianfan, it is impossible for this family business to be married by the media, but after all, it is a family matter, shouldn't it be Qu Qiang's parents and brothers who came out to receive him, how could there be an extra seventh uncle for nothing?
Could it be that the family has changed, and the Qu family has repented?
The more Bai Ya thought about it, the more he felt that there was a problem, he didn't care if his family could be done. But the Qu family only regrets it now, which is equivalent to a slap in the face, and Qingduguan will definitely not bear it.
"Bai Shi's nephew is really a talent...... "Qu Changfeng stroked his beard and said with a smile.
"Old lady, this is a little gadget picked by the little nephew, please don't dislike it, the other pair is for Mrs. Yu Wan. The scribe on the opposite side chattered crookedly for a while, and Bai Ya took advantage of him to drink water, and hurriedly took out the jade bracelet he bought and handed it over, tentatively by the way.
"I don't know if Mrs. Wan has something to do, can you let me see you down?"
As soon as Bai Ya opened his mouth, he saw Old Taijun Fang and Qu Changfeng glancing at each other, and a trace of embarrassment flashed on their faces.
The son-in-law insisted on seeing his mother-in-law, of course, it was rude, but the other party's remarks obviously saw something, so he couldn't help but respond.
"Second Miss, Second Miss, you can't go in......"
"Hmph, since you are a fellow from Qingcheng, what can't you see?"
Before Old Taijun and Qu Changfeng could respond to Bai Ya, there was a commotion at the door of the reception room.
A woman in a green dress dodged into the house, dragging a maid with both hands, apparently having just crossed the blockade.
"Poof!" Bai Ya looked back, and when he saw the woman, he couldn't help but spray, and poured the tea on Hu Sanniang next to him.
"It's you!" a man and a woman stared at each other in disbelief.
The woman who broke in was wearing a silk half-arm pullover and a green skirt, her long black hair was braided and coiled on the top of her head, her willow eyebrows were picturesque, heroic, and her eyes were beautiful.
It was in the case of the fan boy Hua Zi that the Yue Nu Sword disciple Qu Ke that Bai Ya met!
"It's a coincidence that I've seen Senior Sister Qu!" Bai Ya was the first to come back to his senses, and winked at the beautiful girl in front of him.
"You are the Qingcheng disciple who came on a blind date!" Qu Ke's expression was complicated, and he opened his mouth, but found that he had forgotten what he wanted to say.
"Qu Ke, what are you doing here?" Seeing Qu Ke break in, Old Taijun Fang obviously had a trace of displeasure, but because of Bai Ya, he didn't reprimand the girl.
"I've seen the old lady, Xiao Ke is here just to see a fellow Daoist in Qingcheng!" Qu Ke first glared at Bai Ya fiercely, and then slowly walked behind Qu Changfeng.
"Ha, there's a good show to watch, the old lady didn't lose this trip!"
Wiping the tea on her face, Hu Sanniang, who was watching from the sidelines, peeked at each other, and looked at Old Taijun Fang's anger, Qu Changfeng's wry smile, Bai Ya's surprise, and Qu Ke's cold face in his eyes one by one, and a subtle smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.