After Li Xuandu and his party entered Jinyang Mansion, Taiping Inn here settled. Taiping Inn has long received news of the sect leader's presence, and it stopped opening three days in advance to receive Li Xuandu and his party.

The inn specially prepared a upper room with a single-family yard for Li Xuandu, which is divided into three rooms inside and outside. The innermost one is the bedroom, the middle is the study room, and the outermost one is the living room. As soon as Li Xuandu sat down in the study room, he wanted to continue to refer to the "Taiping Qingling Sutra", the inn's proprietress knocked outside.

Li Xuan was a little impatient, but his face was not visible at all, and he said, "Enter."

The owner of the inn here is a beautiful woman. After carefully pushing the door in, she reported: "Report to the Sect Master, Governor Youyan, to visit."

Li Xuan was stunned: "Governor Xu Zaiyuan, Youyan?"

The boss lady nodded and said, "Yes."

Li Xuandu put away the "Taiping Qingling Jing" in his hand and asked, "How many people did he bring?"

The boss lady said, "About seven or eight people."

Li Xuan was a little surprised. He didn't expect that Xu Zaiyuan, who belonged to the back party, would come to visit him. However, no matter what, Governor Youyan was one of the chief officials in the border areas. Since he was willing to put down his airs and take the initiative to come, he was not easy to avoid him because of his feelings and reason. He pondered for a moment and said, "Please wait for Xubutang to the flower hall, and I'll come here immediately."

The boss's wife took the order and left.

Li Xuandu got up and turned to the back of the screen in the bedroom, changed into a wide-sleeved deep dress, and then left the yard and headed towards the elegant flower hall specially opened by the inn.

Four guards stood outside the flower hall. Although their realm is good, they are nothing in front of Li Xuandu. However, this is reasonable. Since Xu Zaiyuan came to visit in person, he would not deliberately show off his style of escorts. These guards should be just a common example.

The boss's wife also stood outside the flower hall and whispered: "My sect leader has arrived."

These guards immediately gave way, and Li Xuan kept walking straight into the flower hall.

At this time, in the flower hall, except for the two attendants standing beside him, there was only a middle-aged and elegant man sitting upright on a chair, closing his eyes to rest. Looking at his face, the man was probably not confused at all. Even though he was no longer young, he was still very handsome. He thought about how handsome he was when he was young, and he had a majestic temperament for many years, which was more charming than the young man. After hearing the footsteps that Li Xuandu deliberately made, he opened his eyes: "Has Mr. Li arrived?"

Li Xuan stopped not far away and bowed, "Xubutang and Li Xuan have all the courtesy."

Xu Zaiyuan stood up from the chair and returned the greeting, then pointed to the chair next to him: "Mr. Li, please sit down."

Li Xuandu lifted his robe and sat down, and then Xu Zaiyuan took his seat again: "I heard that Mr. Li was going to pass by Jinyang Mansion, but Xu had been waiting for a long time."

Li Xuandu asked, "I wonder what Xubutang has to teach you?"

"I dare not take it when I see the sect." Xu Zaiyuan said: "I just admire Mr. Li's name for a long time and want to make friends."

When talking, Xu Zaiyuan looked directly into Li Xuandu's eyes, extremely sincere, and coupled with the man's gentle demeanor, it made people feel like they were bathed in spring breeze.

Li Xuandu smiled faintly and said, "I dare not be Xu Butang like this."

Xu Zaiyuan was born in a royal family and was trusted by the Queen Mother Xie Zhi and King Jin. He was standing opposite Li Xuandu during the imperial capital change. At this time, he took the initiative to come to the door with unclear intentions. Seeing that Li Xuan was not as sharp as expected, a dark look flashed through his eyes and said, "Mr. Li is too modest. Qinbutang in Qizhou praised Mr. Li."

Li Xuandu said: "It's Qinbutang who praised it."

Seeing that Li Xuan was not anxious at all. Although he was young, he was an old man. If he didn't get to the point, he was afraid that he would be able to circle around him for a long time, so he had to say, "By the way, when it comes to Qinbutang, I heard that Mr. Li had agreed to the marriage between Mr. Li and Miss Qin. Mr. Li went to Liaodong this time to marry Miss Qin. I wonder if this is the case?"

Li Xuandu coughed lightly: "It's still too early to say that the marriage is over. I'm just visiting Master Qin, so I'll consider it... to be engaged."

Xu Zaiyuan smiled and said, "That's almost the same. Mr. Li and Miss Qin are a match made by heaven, and it is also a great event for the Li and Qin families. Although Xu cannot leave his post without permission because of his duties and cannot come to ask for a wedding banquet, it is still necessary to congratulate him."

After the words came, the attendant standing beside him walked forward with a box with exquisite workmanship and handed it to Xu Zaiyuan's hand.

Xu Zaiyuan opened the box and saw a pair of finely carved purple mandarin ducks, about the size of eyeballs, lifelike. Xu Zaiyuan smiled and said, "This pair of mandarin ducks is made of jadeite. Our Great Wei does not produce jadeite, and it is only produced overseas. Jadeites are divided into different quality according to their texture. The most top-quality jadeite is almost as transparent as it is very rare. According to the color, it is also called: 'Emperor Green', 'Blood Jade Red', and 'Purple Eyes'. It is rare to see in decades. This pair of jadeite mandarin ducks are carved from the raw stone of 'Purple Eyes', which is very difficult to obtain."

Li Xuan was not a person who regarded money as dirt. When he suddenly saw such a valuable treasure, his eyelids twitched slightly and said, "I don't know how much money this valuable treasure is?"

Xu Zaiyuan said: "Not much, no, Xu has some friendship with the merchants in Posa Prefecture, so he only spent 10,000 Taiping money."

Ten thousand Taiping money is 300,000 taels of silver, which is not too much. After Li Xuandu became the acting leader of Taiping Sect, the silver amount was only this year. Li Xuandu said seriously: "I dare not accept such a valuable gift."

Xu Zaiyuan smiled and said, "Everyone knows that Taiping Sect is rich. Take this Taiping Inn as an example. It can be worth tens of thousands of taels of silver. There are so many Taiping Inns like this. Mr. Li is the leader of Taiping Sect, so it is not an exaggeration to say that it is rich in the world. Don't say that it is just 10,000 Taiping Money, even 100,000 Taiping Money is not taken seriously. Mr. Li dislikes the slightest gift."

Li Xuandu said: "Xubutang's words are wrong. I am just the leader of the Taiping Sect and the Taiping Sect on his behalf. Taiping Sect is not my private property."

Xu Zaiyuan completely disbelief of Li Xuandu's words. He said that the Qing magistrate had been 100,000 snowflakes in the past three years. Even a small magistrate was like this, let alone the sect leader of Taiping Sect? So he just thought it was Li Xuandu's refutation, and did not refute it. He said sincerely: "No matter how thick or thin it is, it is my whole heart. I hope Mr. Li will not dislike it."

Li Xuan did not rush to answer, but began to think about Xu Zaiyuan's intention to leave a way out like Princess Xuanzhen, or did he want to use this to test something?

Xu Zaiyuan was not in a hurry to urge him, but just covered the box again and placed it on the table.

After a while, Li Xuandu slowly spoke: "Xubutang, you and I have just met each other for the first time and have given such a tribute. It's really..."

"What is Mr. Li talking about this?" Before Li Xuan could finish his words, Xu Zaiyuan interrupted: "Although I first met Mr. Li, I was an official in the same court with Qin's tribe, and I also had friendship with Mr. Li and Governor Lu. We should give a gift for both emotion and reason. Besides, this gift was not only given to Mr. Li, but also to Miss Qin. If Mr. Li wanted to refuse, he had to ask Miss Qin first?"

Speaking of this, Li Xuandu no longer refused and said, "Since that's the case, I'll be disrespectful. I also thanked Xu Butang for his good intentions on behalf of Miss Qin."

Next was an insignificant chat. The two talked about the local government army. Xu Zaiyuan was extremely dissatisfied with the local government army. He said that these local government army were simply unbearable for battle and were well aware of the wonderful meaning of "Wind Forest Volcano". He turned against him as fast as the wind, marched into him as Xu Rulin, burned, killed, robbed, robbed, and rushed to help friendly troops as if they were still moving. He also praised Zhao Zheng's Liaodong Iron Cavalry, and even gave the praise used to describe the Iron Buddha Tu of the Golden Horde that year, which was invincible!

Li Xuan heard more and said less, and finally heard some meaning. Xu Butang knew very well that if the Liaodong cavalry went south to enter the pass, the entire Yanzhou would probably not be able to stop it for a moment. Then this gift is worthy of fun. Do you want to leave a way out early?
Chapter completed!