But she felt a little strange. Mr. Mo only said that she had helped him a lot, but he did not tell her about the fact that she saved him twice and detoxified him.

Did he not want others to know that he was rescued by a refugee? Or was he thinking about her safety and not wanting his enemies to seek revenge on him?

Qiao Ran thought to himself, put those thoughts aside, and said politely:

"Young Master Sima, I'm so grateful! It's Young Master Mo who praised me too much. You don't have to take it seriously. Welcome to the General's Mansion as a guest! But I have to entertain the ladies, so I have to excuse myself first. Why don't you guys be here? Later, I will ask the maid to call my brother over to accompany you guys for a walk! If the reception is not good, please forgive me."

"Miss Qiao, you don't have to be polite. You can go about your business, we don't have to entertain you. We can just sit in the pavilion over there with my cousin later."

Sima Qian also responded politely.

But as soon as he finished speaking, there was a coldness next to him, as if emanating from someone, which made him shiver.

"Okay, then please help yourself. If you need anything, just ask the servant and maid. I'll excuse you now."

Qiao Ran said goodbye to a few people, and then left with two sisters, Lin Sumei and Lin Suxin, who had long wanted to slip away.

But she didn't see that just behind them, Qin Yuelan was a few steps behind, lowered her head, and glanced at Mo Beihan several times from the corner of her eye.

It wasn't until Qiao Ran and the others were almost gone that she reluctantly looked away and followed them reluctantly.

Mo Beihan was keenly aware of the look that made him feel very uncomfortable. However, because this was the person who was following Qiao Ran just now and seemed to be related to the General's Mansion, he didn't care too much about it.

"Cousin, Miss Qin seems to be interested in you too."

Sima Qian came to Mo Beihan's side and spoke softly in a voice that only the three of them could hear.

"Don't talk nonsense, don't tarnish the reputation of this girl's family."

Mo Beihan gave him a warning look.

What Miss Qin? He doesn't know him at all!

Thinking of the look that secretly looked at him just now, he felt a little nauseous.

He didn't like people looking at him like that. His sneaky look made people very unhappy.

Why can't the rich ladies of these aristocratic families be like that little girl, just look at people openly if they want to see them, and show their likes and dislikes clearly on their faces?

"Cousin, it's true. I also feel that Miss Qin likes you. She just glanced at you secretly several times and thought we couldn't see it!"

"You dare to say it again? I will write a letter when you get back and send you all back to Northern Xinjiang."

"Ah? Stop talking! Stop talking! We said the wrong thing. Cousin, please don't send us back!"

"Yes, cousin, please be kind and don't send us back to Northern Xinjiang! That hellish place is not a life for humans to live in. The capital is so prosperous and lively! I love the capital and I don't want to go back. Northern Xinjiang! I don’t want to go back and eat sand!”

The two young masters hurriedly bowed and begged for mercy, promising not to do it again, and Mo Beihan let them go.

"Let's go and sit in the pavilion over there for a while. Let's make an agreement first. When dinner is served later, you can't snatch fish from me!"

Mo Beihan reluctantly led his two cousins ​​to the pavilion.

If these two people weren't related to him, and his grandmother and aunt asked him to take care of them, he wouldn't bother to deal with these two losers who only know how to eat, drink and have fun.

The two young men took a look at the beautiful blue-water fish in the pool and quickly followed them.

"Cousin, is that water fish really so delicious? Miss Qiao has given it to you before? Why don't you leave some for us to eat if there is something delicious?"

"Cousin, do you really want to invite your friends to a banquet in the next few days? But besides us two brothers, where do you have any friends? You don't look down on any of the young men from the aristocratic families in the capital, and you don't even bother to play with them. , how can you kindly treat them to fish?"

The two brothers have lively personalities and don't care about their cousin's cold temperament. Anyway, they all know that although their cousin looks cold and indifferent on the surface, he is very good to his family. Even if they often make his cousin angry, his cousin will not Really blame them.

In contrast to the two brothers' warm exchanges, Mo Beihan only replied with a few words: "No. Please eat."

When the two brothers heard this, they felt happy.

Sure enough, they were just saying, why would my cousin suddenly be so kind as to entertain those young men from aristocratic families that he hates?

It turns out that I bought fish from Miss Qiao to entertain the two brothers!

"Really? Cousin, you are so kind!"

"Cousin, I love you so much! Is the blue water fish really delicious? Don't all fish taste the same? It's fishy and not delicious at all! What kind of delicious food do you want to treat us to? ah?"

The two brothers chattered and followed Mo Beihan into the pavilion. There was a stove and tea and snacks in the pavilion. The three of them drank tea and watched the scenery while waiting for lunch.

Mo Beihan didn't even bother to pay attention to the young master from an aristocratic family who deliberately came into the pavilion to say hello and make friends. He kept sitting and drinking tea aloofly, leaving it up to the Sima brothers to send him away.

But after Qiao Ran took Qin Yuelan and the Lin sisters out, Mrs. Zheng, Zheng Lin, and Zheng Huiniang were in the flower hall talking to the female relatives of Jing'an Marquis and Wenchang Marquis.

While a few people were talking, other invited guests also came to the door one after another.

Madam Zheng excused herself and took her daughter-in-law and daughter out to meet the other women.

The number of guests gradually increased, and the main hall, flower hall, and garden gradually became lively.

Mrs. Zheng and Zheng Huiniang were chatting with the female relatives, while the ladies who came with the elders were led by the maids to wander in the garden in twos and threes under the arrangement of Zheng Lin.

In the flower hall, Mrs. Zheng was sitting at the main seat, and sitting on her left was an old lady with a haggard face.

That was Mrs. Zhang, the old lady of the Prime Minister's Mansion. Sitting under her was her daughter-in-law, Zhang Bai, the current wife of the Prime Minister.

But compared to Mrs. Zhang who is haggard and old, Mrs. Zhang Bai is dressed in red and green, with powder and blush on her face and rosy lips, making her look charming.

Sitting together, the two look less like mother-in-law and daughter-in-law than like grandparents and grandchildren.

Even Zhang Bai's voice is delicate and soft when she speaks. She doesn't look like a middle-aged woman who has been married for many years and has a teenage daughter, but more like a twenty-year-old girl who is not familiar with the world.

Although Mrs. Zheng and Mrs. Zhang were talking, they didn't seem to be close to each other, and all they said were polite words.

Thinking about it, since ancient times, civil servants and military officers have been like two camps, unable to deal with each other.

The civil servants disliked the rude behavior of the military attache, who only knew how to beat and kill.

The military attache, on the other hand, despises the formality of civil servants' speech. They can only narrate those sour poems. A sentence can be explained clearly in just a few words, but it has to go around and around the eighteen bends of the mountain road, which is very tiring. Guess, it's a headache for military attaches like them who like to go straight, and they don't even know they are scolded when they quarrel.

And because each emperor had his own preferences and policies for governing the country, some favored literature and some favored martial arts.

The emperor of the current dynasty prefers civil governance or military governance, which means whether civil servants are valued more in this dynasty, or military attachés are more reused.

Therefore, in the court, civil servants and military attachés often disagreed over one thing and quarreled fiercely.

As the highest representatives of the civil and military officials of the Dai Viet Kingdom, the Prime Minister's Office and the General's Office have always only maintained superficial courtesy, but did not have too many interactions.

Therefore, the old ladies of the two houses did not move around very often, and they only exchanged polite greetings when they met on some occasions where they had to meet.

Just when both parties had greeted everyone in the other's house, and were about to find no topic of conversation and had to greet the cats and dogs in the house, a crying little girl suddenly burst in from outside the door.

Everyone who was talking in the flower hall stopped and looked over curiously.

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