Man Bao blinked and insisted: "Who said that I have always been so hospitable."
While they were talking, Aunt Liu, who was guarding the gate, saw them. She had met Magistrate Tang once in the Bai Mansion on Kangxue Street. Now she saw him and her young master bumping into each other, and her eyelids couldn't stand it.
It kept beating.
She hurriedly came out and saluted Bai Shan and Man Bao first, then saluted Magistrate Tang and said with a smile: "This is Magistrate Tang from Yizhou City. My old lady heard that you are also here."
Xiang, I specially asked the old slave to wait here, please go to the quiet room to rest."
Magistrate Tang raised his eyebrows when he heard this. It was indeed not a secret that he was here, but it didn't spread to a place as small as Qili Village, and someone was waiting for him.
Magistrate Tang glanced at Bai Shan and Man Bao who were equally surprised, nodded with a smile, and walked away with Grandma Liu.
Bai Shan and Man Bao looked at each other and quickly followed.
Aunt Liu turned back to them and said: "Master, Miss Man, you haven't gone to burn incense yet. Go burn incense to Laojun first and then go back to the quiet room to rest."
The two stopped and Magistrate Tang turned around, smiled at them, and followed Grandma Liu away.
Watching them go away, the two couldn't help but look at each other.
Bai Shandao: "Grandma must have booked the same room as last time."
Man Bao said: "I know there is a window next to the wooden couch in the inner room. It is impossible to entertain guests in the inner room."
Without saying a word, the two of them went into the main hall without any hurry, kowtowed three times to the statue of Master Tianzun, whom they were very familiar with, and then slipped to the backyard after bowing.
The two of them walked through the Taoist temple's vegetable garden and walked around behind several houses.
There used to be vegetables growing behind the house, but now the vegetables have been pulled out and replaced with flowers and trees, obviously for the sake of appearance.
Man Bao stepped in and was about to sneak over. Then a light cough sounded. Man Bao froze. He and Bai Shan turned to look over. They saw Daoxu coming out from behind a tree, looking at them and asking,
"What are you doing, being sneaky?"
Man Bao shushed and asked in a low voice: "Why are you here? There are so many people today, don't you have to entertain the guests?"
"It's just because there were so many people and I was very tired that I came to the back to have a rest. Why are you here?"
Bai Shandao: "Are you lazy?"
Daoxu rolled his eyes and said, "I'm just lazy, what did you do?"
Bai Shan pointed to a room without changing his expression and said, "That's the room reserved by my family. We want to give our elders a surprise, so don't ruin our affairs."
Daoxu took a look and found that the room was indeed rented by the Bai family, but he was pleasantly surprised...
He looked at the two of them suspiciously, "Don't be mischievous. What kind of surprise needs to go around to the back window?"
Man Bao said: "That's because you don't understand."
Man Bao thought for a while and simply asked: "We want to open the window. Do you have anything to open the window?"
Daoxu dug into his sleeves, took out a key, and asked hesitantly: "Are you really here for the surprise?"
Bai Shan had already snatched it away and said, "It can't be just to cause trouble."
The two of them carefully moved under the window, then used the key to reach in through the gap, and kept pushing the lock of the window. Daoxu stood aside and watched for a while, feeling disgusted, he pushed Bai Shan away and said, "I'll do it."
Bai Shan gave up his position to him.
Daoxu lay down and looked out the window for a while, then gently moved the lock bar upwards, and opened the window the moment it slid upwards...
He proudly turned back to look at the two of them.
Bai Shan and Man Bao couldn't help but give him a thumbs up.
Man Bao peeked inside and heard voices coming from the lobby, which was separated from the inner room by only a screen. He whispered to Daoxu in a low voice, then jumped up to the window and climbed in.
Bai Shan followed and climbed up.
Daoxu was dumbfounded. After regaining consciousness, he couldn't help but muttered in a low voice: "I'm still a scholar, but I ended up climbing out of the window."
After saying that, he closed the window for them, turned around and was about to leave. He thought of something, rolled his eyes slightly, and simply picked up two branches from the ground nearby and tied them together, and then blocked the window from the outside.
He chuckled, turned around and ran away.
The two people who slipped into the house didn't know that Daoxu had blocked their way back. They crept to the screen and looked out quietly.
In the outer room outside the screen, Mrs. Liu and Mr. Bai had just met Magistrate Tang. Everyone sat down. Lao Zhoutou and Qian were also sitting on the chairs. They did not expect to see a person under such circumstances.
The county magistrate was a little uncomfortable.
Mrs. Liu smiled placatingly at them and glanced at Aunt Liu. Aunt Liu took all the servants out of the room, and then Daji came in.
Man Bao and Bai Shan opened their eyes wide when they saw Daji coming in openly from outside the house.
The two people immediately retracted into the screen and looked at each other. Man Bao winked at Bai Shan and asked, 'When did Daji disappear?'
Bai Shan also looked at her, 'How do I know? Shouldn't he be waiting for us outside the window?'
The two of them looked at me, and I looked at you, and finally swallowed their saliva, and then sneaked their heads out to take a look together.
When Mrs. Liu saw Daji coming in, what else didn't she understand?
She stroked her forehead with a headache and said loudly: "Shan Bao, Man Bao, come out."
The two of them retracted their heads, turned around and ran towards the window...
Man Bao climbed onto the couch and pushed the wooden window. When he found that it couldn't be pushed, he looked at Bai Shan with wide eyes.
Bai Shan also reached out and pushed it. The window moved but did not open.
The two of them looked at each other and could only get off the wooden couch obediently and walked around the screen to go out.
When Lao Zhoutou saw Man Bao coming out of the inner room, his eyes widened immediately, "Man Bao, when did you come?"
Qian had already stood up and pulled her over, saying angrily: "Are you being naughty again?"
Man Bao lowered his head.
Mrs. Liu also glared at Bai Shan, "Nonsense, this is a Taoist temple, how can you be rude? Why don't you quickly pay homage to Mr. Tang, Mr. Zhou, and Mrs. Zhou?"
Lao Zhoutou immediately leaned forward and said, "Don't you dare, I don't dare, the old lady is too polite."
He still doesn't understand why Mrs. Liu brought them along. Although Manbao and Master Shan are very familiar with each other and are still brothers and sisters, the adults of the two families rarely meet each other, and their communication basically depends on sending things.
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You bring a handful of vegetables to my house, and I bring a bowl of tofu to your house. Although there is a sense of friendship, we rarely see each other.
Mrs. Liu smiled and said: "This is what he deserves."
I was stunned and asked Bai Shan to bow to Lao Zhoutou and Qian with the junior ceremony.
Magistrate Tang spoke very little from the moment he came in. He only looked with his eyes and listened with his ears. When he saw this, he shook his fan and said with a smile: "The old lady is indeed too polite. Tang just came up the mountain to play, and the old lady went out of her way to