Sir, can you marry me?

Chapter 117

Xiao Wenqing and his brother were sitting in the restaurant drinking tea and chatting. Ling Yuxuan said that he had something to go out and asked them to sit down longer. Then he went out with two guards with knives and two subordinates, leaving two female guards behind. and two subordinates to protect Xiao Wenqing.

Half an hour later, Ding Bo, the steward that Ling Yuxuan specially brought by his side, came back with a guard, cupped his hands and said, "Miss Xiao, all our luggage has been loaded into the carriage." He took a few guards with knives and looked at the dock workers Move their luggage ashore from the passenger ship one by one and put them on the carriage.

Xiao Wenqing nodded, and said softly: "Ding Bo, you have worked hard, please sit down and have a sip of tea. Your son has something to do, and he will be back soon."

"The old slave thanked Miss Xiao." Ding Bo walked quickly to the corner of the restaurant and sat down to drink tea, waiting for the fourth master to come back with everyone.

"Sister, where did Mr. Ling go? Didn't he want to take you home?" Xiao Wencong asked.My sister's luggage was loaded into the carriage, and it would be better for her to go home early and reunite with her mother.

Xiao Wenqing smiled and said: "Young Master Ling has something to do to visit the magistrate of Xiling County, and he will be back in a while." She lowered her head slightly, and two peach blossoms bloomed on her white face like jade.Ling Yuxuan told her that his father wrote a letter to the magistrate of Xiling County.In the letter, his father asked the county magistrate to arrange for him to hire a matchmaker, and complete the ceremonies of accepting rites, asking for names, Najib, accepting levy, and asking for a date.

Xiao Wenqing knew that the capital city was too far away from Xiling. If the matchmaker travels between the two places to help the two families complete the three matches and six appointments one by one, it will take more than a year if everything goes well.

Why did my sister suddenly blush while talking?That man really wanted to be their brother-in-law.

The careful Xiao Wencong noticed it keenly, and made eye contact with Xiao Wenhua, who was looking over, and nodded tacitly at the same time.Since the attendants around Mr. Ling are all wearing swords and swords, it means that Mr. Ling is either his father is a high-ranking official or he himself is an official.He is an honorable person who sent unrelated girls back to their hometowns to find relatives, and he was quite enthusiastic about them, and he spoke very intimately with his sister, saying that there was no affair between the two of them, and they just had a pair of eyes in vain. up.It's just, what is Mr. Ling doing with the county magistrate at this time?Unregister their sister who just returned to their hometown?It is more reasonable for the Xiao family to come and do this by themselves.

Xiao Wencong and Xiao Wenhua thought about it in their hearts, but they didn't expect that they would personally send their sister back to their hometown to find relatives, so they came here to propose marriage and hire them.

In the afternoon, Ling Yuxuan came back with two guards with knives. The Xiao family siblings, servants and guards as well as his subordinates stood up to greet him.

After sitting down, Ling Yuxuan asked Xiao Wenhua, who spoke and acted steadily, "Brother Wenhua, how did you come to this town? Is Xiaojia Village far from Changhe Town?"

Xiao Wenhua replied: "My little brother and I entered the town in our own carriage. The pier was too crowded, so my carriage was parked in an open space far from the pier. Xiaojia Village is about [-] miles away from Changhe Town. It takes only half a day to take a carriage. I can go back to Xiao’s Village.” The younger brother often comes to the pier to wait for his sister, and he and his second brother Wen Feng are worried that only the servants will accompany the younger brother, so they will take turns to accompany the younger brother.The mother does not want her sons to become helpless because they sit in the study all day, and often encourages them to go out for a walk.

"Well, if you brothers have nothing else to do, you might as well lead us to Xiaojia Village." Ling Yuxuan said, "I hope we can reach Xiaojia Village before dark."

"Okay, let's go now." Xiao Wencong, who had been waiting impatiently, said immediately and stood up.

Xiao Wenqing was also very anxious, and got up together with Xiao Wencong upon hearing this.Xiao Wenhua thought for a while, and said, "Young Master Ling, you have a lot of luggage and the weight of the car, why don't you and your sister take my carriage and go home first."

Ling Yuxuan smiled and said, "Don't worry, Bo Ding has temporarily left some of his luggage at the county yamen, and I have transferred more than a dozen horses to the magistrate." How could his guards ride in a carriage like women and children?However, the capital is far away, and on the way to Xiling, the capital had to abandon the land and board a ship. It was impossible for them to bring their own horses, and they could only requisition the horses from the official posthouses along the way.

Call a dozen horses to the county magistrate?Sure enough, the power is great.

The Xiao brothers had a tacit understanding and looked at each other.

Everyone got up, and Xiao Wenhua took a long entourage to the carriage parked outside the pier. Xiao Wencong was reluctant to part with his sister, so he followed his sister Xiao Wenqing to the pier.On the other side of the pier, the carriage hired by Ling Yuxuan is ready to go, and there are two carriages carrying people.Xiao Wenqing took Xiao Wencong and led his maid, Crystal Agate, to the second carriage, and Ling Yuxuan got into the first carriage with his steward, Ding Bo, and the boy who waited on him.Six guards with sabers, four subordinates of Ling Yuxuan's Dragon Scale Guards, and two female guards who hardly spoke, rode horses to protect the surroundings of the carriage.

"Drive, drive..." The convoy drove out of the pier, joined the Xiao family's carriage, and headed towards Xiao's village in the east of Changhe Town.

In the carriage, Xiao Wencong sat beside Xiao Wenqing, raised his face and said: "Sister, mother misses you very much. When I was a child, I often watched her secretly cry. Ever since I found out about your whereabouts, she has been thinking about you every day."

(End of this chapter)