West of Yuzhou City, Xuanhua Street.

The renovated and widened streets are bustling with cars and horses, pedestrians rubbing shoulders with each other, and all kinds of bright and dazzling signs are everywhere.

In addition to the most conspicuous porcelain shops and pharmacies, there are also teahouses and restaurants everywhere, as well as silk shops, livestock shops, grain and grain shops, dumping shops, and so on.

Zhu Manniang, who was carrying a bamboo basket, shuttled through the crowd with her head down, and when she heard the noisy shouting in her ears, her face couldn't help but flash a little dazed.

Since following Gu Tingye to Yuzhou, Zhu Manniang has come to Xuanhua Street outside the state almost every day to buy rice, flour, vegetable oil and other daily necessities, and has also watched Xuanhua Street develop from a sluggish person to today's prosperous scene.

Although it is not as drunk as Bianjing, it is already extremely incredible as an ordinary street in a state city.

Zhu Manniang lives in the state office, and she is quite well-informed on weekdays, so she naturally knows that all these changes in Yuzhou City originate from Wei Chen.

Countless people in Yuzhou who have been blessed are grateful to this young Zhizhou lord, and they are eager to set up a shrine for him and worship him for generations.

However, Zhu Manniang did not have a good impression of Wei Chen.

Every time Wei Chen talked to Gu Tingye, he would deliberately separate her, obviously looking at her unpleasantly.

That's it.

Zhu Manniang knew very well in her heart that after all, she was an outsider from a lowly background, and it was normal for a pretentious official like Wei Chen to look down on her.

Before she met Gu Tingye, Zhu Manniang had been a courtesan in Bianjing for so many years, and she had long been accustomed to this kind of disdainful look.

But there is one thing that Zhu Manniang can't bear.

Driven by the Jun porcelain trade, Yuzhou merchants gathered, all industries prospered, and the state treasury was filled.

Tens of thousands of people in Yuzhou have more or less eaten the dividends of Yuzhou's development, and even the lowest officials in the state government have recently increased their salaries under the instruction of Zhizhou Weichen.

And Gu Tingye, as the captain of the Yuzhou Public Security Brigade who is in charge of hundreds of servants, was busy suppressing bandits and thieves in Yuzhou last year, and made great contributions to the smooth flow of Yuzhou's trade routes, but in the end, he didn't even get any benefits!

Zhu Manniang is really worthless for her own man, and she has expressed her dissatisfaction with Wei Chen in front of Gu Tingye several times.

It's just that Gu Tingye has always been unimpressed with Zhu Manniang's complaints, and once severely reprimanded Zhu Manniang for this, making Zhu Manniang feel aggrieved.

To put it bluntly, Zhu Manniang and Gu Tingye's values are completely different from the roots, and it is naturally difficult for her to understand Gu Tingye's thoughts.

Although Gu Tingye is named Wei Chen's staff, he is different from Wei Shuping and Fang Yuan. Wei and Fang are both Wei Chen's subordinates, and they are loyal to the king, but Gu Tingye is not.

The reason why Gu Tingye ran from Bailudong Academy to Yuzhou was to help his brother support the field, and what he wanted was the word "righteousness", if Wei Chen really took the money to send him, it would be a real insult to him.

Moreover, Gu Tingye knew very well that although Yuzhou was becoming more and more prosperous under Wei Chen's governance, Wei Chen himself did not enjoy the slightest benefit from it.

The surplus taxes in the treasury were either used for various farmland and water conservancy facilities, or for building bridges and roads, and building schools, in short, not a penny fell into Weichen's pocket.

Gu Tingye admired Wei Chen's high demeanor and brightness, so naturally it was impossible to ask Wei Chen for compensation, which was slapping him in the face of Gu Lao'er.

It's a pity that Gu Tingye's concept is not something that Zhu Manniang, who has been in the dust since childhood, can understand and agree with.

Of course, if you don't agree, you don't agree, Zhu Manniang can be favored by Gu Tingye for so long, relying on observing words and feelings.

Seeing the dissatisfaction on Gu Tingye's face when she heard her complain about Wei Chen, Zhu Manniang immediately changed her tone, was obedient to Gu Tingye, and buried her true thoughts in her heart.

Zhu Manniang can only comfort herself in her heart, what she is doing is a long-term investment, she doesn't have to care too much about the small profits in front of her, and when Gu Tingye takes the title in the future and becomes a marquise, are you still worried about not having glory and wealth to enjoy?

It's just that Gu Tingye has always been resistant to returning to the Hou Mansion, and even Bianjing is unwilling to go, so he still has to think of a way to persuade him, he can't stay in this small Yuzhou City for the rest of his life, right?

When he becomes a yellow-faced woman, Gu Tingye may not be able to pamper himself like he is now, and at that time, even if Gu Tingye becomes Gu Hou, the position of the marquise has nothing to do with him.

Time waits for no one!

As soon as she thought of this, Zhu Manniang couldn't help but speed up the pace of her steps, and was about to hurry back after buying things, and talk to Gu Tingye about the matter.

However, just as Zhu Manniang hurriedly returned in the direction of the state office, a figure suddenly appeared on the side of the street, grabbed her arm, and cried out: "Sanniang, I can be regarded as finding you!" ”

Suddenly bumped into this kind of thing, Zhu Manniang was also taken aback, and only after a while did she calm down a little and regain her ability to think.

Sanniang, isn't this my ranking at home, where did this person who suddenly appeared know about it?

Thinking of this, Zhu Manniang couldn't help but look at the unkempt man in front of her with doubts.

But when she saw the man's face clearly, her eyes suddenly widened: "Big brother? Why are you here? ”

The man sighed heavily and said, "Alas, it's a long story! ”

It's no wonder that Zhu Manniang was shocked, the man in front of her was her brother who had been dead for several years, Zhu Dachun.

Gu Tingye listened to Zhu Manniang's nonsense at the beginning, and specially paid to buy a cemetery for her brother, and now the grave grass is three feet high.

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Therefore, after identifying the identity of the person in front of her, Zhu Manniang immediately vigilantly glanced at her front and back, left and right.

It is close to the state office, and it is in the downtown area, and there are many people, in case an acquaintance passes by nearby and notices him, it will be troublesome.

If Gu Tingye finds out that Zhu Dachun has deceived the corpse and returned to his soul, even if Zhu Manniang can make up a reason to get over, it will leave a pimple in Gu Tingye's heart, which is definitely not what Zhu Manniang wants to see.

Fortunately, after sweeping around and not seeing any acquaintances, Zhu Manniang couldn't help but secretly breathe a sigh of relief, but for the sake of safety, she still hurriedly took Zhu Dachun to avoid the flow of people and hurried away in the opposite direction to the state government.

It's just that Zhu Manniang hurriedly hid her whereabouts for Zhu Dachun, but ignored the dodging look in her brother's eyes.

Zhu Manniang took Zhu Dachun all the way, away from the crowd, and finally turned into a remote alley.

Not long after, two young men in strong suits also came to the mouth of the alley, and after looking at each other, they quietly followed.