As soon as Xiao Yanlin returned to the mansion, he met Gu Baiyu who was coming to him.

As soon as he came home, he was greeted by his wife, and he was in a good mood.

In the outer courtyard, Gu Baiyu didn't say much, so he accompanied Xiao Yanlin back to the room to change his clothes, poured Xiao Yanlin a cup of tea, and waited for him to finish drinking it before he said what happened in Xiao Ruoyun's courtyard last night.

Xiao Yanlin's speech was much more straightforward than Lingyu's, "What do you mean, are you afraid that Gu Ruan Ruan will go out and steal people?" ”

Gu Baiyu was also stunned when he heard this, and then said calmly: "Master Hou...... If Master Hou wants to say this, it's not impossible, I'm just afraid that this possibility will appear. Master Hou knows, my sister...... I am really not a pure and kind person, my temperament is out-of-the-box, and I am not controlled, I am afraid that something will happen in the future, which will hinder the reputation of the Hou Mansion, and I am also afraid that the second master will be laughed at. ”

Xiao Yanlin was much calmer than she thought, and said, "Hmm. That's his own business, the person he chooses, if he can't even discipline a woman, what big can he do? ”

When Gu Baiyu heard this, the focus was not on Xiao Ruoyun, but on a word in Xiao Yanlin's words-

"Discipline?"

Xiao Yan was stunned, with some secret remorse in his heart, and said differently: "If the two of them don't understand each other, Aunt Gu is a person in his courtyard, so she should be disciplined well...... Madame, don't blame, I don't mean to despise women, but ......"

Gu Baiyu looked at him with a smile, "Then if one day, I am disobedient, will Master Hou also discipline me?" ”

Xiao Yanlin smiled, it turned out that he was waiting for him here.

After thinking about it, he said: "Now everyone knows that in this Hou Mansion, Mrs. is the biggest, and it is the lady who should be disciplined, but it is not me who disciplines Mrs., it is Mrs. who disciplines me." ”

Gu Baiyu snorted lightly, "Master Hou is more than ten years older than me, can he obey my discipline?" ”

Xiao Yanlin took the person in his arms, his slender waist was between the palms of his hands, and he couldn't help but reach out and pinch it, and the place where the clothes were separated should have left a little red mark yesterday, and it was here......

Gu Baiyu felt the movement of his waist and was a little annoyed: "Master Hou! ”

Xiao Yanlin casually continued to move under his hands, and replied in his mouth: "Accept, why don't you accept it?" In this world, I only serve my wife, my wife tells me to go east, I will never go west, the rich man tells me to catch dogs, I never chase chickens. ”

Gu Baiyu smiled angrily, this is really not like what Xiao Yanlin would say, so he said: "I really should let everyone see that Master Hou looks like he is afraid of his wife and strict with his wife!" ”

Xiao Yanlin suddenly curled his lips and smiled, "I'm a strict wife, isn't this matter known to all of Kyoto?" ”

The husband and wife laughed a few words, and then continued with Xiao Ruoyun's previous incident.

"By the way, Lord Hou is so late today, but the second master told His Majesty about the collusion between the Ministry of Industry and the officials in the northwest?"

When Gu Baiyu asked, his tone was a little nervous, for fear that if this matter was not good, it would affect Xiao Yanlin.

Unexpectedly, Xiao Yanlin shook his head, his tone was light, and he sounded unfazed, but Gu Baiyu always felt that there was some disappointment in his eyes.

He didn't say anything, I don't know how Aunt Gu discussed it with him, in short, everything was calm this morning. He did not go along with the people of the Ministry of Works, but he did not report them to His Majesty. ”

After listening to this, Gu Baiyu's heart was also a little complicated.

Yes, Xiao Ruoyun has such a temperament, people are not bad, but they are indecisive, and they are easily influenced by others to judge, I think they were persuaded by Gu Ruan Ruan yesterday......

She turned her head and said to Xiao Yanlin: "It's okay, the preparations made by Master Hou in advance are not wasteful, if anything happens in the future, there is a way to deal with it......"

Speaking of this, Gu Baiyu's words suddenly stopped.

Because something suddenly occurred to her.

Gu Baiyu remembered clearly, in his previous life, Gu Ruan Ruan gave the drawings of the waterwheel to Xiao Ruoyun, and Xiao Ruoyun dedicated them to the emperor.

After the waterwheel was made, it witnessed its efficacy, and the emperor was very happy, and immediately asked the Ministry of Industry and the northwest officials to jointly put it into production.

It seems that such an incident happened at that time.

The Ministry of Industry colluded with officials in the northwest to increase the cost of the waterwheel, and after the silver was allocated to the local area in the northwest, it was exploited layer by layer, and the final waterwheel was not only small in quantity, but also of poor quality, and almost no water wheel could really be used in agriculture.

In order to hold on to this matter, the officials in the northwest lied that the harvest was quite abundant, and the emperor did not know the reason for this, thinking that with this sharp weapon, a bumper harvest in the northwest was inevitable, and the good news was not reported over there......

As a result, the tax revenue in the northwest was increased, resulting in the misery of the people in the northwest, the displacement of the people, and even many people rose up, and finally the army could only be sent to forcibly suppress it......

What happened to everyone in the Ministry of Industry, Gu Baiyu didn't care, she was more concerned about the people in the northwest.

So many people, so many lives, she was born again, can she save their lives?

Xiao Yanlin saw Gu Baiyu's expression solemn, and his expression became serious, "But what is the difficulty?" ”

Gu Baiyu's heart was very confused, she was trying to recall the memories of that time in her previous life.

"Master Hou, wait, let me think about it...... Let me think again......"

Xiao Yanlin's expression softened: "Don't worry, what do you want to say, you can tell me when you think clearly." ”

Gu Baiyu gradually fell into the memories of his previous life.

She remembered that in her previous life, Xiao Ruoyun did not seem to be involved in the collusion between the Ministry of Industry and the Northwest.

Gu Baiyu didn't know how he managed to be alone, she only knew that it wasn't until the uprising of the refugees in the northwest broke out that the officials in the northwest colluded with the Ministry of Industry to embezzle ink that it was exposed.

At that time, the entire Ministry of Industry, except for Xiao Ruoyun, was given the death penalty by the emperor.

And it was also at that time that Gu Ruan Ruan gave advice to Xiao Ruoyun, asking him to resist public opinion, plead hard in front of the emperor, and exempt those people from capital crimes, a few of whom were not deeply involved, and later even resumed their official positions.

Since then, that group of people has been loyal to Xiao Ruoyun, and the Ministry of Industry has almost become Xiao Ruoyun's hall.

After that, Xiao Ruoyun took the lead and personally set off to the northwest to supervise the manufacture of a new batch of waterwheels, and finally in the second year, the waterwheels, which are conducive to farming, were spread all over the northwest, because of this incident, Xiao Ruoyun's reputation in the northwest soared.

At that time, Gu Baiyu had already run out of oil in the back house.

Zhou Guifei's father, Lord Zhou, once found a way to meet her.

At that time, Lord Zhou's expression was complicated, and he told Gu Baiyu that the reason why Xiao Ruoyun was able to be alone in the matter of greedy ink, and later won the trust of everyone in the Ministry of Industry, and even came to the northwest later to make that career......

It's all Gu Ruan Ruan's advice behind the scenes.

She still remembered that Master Zhou shook his head at that time, looking at her with pity: "You and your mother have seen the wrong person, you have all mistaken jackals for lambs......"

Thinking about it now, Gu Baiyu only felt a chill in his heart.

Xiao Ruoyun, as the person who made the waterwheel back then, colluded with the Ministry of Industry and Northwest officials for so long, did he really have no idea?

What kind of mood did he have, seeing that the people of the northwest were struggling to make a living, he appeared at the last moment, like a savior, first saved the people of the Ministry of Industry, then saved the people of the northwest, and finally gained fame and fortune......

If the world she is in is just a story, then Gu Baiyu doesn't know everything about her death and how the plot will develop.

But she knew that if no one stopped Xiao Ruoyun and Gu Ruan Ruan's footsteps, the two of them were very likely to go to a position that Gu Baiyu could not reach.

She still remembered that before she died, Gu Ruan Ruan once came to see her, with resentment in her eyes, and asked her why she didn't die when there was no one?

said that Gu Baiyu had occupied the name of Xiao Ruoyun's wife for so long, so she could only stay by Xiao Ruoyun's side without a name;

also said that she has lived in the shadow of Gu Baiyu since she was a child, and she hates Gu Baiyu very much......

The hatred in Gu Ruanruan's eyes made Gu Baiyu feel cold all over his body when he thought about it now!

And Xiao Yanlin not only showed kindness to her before she died, but even when Xiao Ruoyun proposed to marry Gu Ruan Ruan as a continuation after her death, Xiao Yanlin tried his best to oppose it.

Such a Xiao Yanlin, what will happen in the end?

Thinking of this, Gu Baiyu deeply realized the urgency of the matter.

She turned around and held Xiao Yanlin's hand tightly-

"Master Hou, I have something to tell you, although it sounds incredible, you must believe me!"