Zheng Shan, Zhao Yi and Xiaoyu left, leaving Zhuang Feng, Meng Yuanhua and Tang Guiyi;

There were only three people left, Zhuang Feng looked at Meng Yuanhua with a look of wanting to speak and stopped, and said there: "If you have anything to say, just say it, you are not the one who can hide the words;"

"The people you arranged here are all from Jiangzhou, will Shaozhou have any opinions?" Meng Yuanhua looked at Zhuang Feng and then at Tang Guiyi, and said with some hesitation;

After Meng Yuanhua finished speaking, he looked a little embarrassed, because this clearly meant that Tang Guiyi would have personal grievances;

"Xiao Meng, you don't know this; Xiao Zhuang is this nepotism;" Tang Guiyi followed Meng Yuanhua's words there, jokingly;

Tang Guiyi naturally knew what Meng Yuanhua was worried about, but it was just Meng Yuanhua who was blindly worried there;

"Shaozhou is also mine, and the people of Seventh Brother are still a little not on good terms with us, and it is precisely because there are still some barriers that it is more necessary for my Jiangzhou descendants to have stronger strength, so that the people in Shaozhou can understand who is their real master;" Zhuang Feng explained;

Zhuang Feng paused for a moment, and then continued: "As for Seventh Brother and me, your thoughts are a little cautious, don't look at me, this is not good, but this is the truth; between Seventh Brother and me, as early as twenty years ago, it was decided who was the lord and who was the minister; although there were some grievances back then, but now those grievances have been resolved;"

"Xiao Zhuang is right, the people below Shaozhou are estranged from us, that's because some of them are old people left by my uncle, plus I have been separated from Xiaozhuang for ten years, it really takes some time to run in;

"Dare to be affectionate, am I being a villain in vain?" Meng Yuanhua listened to Zhuang Feng and Tang Guiyi explain there, and said a little unhappily;

"It's not that we're villains in vain, this is also our actual state now, it seems that we have Jiang Shao and two states, plus Qiaozhou that is being received, this seems to be very strong, but in fact, our internal instability is still unstable, and it will take time;" Tang Guiyi continued to talk to Meng Yuanhua after Meng Yuanhua's words;

"Well, what I need most now is time, and after returning from Shaozhou, I haven't made any more adjustments, for this run-in, but after getting along for half a year, it's time to make some adjustments;" Zhuang Feng said there;

Tang Guiyi listened to Zhuang Feng's words, and seemed to think of what Zhuang Feng was going to do, because Zhuang Feng's current deployment of the governor's hall has not yet been perfected; it is also the four modules of commerce and order in the rivers and lakes, the establishment of the armed forces, and the financial system; this is still a few less than the former establishment of the Zhuang family, or the common system of all families is still lacking in the current Jiangzhou;

"You want to rebuild the West Courtyard?" Tang Guiyi listened to Zhuang Feng's words and asked tentatively;

"Hmm;" Zhuang Feng nodded seriously;

Tang Guiyi also nodded, as if thinking about something;

Tang Guiyi didn't know much about the West Courtyard, he only knew about the existence of the West Courtyard and the nature of their powers and responsibilities, which was actually just a routine existence of such an institution in the Zhuang family's structure, as for more things, that is, it was confidential, and Tang Guiyi didn't know much about it;

"Sister-in-law is still alive, and the resources of the West Courtyard are still there;" Zhuang Feng looked at Tang Guiyi's thoughtful appearance and said there again;

"What?" Tang Guiyi heard Zhuang Feng's words clearly, but he didn't dare to believe it, and he was quite surprised there;

"Hua'er has seen it, didn't she tell you?" Zhuang Feng looked at Tang Guiyi's somewhat surprised appearance, and asked back with a puzzled question;

"I don't seem to have said it;" Meng Yuanhua thought for a while, and said with some hesitation;

Tang Guiyi did not see Ao Xiuzhi when he went to Jiangzhou to rescue Zhuang Feng from Shaozhou, although he had seen Ye Tao, but because he knew too little about the West Courtyard, he did not know Ye Tao's identity;

In the next half a year, it was quite calm, Zhuang Feng did not move Lao Ao Xiuzhi, and although Meng Yuanhua and Zhou Xilin had seen Ao Xiuzhi, because there was no direct follow-up contact, naturally no one mentioned it;

Zeng Jianping was in charge of the guard office and shared intelligence with Ao Xiuzhi, and this guard office belonged directly to Zhuang Feng, so Tang Guiyi did not interfere with too much contact, but only received the intelligence report from the guard office on official business, and did not inquire about the source of the intelligence report;

No one mentioned this matter, so that Tang Guiyi stayed in Jiangzhou for half a year, and he didn't know about Ao Xiuzhi's existence;

Zhuang Feng looked at Meng Yuanhua's hesitant appearance, and also reacted in his heart, this was indeed neglected, or the West Courtyard itself did not have direct contact with other people, such neglect was not considered a major negligence;

"Let's go to sister-in-law's place to eat hot pot tomorrow night, let's talk about it again;" Zhuang Feng thought for a while and said there;

"Okay;" replied Tang Guiyi;

Although he doesn't know much about the West Courtyard, he also knows what the West Courtyard does, and the intelligence supervision agency, as long as they want to, even if the Zhuang family completely collapses, they can survive;

At the end of the conversation, Zhuang Feng, Meng Yuanhua, and Tang Guiyi also rested;

On a new day, Tang Guiyi and Meng Yuanhua continued to take over the affairs of Qiaozhou, and Zhuang Feng had nothing to do, so he finished the day peacefully;

When night fell, Zhuang Feng and Tang Guiyi went to Ao Xiuzhi's snack bar;

Au Xiuzhi is no longer stationed at the snack bar, which now only serves as a point of contact;

When Zhuang Feng needed to meet with Ao Xiuzhi, Zhuang Feng contacted Ao Xiuzhi, and then arrived at the snack bar, and the people in the store escorted Zhuang Feng to the place designated by Ao Xiuzhi;

Unless it is an emergency, Zhuang Feng has to follow this procedure if he wants to see Ao Xiuzhi;

"My sister-in-law has opened this small shop here for ten years;" Zhuang Feng and Tang Guiyi arrived at the snack bar and said to Tang Guiyi there;

Tang Guiyi looked at this small shop and didn't say anything, nor did he ask why Zhuang Feng knew that Ao Xiuzhi had been here for ten years, and he could still find Ao Xiuzhi;

Today's Tang Guiyi is no longer as conceited as ten years ago, and has understood that in the family, some things are only controlled by the head of the family, and no matter how brotherly and affectionate other people are, they can't control it;

Perhaps, Zhuang Feng now brought Tang Guiyi over to meet Ao Xiuzhi, in fact, it is also to let Ao Xiuzhi untie the knot in his heart back then, otherwise Zhuang Feng and Tang Guiyi would not need to talk about Ao Xiuzhi, and they could give a reason casually when rebuilding the West Courtyard;

Tang Guiyi even thought that Zhuang Feng didn't mention this matter for half a year, maybe he didn't forget it, such a major matter wanted to be judged by Zhuang Feng's style of acting, and he would not forget it so easily;

The reason why Zhuang Feng has not mentioned this matter in the past six months is that Ao Xiuzhi is not very willing to see him Tang Guiyi, or Zhuang Feng is not ready to let Tang Guiyi meet Ao Xiuzhi;

"What do you want?" Zhuang Feng looked at Tang Guiyi's thoughtful appearance and asked there;

"The eldest sister-in-law is like a mother;" Tang Guiyi said a little heavily;

With Tang Guiyi's words, Zhuang Feng didn't say anything more, just habitually lit a cigarette;

For Zhuang Feng and Tang Guiyi, Ao Xiuzhi is the role of the eldest sister-in-law like a mother;

Just as Zhuang Feng was burning a cigarette and Tang Guiyi was silent, Ye Tao appeared;

"Young Master, Seventh Master, please;" Ye Tao said calmly;

"Hmm;" Zhuang Feng nodded;

Tang Guiyi looked at Ye Tao and felt a little familiar;

"Seventh Master, we met the young master when he was in the hospital;" Ye Tao explained;

With Ye Tao's words, Tang Guiyi was also stunned, didn't say anything more, and then got into the car with Ye Tao;

In a short time, Zhuang Feng and Tang Guiyi arrived at an ordinary residential community that was somewhat old;

Then, under the guidance of Ye Tao, he walked around and around in the old residential area there to the door of an ordinary house; it seemed that Ye Tao's arrival had been expected, and when Ye Tao and Zhuang Feng Tang Guiyi arrived just now, the door opened;

"Xiao Ting, I'm getting more and more beautiful, I just still don't like to laugh;" Zhuang Feng looked at Feng Ting standing at the door, jokingly with the girl;

Feng Ting was too lazy to pay attention to Zhuang Feng, did not speak, laughed or was not unhappy, but calmly looked at Zhuang Feng and Tang Guiyi;

"The little girl in the sister-in-law's room;" Zhuang Feng looked at Tang Guiyi's appearance that seemed to be a little apprehensive, and said with a smile there;

Tang Guiyi didn't take care of Zhuang Feng, but looked at Zhuang Feng's appearance as if to say let Zhuang Feng go first;

Zhuang Feng didn't say anything with a smile, and went straight to the door;

When Zhuang Feng entered the door, he saw Ao Xiuzhi wearing an apron, a housewife;

"Sister-in-law, you cook by yourself;" Zhuang Feng looked at Ao Xiuzhi's appearance and said with a smile there;

"Your eldest young master wants to eat hot pot, and I didn't cook it myself that time;" Ao Xiuzhi also looked loving;

"Hehe, it's really fragrant, as for who has the best hot pot in our family, it has to be the sister-in-law; this is used to eating the sister-in-law's craftsmanship, and other hot pots are not used to it;" Zhuang Feng said jokingly;

Zhuang Feng was joking, but he looked at Ao Xiuzhi and was stunned for a moment, which also reacted, Tang Guiyi stood at the door and didn't make a sound;

"I said Seventh Master, do you still recognize life?" Zhuang Feng said jokingly again;

"Xiao Qi, come in, don't you know your sister-in-law?" With Zhuang Feng's joke, Ao Xiuzhi also said there;

Tang Guiyi looked at Zhuang Feng and Ao Xiuzhi's familiar appearance, looked at Ao Xiuzhi and the cooking like more than ten years ago, and fried the hot pot base for them, which was inexplicably a little sour, and seemed to be a little hazy in front of him;

Yes, at that time, when they were still in the Zhuang family's compound, Zhuang Feng or Tang Guiyi or other brothers and sisters, every time they wanted to eat hot pot, Ao Xiuzhi, who was the eldest and young lady of the Zhuang family, would also put on an apron with them and personally cook hot pot for their little ones;

Ao Xiuzhi's background is very ordinary, Zhuang Feng's eldest brother met and fell in love when he was outside; although Ao Xiuzhi was from an ordinary background, she was also the baby daughter of the family in the civilian world, and she was also the little jasper who didn't need to do housework when she was young, and her fingers didn't touch the spring water;

Since marrying into the Zhuang family, he has taken on the responsibility of being the eldest sister-in-law, taking care of their small life and diet; in order to make Zhuang Feng, the youngest child, hungry for hot pot, that is also what the people who are now following the Zhuang family's back kitchen are now learning, Tang Guiyi at that time was more sensible than Zhuang Feng, and still remembered the burns on Ao Xiuzhi's hands in order to learn to make hot pot;

At that time, Zhuang Feng also said that Ao Xiuzhi's cooking was not delicious, and it was not as good as the cook's cooking; Zhuang Feng said that he didn't know how to make Ao Xiuzhi work hard there, and finally Zhuang Feng was satisfied, and they were also satisfied with these little ones;

It's just that no one paid attention to Ao Xiuzhi's efforts in the process of satisfying them, but Tang Guiyi knew who made him precocious;

After many years, Tang Guiyi looked at Ao Xiuzhi's familiar appearance again, and said in a somewhat choked voice: "Sister-in-law;"

Zhuang Feng looked at Tang Guiyi's somewhat choked appearance, and was also infected;

Ao Xiuzhi reluctantly smiled, and it was not easy for Ao Xiuzhi to say anything about the things of the year, but it was indeed more inclined to Zhuang Feng;

Zhuang Feng and Tang Guiyi have now resolved the grievances of the year, and Ao Xiuzhi will not say anything more, just looking at the two brothers Zhuang Feng and Tang Guiyi together, they are already very happy, after all, compared to the people back then, there are too few people who are still alive now;

"What are you doing in a daze, do you really recognize life?" Ao Xiuzhi looked at Zhuang Feng Tang Guiyi and said there;

"I don't recognize life;" Zhuang Feng collected his thoughts there, and changed it to that joke;

"You don't recognize life, do you still recognize life?" Tang Guiyi also collected his thoughts there;

"You guys, you're too lazy to say;" Ao Xiuzhi said with a smile;

The rare reunion, Zhuang Feng, Tang Guiyi and Ao Xiuzhi were quite happy there, and they did not mention the other people who had passed away, nor did they mention the events of the year, just eating and chatting as usual;

After eating, Zhuang Feng, Tang Guiyi and Ao Xiuzhi chatted with the living room;

"I'm going to rebuild the West Courtyard, do you have any opinions?" Zhuang Feng lit a cigarette and said casually;

Zhuang Feng's words seem casual, but in fact, he has already discussed them with Ao Xiuzhi, and Ao Xiuzhi agrees, and is also making preparations;

Ao Xiuzhi has always been there, and there is no talk of reconstruction; Zhuang Feng just meant to include the West Courtyard in the list of subordinate institutions of the Governor's Hall according to the established rules of the year, and then sent a few people to the front desk;

This Zhuang Feng rebuilt the governor's hall, and naturally there must be such an intelligence supervision agency, which has a deterrent effect both externally and internally, as for the interior of the West Courtyard, it is still controlled by Ao Xiuzhi according to the old rules;

"I don't have any opinion, you two brothers can say it;" Ao Xiuzhi said with a smile;

"I don't have an opinion, anyway, you are the head of the family, I will run errands, you have the final say;" Tang Guiyi also said there;

Originally, tonight was just to let Tang Guiyi meet with Ao Xiuzhi and reminisce about the old family relationship there;

"Then it's decided, Ye Tao is in charge of the things on the surface;" Zhuang Feng looked at Ao Xiuzhi and said there;

"Ye Tao has no problem, I have already told him;" Ao Xiuzhi has not changed anything about what has been decided a long time ago;

Ao Xiuzhi and Tang Guiyi had no opinion on this, and Zhuang Feng didn't say anything more, just chatting with them;

Perhaps when people reach a certain age, the most talked about should be childhood and youth, especially between close people, then all the topics of conversation are how they were when they were children, and by the way, how they have been over the years, and finally how they are now, and then end the chat;

Zhuang Feng, Tang Guiyi and Ao Xiuzhi didn't seem to be exempt from vulgarity, and the topic of this small talk always revolved around things that were still in the Zhuang compound at that time;

In this small talk, time also passed quickly, and before I knew it, it was midnight;

Seeing that the time was a little late, Zhuang Feng and Tang Guiyi said goodbye and left; changed cars in that small shop, Tang Guiyi drove the car, and Zhuang Feng sat next to him;

"I haven't felt like this for many years;" On the way back, Tang Guiyi sighed there;

"You've said this many times tonight;" Zhuang Feng said with a smile;

"I'm happy, what's the matter, I feel verbose?" Tang Guiyi looked at Zhuang Feng and said there;

"It's quite verbose, like an old lady;" Zhuang Feng said unceremoniously;

"Sister-in-law has been in charge of the West Courtyard for so many years?" Tang Guiyi asked with a natural change of topic;

"Yes;" replied Zhuang Feng;

"Widowed husband and daughter, is it a bit that you still let your sister-in-law take on such a heavy responsibility alone?" Tang Guiyi said seriously;

"Do you think I want to? If I don't let my sister-in-law have something to do, and I don't have time to think about those messy things, I will let my sister-in-law take care of this alone?" Zhuang Feng also said quite seriously;

With Zhuang Feng's words, Tang Guiyi also fell silent;

In Tang Guiyi's opinion, Ao Xiuzhi was originally from an ordinary background and was not very suitable for being in charge of family affairs, let alone an institution like the Western Courtyard that was on the dark side;

In addition, Ao Xiuzhi lost her husband and middle-aged daughter at an early age, and her psychology is extremely uncomfortable, and she has basically reached the limit of what a woman can bear;

Such a woman who has experienced hardships still works for Zhuang Feng, and she has survived alone in the ten years that Zhuang Feng disappeared, and the difficulties are a little unbearable just to think about;

Now that Zhuang Feng is back, he Tang Guiyi is also back, so the next thing should be borne by Zhuang Feng and him Tang Guiyi, and Ao Xiuzhi should go to live a dull life, maybe he can meet a lover or something;

Tang Guiyi thought like this, but listening to Zhuang Feng's words, it seemed that there was some truth, and he didn't know what to do for a while;

"I know what you're thinking, don't you know the relationship between my sister-in-law and my eldest brother? I know how my sister-in-law treats us; yes, my sister-in-law has gone through too much pain, but she can't leave us; just imagine, if my sister-in-law leaves us and becomes an ordinary widowed woman, how should he live?" Zhuang Feng said there quite sincerely;

Tang Guiyi didn't speak, just waited for Zhuang Feng to continue;

"Let my sister-in-law find a job? Let's play nonsense, what age is my sister-in-law, people can't be confused and then readapt to this society? Let everything start again? impossible; what I've experienced in the past ten years is not that you can start over if you want to, in fact, there are many things that are not as simple as you think;" Zhuang Feng said more and more with the ups and downs of his heart;

"I know you want to say that your sister-in-law will meet a lover again, look at the age of your sister-in-law this year, that is the age that is not confused, a woman at this age does not mean that she can't meet her lover again, but with her sister-in-law's experience, who will be able to get into her eyes?"

"Let's be more realistic, although my sister-in-law has had an extremely difficult time these years, but that is for us; from the perspective of civilians, the normal annual expenses of my sister-in-law are a figure that many people can't earn in a lifetime in society, and even the so-called successful business people can't earn their sister-in-law's daily expenses in a year;"

"I've experienced it in the past ten years, I know the gap, and I also want to let my sister-in-law quit and live a peaceful life, but I still say that, we are her spiritual pillars, and my sister-in-law has no way to live without us, otherwise what is the persistence of these ten years?"

Zhuang Feng said with some mood fluctuations there, as if these words had been thought about countless times in Zhuang Feng's mind, and it sounded so natural;

After Zhuang Feng finished speaking, he lit a cigarette with the habit there, and then fell into silence;

After a long time, Tang Guiyi said there, as if he had figured out what Zhuang Feng said: "You are right, we are the spiritual pillars of my sister-in-law, and without us, I really dare not imagine how to live with my sister-in-law's difficult and painful experience;"

"It's easy for people to let those more than 100 catties live, and they can live by eating a mouthful of food every day;

"Our existence is the reason why my sister-in-law is alive;" Tang Guiyi followed Zhuang Feng's words and said quite seriously;

"It's good to know;" Zhuang Feng said unceremoniously, and at the same time habitually flicked the cigarette butt in his hand away, and continued with that: "Acting for the good of others will only make people more disgusted, but fortunately, you didn't tell your sister-in-law about those messy things tonight, otherwise my sister-in-law probably won't have a reason to continue living;"

"I swear by my dead father that I will never mention this again;" Tang Guiyi said quite seriously with the other side;

"That's best;" Zhuang Feng said unceremoniously;

"Okay, don't put on that stinky face again;" Tang Guiyi looked at Zhuang Feng and said there, looking at Zhuang Feng and the rather unhappy appearance there;

"I don't want to talk to you;" Zhuang Feng replied;

"Then I want to talk to you, okay;" Tang Guiyi continued to say there;

With Tang Guiyi's words, Zhuang Feng didn't say anything, just habitually lit a cigarette;

Tang Guiyi saw the change in Zhuang Feng's expression, and knew that Zhuang Feng no longer cared about what he said just now, and continued to drive with a smile;

Zhuang Feng Tang Guiyi successfully returned to Nanyuan;

It's just that when he entered the door just now, Meng Yuanhua had a calm face there, and before Zhuang Feng could ask anything, Meng Yuanhua said directly: "There is a person named Su Zhen looking for you;"