In ancient times, she gave birth to seven daughters and was divorced by her husband's family.

After all, I brought back so many children.

One child lives in one room, so if you count them separately, there are 14 rooms.

Since there are 14 rooms, including myself, there are 15 rooms in total.

No matter how big the yard is, it probably can't have so many houses. This will be a big problem for the Qingzhou governor.

They soon arrived at the Qingzhou prefectural government.

After asking the servant Sun to take the things away, Bai Lu took the children, her two brothers and the Empress Dowager to meet the governor of Qingzhou.

The prefect of Qingzhou was originally busy in his study, when he saw his subordinate, Sun, sending a small runner to come over to tell him that Bai Lu and his party had already arrived in Qingzhou, and that they had already picked up Bai Lu and were bringing him to the prefect's mansion immediately.

When the Qingzhou prefect heard this, he immediately dropped all the chores in his study and hurriedly took his son Sun Nanxing and Gu Liang to welcome Bai Lu.

But after thinking about it, the Qingzhou governor told his servants: "You should not let Gu Liang go to greet Bai Lu. Let him study hard in his study."

"...I will be taking the Spring Examination next year, so I must study hard this year."

Moreover, when he thought of the previous conflict between Gu Liang and Bai Lu, the prefect of Qingzhou felt a pain in his head.

Hearing this, the servant beside him nodded quickly.

The Qingzhou prefect thought to himself that Bai Lu should not be the kind of unreasonable person.

She should know that this matter had nothing to do with Gu Liang, so she did not blame Gu Liang.

Otherwise...can Gu Liang and Zhao Cuicui live safely in Qingzhou?

Could it be that Gu Liang could become his adopted son again?

These things may seem complicated to think about, but they are actually simple.

The Qingzhou prefect couldn't help but laugh out loud.

Bai Lu has a grudge against Zhao Cuicui, but not necessarily against Gu Liang.

He had already planned this before. If there was an opportunity in the future and Gu Liang was able to do well, he would help arrange things so that Gu Liang could get a seventh or sixth rank official position once he passed the imperial examination.

At that time...it will depend on whether this child can win the emperor's favor in the palace examination.

If he could be favored by the emperor and get into the top three in the imperial examination, the top three, not to mention the sixth-rank official, even the fifth-rank official... he would do his best to help Gu Liang.

By then, he would have a backer in Qingzhou. At least he had an adopted son in Kyoto.

Thinking of all these twists and turns, the Qingzhou prefect probably had an idea in his mind, and hurriedly took his son Sun Nanxing to find Bai Lu.

Sun Nanxing also hurriedly changed into a new set of clothes, and said to his father happily: "Dad, Lady Bai Lu is finally back."

"That's against the rules. From now on, you can't call me Lady Bai Lu anymore. You have to call me Marquis Anguo. Do you understand?"

"Mrs. Bailu doesn't think she's anything special. I feel like...she still prefers us to call her Mrs. Bailu."

"Otherwise, if we call her Marquis of Anguo when doing business, she will definitely think we are too formal. The other merchants probably feel the same way, as if she is using her power to bully others!"

"How about we just call her Madam Bailu from now on. It's a respectful title anyway."

After hearing this, the Qingzhou governor thought about it and felt that it made sense. He nodded with an admiring look on his face: "You are much smarter than before."

"That's a must. This is what Gu Liang taught me."

"Oh... so he taught you. That makes sense."

The Qingzhou prefect nodded and thought to himself. He also remembered that Sun Nanxing should not be so smart.

The prefect of Qingzhou didn't think much about it and took his son to pay a visit to Bai Lu.

"..."

Thinking in the main hall, Bai Lu bowed slightly to the Qingzhou governor: "Your Excellency,

"Master Sun."

She turned her head and glanced at Sun Nanxing again, her face amiable: "Long time no see, you two."

"Long time no see, long time no see."

The governor of Qingzhou and Sun Nanxing both saluted Bai Lu immediately, and then they said, "Marquis Anguo, I hope you are doing well. However, we think the title of Marquis Anguo is too unfamiliar. From now on, we will call you Madam Bai Lu. What do you think?"

"all right."

Bai Lu nodded. "If you don't say it, I'd like to tell you to call me Madam Bai Lu whenever you do business with me in the future."

"If I call him Marquis of Anguo, to be honest, it seems like I am bullying him."

Then Bai Lu smiled faintly at the Qingzhou governor and Sun Nanxing and said, "Governor, Master Sun, I brought you gifts."

"Do you want to go over and take a look?"

"Okay."

Soon, Bing Xin handed over a big box, which contained very rare ginseng and ganoderma lucidum, one hundred-year-old ginseng and one hundred-year-old ganoderma lucidum.

"These are all rare treasures, and the most rare thing is that they are wild."

Bai Lu directly gave these things to the governor of Qingzhou.

She turned her head and looked at Sun Nanxing again, then asked Bing Xin to take out another big box.

Opening the big box, Bai Lu smiled and said to Sun Nanxing, "Mr. Sun, inside is a complete set of calligraphy and painting given by His Majesty."

"Look, this ink is Hui ink, the inkstone is mined from Huangqu Mountain, and the rice paper is bamboo flower paper sprinkled with gold foil..."

This set of calligraphy and painting is hard to come by at even 500 taels, not to mention that it was a reward from the emperor.

Sun Nanxing thanked Bai Lu profusely, his eyes sparkled and he looked like a little puppy.

Bai Lu felt a little uncomfortable with such bright eyes looking at her, so she smiled and said to the Qingzhou governor and Sun Nanxing: "Governor, Master Sun, let's sit down and talk together."

"Good good."

The Qingzhou prefect nodded quickly and was shocked when he saw so many people behind him.

There are a few new faces this time...I don’t know who these three kids are.

Never mind, never mind, he is probably the child of a prominent figure.

The Qingzhou governor naturally liked and loved them, and immediately asked his subordinates to add several plates of cakes to the children, and also asked people to go out to buy some delicious food.

He personally invited the Queen Mother and Bai Lu to the main seat, and he sat at the secondary seat below. He smiled at the two and said, "Come on, come on, we are in our own home, so don't be polite."

Then he handed Bai Lu a cup of scented tea and said to her with a smile, "There are jasmine flowers in it, try it."

Bai Lu smiled but didn't sit down.

After watching the Queen Mother sit down, she invited the Qingzhou Governor to the main seat first and said to him with a smile: "Delicious, delicious."

"I took a bite and it was really good."

After the two of them sat in the main seats, Bai Lu sat in the second seat and said to them with a smile: "We are here to bother the prefect again this time."

"Hey, what are you talking about? We are family, why bothering each other?"

The governor of Qingzhou was excited and said to Bai Lu, "Madam Bai Lu, I have already done everything you asked me to do!"

"All the shops have been renovated, and your subordinates, Ms. Luo and Mr. Shen, have gone over to help stock the goods. We are just waiting for you to come back and inspect them. If there are no problems, we can open them."

“Has the previous publicity been in place?”

"It's in place, it's in place. Now there are flyers everywhere in Qingzhou..."