After rebirth, she became the favorite of the powerful minister.

Zhuang Lichuan woke up. Ma and the concubines who heard the news came to visit him, but were stopped outside the courtyard because of Yuan Junfeng's order not to allow visits.

They were all women, chattering around the two guards. The two guards were no match for them. They were so anxious that they were sweating profusely, but they could only utter one sentence, "The Great Elder has ordered that no one is allowed to visit! This is the rule!"

Even if they raised their voices, it was useless. They were all familiar faces, so the wives and concubines were naturally not worried about being physically tortured. They said one after another, "Rules are dead, but people are alive. The second brother was asleep before, and the elder was worried that we would disturb his rest if we went in. Now that he is awake, we can go in, right?"

"That's right, that's because the Great Elder hasn't received the order to withdraw because he hasn't received the news that the Second Elder has woken up. Besides, there are only two clumsy servants serving in his yard. It was fine when the man was asleep, but now that he's awake and lying in bed, who's going to serve him?"

"Of course! The Second Elder has always been very particular. How can we rely on those two clumsy ones? If the Second Elder gets angry and faints, whose responsibility will it be? Will it be yours?"

"Really? These two young men... please be flexible. If you think there are too many of us and it will disturb the Second Elder's rest, then we sisters can take turns to serve him. What do you think?"

This was the scene that the two elders saw when they arrived here.

The concubines, dressed up gorgeously, gathered together, just like a back garden in spring, with a lively atmosphere full of flowers, which was both noisy for the ears and lively for the eyes.

Yuan Junfeng looked at the guards who were at a loss from head to toe but kept shaking their heads and insisting that no one could enter. He shook his head and smiled bitterly, joking with the third elder beside him, "There are too many women in the backyard, which is really a headache."

In this regard, Zhan Yanfeng, who has not yet married, obviously feels the same way. He lowers his eyebrows and chuckles, saying, "But I think my second brother must be enjoying it."

Yuan Junfeng looked at Zhan Yanfeng with a sidelong glance and smiled meaningfully, "Come to think of it... you are a very good at hiding things."

Zhan Yanfeng was stunned for a moment, and subconsciously turned his head to meet the other person's gaze. He heard the elder laughing and jokingly asked, "That girl called Hong Jie'er... is she the one you kept in your golden house? She said she was your accountant. Ha, it's fine if you tell others about it... The business on the mountain has been handled by the second brother all these years. How could I not know if you have any business and need an accountant? You too, a good girl followed you, but you placed her in that wooden house, in the middle of nowhere. How dangerous."

"Brother, it's not what you think. She's not my confidante, she's really my accountant." Zhan Yanfeng explained in a good-tempered manner, "Brother, when we became sworn brothers, I was thirteen years old, right? In the early years, you and my second brother asked me about my past, but I didn't tell you, and you never asked again."

Yuan Junfeng nodded, "Yes, we asked because we care about you. But every time you talked about the past, you always looked unhappy. I guess it was not a happy thing. Naturally, we will not mention it again... Anyway, the three of us live in this mountain, and we have cut off all ties with the past, so it's better not to mention it."

"It was not a happy past indeed..." Zhan Yanfeng lowered his eyebrows, put his hands behind his back and sighed, then said, "I was originally a descendant of a noble family, and my clan was harmonious, and the brothers were friendly and respectful to each other. Until that day, a group of soldiers rushed into my house... My mother took advantage of the chaos to stuff me into a water tank in an abandoned yard, so I escaped, but I lost everything... Overnight, I lost everything, my parents, my home, and I went far away, changed my name, and mingled with a group of beggars to survive. Later, I occasionally took some odd jobs within my ability to earn some money, which was considered to be able to make a living... Until I met you."

Yuan Junfeng listened quietly, and after a while he patted the other person's shoulder, "It's all the past, it's better not to mention it."

Zhan Yanfeng shook his head, his eyes fixed on the group of women not far away who were still chattering and trying to go in, and said, "It's okay, it's been decades, I've let it go a long time ago. It's just that when I was young and didn't know the world, my family had arranged a marriage for me, and the girl somehow heard that I was still alive, and she came to me with tokens from both families... Oh, she's also a straightforward and conservative person, and she couldn't make sense no matter what I said, and she even said that if I didn't want to marry her, she would never marry either. After all those years of wandering, I had already given up the idea of ​​getting married and having children, so of course I didn't want to marry her..."

"Is this girl Sister Hong?"

"No." Zhan Yanfeng looked at the elder and smiled helplessly. "Brother, I didn't lie to you. I have never lied to you. Sister Hong is really my accountant... About two months after the girl left, I went down the mountain and saw her in the town at the foot of the mountain. I learned that she really settled here for me and never married. So I thought about sending some money to her occasionally to help her out. I can't let the girl down and let her live a hard life, right? But if I send it in person, I'm afraid she will think too much and get stuck in a dead end. My courtyard is full of men. If we have too much contact, the neighbors will inevitably gossip..."

"Although I have saved some money over the years, I have no family or children, so I have always been the only one who feeds the whole family. If I were to help them, I would not be able to support them for more than a few days. That's why I decided to buy a piece of land at the foot of the mountain and hire some villagers to grow cotton... This is the business I have never told you about, brother. I don't mean to hide it from you, but it involves so many things that I really don't know how to start talking about it... Brother, you won't blame me, right?"

Yuan Junfeng looked at the other person with a calm gaze and an unpredictable expression, as if he was weighing the truth of the other person's words. After a long while, he suddenly smiled and said, "You are also a fool. These are all your own affairs. If you are willing to tell us, we will listen attentively. If you don't want to say it, then just like before, we won't ask. What's strange about it? I just hope that you can really get a confidante to take care of you and accompany you, so I asked a few more questions."

As he said this, he pointed at Hua Zhizhaozhan who was not far away and said, "You two brothers really have completely different personalities."

Zhan Yanfeng was obviously a little more relaxed, even his expression was relaxed, he followed the steps of the Great Elder and walked out, smiling, "You too? It's been many years since your eldest sister-in-law passed away, and you haven't shown any intention of remarrying."

"I'm different from you. I have my own little Ge'er." The words came out of his mouth, and he realized that he had said the wrong thing. His feet paused slightly, and the expression on his face quickly became lonely. Yuan Junfeng's heart was pounding as he tried to make up for his loss. "Now, there is no difference..." After saying this, he broke out in a cold sweat.