Minglan is reborn, this time with no regrets!

Changbai looked at Gu Tingye with drooping eyebrows and asked cautiously: "Is your father... okay?"

He knew that although Gu Yankai had been stripped of his title, he still held his official position. He was pushing him too far by asking him such a question.

"Princess Pingning!" Gu Tingye's eyes suddenly lit up. "She grew up in the palace, so she's naturally more familiar with the relationship than we are."

Changbai slapped his forehead hard: "Right, right, right, right, right! Ouch!"

"Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye, goodbye! Don't see me off!"

Changbai bowed deeply to Gu Tingye, turned around and left, but he didn't get his feet right and tripped himself, falling on the gravel road. His face turned red and his neck became thick with pain instantly.

Gu Tingye was thinking about going back to the house to check the boxes and cages. When he saw Changbai fall, he didn't have time to help him up and shouted, "Slow down!"

"Young master, be careful!" A woman nearby came forward and reached out to pull Changbai.

Changbai suddenly jumped up from the ground as if he had been whipped, holding his arms and shouting, "What are you doing!"

The woman was so frightened that she pulled her hand back: "Sir... I just wanted to help you..."

Changbai bowed perfunctorily to the woman and said, "Thank you, but it's not necessary." Then he raised his chin towards Gu Tingye and said, "Let's go." After that, he limped away.

The woman looked at Changbai running away with a sidelong glance, gritted her teeth, turned around, and saw Gu Tingye looking at her meaningfully.

The woman looked Gu Tingye up and down and said indifferently, "It's not easy to make a living."

Gu Tingye touched the wound on his face and said roughly, "It's inevitable that you won't get hurt when you work for the master."

"What were you moving just now?"

"It's just some things that the master temporarily left with me."

The woman stepped forward and said, "Don't lie to me. You are not a servant of the Sheng family at all."

Gu Tingye narrowed his eyes slightly: "Why do you think so?"

"I've noticed you since you moved to this alley. I've been watching you for so long, how could I not know your background? Haha, which servant can have his own yard like you, with servants and maids to serve him? Which servant can be as close as you are to the master's son?"

Gu Tingye asked with a smile: "Found me? What does that mean? Have we met before?"

The woman raised her eyes to look at him: "Jiying Lane."

Gu Tingye woke up as if from a dream: "Oh! You are the girl I saved for the young master that day! Zhu... Zhu... Zhu..."

Zhu Manniang was a little unhappy when she was called "Zhu" and "Zhu": "Now, I am the concubine of Sheng Jia Sanlang. Don't you know?"

Gu Tingye bowed to her and said, "Ah, I didn't expect that you are now the master's lady. I didn't know. I was always out doing errands for the young master. I never knew what was going on in the inner house, let alone what was going on in Sanlang's room."

"Still pretending! I've exposed you, and you still want to act? There is no such person as Zhique in the Sheng family."

"Okay. Miss, you have a keen eye. I am indeed not a servant of the Sheng family."

"Who are you then?"

"My name is...Bai Ye."

"What is your relationship with the Sheng family?"

"Well, let's put it this way. I specialize in doing the dirty work that people don't want to do for money. Do you understand that?"

Zhu Manniang thought of the doctor who seldom came to this courtyard, and immediately understood: "It turns out that he is a quack who does things for money."

She exhaled a gentle breath, put on an attitude of superiority, and asked: "Sheng family... has something happened recently?"

Gu Tingye: "I don't know, I haven't heard of it."

Zhu Manniang's eyes suddenly turned cold: "You're lying. The person who came to see you just now was obviously Sheng Changbai. Look at how flustered he is. Something must have happened at home."

Gu Tingye: "This...Mrs. Zhu might as well ask Brother Changfeng."

Zhu Manniang: "What do you mean by little girl? When will it be your turn to decide the status of the master?"

Gu Tingye was stunned, thinking that this woman was so arrogant, it seemed that she was unwilling to be a mistress, and was determined to marry into the family and become the mistress.

He shook his head slightly, bowed to Zhu Manniang, and said, "My injury has not healed yet, and my face hurts when I talk, so I won't say more to you, young lady. I wish you get what you wish for, and be rich and prosperous." After that, without waiting for Zhu Manniang to say anything else, he slammed the door shut.

Zhu Manniang was so angry that she cursed: "You have no respect for others. When I enter the Sheng family one day, you will suffer!"

She returned to the yard angrily and the two children surrounded her.

"Get lost, I'm worried, why are you two making trouble?" She pushed the child away, sat on a low stool, and knocked on the table, "Are you dead? You didn't even serve me tea when I came back?"

A dishevelled maid came out from the inner room, poured her tea, and said, "My lady, please forgive me. I have to wash clothes, cook, and take care of the young lady and the young master. I am really too busy. If you think I am not serving you well, why don't you tell the master to let me go back to the Sheng family and find someone capable to serve you."

"Hmph, Mei'er, don't think that you can really seduce everyone with this name. I know exactly what's going on in your mind. Do you think that by returning to the Sheng family first, you can get a status before me? Just dream on! You are not even worthy of carrying my shoes! It's just that Brother Feng slept with you because he was greedy for a while, and he didn't want to take you as his wife, so I arranged for you to be my maid. Do you really think that he has feelings for you? Why don't you take a piss and look at yourself in the mirror? What a shitty thing you look like, how dare you compare with me!"

All sorts of dirty words came out of her mouth, and her voice was so loud that even Aunt Chang, who was several yards away, could hear it clearly. Aunt Chang frowned and muttered, "Who is living in the front? Why are they talking so badly? I see they have two children at home, aren't they afraid of dirtying the children's ears?"

Shitou's face was full of words: "It was this fellow who almost blackmailed our young master. Fortunately, there was Miss Sheng Liu, who helped our young master avoid this disaster!"

Nanny Chang pricked up her ears immediately: "Tell me, what's going on?"

While the two of them were gossiping, Zhu Manniang scolded Mei'er and made her cry, and continued to secretly think:

[Sheng Changfeng failed the imperial examination, and will have to rely on his family in the future. But if he keeps it a secret from his family, when will I be able to get through this? ]

She turned to look at the two children.

[Damn it, I've been with him for so many years, and we've had two children, but he never told me the details of his family, always saying he was just a fifth-rank official. If that's true, why would Sheng Changbai keep a quack? Sheng Changfeng even told me that the next door was the legitimate son of a marquis, and told me not to let him see me! Humph, what's wrong with seeing me? If he really is that kind of person, how could he live in such a shabby yard? He's often injured, and has a horse but no car to escape, so he's definitely a quack with his head hanging on his waist! What kind of quack can the Sheng family be to be able to keep such a person as a subordinate? ]

She snorted unconsciously: "Sheng Changfeng, you underestimate me."