I, a minor character, fell into the Shura field of the heroine and the villain

Zhao Kangping: "How is Mr. Xie's business in Zhongzhou?"

Xie Guanglin: "It's okay, but not bad."

As an old friend of many years, Zhao Kangping knew that the word "so-so" actually meant very good.

Xie Guanglin: "I heard that Brother Zhao is going to be the city lord. I will definitely support him when the time comes."

He turned his gaze to Dongfang Jingrou who was standing beside him.

"Who is this?" He wanted to blurt out, is she my sister-in-law?

But as a shrewd businessman, he would not be so rash. Otherwise, wouldn’t it be embarrassing if the other party was not like that?

"I am your assistant and will be the steward of the City Lord's Mansion in the future."

In fact, Zhao Kangping wanted to come alone, but Dongfang Jingrou insisted on coming with him.

"Brother Zhao has good taste." The middle-aged man complimented.

Then, they started the formal topic of today.

Xie Guanglin: "You asked me to introduce you to the manager of the Thousand Merchants Alliance in Chuanliu City? Of course I can, but he's not in Chuanliu City right now. If you have anything to discuss with him, I can act as a go-between for you."

This businessman who started out as a spiritual chef received an olive branch from the Thousand Merchants Alliance after he became successful.

In order to ensure the long-term development of Wanxiangju, he joined the Qianshang Alliance.

It is not easy to be a businessman in the world of immortal cultivation.

Without strong backing, no matter how big your business is, it will just be a piece of cake for others.

The Qianshang Alliance is just such a backing.

"I do have something important to tell you. You should understand that the fact that I came here secretly and secretly means that this matter must be of great importance."

He couldn't reveal too much about what it was, though. He needed to discuss it in person with the head of the Thousand Merchants Alliance in Chuanliu City.

Xie Guanglin was straightforward. He nodded and agreed: "Okay, Brother Zhao has done me a great favor. It's just a small matter for me to help introduce him."

However, it is not easy to meet the manager of Chuanliu City of the Thousand Merchants Alliance. He has to wait for Xie Guanglin to contact the other party and see if he is free to come.

After emerging from the secret room, Dongfang Jingrou finally had time to ask, "City Lord, is this person reliable?"

"A friend of mine, trustworthy. In fact, his business has been suppressed by the five major families."

"You see, this area isn't actually that good. It's all been picked up by the big families."

"But his shop was so popular that it stole business from many of his competitors. The secret lies in some of the special seasonings here."

"When the restaurants owned by the big families learned about this, they sent people to smash up his store and force him to hand over the seasoning formulas."

"He had no choice but to compromise. So you don't have to question his hatred for the five major families. It wasn't until he joined the Thousand Merchants Alliance that Wanxiangju was treated less unfairly."

Zhao Kangping explained to her the reason why he came to see Xie Guanglin.

Zhao Kangping wants to introduce the Qianshang Alliance to balance the five major families, which is indeed a solution.

But this will inevitably cause dissatisfaction among the five major families. If they knew about this, they would definitely regard Zhao Kangping as a thorn in their eyes.

But Zhao Kangping didn't care. He even wanted to discipline these restless families.

After coming out of Wanxiangju, Zhao Kangping and Dongfang Jingrou went their separate ways.

Zhao Kangping first went back to the house he bought.

He was a little worried that something might happen if Aunt Yun and Wan Baiyi stayed together for too long.

Although Wan Baiyi was good at concealing her aura, he was afraid that Aunt Yun might find out that she was a snake demon.

After entering the door, he found that the two women were in the yard, and seemed to be talking to each other in a very harmonious manner.

"Ping'er, you're here? Is everything okay at the City Lord's Mansion?" Nangong Ruyun was overjoyed when she saw him.

She walked slowly forward to greet her nephew.

Zhao Kangping looked at Aunt Yun carefully after entering the room. He said, "Aunt Yun, how was the treatment I gave you yesterday?"

"Speaking of this, I haven't thanked you properly yet. Thanks to you, the number of cold poison crystals in my body has been reduced by at least 20%." Nangong Ruyun thought of some embarrassing things. Yesterday, she was really a little stupid and slapped him without knowing right or wrong.

I feel regretful when I think about it now.

"What are you thanking me for? Do we need to say thank you to each other?" Zhao Kangping was not shy.

With just one glance, he could tell that Aunt Yun looked much better than before.

"Auntie Yun, do you want to come for treatment again today?"

"I'd rather not do it. This will be quite exhausting for you, I'm afraid it will delay your practice?" She was actually a little resistant, and even what she said could not be a reason.

In fact, she was a little embarrassed to become wet and sticky in front of him. If she did it too often, she was afraid that she would be exposed.

If he knew that his elder had lost...embarrassment during treatment, how would he look at her?

"No, I'm exhausted, but I'll be fine after a night's rest. Aunt Yun's health is more important."

Zhao Kangping was unaware of this and thought Aunt Yun was just being considerate of his health. In reality, this was completely unnecessary. He was in excellent health, and it was just a loss of Yang Qi, which would be replenished soon.

However, Nangong Ruyun still declined him politely: "No, no, you are going to be the lord of a city, you must be very busy, you should stay in your house. When you are free, I will come to bother you."

"Auntie Yun, are you used to living here? Um, I almost forgot. I actually wanted to tell you yesterday that you could live in the big room."

Zhao Kangping said, pointing to a large room.

"No need to change. I'll just stay in this room. This is obviously a woman's boudoir." But Nangong Ruyun insisted on staying in this room.

Zhao Kangping had said he would give this house to Aunt Yun, and he wasn't just talking. Since she liked this room, he didn't force it.

This time, Nangong Ruyun came to visit the Ziyang Holy Land. She actually felt very uncomfortable living there, always feeling that someone was watching her.

Although Mu Wanyi's attitude towards her softened later, Nangong Ruyun knew that she was a guest and it was not good to stay at someone else's place for too long.

When she arrived at the house that Zhao Kangping arranged for her, she was very happy to accept it.

If it weren't for the purpose of avoiding suspicion, Zhao Kangping would have wanted to bring Aunt Yun to the City Lord's Mansion.

But he was afraid that his senior sister would get jealous again.

Even if there was nothing going on between him and Aunt Yun, if he really let her live in the mansion, it would probably only lead to chaos.

"Bai Yi, why don't you stay here with Aunt Yun?" Zhao Kangping was worried that Aunt Yun would be lonely, so he wanted to find her a companion. As long as he came over often, there shouldn't be any problems.

But the girl retorted: "No, master, I want to stay with you." She pouted and looked very aggrieved.

Zhao Kangping suspected that she was being cute maliciously, but he had no evidence.

He tried again to persuade the girl to stay, but failed.

After visiting Aunt Yun, he took Wan Baiyi back to the City Lord's Mansion.

……

Dongfang Jingrou passed a street on her way back.

Coincidentally, this was the place she had visited when she was young.

The teahouses, noodle shops, and wine shops are all time-honored establishments, but the people in charge have changed countless times.

In the past, there was a tall tree standing tall beside the road, but now only a short stump can be seen.

During the Lantern Festival one year, she came to the bustling Chuanliu City with her parents and brother.

She remembered it clearly, she was six years old that year.

The streets were crowded with people at that time.

She almost lost her family because she stopped to look at a vendor selling handicrafts.

Fortunately, her family came back to look for her.

At that time, she had a happy family.

But all of this fell apart.

She was ready to leave.

But just as she was about to cross the street, she saw a figure across the street.

Across the street, there was a middle-aged male cultivator holding hands with a beautiful middle-aged woman.

He looks so old and still so greasy.

Dongfang Jingrou was not the only one looking at the middle-aged couple on the street.

But among the people present, she was probably the one who caused the greatest emotional fluctuations.

She thought she was hallucinating for a moment, until the man and woman opposite her were talking and the man called out the beautiful woman's name.

Siqin.

This is her mother's name.

In the past, only her father would call this woman that.

But why would another man be so close to that beautiful woman?

Dongfang Jingrou watched the couple, affectionate and loving, just as she had always done. She saw her holding her father's hand. The woman across the street gradually became identical to the one who had turned back to find her in her memory, even the mole under her right eye matched.

The beautiful woman smiled brightly.

"How is that possible?" Dongfang Jingrou opened her beautiful eyes wide and looked at the man walking across the street in disbelief.

Shouldn't that person be dead?

Dongfang Jingrou's gaze seemed to be glued to the beautiful woman, and she was reluctant to move away even a little bit.

She confirmed the woman's appearance over and over again, comparing it with the face in her memory.

The Dongfang family was undercover because his brother had infiltrated a demon sect as an undercover agent, but his identity was exposed. He was captured and tortured, and eventually he could not bear the torture and revealed a lot of information.

She once hated her brother. Why couldn't he grit his teeth and persevere under torture, refusing to yield even in death?

It was not until she became Suzaku and used torture to pry open the mouths of prisoners time and time again that she realized that once someone was caught, it was much easier to pry open their mouth than for them to refuse to speak.

There are thousands of tortures in the Suzaku Hall's dark prison that can make prisoners give up resistance, not to mention the even more cruel Demon Sect.

So later on, she no longer hated her brother.

However, for a long time, she was told that her parents had been executed because of her brother's crimes.

But who is that woman?

The feeling of blood connection made her determined not to admit her mistake.

At that moment, her mind was in a mess.

Her memory brought her back to the day when their Dongfang family was ransacked.

"Dad, Mom, no, you can't take them away." That year, a weak and helpless girl watched a group of aggressive people break into their home.

These people robbed their property without any explanation and beat up the servants who tried to stop them.

The girl saw her parents being forced to kneel on the ground, and a fierce old man was telling her about how her brother had betrayed the sect, causing it to suffer heavy losses.

It's impossible. How could my brother do such a thing? These people must be lying.

However, those people would not give them a chance to explain.

These people forcibly took the girl's parents away.

"Let them go, you bad guys." The young girl chased after those people and wouldn't let them go. She even caught up with the bad guy who took her mother away and bit the back of his hand.

"Jingrou, don't be silly, go back quickly~" The mother's eyes were filled with tears, not wanting her daughter to take risks.

The big man screamed in pain and slapped the girl in the face.

The girl was suddenly dizzy.

Before she fell, she used her eyes to remember her mother's sad figure forever in her heart.

Although more than a hundred years have passed, the woman across the street looks a little older than she did back then.

But her remaining charm still reveals her beauty in her youth.

No one knew what force drove Dongfang Jingrou to take a step forward and stand in front of the loving couple.