Being a Lady of an Influential Family

On the other side, Zhuo Lin and Zhang Bi walked out of the Yizheng Building, and there was already a car waiting for them outside.

Zhang Bi stopped and turned back to Zhuo Lin and asked, "Have a meal together?"

Zhuo Lin shook her head and said, "No, there's something else to do, it's already a bit late." The meeting time exceeded expectations, and it's almost past lunch time now.

Zhang Bi was not surprised, his relationship with Zhuo Lin was not that close even when he was young. Once the youngest and most enthusiastic period fails to cultivate a deep relationship, it is even more impossible for the two people who have experienced decades of impermanence and official training.

Zhang Bi sighed helplessly, "Forget it, then see you later."

Zhuo Lin nodded indifferently, bid farewell to Zhang Bi and got into her car.

Sitting in the car, Zhuo Lin said to the driver in front, "Go to Prince An's Mansion."

The driver responded, and was about to start the car when he heard a soft noise from outside. Looking back, I found that there was an extra person outside the rear door, and the next moment the door had been opened and a person sat in.

The driver looked back a little stunned and didn't know what to do, so he had to look at Zhuo Lin.

Zhuo Lin looked at the person who suddenly sat in with a faint headache, and warned, "Fu Zheng!"

The driver and assistant in front couldn't help shaking their hands. How did this big Buddha come here?

Governor Fu looked at Zhuo Lin, and said to the driver in front, "Drive." Then he asked Zhuo Lin, "Do you mind taking a ride?"

Zhuo Lin said lightly: "I'm afraid it's not on the way,"

Governor Fu didn't care, "It's okay, go where you want first. By the way, where are you going?" It seemed very innocent.

It's just that in Ms. Zhuo's opinion, Fu Zheng thirty years ago could still be regarded as pleasing to the eye, but Fu Zheng's expression thirty years later can only be said to be eye-catching. Simply close your eyes and lean on the backrest to rest your mind, "Prince An's Mansion."

"..." Governor Fu shut up, stared at Zhuo Lin for a long time before saying, "You have a good relationship with him."

Zhuo Lin ignored him, and didn't bother to open her eyes and said to the driver in front, "Let's go."

"Yes." The driver came back to his senses and responded quickly.

The car was very quiet along the way, the driver was focused on the road, and the assistant sitting in front was stiff and didn't even dare to move his eyes casually.

Zhuo Lin was still closing her eyes to rest, Governor Fu stared at her for a long time and felt that it was meaningless, so he also closed his eyes to rest.

When they got to the place, the housekeeper of Prince An's Mansion was also startled when he saw the two people coming down from the door.

"Zhuo...Ms. Zhuo, this..." The white-faced, beardless middle-aged housekeeper looked at Governor Fu warily, and then looked at Zhuo Lin again.

Governor Fu rolled his eyes, "What are you looking at? Come and see an old friend, can I still beat him?"

The butler also knew that his master had a good relationship with this person back then, and he wasn't really worried about Governor Fu's actions. Zhuo Lin said lightly, "It's okay, excuse me."

The butler sighed in his heart, and after thinking about it for a while, he might not be able to stop this one, so he turned sideways and said, "Please, please, I will let someone tell the third master."

Governor Fu looked up at the plaque on Prince An's Mansion, and snorted softly, "Pretentious."

"..." The other two thought he farted.

It was late spring and early summer, and even in the north, Prince An's Mansion was much more lively than in winter.

There were still only those people, and the whole palace seemed extraordinarily quiet. The butler directly led the two of them to the garden in the backyard of the Wangfu. There was already a servant with fast legs who went to report first, and Prince An was waiting there.

The garden is lush and full of vitality, willows hang down the embankment by the lake, and lotus leaves are emerald on the water surface.

Prince An was wearing a plain white gown, leaning on a willow tree and sitting by the river fishing. Hearing the voice, he looked back at the three of them, and smiled at Governor Fu, "Long time no see, I didn't expect you to come to my door."

Governor Fu glanced at the fish still jumping in the wooden barrel next to him and said, "You are very leisurely."

Prince An put away the fishing rod, stood up and said with a smile, "What else can I do besides being leisurely? I didn't expect you to come with me. I'm afraid I didn't prepare enough lunch. Let's take these fish as an extra meal."

The butler immediately stepped forward and raised the barrel and said respectfully, "Yes, Third Master."

Prince An nodded, and smiled at the two, "Sit next to me?" The two naturally had no objections, so the three of them walked into the gazebo next to them and sat down.

The garden of Prince An's Mansion has a Jiangnan style, very elegant and deep. Sitting in the gazebo, all you can see at a glance are picture scrolls.

However, none of the people present had the time to appreciate the picturesque scenery. Prince An rolled up his sleeves and poured a cup of tea for each of them before asking, "Why are you here together?"

Zhuo Lin said indifferently, "I just finished a meeting in the Yizheng Building."

Prince An chuckled, and looked at Dujun Fu with great interest, "Dujun Fu is really free, he came to me on the way." Dujun Fu snorted lightly, and said, "I don't have your time, since you don't want to Come out, I have to come in to find you sooner or later. It just happens to be on the way, so that others won't think too much about it."

Prince An rubbed his chin in thought, nodded and said, "That's true." If Fu Zheng came to see him alone, others might think of something in their hearts. But if they came with Zhuo Lin, although it is inevitable to make up their minds, the direction of the brain's minds is probably going to be a hundred and eight thousand miles away.

Zhuo Lin drank tea and said, "So, I'm the idler."

Prince An smiled at her in a good-tempered manner, reached out and pushed the dim sum in front of her to her, and said, "What do you mean? It's rare that you are willing to come and have a meal with me, he is the idler."

"..." Dujun Fu stared at Prince An with deep eyes. Unfortunately, even if Prince An abdicated early, he was not an ordinary person, and he didn't take this kind of attack with his eyes.

Prince An looked at Zhuo Lin and said calmly, "You still want to go back to Yunzhou?"

Zhuo Lin nodded and said, "Naturally, I only officially took office last year, so I can't just leave this year, right? What's more...I think Yunzhou is very good."

Fu Zheng was dissatisfied and said, "What's so good about Yunzhou? It's a remote place where it's cold and cold...You come to the six southern provinces, Jiangcheng, Yongcheng, Yingzhou, you choose! This governor is not as stingy as Long Xiao."

Zhuo Lin rubbed the center of her brows with some headaches, decided to ignore the noise, and continued to say to Prince An, "What do you think of the things I gave you earlier?"

Prince An nodded, took a thick document bag from the cabinet behind him and said, "I have read it, it is very good. It seems that you have really put a lot of thought into these years. But... there is one question for you..."

Zhuo Lin said, "I know that every region is doing its own thing, and no matter how good the plan is, it's useless, so I'll show it to you." Because there is no possibility of implementation. But if it is just shelved and let it be submerged in dust, Zhuo Lin will be unwilling.

Prince An sighed softly, "It's a pity."

Governor Fu stared at the luck of the two people talking to themselves, dared to love labor and capital, and said loneliness, these two people thought he didn't exist?

"What is it that both of you miss so much?" Fu Zheng interjected unwillingly.

Prince An glanced at Zhuo Lin, Zhuo Lin shook her head to express that she didn't care, since it is something that cannot be put into practice, naturally there is no need to keep it secret.

In other words, even if this thing can be put into practice, it does not need to be kept secret. No matter who is doing it, Zhuo Lin thinks it is a good thing to be able to implement it. So Prince An handed the document bag in his hand to Governor Fu, and Governor Fu opened the document bag and took out a thick stack of documents full of handwriting.

Although it had been many years, Governor Fu could still tell at a glance that the handwriting on it was written by Zhuo Lin. Zhuo Lin's handwriting is somewhat different from when she was young, but she can still recognize it.

The handwriting doesn't look new, obviously it has been written for quite some time. There are also some annotations and revisions made in fresh red handwriting, which are obviously written by Prince An.

Governor Fu glanced hastily—the outline and plan for Anxia's future development.

After scanning a few more lines of previous content, Governor Fu knew why both Prince An and Zhuo Lin said that it could not be implemented.

Such a huge plan cannot be completed in one place and one city. It is only possible if the whole of Anxia is unified. Even if An Xia is unified, it's hard to say whether the incumbent will have the courage.

This was also Prince An's opinion, Qing Juan's red handwriting on the side marked his worries, which was particularly glaring.

Governor Fu didn't think much about it, he didn't even care about Prince An and Zhuo Lin left him and went to talk on his own, quickly flipping through the documents in his hand.

But until the butler came to invite the three of them to dinner, Governor Fu's documents had only been read less than a quarter.

Standing up with Prince An, Governor Fu packed the document and carried it into his arms. Seeing that both Zhuo Lin and Prince An turned their heads to stare at him, Governor Fu said confidently, "Anyway, it's useless to say what you said, let me see it for a couple of days first."

Zhuo Lin was speechless.

Governor Fu looked at Zhuo Lin, "You woman... all these years in Yunzhou, are you thinking about these things?"

Zhuo Lin glanced at him expressionlessly, "What? I can't think?"

Governor Fu was rarely distressed, scratched his head and said, "No, it's just..." It was a bit strange, and he couldn't say why. Probably because... when the two were still together, although Zhuo Lin was very smart, she was still quite different from now, right?

Prince An looked at the two with a smile and said, "Okay, let's eat first. If there is anything to do, we can talk about it after dinner."

The three of them had lunch together at Prince An's Mansion, but it was Zhuo Lin who got up first to leave after the meal.

The assistant came in and told her that she had some business to deal with, and Zhuo Lin got up and left without delay.

Governor Fu did not leave with her, and the atmosphere in the study where only Prince An and Governor Fu were left after Zhuo Lin left gradually became a little weird.

"Why don't you go with her?" Prince An said with a light smile as he looked at Governor Fu whose expression was changing.

Governor Fu snorted softly, "What do I have to do with her? Why should I go with her?"

Prince An shook his head, sighed softly and said, "You two... I knew you were such a waste, I shouldn't let you go so easily."

Governor Fu rolled his eyes, "Don't talk nonsense? Even without me, she wouldn't be able to enter the palace to be your concubine. What are you thinking? Besides, she liked labor and capital! Did she like you?"

Prince An couldn't help laughing, "It's quite clear."

It was impossible for Zhuo Lin to enter the palace to be his concubine back then, and it is naturally impossible for Zhuo Lin to reunite with Fu Zheng today, this is something they all know very well.

Fu Zheng waved his hand and said, "Okay, labor and capital don't mean that. It's been so many years, who the hell still thinks about that every day."

Prince An raised his eyebrows, "So, if she has someone else someday, you don't care?"

Fu Dujun was furious, he patted the table and said, "She has been helping Long Xiao's grandson against me all these years, what did labor and management say?!"

Governor Fu admits that he is indeed not a good person, but he is really not so self-righteous and thinks that Lao Tzu is the best in the world. He had been divorced from Zhuo Lin for many years, and he had many wives, concubines and children, and he never felt that Zhuo Lin should guard his body like a jade for him.

Even if one day he really got back together with Zhuo Lin, he wouldn't care about these things.

Of course, this is probably only a dream.

"..." Prince An looked at him a little speechlessly, Du Jun Fu looked uncomfortable and said angrily, "What do you mean?"

Prince An sighed, "Are you stupid?"

"Don't think that I dare not beat you up because you are a prince." Governor Fu gritted his teeth.

Prince An rubbed his brows, "Long Xiao's great-grandmother was born in the Luochuan Sheng family, and she and Arlene's great-grandfather are siblings, and Long Xiao is her cousin."

"Long Xiao, labor and management are going to kill you!" It took a long time for Governor Fu to let out a roar.

Prince An said with a smile, "So, you agreed to the divorce so readily at the beginning because you thought Arlene had something to do with Long Xiao? I heard that you two had a fight?"

Governor Fu's face was livid, and he glared viciously at the man in front of him who was smiling like a spring breeze.

Prince An shook his head without fear, and said with emotion, "A Lin fell in love with you at the beginning, it was indeed because of her eyes. Fortunately, she left early, otherwise I would have pissed you off all these years. I think your Fengcheng is more beautiful than you. You are more than ten times stronger."

Governor Fu snorted softly, "No matter how good it is, he is my son, can you control him?"

"It's hard to say." Prince An smiled.

"Xiao Zhu, do you want to die?" Du Jun Fu gritted his teeth.

Prince An waved his hand and said, "Okay, I can't compare you to your fate. You came here today to catch up with me, right? If you have anything to say, just tell me."

Governor Fu raised his head and glanced at him, the colorful expression on his face instantly receded, and the expression on his brows became more serious, "The Royal Arsenal back then...who exactly fell into the hands of it?"

Prince An was also taken aback, frowned and said, "The Royal Arsenal? Wasn't it dismantled? The military and the cabinet built a new arsenal, part of the Royal Arsenal was merged, and the rest... were sold for nothing."

The Royal Arsenal at that time was too large and bloated, but its efficiency and quality were surprisingly low. More than half of the people are just dawdling, and the other half are related households. There is no need to stay and it is better to build a new one.

"What happened?" Prince An looked at Governor Fu and asked in a deep voice.