After finishing this errand, go and find out where your elder brother is. Don't let your younger sister leave the pass and not see him, spending her days alone in her room, longing for him.
"OK."
After they finished speaking, they looked at the maggots that had been wriggling for more than ten meters in the distance and continued to wait silently.
...
After taking a bath, Gu Ningye changed into a breathable blue and white glass dress, and her mind, which had been tired for two days, finally relaxed.
As soon as he stepped out of the bathhouse, Shen Zhao came to greet him.
The thought of spending the entire day almost naked with Shen Zhao made Gu Ningye's ears burn.
Fortunately, Shen Zhao didn't mention the matter at all, which avoided unnecessary embarrassment.
"Empress Dowager, let me escort you back to the palace."
"No rush, Zhao'er, come with me to another place."
With that, she stepped into the carriage.
"Go to Ankangfang."
"yes."
Shen Zhao drove the carriage slowly toward Ankangfang.
Compared to the bustling East and West Markets, Ankangfang presents a completely different scene.
The people living here are all impoverished; everywhere you look, you see poor people in tattered clothes.
Walking along the muddy, dimly lit path, with the faint candlelight emanating from the houses on both sides, one could see garbage and sewage flowing everywhere.
Upon seeing this, Shen Zhao frowned.
Because in his previous life, Ankangfang was reorganized in the second year after he and Yu Xiyan got married.
After a year of sweeping reforms, the environment here has been completely transformed, and the 100,000 people living here have also taken on a new look.
I thought that Yu Xiyan would be reborn this time and would take care of this place as soon as possible, but more than four years have passed and the place is still in a mess.
"Zhao'er, you saw it, didn't you?"
Gu Ningye pointed to a group of children in the distance scrambling for wheat bran scattered on the ground under a public lampstand, and couldn't help but sigh.
Then he walked up to them.
"It's Aunt Gu, Aunt Gu is here."
The children immediately surrounded Gu Ningye excitedly when they saw her.
Gu Ningye took out the dried fruits and food that Shen Zhao had bought from the basket, smiled and distributed them to them one by one, and gave each of them some loose silver.
At this moment, Gu Ningye's face shone with a soft, holy light under the lamplight, which momentarily stunned Shen Zhao.
"Thank you, Auntie."
"Go home, it's getting late."
Watching the children leave, Gu Ningye sighed again.
"Zhao'er, you see, this is the most authentic scene of Chang'an."
“It was already like this when the Emperor Emeritus was alive. He tried to govern it but ultimately failed.”
"Now that Xi Yan has ascended the throne, I thought things would change, but unexpectedly, Xi Yan is completely indifferent to the situation in Ankangfang."
“There are more than ten such neighborhoods throughout Chang’an.”
"In Chang'an, a city with over three million people, nearly a million people still can't even afford three meals a day. Zhao'er, tell me, is Xi Yan really suitable to be the ruler of a country?"
Seeing the questioning look in Gu Ningye's eyes, Shen Zhao could only remain silent.
If it were me now, I could completely transform Chang'an within three years.
As for Yu Xiyan, Shen Zhao neither knew nor wanted to know what she was thinking.
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