The disgraced official I took care of was actually Zhu Houcong's childhood friend.

Chapter 560

Not long after Dazhu and Erya arrived in the capital, Zhou Chu sent people to bring their parents to the capital as well.

When Dazhu's parents first saw the prosperity of the capital, they were very reserved, afraid of offending the wrong people. After all, it was the capital, a place of great importance, and even a brick could knock out several officials.

After living in the capital for a while, the two gradually adapted to and got used to life there. In accordance with Zhou Chu's request, Chunlan helped their family purchase a three-courtyard house near the Zhou residence. It wasn't large, but it was enough for the family to live in.

A house that is too big is not a good thing for this family.

After Zhou Chu left Beijing for Tibet, Er Ya went to live with her parents. However, due to Zhou Chu's entrustment and the family's relationship with him, Chunlan helped them both openly and secretly.

After Er Ya's parents arrived in the capital, they were both restless, so Chunlan introduced Er Ya's mother to work in Yun Gui Fang.

Er Ya's father went to work at the cloth shop, and in this way, the two of them lived a very peaceful life.

After the two had worked for about a year and become familiar with the process, Chunlan helped them take over a shop, which mainly dealt in cloth.

Zhang's shop sells cloth for ordinary people, while Yun Gui Fang now mainly focuses on the high-end market. Although Yun Gui Fang almost monopolizes most of the high-end silk market in Beijing, Zhang's shop is not affected by Yun Gui Fang and its business is still quite good.

As a result, the Zhang family gradually became wealthy.

However, the Zhang couple were both very honest people. Even Er Ya never mentioned her relationship with Zhou Chu. Da Zhu's father always understood one principle: if you do everything to the extreme, the relationship will inevitably end sooner. Their current life was something they never dared to dream of before, and they were already very content.

Aside from Er Ya frequently visiting Chunlan at the Zhou residence, the Zhang couple were usually busy with their business. Occasionally, they would prepare some gifts to thank Chunlan, but Chunlan never accepted them.

"These were all arranged by the young master. If you want to thank him, just wait until he returns to thank him."

The Zhang couple continued to run their shop, leading a very stable life.

Until this day, a young man passed by the shop. This young man was from the family of Shao Xi, a fifth-rank official in the Ministry of Works. Most of the original officials in the Ministry of Works had been investigated and punished by Zhou Chu. This man was a replacement. Originally a sixth-rank local official, he jumped to the fifth rank in the Ministry of Works. He could be considered to have risen rapidly in rank.

In the past two years, Zhou Chu has not been in the capital, and the officials who have been appointed in the capital have not witnessed Zhou Chu's prowess, so they don't have much of a feeling about Zhou Chu, the commander of the Embroidered Uniform Guard.

With the commander of the Embroidered Uniform Guard absent from the capital, these newly appointed officials became increasingly unscrupulous in their pursuit of wealth, often resorting to bullying men and women and seizing farmland.

Although Lu Wanshan and his group of Imperial Guards had investigated and prosecuted quite a few cases, Lu Wanshan was different from Zhou Chu. He was not as unscrupulous as Zhou Chu when handling cases. It was fine to investigate and prosecute one or two officials like this, but if he arrested too many, Lu Wanshan was really afraid that he would not be able to withstand the attacks from those civil officials.

After all, Lu Wanshan was just a garrison commander of the Northern Garrison, whose official rank was more than one level lower than Zhou Chu's, and the power he held was worlds apart from Zhou Chu's.

To put it bluntly, Lu Wanshan and his ilk came from the Zhengde era and had witnessed the terror of the civil officials back then. Naturally, they were hesitant and timid in their actions. In particular, since their superior, Zhou Chu, was not in the capital, even though the Embroidered Uniform Guard now held great power, Lu Wanshan was afraid that if he did something wrong, the Embroidered Uniform Guard and he himself would be punished.