Ye Weiming's excessive caution in this matter really could not be blamed.
Ye Weiming was now a second-rank constable of the imperial court. Every move he made represented the image of the Central Plains court.
This time, he had helped Xu Zhu subdue the demons and monsters of the Thirty-Six Caves and Seventy-Two Islands. Though it was indeed from the court's perspective, allowing this force to become docile, obedient, and subject to control rather than a threat to society—
—it was one thing for the court to handle such a matter personally, and quite another to put Xu Zhu forward.
With an intermediary like Xu Zhu, things would naturally become much easier, and both sides would find it more acceptable. Even if those people caused trouble in the future, it would be Lingjiu Palace that lost face, not the court.
Conversely, however, while helping Xu Zhu subdue these demons and monsters, Ye Weiming could not stand out too much. At the very least, he could not give people anything to gossip about.
Therefore, in guiding Xu Zhu, he needed someone who belonged to neither Lingjiu Palace nor the Thirty-Six Caves and Seventy-Two Islands to act as his mouthpiece and help Xu Zhu resolve a problem he was not good at handling.
It took Wu Zhou a full ten seconds to roughly understand what Ye Weiming meant. He then nodded and replied, "No problem. Just watch, Brother Ye!"
As he spoke, he pulled Dugu Qiupiao along and walked toward the helpless Xu Zhu. Putting on a familiar, easygoing expression, he said, "Brother Xu Zhu, since you are in such a difficult spot, why not hear what us two brothers have to suggest?"
Xu Zhu was stunned when he heard that. If those words had come from a non-player character, he would