Rebirth of a prosperous doctor girl

Chapter 66 Looking for the Old Servant
Gu Chongyang went to ask the fourth master: "Father, where are the people who serve my mother?"

The fourth master sighed a long time: "Your mother is gone, and things at home are messed up. I didn't notice for a while, and let the people on the old lady's side take advantage of the loopholes. Those people were all driven to the farm."

"Your mother's bones are not yet cold, I can't even keep the people around her, I'm really incompetent as a husband." The fourth master assured Gu Chongyang: "After the new year, I will bring back some capable people , Those who are useless, just stay in the farm."

"How can this work?" Gu Chongyang was anxious: "It will be too late after the new year!"

"It's okay, those people are free in the farm instead." The fourth master said: "Everyone around you is here, and Mother Qiu is also staying. Don't worry, there will definitely be no fewer people who serve you."

What she cares about is not whether there is anyone to serve her, but that there may be clues in the old man beside her mother.

"Father, can you go and bring him back today?"

The fourth master shook his head and said: "No, you know the rules of the Qingyang Hou Mansion. Men are not allowed to meddle in the affairs of the inner house. If I go to pick them up, I'm afraid the old lady will not be able to get through. When spring comes, I will definitely put those People take it back."

Gu Chongyang was dissatisfied with his statement: "What if the old lady still disagrees after the Spring Festival?"

"No." The fourth master said softly: "I followed the path of the Minister of the Ministry of Officials, and he recommended me to serve in Guanglu Temple. If there is no accident, I should be the Cheng of Guanglu Temple."

These days of running around finally came to fruition, and the corners of the fourth master's eyes and brows were filled with a comfortable smile: "Do you know Guanglu Temple Chancellor? He is a sixth-rank Beijing official, two ranks higher than the county magistrate."

"That's great." Gu Chongyang nodded and said, "Congratulations to my father for being promoted. If my mother is here, I don't know how happy I am."

The fourth master's smile froze on his face all of a sudden, he sighed long and did not speak.

Gu Chongyang knew that his father was only thinking about being an official now, and he probably wouldn't care about trivial things like the people who served his mother, and it might be too late after the new year.

She hurriedly asked Gu Tai to go to the farm, only to find that some people were dead and some people had been sold.

Only then did Gu Chongyang realize that the situation was worse than she thought, and she asked Gu Tailai to track down those who were betrayed without stopping.

Those people's deeds of sale have always been kept by Madam Wu. These people were brought by their mother from their natal family. After their mother died, the Gu family was not entitled to move these people, including their mother's dowry.Without the consent of the Shen family, how dare they sell their mother.

But what if the Shen family agrees?

Gu Chongyang paused when he thought that his uncle was convinced that his mother died of illness.

No matter how courageous the members of the Gu family were, they would not dare to dispose of the people their mother served during their lifetime without the consent of the Shen family.The biggest possibility is that the uncle sold these people because of his mother's death.

She couldn't help but took a deep breath.

Neither her uncle nor her father saw the seriousness of the matter, and now she can only rely on herself.

Outside, she only has one Gu Tailai available.

For the current plan, I can only hope that Gu Tailai can find the old man beside his mother.

"No rush!" Gu Chongyang didn't know whether to comfort himself or Dan Xin, and said softly, "We will definitely get the news."

That afternoon, Gu Tailai came back, his shoes were dusty and his face was extremely tired.

"How? Has anyone found it?"

"It's all because I don't know how to ride a horse. When I found out the news and went after him, he had already boarded the boat and left." Gu Tailai shook his head and blamed himself: "Miss, I'm really useless!"

Gu Chongyang's heart sank, and he couldn't hide his disappointment.

Is there really no clue at all?

She didn't speak, but stared at a wintersweet outside the window in a trance.

Gu Tailai, Dan Xin, Lu Wu and Qing Zhi all looked at her with some trepidation.

Since Madam's accident, Miss has not laughed, she is always in a daze like this.

The originally lively and innocent little girl suddenly became calm and steady, like an ancient well under an old tree, calm and bottomless, with a deep expression.

Madam is gone, it is also a good thing that Miss can grow up quickly.But she looks like this, and people feel distressed when they see her.

"It's not your fault." Gu Chongyang turned around and said, "We found out too late, and you've done a good job. The road has been full of dust and dust. You must be exhausted. You should go back and rest first." , take a good shower and sleep, and come talk to me tomorrow morning."

"Miss!" Gu Tailai said: "I have already found out that those people were sold to a medicinal material merchant in Shandong. The boatman in Tongzhou said that because it was already the end of the year, they originally didn't plan to sail. The businessman was willing to give the money, and the place he was going was not far away, in Dongchang Mansion, Shandong Province, the trip would only take eleven or two days, and it would not delay the return for the New Year’s Eve dinner, so the boatman agreed."

"Okay!" Gu Chongyang's spirit was shaken, and he looked at Gu Tailai with admiration: "You did a good job. Dongchang Mansion in Shandong Province is not big, since that person is a medicine merchant, it's easy to inquire about it when he goes to Dongchang Mansion. As long as we can find the businessman, we can get back the people around my mother."

"Yes, I think the same as you." Gu Tailai said: "So, I want to tell the lady that it is not too late. I will rest tonight and leave early tomorrow morning. Although the boatmen in Tongzhou are not sailing , I can be a carriage and go on dry roads."

Of course Gu Chongyang agreed in her heart, if she hadn't been wearing a heavy filial piety and was under the control of the Gu family, she wished she could go in person.

She almost opened her mouth to agree, but when she got to her mouth, she shook her head: "Now it's the end of the year, and everyone else is celebrating the New Year at home lively, but you have to brave the freezing cold all the way from the capital Shandong, it’s too hard. Wait until the Chinese New Year to go, or go by water.”

"Miss, I'm used to it alone. For me, the family reunion is always a celebration wherever I go. I don't think it's hard. Finding those few people is very important." Gu Tailai insisted: "You'd better let me go. "

"No!" Gu Chongyang still did not agree: "There are a lot of bandits at the end of the year, and the road is not peaceful. What if something happens to you? I am trapped in the inner house, and I am blind and lame. You are my eyes and my feet. , if something happens to you again, then it will be even more impossible for me to track down the murderer who killed my mother."

"Miss, what is my cheap life!" It was the first time someone cared about him so much when he was so old, Gu Tailai said excitedly: "It's important to find those people."

"In my heart, you are more important than those few people."

"Anyway, we already know that the medicinal material merchants in Dongchang Prefecture, Shandong Province bought those people. It's the same when we look for them again in the spring."

Gu Chongyang said to Gu Tailai: "You go down first, take a good rest for a few days, after the new year, when you will work hard for me, at that time, even if you want to rest, you probably won't be able to."

"Yes." Gu Tailai did not insist, he said: "Miss, don't worry, after the new year, I will help you find him back."

The closer to the end of the year, the more people coming and going in the Qingyang Hou Mansion.

Greetings, boxing gift givers, and postings are endless.

The entire Qingyanghou Mansion was the same as other prominent clans with hairpin tassels. It was decorated with colorful flowers, lanterns and festoons everywhere, and flowers were placed everywhere.

New Year's Eve was even more lively. All the people in Gu's parents' room and the second room got together. First, the whole family went to the ancestral hall to worship their ancestors, and then they had a reunion dinner together regardless of gender.

In March, the filial piety has not yet passed, and Gu Chongyang is still wearing filial piety clothes, so he is out of place in such an atmosphere.

Except for her showing her face a little on New Year's Eve, she stayed in her Begonia courtyard at other times, very silent.

The eldest sister Gu Chongfang and the eldest sister Gu Chonghua came hand in hand, gave her lanterns, and accompanied her to watch the new year together.

This moved Gu Chongyang very much.

The next day is the first day of the Lunar New Year, and it is reasonable to pay New Year greetings to the elders in the family.

Gu Chongyang didn't go, but asked Luwu and Qingzhi to kowtow to the elders in each house on her behalf.

In the last life, no one gave pointers.On the first day of the Lunar New Year, she dressed in filial piety to kowtow to others.It's obviously well-intentioned, but in the eyes of others, they will only think that she is deliberately trying to hurt others, and curse others for bad luck.Some people said that she was uneducated and did not know etiquette, and some even scolded her mother for not letting people live in peace after death.

In this life, she began to pay attention slowly, and never let the reputation of being unruly and impolite in the previous life fall on her head again.

The sixth day of the first lunar month is a good day to go out, most of the boatmen have started work, Gu Chongyang decided to let Gu Tailai go to Shandong on the sixth day of the first lunar month.

This time he went on a long trip and had to redeem people, so he spent a lot of money along the way.

Gu Chongyang asked Luwu, "How much money do I have now?"

"More than two thousand two hundred taels." Lu Wu said: "There are silver and bank notes. Miss, do you want to use money?"

"Well, Gu Tai will come out in a few days, and I will prepare money for him." Gu Chongyang said: "You prepare 500 taels of silver."

Luwu couldn't help being speechless: "500 taels?"

(End of this chapter)