Empress has purpose

Chapter 12 Li Wei

Gu Yunxi glanced at the servants in the courtyard, and some of them couldn't bear it any longer, and started whispering, their voices getting louder and louder.

Gu Tao looked up and saw that Gu Yunxi had already frowned, and couldn't help shouting angrily: "Be quiet, everyone, make a lot of noise in front of the master, don't die!"

The scene immediately quieted down.

Gu Yunxi raised her eyebrows and smiled, and said: "It seems that the big housekeeper is good at talking, so let the big housekeeper come and judge Yunxi." After speaking, regardless of everyone's reaction, he shouted: "Luwu, bring me up here Bar."

After hearing this, Lvwu who was waiting in the house immediately led a few people to escort a woman up, and two servants behind her carried a big basket.

Everyone looked into the basket with curious eyes.

Gu Tao was confused by this scene, he turned his head and walked to the side of the woman who was escorted up, squatted down to look, and said in surprise: "Mr. Song?"

Everyone was startled, Mrs. Song had been sent by Madam Meng to take care of the storeroom, but now she was brought up with twisted shoulders, and everyone couldn't help but wonder, could it be that this guy who was greedy for ink was caught by the third girl Let's go.

Gu Yunxi said with a smile: "The housekeeper will look at what is in the basket."

Gu Tao walked up to the basket, looked into the basket, was stunned for a moment, then raised his head to look at Gu Yunxi, seeing Gu Yunxi nodding at him, he picked up the things in the basket, looked at it carefully for a while, and a trace of surprise flashed in his eyes , then put it on the tip of his nose and sniffed it, and after smelling it, he was shocked, and immediately roared: "Bold Mrs. Song, as the steward of the storehouse, she guards herself and steals, what crime should she deserve!"

Everyone suddenly realized when they heard the words, it turned out that they were really greedy and caught, and seeing that the thing in the housekeeper's hand was exactly like the wild ginseng, they couldn't help sighing, that basket of wild ginseng, should it be worth it? Less money.Would Mrs. Song have such courage?
Mrs. Song yelled with a trembling voice: "Third Miss, butler, this servant has been wronged, how could this servant have such courage."

Gu Yunxi glanced at Mrs. Song who was lying on the ground kowtowing and screaming for grievances with a half-smile, and said, "You mean, the housekeeper got it wrong, or I got it wrong?"

As she spoke, she raised her voice a little, and when she shouted at the end, Mrs. Song trembled again in fright.

At this time, Gu Yan, the second housekeeper, heard the letter and came over. He passed through the crowd, walked up to Gu Yunxi, saluted casually, and said arrogantly: "The three girls and the big housekeeper are all here. I don't know Mrs. Song What did you do, you were arrested here, and the third girl, the work in this mansion is all arranged, if you don't do it for a day, it will be easy to mess up, but the third girl asked the servants to come here without doing anything Standing and basking in the sun is probably inappropriate."

Gu Yunxi looked at him with a smile: "Is the second steward accusing me? Or does the second steward think that you are more capable of managing the affairs of the mansion than me?"

The second butler immediately said: "I dare not." But that expression did not seem to dare at all, it was clearly extremely arrogant.

However, Gu Tao saw some tricks, and secretly scolded Gu Yan in his heart: You idiot!

Gu Yunxi pursed her lips and smiled, not caring about Gu Yan's attitude at all. The more he behaved like this, the faster he would die: "Then please wait a moment, the second housekeeper, until I finish interrogating this matter." Gu Yan's reaction was to say directly: "Mrs. Song, are you sure you don't intend to tell the truth?"

When Mrs. Song saw Gu Yan coming, she regained her confidence, puffed her chest out and said, "Why did you hire a maidservant if you didn't do it?"

Gu Qingwu glanced at Gu Yunxi with a smile and said, "Why should the third sister be so good-tempered? Give her a good beating to see if she will be recruited."

Gu Yunxi thought for a moment, nodded, and said, "Zi Zhu, palm her mouth."

As soon as Zizhu wanted to go there, she saw a young daughter-in-law with a delicate face in blue cloth clothes coming out from among the servants. She took a few steps forward, stood in front of Gu Yunxi, and said respectfully, "Why do you need Miss Zizhu to do it? Let the servants Just come."

Gu Yunxi raised her head and glanced at her, she seemed familiar, but she couldn't remember it, so she nodded her head in response.

The second steward then said again: "Third Miss, is this going to torture you to extract a confession?"

Gu Yunxi smiled and said, "What's the matter?" After speaking, her face changed, and she said seriously, "Call me!"

The daughter-in-law turned around and stood in front of Mrs. Song, her delicate face was full of ruthlessness, she looked at her coldly, and grabbed Mrs. Song, but she refused to take Mrs. Song, so she tried her best to look up He shook his head and screamed loudly: "Come here, help, madam, second housekeeper, help! The third girl is going to kill someone, help!"

"Bold and unreasonable, you dare to slander your master's reputation, even dare to call your wife's name, thinking that if you made a mistake, your wife will stand up for you? If you are always reasonable, your wife will not be bad for you If you don't want to admit it, you will only be beaten." Gu Qingwu gave Song Pozi a cold look.

"The madam has the final say in this mansion, Mrs. Song belongs to the madam, and the third girl can't deal with it casually." The second housekeeper said again, obviously not taking Gu Yunxi seriously.

Gu Yunxi took a sip of tea, and glanced at the crowd lightly, but it made many people tremble. She ignored the second housekeeper, but asked the young daughter-in-law pleasantly: "What's your name? The housekeeper?" What?

"Back to the third girl, the servant girl Xu Yuan, because her husband's family name is Liu, everyone calls the servant girl Liu Ping's family. The servant girl is now the cook in the big kitchen. She has practiced her arms because she has been shaking the spoon all the year round." Xu Xu Yuan Yuan said neither humble nor overbearing.

"It used to be in the big kitchen, no wonder it looks familiar. Since Mrs. Song still hasn't told the truth, you can help me teach her a lesson." Gu Yunxi said with a smile.

"Yes, the third girl." Xu Yuan bowed and bowed, walked up to Mrs. Song and stood still, her delicate face was full of ruthlessness, she looked at her coldly, two maids went over, and one of them twisted Mrs. Song's waist With one arm, one grabbed Mrs. Song's hair, and turned her face up halfway to facilitate Xu Yuan's hands.

With an incomparably crisp "pa", Mrs. Song was slapped on the face, and her head was thrown to the side along with the slap. The hair on her head was also a little messy, and a stream of blood spurted out from her mouth.

Before Mrs. Song regained her strength, she slapped him several more times, which made Mrs. Song helpless.

Gu Qingwu stared at it with wide eyes, and whispered to Gu Yunxi: "This strength is really great."

After a while, Mrs. Song was beaten until she almost passed out. Gu Yunxi yelled to stop, and Xu Yuan stopped.

"Why? Are you still recruiting?" Gu Yunxi looked at Mrs. Song, her face was red and swollen like a pig's head. At this time, she had lost the ability to shout, and only hummed weakly.

"Slave recruits, recruits, slaves recruit everything." Song Pozi said weakly.

The second steward got a little nervous at this moment, and secretly said: "It's broken, so I have to stop it: "You mother-in-law, don't talk nonsense!"

Gu Yunxi gave Gu Yan a cold look, then turned her head and said to Mrs. Song, "Then let's listen to it. If you still don't tell the truth, don't blame me, the master, for being ruthless."

"Your servant dare not, third girl, this servant did not steal anything, that was the intention of the second steward. The second steward relied on his wife to back him up, and was in charge of the purchases inside and outside the mansion, so he often used the medicinal materials in the mansion. , supplements, and even the jewelry in the warehouse to resell.” She had already seen that the third girl was clearly planning to use her own knife to beat the servants in the mansion. If she didn’t do it, she might really die. .

"Nonsense!" Gu Yan roared, and immediately wanted to kick Mrs. Song, but was stopped by the butler.

Gu Yunxi glanced at Gu Yan, and said coldly: "Gag his mouth, the master is questioning, and a slave interrupts here, is there any rule? Could it be that you are guilty?"

The second housekeeper immediately said: "Why do I have a guilty conscience, this Mrs. Song is clearly talking nonsense!"

"The servant girl is really telling the truth. If you don't believe that the third girl can ask the big housekeeper to take someone to search the second housekeeper's house, they will definitely find a lot of precious medicinal materials and receipts." Song Pozi said hastily.

The second butler still wanted to speak, but his mouth was already gagged and pushed aside.

Gu Yunxi thought for a while, and said: "Is it nonsense? You will know after checking it. Butler, you will bring a few reliable people to check it out. Others are not allowed to leave here for half a step." Some people tipped off.

Gu Tao took the order to go, and after a while, he actually brought back a lot of evidence, besides the booklet on reselling property written by Gu Yan, there were even several books from the mansion.

At this moment, Gu Yan was really scared. Looking at the evidence that Gu Tao searched dully, he realized that Gu Yunxi had come after him from the beginning, but at this moment he couldn't say a word, because The evidence is all true.

Gu Yunxi glanced at it, and then passed the things to the eldest girl and the second girl. Although she knew that Gu Yan had done many things behind Meng's back, the three of them were really shocked when they saw this record.

But it was precisely because of this that they gave them more favorable evidence to suppress the Meng family.

Gu Yunxi turned her head to the chief steward who was standing aside, and said in a low voice and slowly: "Dare to ask the chief steward, if you bully the master and ignore it, guard yourself and steal yourself, according to the law of taking care of the family, what kind of punishment should be imposed?"

Gu Tao said respectfully: "Return to the third girl, Family Law No. 30 and Nine Articles stipulate that the thief who steals will be punished fifty times with a stick, and will be expelled from Gu's mansion, and he will never be hired."

Gu Yunxi nodded: "Okay, let's execute the sentence. After the execution, all the proceeds of Gu Yan will be collected in the accounting room, and then statistics will be made."

Gu Yan refused, and shouted loudly, "You have no right to punish me, I belong to Madam, you can't drive me out of the house!"

Gu Yunxi sneered: "Shut up, pull it down! Today I will deal with you, a bullying slave, on behalf of my mother!"

After speaking, he looked at the servant's reaction, and said sharply, "Do you also think that I have no right to punish a servant who made a mistake?"

"Slaves (servants) don't dare." Gu Yunxi's resolute attitude surprised them all, and they also realized that the third girl was not as incompetent as she had shown these days.

"Don't dare? I think you are very brave! Today's matter is to let you remember that when doing things in my Gu family, first of all, you must be sincere in your heart, and second, you must be satisfied! You must never be someone who deceives the master, guards and steals." Things. Ask yourself, my Gu family has always treated people well, and I never lack you for food or drink, even the moon silver is more than the same people outside! But how do you repay it?" Gu Yunxi's face was serious.

"The slaves (slaves) realized their mistake." All the people immediately said in unison.

"Boss, I will leave the rest to you. Please give me a satisfactory answer. I don't want to encounter such a thing in the future." After speaking, he took the eldest girl and the second girl and left together. , it's time for her to report the account book to the old lady.

"Yes, Miss San, don't worry." Gu Tao silently breathed a sigh of relief as he saw the figures of Gu Yunxi and the others leaving.

The direction of the wind in this mansion is likely to change.

(End of this chapter)