Empress has purpose

Chapter 9
Coming out of the old lady's room, Gu Yunxi walked in front and felt her sleeves being pulled. Looking back, it was Gu Qingwu. The fifth girl was still in the old lady's room and continued to talk affectionately. He came out with Gu Yunxi.

Gu Qingwu was obviously shocked, and looked at herself with wide eyes. Gu Yunxi knew what she wanted to say, so she just smiled at her.

Gu Qingmo dusted Gu Qingwu's hand, and signaled her to let go, don't make such small gestures, this is not out of the gate of Ci'an Hall, Su Momo sent them out and just entered, surrounded by the old lady's courtyard Maid, Gu Qingwu could only hold back, and followed Gu Yunxi out of the courtyard.

Before walking far, Gu Qingwu hurriedly said from behind: "Oh my god, third sister, the old lady is really unusual today."

Gu Qingmo continued: "Yeah, why did you suddenly come to us to help her with things? When the maid reported that the old lady asked us to go, I thought something serious happened!"

Gu Yunxi sneered, and said: "It's just that I want the fifth sister to follow the school in a proper way, but it's a pity that the fifth sister is too young, how can there be a reason why the younger sister ran to the front before the eldest sister and the second sister started learning? So I mentioned it to the old lady, and I can't let you go."

After hearing this, Gu Qingmo and Gu Qingwu sighed together, and Gu Qingmo said: "We also knew about this old lady's partiality early on."

Gu Qingwu said: "Yeah, I'm used to it, but being able to work with the third sister makes it a lot easier. It's you, the eldest sister, who should have seen each other a long time ago, but the wife has not moved at all until now, let alone you. I have taught my eldest sister how to run the house. If it hadn’t been for the accident a few days ago, I’m afraid that my eldest sister would not even have the opportunity to learn. Besides, the old lady has always favored the fifth younger sister. Would she not give her a chance at all? "

"No." Gu Yunxi shook her head and said: "This matter must depend on ability. It's useless for the old lady to be biased. The fifth sister is still young. She can't handle many things well, but she insists on the old lady. Let her learn from her, which gave us this opportunity. Now, the most important thing for us is to get familiar with the things in this mansion as soon as possible." Gu Yunxi continued: "Also, second sister, don't always think about being lazy. , the part we are responsible for must be equally distributed." After speaking, he looked at Gu Qingwu with a smile.

"Ah, but..." Gu Qingwu frowned, looking depressed.

Gu Qingmo poked her on the head and said: "But what is it? But, the opportunity that Sanmei managed to win for us, it's fine if you don't take good care of it, but you still want to be lazy, and be careful to let someone who cares about you spread the word of the second chancellor!" Young lady doesn't know how to marry, and has a reputation of being lazy and tired, let's see how you get married!"

"Oh, big sister, you are really serious, am I your own sister?" Gu Qingwu said angrily, covering her painfully poked head.

"It's because you are my own sister that I kindly warn you!" Gu Qingmo looked at her with a smile.

Gu Yunxi also joked with a smile: "That's right, the eldest sister is also doing it for your own good." After a pause, she continued: "I think it's still early in the day, why don't we go to the pavilion in the lotus pond and look at this pile of books, I don't understand Localities can also discuss with each other.”

Gu Qingmo and Gu Qingwu nodded: "That's a good idea."

Gu Yunxi said: "Then let's go."

A group of people went to the lotus pond in the back garden of Gu's mansion, carefully flipped through the ledger, and a few maids brought pens, ink, paper and inkstones and waited on them.

"Big Sister and Third Sister, why do I feel that these books are not quite right?" Gu Qingwu looked at them silently for a long time, then looked up at the other two with some doubts.

"It's not just something wrong, the accounts for the past two months are obviously not right." Gu Yunxi put down her pen and said.

Gu Qingmo was a little surprised that the third sister had figured out the problem in such a short period of time. She smiled and asked, "How did the third sister find out? I just saw some tricks."

There was an incomprehensible look in Gu Yunxi's eyes, and she said with a smile: "When Nanny Shen was here, I asked her to teach me to read the account books. You also know that my mother's dowry has always been Madam Shen Nanny helped me take care of it. There are a lot of books in Zhuangzi’s shop and so on. I thought that I would always have to manage it by myself in the future, so I might as well learn first. But the elder sister has figured out the way so quickly. It seems that in the future, she must He's a good master."

Gu Qingmo blushed, and said with some embarrassment: "Actually, last year, my aunt saw that I was about to reach my age, but she still didn't understand anything, so she secretly taught me for a while."

"Yeah, I want to follow suit, but my aunt still thinks I'm stupid." Gu Qingwu pouted and said.

"You're ashamed to say, it's obvious that you were lazy and refused to learn more, but now it's your aunt's fault." Gu Qingmo glared at her.

"Second aunt?" Gu Yunxi asked softly, and then thought that the second aunt was a girl from an ordinary family, and her family must have taught this, and she heard that when her mother was still alive, she seemed to let her The second aunt helped take care of the affairs of the mansion.

Therefore, Gu Yunxi closed the ledger immediately, and said to Gu Qingmo and Gu Qingwu: "Why don't we go to Second Concubine for help? I heard that Second Concubine helped my mother manage the family affairs when my mother was alive. , better than we understand.”

Gu Qingmo also nodded, she also knew about it.

So they took the ledger and went to Liuyingxuan where Second Aunt lived.

As soon as he entered the door of Liuyingxuan, he went to the inner room, and saw the second concubine, Mrs. Wang, coming out to welcome her: "Why is the girl here, I'm not ready yet..."

Gu Yunxi said with a smile: "There is no need to prepare, today Yunxi is here to ask Second Aunt you."

The second aunt smiled and said: "I don't dare to ask for advice, but the third girl can tell you anything, and I will help as much as I can."

Gu Yunxi smiled and said: "Yun Xi thanked Auntie, thanks to Second Aunt's help that day." She was talking about her poisoning.

The second aunt hurriedly laughed and said: "What did the third girl say? Mrs. Hua took good care of me when she was alive. Now that the girl has something to do, my aunt will definitely use her life to help the third girl." There were some tears, thinking that he must have thought of Gu Yunxi's mother, Qin Hua.

Gu Yunxi was also a little sad, and said: "My aunt, don't say that, Yunxi has been taken care of by my second aunt all these years."

"Oh, what are you talking about? The old lady told me and my elder sister to go over today. Auntie, guess why?" Seeing that the atmosphere was a bit sad, Gu Qingwu interrupted with a mysterious expression.

"You girl, tell me quickly if you have something to do, why make me worry here." The second aunt wiped her tears, took a look at her little daughter, and laughed.

"You would never have guessed that the old lady actually asked us and Sanmei to help her with the food in the mansion, and gave us a few ledgers to come back to look at. After pondering for a while with the eldest sister and the third sister, I felt that this There seems to be some problems in it, so I thought to ask you."

Second Aunt's face was full of surprise, as if she hadn't expected: such a thing would happen? "

Gu Yunxi smiled and said: "Yes, Second Aunt, I think the accounts for the past two months are not right. You hosted a mid-term show with my mother, so I thought of asking you."

As soon as Second Yiniang heard that the accounts were not reconciled, she didn't refuse, and said, "Bring it here and let me have a look."

Several maidservants stepped forward one by one and put the ledger on the high table next to the second aunt. The second aunt took one, flipped through it for a while, then closed it, and said in a serious tone: "It really doesn't match, And there is a big problem with it, not to mention anything else, it cost 50 taels of silver to buy tofu just last month? How is it possible, is it possible that the mansion still eats tofu every day?" The second aunt widened her eyes and looked at the girls .

Gu Qingwu first burst out laughing with a "puchi", amused by Second Aunt's words.

Second Auntie glanced at Gu Qingwu, and said: "You are still in the mood to laugh, there is such a big deficit in the book, there is no way Madam doesn't know, she must have acquiesced."

Gu Yunxi took a sip of tea and smiled: "With the old lady's shrewdness, it's impossible not to notice it after two days of management. She must think it's nothing. But when we little girls just took over Zhongfei, they Shouldn't something like this be tolerated?"

A gleam flashed in Second Auntie's eyes, and she said with a smile, "Third Miss means..."

Gu Yunxi smiled mysteriously.

(End of this chapter)