Chapter Fifty-Nine: A Night of Snow and Frost
Gu Wanyan was holding a stack of thick bamboo slips in one hand, supporting her head in the other, and she was dozing off in a trance-after three days of busy work day and night, Gu Wanyan finally felt a little sleepy at the moment. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
Due to the conclusive evidence, the government has completely seized the Dongcheng store of Gu's Jewelry, and the decades-long cooperation between the royal family and Gu's Jewelry had to come to an abrupt end and ended lonely.
Heard...... Gu Huan in the palace was also implicated in this incident and lowered his grade again.
At this moment, the entire Gu Mansion was like an old man who was struggling to breathe, and no one could help but sigh when he saw it.
A store in Dongcheng is gone, and the prestige of the Gu Mansion in Dongcheng has dropped sharply, but the branches in other towns are still there! Of course, the people of the Gu Mansion cannot be blet in discouragement for a long time, and now the four brothers have all rushed to other branches in Loulan Country where they are located elsewhere -- the top priority is to stabilize the morale of the army, and not to let the other industries of Gu's jewelry fall together.
In the huge Gu Mansion, the lady is gone, the old man is sick and lying in Yunjitang, Gu Huan lives alone in the palace, the four sons of the Gu family are running around, and the eldest wife Liu Fengxian suddenly disappeared inexplicably - now only Gu Wanyan is left, and the second lady Mei Yuelan and her son.
Gu Wanyan was in a state of turmoil, so she simply persuaded Meiyuelan's mother and son to go to Yunjitang to take care of the master and guard the family by herself.
Now the assets of the entire Gu Mansion are there, and they can indeed support it to reopen a jewelry store - but now that the limelight has not passed, it may not be so easy for the Gu family to make a comeback in the jewelry industry.
In this regard, Gu Wanyan has her own ideas.
Maybe Gu Fu can try to get involved in other industries, and when the time is ripe in the future, they can find a way to get back their Dongcheng jewelry store?
But...... Gu Wanyan herself is a female streamer after all, and she doesn't have much business acumen. Not to mention her, even a few men of the Gu family have grown up under the influence of jewelry culture, they have touched jewelry, and they don't know anything about other markets.
This is also the reason why she huddles in the study day and night to search for literature and flip through books.
She was only halfway through her sleepiness when there was a knock and a thin female voice outside the door.
"Second wife, there are guests!"
Gu Wanyan's sleep is very light now, and she will be awakened as long as there is a big movement. So she came to her senses.
Gu Wanyan quickly rubbed her eyes, stood up from the stool, and walked to the door of the study and opened the door.
However, as soon as he saw that the person standing outside the door was Qing Kui, Gu Wanyan's face immediately turned cold.
Her cold gaze made Qingkui's hairs stand on end.
"Second wife......" Qingkui said cowardly, "There are guests ......" Gu Wanyan said coldly: "Your master is gone, what are you still doing here?"
Qing Kui was stunned, and then looked frightened: "Second wife, ...... you What do you mean by that?"
Gu Wan's face was expressionless, but the two hands hanging by his side were clenched: "I said, you should leave." ”
"Why?Second wife?" Qingkui was full of doubts and grievances, and couldn't help but raise his voice, a little excited.
Gu Wanyan looked at Qing Kui's delicate and beautiful face motionlessly, pursed her lips, and couldn't stop taking a deep breath in her heart.
"What's wrong?" Gu Wanyan's bad mood was still swirling in her heart, and Xu Dong suddenly came from a distance, and the voice came from afar.
Then, a vivid white figure fluttered. Xu Dong walked up to Gu Wanyan and stopped, and happened to stand side by side with Qingkui.
He turned his head strangely to look at Qing Kui, then at Gu Wanyan with a frosty face, and repeated Fang Cai's question: "What's wrong?"
"Why are you here?" Gu Wanyan said to Xu Dong angrily.
Xu Dong ignored Gu Wanyan's poor attitude, and smiled gently: "I've been here for a while, and you didn't come out to greet me after seeing the report for a long time, so I simply came in by myself - forgive me, second wife." ”
Gu Wanyan was gloomy and silent.
Qing Kui stood there stiffly, neither advancing nor retreating, and he didn't dare to speak again, and he was very embarrassed for a while.
It was Xu Dong who broke the deadlock. He turned his head and smiled at Qing Kui: "You go down first." ”
Qingkui seemed to grasp the life-saving straw, and hurriedly said: "Mr. Xu Dong, second wife, the slave and maid retreat first." ”
When Qingkui walked away quickly, Xu Dong helplessly looked at Gu Wanyan, who was still frosty, and sighed: "I said you, no matter how bad the situation is now, you don't have to be angry with a subordinate - this is not like you, Gu Wanyan I know will not be like this." ”
Gu Wanyan seemed to be struck by this sentence. She glared at Xu Dong angrily, then resolutely turned around and went back to the study, ignoring Xu Dong.
Xu Dong was stunned, then sighed again, and followed her steps in.
I saw Gu Wanyan sitting sullenly on the chair behind the desk, her eyebrows tightly locked, and she didn't say a word.
Xu Dong finally realized the seriousness of the problem, so he put away his joking attitude, walked over and whispered: "I know that the Gu family is in a trough now, if you calm down, maybe things will turn around." ”
Gu Wanyan listened, but still didn't speak, slowly closed her eyes, her face was tired.
Xu Dong also frowned: "Wanyan, don't be like this." ”
After a while, Gu Wanyan opened her eyes faintly, and said a nonsensical sentence weakly: "Xu Dong, that maid just now, do you think she is beautiful." ”
Xu Dong was taken aback by this question, but still replied: "Hmm...... I didn't pay much attention to it, but it's not bad. At this time, Gu Wanyan shook her head vigorously and forced herself to be sober.
At this juncture, what could be more important than the survival of the Gu Mansion?
Xu Dong stared at her and asked in a deep voice, "What's wrong, is something else wrong?"
Gu Wanyan pulled the corners of her mouth very reluctantly, revealing a smile that was almost as ugly as crying: "No...... Why are you here?"
Xu Dong pursed his lips, walked to the side and sat down, and said solemnly: "It's not that I'm worried about you, I know that your situation is very difficult now." If there's anything you need me to help with, you can say it's okay. ”
Gu Wanyan shook her head helplessly and changed the topic: "How is Dad now? There are many things in the house now, and we haven't even seen him." ”
Xu Dong said: "There is no regain of consciousness. ”
Gu Wanyan rubbed her head with her hands: "If my father saw that Gu Mansion has become like this now......
Xu Dong comforted: "Don't worry, it'll be fine." ”
Gu Wanyan suddenly remembered something, and asked, "You said, if you want to open a new store, what kind of business is good, and the fastest way to make money?" Xu Dong thought about this question seriously, and then replied: "Hmm...... Now that the commodity economy of Loulan is developing rapidly and in various forms, it is really difficult to say what exactly is more appropriate...... However, if you want to make more money, you might as well try a whole new field, which no one has ever done. ”
"How?"
"Industries that no one has ever tried before, although risky, are often the ones with the most potential and unique. For a novel industry, he has no competitors, and the whole market is his. In this case, do you think the money is fast?"
Gu Wanyan actually agreed with Xu Dong's idea and decided to digest this opinion.
After a long silence between the two, Xu Dong said casually: "When will Gu Mo come back?"
As soon as Gu Wanyan heard Gu Mo's name, Ben's crazy brain suddenly stopped, she looked at Xu Dong lightly, and did not speak.