Chapter 041: Collusion Between the Inside and the Outside (One Change, Asking for Subscription)
Taking a deep breath, Gu Jialuo directly handed a thick account book to Feng's mother, "Mom, take a look." Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info"
Mother Feng saw that Gu Jialuo's face was not good, so she knew that this account book was greasy, in fact, this is normal, Gu Jialuo was imprisoned in the Iron Threshold Nunnery, what kind of place is that, everyone in Beijing who has a little knowledge knows it. Not to mention the treacherous shopkeepers in the shops outside.
Although most of these shopkeepers are the old team left by the Feng family, the wealth is moving, and no matter how loyal the slave is, it can't withstand the erosion of real money.
Mother Feng took the account book and read it carefully, only a few pages were read, her face sank, and with a snap, she slapped the table hard and scolded: "Damn, good Hao Dazhong, really damn it." Thinking that Mrs. was so kind to their family back then, and then entrusted him with a heavy responsibility, he didn't say that he would repay Mrs. and Miss well, but he actually did such a thing that was inferior to pigs and dogs. โ
Hao Dazhong is one of Gu Jialuo's shopkeepers, in charge of Gu Jialuo's several properties on East Street, and this account book is the income and expenditure records of one of the most profitable Western grocery stores in Hao Dazhong's charge in the last two months.
You can't blame Gu Jialuo and Feng's mother for being angry, it's really Hao Dazhong's eating appearance that is too ugly. This Western grocery store has been very profitable in the past few years, with a dividend of three or four thousand taels of silver every year. But in the past two months, they have lost money again and again, as if overnight, the magnates in the capital have been disgusted with new and rare Western goods, and the money obtained in a huge shop is not enough to pay the salaries of the shopkeeper and his associates.
This is not the most hateful, what is hateful is that Hao Dazhong seems to have decided that Gu Jialuo will die of old age, and he is not even willing to do fake accounts, and several major deficits are so big on the books, not to mention people like Gu Jialuo who can read account books, even people like Feng's mother who know a few words can see that something is wrong, which shows that he is bold and reckless!
"Hao Dazhong?" Gu Jialuo snorted coldly, took a sip, and scolded: "It's really a waste of a good name, I think he should be called 'a big traitor'!" "What's 'good' about him? How can what you do be called a 'loyalty'?
"Poof~" Mother Feng was still angry, but when she saw Gu Jialuo's pouting mouth and puffing out her cheeks, she couldn't hold it for a while, she laughed, she reached out and rubbed Gu Jialuo's head, and said, "My eldest girl, why is she still the same as when she was a child, saying some angry things." โ
Saying this, Mother Feng's eyes were full of love, because she had heard from Mrs. Song that in the past four years, her eldest girl had been suppressed by a lonely ghost from nowhere, and she couldn't control her body, so she could only let that ghost do nothing.
Last month, the eldest girl was in the Iron Threshold Nunnery, and accidentally bathed in the Buddha light of the gilded Guanyin Bodhisattva, thanks to the protection of the Buddha, she finally drove away the ghost thing and got her body back, but the past four years have been blank for the eldest girl.
In the eyes of Mrs. Song and Mother Feng, Gu Jialuo is now sixteen years old, but her mind is still twelve years old, and she is still a sensible, well-behaved, but somewhat childish half-grown child.
Seeing Gu Jialuo speak like this at this time, Feng's mother became more and more sure of her guess.
The corner of her eyes caught a glimpse of the smile on Feng's mother's lips, Gu Jialuo also breathed a sigh of relief, she didn't deliberately hide her mother and nurse, but her experience was too bizarre, if she said it truthfully, she was worried that the two elders would not believe it, and maybe they would have other ideas. After all, for pure ancient women like Song and Feng's mother, instead of saying anything about 'crossing' and 'reverse wearing', it is better to directly push it to the gods, Buddhas and ghosts.
In this way, the two of them will be more convinced.
Facts have proved that Gu Jialuo's approach is correct, so she will occasionally deliberately behave childishly, so that the two elders can relax their hearts!
With Gu Jialuo's interruption, the atmosphere in the room was much more relaxed, and Feng's mother's anger subsided a lot, she tried her best to say to Gu Jialuo in a calm tone: "Girl, Hao Dazhong can't stay any longer, fortunately, the deed of his family is in the hands of the girl, whether it is sold or put in the Zhuangzi outside the gate to open up the wasteland, it is all up to the girl!" โ
Gu Jialuo nodded, Diao Nu who was so bullying the master really couldn't stay.
Suddenly, a thought flashed through Gu Jialuo's mind, "No, Mom, this is not right-"
Although Hao Dazhong is a slave, he is also a businessman, and the people who fight in the shopping mall are very tactful, and he will never dare to do things too desperately until he has to. Gu Jialuo entered the Iron Threshold Nunnery with his front foot, and Hao Dazhong dared to embezzle the property of the lord's family with his back foot, and he was inevitably too anxious.
Moreover, although Gu Jialuo folded in at that time, the Gu family had not yet fallen, how could Hao Dazhong dare to act like this? Isn't he afraid that the Gu family's people will settle things after the fact?
Unless...... Gu Jialuo had a bad premonition in her heart, and she hurriedly said: "Ziwei, bring the red sandalwood carved box on the kang cabinet in my bedroom, it is the box with a lock." โ
Ziwei agreed, turned around and entered the bedroom, and after a while, she came out with a one-foot square red sandalwood box.
Gu Jialuo took out a bunch of keys from the purse around his waist, took out a very small one, opened the copper padlock on the box, and lifted the lid of the box, revealing a pile of deed paper. The deeds of the people left by the Feng family to Gu Jialuo back then were all here, and Hao Dazhong's family was no exception.
However, Gu Jialuo checked the stack of deed papers one by one, but did not find the identity deed of the Hao family.
"What's going on? Did someone steal the deed? โ
Mother Feng was also a little dumbfounded, saying that this kind of 'slave and maid deed disappeared out of thin air' was the first time she had encountered it. Squirming her lower lip, Feng's mother guessed: "Could it be that Hao Dazhong has already rebelled, and took advantage of the girl's accident a few days ago to buy off the maid and steal the identity deed of their family?" โ
This speculation, while somewhat outrageous, is the closest to the truth.
Gu Jialuo put all the deeds back in the box, closed the lid, closed his eyes, and tried to find the fragments of memory left in his predecessor. It's a pity that the predecessor doesn't seem to know this past.
Thinking about it, 'Gu Jialuo' was caught on the spot in the restaurant, and then escorted back to the Qi family for accountability, and in the end, the Qi and Gu families discussed sending her to Tiejian Nunnery, and the whole process only took one day. And during this day, Gu Jialuo was locked up in a side room in the main courtyard of Qinghe County. His hands and feet were tied, his mouth was gagged, and he didn't even have a familiar slave or maid around.
So, Gu Jialuo didn't know what was going on outside.
At the same time, the elders of the Qi and Gu families were busy discussing how to send Gu Jialuo, and the mother-in-law, slaves and maids in Gu Jialuo's courtyard were tied up and locked up, all of them were in a mess, if someone took advantage of the chaos to enter Gu Jialuo's room at this time and quietly stole a few pieces of deed paper, it was not impossible.
As for the lock on the box, to put it mildly, as long as you have the heart, any kind of lock can be opened. Since Hao Dazhong has made up his mind to betray the master, he must be prepared, such a thing as a master key is not an original creation of later generations.
Otherwise, what will the ancient gentlemen of Liang Shang eat with mixed rice?!
"It's possible, but anyway, I have to go to Hao Dazhong to ask for an understanding!" Gu Jialuo said, with a cold light flashing in his eyes, Hao Dazhong dared to betray the master, and did not hesitate to offend the Zhao State Mansion to embezzle Gu Jialuo's property, showing that he had a bigger master behind him.
Now Gugalo wants to know who that person really is!
Moreover, although her primary goal at present is to wash her reputation, she also wants to establish her authority, and she wants to use practical actions to tell the world that she, Gu Jialuo, is back again!
On the morning of this day, the sun was fine, and on East Street, one of the most prosperous streets in the capital, there were many shops and pedestrians, and it was very lively.
Gu Jialuo was dressed in a moon-white men's shirt, his long hair was also combed into a man's outfit, and there was only a white hosta hairpin on the bun, revealing a smooth forehead, with red lips and white teeth, shaking a paper fan in his hand.
The people of Daqi are open, and the restraints on women are not too strict, especially in the upper class, and the little noblewomen who have not left the cabinet will occasionally wear men's clothes to wander the streets. As long as there are enough people behind him, the family will not be too restrictive.
Therefore, like Gu Jialuo, it is not out of line.
Gu Jialuo and his party came to a delicate shop, this shop is two floors, all of them are five open houses, the windows facing the street are inlaid with precious glass windows, the glass windows are clear and transparent, even if people outside do not enter, they can see the goods placed on the shelves inside through the windows.
Those goods are all novel Western goods, what sailboat models, what glass bottles of incense, what Western flannel, what ivory sculptures, red sapphires...... There is a wide variety of goods, and it is very attractive.
Gu Jialuo didn't look at it, and went straight into the shop, and the young man had sharp eyes and saw her at a glance. It's just that when he saw Gu Jialuo's face clearly, his expression was a little hesitant.
Xia Zhu behind Gu Jialuo said coldly: "I don't have long eyes, I didn't see the eldest grandmother coming, why don't you hurry up and call Hao Dazhong out?" โ
The young man didn't dare to delay, answered, and ran upstairs quickly.
Gu Jialuo sat leisurely on the chair and slowly looked around.
A short time later, there was the sound of footsteps on the stairs, and a slightly chubby man in his forties walked up.
"I haven't seen you for a few days, Hao Da shopkeeper has always been good?" Gu Jialuo glanced at Hao Dazhong coldly and said coldly.
Hao Dazhong's face was a little stiff, obviously, he didn't expect Gu Jialuo to come to the door so quickly. But then, thinking of his 'new master', he suddenly had the strength again, showed a polite smile, and said, "I have seen Grandma Gu, Grandma Gu is fine!" โ
Gu Jialuo and several slaves and maids behind her all looked pale, Hao Dazhong did not directly call Gu Jialuo 'Miss', but called her 'Grandma Gu' very politely, which clearly did not regard Gu Jialuo as a master.
"Why, I haven't seen you for a few months, and the shopkeeper Hao doesn't even recognize the master?" Gu Jialuo already had a number in his heart, but he still pretended to be angry and asked.
Hao Dazhong narrowed his eyes with a smile, "I naturally recognize the master, but as early as two months ago, the villain was 'personally' transferred to the third grandmother of the East Mansion by you, Miss!" โ
Gu Jialuo frowned, and quickly reacted, she raised her eyebrows, "It's Gu Lin?!" โ
At first, she thought that Hao Dazhong was bribed by outsiders, but now it seems that someone is colluding inside and outside, sincerely calculating her Gu Jialuo!
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