Gu Chongyang went to ask the fourth master: "Father, where are all the people who serve around my mother?" ”

The fourth old man let out a long sigh: "Your mother is gone, and things at home are messed up, and I didn't notice it for a while, so that the people on the old lady's side took advantage of the loopholes." All those men were driven up to the grange. ”

"Your mother's bones are not cold, I can't even protect the people around her, I'm too incompetent as a husband." The fourth master assured Gu Chongyang: "After the New Year, I will take some capable people back, and those who are useless will stay in the grange." ”

"How does this work?" Gu Chongyang was in a hurry: "It's too late after the New Year!" ”

"It's okay, those people are idle in the Grange." The fourth master said: "The people around you are here, and Mama Qiu has also stayed, you can rest assured, there will be no shortage of people who serve you." ”

What she cares about is not whether there is anyone serving her at all, but that there may be clues in the old people around her mother.

"Father, can you go and get someone back today?"

The fourth old man shook his head and said: "No, you also know the rules of the Qingyang Hou Mansion, you can't meddle in the affairs of the inner house, if I go to pick it up, I'm afraid the old lady won't be able to get by." When spring begins, I'll bring those people back. ”

Gu Chongyang was not satisfied with his statement: "What if the old lady still disagrees with the spring?" ”

"No, it won't." The fourth master said softly: "I took the path of the official department, and he guaranteed me to serve in Guanglu Temple, if nothing else, it should be Guanglu Temple." ”

These days of rushing have finally come to fruition, and the corners of the four old man's eyes and eyebrows are full of comfortable smiles: "Do you know Guanglu Temple?" It is a sixth-grade Beijing official, two grades higher than the county order. ”

"That's good." Gu Chongyang nodded and said, "Congratulations to my father for his promotion, 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, and he let out a long sigh without speaking.

Gu Chongyang knew that his father was now thinking about being an official, and he probably wouldn't pay attention to such trivial matters as the people who served around his mother, and he was afraid that it would be really too late after the New Year.

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

Only then did Gu Chongyang realize that the situation was worse than she thought, and she kept asking Gu Tailai to track down those who were sold.

The deeds of sale of those people have always been kept by Mama Wu, these people are people brought by the mother from her mother's family, the mother is dead, these people, including the mother's dowry, the Gu family is not qualified to move. Without the consent of the Shen family, how dare they betray their mother's people.

But what if the Shen family agrees?

Gu Chongyang thought that his uncle was convinced that his mother was sick and died, and his heart paused.

No matter how bold the people of the Gu family were, they didn't dare to dispose of the people their mother served before their mother's death without the consent of the Shen family. The biggest possibility is that the uncle was angry with these people because of his mother's death, so he sold them.

She couldn't help but take a deep breath.

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

Outside, she only had one Gu Tailai available.

For now, I can only hope that Gu Tailai can find the old man next to his mother.

"No hurry!" Gu Chongyang didn't know whether to comfort himself or Danxin, and said softly: "It will definitely be with the news." ”

In the afternoon, Gu Tailai came back, his shoes were dusty, and his face was very tired.

"How? Did the people find it? ”

"It's all because I can't ride a horse, and when I find out the news and chase it, the people have already gotten on 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 it true that there is no clue at all?

She didn't speak, but looked out the window at a plum plant.

Gu Tailai, Danxin, Luwu and Qingzhi all looked at her with some apprehension.

The young lady has not laughed since the accident with the lady, and she is always so stunned.

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

Madame is gone, and it is good that Miss can grow up quickly. But she is like this, and people are very distressed when they see it.

"It's not your fault." Gu Chongyang turned around and said, "It's too late that we found out, you've done a good job." You should be tired of all the way, you go back to rest first, take a good shower and sleep, and come and talk to me tomorrow morning. ”

"Miss!" Gu Tailai said: "I have found out that those people were sold to a medicinal herb merchant in Shandong, and the boatman over there in Tongzhou said that because it was the end of the year, they originally did not plan to sail the ship, because the merchant was willing to give money, and the place where he went was not far away, in Dongchang Province, Shandong Province, it was only eleven or two days away, and he would not delay coming back for Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, so the shipman agreed." ”

"Good!" Gu Chongyang's spirit was shocked, and he looked at Gu Tailai with appreciation: "You did a good job." Dongchang Mansion in Shandong Province is not big, since that person is a medicinal herb merchant, it is easy to inquire when he goes to Dongchang Mansion. As long as we can find the merchant, we can get the people around our mother back. ”

"Yes, I think the same as you do." Gu Tailai said: "So, I want to tell Miss, without further ado, I will rest all night tonight and leave early tomorrow morning." Although the boatmen in Tongzhou don't drive boats anymore, I can make a horse-drawn carriage and walk on a dry road. ”

Of course, Gu Chongyang agreed in her heart, if it weren't for the fact that she wore filial piety and was controlled by the Gu family, she would not have been able to go in person.

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

"Miss, I'm used to it, other people's families are reunited, for me to spend the New Year everywhere, I don't think it's hard, it's important to find those people." Gu Tailai insisted: "You better let me go." ”

"No way!" Gu Chongyang still didn't agree: "At the end of the year, there are a lot of bandits, and it is not peaceful along the way, what if something happens to you?" I'm trapped in the inner house, like a blind and lame person, you are my eyes, my feet, and if something happens to you again, then it will be impossible for me to track down the murderer of my mother. ”

"Miss, what is my cheap life!" He has grown so big, it is the first time that someone cares about him so much, Gu Tailai said excitedly: "It's important to find those people." ”

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

"Anyway, I already know that it was the medicinal herb merchant in Dongchang Mansion in Shandong Province who bought those people, and it will be the same if we go to find it again in the spring."

Gu Chongyang said to Gu Tailai: "You go down first, rest for a few days, and when the New Year is over, when you work for me, when the time comes, you can't even if you want to rest." ”

"Yes." Gu Tailai didn't insist, he said: "Miss, don't worry, when the New Year is over, I will definitely help you get people back." ”

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

Please, Boxing gifts, and the next post is endless.

The entire Qingyang Hou Mansion is the same as other hairpins, and it is decorated with lively flowers, and there are lights everywhere and full of flowers.

Chinese New Year's Eve was even more lively, all the people in the Gu family room and the second room gathered together, first went to the ancestral hall to worship the ancestors, and then ate a reunion dinner together regardless of men and women.

Before the March fever and filial piety passed, Gu Chongyang was still wearing filial piety clothes, which was out of place in such an atmosphere.

Except for Chinese New Year's Eve, when she showed her face a little, she stayed in her Begonia Courtyard the rest of the time, very silent.

The lobby sister Gu Chongfang and the eldest sister Gu Chonghua came hand in hand, gave her lanterns, and accompanied her to celebrate the New Year.

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's greetings to the elders in the family.

Gu Chongyang didn't go, but asked Lu Wu and Qing Zhi to go to each room to kowtow to the elders on her behalf.

In the last life, there was no one to point out. On the first day of the Lunar New Year, she wore a heavy filial piety to kowtow to others. is obviously well-intentioned, but in the eyes of others, she will only think that she is deliberately touching other people's bad luck and cursing others to be unlucky. Some people say that she is uneducated, does not know the etiquette, and some people even scold her mother, and she will not let people live in peace when she dies.

In this life, she began to pay attention slowly, and never let her previous life be unruly, and the name of no etiquette fell on her head again.

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

This time, he went out far away, and he had to redeem people, and there were many places to spend money along the way.

Gu Chongyang asked Lu Wu: "How much silver do I have now?" ”

"More than two thousand two hundred taels." Lu Wu said: "There is silver, and there are silver tickets." Miss, do you want money? ”

"Well, Gu Tailai will go out in a few days, and I will prepare silver for him." Gu Chongyang said: "You prepare five hundred taels of silver tickets." ”

Lu Wu couldn't help but speak: "Five hundred taels? ”