This purse should have been worn by Gu Cunke, and the side without embroidery was polished to a little white, and it looked like it had been some years.

Gu Qingwan rubbed for a while, then put the purse on the inside of the pillow and pressed it, turned around and looked at the "A Brief History of the Great Zhou" again.

This dynasty is called the Great Zhou, but it is not the Zhou Dynasty, nor is it any dynasty that Gu Qingwan is familiar with. The founding emperor Zheng Qiaochu was originally a prince with a different surname in the previous dynasty, and later he was dissatisfied with the tyranny of the previous dynasty and the villainous disaster of the country.

In less than three months, the major event of changing the dynasty was completed.

Probably learned the lesson of the previous dynasty's destruction of the country, after Emperor Taizu Zheng Qiaochu sat on the throne, he did not divide the princes with different surnames, and even the lands left in the hands of the princes with different surnames in the previous dynasty were taken back bloodlessly during his reign. And the people who followed Taizu, the four most meritorious people were all awarded the first class duke, and they were the founding four dukes.

After Taizu sat firmly in the world, he issued a series of edicts, re-compiled the historical records and laws, unified the currencies of various places, and personally led the troops to drive the Tatars, who were eyeing the north in the previous dynasty, to the north of Yinshan.

In more than 100 years, the throne has changed from generation to generation, and it has been passed to the current Jingde Emperor, which is already the fifth generation. After so many years of gradual improvement, although this dynasty has restrictions on women, it is not as strict as Gu Qingwan's impression. Especially the restrictions on married women are much looser than in Gu Qingwan's impression.

It's just that Gu Qingwan's "A Brief History of the Great Zhou" was recompiled by someone after Jingde succeeded to the throne, from fifty years before the fall of the previous dynasty to before Emperor Jingde succeeded to the throne. She wanted to know what happened after Emperor Jingde succeeded to the throne, but she still had to look through the mansion copy of this era.

If you can't fight, you can only accept it, and in order to survive in a strange dynasty, you must understand the history and laws of this dynasty.

Gu Qingwan was also glad that she woke up and was confined in the Yuanxiang Pavilion, and in addition to copying the "Family Motto" requested by the old lady for half a month, the rest of the time was spent on this "A Brief History of the Great Zhou". However, the third girl is not a person who likes to read, she has a lot of books in the house, and the only thing that is useful to Gu Qingwan is this dusty "A Brief History of the Great Zhou".

If you want to see the law and the copy, you have to wait until you go out to find a way.

Gu Qingwan sighed, closed the book in her hand and put it on the low table. Just as he was about to come down and walk around, he heard the voice of Guiye from the compartment: "The girl is still awake, I saw that the light in the girl's room was still on, so I came over to take a look." It's not early, so the girl should rest early. ”

Although Gu Qingwan was grounded and had less morning and dusk, she still had to get up early every day. Locked up in the Yuanxiang Pavilion, Gu Qingwan's every move will be spread outside, if she gets up late, the old lady will feel that the third girl has no intention of repenting.

If the second lady was still there, the third girl and the second master would not have been so difficult. Gui Ye thought of the second lady who had sighed countless times in her mother's mouth, and felt a little uncomfortable in her heart.

Where did Gu Qingwan sleep, she vaguely saw Guiye standing behind the curtain, so she said, "You go to Taozhi and get the key to my cage." ”

Previously, the three girls trusted the peach branch very much, and the keys to the cage were all placed in the peach branch, and the laurel leaves never touched their hands. Guiye didn't expect Gu Qingwan to mention this suddenly, and couldn't help but be surprised: "Girl, do you want to take something, the slave will let the peach branch open the cage." ”

"You can just bring the key here, you don't need to come here, I'll just take a look." Gu Qingwan hurriedly stopped Gui Ye.

Guiye paused for a while, and then he should go out and not mention it.

came with the laurel leaves, and the crying peach branches. She was wearing a long blue satin puffed jacket, and her hair was a little messy, and it was obvious that she had come in a hurry. Seeing Gu Qingwan sitting on the kang, Taozhi quickly stepped forward and knelt down with a "bang", and the sound of bones hitting the ground made the laurel leaf teeth on the side sore.

"Girl, but Momozhi did something wrong and made the girl bored." Taozhi said that tears flowed down again, "The slave and maid followed the girl when she was a little maid, and now it has been eight years, if the slave and maid do anything wrong, please also ask the girl to explain it to the slave and maid for the sake of the slave and maid serving the girl." ”

He kowtowed again.

Seeing that Gu Qingwan didn't speak, Taozhi's face became fierce again: "Did the girl listen to the broken words of some villain, the slave maid is loyal to the girl, and the girl should not listen to the villain's discord." In the end, there is some weakness, and Taozhi's originally resentful voice has no confidence at the moment.

The "villain" in her words probably refers to Gui Ye.

Gu Qingwan glanced at Gui Ye and saw her standing aside expressionlessly, as if she didn't react to Taozhi's words.

"How can I say that you did something wrong, you just can't sleep and want to look at the things in the cage, and it's not you who are on duty today, so I asked Guiye to go to you to get the key." Gu Qingwan saw that Taozhi was already full of tears, so she said unhurriedly.

Taozhi suddenly burst into tears and laughed: "Really, it's the slave who blames the girl." If the girl wants to see something, I'll go and fetch it for her. As he spoke, he glared at Guiye fiercely, with endless pride in his eyes.

"Just open the cage and I'll take a look at it." Seeing that Taozhi happily went to open the box, Gu Qingwan said to Gui Ye, "You go to rest first, and leave Taozhi to serve here." ”

Taozhi nodded in front of him busily, and Guiye's eyes flashed, and then he retreated.

On the west side of the inner room is a half-wall-wide cabinet of treasures, in which are cages of different sizes, and those large unlocked boxes contain clothes and common objects for the seasons, and locked boxes contain valuables such as silver coins and jewelry.

Taozhi was frightened just now, for fear that Gu Qingwan would dislike her, but now she is very obedient. Seeing that Gu Qingwan said to take a look at it casually, she opened all the locked boxes without saying a word, and the unlocked boxes were also opened.

Seeing that Gu Qingwan was about to get up, Taozhi quickly stepped forward and tied the soft wool cloak on the shelf to Gu Qingwan.

Gu Qingwan remembered that the girls in the house had rules for their clothes in all seasons, and the concubines produced eight sets of clothes in one season, and the concubines produced six sets. If you want more, you can only buy it yourself with money from each house. Winter clothes are made before winter, and she has more than a dozen leather and eighty percent new ones in previous years, and the cabinet on the side of the clothes is full.

In terms of food, clothing and housing, Xiao Sun's family has never treated the three girls badly, that is, every year when she cuts clothes and buys jewelry, Gu Qingwan chooses the tricks first, and then it is the turn of Gu Qingyan, the girl born to Xiao Sun, who has earned a lot of praise for Xiao Sun's family.

Gu Qingwan thought about it, but she was a little unimpressed, the young and the young were orderly, if the little Sun family followed the young Gu Qingyan first, it would be somewhat criticized by people. Not to mention how much the ladies in each room have added privately for their daughters-in-law, the little six and little seven who are out of the house are privately subsidized by their aunts.

Every time the three girls made a fuss, Xiao Sun would send someone to send some jewelry and materials for her to choose. The reason why the three girls want to make trouble is mostly because of this habitual idea that if you don't make trouble, you won't get it. It's just that I don't know why Xiao Sun's family is so generous, is it for the sake of a good reputation that he privately supplies so much to the three girls?

However, for Gu Qingwan, she has long been accustomed to this kind of day when no one thinks about her, and she doesn't feel so sad when she thinks about it. Let her make trouble for such a thing, she really can't pull her face.

Gu Qingwan cast her gaze on the box where the silver money was placed again.

Although Xiao Sun's family is never harsh on the three girls in terms of food and clothing, they rarely subsidize the silver money spent by the three girls on weekdays, and now Gu Qingwan only takes the four taels of silver that her daughter sets every month. For small households, four taels of silver is enough to live for half a year, but the Hou Mansion is a place where you have to reward everywhere, and you have to pay extra money to buy whatever you want to eat on weekdays, and four taels of silver a month is far from enough.

The box for the money was very small compared to the cage for clothes, and it was so empty that it was empty.

In addition to a silver ticket of one hundred taels pressed inside, there were only a pair of silver ingots of fifty taels, three pairs of small ingots of ten taels, some silver ingots and broken silver, and a small bag of copper coins. All of them are counted, and there are only less than three hundred taels, which is thanks to the fact that the third girl has never had the habit of rewarding her subordinates lavishly, so she can save so much.

She didn't have any money in the inner house, and now she felt overstretched, and Gu Cunke was afraid that there were more places to spend outside, but she still thought that she was short of money. The third girl was provoked not to be close to her younger brother, but Gu Qingwan understood that Gu Cunke was afraid that Gu Cunke was the only person in the world who really planned for her but did not ask for anything in return.

It's a pity that she has so many clothes and jewelry in her hands, but she can't exchange them for silver. It's okay to buy it in private, the clothes and jewelry of the four seasons distributed by the public are recorded, if you take it outside, it will be another storm after it is discovered. She thought about it, but she still stopped thinking about it.

Gu Qingwan counted her belongings, and with a count in her heart, she simply let Taozhi close the box.

Taozhi was worried for a long time, and was secretly relieved to see that Gu Qingwan didn't ask her for the key to return the box after reading it. She was able to be proud in the Yuanxiang Pavilion, in addition to Gu Qingwan's willingness to listen to her before, there was also the reason why she was in charge of the money. Now that Gu Qingwan is obviously tired of her, if she even loses the matter of managing the money, what is the value in the future?

After waiting for Gu Qingwan to rest, Taozhi opened the curtain and went out. She was very nervous and didn't feel cold, but now she noticed that the wind was biting cold outside.

Momozhi shivered in the cold night breeze and entered her room, and covered herself in the quilt for a while before she warmed up.

The third girl shouldn't have any doubts, she didn't get back the key to her cage, didn't she? Momoeda stared at the roof in the dark, but she didn't have the heart to think about it anymore, and finally she couldn't resist the tiredness and fell asleep.