Chapter Twenty-Six
"Aunt Li, this account should have been handed over, right?" Gu Muyan first went to Chunxiangju and asked Aunt Li.
"It's still a little short, I'll give it to you in a few days, what are you doing in such a hurry?" Aunt Li glanced at Gu Muyan contemptuously.
"I'm not in a hurry, today Yan'er also helped my aunt eradicate some pests! Those subordinates really didn't know what to do, and they actually said that their aunt would give Yan'er a good look, so they all let Yan'er send it away. Gu Muyan said as if he was invited.
Just when Gu Muyan said about pests, Aunt Li's heart fluttered, wondering if there would be anything bad, but she heard Gu Muyan say that she had sent some people away, which made Aunt Li's heart feel even worse.
"What did you do?" Aunt Li didn't hold back and stepped forward to ask.
"What Yan'er did was naturally for the good of my aunt, for fear that my aunt would be slandered and framed by some people with intentions, why did my aunt still be fierce?" Gu Muyan pretended to be pitiful and said.
When Aunt Li got closer, Gu Muyan whispered: "Auntie's account book must be well prepared, Yan'er will take it after three days, don't be like that Li Yu!" After speaking, Gu Muyan said with tears in her eyes: "Auntie, Yan'er will leave first." β
With Gu Muyan's action of wiping her tears while walking, the whole house instantly knew about Aunt Li's blame for Gu Muyan.
Before Gu Muyan, who had returned to the Wuyuan Garden, sat down, Aunt Zhang walked in and looked at the maid beside Gu Muyan with vigilance.
"Let's all go down." Gu Muyan waved his hand, poured himself a cup of tea after sitting down, and asked Aunt Zhang, "What do you have to say when you come to this Wuyuan?" β
Gu Muyan thought that Aunt Li asked Aunt Zhang to pass the word, but the next moment Aunt Zhang knelt in front of her and said, "Miss, save the slave!" The slave and maid don't ask for anything, as long as the eldest lady can let the maid live and let the slave and maid go out of the house, the slave and maid are willing to do anything! β
"What do you want to do? Hurry up! Gu Muyan thought it was a trap set by Aunt Li and Aunt Zhang, so she hurriedly walked to the side and stayed away from Aunt Zhang.
"Miss, the slave doesn't want to do anything, she just wants the young lady to keep the child in the slave's belly!" Aunt Zhang touched her stomach with her hand, looked at Gu Muyan with a firm look in her eyes and said.
"Why did you find me? How do you think I can help you? Gu Muyan threw out two key questions at once.
"The only people in this house who will not whip their subordinates for no reason are the eldest lady, the eldest young master and the old lady, but the slave is afraid that the eldest young master will tell Aunt Li about this, and the slave and maid's child will really not be able to be saved, if the old lady knows that the slave and maid are pregnant, she will definitely not let the slave and maid leave, and now that the eldest lady is in charge, she may be able to help the slave!" Aunt Zhang calmly analyzed.
"Why do you want to leave?" Gu Muyan was a little curious, if his father knew, he would definitely protect Aunt Zhang, why did he have to leave the house?
"If this child is a daughter, she can't be loved by her grandfather, if she is a son, she will definitely be harmed by Aunt Li, and it is not a good ending for the left and right, but this child is a slave, no matter what, the slave wants to give birth to him and raise him as an adult!" After Aunt Zhang finished speaking, she coughed three times directly towards Gu Muyan.
"What do you want me to do?" Gu Muyan frowned and looked at Aunt Zhang, there was still a lot of distrust in her heart, after all, Aunt Zhang had never come out of the courtyard in her previous life, but now it is different, and she is even pregnant.
"The lord attaches great importance to face, if this child is an ominous son, then the lord will definitely expel the slave and maid from the house, so that the slave and the child will naturally be safe!" Aunt Zhang is now thinking about how to escape from this place, and she doesn't even think about her livelihood after she goes out.
"Aren't you afraid that the master will directly give you a bowl of abortion pills when the time comes?" Gu Muyan frowned and asked.
"This is where the slave maid wants to ask for the young lady, if the eldest lady's request is ignored at that time, then the slave can only resign herself to fate and go with the slave's child!" Aunt Zhang said decisively in her eyes.
It was this look that made Gu Muyan decide to help her once, and in the afternoon, Gu Muyan did not stay in the house anymore, but according to the booklet in the house, he went to take stock of the harvest of the store one by one.
Those shops that were originally profitable have not changed much in the past few years, but those antique shops, rouge shops and gold and silver jewelry shops, where did almost all the feeds in the family come from, but since Aunt Li took over, there has been no profit, if Aunt Li didn't do anything, Gu Muyan would never believe it.
The first one I went to was an antique shop that was quite famous in the capital, but now it is a little lonely.
"Ouch, Miss, take a look, we have everything here!" The shopkeeper looked at Gu Muyan's extravagance and said flatteringly.
"Everything?" Gu Muyan frowned and looked at the shopkeeper in front of him who was talking big and asked, this sentence is not even dared to be easily said by the people in the palace, but it is just a small antique shop, and it can say such a big word.
"How dare the little one lie to the young lady!" The shopkeeper's eyes turned around again, and then he said with a flattering smile.
In order to help Xiao Yi ascend to the emperor, the appreciation of this antique will also be some, not to mention proficient, but most of the fakes can't escape her eyes.
But this antique shop is full of fakes, and the imitation methods are not very clever, if some people with some antique experience can also see the greasy in this, so how can anyone come to patronize it?
But just as Gu Muyan was about to expose it, a woman walked in angrily, with a large group of people behind her, and said directly to the store: "Smash, don't leave a single piece!" β
Then, the woman grabbed the shopkeeper who wanted to run away and asked, "The ancient painting you sold me that day is fake!" Miss Ben has made a fool of herself, how are you going to solve this matter? β
"This, how is this possible! The small one here is the faΓ§ade of the Prime Minister's Mansion, how can it be fake! The shopkeeper still wanted to argue, but unexpectedly, the woman was not afraid of being the prime minister at all.
"So what? Since you said that your faΓ§ade belongs to the Prime Minister's Mansion, okay, bring Miss Ben over, I want to ask for an explanation, the Prime Minister actually did such a dirty and cheap thing in order to defraud this money. The woman took the shopkeeper and went out.
Seeing Gu Muyan standing aside with his back to him, he kindly reminded Gu Muyan: "The antiques in this shop are all fakes, this young lady should be careful!" β
Originally, Gu Muyan was still thinking about how to tell his father Gu Hao about Aunt Li's greed for ink, but now she has a ready-made helper, if this woman really goes to the Prime Minister's Mansion to make trouble, if there is something later, Gu Hao can believe it a little.
"Miss, this matter?" Dong Xue was worried that this matter would affect Gu Muyan's family, so she said with some hesitation.
"This matter can't be managed, so Aunt Li is self-inflicted, why should Miss take care of it?" Xiang Xiang said unevenly as she followed.
"I won't take care of today's affairs, but I won't let him expand, so let's go back to the house first." Gu Muyan made sure that the woman had left before turning around and saying.
When he arrived at the Prime Minister's Mansion, Gu Muyan directly asked Xi Xiang to go back to Lu Wuyuan first, leaving Dong Xue by his side, after all, compared with Xi Xiang, Dong Xue was more calm.
"Xiangye, Miss Ben respects you as a good official, but this antique shop has done that trick and abduction!" The girl from the antique shop directly threw the shopkeeper's in front of Gu Hao and said, surrounded by the little people in the Prime Minister's Mansion.
"It is impossible to deceive the true appearance!" Gu Hao replied with great annoyance.
"It's also true that Miss Ben bought a fake at your antique shop!" After the girl finished speaking, she shook her hand, signaled the entourage around her to hand the calligraphy and paintings she bought to Gu Hao, and then took out the receipt from her arms, held it in the air and said to Gu Hao: "This note is written by the shopkeeper on the ground, and now there is evidence, Miss Ben is not afraid of you, the prime minister!" β
Seeing that the girl in front of her was full of anger, and the posture didn't look like she was messing around, but like a girl from a rich family, so Gu Hao carefully looked at the calligraphy and painting in his hand, and really saw the difference at a glance, the imitation method was really inferior, and even Gu Hao couldn't stand it and asked the man on the ground: "Where did this calligraphy and painting come from?" β
"Back to the master's words, the little wrong, this calligraphy and painting are all serious, how is it a fake that the woman said! She must have used a fake one to cheat money! The shopkeeper thought that he had found a backer, so he shirked it vigorously.
"Presumptuous, Miss Ben's dignified daughter of General Li, why do you have to deceive such a slave as you, it's just a matter of a hundred taels of silver, now as long as you give an explanation, you don't need to compensate!" That Miss Li is also hard-boned, and she is very unaccustomed to the appearance of the shopkeeper on the ground looking down on people, so she said unconvinced.
As soon as Gu Hao heard that it was General Li, he already knew it in his heart, and said directly: "Come on, pull this slave down and sell it!" β
Although Gu Hao ordered like this, no one in the house dared to move, and even Gu Hao's was a little puzzled at this time, and said with a frown: "Can't you hear what the prime minister said?" β
At this time, Gu Hao finally realized that something was wrong, and turned his head to look at the kneeling slave on the ground.
"Xiangye, the slave is wrong, the slave is Aunt Li's cousin, please let the master go around the slave this time!" The shopkeeper then remembered to take Aunt Li as his shield, after all, all these things he did were Aunt Li's meaning, if there was no Aunt Li behind his back, how could he dare to do such a thing?