Chapter Thirty-Seven: The Secret of the Year
Sure enough, someone soon couldn't help it, and the servant woman who begged the guard through the crack of the door passed a message to Gu Mingzhu, saying that she had something to tell Gu Mingzhu.
Gu Mingzhu sneered when she heard this, and she didn't see anything.
She is not in a hurry, the more time passes, the more panicked they are, and the more they talk.
Within two days, Qian Eryi was sent to the Hussar General's Mansion.
It's just that they were first taken to Xifu, met Luo, and listened to some lectures before they were sent to Dongfu.
"Madame was afraid that they were from Zhuangzi, and they would not serve if they were clumsy, so she specially ordered a few words." The servant woman who brought them to Xifu was a sharp-tongued woman.
Gu Mingzhu smiled faintly: "That's really thank you, madam." ”
Luo didn't find out anything after all, otherwise he wouldn't have let people send Qian Erren and others over.
There were several male and female servants wearing coarse cloth short shirts standing in the small flower hall, they stood with their hands down, their faces were calm, but they were not at ease with the luxurious furnishings of the flower hall.
Gu Mingzhu came in with the maidservants, and they bowed respectfully, and they couldn't find the slightest mistake between their actions, which was not half a point worse than the old ladies who came out of the palace in Xifu.
Gu Mingzhu sat down at the upper seat and looked at the people in the flower hall through the plain gauze screen.
Li Shuangrui is a middle-aged man who is a little burly, he has dark skin and a frosty face, he looks like an ordinary farmer, but his expression is neither humble nor arrogant.
The mother-in-law of the Wang family is already gray, and her face is full of wrinkles, but the hands are extremely white and smooth, which looks very weird.
Qian Er is a flexible person, with a kind smile on his slightly chubby face, he looks like he is very close, but there is a flash of light in his small eyes from time to time.
Standing next to him was a skinny old man, dressed in a patched robe, with dark yellow eyes and a pair of dark yellow eyes staring at the Persian felt on the ground in a daze.
Gu Mingzhu glanced at him a few more times, if she hadn't known in advance, she would never have been able to tell that this was a famous pen under King Xian later.
She looked at these people and smiled: "I have wronged you all these years." ”
Li Shuangrui and the others were a little stunned, they really thought that they were just picked into the mansion to be an errand, but they never thought that they would hear Gu Mingzhu say this.
Gu Mingzhu looked at them: "Several of them are talented, but they have been in the village for so many years, and they are really wronged." ”
"Now I will invite a few people to stay in the house for a few days, and in two days I will have errands entrusted to a few people, and then I will ask a few people to bother."
What she said was very approachable, completely different from her previous attitude towards the group of servants in Xifu, and Mama Han and Abi Xiaokui were very surprised.
The look of consternation on the faces of Li Shuangrui and the mother-in-law of the Wang family slowly dissipated, and slowly there was brilliance in their eyes, and they all raised their heads to look at Gu Mingzhu.
Over the years, they no longer think about this day, to be able to really play their strengths, and to live up to the edict of the princess back then.
Gu Mingzhu saw the light in their eyes clearly, was very satisfied, and nodded: "The carriage and horses are tired, let's go down and rest first, I will have someone call you to talk again." ”
Their deeds were all sent over by the Xifu, perhaps because the Luo clan was afraid that Gu Mingzhu would have something to do with them, so they even sent the deeds of their family together, which is no better.
In this way, Gu Mingzhu can use them with confidence.
Li Shuangrui and the others also knew that it was really Gu Mingzhu's person now, and they were also full of joy, and bowed down neatly: "Yes." ”
The maid led them down.
Mama Han looked at Li Shuangrui with confusion and went out of the flower hall, she was also the old man who followed the eldest princess of Xuanyang out of the palace to marry, but she really didn't know what was special about these people.
She didn't dare to ask openly, but said softly: "I don't know where the lady wants to arrange for them to go on an errand, so the maid will arrange it." ”
Gu Mingzhu smiled and shook his head: "It's not time yet, you have to wait a few more days." ”
These people are not ordinary servants, and their abilities are not to be miscellaneous servants in the house, but to be used for other purposes.
At that time, the eldest princess of Xuanyang married Gu Qing, a hussar general, and the marriage was rich enough to teach people to smack their tongues, but in this way, the first emperor and Empress Wenzhao were still not satisfied, and finally asked the Shanggong Bureau to prepare for her to marry with the etiquette of Taizu and Princess Xiangyang, who was pro-Tubo.
After Gu Mingzhu became the virtuous princess, she couldn't help but be startled when she saw the eldest princess's dowry list from the yellowed record book of the Shang Palace Bureau.
Not to mention the 10,000 gold pressure box, dozens of good grange shops, that is, the palace people who accompany the marriage are carefully selected.
In Gu Mingzhu's eyes, the most valuable thing is not those gold and silver fields, but these people who have come to marry.
Li Shuangrui was a slave of the Ministry of Industry that year, the mother-in-law of the Wang family was the secretary of the Shanggong Bureau, Qian Er was the manager of the Outer Mansion of the Zhao Guogong Mansion, and Mao Tan was the head of the Internal Affairs Office of the Taiji Palace that year.
These people were carefully selected by Empress Wenzhao to be quietly married to the eldest princess of Xuanyang, and the director of any of them can earn a lot of money.
But it's a pity that after they left the palace with the eldest princess of Xuanyang, they were sent to Zhuangzi and became ordinary villagers.
It's just because the eldest princess doesn't need them.
The eldest princess of Xuanyang's dowry was so rich that even Gu Mingzhu, who was the princess of Xian, was dumbfounded, and the income from the dozens of grange shops alone was already quite surplus, so how could she need to bother to earn family wealth.
They were sent to the village and worked like ordinary farmers, and this went on for more than ten years.
If Gu Mingzhu hadn't inadvertently discovered this secret full of motherly heart from the record book sealed by the Shanggong Bureau, they would have been able to die in Zhuangzi in the old age.
And after Gu Mingzhu discovered this secret back then, the virtuous king Li Yu was overjoyed, and used the secret guard to find out a few of them and collect them one by one for his own use.
They didn't teach Li Yu to be disappointed, and the directors of each Shi earned a lot of money for Li Yu.
It's just that this time, Gu Mingzhu won't give them to Li Yu again, if she wants to control her own fate, she can't let people strangle her neck.
She'll put them to good use.
Now that the people are coming back, all that is left is the shop of the Grange.
Gu Mingzhu smiled, Luo and Old Madam Gu naturally wouldn't let go easily, but what she had was patience, and let them come to the door little by little.
Xiaokui came in and bowed: "Lady, there is a message from Xifu, saying that Erlangjun and the second lady have come to Chang'an and have arrived in Xifu." ”
Gu Mingzhu's eyes flashed slightly when he heard this, sure enough, it was really timely.