Chapter 31: Cure the Evil Servant
After entering the city, the two stewards waited for the summons outside the door, and the wives of the two stewards and their two little girls who were about the same age as Gan Tang served Gan Tang in the inner room, changing clothes and washing.
Of course, close service, Gan Tang is not allowed, most of the time these four people are standing outside the curtain.
Gan Tang changed his clothes, came out of the drape, and sat down on the collapse, and one of the two women, wearing older clothes, moved the brazier to Gan Tang's feet, with a respectful expression.
One of the two little ladies wore a red flower on her head, raised her hands above her head and handed the stove to Gantang.
Gan Tang took it and asked kindly, "Which family are you from?" β
The woman replied first, "If you go back to the master's house, the woman is from the Song shopkeeper who is in charge of the jade shop." β
The little lady replied, "I am the second daughter of the king's shopkeeper who is in charge of the gold and silver jewelry shop. β
"You are not a mother and daughter, look at you standing in one place, and your appearance is similar, and you still think that you are a mother and daughter, I'm sorry, I admit that I am wrong." Gan Tang's face was shy and coquettish.
The girl who sent the stove originally deliberately guarded the etiquette of her mother's overnight training, pinching the uncomfortable place of the clothes on her body with small movements, and she didn't dare to breathe too loudly, but now seeing that Gan Tang has been smiling, she breathed a sigh of relief in her heart, "Girl, it's freezing now, you still go out, it's hard work...... In fact, you don't need to come to Tan County to check the accounts at all, my father and uncle will go to the Gan family mansion every year to reconcile accounts with your father, if you want to know anything, just ask your father. β
The little girl was not very old, and when she saw Gan Tang's gentleness and kindness, she spoke boldly, and when she talked about the confidence she didn't know where she came from, she became more and more pleasing to her lips.
"Where's the stupid girl, get out!" Mama Li suddenly shouted angrily.
As soon as the little girl was excited, she was scared and trembled, and her little face turned white with a brush.
Seeing that she didn't move, Mama Li ordered Mu Li Muxiang, "Mu Li Muxiang, throw this stupid girl out of her words, you listen to me, before the girl leaves Tan County, don't let the girl see you again!" β
The little girl cried, she was not a slave of the Gan family, and she had not learned the etiquette of meeting the master's family, but because her father was the shopkeeper of a gold and jade shop with great profits, and her group of little sisters did not flatter her, but now they are talking about family affairs, and the Lang Junli who can be selected by her are also quite wealthy in the family.
When had she ever been scolded like this.
Mama Li's cold face was like a knife straight into her heart.
Seeing that two little ladies about the same age as her were going to drag her, she was afraid and unconvinced, "I'm thinking about the girl." The girl is delicate and expensive, if it is not easy to travel in the cold today, how can it be good to be tired? The girl hasn't spoken yet, what are you old woman yelling about! β
Gan Tang's face sank, "It's too noisy." β
Mu Li Muxiang increased his strength, one resisted his hands and the other resisted his legs, and threw the little girl with red flowers out of the door.
The little girl couldn't make a sound crying, and when her father saw this, he didn't have time to help his daughter up, so he only shook his body and knelt outside the door with a frightened face to beg for mercy.
"Come in, two shopkeepers." Gantang regained his kind face.
The two shopkeepers entered the room and finally stopped three feet away from the screen.
"Come on, send a brazier to the two shopkeepers, the little lady is right, don't freeze people out of the cold." Gan Tang sat on the top and commanded softly.
The brazier was placed in front of the two shopkeepers, and they thanked them, and the father of the little girl with red flowers, the shopkeeper of the gold and silver jewelry shop, pleaded for his daughter's sin.
Gan Tang was not silent this time, but said unhappily, "You are doing things for my Gan family, you should not be blind and deaf!" β
The hearts of the two shopkeepers were pang, and they secretly sighed that the little lady of the main family had a too strange temper and was difficult to serve.
"What the girl taught me is that I will ask the girl to show me." The two said in unison.
"Now it's my second uncle who is in charge of the Gan family." Gan Tang kindly explained.
Both of them were stunned, ah...... Although the two shopkeepers are both from Tan County, they only came to take charge of these two shops four years ago, so they did not catch up with the fact that when Gan Tang's father and mother passed away four years ago, all the shops belonging to the Gan family were closed for seven days.
Now, after being reminded by Gantang, they all remember the incident of hanging white flags in these two shops four years ago.
That time I hung the white flag, because the father of the girl who came here today passed away?
That...... So what is the relationship between this little girl and the current head of the family?
I still remember that the person who hired them to be the shopkeeper said that this was the dowry of the girl in the house, so this was the private property of the girl in the house, and the head of the Gan family had no responsibility.
If the girl from the main family found out the problem today, they would not be able to turn to Ganfu for help.
But they have been dealing with the housekeeper of the head of the Gan family all these years, and when they go up and down to check the accounts, if there is anything wrong, they will pick it up and put it down gently.
Now this girl, how can they please and bribe her?
It was her dowry.
Slowly, slowly, the girl of the main family has not yet left the cabinet, thinking that she is not very old and has little experience, maybe those dozens of boxes of account books will stump her, and she doesn't want to check it carefully.
"Girl, the youngest daughter has no form, she has committed your taboo girl, the little old man will teach her a good lesson when she goes back, and never let the girl see her again."
"Well, then you can teach a lesson first."
The shopkeeper of the gold and silver shop "......" This means that he wants to go?
The owner of the gold and silver shop couldn't figure out what Gan Tang's soft and weak voice meant for a while.
"It seems that the shopkeeper wants to listen to me first?" Gan Tang looked distressed, behind the screen, her slender white and tender hands knocked on the table for a long time, and then she said, "Then ask the shopkeeper to find out all the transaction records with the local salt merchant Qian family." β
The shopkeeper of the gold and silver jewelry shop didn't understand, "Girl, the Qian family is a big local family, and for many years, they have come to our shop to make jewelry for the ladies and gentlemen of the house, and their transaction records are really numerous, which is difficult to find." β
"The shopkeeper thinks it's complicated, you can't do it? Then it seems that your ability is still insufficient, that is, if you don't want to do it, forget it, now go and hand in the shopkeeper's cards. β
The shopkeeper of the gold and silver jewelry shop shook his head again and again, "No, no, the villain will do it immediately." β
"Well, half a pillar of incense is enough time."
Enough...... How can it be!
The shopkeeper of the gold and silver jewelry shop now suspects that Gan Tang is trying to find an excuse to change him.
Four years ago, the shopkeeper was not him, he was just a tenant on the Gan family's land, but one day a person who claimed to be the housekeeper of the Gan family said that he was clever and smart, so he was transferred to manage the shop.
As the shopkeeper of the gold and silver jewelry shop, don't be too comfortable, the wind can't blow the rain can't be sun, only one year, he used a carriage to travel, and not long ago the county bought a two-entry house.
But if he is only a shopkeeper, he will not eat or drink for five years, and he will not be able to afford to enter the house for the second time, let alone raise a good horse as a white body.
He didn't know if Gan Tang had known about his greed for ink all these years, but he did have something unclear with the salt merchant Qian family.
He used gold and silver jewellery as a medium in exchange for the opportunity to cooperate with the Qian family in buying and selling salt.
He is not qualified to sell salt, and if the incident happens, it will be salt smuggling, and the whole family will be punished.
An even more terrifying thought suddenly rose in his heart - now Gan Tang has found a reason to change him, and when the time comes, he will not be affected at all, and he has sold illicit salt first, and then bribed with valuables, and now he has added another day to the sin of deceiving the master's family, and he cannot be dead.
His heart was beating wildly, as if it was about to come out of his throat.
No, the account books he has with the Qian family are well hidden, and the current account books are all flat, even if the girl of the main family wants to check it, she can't find anything, and he hasn't reached a dead end.
After the shopkeeper of the gold and silver jewelry shop left the house, Gan Tang looked at another little girl in the house, who wore a purple flower on her head.
She didn't know how to be polite like the little girl who was thrown outβthough the little girl's upbringing wasn't very good.
But at least she was also wearing ill-fitting clothes, and the little girl with red flowers didn't adjust much, and the little girl with purple flowers was about to twist into twist when she hid behind her mother and aunt.
"Come on, come here." Gan Tang beckoned to the little girl with purple flowers.
The little girl was too timid to move.
Gan Tang was not in a hurry, just stared at her.
The little girl walked up to Gan Tang hard, and under high pressure, she didn't feel that the redness on her body was painful.
Gan Tang lowered his eyebrows and looked at the little girl's hand, "Your father and mother have always loved you very much, look at your tender hands, can you write?" β
"Just a little."
"The little lady is modest, but I heard that there are many talented scribes who want to hire you as a wife."
Hearing this, the little girl's face finally turned white, but suddenly reddened, and her eyebrows and eyes were also dyed with silk.
"The girl of the main family is joking, the concubine is just Pu Liu's posture and has two points of literary brilliance, and there are talented scribes and talents, and the concubine is really frightened, can't say, can't say." The demeanor is not good, but the speech is modest, but the intention of showing off in this modesty is also obvious.
"What a wonderful person." Gan Tang held his chin with his hand, looked at the purple flower girl carefully, and continued to praise.
"This makes me wonder, the school is expensive, how does the little lady learn to be full of literature?"
Without waiting for the purple flower girl to answer, her father, that is, the shopkeeper of the jade shop, grabbed the topic, "If the girl returns to the master's house, the villain's original residence in the library area, once the child and this girl in the family saved a master in the library, the master was grateful, and the child was relieved of the child's restraints, so that the child could learn some words, this girl and the child's sister and brother have a very close relationship, so the child will teach the little girl." β
"Oh, I see...... Tao Ating in the women's academy is not your girl? β
The purple flower girl raised her head violently, Tao Atting in the women's school hall is her, she has no name when she is eight years old, she can go to the women's school hall after the master takes it, the master said that this word is taken from Anzhi Tinglan, which means vanilla, compared with the names of Ah Hua and Xiaocao, she likes this name very much.
"When you see me, you're still full of lies! Are you tired of being alive? β