However, it was said that after Gu Chonglou returned to the Gu Mansion from Hecaitang, he saw dozens of banquets in the main courtyard of the Gu Mansion, and the cooking gold and jade were coveted.

Gu Chonglou's stomach screamed angrily at that time - after running around for a day, he didn't even have time to drink a sip of tea.

Only now, he doesn't have an appetite at all.

There were still red lanterns hanging up and down the Gu Mansion that his subordinates had prepared to celebrate in advance, and they were swaying in the night wind at this time, as if they were mocking his uselessness.

The guests who originally went to the Gu Mansion to eat the wedding banquet of the general merchant all said goodbye and left one after another after hearing that the Tao family girl had won the game, leaving only Gu Shanqing, the head of the Gu family with a black face, sitting alone on the main seat, staring at Gu Chonglou with a cannibalistic face.

That night, although there were dozens of noodles and a dazzling array of fatty fish and meat in front of him, Gu Chonglou still didn't eat anything--

If you talk about eating, it is eating more than a dozen slaps from your father and two hard kicks!

Hearing him say that the Du family only used 1,200 gold to take away his nine-point pearls, Gu Shanqing was even more angry that his fingers trembled, and he sat on the bluestone steps, unable to breathe for a long time:

"Evil obstacles! Why did the Gu family come up with such a loser thing as you! Get out of the ancestral hall for me, kneel in front of the ancestors and ancestors, and let them open their eyes, why did my Gu family give birth to such an indisputable son as you! ”

So, three days later, Gu Chonglou knelt down in the Gu family ancestral hall and fell asleep.

Gu Shanqing didn't allow others to send him food, Gu's mother was distressed and sent two buns, and Gu Shanqing scolded her fiercely, "A loving mother is a loser".

Gu Chonglou was between hunger and cold, and thought of Tao Jiang's autumn wave eyes, small tankou, green onion fingers, and Chu Palace's waist over and over again......

Tao Jiang's delicate moon-like beauty and rejection of thousands of miles of coldness scratched his heart like a cat's claw day and day, keeping him awake at night.

I was finally able to close my eyes, and in my dreams I was also the shadow of Tao Jiang Qingbo chasing water, I could only see it, but I couldn't touch it.

For a while, all the women lost their interest in their own eyes, and no matter how beautiful and enchanting they were compared with Tao Jiang, they lacked color.

After coming out of the ancestral hall, Gu Chonglou never went to his two courtyards again.

It's strange to say, those two through the room are also good beauties, with willow eyebrows and jade bones. And because of the fact that he was born in Fengyue and has some bedside methods, he has always wanted them before.

But since I had Tao Jiang in my heart, these two rooms suddenly turned from gems to gravel, and they were boring and not worth looking at.

and the cousin Tao Luo, who sticks to her all day long, if it weren't for the similarity between her eyebrows and Tao Jiang, Gu Chonglou wouldn't even lose half a point to her eyes.

It's just that Tao Jiang is Tao Jiang, and Tao Luo is Tao Luo, although they are somewhat similar, but the charm in their bones is different from cloud and mud.

This lovesickness continued until my aunt sent someone to pass a word to him--

said that it had been arranged, as long as he was willing to follow Gu's arrangement, then Tao Jiang would be able to marry into Gu's mansion in a few years at most, whether he would be a wife or a concubine, everything would depend on Gu Chonglou's wishes.

That night, Gu Chonglou finally closed his eyes and slept well--

In the dream, he relieved Luo Shang for Tao Luo, and in the warm tent, a branch of red dew was fragrant, and the clouds and rain Wushan broke his intestines in vain.

Gu Chonglou was tossing and turning, but Tao Jiang didn't know anything.

It was almost midwinter, and it was a rare snowfall in Oki.

The entire Zuiun-in Temple is decorated with a blank of snow, and it is white.

The maids took out straw mats and spread them all under the porch, and in this cold day of strong wind and snow, the most feared thing is that the masters will slip under their feet after freezing.

Another little guy listened to Tao Jiang's instructions and took out a fist-sized little red lantern from the storeroom, and hung them one by one on the leafless branches of the paulownia tree.

It's just that in the huge Tao Mansion, there is also this leisure and elegance in the Ruiyun Courtyard of the long room and the Yusheng Courtyard of the third room.

Grandfather Tao Yongjin has been sick in bed for a while.

Since Tao Jiang won the position of general merchant, Tao Yongjin is also keen to go to various banquets in the trading house.

Whenever he heard others call him "the grandfather of the chief businessman", he was so happy that he inevitably wanted to drink a few cups of yellow soup.

It's just that Tao Yongjin is also the year of destiny after all, and the weather is cold and freezing, and it is inevitable that the cold will enter the body after drinking wine and blowing the wind.

In addition, when Tao Yongjin was showing off the smoke of the Tao family's ancestral tomb during the banquet one day, one person in the banquet couldn't listen to it anymore, and sneered at each other:

"Tao Dongjia, I heard that your second daughter-in-law has a lot to do with the third king of the east of the city! It's just that I don't know how the two broke up recently, so Wang San didn't say bad things about your second daughter-in-law outside! ”

Wang San's words can't be put on the table, although the people of the business house are the end of the ninth stream, they also know that there are some words that are kept in their hearts and do not need to be declared.

Tao Yongjin was very uncomfortable when he heard this half of the words, so he ordered the little guy to inquire and tell himself.

He didn't know what happened between Wang San and the Gu family, but he only heard the little maid report that there were now rumors in the east of the city that the mother of the second owner of the Tao family was coquettish and amorous, bullying the orphans and widows of the long house.

What a shame!

Tao Yongjin took advantage of the strength of the wine to go home and scolded the Gu family, not giving her a chance to quibble at all.

It's just that Tao Yongjin drank a lot of wine for a few days, and the cold evil entered the body, and this day's hard work surged, and after scolding Gu, he fell on the couch in a daze.

Fortunately, the doctor came in time, and after adjusting a few flavors of decoction, he told Tao Yongjin to stay in bed and recuperate for a month, and he would be able to get better in the next year.

So, Tao Yongjin trembled and ordered the second room not to go out, and handed over all matters of the inner house and the shop to Tao Jiang.

"Miss, aren't you sleeping yet?"

Jasmine stacked a thick stack of account books on the wide couch, Tao Jiang quickly dialed the calculation domain, and marked the account book with the other hand.

When Citrus urged her to rest, not a word fell into her ears.

Citrus sighed helplessly, opened the lamp cover on the side, and used a copper stick to make the fire core bigger.

She replaced Tao Jiang with a new stove, and gently urged when she squatted down:

"Miss, you've read the ledger for a day, it's time to rest."

Tao Jiang heard it at this time.

She smiled wryly, and put her hand on the Pingjin hand stove before recovering a little.

In recent days, she has sorted out the account books of the Tao family's pawnshop.

She flipped through the ledger over and over again, and the day was clear and the moon was clear, and it was clear at a glance.

But here's the problem --

The accounts are so perfect that it's like making a special account that can't be faulted, specially for Tao Jiang to check.

The shopkeeper of the pawnshop, Zhao Da, is the first partner of his grandfather's first shop, and has followed the Tao family for more than 20 years.

Due to his seniority, the descendants of the Tao family will give three points when they see him, and shout "Zhao Da Shopkeeper" in a proper manner.

Tao Jiang remembered that in the original book, all the Tao family's property fell into the hands of the Gu family.

The Gu family changed its banner and replaced all the signboards of the Tao family with the cards of the Gu family, and at the same time replaced all the shopkeepers on the Tao family's shop, but left Zhao Da as the shopkeeper alone.

In this way, Tao Jiang also knew that the relationship between the shopkeeper Zhao and the second room and the entire Gu family was extraordinary.

Just like behind this ledger, there must be hidden evil that no one knows.

Tao Jiang was thinking about it, but he heard a commotion under the corridor.

Citrus frowned and asked:

"Who's out there?"

The little man who kept watch under the porch replied in a low voice:

"It's from the old lady's courtyard, and it is said that the old lady has an urgent matter to ask the young lady to come over."

The man in the grandfather's room?