Xiao Cui excitedly ran back to Zhilan Courtyard.
"Girl, good news."
The weather was getting hotter, Gu Jiu was wearing a thin spring dress, leaning on the bed.
The window was open, and a cool wind blew through the window, making the hair on the sideburns messy.
She raised her hand and pinned the loose hair behind her ear.
Holding an official history in his hand, he has already read a third of it.
Xiaocui's voice was loud, and Qingmei hissed at her.
"Keep your voice down, the girl is reading a book."
Xiaocui hurriedly lowered her voice, and first said to Qingmei: "Sister Qingmei, the palace has posted a post, asking the masters to go to the palace for a banquet in six days."
"really?"
Xiao Cui nodded heavily, "It's absolutely true. The steward who sent the invitations to the palace will still be in the outer courtyard, and the steward Gu Quan will greet him."
Qingmei asked again: "Does Madam know?"
Xiaocui said: "My wife already knows about it. I heard that the palace not only invited my wife, but also my eldest wife."
Qingmei's expression was a little serious, "The palace posted a post, I guess it's the princess who wants to see the girl."
"The marriage between the girl and the son Zhao has already been settled, and even the date of the marriage has been fixed, how do you think the princess looks at each other?"
Xiao Cui asked curiously.
Qingmei glanced at her, "You don't understand."
It's not that simple for a mother-in-law to see her future daughter-in-law.
Qing Mei walked into the study and came to Gu Jiu's side.
Gu Jiu flipped the pages of the book and said, "You and Xiao Cui were talking outside, what were you talking about?"
Qingmei knelt down and said in a low voice: "Miss Qi, the palace has issued a post to invite the masters to a banquet in six days."
"yes?"
Qingmei nodded, very worried, "This servant guesses that this banquet is because the concubine wants to see the girl."
"Just look at it, what are you worried about?"
"The servant is worried that the princess is not satisfied with the girl."
Gu Jiu closed the book and said, "I'm not a treasure, so it's impossible for everyone to like me. Whether the princess likes me or not, I will marry the prince. Below the imperial decree, this matter cannot be changed."
Gu Jiu hoped to change the imperial decree and not let her marry Liu Zhao.
However, she doesn't have that much energy. Now she is just an ordinary boudoir girl, and the right to speak is limited to Gu Fu, and it is very limited.
Once upon a time, Gu Jiu wanted to get away from Mr. Gu's relationship and strengthen her right to speak in the mansion. For their own marriage, future, careful planning.
In the Northwest, the effect is not bad.
After returning to the capital, especially after she proposed marriage to Liu Zhao, Lord Gu stopped asking her to talk to him for some unknown reason.
In the past year, Gu Jiu has read through all kinds of history books, and asked Er Zhuang to inquire about the news in the capital city, and he has something in his stomach. But she couldn't find a chance to use it at all, and she was in vain.
Moreover, Gu Jiu also discovered that Mr. Gu's thinking is actually quite old-fashioned.
Although it doesn't mean that a woman's lack of talent is virtue, she also doesn't want her family to be too involved in outside affairs.
Gradually, Gu Jiu stopped trying to express her thoughts in front of Mr. Gu.
And Mr. Gu doesn't necessarily pay much attention to her thoughts.
Perhaps Mr. Gu was thinking that she was going to get married soon, so it would be useless to talk more.
It is useless to say more words, and the Tao has exhausted everything.
The person she is going to marry is the grandson of the emperor. Prince Ning's mansion was honored, and Gu's mansion followed suit. If the Prince Ning's Mansion is unlucky, Mr. Gu will definitely get rid of the relationship as soon as possible.
No one knows who will end up in that supreme position.
Therefore, it is useless to say anything now.
Gu Jiu doesn't blame the sky or the ground.
She accepted the arrangement of fate and kept a low profile. She knew very well that the palace was the place where she could use her hands and feet.
Her battlefield is in the palace, in the royal family, in the palace, and in the court.
She wants to cherish her single life in the last few months, so she should be a comfortable girl to be married and save more dowry.
Qingmei said: "But, if the princess doesn't like the girl, she will be in trouble when she marries into the palace. One word from the princess can make it difficult for the girl to walk in the palace."
Gu Jiu smiled softly, "What do you want to say? Do you want me to please the princess?"
"It would be great if the concubine could please her easily." Qingmei sighed.
Gu Jiu squeezed Qing Mei's cheeks, "You, you just think too much. From the day I got married, it is doomed that the princess cannot like me. Why do you worry in vain?"
Qing Mei helped Gu Jiu pack the package, "The princess has never seen a girl, why doesn't she like a girl?"
Gu Jiu smiled and said: "If you hate someone, you don't have to meet. In the eyes of the princess, my marriage to the son Zhao is a real promotion.
The concubine's natal family is Luhou Mansion, and her husband is the current King Ning, so she must think highly of herself. How could she fall in love with the daughter of a small capital governor. do you understand? "
Qingmei nodded, understood.
"I just wronged the girl."
"I'm not wronged."
Gu Jiu frowned, his eyes were full of smiles.
The ivory white dress made her cheeks white and smooth, with collagen egg rolls all over her face.
A head of jet-black and smooth hair made people feel the urge to reach out and touch it.
Compared with the same year ago, Gu Jiu underwent a radical change.
People have grown taller, more beautiful, and have a body curve, no longer the thin and yellow bean sprouts at the beginning.
Gu Jiu said: "Because of the finger marriage, I got 40,000 taels of dowry, a full 20,000 taels more than Gu Yue. It was also because of the finger marriage that all the servants in the mansion respected me, which made my life a lot easier. It is also because of the marriage that the master will turn a blind eye to my business outside."
Gu Jiu asked Er Zhuang to open the Zhuhua shop, but in the end, he couldn't hide it from Mr. Gu.
But Master Gu didn't say anything when he knew about it, as if he didn't know about it. In private, he told Gu Yu to take more care of the point,
Gu Jiu still listened to what Gu Yu and Gu Si Ge said about this matter.
The reason why Mr. Gu knew that Gu Jiu opened the Zhuhua shop was probably because someone said that he had slipped his mouth.
Although Er Zhuang didn't work in the mansion, many old people in the mansion knew him.
Knowing that he opened a bead flower shop in the capital, after a little inquiring, he knew that the master behind it was Gu Jiu.
Fortunately, this matter has not yet reached Xie's ears. Otherwise, Mrs. Xie will make another scene, and her ears will not be clean.
Qingmei opened her mouth and asked, "Does the girl really think so?"
Gu Jiu nodded, and said solemnly: "Think about it carefully, this marriage is not good, but it is not bad either.
Forty thousand taels of dowry, although the real gold and silver are only a few thousand taels of silver, the rest are all farm shops and other items.
But with these funds, I will be able to do many, many things in the future. It is much stronger than the current income of dozens of taels per month.
The jewelry shop I was talking about at the beginning can be opened after I get the dowry. "
Qingmei snorted and laughed, "Tell the girl some good news. Last month Er Zhuang's business was very good. After deducting all kinds of expenses, Er Zhuang sent someone to send one hundred and twenty taels of silver."
Wow!
Gu Jiu became happy.
"It's not easy. After several months of opening, the revenue has finally broken through double digits."
"Er Zhuang said that there is no need to invest money to expand the business this month, and there will be more income next month."
Gu Jiu laughed, "The bead flower business seems inconspicuous, but I never thought that there would be hundreds of taels of income every month."
In the past few months, Er Zhuang had to withhold part of the income every month, hire people to expand the business, and exchange favors.
For example, the expenses of inviting the yamen servants to drink tea and wine.
Therefore, the income sent to Gu Jiu was not much, only thirty or forty taels.
But even if it's only thirty or forty taels, it's still worth half a year's monthly allowance of Gu Jiu's money, which makes Gu Jiu's money much easier, and he won't feel heartache when he rewards his servants.
Now everything in Jumeizhai is on a regular basis, and the expenses have also been reduced accordingly.
Every month after that, Er Zhuang can send hundreds of taels of income.
Hundreds of taels, it doesn't look like much. The accumulation of a little makes a lot, and there are thousands of taels of income a year.
In the capital city, it seems that the shops that have done a lot of business only earn a few thousand taels a year.
Jumeizhai is an inconspicuous but very profitable business. This business will definitely last for a long time.
The brand of Jumeizhai has already been advertised, and now all the girls and daughters-in-law who have a little family background recognize Jumeizhai.
Even if the items in Jumeizhai are more expensive than other places, everyone is willing to buy them in Jumeizhai. Just a beautiful picture, limited edition, and it will save face when you say it.
Qingmei asked: "Will the girl want to do a big business in the future?"
Gu Jiu nodded, "Yes! I want to do a big business, and I want to be a little rich woman."
Qingmei laughed, "According to what the girl said, this is obsession. The girl has a strong obsession with being a little rich woman."
Gu Jiu couldn't refute this, because she did have obsessions.
In my previous life, I was never poor since I was born, and I never worried about money.
This life has just passed through, one is poor and the other is white, so poor that Gu Jiu looks guilty.
Money is the guts of a person, without money there is no confidence.
So much so that I had to use some means to get the first start-up capital.
From then on, Gu Jiu became obsessed with being a little rich woman. Suffered from a disease called No Money and Uncomfortable Sky, and it was very sick.
A dowry of 40,000 taels can greatly improve Gu Jiu's situation.
With a few thousand taels of dowry silver on hand, she can do many things. Many money-making plans can be executed in advance.
At that time, she can throw the money in Liu Zhao's face, look, grandma is richer than you, why don't you hurry up and sing Conquer on your knees.
Thinking of his pride, Gu Jiu laughed to himself first.
It's not good to kneel down and sing about conquest, you have to ask Liu Zhao to kneel down with an abacus, or a washboard.
Deep in her heart, Gu Jiu laughed out loud, as if she had reached the pinnacle of her life.
"The girl is indeed a little money fanatic. When it comes to money, the girl laughs and sees her teeth."
Qingmei joked.
Gu Jiu laughed, "I know I'm a little money fan, so hurry up and bring over the account book, I have to settle the account myself."
Qingmei said: "I have already prepared it for the girl."
As soon as the account book was placed on the desk, Gu Jiu picked up the abacus and began to settle the accounts.
Seeing that more than one hundred taels of silver had been added to the account, Gu Jiu was extremely happy.
Including the one thousand taels of silver that Liu Zhao gave her last time in the palace, there are still a few hundred taels left. Adding up all the money, she can be considered a little rich. Richer than all the sisters.
It feels so good to be rich, the air is fragrant, Xie doesn't hate it so much anymore.
…
Early in the morning, Gu Jiu came to the Furong Courtyard to pay his respects.
I met Gu Yue at the door.
Gu Yue's face was gloomy, she didn't know who provoked her.
Gu Zhen called out, "Oh, third sister, who are you showing such a face to?"
Gu Yue snorted, "You don't care about me."
After finishing speaking, he turned his head and entered the gate of Furong Courtyard.
Gu Zhen spat, feeling extremely disgusted with Gu Yue in her heart.
She said to Gu Jiu: "Second sister, guess why third sister is angry?"
Gu Jiu's heart skipped a beat, and he asked, "Could it be that big sister knows?"
Gu Zhen smiled mysteriously, "Yesterday, I saw the third younger sister enter the Furong Courtyard with a happy face, but she came out after less than a stick of incense. When she came out, her face was full of clouds, as if someone owed her a few hundred taels. It seems to be."
Gu Jiu raised her eyebrows, "So it's because of your wife?"
Gu Zhen nodded, and said in a low voice, "Ninety-eight times out of ten it's because of my wife. It's just that I didn't find out the specific situation. The second sister has a lot of ideas, why don't you ask Xiaocui to ask."
Gu Jiu looked at Gu Zhen with a half-smile, "Elder Sister is really good at joking, so I don't have any idea. Let's go in first, don't let the wife wait for us."
Gu Jiu walked into the Furong Courtyard first.
As soon as he entered the main room, he saw the two sisters Gu Yue and Gu Shan staring at each other.
Gu Yue was full of resentment, and Gu Shan looked puzzled, not knowing where she had offended Gu Yue.
During the stalemate, Mrs. Xie came.
Gu Yue immediately restrained her expression and put on a low-browed and pleasing look.
Gu Jiu nodded secretly. In recent months, Gu Yue's patience has gotten better and better. It has to be said that Gu Yue has made progress, and he has made great progress.
It won't be like before, yelling as soon as something happens, like a crazy crazy woman.
Mrs. Xie coughed lightly, "You all know about the post from the palace. After five days, you all will go to the palace with me for a banquet.
You understand the rules, I just want to remind you, don't do things that embarrass you, don't play petty temper, and don't offend others.
Either you've already said goodbye, or you're about to say goodbye. If you make a mistake in the palace, you will be ashamed, and you all know the consequences. Don't blame me for not reminding you of the delayed marriage. "
"Remember my wife's teaching."
Mrs. Xie nodded secretly, she is in a good mood today.
What the eldest wife Zhang said at the beginning woke up Xie.
She can't get angry easily, aging prematurely, and making Aunt Bai cheap for nothing.
In the past few months, Xie ate herbal diet to take care of her body while trying to restrain her temper.
Regarding the matter of Aunt Bai giving birth to a son, she endured it, and she finally restrained it.
In just a few months, the effect is good.
Mrs. Xie's eyebrows and eyes look a little gentler now, and her tone of voice is much softer than before.
It looks good, and with proper maintenance, it looks three or four years younger than its actual age.
Mrs. Xie looked at Gu Zhen, "Girl Zhen, the Xu family will come to the door today, you should be prepared. You can't lose face in front of the guests."
Gu Zhen's expression froze, she nodded heavily, "Thank you Madam for reminding me, I know."
The Xu family is the husband's family of the eldest wife Zhang's sister.
Mrs. Xu and Zhang look after Gu Zhen on behalf of her concubine, and will come to visit her today.
Whether Gu Zhen's marriage will be successful depends on today.
Xie looked at Gu Yue again, "Yue'er, you will follow me today, don't move around."
Gu Yue opened her mouth, as if she wanted to refute. In the end, she nodded meekly, "Daughter listens to mother."
Mrs. Xie nodded in satisfaction, "That's very good."
Gu Zhen secretly glanced at Gu Yue, she remembered the enmity between the two of them clearly.
Last time, Gu Yue ruined her marriage.
This time, no matter what, she would not let Gu Yue succeed.
Whenever Gu Yue behaved with bad intentions, she would slap him directly without saying a word.
Mrs. Xie said: "Okay, follow me to the meeting hall to do things."
Everyone got up, left Furongyuan, and went to the meeting hall.
Gu Lin was at the back, her complexion was not very good, and she looked worried.
Gu Jiu asked her, "Fifth Sister, what's the matter with you?"
Gu Lin worried: "My aunt's body hasn't recovered yet, and my brother is sick again."
Aunt Bai's elder brother is the eleventh among her brothers.
The eleventh brother may have been held back in the mother's womb for a while when he was born, and his body was a little weak when he was born, suffering from three disasters and five diseases.
Before he learned how to eat, he had already started taking medicine.
Every three days, the doctor will be invited to come to the door.
Aunt Bai was worried about Brother Eleven, and also delayed her recuperation.
I heard that Aunt Bai's health is not recovering well, and she is very weak, so Master Gu is not allowed to visit her.
She said that she was afraid that Master Gu would see her ugly side.
When this word reached Xie Shi's ears, Xie Shi scolded: "Pretentious!"
Gu Zhen asked Gu Lin, "Brother Eleven, didn't you feel better a few days ago, why are you sick again?"
Gu Lin lowered her head and said frowningly, "Maybe it's because of the unpredictable weather. I got cold and got sick again."
Gu Zhen accompanied her with a sigh, "Eleventh Brother's body is really weak, he's almost as good as Second Sister was when she was young."
Gu Jiu smiled and said, "Big sister, was I that weak when I was young?"
Gu Zhen nodded, "Weaker than the eleventh brother. To be honest, the second sister can grow up smoothly and safely. She is really lucky. Every time she gets seriously ill, everyone thinks that she is dying, but she always survives at the last moment. "
Gu Jiu pursed her lips and smiled, "This is what I call "surviving a catastrophe will bring you blessings."
Gu Zhen nodded, "That's true."
Therefore, if the second younger sister can marry the emperor's grandson as his wife, she will surely have a future blessing.