Fanghe immediately stopped speaking.
"Miss Third is lively by nature, so she should have one more person to take care of her. If you have any dissatisfaction with my arrangements, you can tell the master or the young master."
Fang He gritted her teeth and said after a long while: "I don't dare."
"Okay, go down if you have nothing to do."
After sending Fanghe away, Qi Surong was thoughtful. The traces on Shuangshuang's body were quite suspicious. She was not sure that it was Fang He and her aunt who had done this. She could only send someone else to take care of Shuangshuang first to make them worry about it, and then investigate slowly.
The matters in the Gu family's inner court are not difficult to solve. After all, it is just a middle-to-rich family and does not have complicated interpersonal relationships. Although he has a small family fortune, his status and status are as different as clouds and mud compared with the aristocratic family. When Qi Shuo and Gu Chang made an oral engagement, they were in the middle of a war and at a critical moment of life and death. Gu Chang had a life-saving favor for Qi Shuo at the cost of one of his legs, so the relationship between Qi Surong and Gu Jinyun came about. A marriage. Otherwise, it would be absolutely impossible for the two families to get married based on their disparity in status. However, if Gu Chang had not broken a leg because of Qi Shuo, he would be a high-ranking official and well-paid now. With his military exploits, he would be more than enough to be a general.
The Gu family indeed owed a lot to the Gu family, and Qi Shuo did not regret agreeing to this marriage. However, things are unpredictable, and the famous family in the past will suddenly become dilapidated and the situation will be bleak. In the last life, Qi Surong married Gu Jinyun with nothing. Although she was a well-known lady and her status would not disgrace Gu Jinyun, her arrival not only did not bring any benefit to the Gu family, but caused disaster. However, because Qi Surong suffered repeated blows, she gave up on herself with her humble dignity. Ignoring the contributions of others will eventually lead to a lonely and helpless end.
In the last life, the Gu family's misfortune was all caused by her, but this life is completely different. At this time, the Eighth Prince was in the midst of a storm and had too much time to take care of himself. The biggest threat to the Gu family no longer existed, and only some ordinary opponents remained.
What the Gu family wants to do is to form a good relationship with the powerful people in the capital and develop steadily.
Qi Surong remembered that not long after she married into the Gu family in her previous life, someone started targeting the Gu family.
The Gu family is mainly engaged in business, and there are only three ways to deal with the Gu family. One is to send people to cause trouble in the Gu family's shops and cause all kinds of trouble. This method is considered the worst, and at most it will cause the Gu family to lose some reputation and reputation. Money, even if a life is involved, cannot be traced to the head of the family. The second is to bribe other businesses and join forces to set a trap for the Gu family, causing the Gu family to lose a lot of money without leaving any trace. If this scam is used properly, the Gu family will definitely lose their vitality and will be constrained in their actions in the future and will not dare to cooperate easily with others. The third type is the most sinister, and that is to kill with a borrowed knife. It is designed to offend the Gu family and convict them of a crime of disrespect. The Gu family can immediately pack up and leave, and even get killed.
Qi Surong also had another purpose in rectifying the Gu family's inner courtyard, which was to clean up some servants with evil intentions. The Gu family was being persecuted, and it was inevitable that a traitor would conspire with outsiders and betray the Gu family. She wanted to eliminate this possibility in advance.
Three days later, Qi Surong returned the account books to Butler Li and said to him: "Butler Li is smart and capable. Please pay more attention to the affairs of the inner court in the future."
"I understand, I should do my best." Butler Li secretly breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that he had been worrying for a few days in vain, thinking that this lady would see something, but she didn't know that she was nothing more than that.
Qi Surong smiled and let him leave without saying a word.
Butler Li returned to the room with the account book, flipped through it, and his expression suddenly changed. The account books in front of him were not the ones he had handed in before, but new account books that had been rearranged. Not only were the records more orderly, but all his original tampering had been erased without leaving a trace.
Butler Li was sweating profusely, his heart was pounding, and he was pacing back and forth in the room uneasily. Suddenly, he paused and his eyes fell on the account book again. Madam didn't say a word about this, but wiped out his account. Obviously, Madam had no intention of pursuing it. She did this just to give him a warning.
Butler Li took a deep breath, put away his contempt, and really took this lady seriously.
Then, Qi Surong paid a lot of money to hire three women. One was a ritual master of the official teaching workshop and was familiar with all kinds of etiquette; one was a female doctor who was good at tea ceremony (a pharmacist with some knowledge of Qihuang); A talented and scholarly female household.
Qi Surong asked them to be responsible for disciplining the servants of the Gu family.
As the saying goes, there is no rule without rules. The Gu family is now considered a respectable family, especially with the care of the prince and marquis, they can no longer be as casual as before.
However, her actions were only regarded by the Gu family as a move to establish their authority, and they just laughed it off and let her do whatever she wanted.
The servants were dissatisfied. They felt that this lady was too troublesome. She had to practice going back and forth for such trivial matters as serving tea and greeting others. If she failed to do so three times, her wages would be deducted. After a month, many servants had their wages deducted into negative figures. They felt extremely distressed and secretly scolded Qi Surong. But none of them dared to go to Gu Jinyun to complain, and Gu Chang didn't care at all, so in the end he could only accept his fate.
When the training came to an end, Qi Surong called everyone together and said: "In view of everyone's hard work over the past month, I decided to give out a silver reward as an encouragement."
Everyone was surprised and happy. The silver reward given by Qi Surong was twice the amount of wages originally deducted, and several servants with outstanding performance even received additional rewards.
Qi Surong added: "In the future, I will give different rewards and punishments based on everyone's performance. Those who fail the assessment will be expelled from the Gu family."
Everyone was shocked.
At this time, everyone felt that Qi Surong's behavior was too demanding and unnecessary.
The author has something to say: I published half of the last chapter, but the online reviewer refused to allow revision, so I had to publish it in two parts...