Mother Lin didn't change her face, and replied: "Business has been difficult in the past few years. Every shop here has a corresponding account book. Fourth Miss, you will know when you check the accounts."

Liu Xi flipped through the account book, only to see that the accounts in it were clearly remembered, and there was no mistake.

She didn't expect to find out, it was clearly a fake account made by Da Fang based on the 1 taels of silver.

"Thank you auntie for taking care of me these three years. Liu Xi will remember it in my heart and pay it back bit by bit."

Liu Xi smiled meaningfully.

Nanny Lin lowered her head, and she said, "The old slave will bring the words of Miss Si to Madam."

Gu Changjun snorted softly, and waved her hand at Nanny Lin, "It's none of your business, let's go."

"The old slave retire."

Seeing that Liu Xi didn't make a statement, Mother Lin wisely left.

After Nanny Lin left, the nanny couldn't help but said: "These four shops are the best shops managed by Madam, and each shop costs tens of thousands of taels a year! Why did the four shops in Dafang's hands cost a total of three years? Only 1 taels?! Girl, this is clearly a deception!"

Liu Xi nodded.

"I understand. I have my own discretion in this matter, nanny, go and find Uncle Liu."

The nanny nodded quickly and went out.

Gu Changjun poked at the ledger in front of Liu Xi amusedly, "I knew that Da Fang would not be honest."

Liu Xi pursed her lips, "I didn't expect her to be honest at all. Fortunately, the store deed is back. As for the accounts for these years, I will take them out of Da Fang's hands."

Upon hearing this, Gu Changjun hurriedly recommended himself, "I'll go! I like digging money in other people's pockets the most."

Liu Xi looked at Gu Changjun, "How do you pay?"

Gu Changjun shook his head with a mysterious expression, "I have my own tricks!"

"Girl, Miss Gu."

Liu Xi still wanted to say a few words to Gu Changjun, so Steward Liu rushed over.

"Uncle Liu, Dafang has already returned the store deeds of the rest of the shops. In the past few days, you have cleaned up all the people in the shop. Keep those who should be kept, and drive away those who should not be kept."

"That's not a problem, it's just that girl, we have no one in our hands. The former guys were all driven away by the big house, and now they have already found other ways to make a living and will not come back."

Butler Liu said with some worry.

Gu Changjun thought for a while and said, "Let me arrange some people to come here."

Liu Xi's eyes lit up, "Success, I don't worry about your people."

"Okay, wrap it on me."

Gu Changjun said happily.

Steward Liu looked at Gu Changjun in surprise, but he didn't know that Gu Changjun had someone in his hands.

Liu Xi and Gu Changjun didn't say much, they just explained a few words and let Steward Liu go down.

The next day, Gu Changjun approached Chen San and told him about the important person.

Chen San was very excited, but after considering the overall situation, he rubbed his hands and hesitated: "Our brothers often hang out on the street. If people recognize this, will it affect the business in the shop?"

"What's the matter?" Gu Changjun didn't find it difficult at all, "When you enter the shop, you have to wear the shopkeeper's clothes and hat, let the brothers shave their beards clean, and speak less dirty words. It’s just being recognized by others, and it won’t be long if you don’t admit it.”

Chen San nodded again and again, "Sister Gu, good advice!"

"Tsk, this is not a good idea, it's called thick-skinned."

Gu Changjun blinked his eyes and said.

Chen San didn't care what it was, as long as Gu Changjun said it, he just nodded.

"Sister Gu is really thick-skinned!"

"Um?!"

After reacting, Chen San quickly stretched out his hand and slapped himself on the mouth, begging for mercy: "I have a thick skin, I have a thick skin!"

Zhao Si also agreed on the side: "All thick! All thick!"

Gu Changjun:...

"By the way, Sister Gu, there is one more thing. Some brothers said that the government has arrested some people who gossip in restaurants."

Chen San said seriously.

Gu Changjun raised her eyebrows, "Since when did the government take care of this kind of thing?"

"It's said that there have been too many gossips in the capital recently, which has damaged the appearance of the capital, so now whenever you hear people gossiping together, you will be put in prison for a few days before being released. I reckon this is to suppress the rumors of the Liu family."

Gu Changjun thought about it for a moment, and finally said: "This big family of the Liu family is really good. It is obviously a poor and famous family, and the government is still helping them..."

Chen San and Zhao Si looked at each other, and Chen San asked suspiciously, "Sister Gu, don't you know?"

"what do you know?"

Gu Changjun was puzzled.

Chen San quickly explained, "In my opinion, the government is not helping the big family of the Liu family, but the entire Liu family. After all, if the rumor spreads, the reputation of the entire Liu family will be damaged."

"Why do I become more and more confused the more I listen?"

Gu Changjun frowned.

Chen San slapped his thigh fiercely, "Let's put it this way, in my opinion, this government is protecting the Liu family mostly because of the face of the second girl of the Liu family."

Gu Changjun squinted his eyes, "Isn't Liu Qianqian, the second daughter of the Liu family, the third child?"

Chen San slapped his lips, "No, there are three brothers and sisters in the Liu family, among them the eldest and third brothers are brothers, and the second child is a girl. This Liu Er girl is amazing. She married into the famous Zhang family in Kyoto. Every family has a big business, and I heard that there are people in several houses who are officials in court, presumably they greeted over there and asked the officials here to take care of the Liu family."

Gu Changjun blinked, and regardless of who the Zhang family was, he slapped the table suddenly, and said with a look of sudden realization: "I'll just say it! It turns out that the Zhang family is behind the Liu family! This Zhang family is really amazing. When I was in Kyoto, I heard the name of that house a lot.”

Chen San and Zhao Si immediately laughed and praised Gu Changjun for his knowledge and knowledge.

Gu Changjun accepted all the orders, but he wondered in his heart what the origin of the Zhang family was.

Gu Changjun returned to Liu's house after instructing the three Chen brothers again.

She went straight to the study, and sure enough, Liu Xi was inside.

"The person has already been selected, and I will be at the shop in the afternoon."

Gu Changjun sat down opposite Liu Xi and said carelessly.

"Are you tired? I'll get you some snacks."

Liu Xi laughed.

"No, I'm not hungry."

Gu Changjun shook his head.

After hearing this, Liu Xi stopped talking and started writing again.

Gu Changjun ran over to take a look, and found out that it was about the store, so she stopped joining in the fun. She doesn't know how to do business, and giving ideas is a disservice.

"Sister Xi, I wanted to ask you when I called back to the capital, why don't you have maids and servants around you?"

Gu Changjun rummaged through the bookshelves looking for it.

Liu Xi didn't raise her head, and replied: "My parents are happy, and my mother takes care of everything about my father, so there are no such people. I have been used to it since I was a child. Besides, there are nanny and my mother. What about Uncle Liu?"

"Yes, there are many right and wrong people."

Gu Changjun nodded approvingly. Aunt Hong and the others are not the only ones in her general's mansion.

Liu Xi stopped the pen in her hand, raised her hand, put the pen aside, looked at Gu Changjun with a smile and said, "Do you have something to tell me?"

Gu Changjun blinked her eyes, ran up to Liu Xi and stood still in front of Liu Xi, "How do you know?"

Liu Xi curled his lips into a smile, and instead of answering, he asked, "Tell me, what's the matter?"

Gu Changjun sat down beside Liu Xi, and said, "The rumors about the big house outside have been suppressed by the government. Chen San guessed that the government only came forward for your aunt's sake. I don't know It's true, so I want to ask you."

Liu Xi didn't change when Gu Changjun mentioned her aunt, she shook her head, "Probably not, my aunt is far away in the capital, and I'm too busy with a lot of people and things in the Zhang family. Gotta go this way."

Gu Changjun nodded, and said again: "Could it be your uncle who greeted you here?"

Liu Xi shook his head even more when he heard the words, "My uncle is an upright person and has always been upright. He never participated in this kind of thing. I think there is something hidden in this matter."

"That's it."

Gu Changjun scratched his head, and finally said, "I'll check again."

Liu Xi smiled when she heard the words, and looked at Gu Changjun's hair which was messed up by her, so she took out a wooden comb from the cabinet to re-tie Gu Changjun's hair.

Gu Changjun glanced at the cabinet in surprise, "Are you still keeping the wooden comb in the study?"

Liu Xi chuckled, "I also learned this habit from my mother. My father loves to read and write. When encountering difficult problems, he often scratched his head and scratched his head, and his hair became messy. My mother..."

Speaking of this, Liu Xi was taken aback. Isn't what she is doing now the same as what Liu's mother did for Liu's father?

It's just that I was the one staying in the study, even if Gu Changjun wasn't in the study, her hair was always in a mess.

"Sister Xi?"

Gu Changjun called out in doubt.

Liu Xi lowered his head, glanced at the wooden comb in his hand, "It's nothing, I'm thinking about visiting Miss Zhou at Zhou's house tomorrow."

"Okay, the shop has to be opened earlier, and I will have a place for Chen San when I have something to do."

Gu Changjun narrowed his eyes and said.

"it is good."

Liu Xi replied softly, and the movements of his hands became more and more gentle.

The warm sunlight shines on the two of them through the wooden window, and two intimate figures are reflected on the ground, which looks extremely beautiful.

After Nanny Lin returned to the big room, she told Mrs. Liu exactly what Liu Xi had said.

Mrs. Liu smiled coldly.

"I still thought of her as an ignorant little girl, how could she have become a cunning fox long ago."

Nanny Lin stood aside, without saying a word.

"Ma'am! It's not good, madam!"

A woman ran into the house anxiously.

"What happened?"

Mrs. Liu was also shocked by the behavior of the mother-in-law, afraid that something might happen, so she hurriedly said.

The mother-in-law gritted her teeth and said in a low voice: "The small yard that was tidied up yesterday is occupied by people."

Mrs. Liu was shocked, she stood up abruptly, and said angrily: "I am the wife of the main house, why doesn't this master even say hello to the people who are brought in!"

What kind of words does this pass in the past!

After finishing speaking, Mrs. Liu threw up her sleeves angrily and left the room.

Nanny Lin and the mother-in-law looked at each other, and hurriedly followed.

"It's done so quickly? Sister Xi, you're really good at it."

Gu Changjun hugged the clothes Liu Xi made for her happily and laughed.

Seeing that Gu Changjun was happy, Liu Xi was also happy, she said, "Try it and see if it suits you."

"It's definitely suitable. My sister Xi made it, and everything is suitable."

Gu Changjun took the clothes and wrapped them around himself, let alone the right size.

Liu Xi looked at it carefully, then shook his head and said, "The sleeves are a bit shorter."

Gu Changjun looked down at the sleeves, "Where is it short? Besides, I always like to roll up my sleeves, so it's okay."

Liu Xi had no choice but to let Gu Changjun torment herself. She glanced at Gu Changjun's shoes and said with a smile, "The hot weather is coming soon, let me make you some thin shoes."

Gu Changjun nodded with warmth in his heart, but remembered that Liu Xi had done so much for him, but he couldn't do anything, so he felt embarrassed: "I can't do needlework, and I can't even do anything for you. What."

Hearing this, Liu Xi chuckled, and then took out a small, ugly purse from his bosom and said to the wide-eyed Gu Changjun, "I like it very much."

"You, where did you find it?"

Gu Changjun stammered, she remembered that she obviously threw it away.

"Well, I just accidentally saw some people sneaking around in the flower garden for a long time. Out of curiosity, I waited for someone to leave and went to have a look. No, I found this."

Saying that, Liu Xi shook that ugly purse in front of Gu Changjun again.

Gu Changjun couldn't bear to look straight at it and covered his face and said, "I tossed and tossed for several days, but the result was really shameful, so I threw it away."

Liu Xi laughed again, and carefully put her purse into her words, "It's okay, take your time."

Gu Changjun blinked, hugged Liu Xi's slender waist, and kept rubbing her head, "My dear sister Xi."

Liu Xi looked around in a panic, "Be careful, the nanny will have to talk again when she sees it."

Thinking of the nanny's serious face, Gu Changjun immediately sighed, and let go of Liu Xi unwillingly.

And not long after she let go of Liu Xi, the nanny really appeared, but with a smile on her face and a large plate of snacks in her hand.

"Oh, the nanny just loves me, I'm getting a little hungry."

Gu Changjun smiled and took a snack from the plate and put it in his mouth, saying, it tastes like red beans, so delicious.

"Then put your belly on it first, the old slave will cook more good dishes tonight, you can eat slowly."

The nanny laughed.

Gu Changjun nodded quickly, "Nurse is so kind! But looking at your smiling face, what's the good news?"

Liu Xi also looked at the nanny with a smile.

The nanny covered her mouth and kept laughing, "Didn't you hear something happened to Da Fang again? I feel comfortable."

"What happened again?"

Gu Changjun's eyes lit up, and he said warmly.

"I heard that the old man carried someone back. Now the big house is full of excitement."

The nanny said with a smile, what she likes to watch most is the liveliness of the big room.

Liu Xi was a little surprised when he heard that, "Uncle carried someone into the house? Is the news true?"

Gu Changjun was puzzled, and she asked in doubt, "Why?"

Liu Xi explained: "My aunt is very jealous. I heard from my grandma that when we were negotiating marriage, my aunt's natal family forced my uncle not to take a concubine, otherwise the marriage would be void. There are no concubines."

The nanny shook her head with a gossip face, "Miss, that's wrong, the old man just didn't bring him back to his house, he has eight outhouses if not ten..."

When Gu Changjun and Liu Xi saw that the nanny spoke clearly and logically, they also became interested, and the three of them talked about the big room for a long time.

"Of course, this is what the old slave heard, but how could it be spread without revealing the truth? So the old slave thinks it must be true."

The nanny nodded affirmatively.

Gu Changjun and Liu Xi looked at each other and laughed.

Laughing so hard that the nanny couldn't figure it out.

After laughing, Liu Xi said: "Whether it's true or not, if uncle dares to carry him back this time, then uncle mother will be busy."

"Well, let's just watch the show."

Gu Changjun also nodded.

The nanny thought so, she thought for a while and said: "Miss, should we send some presents to the newcomer, so as to be angry with that poisonous woman!"

"I'll think about it again, nanny, go ahead."

Liu Xi quickly stopped the nanny, and said with a smile.

The nanny was a little unsatisfied, but she also knew how to measure, and went down holding the empty plate left by Gu Changjun.

"I think the nanny's suggestion is good," Gu Changjun turned to Liu Xi and smiled.

Liu Xi shook his head.

"I'm a niece, meddling in my uncle's private affairs, I'm afraid it will be a joke."

Gu Changjun suddenly realized, but then her eyes lit up again, "You can't interfere, I can!"

"If that person can be our internal response, it will be easy to clean up the big house."

Liu Xi blinked, "Then let's see."

Gu Changjun nodded, her eyes rolled around, she remembered the tea leaves she put back when she visited the big room at night last time, she knew that the "ingredients" in the tea had begun to work when she met Mrs. Liu that day. Just need to stimulate each other step by step.

As if thinking of something funny, Gu Changjun couldn't help laughing alone, Liu Xi was confused.

"Okay, good thing hahaha! I'll tell you when the time comes."

Gu Changjun said treacherously.

Liu Xi nodded.

The next day, the two packed up, boarded the carriage and rushed to Zhou's house.

Because Liu Xi had sent a message to Zhou Yan in advance saying that he would come to visit today, so as soon as their carriage stopped at the gate of Zhou's house, a woman dressed like a big girl stepped forward to greet her.

"Miss Liu, Miss Gu, our girls have prepared refreshments, the two girls please follow the servants."

The servant girl's attitude is respectful but not humble, and she speaks decently, which makes people feel very comfortable.

Gu Changjun glanced at the Zhou family's door plaque, he was majestic and majestic, as expected of a family of litigators.

The Zhou family is very big, and it's not a down-and-out famous family. The corridors and gardens they passed through this way gave Gu Changjun and Liu Xi a solid understanding of the Zhou family.

The servant girl led the two of them to the gate of a yard, and said with a smile, "This is our girl's yard."

Before Liu Xi and the others went in, they heard Zhou Yan's voice.

"Move this away!"

"And that one!"

Hearing that voice was full of vitality, Zhou Yan's foot injury seemed to be healed.

When the two stepped into the yard, they saw Zhou Yan at the stone table in the yard directing the servants to go about their business.

"Girl, Miss Liu and Miss Gu are here."

The author has something to say: Gu Changjun: It is said that I have a lot of nicknames, such as Gu Xijing, Gu Houpi, Gu Shushou...

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