Gu Nan has no plans to go out for the time being.
After Chen Li left, Ruhua reported outside:
"The housekeepers and ladies are all waiting for a reply in the flower hall. When will the girl come over?"
Gu Nan looked at the hourglass placed in the room and saw that it was already a quarter of the hour.
At this time on weekdays, she is already sitting in the flower hall taking care of the family.
Listen to the replies from the women everywhere, give orders to each place, and distribute the cards.
Regardless of wind or rain, we have never stopped and made no mistakes in the past three years.
But Xie Heng and Princess Huaiyang took everything for granted and didn't take her contribution to heart at all.
Gu Nan sneered and ordered Ruhua.
"Go and take the ledger, keys and cards to Nanshan Hall and tell Madam that I am ill and cannot take care of the house for the time being."
Ruhua left holding the ledger and the cards.
Gu Nan also told Ruyi, "Find someone who is good at cooking among my dowry people. From now on, we in Songxuetang will not eat in the big kitchen.
Open the small kitchen in the yard and use it for whatever we eat in the future, and our people will go to the streets alone to buy it. "
Ruyi: "Girl, are you worried that someone will drug us again?"
Gu Nan nodded.
"They can add medicine to the poria cake and give Chen Li the sweat medicine. If they don't keep it together, they can add medicine to harm us someday."
It is essential to be on guard against others. It is not the time for reconciliation yet, so she must beware of Xie Heng's dirty tricks again.
Nanshan Hall.
Ruhua relayed Gu Nan's words, put down the account book, keys and cards, turned around and left.
Princess Huaiyang threw a tea cup with a sullen face.
"What's wrong? You're obviously trying to show off to us."
"The merchant girl just doesn't understand the rules. She just felt a little wronged and dared to quarrel with her elders."
"Ha, are you threatening me by saying that you don't care about the family? Do you really think that my Wenchang Marquis Mansion will not move on without her?"
Before Gu Nan entered the house, the Wenchang Marquis Mansion was managed by Princess Huaiyang. Although she was dissatisfied with Gu Nan's lack of care in the family affairs, she didn't take it too seriously.
"Without her Gu Nan, I can still manage the Wenchang Hou Mansion in an orderly manner."
"We now have people who control the Gu family's property. After all, the family has made money."
Xie Heng was impatient to hear his mother talk about these mundane matters.
"Mother, I want to marry Yunshang as my equal wife as soon as possible."
Princess Huaiyang frowned, feeling quite reluctant.
"Do I have to be an equal wife? Yesterday, it would be easy to talk to Gu Nan if she allowed Meng to come in and become an equal wife.
It's just that now that he wants to marry a commoner wife for no reason, the reputation of our Marquis Mansion is not good. "
She also looked down on Meng Yunshang.
"I don't know what you see in her, you've been fascinated by her all day long.
In terms of appearance, she is not as beautiful as Gu Nan. In terms of wealth, she, the daughter of a poor scholar, cannot compare with Gu Nan.
If it weren't for the sake of my little grandson Rui Geer, I wouldn't even let her in. "
"Mother." Xie Heng frowned, "Don't say that about Yun Shang, Gu Nan's appearance is more gorgeous, but she smells like copper, as if being rich means something great.
Nothing compares to Yun Shang's gentleness, talent, and understanding. "
The princess of Huaiyang was dissatisfied.
Gentleness and talent cannot be eaten as food.
Her son was raised to be too arrogant.
Xie Heng guessed his mother's thoughts and took out a few pieces of paper and handed them over.
"This is what Yun Shang sent here just now. Rui Geer got up early to draw it."
The fine rice paper has four big characters written on it.
Say hello to grandma.
The font is childish, but horizontal and vertical.
Princess Huaiyang's face suddenly showed a smile.
"Oh, you are indeed my good grandson. He knows how to greet his grandmother at such a young age.
At just over three years old, you can already write well, just like you did when you were a child. "
When she mentioned her son's childhood, Princess Huaiyang sighed.
"If your father hadn't failed to live up to his expectations and did such things, our noble family would not have forced you to marry a merchant's daughter."
Xie Heng's face darkened when he mentioned the past.
Three years ago, he passed the examination and became famous in the capital, becoming a leader among the nobles.
Most of the children of noble families are idle, studying and acting, just waiting for the age to get the family status and get an errand.
It can be said that there are very few people like him who passed the imperial exam at the age of seventeen or eighteen based on their own abilities.
Xie Heng felt that with his talent, it was only a matter of time before he was granted the title of Marquis and Prime Minister.
Just when he was full of ambition and ready to show off his talents in the coming spring, his father, Marquis Wenchang, was found to have embezzled military pay.
My father actually secretly replaced the military rations he raised for the border soldiers with moldy grains. Arrow clusters and spears were also made of defective materials and could not be used at all.
Once this matter is revealed, the Wenchang Hou Mansion will face confiscation of the family and annihilation of the family.
Fortunately, the person who noticed this was the Minister of War, and he had a close relationship with his father, so he suppressed the matter secretly.
As long as his father replenished his money on the specified day, purchased military rations, and forged weapons, he would forget about it.
Nearly three hundred thousand taels of silver, and so many arrow clusters and spears, how could they get them all at once?
In desperation, his father set his sights on the Gu family.
The Gu family is an imperial merchant and manages the copper and iron business on behalf of the royal family. If the Gu family helps, why worry about weapons not being able to make up for it?
His father made a plan for him and asked him to marry Gu Nan.
The Wenchang Hou Mansion successfully weathered the crisis with the help of the Gu family.
"Just because they wanted to coax the Gu family, the father and mother did not allow their son to bring Yunshang in.
On the day I married Gu Nan, Yun Shang was even more sad and gave birth prematurely. If Brother Rui hadn't been so lucky, she would have almost died that day. "
When Meng Yunshang and his son Rui Geer were mentioned, Xie Heng looked distressed.
"Gu Nan is making such a fuss now, why not take this opportunity to bring Yun Shang and Brother Rui into the house, so as to suppress Gu Nan's arrogance.
Mother doesn't know that yesterday you insisted on asking me to coax her. I had already lowered my posture, but she actually vomited all over me, making it clear that she was not willing to consummate the marriage with me. "
Princess Huaiyang's face suddenly darkened.
"Is it possible to rebel against her? She actually refuses to serve you?"
"You are the eldest son of the Hou family. You are extremely handsome. I don't know how many women want to serve you, but she is still unwilling.
In this case, let's find an opportunity to bring Yunshang and Rui Geer into the house. "
A smile appeared on Xie Heng's face.
"Thank you, mother. As for the issue of equal wives... think about Brother Rui. If Yun Shang becomes a concubine, Brother Rui will become a bastard."
Princess Huaiyang's eyes fell on the pieces of paper in her hand, thinking about her grandson's soft and soft face, how could she be willing to let her grandson become a concubine.
"Then let's be an equal wife. I'll have to go and coax Gu Nan in person.
Now that our family still needs the Gu family, we can't really chill Gu Nan's heart. "
Xie Heng had a smile on his face.
"Thank you mother for planning for your son."
Songxuetang.
"Girl, Madam is here to see you."
Ruyi's voice sounded outside the door, and then he opened the curtain to let Princess Huaiyang in.
Gu Nan was lying on the couch near the north window reading a book, and stood up after hearing this.
"Why is your mother-in-law here?"
"Don't get up now. My servant says you are not feeling well. I'll come over and take a look."
Princess Huaiyang stepped forward and stopped her from getting up.
Gu Nan didn't really intend to get out of bed to salute, so he lay back down again.
"Mother-in-law, do you have something to give me?"
Princess Huaiyang's smile paused slightly when she saw that Gu Nan really didn't get up to salute her.
But he quickly adjusted his facial expression and talked about marrying an equal wife for Xie Heng.
