Working part-time as a wife is too busy

Chapter 6

Xuemei asked the people who followed to wait in the courtyard, while she walked into the gazebo, well blocking everyone's sight.

"Miss, these are all disciples of the three religions and nine schools in the imperial capital. There are bun shops, blacksmith shops, brothels, and taverns... They are all specially selected today to ask for debts. Those small wooden boxes are all owed by the master and servant of the Rong family over the years." The bill. They came just because they heard that Miss's dowry is generous." Xuemei said in a low voice.

She just heard that these debtors came for her own lady's dowry, so she was very angry. This marriage had already caused her own lady to be wronged enough, but even outsiders came to get involved.

Gu Xiaoya glanced at the lower class people with different expressions, that is, her indifferent glance made everyone who came to ask for debts feel uneasy, and many people even began to regret choosing today to ask for debts.

This Fourth Miss of the Gu family is a new bride who has just entered the house and has not paid homage, and she is still dumb. The Rong Gu family has neglected and humiliated this fatherless woman today, and they are still making trouble. Isn't it too much? up? !

"Ding——" every time such a clear voice sounded, everyone standing in the backyard of the General's Mansion felt their hearts were suddenly pulled up by some kind of tight rope, and then slowly lowered down.

"What do you mean by the Fourth Miss of the Gu family? Is the stalemate going on like this? Does she want to repay the debt or not?" Carpenter Sun asked as he tugged at the sleeve of the storekeeper of the steamed stuffed bun shop next to him.

"You forgot that the Fourth Miss of the Gu family is dumb and doesn't understand anything!" Shopkeeper Lin said in a low voice, "However, it's a bit strange that she didn't cry, make trouble or get angry when she encountered such a thing today. Could it be true? As you said, she is still a fool?" Shopkeeper Lin has also stayed in this imperial capital for decades, and has seen many people of all kinds, but Gu Xiaoya seems to be hidden in the fog, making it hard for people to see through.

"Mrs. Rong, you are now the mistress of the General's Mansion, should you pay back the debt owed to the neighbors in the neighborhood for more than ten years?" Finally someone couldn't help asking in a bad tone, and this person looked aggrieved He looked like that, but upon closer inspection, his eyebrows and eyes were full of sarcasm.

Gu Xiaoya's face was slightly cold, but she nodded her head in full view of everyone, and then asked Xuemei to bring her the Four Treasures of the Study, and then she wrote down what she wanted to say on a piece of snow-white rice paper.

After about a quarter of an hour, she finished writing and asked Xuemei to show it to everyone.

"Shopkeeper Lin, what are you writing?" Shopkeeper Lin of Baozipu had studied for several years, so several illiterate people asked him.

After reading the contents of the paper, Shopkeeper Lin raised his eyes complicatedly to look at the bored bride in the gazebo, and then said solemnly: "Mrs. Rong said that she is willing to pay the debt owed to us by the Rong family. I will pay it off today, but I have to go to the Yamen to notarize a debt collection entrustment document, which is to give the young lady all the bills that the Rong family owes us over the years. She can use any method to calmly collect the debts from her family. Write a guarantee document and go to the Yamen for notarization, and we are not allowed to give credit to anyone in the Rong family in the future, otherwise we will face a lawsuit."

Today, everyone just listened to that person's instigation to try it out. Although the Rong family often pays on credit, the common people have a deep respect for the Rong family. Even the bills in these small wooden boxes were written by the Rong family on their own initiative.

Although there are the most wealthy families in the imperial capital, they are all small businesses, and they don't want to have anything to do with rich and noble families, but the Rong family is different from other families, even if Gu Xiaoya refuses to pay back their debts today, they pretended to make a fuss and went back.It's just that this situation is something they didn't expect.

The man said, if Gu Xiaoya is so stupid that she really wants to pay off the Rong family's debt, then let her pay it back, and they won't suffer anyway.So, everyone nodded in agreement.

Gu Xiaoya smiled slightly, and spread out the rice paper again to write a debt collection entrustment document and a guarantee document not to pay on credit, and then asked Xuemei to take out the red ink pad, and she first stamped her handprint on the blank space of the rice paper.

Shopkeeper Lin read the two documents aloud again in front of everyone, and many people felt that today was a day of shit luck. Not only could they get all the debts owed by the Rong family back, but they would also have an excuse not to pay in the future. Credit was given to the Rong family, so everyone couldn't wait to press their fingerprints, and entrusted a few people to rush to the Yamen for notarization.

During this period, Gu Xiaoya asked them to settle all the bills in their hands. In addition to the imperial phoenix crown and Xiapei, the emperor also gave her ten dowries, one of which contained a hundred taels of gold, and the other contained a hundred taels of silver. .

Of course, she would not think that the emperor valued her. Obviously, the emperor rewarded the Rong family in disguise. In this case, she used the money to pay off the Rong family's debt.

The second butler, Mad Da, and Lai San stood outside the crowd and watched the situation in the backyard. The three of them frowned tightly. From the time when Gu Xiaoya got off the sedan chair unusually, it seemed that something was out of their control.

"Second steward, why do I think there is a problem with the debt collection entrustment document and the guarantee document?" Lai San was naturally very happy when someone paid off the debt for the Rong family. Just now he really thought Gu Xiaoya was an idiot, but those two documents made the debt collector The hearts were relieved, but the hearts of the Rong family were pounding, as if they were being calculated.

"There's something wrong, but the Fourth Miss of the Gu family is a woman in the backyard. How useful she can be, I think she was wronged today, thinking that paying off the Rong family's debts will gain a good reputation." The second housekeeper said contemptuously.

"No matter what she wants to do, it's best to stay peacefully in the backyard and not cause trouble, if... Humph!" Crazy looked at the smiling Gu Xiaoya in the gazebo very unfriendlyly, although now he was also thinking about it in his heart Unpredictable.

Gu Xiaoya currently has only one Xuemei available, but there are people from all walks of life in the yard, and they are not afraid of making trouble, except for the [-] dowry left by her mother and the palace belongings bestowed by the emperor. She opened the two boxes of gold and silver and the [-]-carrying dowry prepared by the Hou's mansion directly in front of everyone, and then asked them to estimate the value by themselves, asking for money and getting money, and things for things.

Gu Xiaoya's actions made the people in the courtyard dumbfounded again. Her indifferent "prodigal behavior" and "trust" made the ordinary people in the courtyard afraid to do anything.

"Mrs. Rong, if you can trust Chun Niang, how about Chun Niang helping you to settle the bill?" Chun Niang, the procuress of Li Chun Lou, twisted out of the gazebo with a smell of makeup, but she didn't enter the gazebo, she just looked at Gu Xiaoya with a flattering smile. .

(End of this chapter)