Poor Lady

After Gu Jinyun received Qi Surong's piggy handkerchief, he deeply realized his negligence. Two days later, he summoned all the servants of the Gu family to formally meet Qi Surong and take over the internal affairs of the Gu family. The rest should not have any doubts.

After Qi Surong handed over the designed clothing artwork to Yunrong Xiuzhuang, he concentrated on checking the account books of the Gu family. The monthly expenses of the Gu family are surprisingly low. In addition to the usual food and clothing expenses, the most expensive is the favors that are sent to us. In addition, the gifts that Gu Jinyun gave to Qi Surong before actually accounted for one-fifth of the project.

Qi Surong rubbed her brows in a funny way. The Gu family had accumulated a lot of money over the years, even more than she expected, but the Gu family didn't seem to know how to spend it. Frugality is a virtue, but knowing how to spend money is also an advantage. For example, the wages of the servants of the Gu family are only increased once every three years. Except after festivals, there is usually no reward. Although they never scold others, they may not be able to accept their hearts.

Gu Jinyun was quite talented in business, but because of his cold temper, he didn't care about the affairs of the inner court. Gu Chang and Gu Yufeng were both pure warriors, and they were even less interested in these things.

However, Gu Jinyun hired a good housekeeper to arrange the affairs of the Gu family in an orderly manner, but... Qi Surong looked at this account book, her eyes flickered, and it was inevitable that her hands and feet were not clean. For the time being, Qi Surong intends to hold him accountable. This person is quite measured, and he is not greedy for too much money, which is still within the range that Qi Surong can tolerate.

In addition, the person responsible for purchasing the household has more or less problems. Qi Surong guessed that Gu Jinyun should be well aware of this, since he didn't say anything, it represented a kind of acquiescence.

However, Qi Surong did not agree with this acquiescence. Isn't this condoning human greed?

In the evening, Qi Surong mentioned this to Gu Jinyun and asked him what he meant.

Gu Jinyun replied: "I know, the reason why I don't care is just too lazy to bother."

"Too lazy to bother?" Qi Surong said incredulously, "What if they are more greedy?"

"Then send it to an official for investigation." Gu Jinyun replied calmly.

Qi Surong was stunned for a moment, then realized that Gu Jinyun was using this to test the character of these people. In this way, he is really lazy... Supervising and regulating the behavior of people takes a lot of energy and time. Gu Jinyun just kept an account in his heart. If anyone is not disciplined, he will directly expel them.

Qi Surong was speechless, this was too simple and rude, and it was completely laissez-faire management.

Qi Surong said, "Okay, I will take care of it completely from now on, do you have any opinion?"

"Of course, deal with it accordingly." Gu Jinyun hugged her and whispered, "My husband is also..."

The next day, Ping'er handed the list of servants in the inner room to Qi Surong, Qi Surong read it, and said to Ping'er: "You go and notify Steward Li, assign these two maids to Shuangshuang, and add another one to my room. Maid, everything else remains the same for the time being."

"Yes, Ping'er will go here."

But after a while, Ping'er walked in with a girl of fifteen or sixteen years old, who shyly saluted Qi Surong.

"Your name is 'Douer'?" Qi Surong said with a smile.

"Madam Hui, yes."

"I heard that before you came to Gu's house, you were working in an official's mansion?"

"Yes."

"Why did they leave the original master's house? Their wages should be higher than that of the Gu family."

Although Dou'er's expression was cramped, her speech was clear: "Slaves are timid by nature and don't know how to get along with other sisters. They are afraid of offending others, so they ask the master to let the slaves go out of the house and find another livelihood."

Qi Surong nodded, quite satisfied with her answer. In just one sentence, enough explanation has been given. There is a lot of right and wrong in the official family, and it is not uncommon to see open and secret fights between the servants. Douer said that she did not know how to get along with other sisters, indicating that she did not like forming gangs and participating in disputes. But being completely out of the way is easy to be looked down upon.

"Okay, you can stay by my side from now on. This is my personal maid, Ping'er. You usually take care of each other."

"Yes." Dou'er was blessed, then looked at Ping'er and called, "Sister Ping'er."

Ping'er is a simple-minded person, and immediately returned a friendly smile.

Dou'er showed a shy smile and seemed to have a good impression of her.

Seeing this, Qi Surong nodded secretly. However, it remains to be seen whether Douer can be trained. She married into the Gu family and brought only Pinger as a maid, which is too thin, just like the Gu family had guests visiting before, and no one notified her.

After lunch, Fanghe, the maidservant of both parties, came to see her, and after a casual salute, she asked, "Madam, why did you arrange two maids for the third lady? Does the lady really blame the slaves for not taking good care of the third lady?"

"You are Miss San's personal maid."

"Yes. Is there any doubt, ma'am?"

"Then shouldn't you be by Shuangshuang's side at this time?" Qi Surong said solemnly, "I have seen Shuangshuang running around alone more than once. As her personal maid, is this not considered negligence?"

"It's not that Madam doesn't know that the third miss is..."

"What is it?" Qi Surong stared sharply.

Fang He immediately shut up.