Chapter 4 The traitorous maid

Gu Hua looked at Gu Chen with admiration as he gave him a thumbs up. It seemed that he was not the only one who saw through the true nature of some people in the Gu family. The fourth grandfather and his cousin Gu Jiqing in front of him seemed to be a little too honest.

In Gu Hua's opinion, this cousin is still a useful person.

It seems that Gu Chen is now helping the original manager to manage several tea houses in the city. He is 23 years old this year. He is careful and tactful in his work and has a talent for doing business.

Gu Hua patted his shoulder and said, "Do a good job. I will go to inspect the surrounding shops in a while, and you can come with me."

Gu Chen smiled reluctantly, opened his mouth, and finally said, "Okay."

He is not only Gu Hua's cousin, but also the manager who helps her manage several tea houses. Gu Hua's words mean that she wants to use him, and Gu Chen should be happy.

but……

When they finally left, Gu Chen seemed to be unable to hold back and reminded them: "Hua Di, when you are dealing with the elders in the future, you should refuse them when necessary, just like you did today. Don't be like before."

"Otherwise, the Gu Mansion..."

Gu Hua looked at Gu Chen who left after wanting to say something but stopped talking, and for a moment he didn't understand what was going on.

"..."

After the four generations of grandparents and grandchildren left.

Gu Hua returned to his room and thought about the original owner's parents they mentioned. His mind suddenly recalled the cause of death of the original owner's parents, and a hint of doubt flashed in his eyes.

It can be said that the original owner's family cannot be said to be the richest in Jiangzhou City, but they are definitely among the top wealthy businessmen. At least the family is definitely not short of money.

Her parents were able to think of training guards for the original body since childhood. They should also be cautious people. How could they go on a long journey without bringing enough people to protect their own safety?

In the original owner's memory, there was no record of a large number of bandits coming and going on the official road that his parents took. If it was a small group of bandits, how could the original owner's parents be robbed and killed so easily given that they were accompanied by guards who knew martial arts and strong servants.

The most suspicious thing is that not only the original owner's parents were killed, but also dozens of people they brought with them were killed at the same time. It caused quite a big fuss at the time and the Gu family paid a lot of money to compensate the families of the deceased.

When faced with compensation for the deceased and the Gu family's desire to intervene in the management of the mansion's business, Gu Hua felt dizzy when he recalled this, as if the original owner had intentionally blocked out something that he didn't want to recall or face.

The original owner was raised as the heir of the Gu family since she was a child. She also learned kung fu from a martial arts master hired by the mansion to strengthen herself. When her parents died, she was already fifteen or sixteen years old, which was not considered young in ancient times.

He followed his father in business since he was young. After his parents passed away, he relied on his uncle who was an official in the capital to barely support the Gu family on his own.

Gu Hua frowned but couldn't figure out the memory that the original owner had sealed, so he put aside his doubts about the cause of death of the original owner's parents and this unknown memory for the time being.

.........

After that, Gu Hua prepared to go to the manor to see Xiao Junlin again.

As the carriage left the mansion and turned the corner, Gu Hua saw a familiar figure walking out from the corner door of the mansion, turning his head nervously to look left and right, then twisting his waist and taking small steps into the crowd on the street.

"Uncle Lin, stop for a moment."

"Whoa!" Uncle Lin pulled the reins to stop the carriage, "Master?"

Gu Hua jumped off the carriage and pointed to a remote corner of the alley. "Uncle Lin, drive the carriage there. I have something to do and will be back soon."

After giving the order, he strode in the direction where the man had disappeared.

The servants in the mansion were generally not allowed to leave the house without the permission of their master or the steward. Gu Hua did not remember that he had told Qiuju, the maid in the courtyard, to go out to do some errands before leaving the house.

Gu Hua followed the maid who was unwilling to be a slave all the way to the second floor of Xiangmanyuan Restaurant and reserved a private room next to her with an ingot of silver.

When he came in, Gu Hua asked for a pot of good tea, gave the waiter a tip, and told him to ask the kitchen to prepare a few of their signature dishes to take away later.

"I don't need anyone to serve me here. Don't let anyone disturb me before you leave." Then Gu Hua went to the private room on the second floor. Soon, the waiter had just served the tea and left when there was a noise from next door.

"Hey, where are you putting your hands, you bad guy?"

The charming voice of reluctance and yet willingness almost made Gu Hua, who was eavesdropping next door, spit out the tea she had just drunk. She was just curious about what Qiu Ju was doing when she secretly ran out of the house, and she didn't intend to catch a maid committing adultery.

Knowing that Qiu Ju had just run out to have an affair with her lover, Gu Hua was not a pervert and did not have the hobby of eavesdropping on the in-depth conversations between men and women, so just as she stood up and prepared to leave.

"Baby, I miss you so much."

After a burst of ambiguous voices, the man's questions about Qiu Ju were heard, causing Gu Hua, who had already walked to the door and was about to open it, to sit back down.

"Baby, I asked you to get close to Gu Hua, that pretty boy who replaced Xia He's maid. Did you get the key to the small warehouse that manages his yard?"

"Hmph! Stop talking, I'll get angry if you do!" Qiu Ju said angrily, "Gu Hua is useless, like a blind man, and I dress up beautifully every day to stay with him.

Not only did he not show any sympathy, he even drove me out to the yard to supervise a group of little girls doing things.”

Qiu Ju was venting her dissatisfaction, ignoring the disgust and gloom in the man opposite her eyes when he heard that she was not serving Gu Hua in his room.

If the other three maids serving that pretty boy Gu Hua had not been deceived and used by him, how could she have gotten close to this idiot.

Qiu Ju sneaked out of the house, and when the man learned that she was driven out of the yard to watch the little maid do things, he obviously lost the trust of his master and didn't want to play with her anymore.

The two fooled around for a while and then left.

Gu Hua drank his tea quietly until the two of them left for a while.

She also knew who the man next door was who was having an affair with the maid in her own yard.

Gu Yuming, grandson of the clan elder's fifth uncle.

This person wanted the key to the small warehouse in his yard. Gu Hua could tell with his toes that he wanted to use Qiu Ju to transfer the valuables out of the warehouse.

Fortunately, this body is not a real man. If the original owner was a man and could not resist Qiu Ju's temptation and handed the small warehouse to her for management, it would probably have been emptied by these people long ago.

Gu Hua thought that his space seemed to be empty now, without even a hair left, so he prepared to find an opportunity to put all the valuable things in the small warehouse into it.

To avoid the situation where she was not there that day and someone else stole the item.

It seems that the Gu family also has a large warehouse in the original owner’s father’s study, which will be put away when the time comes.

When Gu Hua came back, she was holding a food box. Uncle Lin, who had been waiting for a long time, was leaning against the carriage frame with his eyes closed. When he heard her approach, he opened his eyes and said, "The master is back."

"Yes!" Gu Hua got on the carriage and ordered, "Uncle Lin, let's go."

It was already noon when Gu Hua arrived at the farm.

Uncle Ya opened the door and saw that it was her who bowed. Gu Hua took out a plate of roast chicken from the lunch box and handed it to her, "Take it and eat with Uncle Lin."

Uncle Ya bent down again to thank Gu Hua but was stopped by him.

She walked to the quiet courtyard with the lunch box and saw the man sitting outside eating. There were one meat and one vegetable dish on the stone table. The food cooked by Uncle Ya was average, and there was no trace of disgust on the man's face.

"It seems that you are not a picky eater." Gu Hua teased, "That's good."

The stern man turned his head and looked precisely at where Gu Hua was standing. If people didn't know that he was blind, no one would believe that he was a blind person.

(End of this chapter)

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