Feng Heming

Chapter 149
After returning home, Gu Yidan changed into a suit of clothes, nestled on the bed, holding hot scented tea in his hand, and after taking a few sips, he let out a comfortable sigh.

"Winter is coming soon."

Gu Yidan was not used to the climate here, and it was already a little cold in September.

Guiyue rubbed her hands, and echoed, "Yes, it will start to get cold after October, and it will snow heavily in November."

Gu Yidan became interested, "It's snow, it must be spectacular."

After chatting for a while, Gu Yidan remembered something and ordered, "Prepare me a pen and ink."

Guiyue responded, and prepared the pen, ink, paper and inkstone on the table. Gu Yidan picked up a piece of letterhead, wrote a line on it with a pen, put the letterhead into the envelope, and told Guiyue: "You Go find the butler."

Guiyue responded, and soon the housekeeper came over, "Third Lady, do you have any orders for the younger one?"

Gu Yidan asked: "Housekeeper, I asked you to buy the house on the boundary of Huazhi Hutong. How is it going?"

The housekeeper licked his smiling face, "Hui San Niangzi, this matter is being done, and soon all the houses in that area will be bought."

Gu Yidan nodded, and she warned again: "Remember not to buy or sell by force, but to offer a price that satisfies the original owner, remember?"

The housekeeper nodded again and again, "Don't worry, third lady, I will always remember your words, and the owners of those yards will definitely sell the house to us willingly."

Gu Yidan is relieved, the Gu family has a big business, and the two ideas she came up with recently made the Gu family sleep on gold. If you think about the few thousand taels of money to buy a house, the Gu family will not be ignorant.

"This letter is for you. You should find a way to deliver this letter to Wu Niang of the Jiang family, but no one will know that it was sent by our Gu family."

Gu Yidan handed the envelope in his hand to the steward, and the steward took it, and said with a smile: "Third lady, don't worry, I'll do it now."

"Well, you go down."

Gu Yidan waved his hand, seeing that the steward was still standing still, he was puzzled and asked, "Do you have anything else to do?"

The steward smiled obsequiously, and bent his waist again, "Third lady, I want to ask, you plan to build a house in Huazhi Hutong, do you know if you have found a construction team?"

As soon as Gu Yidan heard it, he understood that this kind of contract can draw a lot of profit from it. Just the wood alone can make a lot of money, not to mention other things.

She looked at the butler with a half-smile, until cold sweat broke out on the butler's forehead, and then said slowly, "The work team's affairs are not something you can covet."

The housekeeper bowed again and again, "Yes, yes, the little one just likes to talk, so he deserves to be spanked, really deserves spanking."

As he spoke, he patted his face lightly.

The housekeeper, who was arrogant in front of his servants, bowed his knees in front of the third lady, Guiyue's eyes sparkled as she watched from the side.

Gu Yidan waved his hand, "Okay, let's go and do what I told you earlier."

The butler didn't leave. Seeing this, Gu Yidan was already upset, "Is there anything else?"

The housekeeper replied: "Third lady, the constant counselor you recruited left the mansion today after you left the mansion. According to your instructions, we sent people to follow him. We saw that he was just wandering in the street. From time to time, I would go into some shops and come out again.”

Gu Yidan raised his eyebrows, "Didn't you go to other places? For example, to Jiang's house?"

The housekeeper shook his head, "No, I told the person that he never went to Jiang Li's area at all."

Gu Yidan pondered for a while, maybe she was sensitive?

He also ordered: "If he goes out, continue to send people to follow him quietly, and don't let him find out. See where he goes and who he sees, and report to me."

The butler agreed, and then he retreated respectfully.

After getting out of Qingyun Building, the butler remembered that he had pretended to be a grandson in front of Gu Yidan just now, so he couldn't help snorting, and muttered: "It's really a woman's kindness, why do you need to pay a high price to buy those low-class houses? Use some tricks , are you still at your fingertips?"

Thinking of the money used to buy the house, after giving the old man 3000 taels, and the 2000 taels of silver that could go into his own pocket, the housekeeper felt better again, and even blew his whistle. Seeing the envelope in his hand, he saw On it was written the words [Five Ladies of Jiang's Mansion Friendship], and the eyes rolled,
"The old man said that he should pay close attention to everything about the third lady. Do you want to open this letter and have a look?"

The butler flipped through the envelope and frowned, "It's been waxed."

He thought about it for a while, but he didn't dare to remove the wax paint. Once Mrs. Jiang Wu, who received the letter, found out, she would tell the third lady that he would not be able to eat and walk around.

"However, it's so strange, why did San Niangzi say she didn't want the Jiang family to know that this letter was sent by San Niangzi?"

The butler was puzzled and scratched his head, unable to figure it out, and finally ordered the servant to deliver the letter.

"Fifth Lady, this is for you."

Jiang Yuanxi was waiting for the guard's investigation at that time, when he saw the envelope sent to her by the front yard, he took it and asked, "Who sent it?"

The guard replied: "It was sent by a child, I didn't say who sent it."

"Oh? Can you trace who the child who delivered the letter was connected with?" Jiang Yuanxi asked again.

"The little one sent someone to follow up. After the kid delivered the letter, he bought candied haws with copper coins." The guard replied.

"So you can't find any clues about the sender?"

Jiang Yuanxi looked at the seven characters [Five Ladies of the Jiang Manor] on the envelope, and sighed, "I can't imagine that the person who sent the letter deliberately wrote it so ugly in order not to let people know who's handwriting is, just like the six-year-old Meng Tonggang. Just like practicing calligraphy, this kind of thinking is also fully used."

Jiang Yuanxi took apart the wax and poured out the letter paper inside. When he saw the same handwriting on the cover as on the cover, his eyes froze.

[Wear Jiang Taifu, the prince is very evil, hope to be careful]

Jiang Yuanxi stared at the letter paper for a while, then suddenly smiled, "It's interesting. You sent me a message, but you sent a warning to my grandfather. When you mention the prince, you don't say which prince. You don't want to, dare not reveal who the prince is." , or is this an allusion to the royal family?"

Jiang Yuanxi looked at the letter paper over and over, but couldn't find any evidence on it that could expose the person who wrote the letter. Letter paper is the most common letter paper on the market. Apart from the ugly handwriting, Jiang Yuanxi thought for a while, "Although it is not I know who sent it, but I, the Jiang family, have inherited this love."

This warning made Jiang Yuanxi understand that his grandfather was getting more and more dangerous.

"Fifth Lady, we found it."

A guard hurried in, and the replying voice interrupted Jiang Yuanxi's meditation, "Tell me in detail."

"The Gu family wanted to buy all the land in Huazhi Hutong. They didn't keep this matter too secret. I heard that they wanted to knock down the houses of the original families in Huazhi Hutong and rebuild them into a three-entry complex. In the courtyard, Huazhi Hutong, not only will there be the Yucai Bookstore of the Gu family in the future, but there will also be medical halls, restaurants, silk shops, gold and silver jewelry shops, etc."

The guard's report made Jiang Yuanxi puzzled, "The Gu family did this to open those shops in the residence for the convenience of the people living there? But how can the Gu family be sure that those shops can satisfy the people living there?
Moreover, who will the Gu family sell those houses to?Doesn't the Gu family know that merchants who can afford that house, without titles, are forbidden to live in Dongcheng, even in Huazhi Hutong at the junction of Dongcheng and Nancheng.

Besides, the aristocratic family can afford it, but they won't be interested in that courtyard, could it be said?"

Jiang Yuanxi's heart moved, "Could it be that the Gu family wants to sell the house to a poor family that suddenly arises?"

(End of this chapter)