Dad, don't be greedy! My brother climbed into the emperor's bed, and I became famous overn

Three hundred thousand taels.

Gu Mingyue felt as if something was ticking behind her head.

Like a time bomb, it's ticking away, counting down.

next second.

【Ding! 】

The system panel suddenly popped up in my mind, with the font size larger than usual.

[A large sum of money has been detected entering your account.]

[Task balance updating...]

Gu Mingyue lowered her head and sighed.

She took 200,000 yuan with her on this mission, and when she returned, the balance was 270,000 yuan.

I've only been away from home for a few days.

Her father made another 300,000 taels of silver.

[Ding! Update complete.]

[Task balance: 570,000 taels.]

[Remaining time for the mission: 75 days.]

Gu Mingyue's mind was buzzing.

She can never spend money as fast as her father makes money.

They are all kings of their respective fields!

Gu Mingyue felt a deep-seated exhaustion.

She slowly put down her chopsticks.

She raised her head and looked at Gu Debai.

"father."

Gu Mingyue took a deep breath and closed her eyes to calm herself down.

I endured it again and again.

"Please don't accept any more money."

Gu Debai was stunned for a moment, his smile still lingering on his face, not yet able to disappear.

"What did you say, girl?"

He thought he had misheard.

"I said," Gu Mingyue forced a smile, as if she were reasoning with a three-year-old.

"Father, our family has no shortage of money."

"Your daughter is now doing business with the Emperor. The orange peel is profitable, the workshop is profitable, and the road construction and dock operation will also be profitable in the future. The logistics park project has also been approved."

"Just from what we have now, our monthly income is several hundred thousand taels."

"Father, this is clean silver. It's aboveboard and can be investigated by anyone."

"Don't touch a single tael of that shady money again."

Gu Debai's smile froze.

He glanced timidly at the silver ingots and notes in the box, then at his daughter's obviously grim expression.

I don't know what I did wrong to upset my daughter.

Seeing his father's bewildered and pitiful appearance, Gu Mingli sighed, put down his bowl, and chimed in:

"Father, please listen to Yue'er."

"I am on duty before the Emperor; his eyes are not just for show."

"How did the Marquis of Chengen fall? It was because he overstepped his bounds. You took over his business, and later the Emperor followed the trail..."

He paused for a moment, then pointed to his neck.

"The more you lend a hand outside, the more my head risks."

Gu Debai's expression changed slightly.

"Your daughter earns honest money, so from now on, no one can stop you from spending it."

Gu Mingli spoke gently and patiently coaxed his father.

"Dad, stop worrying about making money. Your son and daughter aren't just for show; we'll earn money to support you."

"Let's not accept this kind of shady money anymore, okay?"

As the last word was uttered, the hall fell silent.

It was so quiet that you could hear the wind chimes on the eaves tinkling in the night breeze.

Gu Debai's lips twitched for a moment.

He slowly sat back down in his chair, feeling both warm and aggrieved.

He understands this principle.

But he couldn't bear to see his children suffer too much.

He climbed his way up from the poor.

I suffered so much hardship and endured so much contempt and disdain from others when I was a child.

They knew all too well that without money and power, they could hardly move an inch.

Powerful clans have controlled every aspect of the Dayong Dynasty for hundreds of years.

Those people are rooted deeper than the foundation stones of a city wall.

Although the emperor was ruthless, he was tempted by their intentions.

But ultimately, a lone tree cannot support a tree, and there is no one to help.

Now that the daughter wants to go into business and make money, taking food from the mouths of the established families, how easy is that?

He was once full of vigor and ambition in his youth.

But I have seen it with my own eyes.

In the late emperor's court, a newly appointed top scholar proposed reforming the long-standing problems of the Grand Canal transport system.

Less than three days after the memorial was submitted, the man was demoted to Lingnan on some pretext.

He later died in office, and there wasn't even anyone to collect his body.

Decades have passed.

If it weren't for the ruthless methods of the new emperor, the throne would probably have been taken over by powerful clans.

My two children are too young.

They are being too optimistic about the current situation.

Little did they know that glory is only temporary.

Changing the underlying rules is extremely difficult.

What if the wind direction changes one day?

What if one day the emperor no longer needs them?

One has to be realistic when it comes to living.

If you can still make some, make as much as you can.

This will leave a substantial inheritance for their son and daughter in the future.

Even if they stayed away from the court and didn't do business, they still lived a wealthy and carefree life.

As for myself.

There is still an outstanding debt with the imperial court that has not been settled.

He cannot stop yet.

This is all the thoughts a father has on his mind.

Gu Debai remained silent for a long time.

Gu Mingli and Gu Mingyue exchanged a glance, both thinking that they had spoken too harshly and hurt their father's feelings.

Just as Gu Mingli was about to offer another word of comfort, Gu Debai spoke up again.

"Good daughter, good son."

Gu Debai smiled gently.

"Hearing you say that, I feel my life has been worthwhile."

He raised his hand and patted Gu Mingli's shoulder hard, then patted Gu Mingyue's shoulder hard as well.

"Go ahead and do what you want. Your father fully supports you."

Looking into her father's resolute eyes, Gu Mingyue felt a mix of emotions.

I was truly moved.

Her father truly loves them.

He was a treacherous official who was greedy his whole life; his underlying logic was actually ridiculously simple.

I just want to save enough money for my children so they can live without having to depend on anyone.

Clumsy, short-sighted, and unpresentable.

But that sentiment was heavy and genuine.

But those 570,000 taels of silver were real money.

Gu Mingyue lowered her head, shoveled a mouthful of rice into her mouth, and swallowed down her turbulent emotions along with the rice.

Before, he spent money purely to complete tasks, but now that he's been spending more time with his cheap dad, he's developed other intentions.

It's not just about spending money.

She genuinely wanted to accumulate some good karma for her father in order to atone for the sins of embezzling money over the years.

At least, if someone were to hold him accountable in the future, his merits and demerits would balance out, leaving him a way out.

The welcome banquet ended early.

Gu Debai started to feel sleepy after drinking half a pot of wine and was helped back to the East Courtyard by the steward Gu An.

Gu Mingyue didn't go back to her own room, but turned into Gu Mingli's west wing.

"elder brother."

"Um."

Gu Mingyue moved a stool over and sat down on the edge of the couch.

"Have you located your potato and sweet potato reward yet?"

"Not yet, we're still looking for it."

Gu Mingli turned over and moved the panel to a different angle so that she could see it too.

A semi-transparent navigation map floated between the two.

The two of them slid their fingers across the map.

They searched the entire map of Dayong, from east to west and north to south.

"This time the reward says we have to find it ourselves, does that mean we really have to dig through the ground bit by bit?"

"Hey, look here."

Gu Mingli zoomed out of the map.

The territories of neighboring countries are also revealed.

The map of Dayong stretched northward, crossing the border and passing through a mountain range marked in gray.

The location is illuminated within the territory of the Northern Di.

Two bright spots, one red and one yellow.

They were labeled "10000 tons of potatoes" and "10000 tons of sweet potatoes" respectively.

"The territory of the Northern Barbarians?!?!"

"A combat zone?!"

Gu Mingli: "..."

Gu Mingyue: "What a trap!"