Chapter 021: Swelling the Dog's Face

Chapter 021: Swelling the Dog's Face

Gu Changqing didn't want to see Su Jin at all, so it was perfect, so he decided to go see his mother.

When he arrived at Zou's place, Gu Changqing did not bring it up directly, but exchanged a few simple greetings first.

Zou was not stupid. When she saw Gu Changqing and Lin Wanhui coming together, she knew that there must be something else going on. Sure enough, Gu Changqing spoke soon.

"Mother, I told you that Su Jin is not a good housekeeper. She is the daughter of a wealthy family in Hexi, but she can't even calculate the monthly wages for the maids."

Gu Changqing was also smart. He did not bring up the old woman in his own yard, but directly pointed out that Su Jin did not know how to manage the household.

Zou pretended to be confused: "Oh, what's going on?"

Gu Changqing looked at Lin Wanhui, who had an aggrieved expression on her face. She bowed before speaking.

"It's not my fault for this matter. This is my first time as a housekeeper, and there are many people in the house. It's understandable that this maid or that maid makes mistakes occasionally. My sister definitely didn't target me on purpose."

As she spoke, she stole a glance at Zou's expression. Seeing that the old lady was drinking tea with her head down and expressionless, she continued, "She is a maid in my courtyard. Her monthly salary is usually one tael of silver. Now she only has five strings of silver left. I think my sister must have been too busy to remember. Why not call her over and ask her about it?"

Lin Wanhui is a good person herself, how could Zou not know that?

However, Su Jin had done some irritating things in the past, and among the people around Gu Changqing, only Lin Wanhui was relatively good. But now, Su Jin's performance made Zou look at him differently. Looking at Lin Wanhui again, one can only say that she was too petty.

Zou nodded: "Mother Wen, go and call the eldest lady."

"yes!"

Mother Wen turned and left, and Lin Wanhui immediately became happy. She felt that the old lady was still on her side.

When my sister comes soon, she won’t be able to gain any advantage, haha!

Soon, Su Jin came down with the help of Jin Chuan.

She had been eating and drinking at An Xiaoniang's place these days, eating and sleeping all day, and taking some conditioning medicine prescribed by Imperial Physician Zhang. Although she hadn't moved much, she was doing well.

Besides, he didn't have to do any work and there were no troubles. When he was bored, he would go and play with An Xiaoniang's son. His life was so comfortable.

This also made Su Jin's complexion better and better. She was less harsh and sharp than before, and more casual and gentle. One glance at her would make people feel that the lady was a completely different person.

"Mother!"

Su Jin bowed when she entered the room, and waited for Zou to greet her with a smile before she sat down opposite Gu Changqing.

There was no way. Lin Wanhui was sitting next to Gu Changqing. She couldn’t sit at the table, right?

Su Jin gently wiped the corners of her mouth with a handkerchief, and her lowered brows and submissive look actually revealed a bit of gentleness.

Gu Changqing looked confused and had no idea what Su Jin was up to. However, he knew the saying that it is difficult to change one's nature, so he was sure that Su Jin was just pretending.

Humph, a new trick again?

But he won't be fooled.

"I wonder why my mother asked her daughter-in-law to come here?"

Gu Changqing said coldly: "Why? Don't you know it yourself?"

In the past, when Gu Changqing spoke with this attitude, the original body would definitely be furious, but now, the shell has changed. As a veteran social animal, Su Jin has seen all kinds of weirdness. Not only did she not jump up and get angry, she also put on a show.

She pressed her lips with a handkerchief and coughed twice softly, as if to say, "I'm sick, don't provoke me, or I'll definitely hurt you," and then she spoke lightly.

"My husband, if you have anything to say, please speak directly."

Humph, you really pretend to be so good!

Gu Changqing's face turned cold: "You, woman, are really not pretentious at all. How come you start to retaliate against others after just getting such a little power? You are so petty and shameless!"

Well, if you have a mental illness, go get treatment. Why are you going crazy here?

Su Jin smoothed her chest and took two deep breaths. Jin Chuan cooperated very well and fed her a sip of hot tea and rubbed her chest. This made Mother Wen's eyebrows twitch, for fear that if Gu Changqing said something wrong, the lady would beat him.

However, Su Jin just said calmly: "I don't understand what my husband means."

Gu Changqing finally got angry: "Okay, you can pretend. Su Jin, let me ask you, what's the matter with Madam Li's monthly allowance? You used to cause trouble for Lin Xiaoniang, beating and scolding her, and speaking rudely to her. Now you have learned your lesson and stopped attacking Lin Xiaoniang. Instead, you are causing trouble for the people around her?"

"Oh, you said you supported the emperor's policy of frugality and called on all the courts to cut their allowances in half. I thought you really changed for the better. Who would have thought you were waiting here? Where is Madam Li's half of the allowance? Did you withhold it? Su Jin, you are such a shameless mistress. How can you still have the face to respond to the emperor's policy? It's really embarrassing!"

Gu Changqing's words were extremely harsh. If he and Su Jin had quarreled like this before, Su Jin would definitely burst into tears. However, this time, Su Jin really didn't react at all, not even the corners of her eyes were red.

She still looked sick, coughed, and spoke slowly: "Since my husband is asking about Mother Li, I will explain it clearly here in front of my mother and everyone else."

Explain clearly?

ha!

Gu Changqing laughed angrily and simply sat down: "Okay, I want to see how you can make excuses."

sophistry?

I will smack you in the face with the accounts later!!

Su Jin rolled her eyes in her heart and turned her head and said, "Jinchuan, take out the account book."

"Mother, it's clearly written in the account that Madam Li took two months' salary in advance. She was not supposed to get any salary this month. I was soft-hearted and sympathetic to the servants' difficulties, so I gave her half of the salary on my own initiative, thinking that I couldn't let Madam Li's family go hungry. My original intention was good, but it turned out to be ill-intentioned and sinister..."

At this point, she deliberately squeezed out a tear, coughed twice, and when she looked up, she revealed a pair of red eyes, and said weakly and sickly: "Mother, you should take back this right. I can't control my daughter-in-law... cough cough..."

She really meant what she said. She really didn't want to do such a miserable job! !

Beside him, Gu Changqing's face turned green.

The more confident his accusation was just now, the more embarrassed he felt now. He was so angry that he grabbed the account and looked through it carefully. He confirmed that it was indeed Mother Li who had advanced two months' salary. He felt even more embarrassed in an instant.

He turned his head and looked at Lin Wanhui: "She took an advance on her monthly salary, didn't you know?"

"I……"

Lin Wanhui herself was panicked and said, "You know what, doesn't this mean she did it on purpose?"

You say you don't know, but she used to be in charge of everything in the yard. Doesn't this prove that she has no idea how to manage the household?

This is really, nodding is not right, and shaking your head is not right either!!