When Gu Shaoqing first saw him, he was shocked.
He had heard that Zhao Yulou was the manager of this place, so he had already preconceived that he was at least 30 or 40 years old, but he didn't expect him to be so young, probably only 15 years old at most? Gu Shaoqing was still hesitating, but the man in front of him had already walked up to him, "Look at your delicate skin and tender flesh, I think you can't carry anything, what can you do in our textile factory?"
"The textile factory is not in need of young masters, but it is in need of people who can carry water, dye cloth, and weave cloth?"
Such men are always hot-blooded and cannot stand provocation.
"What can you do?" Gu Shaoqing said. He said he had delicate skin and tender flesh, so was he?
"I'm the manager here, so naturally I'm in charge of you." Zhao Yulou was so angry that he said this innocently, which made Gu Shaoqing very angry. "I'm the fourth young master of Gu Houfu. Who do you think you are? How dare you control me?!"
"Young Master of Gu Marquis's Mansion?" Zhao Yulou sneered, "If you really want to be a young master and go back to your Gu Marquis' Mansion, there will naturally be plenty of young and beautiful maids to serve you. I've said it before, our textile factory doesn't lack masters. If you can't stand this hardship and want to go back, I won't stop you--" Then he gave another order, "Come on, make way for this young master of the Gu family, so he can walk!"
Gu Shaoqing didn't come here to be angry, how could he just leave? The veins on his face were throbbing from being provoked by Zhao Yulou, but he still held back, "I came here to relieve Uncle Jiu and Aunt Jiu's worries, I can do anything you ask me to do. But you have to remember, this property belongs to my Uncle Jiu, and naturally to my Gu family. If you do nothing and just want to lie down and make money, my Gu family won't support an idler like you!"
Zhao Yulou, however, acted as if he had just heard a joke and didn't care at all. He just said, "Come on, take the young master of the Gu family down to work."
A girl with round eyes came out from behind. She was innocent and looked young. She came over and bowed respectfully to Gu Shaoqing, then said, "Master Gu, please follow me?" Gu Shaoqing had suffered some setbacks at the hands of Zhao Yulou, and now seeing that this girl treated him respectfully, he felt much more relieved for a moment.
The two walked all the way to the backyard. The woman pointed to the large vat in the yard and said, "These are all dyes. The finished cloth must be dyed here before being sent to various cloth shops." The woman then introduced Gu Shaoqing to his daily work, "Young Master, you need to mix all these, dye them, and then expose them to the sun."
Gu Shaoqing listened absentmindedly. He was not a worker here to do these jobs properly, so how could he understand clearly how to do these jobs? He was originally annoyed that Zhao Yulou made things difficult for him and asked him to do so many rough jobs, but when he calmed down and thought about it carefully, he felt that this was not a bad idea. After he made a mess of himself, he would go back and complain to his grandmother and see how Liu would deal with it.
"By the way, who is Zhao Yulou? I have never heard of him in the capital. How come he has become the manager here at such a young age?"
The woman glanced around, her expression looking as if she was about to tell a secret.
"It is said that this Manager Zhao also has someone behind him."
Gu Shaoqing was suspicious. He was already the young master of the Marquis's Mansion. Although something like that happened in the second house, it was not spread out. With his status as the young master of the Gu family, how could this person, Zhao Yulou, dare to contradict him like that? "Do you know his identity?" Gu Shaoqing asked, "Could he be the concubine of a certain master in the capital?" He knew a lot of dignitaries in the capital, but he was sure that there was no such person as Zhao Yulou among them.
After hearing his question, the woman hid her smile with her handkerchief, "Young Master, you are joking. How can that Zhao be as noble as you? He is just a rough man from the countryside who can't even read a single word. His original name was Zhao Dazhuang. If he hadn't been good-looking and liked by the noble, how could he have changed his name to Zhao Yulou, which is so nice? How could he have risen to his current position?"
Gu Shaoqing was completely stunned. "What did you say? He——"
The woman hushed, "Master, please don't say it out loud. We all know that Zhao is a gigolo. But if you say it out loud, Zhao will hear it and bear a grudge against you. You will inevitably be bullied in the future."
Gu Shaoqing felt more and more that he seemed to have found a clue, and hurriedly asked: "Then do you know who is the financial backer of Zhao Yulou here?"
The woman shook her head. "How could we know that? We just guessed it based on his behavior and his arrogant look. You don't know how stupid he is. How could he be so stupid as to offend you? People born in the countryside are ignorant. How can they compare to you, young master? You are now a dragon swimming in the water, and you will soar sooner or later."
Gu Shaoqing responded to the woman's compliment with a smile.
She was indeed right. If Zhao Yulou was really just a countryman with no backing and had risen to power by relying on his good looks, wouldn't it be stupid and crazy for such a person to go against him? Thinking of this, Gu Shaoqing felt that the anger he had been suppressed by this bastard today had been slightly relieved.
In the future, when he officially takes over this textile factory that makes a fortune, he will make that pretty boy fetch water and work every day so that he can learn the meaning of not supporting idlers.
"What are you doing? You are not allowed to help him. I told the young master to work, so he has to work!" Gu Shaoqing was feeling happy, but he never expected that his son Zhao Yulou would come suddenly this time.
Manager Zhao was cracking melon seeds in his hand. He threw the melon rind into the air and said, "You asked others to help you, right? You should also clean the floor. You can't eat today if you don't clean it!"
He looked at the woman who had just been talking to Gu Shaoqing and said, "Don't help him here. Now that he is here, you should go and do your work." Not only did Gu Shaoqing look aggrieved, but the woman also looked at him pitifully, then left quickly with her head down.
"Hurry up, if you don't finish the work, you won't be allowed to eat today! I won't show mercy to you just because you are the young master of the Gu family!" Although he has a face like a banished immortal, Zhao Yulou is really a vulgar countryman as the maid said. Gu Shaoqing held back his anger, but picked up the broom in his hand and said to himself: Now he is the King of Yue Goujian, he only needs to sleep on straw and eat bitter food for a few days, and then it will be time to wait and see these people commit suicide.
Zhao Yulou stared at him like a supervisor for a while, but after a while he felt bored and went back to his room to rest.
Gu Shaoqing still heard what he said before he left, "I want to eat the roast goose from Song's Restaurant when I wake up, so go buy it for me." He was really an idiot with no brains except for his face, and all he did was eat and sleep.
Gu Shaoqing sneered in his heart.
Unexpectedly, this idiot who only knew how to eat became a different person after entering the house. He lay lazily on the chair, still not sitting, but his eyes became more attractive. After a while, a woman came over from the side. She was the one who had just talked to Gu Shaoqing. She looked at Zhao Yulou with a smile, "Boss, how was my acting today? Was it okay?"
Zhao Yulou, who also became Shen Qingqiu, took off his boots that he had worn all day with a tired look, and huddled a little deeper into the chair like a kitten, "It's OK."
Some of what she said was not wrong, but her son was really sleepy at this moment, so she just said: "Although Gu Shaoqing is stupid, he is still a member of the Gu family. There are some things that he won't listen to just you. You should make arrangements with the others first, and don't let the news leak out to others." The woman nodded, and Shen Qingqiu couldn't help but slide sleepily on the chair, "Also, remember to ask for the roast goose to be sent over."
When she said she wanted to eat roast goose after waking up, she wasn't acting.
The woman laughed, "Boss, you are so mean. Madam Chen told you to only eat those greasy foods once or twice a month to satisfy your cravings. This is your fifth time this month." But Shen Qingqiu didn't listen at all. He shrunk back into his chair, closed his eyes and was about to fall asleep. The woman had no choice but to pick up the thin blanket beside her and cover Shen Qingqiu with it.
Before she fell asleep, she said, "Send a message to the Marquis' Mansion and ask Jin Cai to bring a carriage to pick me up in the evening."
The woman was stunned for a moment when she heard this, but after a moment she understood Shen Qingqiu's intention and quickly agreed.
It was just as Shen Qingqiu thought. Although Gu Shaoqing was stupid, he still had some basic common sense and knew that one's words could not be trusted completely. After coming out of the dyeing workshop, he asked around about Zhao Yulou's identity. Although everyone's statements were slightly different, the basic meaning was the same.
Gu Shaoqing initially thought that since such a clumsy and incompetent person could be promoted to a position like a manager, it showed that Liu had no talent for governance. He also thought that if he could use Zhao Yulou to first impress Liu in front of his grandmother and even Uncle Jiu, it would be easier to plan other things in the future.
But unexpectedly, after nightfall, Zhao Yulou gave him a bigger surprise.
"It's going to rain tonight. I see you came in a hurry today and you don't seem to have brought an umbrella." It was the same woman from the morning. Gu Shaoqing couldn't remember her name for a moment. The woman lowered her head and said, "You can just call me Li Niang. Take this umbrella and use it first."
Li Niang saw that he was always shy and timid, so for a woman like her to get close to a rich man like him, of course, she would have a bright future. Gu Shaoqing didn't think much about it. Anyway, he was bored in this textile factory, and Li Niang was pretty, so it was okay to play with her. Therefore, he said gracefully: "How can I ask you to go back in the rain? I'll take you back to your place first."
After some resistance, Li Niang naturally agreed.
The female teachers of the textile factory all lived on the hill in the backyard. Gu Shaoqing sent her back and was about to turn around when he saw a black, unmarked carriage approaching from a distance.
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