My Stepmother is Soft and Charming

Jin'er is now over half a year old, and her appearance has grown a lot compared to before.

Perhaps because her father came from the Su family and was related to Mrs. Gu by blood, she looked very much like Mrs. Gu, and you could tell she was a beauty at first glance.

However, her temperament is much softer. Most Jinling women are as gentle as water, and she has inherited this very well.

Especially when there was Brother Wen standing next to her who was squirming in an unknown way, Du Jingyi couldn't help but sigh.

My daughter is still considerate. Look at these boys. They are already struggling in Qiwu Courtyard even before they can walk. When they are two or three years old and can run and jump, they are still not allowed to go to the house to build tiles. , it gives me a headache just thinking about it.”

Sister-in-law likes her daughter, and she will have another one. Now that the three brothers are older, they won't be so clingy.

Gu Xiaochun looked like he had a daughter and everything would be fine, but he loved her very much.

Du Jingyi also thought about it, but compared to her thoughts, it was Gu Shaoyu's unwillingness that obviously had the upper hand, so even if they had sex, they were very cautious, and there was no way she would get pregnant.

It's just that she wouldn't talk about such private matters randomly, so she smiled and said.

Children are fate. Let's see, if fate comes, God will give me a daughter.

Hearing this, Gu Xiaochun felt the same way.

She is not in a hurry to have another child. After all, her daughter is still young and she has to raise her until she is one year old before talking about anything else.

The aunt and sister-in-law discussed the art of raising children for most of the day, so they enjoyed this meal with great ease.

After the excitement subsided and everyone returned to the courtyard, Du Jingyi talked about going to Wangjiang Tower to hold a first-year banquet for the three children.

Gu Shaoyu didn't have anything to disagree with, as long as it wasn't too loud.

Wangjiang Tower is your territory, it's up to you to arrange it. It's just a banquet outside, so we won't invite so many people to avoid being gossiped about. I've been a little busy these past two days and have to make arrangements for the Huben Army, so If you have anything important to do with me, just ask Luo Yuan to make a trip.

General, you can go and be busy, but I have some family matters here, so it doesn't matter.

Gu Shaoyu was not polite to her, after all, he was really busy.

In early June, when the heat wave swept through Jinling City, there was another piece of news that made everyone in the city panic.

Because the 50,000-strong Hu Ben Army had received His Majesty's imperial edict and said they were coming to learn the skills of a navy master, the Grand Administrator of Jinling, Gu Yangguang, received the news only three to five days ago. Under the leadership of Lieutenant General Zheng Deli, they had already arrived. Outside Jinling City.

The thick black mass made two brothers, Gu Yanguang and Gu Yanxing, look pale.

Although the second uncle, Gu Yanxing, was in charge of the city defense of Jinling City, he also had 50,000 soldiers at his disposal.

But when compared with the 50,000-strong Tiger and Guard Army, it is like a house sparrow seeing an eagle, making people aware of their superiority.

Originally, Gu Yanguang wanted to station them in the wilderness twenty miles north of the city on the grounds of insufficient preparation, but Gu Shaoyu did this deliberately and arranged all the soldiers in the fields near Qingshui Town.

The reason is that this place is closer to the naval camp, and it is also convenient for communication between the two sides.

After all, Gu Shaoyu was a second-grade official and had the support of the Huben Army, so Gu Yanguang disagreed and couldn't give any suitable reason at the moment.

Therefore, they could only be allowed to camp in that area blatantly. By coincidence, they happened to occupy the territory near Tiger Roaring Cave.

When the seventh old man heard about this, his nervous hair turned white. But after three days of rest, they were training together with the navy battalion every day, and they didn't seem to see anything wrong.

But even though the meaning on the surface is so straightforward and visible to the naked eye, everyone is still guessing what the purpose of the arrival of the Tiger Army is.

Xing Zhao's father, Mr. Xing, knew what was going on here. After all, he was once a disciple of Prime Minister Guo, had such a relationship with the Gu family, and held the official position of the river transport envoy. Naturally, he couldn't escape these things.

Therefore, taking advantage of his position, he secretly helped Gu Shaoyu target several corrupt people in important positions.

Gu Shaoyu has not yet reached the age of worry, so it is difficult to leak or even deal with these matters in advance, so he can only endure it and follow the clues to search a series of people under them.

But check it out, it’s easy.

Going up, there are no clues.

Therefore, these days, Gu Shaoyu ostensibly went to the Huben Army's camp to keep an eye on the training, but in fact he went to investigate the shipping tax issue, so he was naturally very busy.

After the two briefly washed themselves, Gu Shaoyu went to bed first. Du Jingyi was not sleepy yet, so he lit a lamp outside and looked at the previous account books.

After a few months, she finally understood how the seven houses worked inside.

Replacing inferior products with good products is a method only fools use.

In the few years since Qifang took over the Gu family's business, through reasonable transactions and the name of the Royal Merchant, many of the Gu family's valuable or profitable businesses have been transferred to several hands, and they have been sold in other names. He returned to Qifang's hands.

Qi Fang is really patient. Some transactions last for five or six years, so it's really hard to tell without looking at them carefully from the beginning.

Du Jingyi went back and forth with the account book several times at first, but he didn't see any problems, so he simply changed the direction later and used his power in Jinling City to inquire about all the businesses that Qifang had acquired over the years. .

Comparing the two, we can see the problem.

The ones that were replaced by Qifang under the name of the Gu family are not some junk. They can still make money, but the profits are not as good as before.

A golden hen is replaced by ten laying hens. In a short period of a few years, naturally there will be no difference. After all, the quantity is where it is. But if it is stretched over a period of twenty or thirty years, naturally, the difference will not be noticeable. It’s so powerful that one waxes and wanes.

It's no wonder that the seventh branch of the Gu family has become so prominent in recent years.

I thought it was because of the blessing of Huang Shang's name, but there was actually such a trick behind his back!

It was indeed a good skill, so what she had to do now was to sort out all these things. Since the people in the seventh house were cheating and defrauded most of the Gu family's property, she would also use the same method to force the seventh house. Fang Jiang will spit out all the profits he took in!

The lights were brightly lit until late at night, Gu Shaoyu had already woken up, but Du Jingyi was still burning the midnight oil to fight.

It was probably because she drank two cups of strong tea during the day, so she was in good spirits now.