The Grand Secretary’s Pampered Wife

Chapter 200 Admit (one more)

"aunt!"

On the way back to Yongshou Palace, Zhuang Yuexi couldn't help but stopped Concubine Zhuang.

Concubine Zhuang glanced at her sideways: "What's wrong?"

Zhuang Yuexi is the noble daughter of the Zhuang family, she is dignified and quiet, and her aunt just now was a little out of her mind.

Zhuang Yuexi knew that something was wrong, and handed the flower basket in her hand to the palace maid beside her, carrying her skirt to catch up with Concubine Zhuang Gui, and whispered, "Yue'er has lost her temper, please aunt to punish."

Concubine Zhuang Gui said without anger, "You've been wrong since you just met the county lord Hui. After all, what kind of grudges do you have with others?"

"No hatred." Zhuang Yuexi whispered.

Concubine Zhuang doesn't know her niece yet? Since childhood, she has been the most honorable daughter in the capital. She is extremely intelligent, talented and beautiful, and has never met an opponent.

Gu Jinyu was not as famous as Zhuang Yuexi in his early years, but he was canonized as the county head first, and then made a big splash in the women's school, and gradually became as famous as Zhuang Yuexi.

Gu Jinyu can't surpass Zhuang Yuexi at the moment, but with Zhuang Yuexi's dignity, it is a failure to be on an equal footing with others.

Concubine Zhuang continued to walk forward, and as she walked, she said, "Is it because of these that you don't like the Hui County Lord? Auntie told you that you are the daughter of the banker.

Zhuang Yuexi is not because of this.

Zhuang Yuexi lowered her eyes and said, "Auntie taught her a lesson." After a pause, she said, "But why does Auntie suddenly care about the marriage of the Hui County Lord? Does Auntie want to be a matchmaker for her?"

Concubine Zhuang Gui smiled lightly: "Ben Gong wants to, but she has to nod her head and agree."

Zhuang Yuexi was just trying to test her aunt, but she didn't expect to get this answer: "Aunt... Who do you want to marry her? Big cousin? Or—"

Concubine Zhuang did not smile.

Zhuang Yuexi's heart skipped a beat: "Aunt, don't you want to marry her to your brother and let her be my sister-in-law?"

The banker has several direct sons, but the only one who is unmarried is the King of Anjun.

Concubine Zhuang did not admit or deny it.

Zhuang Yuexi's eyes suddenly panicked: "Auntie, she is not worthy of my brother! She is not the real daughter of the Hou's mansion, but a rural peasant girl. Even if your majesty canonized her as the county head, it is just a good reputation. You don't even have a food town, so what kind of county head!"

Concubine Zhuang stopped, and the maids also stopped. Concubine Zhuang stroked a four-season laurel in the basket: "The county owner is really not worthy, but if...she becomes the county owner?"

Zhuang Yuexi was stunned.

the other side,

Lord Gu was once again called by Zhao Shangshu to the main hall where he was handling official business.

Lord Gu has been scolded badly recently, and he couldn't escape another scolding in his heart.

However, to the surprise of Lord Gu, Zhao Shangshu's expression was extraordinarily soft, and he didn't look like he was going to scold him at all!

Lord Gu: Huh?

When Zhao Shangshu saw Lord Gu, he showed his first bright smile in months: "Gu Shilang, how is your day?"

Gu Houye was confused by the look and tone of his immediate boss, "Is it good to eat, whether to dress warmly, it is inconvenient to travel, and does the child have difficulty in studying?"

He had absolutely no idea what was going on.

Zhao Shangshu personally took Gu Houye's wrist and invited the person to sit down on the chair.

Gu Houye looked at the hand that was holding him, and wanted to tell him that a man could not accept a kiss!

Zhao Shangshu said with a smile: "You are true, you have such a promising daughter, why didn't you tell me earlier?"

Gu Houye was completely out of the situation.

Zhao Shangshu smiled and sighed, "You are so hard to hide from me! What's there to hide about such an important matter?"

"I, what did I hide from you?" Lord Gu Hou was at a loss.

Zhao Shangshu said: "The people from the Ministry of Military Affairs have been here, and they asked me if the bellows was invented by your daughter?"

Lord Gu pointed to himself: "My daughter?"

Zhao Shangshu frowned: "Don't you know yet?"

Lord Gu shook his head like a rattle.

Zhao Shangshu said, "Then let me ask you, do you have a daughter?"

Lord Gu nodded: "Yes."

Zhao Shangshu continued: "Last summer, were you and your daughter in Qingquan Town, Youzhou?"

Lord Gu nodded again: "Yes."

Zhao Shangshu said again: "Is your daughter Bingxue smart?"

Lord Gu nodded heavily: "Yeah!"

His Jin Yu must be smart! Play smart! If it wasn't for the fact that women were not allowed to take the imperial examinations, his Jin Yu would at least be a high school jinshi!

Zhao Shangshu patted his left palm with his right back: "Isn't this the end? Who appeared in that town last year, besides your daughter, is there any other Houfu daughter surnamed Gu?"

When Lord Gu heard this, he understood what was going on, and it was because the court found clues about the little girl.

But...I didn't hear Jinyu say it!

Gu Houye was not so eager to take credit for himself, so he decided to go back to the mansion to ask Gu Jinyu about the situation.

This matter fermented much faster than Gu Jinyu imagined. She only read the sages and sages and did not hear anything outside the window. She had no idea what the invention of the blast technology meant to Zhao Guo.

His Majesty seemed calm, but in fact he almost became a fool.

Liang Guo's group of shrewd things used only a little inferior drainage technology to replace their Zhao country's mines. Although the two countries have not fought, but this tone is more unbearable than losing a war.

It's alright now, let's get excited!

All six are also popular with this technology. It can not only be used to make iron, but also improve the quality of metallurgy. What is Zhaoguo? Gold mine!

But having said that, among the six countries, Zhao country has the lowest level of productivity, so it is still a poor country even if it has a lot of mines.

Looking at the people's life seems to be going well, it is because the two emperors are still conscientious, they did not wantonly oppress the people, and they also reduced a lot of taxes. The national treasury is actually clinking poor. Otherwise, can you sell the degree from the Imperial College to Lin Chengye?

Half of the buildings donated by the Lin family to the Imperial College were taken into the national treasury by His Majesty.

However, even though Gu Jinyu didn't know the movements of the court and Liubu, she could feel the changes of the people around her.

When she came back from the palace, the little servant girl told her that the senior officer of the women's school had come, and asked her how she was recovering, and when would she go back to class?

Gu Jinyu had been recuperating at home for so long, and the female officer didn't come to the door early or late, but she came at this time. Who can say that she was not instructed by the princess?

Could it be that the princess also heard about the bellows?

It's not surprising when you think about it, both Concubine Shu and Concubine Zhuang have heard of it, so could the Crown Princess not have heard of it?

Afterwards, several daughters who made friends with her but alienated her because of her background came back again. They came to visit her at the house, talking and laughing, as if the unhappiness had never happened before.

Why?

It must be that their father, who was an official in the court, sent them to her to find out the truth.

If she is really the inventor of the bellows, then no matter how humble her background is, no one can look down on her. She has done a good thing that benefits the country and the people, and even His Majesty will praise her.

However, what if the real inventor ran out again one day?

Gu Jinyu was in a tangle.

When Master Gu Hou returned to the Hou Mansion, Gu Jinyu was packing his big suitcase.

This box is full of little things that she writes, draws and draws and made by herself. Yao Shi didn't throw them away, so she put them away.

She moved back to her yard and took out all the papers she had written. She wanted to see if she had ever really had the inspiration for a bellows.

"Jinyu, what are you doing?" Gu Houye entered the room, looked at the manuscript papers all over the floor, and asked wonderingly.

Gu Jinyu raised her slightly embarrassed face and said, "I'm looking for something."

"What are you looking for?" Gu Houye walked in, "Father will help you find it."

"Sketch." Gu Jinyu said, "A sketch similar to a bellows."

"You mean this?" Gu Hou Ye bent over and picked up a piece of blueprints sandwiched between the pages of the book. On the blueprints, a crooked box was drawn in a very immature way, and there was something that was either a handle or a lever. Three or two floors, at first glance, it is somewhat similar to the shape of a bellows.

Gu Jinyu herself didn't know what she drew.

But it's definitely not a bellows.

But... a little far-fetched to install upwards, it really looks like the prototype of a bellows.

"Jinyu, did you really invent the bellows?" Gu Houye asked.

Gu Jinyu didn't rush to answer Gu Houye's words, but said, "Father, what did the people from the Sixth Department say? What clues did they find?"

Master Gu said: "Let's say it's a girl surnamed Gu, who has something to do with the Ding'an Marquis Mansion, and should be the daughter of the Marquis Mansion. Ah, by the way, she is fourteen or fifteen years old."

That's right, the Ministry of War has been to the front line after all, and there is a very useful age in the clues that have been inquired.

This basically matched Gu Jinyu's.

Gu Jinyu had a bold guess in her heart, but she didn't dare to say it out, so she went to Yao's yard.

Yao shi is making clothes for Gu Jiao.

"Mother." Gu Jinyu walked over, the excitement in her heart made her ignore Yao Shi's clothes, she squatted down, and asked Yao Shi's hand, "Has sister been here recently?"

"What's the matter? Do you have anything to do with her?" Yao Shi asked.

Gu Jinyu shook her head: "No, I haven't been to the women's school for a few days, and I haven't seen my sister. I want to ask her how she is doing."

The women's school is right next door to the medical center. Gu Jinyu went to school and occasionally ran into Gu Jiao, but the two basically didn't communicate with each other. Except for the Zhuang family sisters, no one in the medical center knew that she was a sister with a drug boy in the medical center.

Speaking of her daughter, Yao's brows were full of doting: "Your sister is very nice, but recently your brother-in-law just finished the Chunwei exam, and she is a little busy."

Gu Jinyu didn't take it seriously, how could a poor boy from the countryside get a good reputation? Unlike King An, who will definitely be the first in the exam.

When Prince An got the first place in the exam, he would give her the hairpin.

"Is your health better? I heard that you entered the palace today." Yao said.

"I'm fine. I should have come to say hello to my mother first, but Nanny Qi urged me, so I had to go see my aunt first. Mother, don't be angry with me."

"No." Yao said.

"By the way, mother, you didn't throw away my old draft paper, did you?" Gu Jinyu took out a few pieces of paper from his purse that he drew and painted on when he was a child, "It's the same as these."

Yao asked, "Didn't you take it all?"

Gu Jinyu said: "I mean those in the villa."

Yao Shi explained: "These are brought from the villa."

Gu Jinyu lowered her eyes: "Then... has my sister seen these things?"

Yao shook his head: "I haven't shown it to her."

Gu Jinyu looked up at Yao Shi: "Then did she read it by herself?"

Yao asked strangely: "What is she looking through your things for?"

Not a kid anymore.

Children wouldn't do this either. Gu Yan never flipped through Gu Jinyu's things when he was a child.

Gu Jinyu smiled: "I didn't mean that. She is my sister. My sister has a cold face and a warm heart. I know she actually cares about me."

Yao Shi said: "She doesn't look through your things even if she cares about you." Jiaojiao is a good and polite child.

Gu Jinyu stopped arguing with her mother, changed the subject and said something else, and Yao Shi was sleepy after a while.

Yao Shi has always been sleepy lately.

Gu Jinyu gave her mother a good rest.

After walking out of the yard, Gu Jinyu suddenly murmured, "Whoever it is, it must have been inspired by peeking at my drawings!"

Little girl: "Miss, what are you talking about?"

Gu Jinyu ignored her, she believed in her conclusion, and no longer worried about revealing the secret.

That's right, she is a talented girl from Zhao Kingdom, and others just stole her inspiration!

She is the real owner!

The next day, Gu Jinyu went to school.

As expected, the daughters who were estranged from her all rushed over to fawn over once again.

"Miss Gu, I heard that you invented the bellows in the imperial court. Is this true?"

"Yeah yeah, is it true?"

"Speak quickly!"

At the entrance of the women's school, Gu Jinyu was blocked by the daughters. Although everyone was inquiring, their eyes were already seven or eight points of certainty.

Otherwise, Gu Jinyu pretended to be sick at home for so long, and suddenly came to school because of a fight?

Gu Jinyu smiled humbly and said, "Your Majesty hasn't announced it to the public yet, everyone, don't make it public."