The old lady dealt with Xu and Xie Xiangxiang. Xie Zhaozhao said to the old lady's personal nanny, "Nanny Zhou, grandma is not feeling well. Please watch the gate of the courtyard. No matter who it is, no one is allowed to harass grandma."

Qu Yuning and his wife lost money, and there were even more people in the mansion who lost money.

Everyone comes to grandma's yard to make some trouble, and they don't want to kill the old lady?

Nanny Zhou naturally understood this, so she gave a bitter smile and said, "My dear Miss, it's easy to deal with the servants, but I'm afraid it's the people from the Second and Third Masters' side. They are the masters, and it's not easy for me to stop them."

Xie Zhaozhao said, "You stop the servants first. I'll go find Butler Qin and have them knock on each room. Whoever irritates Grandmother will be dealt with by my father."

Xie Anfeng is the clan leader. Anyone who is not afraid of death can go to the clan leader. If they go too far, Xie Anfeng dares to expel them from the clan.

You go to an old lady after losing money in gambling? What good is that?

The old lady took some tranquilizers and said to Xie Zhaozhao, "Even if these people lose everything, it has nothing to do with you. I know you bet on the right people and made a lot of money. This is your ability and has nothing to do with others."

Xie Zhaozhao nodded.

She was not so stupid as to fill the gap for Xu and Xie Xiangxiang.

She could understand the difficulties faced by Qu Yuning and his wife, so she gave them 50 taels of silver.

As for the string of copper coins, she originally wanted them to stay in the hotel. Could it be that she really wanted them to serve her like an uncle?

She would not give a penny to the servants in the mansion.

Sure enough, there was another commotion in the mansion at night, and Shui'er, a maid in Xie Xiangxiang's courtyard, jumped into a well.

Another maid, Qing'er, came to knock on Xie Zhaozhao's door specifically, saying that she did not dare to disturb the old lady. Xu and Xie Xiangxiang were kneeling as punishment, so she had to come to report to the eldest lady.

Yuanyuan and Manman could see through the trick at a glance, so how could Xie Zhaozhao not know it?

She didn't see anyone at all, and told Yuanyuan: "Go and inform Butler Qin, tell Shui'er to have a good rest first, and call everyone to a meeting when it's daybreak. I'll have something to say then."

After breakfast the next day, Butler Qin reported at the door that all the servants in the mansion had gathered in the front yard.

Xie Zhaozhao took Yuanyuan and Manman to the front yard. Aunt Xu was worried, so she followed them.

Looking at the crowd of servants in the courtyard, Xie Zhaozhao said, "Who are the people who bet on Master Gu? Stand up."

Soon, a large group of servants stood on the left, and it was estimated that there were nearly three hundred people.

Everyone looked at Xie Zhaozhao eagerly. They heard that the eldest lady bet 10,000 taels on Master Lingxun this time. The winning or losing ratio was a pair of twenty, so she could win back 200,000 taels.

The eldest lady won so much silver, even a little bit of it would be enough for them to eat and drink for the rest of their lives.

The free money should be shared with everyone, right?

After taking a look at the people who stood up, Xie Zhaozhao asked again, "Who are the people who bet on Master Ling?"

This time, only one maid stood up with a big smile on her face.

"How much silver did you deposit?" Xie Zhaozhao asked the maid.

The maid happily said, "To answer the young lady's question, I pledged five taels of silver and got back one hundred taels."

After receiving the letter yesterday afternoon, she went to the gambling house to ask. She was told that she could earn 100 taels. She was so happy that she couldn't sleep well all night.

Xie Zhaozhao nodded and said to those who bet on Gu Chengyan: "No matter how much you lose in this bet, it is a lesson. Don't blame others for your bad luck, and don't expect others to compensate you."

She told everyone not to kidnap their master by threatening to commit suicide.

Anyone who attempts to commit suicide or harasses my grandmother will have the deeds returned to them and will be immediately expelled from the house.

No one can stop you from dying outside!

Her words were cold and cruel.

Everyone gave up.

I dare not hate my master, but I can't treat him badly. Xu and Xie Xiangxiang were punished to kneel in the ancestral hall, and there was not even a person to bring them water.

Back in her own courtyard, Yuanyuan said, "The old lady doesn't give face to the lady and the second young lady like this. Will they hate the old lady in the future?"

Xie Zhaozhao smiled and said, "It doesn't matter whether they hate it or not."

At the Peony Flower Festival yesterday, Xie Zhaozhao accompanied her grandmother to meet Concubine Xi.

The royal family has strict rules and nothing else can be said, but my grandmother and aunt explained Gu Chengyan's affairs in great detail.

Gu Chengyan and Gu Jiaojiao plagiarized other people's poems and angered His Majesty. Their official careers have come to an end and they will at most be a nominal marquis in the future.

Concubine Xi said, "If it weren't for Elder Gu, I'm afraid Gu Chengyan would have been imprisoned in the prison and beaten half to death. The matter of the marriage with the Marquis's Mansion was handled a bit hastily."

Living Buddha Yuanji said that the marriage between Xie Zhaozhao and Gu Chengyan was a bad omen, and that they should take this opportunity to completely cancel the marriage between the two families.

There are many ways to repay a favor, and it doesn’t necessarily require marriage.

Old Madam Xie sighed, "The second girl has gone crazy and is eager to marry Master Gu. That short-sighted woman, Mrs. Xu, changed the engagement letter without even noticing it, and it was too late to stop her."

In the old lady's opinion, the marriage between Prince Jing's Mansion and Marquis Pingyang's Mansion was a hundred times better. She had no idea what was in Xu and the second young lady's minds.

The final advice given by Concubine Xi was, "When a rooster's tail is cut off, those that should be sacrificed must be abandoned. We cannot let everyone in the palace be buried with her."

Xie Zhaozhao knew that her aunt was asking the family to give up Xie Xiangxiang.

In the morning, Xie Anfeng heard about how Xu and Xie Xiangxiang had instigated everyone to bet and lost everything. He only said one sentence: "Mother is too kind."

He was ordered to kneel for three days and was only allowed one meal, and he just had to keep his breath.

In the morning, Xie Zhaozhao arranged for four guards in the mansion to go to the gambling house with Yuanyuan to retrieve the silver they had won. They took out ten thousand taels and went to Wutong Garden.

By chance, I met the Marquis' wife, Mrs. Tu, who was there.

Xu was also allowed to come.

Xie Zhaozhao didn't take out the banknote.

Taking out the money that was bet on Ling Xun's winnings at this time would be a slap in the face of Tu and Xu.

"In theory, we should wait until my uncle comes back before proposing, but I asked someone to calculate the date and found that the Dragon Boat Festival is the best day for proposing." Tu glanced at Xu and said to the old lady with a smile.

Xu also hurriedly said, "Yes, I also asked someone to look at the date, and the Dragon Boat Festival is a great day."

"Mr. Gu is on a business trip. Logically, we shouldn't go past Mr. Gu." Grandmother said after careful consideration, "Are there no other good days?"

Mrs. Tu smiled and said, "It's not that I'm bypassing my uncle. My uncle has never cared much about these things. It's just that the eldest lady is the eldest, and the second lady is the first to propose. Will the eldest lady care?"

Xie Zhaozhao glanced at Tu and then at Xu. The two of them were flirting with each other, so they must have been in collusion.

She didn't know how Xu told Tu, but from the way the two of them worked together, it seemed that Tu was actually happy about Gu Shaoyu's "early death".

She couldn't help but sneer in her heart.

Proposing on the Dragon Boat Festival was not the idea of ​​Madam Hou and Mrs. Xu. It must have been the idea of ​​Xie Xiangxiang.

In the previous life, the bad news about Lord Gu came on the Dragon Boat Festival.

The current honor and favor of the Marquis' Mansion all depends on Lord Gu, and it is really heartbreaking that Tu is so looking forward to his "death"!

That being the case...

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