Favoring Concubines and Destroying Wife: Reborn, I Married to a Rich Man and Destroyed His Whole Fam

Cuihua and Xiaofang both understood what the eldest lady said.

"The shopkeepers of those two shops are the scapegoats she chose. If one or two thousand taels of silver could save people and solve the problem, she would definitely give it a try. But now, ten thousand taels of silver can't solve this matter. She will push all the problems onto those two shopkeepers and bribe their families... A life is not worth much money now..."

In her previous life, Gu Zhu was also greedy and wanted to make a lot of money. After the incident, Gu Zhu blamed everything on the two shopkeepers.

The two shopkeepers were sentenced to exile and their entire families were confiscated.

Now that there is such a good opportunity, she certainly won't miss it.

"Cuihua, send someone to contact the families of the two shopkeepers..."

Because of this incident, the people in Minister Gu’s mansion had a very bad New Year.

Although Gu Zhushi forced herself to smile as she took care of the affairs of the mansion and prepared the New Year's Eve dinner, Minister Gu still looked unhappy when he saw her.

On the night of New Year's Eve, everyone in the Gu family will gather together for a meal and a reunion.

Gu Zhu had no choice but to attend the event wearing heavy makeup.

"Meet the old lady, the lady, the young lady..."

Aunt Shi and two other aunts also came to the main courtyard.

Not only that, those half brothers and half sisters also came.

Gu Zhu deliberately had people put less charcoal in the hall. If the temperature was too high, she was afraid that her makeup would be smudged and her dark spots would appear in front of everyone.

"Master, I am a little cold, please don't let the old lady and the eldest lady get cold."

Aunt Shi pretended to be shivering with cold.

When Minister Gu heard what Aunt Shi said, he looked around and realized that he was feeling a little cold.

"Whoever is in charge of the charcoal fire, add a few more pots of charcoal."

"Yes."

The smile on Gu Zhu's face froze. If there were too much charcoal, she would sweat and the dark spots on her face would not be covered.

Gu Zhao was sitting on a chair. Seeing Gu Zhu's anxious look, she glanced at Aunt Shi.

Aunt Shi smiled back at Miss Gu.

Gu Zhu glared at Aunt Shi fiercely. She hated Aunt Shi so much these days, but the people in Aunt Shi's courtyard were brought into the mansion by Aunt Shi herself, and some were arranged by the master. Aunt Shi was generous, giving rewards to everyone and also scolding them.

Not long after the meal, Gu Zhu felt that she was sweating all over and she wanted to escape.

"Ah, ma'am, what's wrong with your face?"

Aunt Shi suddenly exclaimed.

Gu Zhu was startled and immediately wiped her face with her hands, getting rouge all over her hands.

Everyone looked at Gu Zhu.

Seeing that Gu Zhu had put too much powder on her face, her makeup was smudged and dark spots were revealed. She looked extremely ugly with patches of white and black. It was as ugly as it could be.

"Oh my god, why does Madam look like this?"

"Sister-in-law, what happened to your face?"

A look of surprise flashed across Minister Gu's eyes, and then turned into disgust.

"what..."

Gu Zhu held her face and ran outside quickly.

"What's wrong with your face, madam? Do you want to call a doctor?" Aunt Shi asked with pretended concern.

"Eat first."

Madam Gu spoke up.

After dinner, Madam Gu said she was tired and asked Minister Gu to take the others to keep watch.

"Yes, mother, please go back and rest first."

Madam Gu looked at Gu Zhao and said.

"Zhao'er's body is not well yet. If you are tired, go back to the courtyard."

"Thank you grandma."

Gu Zhao helped Old Madam Gu back to the East Courtyard first, and then returned to her own courtyard.