Poor Lady Chapter 70:

After Gu Jinyun received Qi Surong’s piggy handkerchief, he deeply realized his negligence. Two days later, he summoned all the servants of the Gu family and formally greeted Qi Surong. .

After Qi Surong handed over the designed clothing drawings to Yunrong Xiuzhuang, he concentrated on checking the account books of the Gu family. The Gu family spends surprisingly little every month. Apart from the usual expenses for food and clothing, the most expensive thing is the favors sent to them. In addition, the gifts that Gu Jinyun gave to Qi Surong previously accounted for one-fifth of the expenditure.

Qi Surong rubbed the center of her brows with a smile, the Gu family has accumulated a lot of money over the years, even more than she expected, but the Gu family doesn’t seem to know how to spend it. Frugality is certainly a virtue, but knowing how to spend money is also an advantage. For example, the wages of the servants of the Gu family are only increased once every three years. Except after festivals, there are usually no rewards. Although they never criticize the servants harshly, they may not be able to win their hearts.

Gu Jinyun is quite talented in the business journey, but because of his cold temper, he doesn’t care about the affairs of the inner court. Gu Chang and Gu Yufeng are both pure warriors, and they are even less interested in these things.

However, Gu Jinyun hired a good housekeeper to arrange all the affairs of the Gu family in an orderly manner, but…Qi Surong looked at this account book with a flicker of eyes, inevitably his hands and feet were not clean. Qi Surong didn’t plan to pursue it for the time being, this person acted in a reasonable manner, he didn’t embezzle too much money, it was still within the range that Qi Surong could tolerate.

In addition, the person responsible for purchasing the home has more or less problems. Qi Surong guessed that Gu Jinyun should be well aware of this, since he didn’t say anything, it meant a kind of acquiescence.

However, Qi Surong did not agree with this kind of acquiescence. Isn’t this condoning human greed?

In the evening, Qi Surong mentioned this matter to Gu Jinyun and asked him what he meant.

Gu Jinyun replied: “I know, the reason why I don’t care about it is because I’m too lazy to bother.”

“Too lazy to bother?” Qi Surong asked in disbelief, “What if they get more and more greedy?”

“Then send it to the officials for investigation.” Gu Jinyun answered calmly.

Qi Surong was stunned for a moment, then realized that Gu Jinyun was using this to test the character of these people. From this point of view, he is indeed lazy… It takes a lot of energy and time to supervise and regulate the behavior of subordinates. Gu Jinyun just kept an account in his heart. If someone is unrestrained, he will expel them directly.

Qi Surong was speechless, this was too simple and rude, it was completely laissez-faire management.

Qi Surong said: “Okay, from now on I will take full control of it, do you have any objections?”

“Of course, deal with it accordingly.” Gu Jinyun hugged her and said softly, “As a husband…”

The next day, Ping’er handed over the list of servants in the room to Qi Surong. Add a servant girl, and the rest will remain the same for the time being.”

“Yes, Ping’er will go now.”

After a while, Ping’er came in with a fifteen or sixteen year old girl, who saluted Qi Surong rather shyly.

“Your name is ‘Dou’er’?” Qi Surong said with a smile.

“Return to Ma’am, yes.”

“I heard that you worked in an official’s mansion before you came to the Gu family?”

“Yes.”

“Why did you leave the original owner’s house? Their salary should be higher than that of the Gu family.”

Although Dou’er’s expression was cramped, she articulated clearly: “This servant is timid by nature and doesn’t know how to get along with other sisters. She is afraid of offending others, so she asks the master to let this servant out of the house and find another livelihood.”

Qi Surong nodded, quite satisfied with her answer. In just one sentence, enough explanation has been given. There are many disputes among officials, and open and secret struggles between servants are not uncommon. Douer said that she didn’t know how to get along with other sisters, which showed that she didn’t like forming cliques and getting involved in disputes. But staying out of the matter completely is easy to attract people’s eyes.

“Okay, you can stay by my side and take care of you from now on. This is my personal maid, Ping’er, and you usually take care of each other.”

“Yes.” Dou’er blessed, then looked at Ping’er and called, “Sister Ping’er.”

Ping’er is a simple-minded person, and immediately returned a friendly smile.

Dou’er showed a shy smile, and seemed to have a good impression of her.

Seeing this, Qi Surong nodded secretly. However, it remains to be seen whether Dou’er can be brought up. She married into Gu’s family and brought only Ping’er as a maid, which is too thin, just like before when the Gu’s family had a visitor, and no one notified her.

After lunch, Shuangshuang’s maid, Fang He, came to see her. After a casual salute, she asked, “Madam, why did you arrange two more maids for the third lady? Madam, do you really blame the servant for not taking good care of the third lady?” ?”

“You are Miss San’s personal maid.”

“Yes. Ma’am, what doubts do you have?”

“Then shouldn’t you stay by Shuangshuang’s side at this time?” Qi Surong said coldly, “I have seen Shuangshuang running around alone more than once. As her personal servant girl, is this considered dereliction of duty?”

“It’s not that Ma’am doesn’t know that Miss San is…”

“What is it?” Qi Surong’s eyes sharpened.

Fang He immediately stopped speaking.