After finishing speaking, Ling Shuang took out a few coins from his pocket, a total of twenty taels, and everyone's eyes lit up when they saw it.
"I know you have worked hard, so I will reward you all with this amount of money! If this job is completed... there will be a big reward."
"Thank you, Miss!" Everyone knelt down to express their gratitude.
Shen Zi didn't say much, and just left the warehouse. Butler Yuan followed Shen Zi, "Have the arrangements for the people outside been made?"
"Everything was done according to the instructions of the eldest lady, and all the people were selected who had nothing to do with the mansion and were reliable. The news about the son must have spread throughout Kyoto by now. Tomorrow, the Shen mansion will return the engagement gift to the Gu family. People who want to see the excitement will surely numerous."
"The Inspector's Office is also taking care of it. If someone dares to take action on the road tomorrow, they will definitely take action!"
After hearing this, Shen Zi finally let go of her worries. There will be a lot of things tomorrow, and she is afraid that if something goes wrong in some link, whether it is the second room, the Lu family, or the Gu family, it will be the beginning of the accident.
Shen Zi raised her feet and walked towards the courtyard, "When you return the gifts tomorrow, be sure to ask Uncle Yuan to watch them coming out of the house, and then loudly announce them at the door when you leave the house... There is no need to cover things, no For other reasons, there were many people joining in the fun in the capital, but there were some troublemakers. If they encountered such a valuable thing, ordinary people would not dare to come forward. There are also those who are not afraid of death. They must be entrusted by others. Yuan Don't worry, uncle, just send someone to capture him."
"Although our Shen family said that breaking off the engagement with the Gu family was approved by the emperor, we might as well have those short-sighted people come out to stir up trouble... As long as this thing enters the Gu family, the Gu family will have nothing to do with the Shen family from now on."
Shen Zi took a stack of real estate title deeds from Ling Shuang, took out two of them, then took a booklet and handed it to Butler Yuan, "Uncle Yuan, this is a shop in Zhengnan Street in Fuzhong. I hope that Uncle Yuan can carry out the renovation as written above. As for the expenses, all the expenses will be borne by me. It will not go through the hands of the Shen family. Also, this matter will not go through your hands. Find someone reliable who can entrust everything to you. Let him handle the matter."
Butler Yuan looked at the thing in his hand with his eyes wide open and looked at Shen Zi...
Seeing Butler Yuan's expression, Shen Zi also knew that this was a bit difficult to accept.
Shen Zi did not give Butler Yuan a chance to speak, "Since I can entrust this matter to you, I will not hide it from you. My father has been an official in the court. Although he is an important minister, it is inevitable that there will be official disputes. It's easy to hide from hidden arrows but hard to guard against them. This move is for the future of the Shen family. I hope Uncle Yuan will take it seriously."
Butler Yuan has taken care of the Shen family for more than 20 years, and the Shen family has been extremely kind to him, and he will do his best for the Shen family until his death.
He did not doubt anything else and stepped forward and said, "Thanks to the kindness of the Shen family, I have tried my best to support the eldest lady. If the eldest lady says so, I have a candidate here."
"I wonder if the eldest lady still remembers Miss Lingshuang's cousin. He came to Shen Mansion years ago, but he came at the wrong time. Miss Lingshuang was accompanying her to the Buddhist temple. The old slave was very impressed by that man. He is a businessman, and it is said that he even opened a shop. Although the business is not big, it is enough to support a family."
Shen Zi also had an impression of this person. In her previous life, Ling Shuang wanted to follow her, but after her mother died, she also knew that she didn't have much time to live, so she kicked her out. She knelt outside the house for three days. It is said that her cousin took her back in the end, so he was the one recommended by Butler Yuan.
"It's up to you!"
"yes."
After saying that, Butler Yuan took his things and walked out.
In fact, Shen Zi didn't tell the truth. At this time in her previous life, she was only focused on Lu Li seducing Gu Jingheng and didn't notice Lu Li's secret plan. She probably didn't have the energy to do such things now.
Lu Li was able to win Gu Jinghuan's favor in his previous life not only because of her outstanding performance at the palace banquet, but also because of what she did behind the scenes, the business layout she established, and how she collected a lot of secret information for Gu Jinghuan through the restaurants in Beijing. Those strange gadgets must have been made by her at that time.
Now she had to take action first. Of course she couldn't do those things, but Lu Li forgot one thing. In addition to restaurants, brothels are the best place for information collection.
Various industries are spread throughout the family, and Lu Li must win unexpectedly if he wants to stand out in the capital. Although she is already the confirmed wife of the young marquis, there is no guarantee that the family will join forces to resist. After all, no one wants to get a piece of the pie.
As for brothels, they have always been an industry looked down upon by aristocratic families. She, Lu Li, naturally did not want to be looked down upon by Gu Jinghuan, so she did not interfere with the brothels in Beijing in her previous life.
As for this life, everything is subject to change, and she has to act first.
But she still had to find someone, someone who would make suggestions after Lu Li's death. It was probably time for him to come to Kyoto.
In his previous life, without his help, Lu Li would not have been able to quickly establish a foothold in Kyoto. She had to keep this person.
While thinking about it, Ling Shuang entered the inner room with a letter. After giving her blessing, she said, "Miss, there is news from the Lu family."
Shen Zi took the letter, unfolded it and asked, "Has anyone found it?"
"No." Ling Shuang shook her head and added, "The letter was delivered carefully, and the servant did not meet her. I don't think anyone suspected the young lady."
"It seems that Lu Shan is not a fool, and she knows how to seek protection from the ancestors of the Lu family. However, this Lu Li is really too arrogant. She is just about to become the little marquis's wife, and she dares to bully her sister. She really has nothing to do. Afraid!"
Ling Shuang heard what Shen Zi meant and asked with a smile, "Miss, do you want to help Lu Shan?"
Shen Zi put down the letter, picked up the tea cup at hand, and smiled lightly, "No need, she can seek protection from Mrs. Lu. Someone must have given her an idea. Let's see tomorrow, Kyoto will be busy for several days. .”
At this moment, Shen Zi felt a little sympathetic to Lu Li, "This time, she will definitely lose the heart of the old lady of the Lu family, and she will also let Mrs. Lu attack her."
Lu Li is not very smart about this. Even if she is the Marquis's wife in the future, her eldest sister is her eldest sister. If there is no distinction between superiority and inferiority, she will be a joke to the Lu family.
But these are not important. There is another thing that Shen Zi can't figure out. That is, after the palace banquet that day, she sent someone to get the purse, but couldn't find it. She sent people to search several times, but there was no news. Could it be that the Gu family took it away?
If so, depending on the temper of Marquis Gu, he would definitely not let anyone slander Gu Jinghuan, who he had raised and raised. After all, Lu Li now is just the concubine of a fourth-grade official, and she would definitely not be able to enter his Gu family, let alone Not to mention being Gu Jinghuan's first wife.
Even if the Lu family can help the Gu family in the future, as Gu Jinghuan's wife, Lu Li will never fall into the eyes of Lord Gu.