The husband who forced her to marry her couldn't keep her warm, and she didn't want him to

The woman took off the veil on her head after entering the inner room. Her face under the light combined the advantages of the Zhou family and the Gu family.

Her eyes looked bigger than Zhou's slender phoenix eyes, and the position of her lips was a bit like Gu Li's. When she was not smiling, she looked cold and fierce. Overall, she was a dignified and quiet little woman.

When Gu Jinyu saw her elder sister coming back, she wiped her face and walked over. Before she could speak, her eyes became tearful again, "Elder sister..."

Zhou wiped her little girl's face with a handkerchief and lectured her: "Your elder sister must have something to say when she comes back at this time. Besides, she is already quite pregnant. She should not bring bad luck here!"

Gu Jinyu was pulled behind her mother, looking aggrieved.

Before her elder sister became the concubine of Marquis Yongping, she and her elder brother were always put first in everything at home. Even now, when she does something that displeases her mother and father, they will compare her with her elder sister.

She is not as good as her elder sister, not as good as her fifth sister, and now in the eyes of her family, Gu Jinchu is also better than her...

Gu Jinxuan sat on the big kang by the window. Caifu walked over quickly behind her and placed two large pillows there one after another. Gu Jinxuan slowly leaned on them, holding her belly.

She raised her hand and asked her sister to sit over, and told the servants, "Bring the things you brought for Miss Five."

Smiling, she comforted her aggrieved sister, "Sister Yu, you are about to get engaged, why are you still crying to mother? I brought you Xixiangzhai preserves and sweets."

Gu Jinyu lowered his head and said nothing. It's like this again!

Growing up, whenever her mother and sister wanted to say something, they would just give her food to get her away.

She sat in a rose chair not far from the kang, holding the box. Today, the box contained her favorite dragon beard candy, a bite-sized crisp, and dried cherries...

"Sister Xuan, how was your pregnancy? Was it hard?" Zhou held her daughter's hand and asked with an unstoppable smile.

This is the eldest daughter's second pregnancy. Her sister Xuan lived up to her expectations by giving birth to a boy as her first pregnancy.

If this pregnancy gives birth to another son for Earl Yongping, then Sister Xuan's position in the Earl's mansion will be secure.

Gu Jinxuan smiled gently and whispered, "After five months, I no longer had morning sickness. Now that I'm seven months pregnant, my appetite has gotten better. I don't dare eat too much now, for fear that the fetus will be too big and my body will be bloated and displease my uncle."

She holds her belly with one hand. She has a plump figure, which makes her skin look particularly fair and tender.

Zhou glanced at the people in the room. In addition to the three of them, mother and daughter, there was Mother Chu who was guarding the door, and Caifu who was brought back by her eldest daughter.

Caifu was Xuan Jie'er's maid before she got married. She was over 18 years old and still had her hair combed into flat sideburns, which showed that the eldest daughter had not betrothed her to anyone, nor had any plans to open her face.

"Have those troublesome people in the mansion been well behaved since you became pregnant?" This was the question that Zhou was most worried about. The eldest daughter couldn't help but ask when she came back.

Because the fetus in Xuanjie'er's belly was too old, when Huige'er passed the imperial examination, he only sent someone to Yongping Earl's Mansion to announce the good news, and did not let the eldest daughter come back to support the occasion.

Yongping Bo had a son in his old age, and his eldest daughter was a twin who was very precious.

Based on Gu Li's personality, she would definitely keep Xuan Jie'er in Cuihua Courtyard, but she was afraid that someone would be so blind as to bump into her grandson.

Gu Jinxuan waved a round fan and whispered, "Master Bo started to take care of his health last year, and he only goes to the back house once or twice a month..."

"Ping'er is very talkative now, and he keeps asking for his father all day long. Uncle, on the other hand, spends most of his time resting in Yufengzhai."

Yufengzhai is Gu Jinxuan's courtyard in the Earl's mansion. At first, she did not have her own independent courtyard. It was after she became pregnant and almost had a miscarriage that Earl Yongping made the decision in anger.

When the fifth sister was a child, she always complained to her why Chu Jie'er was the only one living in Sui'an Hall. Even though she didn't say anything at that time, she was envious in her heart.

Now she has finally done it. There are many people in the Yongping Marquis's Mansion. Apart from the wife's and the marquis's courtyard, her Yufengzhai is the largest.

When Zhou heard about the unpleasant things in recent days, the haze on her head dissipated, and her narrow phoenix eyes smiled into a slit, "Our Eleventh Young Master is really considerate. He knows how to judge the situation at such a young age and support mother to win her favor!"

Earl Yongping is fifty-three years old today. He has more than twenty children, both legitimate and illegitimate. The young master alone is the eleventh child in the family of Ping'er.

The oldest legitimate brother was 35 years old, and the eleventh young master became a great-grandfather when he turned one year old.

Now that Gu Jinxuan had her own courtyard, many things became much easier to handle, and the rewards from Earl Yongping also increased.

She knew that no matter how favored she was now, she would be destined to be divided up by the Crown Prince after the Earl passed away in the future.

She just hoped that her husband would wait until the two children were adults and got married... and she could make plans for them before that.

She raised her hand and asked the maid to bring over two purses. "Mother, this is the interest for this month, and the dividends from Baozhu Pavilion last quarter."

Every time she received these, Zhou would look through them with a smile. This time, she put them beside her and took her eldest daughter's hand and asked:

"It was always Manager Huang who came to deliver the account books, and after Aunt Lian had checked and found no problems, he would deliver these. Why did Sister Xuan come here in person so late? What happened?"

Gu Jinxuan adjusted her position, raised her hand and yawned, with dissatisfaction flashing in her eyes:

"It's all because of the family dinner a few days ago. I've been worried about it ever since. I asked Hui to be careful and not let Aunt find out anything."

Zhou lowered her voice, "Xiaohong, who was with Gu Wen, died. He was lucky to be rescued by Zheng's people. You know, she always acts like a good person. She said that she would let Gu Wen stay in Moxiangju to recuperate..."

Gu Jinxuan was a little unhappy when she heard this. "Is there not enough people around my mother? How could she let that little thing run away?"

Zhou was not annoyed by what her eldest daughter said, and she explained to herself:

"After Aunt Lian took over the household, she repeatedly reduced the number of servants. We are not as wealthy as the Zheng family. All the expenses of Moxiangju and Sui'an Hall were paid from Zheng's private account."

The number of maids and servants in Moxiangju and Sui'antang alone is enough to catch up with the remaining courtyards of the Gu family, not to mention the many guards.

The food and drink for people and horses is a considerable expense in a month.

"Mother already has so much money. If I don't enjoy it now, when will I enjoy it?" Gu Jinxuan now feels awkward and shabby everywhere when she returns to Biluozhai.

But my mother said that we should not show off our wealth in the Gu family, and that the money should be saved for Hui'er to marry and for Yu'er to buy a dowry.

Zhou had everything planned out in her mind. Her eldest daughter was used to a life of luxury in the Yongping Marquis's mansion, so how could she understand the current situation in the Gu family?

I couldn't help but open the purse she sent back, looked at the banknotes inside with a smile on my face, twisted them with my fingers and said "Huh":

"Xuan Jie'er, isn't the silk sold very well at Baozhu Pavilion? How come there isn't much more money?"

Speaking of this, Gu Jinxuan sat up from the kang, a fierce look flashed in her eyes. This time she did not carry her sister on her back, which made Gu Jinyu stunned.

"I don't know what the Treasure Pavilion is up to. They give away silk for free when you buy Shu brocade. I don't know how they do it, but the princess is full of praise for the Treasure Pavilion, and the ladies in the harem are all following suit..."

After taking a sip of the warm tea handed to her by Caifu, she calmed down and continued, "That's fine. I came back this time mainly to discuss some ideas with my mother."

The mother and daughter leaned their heads against each other and discussed in a low voice: "Manager Huang met a wealthy businessman from Jinan Prefecture some time ago... I asked someone to go there to investigate and found that he is indeed reliable... The interest rate there is higher than this side. Mother will ask Aunt Lian for her opinion tomorrow..."