Female-to-male: I live on farming

"There are not many women in the world as smart as you." Jinyang commented lightly.

This time, Gu Lanxi did not touch the tea that Jinyang handed over. Her expression was indifferent. The posture between the two was exactly the same as before in the courtyard, but their relationship had long been far away.

Full of strangeness and vigilance. At least that's how Gu Lanxi felt.

But Jinyang's attitude remained the same, with a faint smile on his lips, and his deep and profound phoenix eyes staring at her all the time.

"Since you have already admitted your identity, may I ask whether you insisted on staying in the Gu family to recuperate because you wanted to bring the Gu family under your control?"

Jinyang noticed that since they met, he addressed her as the strange and distinguished "you", and no longer treated her as a good friend with whom he could play chess, drink tea and have a pleasant chat.

"To be honest, I do have this intention." Jin Yang did not deny it, but asked: "Are you blaming me?"

"No," Gu Lanxi shook her head.

Until just now when Jinyang completely acknowledged her long-held guess, Gu Lanxi clearly got the answer, but she couldn't be happy.

Even at the moment when she confessed, I felt a sharp pain in my heart.

But businessmen are profit-oriented, and they were just casual acquaintances, so why would they feel lost and sad?

Gu Lanxi quickly sorted out her thoughts. Fortunately, she had learned not to show her emotions on her face.

At this time, facing Jin Yang's words, she could still analyze rationally: "Although you have selfish motives, you have never done anything, and you have even helped me twice. Why should I blame you?"

Most importantly, everyone says that the Princess is a man of both military and civil skills, extremely talented, and loves her people like her own children.

The peace and stability of Dayan in the past few years was all due to her leading troops in battles. Her great reputation intimidated foreign enemies and made them dare not easily commit crimes again. She also accidentally saw the scars on her body, all of which were left when she led troops in battles in previous years.

If she were the kind of person who only cared about fighting for power, she could blame her with a clear conscience, but she was not.

In fact, Gu Lanxi couldn't find any reason to blame her for her calculations.

"But you've been calling me 'you' all the time since just now. It doesn't seem like you don't blame me." Jinyang raised his eyebrows.

Gu Lanxi was stunned.

Even if there is no rational reason, emotions cannot be controlled by reason.

"I do have selfish motives, but I am sincere when I interact with you." Jinyang explained to her in a slow tone.

If her maid saw this, she would be surprised.

Gu Lanxi didn't dare to look up at her eyes for a moment, and she didn't even know what she was afraid of.

I had no choice but to change the subject and asked, "Your Highness, you must have come here for something."

Jin Yang nodded slightly and said bluntly: "During this Xiongnu invasion, the two armies are in a stalemate, but the imperial court's food and grass have not arrived yet. I would like to ask the head of the Gu family to provide some food and grass, which will only last for about ten days."

With the Gu family's current assets, collecting so much food and fodder in a short period of time is difficult, but not impossible.

Gu Lanxi pursed her lips and gave an answer without thinking too much: "Okay, Lanxi will do her best."

Jin Yang was surprised at her straightforwardness and decisiveness, and sighed: "I thought you would think about it for a while, after all, this is not a small amount of money."

After all, this is simply cutting flesh from the Gu family.

"This is not without conditions. Your Highness said that he would repay me for saving his life. This time, the Gu family will also do its best to support Your Highness."

"what do you want?"

Jinyang smiled happily at the fact that someone dared to negotiate with her in person.

"I want Your Highness to marry into the Gu family and help me take complete control of the Gu family's assets."

"what?"

“Your Highness only needs to pretend to be someone else. When I have legitimate control of the Gu family, Your Highness can leave.” Gu Lanxi explained.

She actually had a better solution. Asking Jinyang to disguise herself as a man and forge her identity was obviously a bad idea, but this was the first idea that came to her mind.

The purpose of recruiting a son-in-law is to shut up the side branches of the Gu family and also to make Gu's father feel at ease.

Jinyang had been keeping an eye on the Gu family this year. He knew that Gu Lanxi was thinking of finding a son-in-law. He also knew that Gu's father had been ill on and off this year and had to take medicine all the time. He was afraid that he didn't have much time left.

"Okay, I promise you. After this battle is over, I will come to fulfill my promise." Jinyang was also straightforward.

Gu Lanxi naturally believed Jinyang's promise.

After she returned home, she convened all the shop owners to discuss the matter and withdraw all of the Gu family's current working capital and all of the grain from the grain shops, purchasing grain not only in Jinzhou but also in other states.

The Gu family was worthy of being the richest family in Dayan. In just a few days, they had gathered all the food and fodder needed by Jinyang.

During this period, the owner of the Gu family shop was extremely puzzled by Gu Lanxi's actions, and someone even went to Gu's father in private to complain.

However, after Gu Lanxi returned, she had a secret conversation with her father in the room, and her father completely ignored the matter.

Even Qiu Tong once privately asked Gu Lanxi whether such a bet was too risky.

But Gu Lanxi answered calmly with a resolute expression: "In today's political situation, if the Gu family really wants to rely on one person, that person can only be the eldest princess."

It’s not that other forces had not contacted Gu Lanxi before. She even knew that her uncle had secretly defected to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince. If she didn’t do something, she would not be able to protect the Gu family.

Among the four classes of people, scholars, farmers, merchants and artisans are of low status. No matter how rich the Gu family is, they are as small as ants in front of power.

“But if we rely on the eldest princess, what if a prince ascends the throne in the future and bears a grudge against the Gu family?” Qiu Tong’s concerns were not unreasonable.

But Gu Lanxi just smiled slightly.

Perhaps others didn't see it, but Gu Lanxi saw the hidden ambition in Jinyang's eyes.

Or maybe when Jinyang was still living in Gu's house and talking with Gu Lanxi, he never concealed his desire for a career.

Since then, Gu Lanxi began to pay attention to the war on the border, but when the weather turned cooler and the seasons changed, Gu's father accidentally caught a cold and fell ill again. He coughed incessantly and even coughed up blood.

The doctor secretly reminded her again that given Father Gu's physical condition, if he fell ill again, he might have difficulty surviving.

Fortunately, before Gu's father's health got worse, Jinyang kept her promise and appeared in front of Gu Lanxi.

What was different from before was that this time she changed into a crescent-shaped white brocade robe, which made her figure look a little thinner than the men's clothing. She tied her hair with a hollow carved gold crown and tied a wide brocade belt with auspicious green clouds around her waist.

In order to pretend to be a man, she even drew her eyebrows thicker. She just stretched out her sleeves and stood in the light.

The divine instrument is bright and beautiful, the eyes are bright and the eyebrows are sparse.

Gu Lanxi stood there in a daze for a moment, his clear eyes met her ink-black eyes, and the bamboo leaves around her swayed gently in the breeze.

At this moment, the mountains and rivers were silent, and everything was quiet, as if these two were the only people in the world.