Female Master: Why doesn’t my wife love me yet?

"So it's Master Gu. It's us who are blind and don't recognize the great man."

Gu Qingyuan raised the corner of his mouth and waved his hand casually, saying, "It's okay. I don't bear grudges. It's not too late for you to know now."

Several people nodded in a servile manner: "Yes, yes, Master Gu is very magnanimous. So, Master Gu, let's see now..."

Gu Qingyuan still held the imperial edict in her hand. She walked ahead and said, "First, show me around here and familiarize me with the environment."

One of the women walked in front to lead the way for Gu Qingyuan. Gu Qingyuan walked inside and as soon as she stepped into a room, she was choked by the dust inside and started coughing.

She waved her hands and asked, "How long has it been since this place was cleaned?"

Gu Qingyuan also smelled the moldy odor of books, and mice crawled under his feet from time to time in the room, making him feel dizzy.

The most servile person answered quickly: "Master Hui, no one has cleaned it for three years."

Gu Qingyuan silently took another step back and retracted his legs.

three years?

Mice, spiders and ants all live and work here in peace and contentment.

She frowned and asked, "Why hasn't anyone cleaned it for so long? Where was the last archivist?"

"The last one, it seems, was because her husband had a difficult childbirth, so she specially asked the official to go home, and he never came back after that."

Gu Qingyuan looked at the countless books and the shelves that were much taller than a person, and sighed inwardly.

How long will it take to clean up this?

Helpless, since she is here, this place is equivalent to her territory, and of course she has to keep the environment good in her own territory.

Gu Qingyuan asked someone to put the imperial edict away, then he rolled up his sleeves and asked a few people to help him move the books out.

Some of the books in this room are moldy. If they are not dried in the sun, they will probably rot.

Gu Qingyuan began to doubt what the previous archivist had done.

It just so happened that the weather was good today. Gu Qingyuan and the others took a whole hour to move all the books to the yard. She wiped the sweat off her forehead. The expressions on the faces of those people looking at her were quite funny.

Gu Qingyuan came to the bronze mirror and saw his dark face.

She washed her face with clean water, glared at them, and threatened: "Don't you dare smile in front of me!"

Those people immediately became serious and asked Gu Qingyuan: "Sir, what are we going to do next?"

They were almost exhausted from moving books with Gu Qingyuan.

Gu Qingyuan asked them, "Are there any other people here besides you?"

"Oh, there are two guards who are in charge of guarding. They are over there."

Gu Qingyuan looked in the direction of their fingers and saw two people playing rock-paper-scissors under a tree.

With a roar, the two men were so scared that they crawled over in a panic.

"Look at you now," Gu Qingyuan said earnestly, "His Majesty entrusted us with the task of managing the books, a sign of his high regard for us. Are you worthy of His Majesty's efforts by being so lazy?"

Several people lowered their heads in shame.

They were used to being lazy here, and they often did so when the previous archivist was in office. However, they never expected that Gu Qingyuan would straight away rectify the situation as soon as he arrived.

Gu Qing pointed at the books drying in the yard and said, "Look at what's become of these books? Some of the content is no longer visible due to rotting."

These books should have been managed by the government, but when Gu Qingyuan saw the nonchalant look on these people's faces, he could guess what had happened to these books.

"From today on, you will be responsible for protecting these books with me."

The sun was shining brightly on the books. Gu Qingyuan asked them to help her pick out the badly rotten books to see if they could be repaired and copy out the lost content.

On the first day, Gu Qingyuan felt so tired that her waist and neck ached.

After she returned home, Chunfen looked at her exhausted face with concern and asked carefully, "Young Master, how do you feel today?"

Gu Qingyuan complained: "Don't mention it, I saw rats crawling all over the floor when I first got there."

Chunfen shuddered.

"However, your wise and brave young master, I have already had the place cleaned up and the books taken out to dry. However, the missing content in the book may need to be copied."

Chunfen looked at Qingyuan's dirty body and said quickly, "Young Master, you should take a bath, right? I'll have someone boil some water first."

Gu Qingyuan nodded, feeling that the first day was really bad.

The next day, Gu Qingyuan came to the academy and directed people to carry the books out of the house to dry in the sun.

These books needed to be exposed to the sun for a while to get rid of the musty smell. She had the rotten books put aside and went to see if she could buy the complete version.

In the palace.

A woman in palace dress had a gloomy expression. Ever since the last incident at the jade shop, she had been severely punished by her mother, the Queen Mother.

A vicious look that was not in line with her age was on her beautiful face. The jade shop was doing well and would not have gone bankrupt if it were not for that playboy Gu Qingyuan from the Gu family. It was all because of her!

The third princess, Wen Mingzhu, was so angry that she kept throwing things in her own palace.

A palace maid walked in from outside and came to the Third Princess's room, reporting, "Your Highness, Third Princess, I heard that His Majesty summoned Master Wen and the young master of the Gu family to the palace a few days ago."

The third princess raised her chin and motioned for the maid to continue.

"Why would the Queen Mother allow that dandy girl into the palace? And she came with Master Shen."

The palace maid continued, "According to the information I have inquired, it is said that because the young master of the Gu family entered Baichuan Academy, His Majesty asked Master Shen to bring her into the palace."

"Hmph, just her?" The Third Princess's face was full of arrogance.

"I'm afraid even a seven-year-old child knows more words than she does. Her admission to the academy must have been personally arranged by General Gu."

She hated Gu Qingyuan so much. If it weren't for her, her jade shop would not have gone bankrupt.

The jade shop was located in the most prosperous area of ​​Beijing. She had people pass off inferior jade as high-quality jade and made a lot of money from it.

But Gu Qingyuan's disturbance ruined her financial resources, and she heard that the jade shop was sealed off by Her Royal Highness the Crown Princess herself, allowing her to steal the limelight in front of the Queen Mother.

The palace maid lowered her head, not daring to offend the Third Princess. During this period, the Third Princess was punished by His Majesty to be under house arrest, and her salary was deducted for a whole year.

The Third Princess was in a bad mood and often took her anger out on the servants.

"I heard that Young Master Gu entered the academy because she wrote an essay. Even His Majesty was so impressed by the essay that he summoned her to the palace and appointed her as an official librarian."

"How is that possible?" The Third Princess almost lost her voice. "It's not certain whether she wrote the article or not, but the Queen Mother actually gave her the position of the Archives Officer."

She originally wanted one of her subordinates to sit in that position, but she never expected it to be Gu Qingyuan again.