Forced to marry, I picked up a young powerful official

Chapter 211 98352?

Gu Yichuan smiled and said, "I knew you were going to ask. See for yourself."

He pulled an envelope from his sleeve and handed it over.

Shen Nankui took it and opened it. What caught his eyes was a neat small regular script. However, although the handwriting was neat, a closer look revealed that the writer lacked strength and expression. It was obviously the hand of a child.

There were two pieces of paper in the envelope, with slightly different handwriting on them.

There is no doubt that this must have been written by Ayuan and Aqiao.

Shen Nankui looked pleased. "Ayuan and Ayuan have improved a lot. They must have put in a lot of effort to be able to practice calligraphy to this level. It seems that even without my supervision, they can study hard on their own initiative."

Gu Yichuan smiled, "Of course, don't you see who their mentor is?"

Shen Nankui smiled happily.

"I will reply right away and encourage them again."

A Yuan was a reserved person, and apart from greeting Shen Nankui and talking about some academic matters, he didn't say much else in the letter. But A Qiao kept saying that she missed her. Since the two little ones wrote letters to her eagerly, she naturally had to respond seriously.

Shen Nankui looked at Gu Yichuan with a teasing look in his eyes and said, "Gu Zhouzun, there are two paths in front of you. Do you want to take care of the child or serve Bi Mo?"

Gu Yichuan really thought about it and asked, "Can't we choose both?"

"If you can, I have no objection."

They both moved to the desk.

Gu Yichuan held Ah Nao firmly in his arms with one hand, and spread out paper and ground ink with the other hand, without delaying either. Seeing Shen Nankui's surprised face, he asked her with a smug smile on his lips, "How is it?"

Shen Nankui gave him a thumbs up.

After Mo Yan was ready, she started writing. The first letter was a reply to Hu Wenyan, and the second one was to the two little ones.

After half an hour, just as she was about to put down her pen, she heard Ah Nao crying beside her, and no matter how Gu Yichuan tried to comfort her, it didn't work.

"What a little troublemaker."

Shen Nankui shook his head helplessly, and suddenly an idea came to his mind, "Bring Ah Nao over here."

When Gu Yichuan approached, she took off the little tiger-head shoes on Ah Nao's feet, grabbed her little feet, dipped them in a little ink, and stamped a footprint on each of the two letters.

The ink was icy cold, and the baby was stimulated by the coolness and suddenly stopped crying. His big eyes rolled down, as if he wanted to see what his mother had done to his feet.

Shen Nankui couldn't help but laugh.

"Look at her. Is she afraid that I'm going to hurt her?"

Xiao Nao frowned and looked doubtful, which made everyone laugh.

He Hua said: "Our young lady is smart and alert. When she grows up, she won't be fooled so easily."

Shen Nankui smiled and shook his head, "If that's true, it's a good thing."

She wiped her daughter's feet clean and put her shoes on.

As soon as Ah Nao put on his shoes, the feeling of air leaking under his feet disappeared and he started crying again.

Gu Yichuan had been taking care of babies for more than a month and had gained experience. He said to Hehua, "A Nao must be hungry. You should take her to find a wet nurse."

Hehua replied yes, took over Ah Nao and coaxed him, "Be good Ah Nao, stop crying, let's go eat now."

After they left, Shen Nankui said with emotion: "After Ah Nao's full month, his appetite has obviously increased."

Gu Yichuan smiled like a loving father, "This is normal, children just grow up fast."

It was with this in mind that he was afraid that one wet nurse was not enough to feed A Nao, so he hired another wet nurse a few days ago, and let the two of them take turns to feed A Nao.

Shen Nankui said with a smile: "As a father, you care more about your child than I, the biological mother."

"Isn't this what I'm supposed to do?"

The two looked at each other and smiled, saying nothing.

The little footprints on the letter had already dried up. Shen Nankui picked it up and looked at it, and couldn't help but smile again.

"Wen Yan, your aunt, has traveled thousands of miles to send a peace locket to Ah Nao. Ah Yuan and Ah Qiao have also written to you about wanting to see their sister. Now, let's show them Ah Nao's footprints first."

I wonder what expressions they will have after receiving the letter?

In his previous life, Shen Nankui lived in the marquis' mansion. Since he was a housekeeper and had to take care of the business, and there were no close friends around him, he almost never did such mischievous things like this.

There was a cheerful smile between her eyebrows, and although she didn't notice it, it had already been imprinted in Gu Yichuan's eyes.

"My lady, I don't have any work this afternoon. What do you want to do next? I can accompany you."

After a while, he asked aloud.

Shen Nankui pointed to a pile of account books on the table and said, "Why don't you ask my husband to help me look at the account books?"

It is not easy to work hard during the confinement period, so she has been keeping a lot of business matters on her mind.

The profit flow of the three Yanxia Pavilions, the goods coming in and out of the workshops, the coming and going of the caravans, and the fabric business with the Hu family, there are many matters that need her review and approval. Now that she is out of confinement, she naturally cannot avoid sorting out business matters carefully.

Gu Yichuan smiled and said, "I am willing to help, but I am afraid that my ability to check accounts is far inferior to yours."

"It's okay. I believe in Gu Zhouzun."

Shen Nankui's biggest wish is to be a hands-off boss, preferably without having to do anything and having a steady stream of gold and silver flowing into her pocket.

In her previous life, although she was the mistress of a marquis's mansion and was very majestic, she was still controlled by others. There were many businesses that she could only run and get dividends from, and she could not make changes at will. Moreover, many old servants in the marquis's mansion relied on their seniority to bully their masters, so she had to be supervised at all times to ensure that there would be no trouble.

Doing things this way is also tiring.

So in this life, she only grasped the control of business, and divided other matters if possible. Fortunately, the people she met in this life were not those cunning old servants of the Marquis' Mansion. People like Gu Qingrong and his wife, Tao Ru, and Madam Hu were all trustworthy.

Therefore, her business can grow bigger and bigger.

Gu Yichuang sat at the table and casually flipped open an account book, which contained the accounts of Yanxia Pavilion, the first restaurant in Cang County. What caught his eye was the revenue of the most recent month. After seeing the numbers clearly, he could not help but stay where he was.

"Revenue is 13,672 taels, profit... 9,835 taels?"

Although he tried his best to restrain himself when reading out the string of numbers, he could not hide the shock on his face.

Even though he knew that his wife's business was very profitable, he still greatly underestimated the strength of this business.

One store made a profit of nearly ten thousand taels of silver in one month.

My wife has three such stores, not to mention that she has also opened up a new fabric business in cooperation with the Hu family...

Could it be that the money earned from these businesses in a year is hundreds of thousands of taels?

Seeing his surprised expression, Shen Nankui couldn't help but asked with a smile, "What's wrong, husband?"