Traveling to ancient times with a sign-in system

Chapter 220 Buying a Household Registration

Chapter 220 Buying a Household Registration

No wonder!

The two sisters-in-law looked at each other, their hearts sinking to the bottom.

With such a huge hole, no wonder they were forced to sell their dowries!

That's because even if the entire Cheng family's fortune were sold, it wouldn't be enough!

"What should we do about this?" The two sisters-in-law looked at Madam Cheng with hopeful eyes, hoping she could give them some advice.

Madam Cheng paused for a moment and said, "If you trust me, write a letter to your maternal families from here, and I'll find someone to send it out for you. Let your maternal families come to talk to the Cheng family. If you rely on yourselves, I'm afraid the Cheng family will take advantage of you completely!"

The two sisters-in-law's eyes lit up. This was a good idea. "Thank you for your help, sister-in-law. We'll remember this. If you ever need anything in the future, just let us know, and we'll take care of it without hesitation!"

Madam Cheng smiled and nodded, then had someone bring a pen and told them to go to the inner room to write.

The head maid who brought the writing brush and ink didn't leave. She stopped beside Madam Cheng and quietly asked, "Madam, why did you take on this task? It's a thankless job."

Madam Cheng flicked the beauty bracelet on her wrist twice. "Only when things get chaotic in this mansion can we make a profit... If that old geezer manages to stabilize the situation, we'll be the ones who suffer."

The head maid didn't know what her mistress was planning, but she knew one thing: whatever her mistress schemed for, she would succeed. All she had to do was wait and see.

No matter what happens, she will stay by the lady's side and stand with her through thick and thin.

……

The farce at the Cheng family's house was escalating, while Gu Tang was overjoyed.

She and Ah Gou meticulously cataloged and sorted all the furs, jade, gemstones, agate, and other materials they had looted from the Cheng family, piling them up into a small mountain.

To curry favor with Gu Tang, Ah Gou pointed to the amount written on the Xuan paper and said, "Half of the silver you collected earlier is enough for charity. These furs and jade are all for you to make clothes and jewelry."

Gu Tang raised her chin: "That's what I think too. But right now these things can't be shown in public, I have to find a respectable way for them to come from."

origin?

Ah Gou had a sudden inspiration and pointed to himself: "How about I make up an identity and say that I gave you these?"

"You gave this to me?" Gu Tang glanced at him sideways. "You gave a peasant girl a bunch of treasures? What are you after? If you don't give me a plausible reason, my father will never let me 'accept' your things."

"Tell me that you saved my life, and I have no way to repay you, so I can only offer these furs, jade and other items to express my gratitude."

That's it...

Gu Tang looked him up and down. To be honest, if Ah Gou, who had changed his clothes, didn't say anything, he would definitely look like a young master from a wealthy family.

She asked curiously, "Didn't this body retain any memories for you? Judging from your appearance and your hands, you were clearly raised in a wealthy family. If you could remember anything, I could make up a story about you being from a rich family."

Ah Gou shook his head: "I can't remember, I have no memory of it at all."

"What about your household registration?"

"Household registration..." Ah Gou thought for a moment, then shook his head again, "No."

Gu Tang rolled her eyes at him: "No memory, no household registration, you have nothing and you still dare to act like a big shot? Are you crazy!"

As he spoke, he took out some loose silver coins from his system backpack, put them in a money bag, and handed them to him: "Go to the yamen and find those clerks. I heard my father say that those clerks in charge of household registration, in order to make the household register look good, often didn't cancel the registration of many families even after they died out."

"Use the silver to buy the registration of a family that has never had a child, preferably one that migrated from elsewhere, and the longer the family has been without a child, the better. Once you're registered, everything will be much easier." "Okay, I'll do as you say." Ah Gou handed the silver back: "You don't need this silver. When I was at the Cheng residence, you told me to bring back some silver as well. I brought back quite a bit. I'll ask you for more when I've spent all the silver I have."

"Keep it. After you buy the household registration, go and get some nice clothes. From now on, you'll be a rich young master whose whole family is dead."

Ah Gou: ...

Gu Tang thought about it more and more and felt that this was a good idea.

Since her father and the people around her wouldn't bother to check whether Ah Gou's identity was real or fake, they just needed to fool her father.

After some time has passed, Ah Gou can gradually find a reason to give her these things and the silver.

In this way, these things and the silver were considered to have a legitimate source and origin.

We need to find a good reason, so as not to arouse her father's suspicion.

Holding the money bag, Ah Gou turned and left the house.

But he came back shortly after he left.

He asked hopefully, "Since you're a rich young master, do you need to buy a house and servants?"

Gu Tang glared at him: "What kind of daydream are you having? You're my servant. I'm going to make you pretend to be a rich young master, and then I'll buy you servants to wait on you? I might as well just confront my father and tell him that I robbed the Cheng family!"

Ah blinked: "I was thinking, would this make it more believable? The servants I bought certainly aren't there to serve me. I can give them to you as a token of gratitude for saving my life."

"Give it to me?" Gu Tang glanced at him sideways. "And what about you? You bought servants to serve me, so what's the point of keeping this servant of yours?"

“I will also serve you. In the ‘Basic Rules for Servants’ that you gave me, it is written that as a servant, one must learn all the skills of life and take care of the master’s food, clothing, shelter and other aspects of life.”

I've discovered I still lack many life skills, and I plan to find a few masters to learn from while serving you. However, this means I'll have limited time to stay by your side, and I fear I might not be able to serve you well enough. Perhaps I should take this opportunity to find more servants to help you…”

"Huh?" Gu Tang was a little confused. She had written these things in the "Servant's Code"?

The servant's code is full of things, many of which are just flashes of inspiration, purely meant to make things difficult for him.

Now, if you ask her to tell you what's written on it, she can't even say it herself.

Sigh! How could a master forget the "Servant's Code" he wrote himself?

Gu Tang waved his hand at him calmly: "Go and get the household registration and clothing sorted out first. We'll talk about the rest after we've fooled my father."

Her father is not someone to be easily fooled; if she gets caught, she'll definitely get a scolding.

Ah Gou thought that Gu Tang had agreed to the matter, so he happily left the courtyard to buy a household registration, clothes, and a few apprentices for himself.

He can cook, he knows martial arts, he probably knows how to make tea, and making beds and folding blankets is a piece of cake for him.

He doesn't know nearly twenty kinds of skills, such as cutting clothes, sewing clothes and shoes, embroidery, massage, singing and storytelling.

Although there are many things he doesn't know, he always learns very quickly, and he's sure that it won't be long before he becomes a qualified servant!

Ah Gou was full of confidence and had no doubt that these skills were something a servant should learn.