"The silver notes she carries, the land deeds for this courtyard and the teahouse, and the gold, silver, and jade ornaments in the house should all belong to the Crown Prince's wife."

Xie Zhaozhao gave Xu Shi and Granny Wei a hint.

Both of them gave her a grateful look.

Tu looked at Xie Zhaozhao with a burning hatred; these things could have been taken into Xie Zhaozhao's hands.

Guan Yingying exclaimed, "All the banknotes I have are my own..."

If all the silver notes on her body were taken away, she wouldn't even have the money to run away.

Xie Zhaozhao asked, "Where did you get the money?"

"I..." Guan Yingying didn't dare to say that she sold the panacea, "I, I run a general store!"

"The general store earns a maximum of five hundred taels of silver a year! Do you have the account books? Let me see them."

"..." Guan Yingying was speechless. Wasn't she supposed to never leave the house? How could she be so cunning?

Gu Chengyan said to Guan Yingying, "Stop talking, give her the money."

Protecting the eggs is an urgent matter!

He gave the banknotes and house deed that Guan Yingying had to Xu.

Xie Xiangxiang looked at the scattered silver notes, which totaled more than four thousand taels, and the house deed was also in Tu Qianyue's name. Her heart ached terribly.

This must all be her dowry money, right?

Gu Chengyan, enduring the discomfort in his crotch, bowed deeply to Xie Xiangxiang and begged for forgiveness, saying, "Please forgive me, Madam. I will never dare to do it again. When we get back, I will immediately give back all your dowry money and never hide a single penny from you again."

Both parties agreed that the teahouse and courtyard would belong to Xie Xiangxiang, and she would also return the 40,000 taels of silver earned from her dowry.

Gu Shaoyu stood up and said to Yuan Yuanman, "Put the cloak on Madam, let's go."

Xie Zhaozhao glanced at Guan Yingying, who was being escorted back to the Marquis's mansion to become a concubine, and lowered her eyes.

Ha, you keep using "I" all the time, you probably've never been inside the inner quarters of a large family before!

Being called a concubine is just the first step.

The group got into the car, and Xie Zhaozhao lowered the curtain.

In the darkness, he quietly watched Gu Shaoyu for a while.

"Don't you think doing this is unnecessary?" she asked.

According to Gu Shaoyu's idea, they should be sent directly to the authorities and punished according to the law, instead of being sent back to the inner quarters to continue to torment him.

“The Crown Prince’s wife is unwilling to divorce him or report him to the authorities, so we cannot do it for her,” Gu Shaoyu said. “Killing someone by destroying their spirit is more satisfying than killing them outright.”

His wife seemed inclined to make that woman a concubine, so let her be a concubine, she's nothing but an ant!

On the way back to the Marquis's residence from the east city, Gu Shaoyu's carriage still led the way. Walking on the streets during curfew would result in arrest, but Grand Secretary Gu was not exempt from this rule.

Xie Zhaozhao couldn't calm down. Sitting opposite him, she silently lowered her head, repeatedly recalling the sweet words he had said.

He sighed softly: If only he weren't the old Marquis's son!

"Why are you sighing?" Gu Shaoyu noticed her sigh and leaned closer to look at her. "Is something on your mind?"

"When the old Marquis was alive, he treated you very well, didn't he?"

Why do you ask that?

"Just asking."

She can't very well say, "I think your mother is bad."

This sounds like you're trying to sow discord between a mother and her son!

Gu Shaoyu explained, "When the old Marquis was alive, he was indeed very good to me. Although he was not very cultured, he was upright and honest, and he greatly admired the erudition of scholars."

He recounted how, when he was a child, the old Marquis took him to the Xie family's private school and knelt down to beg a great Confucian scholar to teach him.

Xie Zhaozhao never met the old Marquis in either of her two lives; she wasn't even born when the old Marquis passed away.

I couldn't quite describe the feeling in my heart.

She entered the Marquis's mansion in both her lives, and in both lives, the old lady and Madam Tu schemed against her with every means possible, which was truly unforgivable.

Seeing that she remained silent for a long time, Gu Shaoyu assumed that she did not like to hear it, so he stopped talking about it.

Xu followed Xie Xiangxiang back to Fanghua Garden, keeping an eye on Gu Chengyan and Tu Shi's compensation efforts, and not allowing any delays.

Gu Chengyan didn't have much silver in his private treasury; he usually gave it all to Guan Yingying. Where would he get 40,000 taels of silver?

Madam Tu was anxious, but dared not approach Gu Boyu. For Gu Chengyan's manhood, she had to compensate!

Making her pay 40,000 taels of silver is practically asking her to die!

She ran to Ci'en Temple and knelt down to beg the old lady.

"Mother, where would I get so much money? The Marquis will beat Yan'er to death! Could you please pay for Yan'er first?"

The old lady was both angry and furious, and asked, "Have you borrowed from the Third Madam? She has the most money!"

"Mother, I'm afraid she won't lend it to us!"

"Sigh, move it. It'll all be yours sooner or later. Just pretend I'm dead!" The old lady was also heartbroken and told Taxue to go to her private vault and take out the silver she had hidden.

Xie Zhaozhao and Gu Shaoyu had already returned to Qingpu Courtyard. Bei Chen said at the door, "My lord, madam, the Marquis's wife took silver from the old lady's private treasury to compensate the young master's wife."

Xie Zhaozhao said calmly, "Has the old lady forgotten that she has two sons?"

Gu Shaoyu immediately said to Nanxing, "Go and tell Second Brother to go to the Old Madam's courtyard."

Before long, Gu Zhongyu and Madam Lu arrived.

"Why should Mother have to pay for Gu Chengyan's money? Mother was supported by the three brothers, and the money for their descendants should be divided equally among the three brothers. Why should the eldest son's family be subsidized?"

In the middle of the night, Madam Lu got out of her warm bed, very annoyed. "Third brother, you have to take care of this!"

Although Gu Shaoyu handed over his salary and then didn't care what happened to it, it didn't mean he condoned bad practices. He said to Gu Zhongyu, "Let's go take a look together, brother."

Xie Zhaozhao didn't go; if Gu Shaoyu wanted to manage it, he could handle it all by himself.

Soon, the sound of Lu's crying and commotion came from Ci'en Courtyard. Tu and Lu were fighting, and the concubines of the second wife also went over to help their mistress.

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