As they watched the loads of dowry being carried out, everyone learned from Bai Zhi that this couple, who were envied by everyone in the capital, had divorced.

When Xu Jinyi got married, many people said she was stupid.

Later, she learned that Liu Zhuangyuan would only marry her in his life and would not take any concubines.

Immediately afterwards, Liu Zhuangyuan was promoted step by step, and everyone in the capital was envious of him.

Especially those ladies from wealthy families, who doesn’t want to marry a man with a clean backyard?

Therefore, this couple is a good story in the capital.

But now they are divorced, and everyone sighed when they heard it.

Since they were divorced, Bai Zhi was not afraid of making the family's dirty laundry public, and she directly told a lot about how Xu Jinyi had been living for the past three years.

As Bai Zhi spoke out the names of the big melons one by one, everyone started talking about it.

"No wonder Miss Xu hasn't left the house in the past six months. She's actually been imprisoned."

"I was wondering why I always see you, Miss Baizhi, going out to buy groceries, and every time you only buy groceries."

"Poor Miss Xu, her dowry was taken away by someone else and she was imprisoned, unable to even eat meat."

"This Prime Minister Liu is such a scoundrel. As a man, I can't stand it."

"It's bad enough that he stepped on Miss Xu to get to the top, but now that she's no longer useful to him, he's abandoning her and wants to marry the princess instead."

"Miss Xu is a celestial being. If she were willing to marry me, I would be willing to worship her. But the Liu family doesn't know how to cherish her."

"Yes, when Miss Xu was still single, so many people wanted to marry her. She was proficient in music, chess, calligraphy, and painting. She was a famous and talented woman in the capital, and she came from a good family. Who wouldn't want to marry her?"

While the people outside were still nagging, Madam Liu followed Xu Jinyi and the others out and started scolding them.

Xu Jinyi was wearing a veil and looked at Madam Liu who had chased after her with a cold expression.

At this time, Brother Xu wisely handed over an abacus.

Xu Jinyi looked at Madam Liu and began to calculate: "Let's calculate the accommodation fee first. For two and a half years, the room I stayed in will be charged as an inn. The best room will cost one tael of silver a day."

"It's neither too much nor too little. I'll take it as one thousand taels. For the next six months, I'll be living in a shabby yard worse off than the servants. If you want to charge, how about I give you ten cents a day? That'll count as one tael of silver."

"Of the two personal maids I brought with me, one was beaten to death by you. Bai Ruo spent three hundred taels of silver to buy her, a death indenture."

"Then when I got married, you took two sets of jewelry from me, which cost three thousand taels."

"And the cloth for my dowry, one thousand taels, which I didn't count just now."

When Liu Yan came out and saw this, she thought to herself, "Oh no!"

Xu Jinyi calculated that she had been relying on selling her jewelry to make a living for the past six months.

Seeing the looks from the people around him, Liu Yan's face darkened.

"Yier, don't forget it. It's our Liu family who has wronged you."

As he spoke, he asked someone to stop his mother.

"It's not me who wants to calculate, it's your mother who wants to withhold my dowry."

"She's old and confused, don't bother with her."

The onlookers were talking about this and looking at Xu Jinyi's slender figure and the clothes she was wearing.

He looked at Liu Yan with contempt. Spending his wife's dowry was so shameful.

"Then keep an eye on your mother, otherwise I won't guarantee anything will get out."

Stepping onto the carriage prepared by Brother Xu, Xu Jinyi and Bai Zhi finally left this cage.

When she got married, Xu Jinyi brought dozens of maids and servants with her, but three years have passed.

Madam Liu sold half of them on the grounds that there were too many maids and the monthly salary was too high.

Most of the remaining half were bribed, and Xu Jinyi had no intention of taking them away.

The carriage stopped, and before Xu Jinyi got out, she heard her mother crying breathlessly outside.

When I saw her coming down, I cried even more miserably.

"My poor daughter, what a mess she has been made of, wuwu..."

"Is this still my idea? How come you are so thin? Come in with me quickly. I have prepared a large table of food for you."

Hearing this, Xu Jinyi's eyes lit up.

Even though her mother is the daughter of the richest man in Jiangnan, her cooking skills are top-notch.

Her mother would only cook a meal every year when someone in their family had a birthday.

It’s not easy to eat it normally.

"Mom, let's go in quickly. I'm hungry."

Mrs. Xu was stunned as she was being dragged to the hall. Seeing her daughter speaking in a cheerful tone and even seeming a little happy, she became even more worried.

"My daughter, just cry if you are sad. Don't be depressed while your mother is here." Holding Xu Jinyi's hand, Mrs. Xu's tears flowed down her face.

Xu Jinyi broke out in a sweat.

Her mother couldn't have thought that she was divorced and was so sad that she had lost her mind.

But shouldn’t I be happy about leaving that scumbag?

Or should she cry?

"Mom, I'm so happy to be able to leave Liu Yan that I don't have time to cry. We should have a good meal to celebrate." Pulling down the veil, Xu Jinyi said as a matter of course.

Seeing Xu Jinyi's pointed oval face, Mrs. Xu held her up with both hands.

"My daughter, your curvy figure is gone, your face is pointed, and you're just skin and bones."

Mrs. Xu was heartbroken to see her beautiful daughter become so thin.

Xu Jinyi: ...

Is this definitely her biological mother?

She finally knew who her eldest brother inherited her genes from. One said she was ugly as a ghost, and the other said she was skin and bones and didn't look like a human.

She looked at her mother with resentful eyes: "Mom, if you don't let me eat, I'm going to faint from hunger."

I was so happy when I knew I could leave in the morning that I didn't even have breakfast.

Now her stomach is singing the empty city plan.

"Eat, eat first, no need to wait for your dad, let's eat first."

Seeing her daughter falling down at the slightest gust of wind, Mrs. Xu supported her by the hand as she walked.

Seeing the table full of dishes and the delicious aroma, Xu Jinyi sat down directly.

Although this was against the rules, neither Mrs. Xu nor Brother Xu said anything. Instead, they picked up some food for Xu Jinyi with a look of heartache on their faces.

The two of them served Xu Jinyi dinner together.

While Xu Jinyi was eating, he certainly did not forget Baizhi, who had shared his hardships.

"Baizhi, you should also go down and eat. Eat well. I'll give you another ten days off so you can have a good rest."

Then Xu Jinyi opened her hands to her eldest brother: "Brother, give me your purse."

Brother Xu didn't ask and just handed it over.

After pouring it out, Xu Jinyi immediately felt a little disgusted. It was only fifty taels of silver in total.

Too little.

Xu Jinyi handed it all to Bai Zhi directly: "Bai Zhi, take a ten-day break and go home. It's up to you whether you want to or not. Take these fifty taels as compensation for the past three years."

Baizhi was also a maid on a life-long bond, so logically she shouldn't have to receive any monthly wages.

But Xu Jinyi was kind to his servants, so Bai Zhi could still get one or two taels of silver as monthly salary.

But there has been no money in the past three years. After all, Xu Jinyi has had no money in these three years.