Old Lady Lu slammed her dragon-headed cane down, her tone imposing: "What a sharp-tongued girl! The most important thing is getting married, how can it be turned into paying off a debt?"
Qin Wan smiled broadly. No matter what Old Lady Lu said, she remained calm. "The most important thing for you is your grandson's marriage. So why don't you return the money? Once you do, we'll leave."
Old Lady Lu was furious. She had never expected Qin Wan to be so stubborn. She looked at Eunuch Zhang and said in a deep voice, "Eunuch Zhang, please judge! Is it reasonable to come to a wedding banquet to collect debts?"
Eunuch Zhang sat comfortably, drinking tea, half-closed his eyes, and said with a "tsk", "My family has only heard of the principle of paying back debts."
Old Lady Lu hadn't expected that Eunuch Zhang would also side with that little bitch Qin Wan. She looked at the Crown Prince standing behind Eunuch Zhang, her eyes lighting up, and she quickly asked for help: "Your Highness! Please say something. My grandson has been fighting on the border for eight years before finally finding a soulmate. Now, on this happy occasion, someone has disrupted it. Isn't this inappropriate?"
Xie Qing was the last person to fall for her moral blackmail and sneered, "Paying back a debt is only natural, brothers and sisters, don't you agree?"
The eldest prince, who was about to speak up for Lu Yan, swallowed the words that were on the tip of his tongue. He rolled his eyes and said to Lu Yan, "If Marquis Lu is short of money, just let me know. I have some silver that you can use."
The third prince quickly followed suit and said that he also had money that he could use.
How could the Fourth Prince fall behind? He laughed heartily and said, "It's just a small matter of money. Miss Qin, I'll have someone send it to your residence later. You go back first?"
Qin Wan didn't care who gave it to her, as long as she got the silver, she would be fine. She looked at the Fourth Prince and said with a smile, "I don't care. I just don't know if Lord Lu is willing to accept it."
Lu Yan is not a fool. Aren’t the princes coming to him these days just to win him over?
It is not good to accept money from anyone or not to accept money from anyone.
Lu Yan knew that if he didn't pay back the money today, the wedding would not be able to continue. He ordered the housekeeper to bring the account book, but there was really no money at home now.
Even the various gifts given by others during the engagement, Lu Yan sent them to Bai Wanyi and brought them back as her dowry.
Lu Yan and the housekeeper whispered for a long time in the side hall, and finally they could only take out the silver received from today's wedding banquet and ask him to ask Qin Wan if he could use something to pay for it.
Seeing that it was the housekeeper who came out instead of Lu Yan, Qin Wan knew that he was disgusted by the shame. She smiled and said, "I won't make it difficult for you. Tell your master that I only want money. If there are some things I can't sell after I get them, who can I turn to?"
The butler nodded and went back to talk to Lu Yan.
Lu Yan didn't understand what Qin Wan meant. "They sent valuable items, each worth at least three to five hundred taels of silver. Why can't we sell them?"
The steward said, "The Marquis has been fighting on the frontier for many years. You don't know the situation of these items. Some are worthless, while others are worthless."
"These things they sent today look valuable, but they're actually not easy to sell. I can only find a suitable opportunity to give them to others later. It's both decent and beautiful."
Lu Yan understood instantly. What he meant was that everything he had was valuable but couldn't be circulated. "Is there nothing I can sell?"
"Yes, but we don't have the final say on the price." The housekeeper really had to break it down into pieces to make Lu Yan understand: "It sells for a thousand taels outside, but if someone else buys it, they might lower the price to three hundred or five hundred taels."
"So we might as well just give them the silver. These things would be very presentable and can be used as gifts later. If we sell them at a discount now and buy them later, wouldn't we be losing money?"
Lu Yan thought about it and agreed. If someone gave him a gift worth a thousand taels and he sold it at a discount, wouldn't he have to spend money to buy it if he wanted to return the gift or give someone else a gift of equal value?
It would be more cost-effective to keep it and give it to someone else, but what if I don’t have enough money?
Lu Yanshang was worried: "I still need 25,000 taels. What should I do?"
The housekeeper thought to himself that he knew what to do, but he couldn't say it out loud.
Outside.
The master of ceremonies looked at the sky and saw that the auspicious time was about to pass. He couldn't help but urge Old Lady Lu: "Old Lady, the auspicious time is about to pass."
Old Lady Lu looked at the sky, then at Bai Wanyi, whose hair was disheveled, and she grabbed her and said, "Your hair is disheveled. Go and do your makeup again."
Bai Wanyi thought that Old Madam Lu cared about her and was extremely grateful to her, but when she followed her to the side hall, she didn't even call the maid in.
"Grandma, Wanyi, why are you here?" Lu Yan asked.
Bai Wanyi was confused: "Didn't I ask you to redo your makeup? Where's the maid?"
Old Lady Lu ignored her and only asked Lu Yan, "How much silver do you still need?"
Lu Yan sighed, "There are only five thousand taels. Qin Wan doesn't want anything, she only wants silver."
Old Lady Lu calculated the silver she had on hand, but was reluctant to take it out. She turned to look at Bai Wanyi and said, "Ms. Bai, Yan'er gave you a lot of silver from the bottom of the box. You should take it out to deal with the emergency."
Bai Wanyi's eyes widened: "That's my dowry! My private property! Why are you asking me to take it out?"
Old Lady Lu glared at him, "What are you yelling for? You're really an orphan, so uneducated that you raise your voice to your elders!"
"You say I'm uneducated? Your Lu family is well-educated. You use women's dowries to make up for the deficit! It's really a tradition!" Bai Wanyi regretted it so much. Now she couldn't leave and had to be tied to the Lu family. Naturally, she was even more reluctant to pay.
Lu Yan frowned and said in a low voice, "Wan Yi! How can you say that?"
Bai Wanyi sneered: "Huh? I mean? You owe me money and want me to pay it? Isn't that the same as me spending my own money to marry myself? Look at what you're doing, is it humane?"
Lu Yan looked at the unfamiliar Bai Wanyi, completely confused. "I was the one who sent the betrothal gifts, I also spent money on your dowry, and I also gave you the money you had saved. Everything you have is mine, and now I'm asking you to use the money to pay off your debts, and you're not happy about it?"
Bai Wanyi would never give the silver away: "If you give it to me, it's mine. Do you dare to settle the betrothal fee with Qin Wan? You don't dare, but you are still bullying me here? Are you bullying me because I don't have my family's support?"
Bai Wanyi's tears started to fall as she spoke. She threw herself on Lu Yan and started beating him: "Why did I risk my life to save you? You said you would treat me well forever, and everything you have is mine. Now you tell me that it was you who gave it to me! Hahaha, this is how you treat me, isn't it?"
Bai Wanyi cried and laughed, looking like a madman. It was precisely this madness that made Lu Yan lose his anger. With a bitter taste in his mouth, he grabbed Bai Wanyi's wrist and hugged her in his arms: "It's my fault, it's my fault, I'm sorry, it's my fault, I don't want your money anymore, I don't want it anymore."
Old Madam Lu looked at Lu Yan and then at Bai Wanyi. Just because he's throwing a tantrum, he doesn't have to pay the money?
She knocked the ground with her dragon-headed cane: "Now is not the time for you to be so affectionate! What should we do with the money? The auspicious time is almost here!"
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