Chapter 44: I Absolutely Have No Intentions of Making You My Concubine
Yun Xiangye lowered her eyes and frowned, "Gu Yan! If you want another child, I will give you a lot of money to give birth to one. I don't want to have another child before the divorce."
Gu Yan said: "If you don't care about Nuonuo, I have to think about Nuonuo."
Yun Xiangye gritted her teeth and said angrily, "Why don't I think about Nuonuo?"
Gu Yan whispered, "If you and I have another child, it will be Nuonuo's biological brother or sister. If you let me find another rich girl to have a child, it will be Nuonuo's half brother or sister."
Yun Xiangye frowned slightly. What Gu Yan said made sense. The love between half brothers and sisters was not as strong as that between brothers and sisters born of the same mother.
Gu Yan whispered in Yun Xiangye's ear: "So, don't bother with the idea of divorce. Even if I agree to divorce you can't do it."
Yun Xiangye took a deep breath and reached out to move Gu Yan's hand away from her waist.
Gu Yan placed his hand on Yun Xiangye's wrist and gently wiped it. "I really wanted to chop his hand off just now."
Yun Xiangye said, "I really want to chop off your hand right now. Please don't bother me. I plan to open a five-color embroidery shop in Chang'an City after the New Year. I need to make all the clothes for the shop's display."
Gu Yan frowned slightly and said, "Why do you want to open an embroidery workshop? You don't have an embroiderer, so are you going to rely on yourself to sew clothes? You won't be able to handle it."
Yun Xiangye said, "We can also recruit embroiderers after the New Year. After the New Year, the palace maids who are 25 years old or older will leave the palace. The palace maids and embroiderers from the Embroidery Workshop can also come to my embroidery workshop to do work after they leave the palace."
Gu Yan said: "After leaving the palace, most of these maids in the Embroidery Room will be invited by officials in Chang'an City to be maids to teach needlework to their daughters.
They become tutors for the daughters of officials, and their monthly salary is no less than that of those in the palace. Because they are tutors for the girls in the palace, they are also respected in the palace. No palace maid would be willing to work in your embroidery workshop."
Yun Xiangye said, "If you work as a nanny in an official's family, you will be a slave. But if you come to my embroidery workshop, you can be your own boss and don't have to bear the wrath of others."
Yun Xiangye pushed away Gu Yan's hand that was across her waist and said, "Stop bothering me."
Gu Yan had no choice but to let Yun Xiangye go first.
Yun Xiangye glanced at Gu Yan and continued making clothes.
Gu Yan helped her from the side, occasionally handing her a pair of scissors or a bamboo ruler.
Until Yin Liu came in and reported: "Prince, Princess, Duke of Wei and his wife came to pay New Year's greetings to the old lady, and the eldest princess sent someone to invite you two to go to Fushou Hall."
Seeing that Yun Xiangye was still angry, Gu Yan could only coax her in a low voice, "Go and wish your cousin and cousin Wei a happy new year first."
Even though Yun Xiangye was still angry with Gu Yan, she had no choice but to follow him to Fushou Hall to meet the Duke of Weiguo and his wife. After all, the eldest princess had sent someone to invite them.
As soon as Gu Yan and Yun Xiangye reached the door of Fushou Hall, they heard the voice of the wife of Duke Weiguo coming from inside.
"Aunt, after the palace banquet ended, many people were upset for Yan'er. The Yun family has lost face today."
Yun Xiangye heard the words of the wife of Duke Weiguo inside, and saw the maid in front of her was about to go in to report, so she hurriedly stopped the maid at the door and whispered: "Go in and report later."
The maid at Madam Gu's door raised her eyes and looked at Gu Yan.
Yun Xiangye raised her eyes to look at Gu Yan and whispered, "What? I can't order your maid around?"
Gu Yan lowered his voice, looked at the maid and said, "Listen to the madam."
Yun Xiangye snorted lightly and continued to listen to the conversation inside. When she got closer, she heard the voice of Gu Yan's grandmother.
Madam Gu asked, "How could Ah Xiang be embarrassed in the palace?"
Wei Xi said, "Grandma, there are only a few feather satins in the world. This year, when Princess Ningxiang returned to Chang'an City, Aunt Queen gave her one as a reward. Even when Princess Ningxiang knew that the Crown Princess would come to the palace this year, she didn't wear the feather satin for fear of stealing the Crown Princess's limelight. But Yun Shi has never seen a treasure, and she wore feather satin to steal the Crown Princess' limelight. Isn't it a joke?"
Wei Xi continued, "This Yun Xiangye is indeed from a small town, she has never seen the world, but she got a dress of feather satin as if it were a rare treasure, and she went to the palace banquet to show it off. I wonder if everyone else is laughing at her!"
Yun Xiangye frowned when she heard this. Because she was going to Chang'an for the New Year this year, she had not prepared any new clothes for the New Year.
This feather satin dress was new and very warm, so she didn't do it to show off.
Madam Gu said, "This feather satin dress was originally given to Ah Xiang by the Queen. It is not impolite for her to wear it in the palace. Besides, I have often heard that the winter in Chang'an is much colder than that in the south of the Yangtze River. This is her first time to celebrate the New Year in Chang'an, so she needs to dress warmly. She has just recovered from her illness..."
Wei Xi said, "Grandma, Yun Xiangye doesn't have a good reputation outside. She drove away the maid in Cousin Yan's room before, and people in Chang'an City even said she was jealous. Now she is so shallow and flaunts her feather satin clothes. It really brings shame to the Gu family."
Yun Xiangye, who was outside the house, raised her eyebrows and looked at Gu Yan. Wasn't Gu Yan protecting his cousin and afraid that she would lose her reputation? When had his cousin ever cared about her own reputation?
Gu Yan frowned when he met Yun Xiangye's gaze, feeling a little guilty.
The voice of the wife of Duke Weiguo was heard from inside the house again: "Aunt, Yan'er is of such a noble status. Yun's appearance can only be regarded as mediocre among the beauties in Chang'an. She is jealous and a show-off who has never seen the world. She is really not worthy of being the mistress of the Gu family."
Wei Xi followed up and said, "Grandma, I told you before that Yun Xiangye and Cousin Yan were only married for the sake of good fortune. There was no three books and six ceremonies, and they didn't even go to the Gu family's ancestral hall to worship. They were not considered husband and wife.
You can't just watch Yun Xiangye bring disgrace to the Gu family. You might as well make her a concubine of Cousin Yan, considering that she gave birth to a daughter for Cousin Yan."
Gu Yan felt extremely familiar when he heard Wei Xi's words that he had not performed the three books and six ceremonies and had not worshipped in the Gu family ancestral hall.
Gu Yan lowered his head and looked at Yun Xiangye, his eyes full of guilt, regret, and annoyance. Yun Xiangye snorted when he saw Gu Yan's guilty look.
The wife of Duke Weiguo and Wei Xi said in unison: "Xi'er is right. Even if we have to accept this marriage for the purpose of bringing good luck, Yun Xiangye has been married to Yan'er for three years. Just because she has no children in three years, we can divorce her. With her lowly status and petty behavior, it is really too high for her to be Yan'er's concubine."
Upon hearing this, Yun Xiangye slapped Gu Yan hard on the face. Gu Yan was in the wrong and didn't dare to hide, so he took the slap hard.
After slapping him, Yun Xiangye turned around and left.
Gu Yanlian caught up with Yun Xiangye and said, "Xiangye..."
Yun Xiangye raised her eyes to look at Gu Yan and said, "Didn't you say that I slandered your cousin's reputation? Now, you must have heard it with your own ears, right?"
Gu Yan frowned and said, "I'm sorry, I shouldn't have said that about you."
Yun Xiangye said with a feeling of grievance: "I heard Wei Xi say this when I first came to Chang'an. Wei Xi and the maids around you said that I would be divorced and become a concubine... Do you know how angry I was at that time?"
Gu Yan frowned and asked: "Why didn't you tell me about this earlier?"
"Didn't I say that?" Yun Xiangye snorted, "You said I couldn't damage your cousin's reputation, and you also said I shouldn't be jealous of the maids."
Gu Yan knew he was in the wrong and could only apologize: "I'm sorry."
Yun Xiangye said: "Just an apology? I don't owe you such an apology."
Gu Yan said: "You hit me anyway."
Yun Xiangye said: "You deserve to be beaten."
Gu Yan said: "I'm sorry, Xiangye, I have absolutely no such intention. I swear to heaven that I have absolutely no intention of making you my concubine."
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