Gu Yan didn't want to hear Yun Xiangye mention Zhao Jing, so he said, "If you've finished reading, go to bed early. Tomorrow morning you must follow me to the palace to pay New Year's greetings to the Emperor and Empress."
Yun Xiangye replied, "Okay."
Yun Xiangye put the red seal she got from the eldest princess under her pillow. Curiosity drove her to open the red seal before going to bed.
When Yun Xiangye saw that there were ten thousand-liang silver notes in a red envelope, she was amazed. She opened the other two red envelopes, and there were also ten thousand-liang silver notes in them.
Yun Xiangye reached out and grasped Gu Yan's wrist tightly, and said excitedly, "My mother gave me thirty thousand taels, thirty thousand taels..."
Gu Yan raised his eyes to look at Yun Xiangye and said, "Thirty thousand taels?"
Gu Yan examined it carefully and frowned slightly, saying, "The red envelopes my mother gave me as New Year's gifts since I was a child never totaled more than 10,000 taels. How could you have received 30,000 taels?"
Yun Xiangye said, "This is too much. Should I return it to my mother?"
Gu Yan said: "It's given to you, so just accept it."
Yun Xiangye looked at Gu Yan and asked, "If I divorce you in the future, do I have to return this silver to mother?"
Gu Yan took a deep breath and said, "Yun Xiangye, today is New Year's Day, could you please stop saying such unlucky things?"
Yun Xiangye had never seen such a large sum of money before. Thirty thousand-liang silver notes. There were probably not many people in the world who could come up with so much silver at once.
Gu Yan looked at Yun Xiangye holding the silver and money with a money-obsessed look and said, "If you divorce me, you must return this money to mother, so you'd better give up the idea of divorce."
Gu Yan thought that he might not be able to stop Yun Xiangye from seeing Zhao Jing tomorrow, so he held Yun Xiangye's wrist and said:
"Also, don't forget, you still need me to give you the fake death medicine. If you dare to have any thoughts of reconciliation again, I will definitely not risk deceiving the emperor to help Sister He leave the palace."
Yun Xiangye stuffed the banknotes back under her pillow and said, "I won't do anything and I won't have any other thoughts."
After Yun Xiangye fell asleep, she turned her back to Gu Yan and thought to herself that she had indeed not known the benefits of Prince Ning before.
At the very least, her parents' lifetime savings amounted to only 13,000 taels of silver, of which 10,000 taels were the inheritance from her grandfather.
And she earned 30,000 taels in one day...
Yun Xiangye felt that since Gu Yan didn't have her in his heart, he wasn't that hateful anymore.
Gu Yan doesn't care about herself, as long as her mother-in-law cares about her.
Why would she care whether Gu Yan has her in his heart or not when she is such a generous mother-in-law who gives him 30,000 taels of silver?
Gu Yan said to Yun Xiangye, "If you see Zhao Jing tomorrow, don't talk too much to him."
Yun Xiangye Ben still felt that she had been married to Gu Yan for three years, so why would Gu Yan be afraid of her meeting Zhao Jing? Could she still divorce and marry his cousin?
Now think about it, Gu Yan's grandmother was married for the second time, Gu Yan's mother was married for the second time to her ex-husband's nephew, and Zhao Jing's mother was also married for the second time to Gu Yan's second uncle.
In Gu Yan's mind, it was common for a woman to marry a second time. No wonder he was wary of meeting Zhao Jing. Gu Yan was probably afraid that if he divorced her and became Zhao Jing's wife, he would have to call him his cousin in the future...
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