Yun Xiangye lowered her eyes and frowned, "Gu Yan! If you want another child, I can give you a fortune to bear one. I don't want to have another child before the divorce."
Gu Yan said: "If you don't think 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 woman to have a child with, it will be Nuonuo's half-brother or half-sister."
Yun Xiangye frowned slightly. What Gu Yan said made sense. The love between half-siblings was not as strong as that between siblings from the same mother.
Gu Yan whispered in Yun Xiangye's ear, "So, don't bother with the idea of a divorce. Even if I agree to a divorce, you won't be able to 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. "Just now, I really wanted to chop his hand off."
Yun Xiangye said, "I'd like to chop your hand off right now, too. Please don't bother me anymore. I'm planning to open a five-color embroidery shop in Chang'an City after the New Year, and I need to make all the clothes I'll use for the shop's display."
Gu Yan frowned slightly and said, "Why are you opening an embroidery workshop? You don't have an embroiderer. 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, aren't the palace maids who are 25 or above going to 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 the officials in Chang'an City to be their daughters' maids to teach them needlework.
They become tutors to the daughters of officials, and their monthly salaries are no less than those in the palace. Because they are tutors to 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 house, 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 brunt of others' wrath."
Yun Xiangye pushed away Gu Yan's hand that was on 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 and sometimes a bamboo ruler.
Until Yin Liu came in to report: "Prince, Princess, Duke of Wei and his wife have come to pay New Year's greetings to the old lady. The eldest princess has sent someone to invite you two to Fushou Hall."
Seeing that Yun Xiangye was still angry, Gu Yan could only coax her in a low voice, "Go and wish your cousins 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 Gu Yan and Yun Xiangye walked to the door of Fushou Hall, they heard the voice of the wife of Duke Weiguo coming from inside.
"Aunt, after the palace banquet just ended, many people were feeling sorry for Yan'er. The Yun family has lost face today."
Yun Xiangye heard the words of the Duke of Wei's wife inside, and seeing the maid in front of her about to go in to report, 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 actually raised her eyes to look at Gu Yan and whispered, "What? I can't order your maid around?"
Gu Yan lowered his voice and 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, Aunt Empress gave her one as a gift. Even when Princess Ningxiang knew the Crown Princess would be visiting the palace, she didn't wear the feather satin, fearing it would steal the Crown Princess's limelight. But Yun Shi has never seen such a treasure before, and if she wore feather satin and entered the palace to steal the Crown Princess's limelight, wouldn't that be a joke?"
Wei Xi continued, "This Yun Xiangye is indeed from a small town, she's 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 Empress. It wouldn't be considered rude for her to wear it in the palace. Besides, I've often heard that the winter in Chang'an is much colder than in the south of the Yangtze River. This is her first time in Chang'an for the New Year, so she needs to dress warmly. She's just recovered from her illness..."
Wei Xi said, "Grandma, Yun Xiangye doesn't have a good reputation outside. She previously drove away the maid from Cousin Yan's room, and people in Chang'an City even accused her of being jealous. Now she's so shallow as to flaunt her feather satin dress. This is truly bringing shame to the Gu family."
Outside, Yun Xiangye raised an eyebrow and looked at Gu Yan. Wasn't Gu Yan protecting his cousin, worried 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 Duke of Wei's wife could be heard from inside the house again: "Aunt, Yan'er is of such noble status. Yun's appearance can only be considered ordinary among the beauties in Chang'an. She is jealous and boastful, like a mean-spirited person who has achieved success and has never seen the world. She is truly unfit to be the head mistress of the Gu family."
Wei Yu continued, "Grandma, I told you before that Yun Xiangye and Cousin Yan were only married for the sake of good fortune. There were no formalities, let alone visits to the Gu Family Ancestral Hall. They were not considered husband and wife.
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