Lu Haoran wrote with difficulty, feeling unwilling.
He was wrong. He shouldn't have agreed to demote his wife to a concubine after the wedding ceremony, and he could still achieve his goal by bringing it up on the wedding night.
Everything is easy to discuss in private, but now that so many people are watching them, they are in a difficult situation.
Staring at Xu Jinyi, whose expression remained cold, Lu Haoran felt extremely unwilling.
"Xiao Jin, where are you going after you leave here? It's not safe for you to be alone. Why don't you stay at the mansion?"
The Marquis' eyes flashed: "Yes, Xiaojin, if you and Haoran can't be husband and wife, you can be adopted sisters. We will take good care of you if you stay here."
In an instant, the father and son thought of another method. If they could trick people into staying now, they could wait until the matter was settled and then deliberately bump into them. The result would be what they wanted to see.
By then, she would have no choice but to be a concubine, and she would even be the one who was criticized for having sex.
The more he thought about it, the better this method seemed to the Marquis, and he tried his best to persuade Xu Jinyi.
"No need for that. Now that the divorce has been written, there will be no relationship between our two families from now on."
"Now I am the daughter of a criminal, and our two families have no relationship, so it is not good to disturb the mansion, so as not to bring trouble to the Marquis' Mansion."
"I wish you, Prince Lu, will find a wife who is more suitable for you in the future and have a happy and fulfilling life."
Lu Haoran: "Xiao Jin, I..."
"Master Lu, I am now an abandoned woman. It is inappropriate to address me like this. When we meet in the future, Master Lu should just call me Xu."
Lu Haoran was devastated and didn't understand why the beautiful woman in front of him became so cold.
"Alright, you disgraceful thing! I'm clearly trying to distance myself from you. Can't you see? Isn't it enough to just give me a cold shoulder?!"
Everyone sighed. They didn't expect that such a wonderful wedding would end like this.
Lu Haoran looked at Xu Jinyi who left without any reluctance, and felt a sense of regret in his heart.
Liusu, who followed Xu Jinyi out, was completely confused. She secretly glanced at Xu Jinyi, not understanding why she suddenly made such a choice.
Based on her understanding, she would have kept her even if she was a concubine.
"Miss, where are we going now? It will take at least five days to get back to the capital from here. Everyone is already very tired after carrying the dowry all the way here. Why don't you take a day off in the Marquis' Mansion?" Liusu asked.
Xu Jinyi glanced at her coldly and said, "If you are tired, you can ask the Marquis to arrange for you to rest."
After saying this, without even noticing Liusu's changed expression, he turned around and got into the sedan chair.
"Mother Tong, send someone to Yijing Garden."
Her mother also bought a lot of property for her here as a dowry. Yijing Garden is a large mountain villa with beautiful scenery.
A manor with a stream, lotus pond, rockery and fruit trees.
Not only that, when she bought it, the princess also thought of using it to escape the summer heat, so she dug a cellar to store ice and planted precious flowers.
That manor can be said to be the best manor in this place.
Xu Jinyi and his men left in a mighty manner, leaving behind the unwilling Lu family members.
As the guests were invited to take their seats, the Lu family members walked back to the inner hall.
The Marquis could no longer contain his anger and raised his hand to slap Lu's mother hard.
"It was all your good idea. Now, we haven't made a penny, and we spent a lot of money on the hundreds of banquets outside."
"Didn't you say that this girl was completely devoted to you? Didn't you say that she would definitely compromise? Look what happened now. All that hard work has been in vain."
The wife of the Marquis was also aggrieved: "I am doing this for this family. How could I have known that the damn girl would be so ungrateful?"
"She deserves to have her mansion raided. I don't think she'll ever find a family again if she leaves here. Ugh!"
Lu Haoran frowned, looking down upon his mother's vulgar behavior.
"I told you not to bring this up in public, but now the woman is gone, and the dowry is gone too. It cost over 680 pieces of dowry."
"Mother, do you know that this is the family fortune accumulated by the General's Mansion and the Princess over decades? I heard that even the Princess's dowry is in it."
"Mom, please push this immense wealth away." Thinking of Xu Jinyi's face and slim figure, Lu Haoran felt regretful and unwilling.
Just thinking about the feeling of those legs wrapped around his waist made Lu Haoran feel ecstatic.
I was about to get a taste of her tonight, but now there's nothing left.
The Marquis felt a pang of pain when he thought of the dowry: "You, you are more likely to cause trouble than to accomplish anything. You have no brains and yet you are giving advice."
The Marquis' wife was so upset. She was scolded by both the father and the son in turn, and she was also angry.
"You're only speaking up now. Of course, when I said it, didn't you agree with what I said? If you had any objections, you should have said it earlier. Now that things haven't worked out, who can you blame?"
"You wanted to save face, so you agreed to force her to submit in public. It was also you, Haoran, who said she would definitely agree, and that she loved you so much that she couldn't help herself."
Lu Xinran finally understood why she was slapped, but she still didn't know she was wrong.
"She's gone, so what? As my brother, am I afraid I won't find someone better than her?"
"Mother, didn't you say you've established connections with the Prime Minister's wife? By then, the Prime Minister's daughter will definitely have a bigger dowry than us. We don't want hers."
"Look at how well you have taught your daughter. You have time to think about others. Why don't you take your daughter away and teach her well?" The Marquis roared.
The wife of the Marquis also nodded at Lu Xinran's head with a look of disappointment.
"Why are you poking me? Am I wrong? She doesn't care about us, and we despise her."
"A daughter of a guilty minister, whoever marries her will be in trouble."
Lu Haoran never expected his sister to be so stupid. He said coldly, "You don't think the dowry list your mother gave you is something your family can get, do you?"
"If it weren't for Xu Jinyi's dowry, when you married into the household of the Minister of Revenue, your dowry wouldn't have been as high as 168 loads, but only 68 at most."
Lu Xinran's eyes widened in shock. "Why? Mother promised me that when I get married, she would prepare a dowry of 168 pieces, 20 shops, and a few farms for me, so that I can marry in style."
After thinking for a moment, Lu Xinran added, "There are also two shops in the best locations in Beijing."
Lu Haoran sneered sarcastically, "Without Xu Jinyi's six hundred-odd dowry, and her shops, land, and estate, how much do you think your family can give you?"
Seeing his sister's frozen expression, Lu Haoran continued to attack her: "Without Xu Jinyi's dowry, if I really proposed to the Prime Minister's daughter, do you think I wouldn't have to prepare a betrothal gift?"
"When the Prime Minister's daughter marries you, do you think she will give you her dowry? You know your family's situation. How much do you have left for your dowry?"
Lu Xinran was not stupid after all. After listening to Lu Haoran's words, she realized what a stupid thing she had just done.
The Xu Jinyi who was driven away was not Xu Jinyi at all, but the God of Wealth.
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