After the prince was reborn, he forced me to marry him and took me into the East Palace

"Divorce?" Nan Yuan turned the word around in her mouth, smiled, and said, "If I wanted a divorce, I would have left last night. Why wait until now?"

Xie Luochen finally heaved a sigh of relief when he heard Nan Yuan say she didn't want a divorce, but what happened last night was still like a knife hanging around his neck.

"Then last night..." Xie Luochen asked tentatively.

Nan Yuan looked at Xie Luochen calmly and said calmly, "You slapped me once, and I slapped you twice in return. We're even now."

"As for what you said last night, I will pretend that I didn't hear anything. We will continue our lives as usual."

Nan Yuan stood up, walked to the dressing table, wet a handkerchief with water, and carefully wiped the blood off Xie Luochen's face, and covered the fingerprints on his face.

"Take a shower and change your clothes. We have to go and pay our respects to the deceased in a little while. It would be bad if we were late."

"Hey."

Xie Luochen responded, then got up angrily to take a shower and change clothes.

Nan Yuan sat back at the dressing table, looked at herself in the mirror, and frowned slightly.

But she only allowed herself to be cowardly for a moment before she cheered herself up again.

No matter what, you have to keep going on the path you have chosen.

She carefully applied delicate makeup to cover up the bruises under her eyes and the fingerprints on her cheeks.

When Xie Luochen came out, Nan Yuan had already packed up.

Xie Luochen looked at Nan Yuan in front of him, his eyes flickering slightly.

Nan Yuan was wearing a light red dress, which made her already fair skin look even brighter. Her hair was simply tied into a bun with a red gold hairpin inserted in it, making her look dignified and elegant.

"Clothes." Nan Yuan picked out a black and blue brocade robe with dark patterns for Xie Luochen.

Xie Luochen was stunned for a moment, then nodded and put it on.

"Let's go." Nan Yuan said.

Xie Luochen nodded, suddenly remembered something, and turned back.

He returned to his bedroom, bit his finger, and smeared a few drops of blood on the Yuanpa, then he breathed a sigh of relief.

Nan Yuan looked at his actions, her eyes darkened, but she didn't say much. She just waited for him to finish, and then the two of them walked towards the hall together.

Prince Xie and Princess Xie had already been waiting in the hall. They were very happy to see Xie Luochen and Nan Yuan arrive.

Nan Yuan and Xie Luochen knelt on the ground together, saluted, offered tea, and followed the procedure step by step before standing up.

Princess Xie looked at Nan Yuan, a gleam of light flashed in her eyes, and asked someone to bring up all the account books.

"Yuan'er, from now on, you belong to our Xie Wangfu. I am old now, and sooner or later I will have to hand over the household affairs of this mansion to you. Why don't you learn to manage it now? While I still have the energy, I can teach you something if you don't understand."

All the maids and old women in the hall were stunned.

The household supplies in the mansion are something that only the mistress of the house has the right to control, which means that she can dispose of the money of Prince Xie's mansion at will.

If you control the money, you control the throat of the entire palace.

Princess Xie is still capable now, and the Crown Prince's wife has just entered the house, but she has already handed over the household affairs to her, which shows how much she values ​​her.

Since ancient times, it has been difficult for mother-in-law and daughter-in-law to get along with each other. The Crown Prince's wife is really lucky to have such a mother-in-law who is wholeheartedly on her side.

Nan Yuan looked up at the account books. There were three full stacks, each one was half her height.

Being in charge of the household affairs sounds like a good thing, but the interests involved are more complicated than they seem.

It would be fine if there was no deficit in the account book. At most, it would be a bit tiring and we could just hire more people.

But if there is a deficit and it is not enough to maintain the normal expenses of Prince Xie's Mansion, then she must be frugal.

It is difficult to control the degree of frugality. If you are not careful, the subordinates will naturally complain, saying that you are stingy and that they are living much worse off than when Princess Xie was in charge of the accounts.

If time goes on, my reputation will get out and it will become unpleasant.

Thus, in order to maintain her good reputation, she would have to pay for it herself.

Nan Yuan smiled and glanced at Xie Luochen.

He said last night that he married her just to make up for the deficit, but now that she has just married, he is so eager to covet her dowry.

This way of eating is really too ugly.

Xie Luochen seemed to sense something and looked back. Seeing that Nan Yuan's face looked a little strange, he knew that she didn't want to take care of the account book.

Just ignore it, they are just some bad debts, just throw them away and let this palace continue to fall into disrepair!

It’s best when it’s gone!

He refused, "Mother, Yuan'er just got married and is not familiar with everything yet. You can put the account book issue aside for now. It won't be too late to hand it over to her once she is familiar with it."

Princess Xie's face froze for a moment. What was wrong with Chen'er?

Wasn't this discussed at the beginning?

I married Nan Yuan just to make up for the deficit, why did you change your mind now?

But Princess Xie had been through a lot, so her complexion quickly returned to normal. She waved her hand, indicating that she understood, and then said, "Well, you two are a loving couple, so naturally you don't want to worry about these things. In this case, then you can play with Yuan'er for a while, but after a while, Yuan'er will still have to help me take care of the accounts, and you can't rely on me forever."

"It's just that I still have some energy now, and I can take care of everything for you. If you really wait until I'm too old to walk, and you want to take charge of the business, there will be no one to help you."

Princess Xie did not mention Nan Yuan in any of her words, but it was obvious that every word she said was referring to her.

"Please worry about me for a while, mother. I'll keep it in mind." Nan Yuan said respectfully.

"Well, that's good."

Princess Xie gave them a few more instructions and then let them leave.

"Tell me the truth, how big is the deficit of Prince Xie's Mansion?" Halfway through the journey, Nan Yuan sent away the people following her and looked up to ask Xie Luochen.

Xie Luochen lowered his head, somewhat hesitant.

"Tell me the truth. Since I married into your family, I am naturally prepared to advance and retreat together with the Xie family."

She didn't take the account book today just because she didn't like the feeling of being forced. But if she wanted to live like this, she would have to settle this mess sooner or later. This was the price she paid in exchange for protection.

Xie Luochen clenched his fist and said with gritted teeth: "Two hundred and fifty thousand."

Nan Yuan breathed a sigh of relief. It wasn’t too much and she could probably get it together.

"gold."

Before Nan Yuan could finish her breath, it was blocked by the mouthful of gold that followed from Xie Luochen.

"What did you say?"

"Two hundred and fifty thousand taels of gold? Do you know how much that is? Are you sure you remembered it correctly?"

Nan Yuan is not ignorant of the ways of the world. She has been following her mother in managing the accounts of the Nan Mansion since she was a child and is very sensitive to financial figures.

For an ordinary family of three, fifty taels of silver a year is enough for them to live a good life.

Two hundred and fifty thousand taels of gold, how huge a sum is that?

One tael of gold can be exchanged for twenty taels of silver. Two hundred and fifty thousand taels of gold would be five million taels of silver, enough for the annual expenses of one hundred thousand families.

One hundred thousand common people, that's one tenth of the capital's population!

Could it be that everything the Xie family has eaten and used over the years is made of gold?

"Making friends, expanding career, and staying in the capital all require money."

"The palace is not very wealthy to begin with, and my mother's dowry only supports the superficial splendor of the palace."

It’s so difficult, shouldn’t we just give up?

Let this palace, which is rotten from the inside, rot completely!

Xie Luochen thought.

Nan Yuan frowned. The palace was not spending more than it earned. Instead, it had no income at all. It only spent, and was living beyond its means!

Even if her dowry was filled in, it would still not fill this bottomless pit. As long as Xie Luochen wanted to climb up, he would have to spend more money than before.

We have to think of a way to make money.

At this time, she didn't know that danger was approaching her.