Rebirth of the Merchant Woman's Revenge

"My husband, why did you come here today? Is there anything?" Gu Xunwei greeted him first, and then asked in a flat tone.

"Gu Xunwei, where did you get this silver?" Xie Cheng'an pointed at the furnishings in the front yard. The two newly added stone elephants in front of the hanging flower gate were very valuable.

"Oh, my husband, have you forgotten? Mother prepared sixty-four loads of dowry for me. After you moved out, she had them all delivered to me."

Gu Xunwei's tone was very flat, as if she was talking about today's weather, without a trace of emotion.

But it caused a huge storm in Xie Chengan's heart.

Sixty-four loads of dowry, these were all prepared for her to marry me, so does half of it belong to me now? No, all of it should belong to the Xie family.

"Wei'er, your husband is in urgent need of money to open a shop. Could you lend him some money?" Xie Cheng'an asked carefully.

"After all, when the fragrance-testing competition took place, mother prepared more than a thousand taels of silver for you to use in the competition. Now that I've calculated, a thousand taels is about enough."

Gu Xunwei looked up and pretended not to know and asked, "Husband, you want to open a shop? What do you want to do for a living?"

"Well, we just have a shop now. As for what to do with it, we haven't decided yet." Xie Cheng'an didn't tell anyone about the incense shop after all. After all, Gu Xunwei couldn't know about the Gu family's incense recipes for now.

"Oh," Gu Xunwei nodded, and then said, "It's really unfortunate. I don't have a shop to rely on now, and I'm very short of money. How about my husband wait a few days and come back to borrow money when you want to do something?"

"No, no, if it's any later it will delay things. After all, we have already bought the shop. If we don't run it, won't we have to lose money every day?" Xie Cheng'an became a little anxious, but he couldn't say anything else, so he could only find an excuse.

"Baizhi, show the guest out." Seeing that he was full of lies, Gu Xunwei's eyes were no longer as clear as before, and they were moving around randomly. She immediately lost the desire to continue dealing with him.

"Gu... Wei'er, you, you can make some conditions. As long as you make them, I can agree to any of them, including consummating our marriage." Xie Cheng'an immediately became nervous. This was the only place he could think of to get money, so he spoke without thinking.

"Heh," Gu Xunwei paused as she was about to enter the Chuihua Gate, a mocking smile on her face, "Xie Zhuangyuan really thinks highly of me. I only get a few dozen taels of silver when I go out to find a young prostitute, but Xie Zhuangyuan asks for a thousand taels of silver right away?"

This is directly comparing him, Xie Cheng'an, with the young prostitutes in brothels.

Xie Cheng'an didn't care about being angry at this time. He just said with a red face, "Wei'er, we are husband and wife after all. You won't watch your husband starve to death, right? If this gets out, it will be bad for your reputation."

"I've been thinking about how to negotiate a divorce with you these past few days. If I really starve to death, it would be much simpler. I'd just be a widow. Even if I'm labeled a jinx, I won't be given the reputation of being a jinx." Gu Xunwei didn't care. She felt extremely happy when she saw Xie Cheng'an's anxious look.

"Zhu Da, send Xie Zhuangyuan out." Gu Xunwei shouted to Zhu Da who was hiding in the back room and dared not come out.

Xie Cheng'an was dragged and thrown out by two burly men.

Seeing that Gu Xunwei did not shy away from meeting Xie Chengan, Zhu Da let go and threw Xie Chengan directly onto the street in front of the door.

"You, you guys are so nice, everyone look, the door of my Xie Mansion, Gu Xunwei was not even allowed to enter..." Xie Cheng'an got up from the ground, and started to act pitiful in front of the onlookers, pointing his finger at Zhu Da and was about to curse him a few more times.

But the moment his eyes met Zhu Da's, he closed his mouth.

He opened his eyes wide in horror and looked at Zhu Da, "You, you, you..."

Zhu Da didn't even look at him, but stood at the door with his arms folded to prevent him from going in further.

Xie Cheng'an was inexplicably frightened at this moment. He recognized this Zhu Da. He was the man who pretended to have mistakenly delivered a stroller and a crib to them when his affair with Gu Qiongsi was discovered. He also said that he was a clerk in a shop.

Now seeing him working for Gu Xunwei, Xie Chengan suddenly understood a lot of things.

Gu Xunwei actually discovered what was going on between him and Gu Qiongsi so early. No wonder, no wonder he felt at that time that she was no longer as respectful and cautious when looking at him as before.

"Gu Xunwei, you are great, you are so cruel." Xie Cheng'an was stunned for a long time, finally put down these words, and limped back to Jianjiayuan.

Several people now looked as if they had lost their parents. Gu Qiongsi also woke up from a coma, but just like Master Xie, he lay straight on the small couch. He knew that Xie Chengan had returned, but he did not move.

Ding Xiang saw that he was limping and immediately went forward to support him. Qian Shi also hurriedly asked, "How is it? Have you seen Gu Xunwei?"

Xie Chengan briefly recounted what had just happened, then sighed and said, "It turns out that what happened in Tongluo Lane in the west of the city was actually the work of Gu Xunwei."

Gu Qiongsi closed his eyes in pain. What's the use of knowing all this now? If he could have found it out at that time, he wouldn't have fallen to this point.

In the final analysis, it was all Xie Chengan's fault for being incompetent. He couldn't even find out such a small matter.

Qian was also filled with hatred, "Gu Xunwei is such a scheming woman. She hid it so deeply that she kept us all in the dark."

Dingxiang still didn't want to believe what they said at this time, because she was still with Gu Xunwei at that time, but she didn't hear any rumors at all.

Could it be that Gu Xunwei already knew about the relationship between herself and Gu Qiongsi at that time?

"Then, if that's the case, could it be that the young lady's poisoning is also a problem?" Dingxiang suddenly remembered this incident, and her uneasiness became even greater.

Gu Qiongsi opened her eyes and looked at Madam Li, "Madam, did you see Gu Xunwei drink all the medicine?"

Although the medicine was colorless and tasteless, it was very strong. If she drank it, she would definitely be poisoned.

Madam Li nodded quickly, "Every time, I watched Young Madam drink it."

After hearing this, Gu Qiongsi finally breathed a sigh of relief. If Gu Xunwei was really poisoned at that time, then the recipe he had stolen would definitely be fine.