Rebirth of the Merchant Woman's Revenge

The two men quickly returned to Jianjia Courtyard, and as expected, both came back empty-handed.

Seeing this, Qian sighed, then leaned on Mr. Xie's coffin and cried loudly, "Old man, why did you leave like this? You left us an orphan and a widow, how are we going to live..."

"Mother." Xie Chengyu called Qian in a low voice. As her voice was too loud, she had to pat her leg again.

Qian stopped crying immediately and looked at her daughter with tearful eyes, "What's wrong?"

"We just went to see Wei'er, and she said that she had given a box of jewelry to her brother and Aunt Gu. I wonder if they have told you about it?" Xie Chengyu said in a low voice, lowering his voice for fear of being heard by Xie Cheng'an.

As a married woman, if I said something like this, I would inevitably be considered as trying to sow discord between my mother and my younger brother.

After hearing what Xie Chengyu said, Qian was stunned for a moment. She remembered that Xie Chengan once mentioned to her about a box of jewelry, but he only mentioned it briefly. She didn't even touch a tael of silver.

"She just said these and didn't take out any more silver?" Qian asked.

The two daughters nodded in unison, knowing that this would be the result. Qian sighed and began to cry again to thank Master.

She had given up the idea of ​​getting money from Gu Xunwei, and Gu Qiongsi saw Xie Chengyu and the others coming back, so he followed them to this room.

He asked anxiously, "Sister, what does the young lady say?"

Xie Chengyu repeated Gu Xunwei's words to her in a bad mood, which made Gu Qiongsi terrified.

Without saying a word, she went to find Xie Chengan who was burning paper.

"Sanlang, Sanlang," she stroked her chest and nervously pulled Xie Chengan's sleeve, then said nervously, "Sanlang, Gu Xunwei knows that we took a box of her jewelry."

Xie Chengan was originally in a very sad mood at this time. Hearing Gu Qiongsi's words, he was also nervous for a moment, but he immediately calmed down, "I know, I know, is this a big deal?"

"But, but, we took the box together when we stole the Gu family's perfume recipe. Do you think she will find out that we have seen the Gu family's perfume recipe?"

Gu Qiongsi's words made Xie Cheng'an fall silent. Thinking about the situation at that time, Gu Xunwei's life was already in danger, so it should be difficult for her to discover this matter.

Gu Qiongsi went on to say, "If she knew that all of our Yipinxiang's incense products were made from Gu's incense recipes, she might report us to the authorities. Then we would be in a very passive position."

She didn't change at all and copied all the ingredients in the recipe. If Gu Xunwei sued the authorities, she would win the case.

"She hasn't mentioned this matter for such a long time, and she no longer runs the incense shop. I guess she hasn't discovered it." When Xie Cheng'an said these words, he actually had no idea.

Gu Qiongsi and Xie Cheng'an looked at each other, without saying much. There was nothing to discuss with Xie Cheng'an. She took out another fifty taels of silver note and gave it to Qian. Then she hurriedly left Jianjiayuan and went to the small courtyard where her parents rented to discuss countermeasures.

No matter what, she must preserve the Gu's fragrance recipe and make it her own. Her survival and wealth in this world depend on the Gu's fragrance recipe and His Royal Highness Prince An.

Prince An Li Junze had already entered the palace and was having lunch with Concubine Yu in Yuchen Palace.

Concubine Yu specially asked someone to prepare Prince An's favorite dishes and soup, and also invited Li Youyi to come and meet her brother as promised. Then she found an excuse to let Li Youyi return to the palace where she lived.

Li Junze looked at his mother and said, "Is there anything you want to eat recently? I'll have someone bring it to you. Some of the things may not be available in the palace."

He remembered that the last time his mother was pregnant with his younger sister, she liked sour food very much, and his grandfather even specially sent her candied fruits made from a snack shop in the capital from outside the palace.

He once secretly tasted one himself and was so sour that he frowned.

Concubine Yu shook her head. "Ze'er, you don't need to worry about your mother. You can stay outside the palace and go to your grandparents' home more often. This is also a way to show filial piety to your mother."

She heard the news that her father was seriously ill, but she was trapped in the palace and could not go to take care of him, so she was very worried.

Li Junze put down his chopsticks and said seriously, "Mother, don't worry about grandpa's health. Ze'er knows what's going on and will come back when he has time. But mother, you are pregnant with my brother now, so you must take care of yourself and don't worry too much about these trivial matters."

Wang Yuyan unconsciously placed her hand on her belly, as if there was really a son inside, with a happy smile on her face, "Okay, mother knows."

Li Junze also felt that his mother was indeed very capable. At this critical moment, she was pregnant with a prince again. This was an invisible help to him.

"What's the situation outside the palace now? Mother heard that the last fire in the Dali Temple was related to your grandfather?" Wang Yuyan was very perceptive. Based on the emperor's attitude towards her, she guessed that there must be some involvement.

Seeing that only Aunt Qimeng was in the hall, Li Junze nodded and admitted without hesitation, "Yes, it was my grandfather's instruction, but unfortunately, the operation failed."

"Oh, have you revealed any flaws?" Wang Yuyan looked at Li Junze nervously and put down the spoon in his hand.

Li Junze was worried that she would know the real situation and it would affect the fetus, so he did not explain the specific situation to her in detail, but simply said, "There is no flaw, mother, don't worry."

"But why, your grandfather has always been a cautious person, why would he do such a rash thing?"

What Wang Yuyan said made sense. No matter how hard those who knew Master Wang tried, they would never guess that he was the one who did it.

Li Junze dodged his gaze and said helplessly, "This time it was Ze'er's willfulness that had to stop Grandfather. Anyway, there's nothing wrong now."

Although Wang Yuyan still had doubts, he didn't dare to ask any more questions. He decided to find someone to inquire about it later.

Then the two of them talked about the emperor's recent attitude towards them. They always felt that the emperor was distant and not as concerned as before.

Li Junze asked, "Why, Father rarely comes to Mother's place recently?"

My mother is just pregnant, so my father should come more often.

Wang Yuyan shook his head. "He only came here once that morning, and he never came again. I don't know if he is angry with mother because of your grandfather's matter."