Rebirth of the Merchant Woman's Revenge

Gu Xunwei opened her eyes with difficulty, with Gu Qiongsi's excited shouting still echoing in her ears.

That recipe is naturally fake. The real recipe only exists in one's mind and no one can get it.

Moreover, the Gu family's incense shop has always adhered to the principle of ten times compensation for fake products. There is a slowly evaporating ingredient added to the fake incense recipe, which makes the smell almost the same as the real one at first. But after seven days, those ointments and incense pills will emit a foul odor.

If the goods sold by the incense shop in seven days were to be compensated tenfold, it would definitely be a considerable amount.

I believe that by then, not only will the Gu family's existing incense shop no longer be able to continue operating, but even the reputation of Gu Qiongsi and his daughter will be ruined.

I wonder if Xie Cheng'an, the Minister of Rites, would still marry Gu Qiongsi as his wife at that time?

Thinking of this, Gu Xunwei slowly opened her eyes. But where was this? Why was everything red?

"Miss... No, Young Madam, it's time to get up." The voice of the maid Chenxiang sounded outside the door.

Chenxiang? Didn’t she say something she shouldn’t have said to protect herself, and was married to a groom by Qian more than half a year ago? Didn’t she die in less than three months?

Presumably, the people in Xie's house killed her just to get rid of someone they could use. Ultimately, she died because of her own stupidity and inability to judge people.

After I died, I saw Chenxiang who had already passed away. Was she asking me to apologize to her?

She opened her mouth with difficulty and began to look around: the red curtains, the red quilt, the red pillow, and the red thing on her body - a wedding dress?

"Come in." She spoke with difficulty in her hoarse voice, and then the door was opened from the outside, and Chenxiang walked in with hot water.

It was a somewhat childish face, and combined with the bright red objects beside it, these scenes were highly consistent with the scenes in her memory. Gu Xunwei opened her eyes wide in surprise. She was reborn, and she was reborn to the second day of her marriage.

I still remember that when I got married in my previous life, my parents prepared a dowry of sixty-four loads for me. However, considering that Xie Cheng'an was only a scholar at the time, the betrothal gift was too meagre, and they were afraid that too much would cause criticism, so they only sent sixteen loads.

The rest were brought back by myself when I returned home three days later.

The day they got married happened to be the day when the results of the imperial examination were announced. Xie Cheng'an became the top scorer in the imperial examination, which was a double blessing for the Xie family and became a legend in no time.

Xie Cheng'an's mother, Qian, decided to hold a grand banquet. At that time, the Xie family's home was still a small courtyard with two entrances, and the banquet was held on the street outside the courtyard.

As she was just a merchant's daughter, how could she be worthy of the ambitious number one scholar? Just when she felt ashamed of herself, Qian personally promised that she would never let Xie Cheng'an divorce her.

It was because of these things that Xie Cheng'an did not show up in the bridal chamber on the wedding day. Later, because he was angry with Qian, he never stepped into his own door again.

She didn't dare to say anything and devoted herself to taking care of her parents-in-law. She also took out her own dowry to support the Xie family. She sold her dowry to give him gifts during the New Year and also helped him take in two concubines.

Then, more than a year later, Qian came back from burning incense and brought back a boy about one year old. She said that the boy's mother had passed away while trying to save the old lady, so the old lady decided to register him under her own name and raise him as her legitimate son. The boy was Xie Rui.

"Young Madam, don't be too sad. My son-in-law just drank too much yesterday..."

Chenxiang looked at Xunwei for a long time without saying anything. She just sat on the bed blankly. Thinking that she was sad because Xie Chengan did not come to her wedding night yesterday, he could only try to comfort her clumsily.

Gu Xunwei heard Chenxiang's words and pulled herself out of her thoughts of the previous life. "Well, I'm not sad. Please help me wash up."

She concealed all her emotions and asked Chenxiang to help her wash up. At this time, Dingxiang also came in, "Young Madam, Madam has stood up. We must go over and pay our respects to her."

"Okay, got it. You can give the key to my small warehouse to Chenxiang first. I have other things for you to do." Gu Xunwei said as if normal, but Dingxiang's words before her death rang in her ears again.

"Husband, Madam, I am sorry for you. I will bury your body properly after you die."

These two maids were the dowry maids that she brought from the Gu Mansion. They have been with her for more than ten years. Dingxiang is well-behaved and she likes her very much, while Chenxiang is quiet and she doesn't like her.

In the previous life, Chenxiang died because of me, but Dingxiang chose to betray me.

Ding Xiang was a little surprised after hearing what Gu Xunwei said, but she still reluctantly took out the key hanging around her neck and handed it to Chen Xiang, "What does the young lady want to arrange for me?"

"Go to the South Lane of the capital in the next few days to see if there is a suitable courtyard. This courtyard is too small after all. How can your husband still live here after he won the first place in the imperial examination?"

The residences of court officials are all around South Lane in the capital, and the houses are all very spacious. In their previous life, they bought a house with Gu Xunwei's dowry not long after they got married.

Gu Xunwei asked Chenxiang to help her comb her hair into a bun, and then took out a set of festive clothes and put them on.

"Okay, I understand." Dingxiang is not as calm as Chenxiang. She usually likes to go out and do things. When she heard Gu Xunwei's words, she immediately became happy again.

Gu Xunwei got married in the east wing, while Qian and Mr. Xie lived in the main house, which was just outside the yard.

"Greetings, father and mother." Gu Xunwei bowed and offered tea.

Just like in the previous life, Qian helped him up distressedly, "Good boy, get up quickly, it's all because of An Ge's ignorance, don't take it to heart."

What she was talking about was that Xie Cheng'an refused to enter the bridal chamber with her last night.

"Mother, Wei'er understands everything. Now my husband is already the top scholar in the imperial examination. Wei'er knows that she is no longer worthy of him. Why don't you ask my husband to give me a letter of divorce and let me return home?"

Gu Xunwei said hesitantly, and then used a handkerchief to press the corners of her eyes.

Her words immediately made Qian and Mr. Xie change their expressions. They would never have thought that Gu Xunwei would say such a thing. In her previous life, Gu Xunwei had never thought of returning home until her death.

She knew very well in her heart that the old couple and even Xie Cheng'an would not allow her to return home, because part of the money they spent on entertaining guests yesterday was still in arrears.

"Wei'er, what are you talking about? Although Brother An has won the first place in the imperial examination, he can't just divorce you like that. I will give him some advice about what happened last night."

Qian reached out and held Gu Xunwei's slightly cold hand, and put a bracelet that was not of very good quality on her arm on Gu Xunwei's arm, and then said, "Mother knows that you have been wronged."

Gu Xunwei was talking about a letter of divorce, but Qian changed it to a letter of divorce. Haha, the difference between the two is huge.

But Gu Xunwei just thought she was sad and didn't notice the misunderstanding in her words.