Rebirth of the Merchant Woman's Revenge

Xie Chengan was naturally happy when he heard this, but he thought about what Gu Qiongsi had said to him before, and he probably felt that what he asked for was too little, so he said with some reluctance,

"Well, look, isn't six hundred taels a little too little? There are several of us in the family, and we need money everywhere..."

Before he finished speaking, he had already noticed the change in Gu Xunwei's mood, so he could only lower his head guiltily.

"Does Mr. Xie think that if I am willing to pay another two hundred taels, he will ask for a huge sum of money?"

"No, no, that's not it. I just think that six hundred taels is not enough. I don't mean anything else."

Xie Chengan hurriedly explained that he no longer acted so high and mighty in front of Gu Xunwei as he did when he first became the top scholar.

"Six hundred taels are not enough? Mr. Xie may have forgotten that when the Xie family had two cloth shops, they only earned a few dozen taels of silver a month, but they lived well, didn't they?"

"Yes, wasn't there no aunt and no Rui'er at that time? Now..."

There is also one more person, Xi Cui.

"Isn't this all the result of Mr. Xie's hard work over the past year? So, do you need me to spend money to support your aunt and child?"

Gu Xunwei's words were neither nice nor pleasant, and Xie Chengan's face turned purple.

He was a scholar, so how could he quarrel with others, let alone quarrel with a woman? It would be even more difficult for him to start a quarrel.

The key point is that what Gu Xunwei said were all facts, and I couldn't refute them.

"This is the divorce agreement. Mr. Xie, please take a look. If there is no problem, please sign it and put your fingerprints on it. Now that the matter is settled, you can quickly find another more suitable place to live."

Seeing that he didn't say anything, Gu Xunwei asked Chenxiang to hand him the divorce documents that she had prepared.

What's so good about a divorce agreement? It's just a few simple words. Both parties sign it, put their fingerprints on it, and file it with the government. From then on, the two people have no relationship anymore.

He just glanced at her briefly and then looked up at Gu Xunwei.

Seeing that she looked calm and composed at this moment, he felt a little moved for no reason.

In the past, he knew that Gu Xunwei was good-looking, but he looked down on her background and didn't want to get close to her. He always felt that the most disliked type of person in the literary circle was this kind of money-obsessed business woman.

Coupled with Gu Qiongsi's whispering in his ear, it seems that they missed each other after all.

"Okay, I'll sign it." Xie Cheng'an finally uttered a few words. Although he was unwilling, he had no choice but to do so due to the circumstances.

Gu Xunwei curled her lips slightly, asked Chenxiang to follow Xie Chengan back to the room, took paper and pen to sign and put fingerprints, while she continued to stand in the yard waiting.

She looked through the wall of the Jianjia Courtyard and saw the branches and leaves of a pomegranate tree outside emerging from the wall. The touch of green added a lot of vitality to the small courtyard.

After experiencing rebirth, Gu Xunwei felt free again.

From this moment on, he no longer had to think about revenge, nor did he have to rack his brains to think about how to deal with them, let alone worry about their ability to deal with the Gu family or his parents.

When Chenxiang walked out of the door with the divorce papers, Gu Xunwei still couldn't believe it. It was not until she saw Xie Chengan's name with her own eyes and the red handprint next to it that she nodded and put it away.

"Here are three hundred taels of silver notes. You can use them to pay for Aunt Gu's medical treatment and to find a house. I will have the housekeeper personally deliver the remaining five hundred taels to you when you move out."

As Gu Xunwei spoke, she had already pulled out a silver note from her sleeve and handed it to Xie Chengan.

"Wait." Xie Cheng'an was about to reach out to take it when he heard a weak voice suddenly coming from behind him.

It turned out to be Gu Qiongsi who woke up from her coma. She struggled to walk to the door and then said those two words forcefully.

Gu Xunwei looked at Gu Qiongsi. His condition seemed to have improved slightly, but he was still visibly weak.

"Gu Xunwei, I have something to tell you." Gu Qiongsi said in a stiff tone.

Xie Cheng'an looked at Gu Qiongsi in surprise. She had never spoken to Gu Xunwei in such a tone before.

At this moment, Gu Qiongsi's aura was very different from before, and it seemed that he had a lot more resentment.

"If you have anything to say, just say it." Gu Xunwei had no intention of going back into the little house, so she let Gu Qiongsi talk here.

"You know that we stole your Gu's incense recipe, and you deliberately wanted us to steal that recipe, right?"

Gu Qiongsi was very imposing, and his tone was quite aggressive, as if Gu Xunwei had done something unforgivable.

Xie Cheng'an was also shocked when he heard this. If this was true, did it mean that she knew everything they had done to Gu Xunwei?

"Yes." Gu Xunwei's simple word saved Gu Qiongsi from having to ask many more questions.

"Why? Why is it like this?" Gu Qiongsi continued to ask with difficulty.

"The incense recipe was originally meant to confuse those who have improper desires for it. You should blame yourself for coveting something that does not belong to you."

Gu Xunwei answered as a matter of course, and she was also holding her breath in her heart. It had come to this point, how could Gu Qiongsi have the nerve to question her like this.

She was the one who did something wrong, and they were the ones who stole things, so why did she now sound as if she had gone too far?

"Gu Xunwei, you are so cruel. You clearly knew that there was something wrong with the recipe, but you kept pretending that you didn't know. Now that you see us like this, are you happy?"

Gu Qiongsi shouted breathlessly, but due to his poor health, his words were so weak that they broke.

"Mrs. Gu's words are really interesting. Did you tell me that you stole my perfume recipe? Last time when you went to the Gu residence, you said that you got the perfume recipe from somewhere else. How could I know that you were so bold as to use the Gu family perfume recipe?"

"You should be thankful that the Gu family's incense recipe is fake. If it were real, would you still be able to recover here? You would have been imprisoned for life."

What Gu Xunwei said made sense. If all the incense products of Yipinxiang were made from the recipes on Gu's incense recipes, Gu Xunwei could take those incense products to the government office to sue them for stealing the recipes.

Since the business environment in Da Chu is very good, the government attaches great importance to protecting the secret recipes of some merchants, especially the Gu family, which has been making incense for a hundred years. If we look at the revenue of the Gu family incense shop over the years, Gu Qiongsi might really be thrown into jail, and it would be difficult for him to get out for at least ten or twenty years.

"You, you, when did you know about our action plan?" Gu Qiongsi still found it hard to believe how Gu Xunwei, who was not very smart, could know so much.