Rebirth of the Merchant Woman's Revenge

"What? You didn't say that?" Qian shouted angrily.

"Yes, mother, I just said that if we raise money to buy spices and develop new fragrances, there might be a chance of winning, isn't it?" Gu Xunwei coughed twice and spoke intermittently.

"I have been working day and night these days to develop incense products, and I am very sad that this is the result. I didn't expect that my mother would want me to pay back the money. This really makes me feel sadder than losing the game." Gu Xunwei said as she leaned against Chenxiang's body. She looked really ill, and even her crying seemed weak.

Chen Xiang couldn't stand it anymore, and continued to complain, "Why did our young lady show up in public? For whom? It's because our Xie family is in urgent need of money, and she thought that working harder could help her to make ends meet and to help her young master with his affairs. Who would have thought that you would..."

Qian glanced at Nanny Li, who quickly stepped forward to ease the atmosphere, "Young Madam, please don't be angry. Madam just said those words in anger. No one wants what happened today to happen."

Qian sighed again, and then said, "Okay, don't cry. I was so angry today that I said something I shouldn't have said. You can pay back the money slowly when you have money in the future. But the cloth shop and the old house are both pawned in the pawnshop, and we can't waste time."

"How about you borrow some from your mother first, and then after you redeem them, we can sell them slowly. I'm sure we'll be able to find a suitable buyer."

All she was thinking about now was her old house and cloth shop that she had pawned. If she couldn't redeem them without money in the short term, they would become dead pawns.

"Weier has no more money to spend now, and most of her dowry has been sold. The two incense shops must have been losing money in the past two months."

"As for what mother said about going to my mother to borrow money, Wei'er really couldn't open her mouth to ask for it. After all, father is still ill. It's fine that I can't be by his bedside to show my filial piety, but how can I bother him with this matter?"

Gu Xunwei looked embarrassed, but what she said blocked every possibility of what Qian had just said.

"You, this is not okay, and that is not okay. Are you just going to let our old house and the cloth shop become pawnshops? That would be a huge loss, don't you know?"

Qian was heartbroken. The pawned items were basically priced at 50% to 60% of the market price, plus interest. If the pawned items could not be redeemed within the specified time, it would be like they were selling their old house and cloth shop at an extremely low price.

How could Qian be willing to accept this, especially since she was a money-lover.

Gu Xunwei shook her head. "Wei'er, there is nothing we can do now. How about mother sell it at the market price and use the money from it to pay off the debt I lent to the palace?"

"This way... Mother might feel better." Gu Xunwei added angrily.

"What?" Qian was so angry that her eyes widened. She really didn't expect Gu Xunwei to say such a thing.

"Gu Xunwei, how can you say such a thing?" Xie Cheng'an and Gu Qiongsi heard that Gu Xunwei had returned, so they rushed over together.

As a result, he happened to hear what she had just said. Xie Cheng'an was so angry that his hands were shaking. He pointed at Gu Xunwei's nose and was about to curse her, but as a scholar, he didn't know what words to use to curse.

When Chen Xiang saw Xie Cheng'an's expression, he immediately stood in front of Gu Xunwei without saying anything, "Master, the young mistress was upset today and needs to rest. Please don't be so excited. We can discuss anything."

"Get out of here, you slut." Xie Cheng'an was so angry that he didn't care about etiquette at all. He just tried to pull Chenxiang, trying to get her to move away.

Gu Xunwei stood up from her chair and looked coldly at the angry Xie Chengan, "My husband, what are you doing? You are angry with me, isn't it just because I lost some money to the Xie family? Do you know how much money I have given to the Xie family since I got married?"

"What, do you regret spending money on Xie Mansion? As a wife of Xie family, shouldn't you do so? Or do you want Xie Mansion back?" Xie Cheng'an's face turned pale. He, the top scholar, felt really aggrieved. It would have been fine if he had been appointed as a seventh-rank official, but who would have known that his wife's shop would lose the competition so blatantly. He really couldn't hold his head up.

Other people's wives all hide in the back, never interfering with the affairs of the shop, and never showing up in public. They just wait to get the money. No one is like her, running to the competition venue in person to embarrass herself.

"What my husband said is really interesting," Gu Xunwei came out from behind Chenxiang, no longer looking weak and sickly, "As a wife of the Xie family, it is only natural for me to give money to the Xie family, but I can't even think about the Xie family paying me back, right? I don't know which official family or noble family in our capital has set such a rule?"

"Of course I can pay you back, but not in this way. How can I pawn my own house and shop to pay you back?" Xie Cheng'an was still quibbling.

Gu Xunwei was also extremely angry at this time. If she could break off relations with them completely, she would have really wanted to take action.

"Then how should it be repaid? The cloth shop earns dozens of taels of money every month, and your husband also receives dozens of taels of salary? Apart from food, clothing, and servants' monthly salaries, I don't know when I will be able to pay you back, or has your husband never thought about paying you back at all?" Gu Xunwei exposed his lies and also revealed the greedy faces of the mother and son.

Xie Cheng'an and Qian were both speechless. They had indeed confronted the housekeeper. Gu Xunwei had already deposited more than three thousand taels of silver into the public treasury. According to this statement, they would definitely not be able to pay it back in their current situation.

"Wei'er," seeing that the two were silent, Gu Qiongsi walked to Xie Cheng'an's side and said with a smile, "Don't worry too much. Sanlang has just entered the court, and he will definitely get better soon. By then, his salary will definitely be much higher."

Yes, in his previous life, Xie Chengan's official position was indeed promoted very quickly, but unfortunately, his expenses also increased. From the beginning to the end, he contributed money from the public treasury himself, and never spent a single ounce of his salary.

Gu Xunwei thought, even if he had given her a gift, or even bought her a meal, it would have been great, but unfortunately, nothing happened.

So in this life, Xie Chengan wanted to climb up as quickly as he did in his previous life. How could I possibly let him do so?