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Chapter 39: Eight sets of clothes made, taels
Madam Shen retorted: "Gu doesn't even consider herself as the wife of the Marquis's son, so why does she want us to support her? She has so much dowry money, but she is unwilling to give it to others. Can't she pay for her own expenses? Doesn't she know what the Marquis's situation is like now?"

Madam Tian chuckled, "Madam, you are old now. I will not take your nonsense to heart. I will pretend that I did not hear you say such a thing. I will remind you that as long as my young lady does not divorce the prince, the Marquis' Mansion will have to support my young lady."

After saying that, Nanny Tian took her people away, leaving Old Madam Shen cursing angrily.

But even though she scolded him, she really didn't dare not pay Gu Nianchu for his expenses.

As a result, the Marquis' Mansion became increasingly stretched to the limit.

Xu Yan was beaten by Gu Nianchu and had to lie on the bed for four or five days. Her injuries had finally healed a little. She was so angry that she wanted to find Old Madam Shen to help her vent her anger.

When Old Madam Shen heard her explanation, she slapped her in the face: "Xu, don't you know what the current situation of the Marquis' Mansion is like? You still want to embarrass your mother-in-law. Do you want the Marquis' Mansion to be ruined?"

Xu Yan covered her cheeks in disbelief: "Mother, you hit me! You actually hit me for Gu's!"

Looking at the red marks on Xu Yan's face, Old Madam Shen felt a little regretful: "Yan'er, these days, mother has been really mad at Gu Shi. Don't bother with mother."

Old Madam Shen gave Xu Yan a set of headgear to appease her. She held Xu Yan's hand and said helplessly, "Yan'er, that Gu is like a different person now. She is stubborn and unyielding. Not to mention that I can't control her as her mother, even your father is not taken seriously by Gu."

Xu Yan's eyes turned red: "Mother, are we just going to let Gu be so arrogant?"

Madam Shen held Xu Yan's hand and said softly, "Let her be arrogant for now. When Ling'er's injury is healed, she will eventually give in. Then all her dowry will be yours. By then, she will pay you back a hundredfold for all the suffering she has caused you!"

Xu Yan didn't quite believe what Old Madam Shen said, but she still didn't refute it. After talking with Old Madam Shen for a while, she returned to Lingyun Pavilion.

Shen Ling's injuries were getting better and worse, and now he no longer looked like the handsome young man he used to be. Although Xu Yan was taking care of him, he still emitted a foul odor from time to time, which made Shen Shaobai very disgusted.

After Shen Shaobai was beaten up by Gu Nianchu that day, Old Marquis Shen strictly ordered Xu Yan not to let Shen Shaobai provoke Gu Nianchu. Gu Nianchu was too crazy now, and he was afraid that Gu Nianchu would take Shen Shaobai's life without any care.

In the past, Gu Nianchu would arrange for people to send gifts before the New Year, and they were always sent very thoughtfully. But this year, Gu Nianchu didn't care, and Old Madam Shen was short of money, so the gifts were very vague. She just wanted to get by, and she was also thinking about making a small fortune by receiving gifts.

However, what Old Madam Shen did not expect was that the New Year gifts she had people send to each family were simply sent back and no one accepted them. Those who did not say anything were still considered polite, while the one with a sharp tongue even asked the servants to convey a message, saying that they heard that the Marquis's family could not even afford food and had to rely on their daughter-in-law's dowry to survive, and they really did not dare to ruin their lives, so they sent the gifts back and asked the Marquis's family to exchange them for a few buckets of rice to fill their stomachs.

This joke spread so widely that Old Lord Shen couldn't bear to be a coward. He scolded Old Madam Shen and finally let Xu Yan be the housekeeper.

On the first day as Xu Yan's housekeeper, Gu Nianchu made eight sets of clothes, which were custom-made at Jinxiufang, a place where most people could not afford to make even one piece of clothing in their entire lives.

The people from Jinxiufang came to Xu Yan with the bill that day to ask for money. When Xu Yan saw the amount on the bill, her eyes almost popped out: "Sixteen thousand taels! What kind of clothes are so expensive?"

"Madam Xu, is two thousand dollars a set of clothes from our Jinxiu Fang very expensive? When Miss Gu was in charge, she made several sets of clothes for each of the masters in the mansion, and she never paid less than the money from our Jinxiu Fang." Jin Niang, the manager of Jinxiu Fang, had a look of disdain on her face, and Xu Yan's face turned very ugly. Gu Nianchu did make clothes from Jinxiu Fang for the masters in the mansion before, but she gave all that money to the Gu family by selling her dowry!
Now it has become a merchant girl who laughs at her!

"There is no money in the Marquis' Mansion. Go ask whoever did this for money."

Xu Yan really didn't want to give this silver. Madam Shen gave her 20,000 yuan, but she was unwilling to spend 16,000 yuan on Gu Nianchu.

Jinniang did not argue: "Since Madam Xu said so, I will go to Miss Gu to get the silver."

A quarter of an hour after Jinniang was gone, the people around Gu Nianchu arrived.

"Madam Xu, my young lady asked me to come and get the silver."

Han Chan brought Chunlan and Xiahe with her. Chunlan stretched out her hand to ask Xu Yan for money, but Xu Yan pretended not to see it: "Chunlan, don't you know what the situation is in the Marquis' Mansion now? How can we afford to make clothes that cost two thousand taels each? If you want to make clothes, you can pay for it yourself. I don't have the money to make clothes for her."

Chunlan smiled faintly: "Since Madam Xu said so, I think the palace can't afford the money. I won't make it difficult for Madam Xu. Madam Xu will give me the cards. I can't withdraw the money from the account, so the matter is over. My young lady has plenty of money, so she can naturally afford such a small amount of money."

Xu Yan was so angry that she wanted to have someone arrest Chunlan and the others, but when she saw Han Chan's cold face, she didn't dare to do so.

Xu Yan refused to give the pair of cards, Chunlan waved her hand, and Han Chan directly grabbed the pair of cards. Then they went to the accounting office to withdraw money, and Jinniang followed closely behind them.

Xu Yan hurriedly sent someone to stop them and also sent someone to invite Lord Shen.

Unfortunately, the accountant was a sensible man. When he saw the right cards, he gave the banknote to Jinniang without any hesitation. Jinniang took the banknote and walked out of the marquis's mansion.

Old Marquis Shen and his palace soldiers chased after them, but Han Chan stopped them and made a scene at the gate of the Marquis's mansion.

"Everyone, please judge for yourself. When my young lady was in charge, she would make several sets of clothes from Jinxiufang for the master of the mansion during the New Year. Now that my master is no longer in charge, she made several sets of clothes for herself. The Marquis' Mansion actually wants to take back the money that was given. Isn't this going to force my young lady to death?"

Xia He's voice was very loud. The people living around the Marquis' Mansion were all wealthy families. When they heard that there was something exciting going on at the Mansion, their servants quickly rushed out and formed a big circle around it.

"Is the Marquis' Mansion really that poor? It doesn't even have the money to make a few sets of clothes for the Crown Prince's wife?"

"You forgot that when I married my concubine, it was a huge wedding, which cost hundreds of thousands of silver."

"It's really funny. You can spend hundreds of thousands of silver to marry a concubine, but why can't the wife of the main wife even make a few sets of clothes?"

(End of this chapter)