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"Hey, sister, what are you doing standing here?" Second aunt's voice suddenly rang out. Mrs. Xie and Xie Jin were both startled and looked towards the gate of the courtyard at the same time.

The bewildered second aunt and slightly embarrassed eldest aunt appeared at the gate of the courtyard. The second aunt looked inside the courtyard and said, "Xie Jin is here too."

Xie Jin stood up quickly, bowed and said, "Hello, second aunt. I just talked to my aunt and was about to leave. I'll take my leave first."

"Ah," the eldest aunt hurried in, grabbed Xie Jin who was walking towards her hurriedly, smiled very lovingly, and said, "Bihua, don't leave yet." After saying that, she looked back and found that no one else was coming. She turned back and said with a little embarrassment, "Just now when I walked to the door, I happened to overhear a few words... Well, of course not much. I have such an idea... Simply, simply take this opportunity to leave the palace. I think it is better and more face-saving to divorce. On our side, let Qu'er divorce that poor little wife from the remote countryside, and you can just marry Qu'er!"

Before anyone else could react, the second aunt was the first to exclaim, "Sister, what are you talking about!" She subconsciously looked back, and only felt relieved when she was sure that no one else was around. She turned back and lowered her voice while shaking the eldest aunt's arm and said, "Sister, are you crazy? Why did you say that all of a sudden?!"

The eldest aunt shook off the hand of the second aunt that was pulling her arm, snorted and said, "Originally, Bihua was going to be engaged to our Qu'er, if it weren't for... Bihua should have been the daughter-in-law of our Xu family. Do you think she is my sister-in-law?"

When Mrs. Xie heard what her aunt said, she sensed the complaint about the long-ago incident in her words and was speechless for a moment, but she still came over and said, "Sister, this is not a joke."

"I'm not kidding. You must be fed up with seeing Bihua being bullied in the palace. Now that she comes to our Xu Mansion, she will live under your protection. Her life will definitely be much more leisurely." The eldest aunt raised her eyelids and glanced at Madam Xie.

Mrs. Xie had no way to refute this. The second aunt hurriedly grabbed the eldest aunt's arm and said, "Sister, Qu'er is already married, and Huanhuan did nothing wrong. Why do you want to divorce her?"

The eldest aunt frowned at her younger sister and said, "Now you have grown up with your brain. It's not easy to find a reason. The fact that you have no children is a ready-made reason."

"Sister, they have only been married for a short time. This reason is a bit far-fetched and hard to convince people! If you divorce her, our Xu family will be laughed at!" The second aunt felt that this reason was too deliberate and untenable.

"When you decided to marry a daughter-in-law without a dowry, you weren't afraid of being laughed at, but now you are afraid of being laughed at? Besides, are you afraid that her family, who are unwilling to even give a dowry, will stand up for her?" The eldest aunt glanced at the second aunt.

"Huanhuan's family did do something wrong, but Huanhuan is a very kind and nice person. It's unjustifiable to do this for no reason." The second aunt still insisted on persuading.

"Has that ignorant young wife taken advantage of by you? You speak to her in such a way! I think you are a little weird. If you really have that extra energy, you should think of a way to use it to ask fewer people to help you with household chores!" The eldest aunt rarely spoke harshly to her younger sister. The second aunt sensed her anger and did not dare to say anything else.

Seeing that the voices of opposition had died down, the eldest aunt showed a satisfied smile. She turned to Xie Jin and said, "Bihua, when is it convenient for you, let's discuss how to proceed?"

Xie Jin was actually frightened by this proposal. She had indeed thought about what life would be like if she had married into the Xu family instead of the Wang Mansion. But she had never thought about really leaving the Wang Mansion.

At this moment, she no longer had the confidence she had in the past. Her deep eyes were full of hesitation. Under the urging of her aunt's earnest gaze, she asked doubtfully, "Is this...appropriate?"

Xie Jin didn't seem to have any objection in his tone, so the eldest aunt was very happy. She immediately replied, "It's appropriate! Of course it's appropriate! This not only makes up for the regrets of the past, but also solves your current difficulties, and also gives Qu'er a good wife who is a good match for him. It's a good thing to kill three birds with one stone, and achieve three goals with one stone."

Seeing that no one else was talking, the eldest aunt continued, "Look, Qu'er got married so late. If I were to ask you, it's because you're still thinking about..."

"Aunt!" Xiangyue's voice rang out in a hurry. Everyone looked towards the door and saw Xiangyue with complicated eyes and the stiff Huanhuan standing at the door.

Xiangyue withdrew her gaze from her aunt and the others, and looked nervously at Huanhuan beside her. Huanhuan's face was ashen, his lips were tightly pursed, and he said nothing.

Xiangyue wanted to say something but stopped herself. After a brief pause, she said, "Sister-in-law, don't take these words seriously. These... Alas!" Xiangyue wanted to say something to persuade her, but didn't know how to say it. In the end, she could only sigh.

Huanhuan felt as if she had been poured with a basin of ice water, from head to toe, even her heart was cold. Her mind was blank, her ears were buzzing, and she could not hear any sound around her.

In the silence, Xie Jin said, "It's getting late, I'll take my leave now." After that, she hurried to the gate. She paused for a moment when she passed by Xiangyue and the others, but it was only a momentary pause. She neither turned her head nor spoke, and soon continued to look straight ahead and resumed her pace.

After Xie Jin left, Madam Xie sighed secretly, picked up the topic in the silence, and said, "I think the sun is almost setting, let's go back home."

The Xu family members got on the carriage, each with their own thoughts.

While sitting in the carriage waiting for Xu Qu, Mrs. Xie, who was riding in a carriage alone with her aunt, thought about it again and again and said to her aunt tactfully: "Sister, I think your suggestion today should not be mentioned again in the future. You see, it is so distressing that the children heard it today and reacted slowly."

After hearing this, the eldest aunt took a long breath and said absentmindedly, "Well, if you ask me, since she happened to hear it, it's nothing bad. To be exact, it's quite good. It allows her to be mentally prepared."

"This... Bihua was chosen as the Crown Prince's Consort by the Emperor's order. There is no precedent for her being divorced or divorced. It is impossible." Madam Xie already sounded a bit earnest.

"Can't it be done without a precedent? Everything depends on human efforts. Are you afraid of losing face for your Xie family, or are you willing to let your own niece continue to suffer for the sake of your Xie family's power and status?" When the eldest aunt doesn't want to show any mercy, she dares to expose anyone's secrets.

"This! Sister, you misunderstood what I meant. But then again, don't you have any selfish motives at all?" Mrs. Xie also became angry and became impolite.

The eldest aunt looked at Madam Xie strangely. She had never seen her sister-in-law treat her like this in all these years. The more she thought about it, the angrier she became. Finally, she looked coldly at him, turned around, faced the other way, and did not speak to Madam Xie all the way.

In the carriage of Xu Qu, Huanhuan and Xiangyue, Xu Qu got on the carriage while slightly tipsy, and as soon as he got on, he leaned against the inner wall of the carriage and took a nap.

Halfway through the journey, Xiangyue, who could not stay out of the matter, saw Huanhuan looking out the window with a frown on her face and a dazed look on her face. She could not help but whispered to him, "Sister-in-law, why do you care about what your aunt said? That's just her own idea."

Slowly turning his head, he murmured, "No, I was wondering: Is love in this world always 'once you've seen the sea, other waters are no longer palatable', or is it only true for certain people who are deeply in love?"

Xiangyue frowned and said, "Sister-in-law, the past is the past. Who knows if it won't be 'behind the dead tree, a thousand trees will bloom again'."

Huanhuan said, "Yes, we all need to look forward, but I'm afraid I'm not the one who doesn't look forward."

"This, sister-in-law..." Xiangyue was a little anxious. The older girl actually said, "As long as, as long as you have a boy or a girl soon, the eldest aunt will have nothing to say."

Looking at Xiangyue slowly, she wanted to say: That's why I'm worried now. But in the end, she just smiled at Xiangyue. Then her eyes moved to Xu Qu who was standing by the window. That handsome face could still stir up ripples in her heart, but she could only fall into endless contemplation in the shaking carriage...