Little Shitou rubbed his forehead, which had turned red after being hit. Earlier his words were a bit inappropriate. His second older sister was the family’s most capable and daring person. How could she allow herself to be pushed around so easily? He smiled sheepishly at Xiaocao and continued, “In these past few years, the share of the profits that you’ve given us have been used to buy a few estates in the capital or in Jinwei Prefecture City. So we all have our own sources of income now! As for the rest of the profits, you should keep it yourself now to avoid other people gossiping that we’re taking advantage of Imperial Prince Xu.”

Little Shitou hated it when outsiders claimed that the Yu Family were a bunch of social climbers. Clearly it was that fellow, Imperial Prince Xu, who insisted on clinging onto his second sister, but how did it become their family clutching onto him instead? 

Yu Xiaocao knocked on her younger brother’s forehead, pretending to be angry, “I, your older sister, haven’t even married yet you want to split away from me? These businesses are all mine, so it’s up to me on what I do with them. Who cares about what other people say? If you all think it’s inappropriate to take all of these obvious businesses, then if I leave the farmsteads, shops, and residences that people don’t know about to you all, would that be ok?” 

She had been living in the capital for the past five years...