Chapter 8 Borrowing Money
Xia Zihan seemed not to understand, his expression did not change at all.
But when she saw that although Xia Ziying's attitude was affectionate, she didn't ask the maid to pour a cup of hot tea, and she was busy with one mouthful. She had no time and looked at her with small eyes. She didn't want to waste her precious time anymore, and she made it clear that today Purpose of visit.
"You want to borrow money? You also want to borrow five hundred taels of silver?"
Xia Ziying opened her eyes wide, with an expression as if Xia Zihan had borrowed not 500 taels, but 50,000 taels of silver.
It was rare for him to open his mouth and save face. Of course, Xia Zihan had to borrow more.
To Xia Ziying, there was no difference between her asking to borrow two hundred taels of silver and borrowing five hundred taels of silver.
Five hundred taels of silver, and more than one hundred taels of silver were returned. For the remaining three hundred taels, she found someone to redeem Nuanyu and Nuanxiang.
I'm afraid it would cost one hundred and eighty taels to redeem the two of them. With the remaining two hundred taels, she would buy a house with one entrance, hire a rough lady to help with some heavy work, and hire a maid. Helping take care of Sister Ying, she and Nuanyu Nuanxiang can concentrate on embroidering things to sell and support their family.
From then on, their family of four lived a happy life relying on embroidery in Yifeng Town.
No more beatings and scoldings from Cao Zian, no more harsh treatment from Mrs. Cao. With the money they earned, they could save their own flowers instead of handing them over to Mrs. Cao or supporting Cao Zian to gamble.
She had planned her wonderful future life on the way here.
But the premise is that Xia Ziying can lend her money.
Just when she thought of this, she heard Xia Ziying say, "Second sister, I'm dissatisfied with what you said. Something happened to the Xia family last year, and all the more than 100 members of the Xia family were exiled to Sha County on the border. I resold a lot of jewelry and clothes to get the five dollars." I secretly gave my mother a thousand taels of silver to take care of in Shaxian County, hoping that my father, mother, and younger brother would have a better time in Shaxian County.”
"This Anyang Marquis Mansion looks beautiful from the outside, but in fact it is very tight in terms of money." "Three generations of the Song family live together, with dozens of masters waiting to serve, and they rely on the little income from the father-in-law to support them. Although I preside over I have to give money to the government, but the rules are there. Even if I misappropriate a tael of silver without permission, I still have to keep an account.”
"My wife, the crown prince's monthly allowance is only fifty taels of silver, which is not even enough to buy a hairpin. I..." looked very embarrassed, "I just received this month's monthly allowance a few days ago, and I spent some money on it." , there are only ten taels of silver left, how about...Second sister, you take the flowers first, and when the prince comes back in the evening, I will let the prince think of something?"
That tone was obviously perfunctory.
Xia Ziying ordered Dan Luo to go into the inner room and get ten taels of silver.
Xia Zihan looked at the ten taels of silver and his heart went cold.
Ten taels of silver were not enough for her to pay off her debt.
No, it's not even enough for her round trip from Yifeng Town to the capital.
Not to mention, redeem Nuanyu Nuanxiang.
No, she couldn't return empty-handed, otherwise, she and Sister Ying would face a dead end.
Nuan Yu and Nuan Xiang will also be trapped in a cage and cannot be saved.
She glanced around the room, walked to the Duobao shelf, picked up a small and exquisite incense burner on it, smiled and murmured, "This is something from the Chu family. It was a dowry given to my mother by my grandmother. My mother passed away." After that, it was left to me.”
She glanced at the other five items on the Duobao shelf, "These are the same, too. The Chu family's items all have the word "Chu" engraved on the bottom."
(End of chapter)