"Grand Master, what do we do? Our Ning Mansion still owes the Ministry of Revenue over six hundred thousand taels of silver!"
Jia Zhen panicked and quickly ran to the Side Courtyard to seek advice from He Tiantian.
"Just pay it back!" He Tiantian said as if it was obvious.
Jia Zhen: ...Damn it, of course I know the principle that debts must be repaid.
But the problem is that Ningguo's Mansion simply cannot come up with that much silver right now.
These past few years, in order to build the Qingxiu Courtyard and to support the people living in the courtyard, silver coin flowed out like water.
Jia Zhen himself was so frugal that he could not even afford Heavenly Wine and Earth—his eldest son's wedding was also skimpily held.
They had already economized as much as possible within the mansion, yet, they still could not save up any silver.
