Zhixin and Jiaxing entered the room and spoke to everyone about Zhiming's situation, finally mentioning that the other party demanded 500 taels of silver. "Dad, Mom, what do you think we should do? Even if we sold everything we have, we couldn't come up with 500 taels of silver. What should we do now?"
The old master was also at his wits' end and couldn't stop sighing. The old lady couldn't help but cry continuously, and Mrs. Zhu did the same, with tears flowing but not daring to cry out loud, just silently shedding tears.
Mrs. Xue, upon hearing this, turned and took 20 taels of silver and a pair of silver bracelets, along with a silver hairpin, from her room, "I don't have much left; this is all I can put together."
