The next day
In the early morning, as the sky began to lighten, Madam Xie and her two daughters climbed out of their warm beddings. After tidying up, they prepared to set out for the market.
Xuexue remembered that the rice they had snatched from the Mo family last time was almost gone, and on top of that, the home needed everything from firewood, rice, oil, and salt to lamp oil and candles. She doubled back to her room and dug under the bed; soon, she unearthed a bundle of items.
This bundle of gold and silver jewelry was exactly what Xuexue had managed to rob from Auntie Sun the night she had been framed and set up.
After taking out two taels of silver, Xuexue thought it should be enough. In the countryside, things weren't expensive, and two taels of silver was no small sum in such a remote and impoverished place.
