The second watch of the night, a request for pink powder.
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Lian Manman had hired two carriages, both covered. Taking such carriages to the county town naturally cost a pretty penny. Lian Manman touched the full purse in her bosom; she had specifically taken twenty taels of silver out of the four hundred taels that Lian Shouren had sent, to serve as their debt-collection funds.
"Since Uncle loves to make a fuss, he must have money to burn. Let's help him spend a bit," Lian Manman said to Wu Lang and the others.
"A poor family must be well-prepared for travel; it's indeed necessary to carry more money," Lady Zhang and Lian Shouxin had said the same, but they did not agree with Lian Manman's approach. Mainly because they were all honest, simple people who lived day by day, and such spending pained them.