Making up the missed updates was tough, so the schedule returned to one update each in the morning and afternoon.
The only person Cai Xia would call Second Madam was Wang Xifeng, the mistress of Rongguo Mansion.
But why had Wang Xifeng suddenly appeared outside the Sun family's treasury for no apparent reason?
That morning, after repeated confirmation from the imperial physicians, Jia Baoyu's condition had greatly improved. With a few more days of recuperation, he was expected to recover completely.
Madam Wang was overjoyed at the news and promptly thanked every god and Buddha under heaven, naturally not forgetting the Sun family, who had contributed so much.
She specially prepared a generous gift and asked Wang Xifeng to come express her thanks. After all, she was an elder, and it was less convenient for her to act than for Wang Xifeng, her daughter-in-law.
But when Wang Xifeng arrived at the Sun residence with the gift, she learned that the hundred-odd thousand taels of silver stored in Jinling had actually been sealed away in the Sun family treasury three days earlier.
Her heart immediately tightened.
It had been agreed that once the silver reached the capital, the two families would split it equally.
Yet Sun Shaozong had concealed the news and quietly sealed the silver in his family treasury. Could he have developed other intentions?
In truth, Sun Shaozong had failed to notify her promptly solely because he had been delayed by the matter of the black note. In particular, the black note had been found in one of the silver chests. Though repeated investigations had uncovered no further clues, Sun Shaozong had instinctively treated it as evidence.
Ever since Jia Lian had ceased pursuing women, the pursuit and importance of "power and money" had come to occupy the foremost