To her surprise, Mother Ye had actually taken out money to buy an expensive gift... Jiang Han asked Jiang Xuan:
"Have you already used your year-end allowance? But September isn't even over yet."
At that, Jiang Xuan's cheeks puffed up. She swung her little feet in dissatisfaction and pursed her lips.
"It seems to be private savings."
"Private savings..." Jiang Han scratched her cheek and smiled as she explained on Ms. Ye's behalf. "Maybe she's been saving it up for a long time."
By witches' standards of family values, a household was not the sort of crushing burden it had been in Jiang Han's original world. Generally speaking, a witch would put 50% of her income into the household and savings, spend some on clothes and magical research, and still have around 10% left as pocket money. Private savings could also have come from extra income.
As far as Jiang Han knew, Ms. Ye was exceptionally capable when it came to [Generating Income]. If she had started saving from January 12 each year, then having two hundred thousand saved up by September to buy her wife a pair of expensive earrings was indeed possible.
"But if we used that money to buy a fragment of space, we could expand our garden. Wouldn't that be better?" Old Comrade Jiang Xuan stretched her legs downward and, with great difficulty, tapped the carpet with her toes. "With that much money, we could buy nearly a hundred square kilometers of yellow sand. J-just put in a little more... and maybe it could become a yellow-sand ranch."
She took a huge breath, pouted, and pulled her legs back onto the sofa.
The single armchairs in Jiang Han's home were ordinary sofa chairs to Ye Keshu and Jiang Zhenling, but to Jiang Han and Jiang Xuan,