Xiaoqing Steals Silver

Within Lin'an City.

Not long after Ling Qing left, Bai Suzhen, Xiaoqing, and the Five Ghosts finished building White Manor.

The feelings between Bai Suzhen and Xu Xian continued to deepen, and they began discussing marriage.

Xu Xian also told his elder sister Xu Jiaorong and brother-in-law Li Gongfu about Bai Suzhen.

Naturally, he did not tell them that Bai Suzhen and Xiaoqing were snake demons.

The couple was overjoyed to hear it.

Poor Xu Xian was already in his twenties and had never married, which had long weighed heavily on their minds.

Now that they heard he had found himself a wife, Xu Jiaorong repeatedly cried that their parents were blessing them from beyond the grave.

But once their joy subsided, the two of them found themselves troubled by the matter of Xu Xian's betrothal gifts.

Xu Xian had previously been nothing more than an apprentice at a medicine shop, earning scarcely a few taels of silver a month.

Though Li Gongfu, as a constable, earned more than Xu Xian, his household expenses were also greater, and he had likewise saved little money.

Xu Xian had learned alchemy from Ling Qing, but he faithfully obeyed Ling Qing's warning and was unwilling to sell pills for money.

So the family truly had no savings to speak of.

Bai Suzhen was truly sunk deep in the tribulation of love. At this moment, she was every inch a great lady awaiting marriage in her boudoir, utterly devoid of the bearing of a thousand-year demon spirit.

She had told Xu Xian to come and formally propose, yet he had not come for so long that she was frantic with worry.

"Xiaoqing, do you think Xu Xian has had a change of heart?" she asked, clutching Xiaoqing.

Xiaoqing pressed her onto a stool and