Shen Xin did not feel humiliated at all. In fact, he felt proud.
Being able to marry the woman he loved was the best thing that could happen to him.
Never mind marrying into her family-he would even go there as a servant!
Liu Shuyue: [I didn't know any of this... they've been quietly doing so much behind the scenes.]
[Does that mean our house needs renovating too? Luming's courtyard is a little small, isn't it? She'll need more room once she has children. Could we tear down the chicken coop and build her a little house there?]
Zhou Yunshen: Did she think their family was that poor? Did they not even have an empty patch of land to build a courtyard on?
Huahua: [There's plenty of land at home. You don't need to worry.]
[Shen Xin's parents don't really object to their son marrying into her family either. They just think they should still provide betrothal gifts. What man marries a wife without offering betrothal gifts?]
[But between them, they could only scrape together seven or eight thousand taels, which didn't feel like enough. Madam Shen wanted to ask her birth family to spare some. As it happened, while sorting out clothes for the change of seasons two days ago, she discovered that the stitching on one of Lord Shen's undershirts had come loose. She opened it up-guess what she found?]
If something was hidden in a man's underclothes, it was either a portrait of a beauty or his secret stash of money.
Huahua: *[You guessed it! Silver notes worth fifty and a hundred taels were sewn all over the shirt. Lord Shen doesn't really have any other hobbies; he just likes listening to Kunqu and fishing. Over thirty years, including the New Year's gift money he saved from