The twenty-eighth day of the Sparrow-Passing Calendar.
Lianshan Xin and the Heavenly Queen arrived in Jinzhou one right after the other.
Looking at this godson whom she had just dreamed of last night and was seeing again today, the Heavenly Queen felt a little strange.
"Did you time your arrival to follow me here?"
Lianshan Xin explained, "A coincidence. It's all a coincidence. It shows that fate has tied me to you, my lady."
The Heavenly Queen instructed him, "From now on, drop the 'lady' in public and call me Mother."
Lianshan Xin said, "...You'll have to pay extra for that."
As everyone knew, when newlyweds met their spouse's parents and changed how they addressed them, they really did receive money for it.
This truly wasn't a case of Lianshan Xin's eyes lighting up at the sight of money.
The Heavenly Queen casually tossed Lianshan Xin a pouch of gold leaves.
"Enough?"
Lianshan Xin hefted it, looking somewhat disdainful.
"What's that look for?"
Lianshan Xin told it like it was. "When I came down the mountain, Father gave me about this much from his private stash."
The exalted Heavenly Queen couldn't possibly be only as generous as my father, could she?
The Heavenly Queen was a little surprised. "Doesn't your mother control your family's money? Lianshan Jingcheng actually dared to hide that much private money? Does he have a death wish?" Lianshan Xin shrugged. "Where there's oppression, there's resistance."
The real reason was that Spring Revival Hall had taken over Nine Heavens' medicinal herb business in Jiangzhou, and their family had begun raking in gold by the bucketful every day. That was why Lianshan Jingcheng had managed to squirrel away so much private money.
He Miaojun actually knew about all this, but pretended she didn't.
Once, after arguing with Lianshan