Ms. Gao stood frozen, tears incessantly streaming down, feeling utterly devastated and reluctant inside.
Upon her return home, a middle-aged steward in a robe was already there. She couldn't make out what had been said, but her mother-in-law and her child's father were both visibly shocked and yet filled with joy, dragging her immediately to receive someone.
It was on the road that she found out that the promise of a thousand taels of silver had been made by the man to take the child and the medicine named Jade Snow Skin back.
A thousand taels of silver was an unimaginable sum for people like them, an unreachable amount by any means. All along the way, her mother-in-law incessantly mumbled how this silver would allow her younger brother-in-law to marry a daughter of a Scholar who was literate and numerate, and her sister-in-law could have a decent dowry to marry into a well-off family.
Her mother-in-law was so jubilant, as if the thousand taels were already in her hand.
