"Five hundred coins is quite a lot," Lian Manman said, and the key issue is that with the current financial situation of the old mansion, there's really no need to borrow money to buy wine and dishes.
"It's still not past the first month of the lunar year, and the meat and oil we gave them for the New Year, plus what they've bought themselves, considering the old lady's temperament, surely they haven't finished it yet," Lady Zhang said, "… This year, the old mansion also slaughtered two pigs."
The implication of Lady Zhang's words was that the old mansion now has both meat and vegetables, there's no need to buy anything, even if they had to buy, the old mansion should have enough silver coins, and there's no need to borrow from Lian Shouli's Family.
"Who wouldn't agree with that," Lady Zhao said, "but they insist on borrowing money."
"Did my third uncle lend them the money?" Lian Manman asked.
