Susu and Hong Sheng's meeting ended successfully, and they gained a general understanding of each other, feeling more compatible.
Hong Sheng handed over the small treasury he had brought to Shangjing without Susu's prompting, though he said with some embarrassment, "I was in a hurry when returning to the Capital, so it was hard to bring many things over, and most of the silver coin has been spent, leaving just this much. Madam, keep it for now. We need to set out for the Northwest before April, and it is extremely arduous along the way. Madam, prepare more things, and I'll exchange items for some silver later."
Susu took the money box Hong Sheng handed over, inside were two fifty-tael silver ingots, along with some scattered silver, totaling less than twenty taels.
Susu looked at this meager amount of silver with some anxiety, as the elders from Hongshan Village were returning to Yangzhou the next day, and they couldn't send them back empty-handed.
