The Land Officer was startled, but recovered quickly. "Yeah… that is true!"
"Then, why not share it earlier and instead do it on the sly? But for the fire tonight, you would not have said this to us!"
"True. It is a terrible excuse! You think we are all fools?"
"Shame on you!"
"We are not going to have such a shameless Land Officer here!"
"True!"
All of those who countered the Land Officer had the family name of Shao. Those surnamed Ding understood what was going on, and thus did not help the Land Officer.
Widow Sun did not care. She kept arguing with the others, saying that she was the Land Officer's concubine. So, they were not wrong in their conduct.
