Jiang Yue and Xue Yan paid for the hired carriage first. They had only paid the deposit previously, which was only a portion of what they were charged. Now that they had settled it, they could go back earlier.
Then, he paid the 45 people who were hired and the two aunts who cooked the paste.
When they returned from the county, they exchanged a lot of copper coins with some small vendors.
He also paid Zhang Dazhu and Zhang Shoushou. Thanks to Zhang Dazhu and Zhang Shoushou's help, even if they went to the county, they didn't have to worry about the hired carriage transporting paste to put up missing person notices. If there weren't enough missing person notices, the people would get on the carriages and come back to refill their stock.
