Even if it was a gamble, it was just a bet with his subordinates, the constables, because in that situation, he couldn't possibly lose.
Which constable would dare win his silver?
Who could have expected that his brother-in-law, doing something even he, an arrest officer of a county yamen, would not dare to do! But what's done is done, what else could he do?
All he could do was to withdraw all of the silver he had greedily accumulated over the years.
He hurried over on horseback, sparing no expense on speed.
When Head Arrestor Liu, after enduring nights of roughing it, having made the hard journey from Qiulong County to Guyuan County, he discovered his brother-in-law already lying motionless on the sickbed!
Head Arrestor Liu's first thought was—the gambling den that was demanding debts must have beaten his brother-in-law half to death!
However... he learned from his father-in-law that this was not the case.
