Unexpectedly, the townsfolk who accompanied Wang Yongzhu to the Wang Family in town last night were boasting in the village this morning, praising the Wang Family for knowing how to handle things and treat people generously and promptly.
When the more talkative villagers asked, they found out that everyone who went with Wang Yongzhu yesterday had received a reward of a taels of silver each.
A taels of silver! Everyone was green with envy.
Seeing that the Wang Family had opened their doors, the villagers gathered at the gate to ask all sorts of questions, trying to find out what had happened.
Even the Wang Family Patriarch, who had spent half of last night worrying, later tried to inquire about the situation from those who had gone with them, but since they were all in the courtyard, he didn't catch everything they said; it was all quite vague, and that left the Patriarch unable to sleep.
