After lunch, everyone started working again. Zixuan also drank another bowl of water before he too got back to work. "My dear, you should go back and rest. I'll be home tonight."
Seeing that everyone had finished eating, Jinghan, along with the other women, tidied up the bowls and chopsticks, loaded them onto the cart, and then pushed the cart towards the town.
Zixuan was happily working with everyone when he heard someone shouting from afar, "My lord, County Magistrate, a messenger has come from the mansion, sent by the Mansion's Magistrate."
Zixuan looked up and saw a man from the government office running toward him, drenched in sweat. "My lord, a messenger from the Mansion's Magistrate has come looking for you, urgently requesting your return," said the man. Zixuan was at the west gate of the county town, while the messenger had come through the east gate, so they had not crossed paths.
