The next morning
News that Scholar Mu's family and the Zhou Family had moved to the town spread throughout the village. Soon, a group of villagers gathered around the old well, vividly describing the scene to one another.
"I observed it clearly. There were two horse carriages with cabins. Scholar Mu's family was in one and Zhou Laowu and his wife in the other. Jiujin was leading his own cow cart, the same one filled with the wild boar he picked up the day before yesterday..."
"Wow! I heard that the two families each received a reward of one hundred taels of silver. They're so rich now, they couldn't care less about living in our old, decrepit village..."
"What's so surprising about that? Scholar Mu's wife has suffered so much in the village; it's not surprising they've moved now that they have money. Why would she stay and risk the main house taking it all away?"
The crowd gathered around the well, forgetting all about fetching water, and started their boisterous discussion.
