"Has the Zhang Family offended someone? Why else would the house be surrounded out of the blue?"
"Move further away, move further away."
Dushan Town.
The usually impressive courtyard of the Zhang Family was eerily quiet, with at least two soldiers guarding every exit.
The villagers went out of their way to avoid the area, fearing they might be contaminated by the bad luck and get arrested along with the rest.
Inside the Zhang Residence.
Without an assembly order, everyone stayed in their rooms, forbidden to come out.
The Zhang Family's Chief Steward, Lin Fubao, scanned his surroundings, and when no one was looking, he secretly slipped a Large Treasure Silver to the Chief Constable in the courtyard.
"Constable, can you give me a hint about what's going on?"