Prefect Shen nodded. As expected, they had ulterior motives. He had come across this, so he had to intervene.
"Then you go find the village head, I'll go in and take a look first."
Prefect Shen walked into the courtyard, followed closely by his clerk and guards.
The atmosphere in the courtyard was tense at this moment, with neither side willing to give way. When someone entered, the courtyard temporarily quieted down.
"What happened here? Can you tell me?" Magistrate Shen asked.
At this moment, Old Mrs. Zhao was furious. When she saw three more people come in, she assumed they were Zhang the landlord's helpers and became more vigilant.
Who are you?
“I am a friend of the scholar. He lent me ten taels of silver back then, and I came here today to repay the debt. I heard that the creditor doesn’t want silver notes or loose silver, so I agreed to his request and gave him a twenty-tael ingot of silver. How about that this time?”
After Prefect Shen finished speaking, he looked at his clerk, who immediately took out a twenty-tael silver ingot from his pocket and handed it to Zhang the landlord.
Zhang the wealthy man took the silver ingot and examined it carefully. The silver ingot was very well preserved, with a bright luster and no tooth marks. Its weight and purity were excellent, as if it had been taken directly from the warehouse.
"The money has been given to you. Please return the deed and IOU to the Zhao family," Prefect Shen said with a smile.
Zhang, the wealthy man, never dreamed that such a thing would happen. The scholar's friend came to repay the money at this time, and he proposed to accept only a silver ingot of twenty taels of silver, which the scholar did. What should he do now? Was the cooked duck going to fly away again?
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