After knocking down the doors of three houses, the doors of other houses opened all at once, and a group of villagers pointed sickles, hoes, sticks and other weapons at them.
"My dear friends! This year, our harvest is not good. We can't even fill our stomachs. We really have no food left. Please let us go!"
An old man stepped forward tremblingly to explain.
"Look at your poor faces, who wants your things? We're here to take shelter from the rain and leave when the weather clears up. Hurry and clean up the two yards!"
Sun Fan waved his hand impatiently and took his men directly into the yard to shelter from the rain.
"Who...who are you all?" asked the old village chief in a weak voice.
"We are officers escorting a prisoner and need shelter here. We'll pay you as usual. Someone come and tidy up the yard."
Zhang Ziwei didn't care because the village chief was old, and patiently explained it.
The village chief narrowed his eyes and looked carefully at the attire of Zhang Ziwei and his group. When he saw the official boots, he asked them to put down their weapons with some doubt.
Ask someone to clear out a yard first and call two people over to arrange the rooms.
After calling out the names one by one on the list and making sure there were no missing people, the yamen runner spat at the people in the team: "You guys know what's best for you!"
The old village chief looked at the officials attentively and said, "I have asked someone to boil some hot water. You gentlemen can have some hot tea and rest your feet first."
Sun Fan was immediately satisfied: "Not bad, quite sensible."
After drinking the hot water, he regained some energy: "Each of you will have two taels of silver. Whoever pays the money will go to rest."
"What?! Two taels of silver?!"
The crowd immediately started shouting.
Even restaurants in Beijing usually charge only one or two taels of silver per night, but for this shabby house in the village, these officials actually charged them two taels of silver!
The key is that the house is not theirs.
The old village chief held his breath when he heard this.
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