Chapter 566: Forcing the County Magistrate to Swear an Oath

As they were speaking, the servant who had gone to retrieve the money had already returned, holding several pieces of scattered, broken silver in his hand, and then he said to the County Magistrate, "Sir, I've brought back the money; it was madam who went to fetch it."

The County Magistrate looked at the pitiful pieces of silver in the servant's hand. This money was what he had painstakingly collected from door to door. Although it wasn't a large amount, it was still his hard-earned money.

Everyone wanted to be an official, only for such bits of silver. Unexpectedly, just for such a little silver, they had gone in such big circles.

"Since the silver has already been brought here, then, Sir, please give the money to this young man, and later have this young man distribute it to the people who are fixing the water channels," the official from Kaifeng Prefecture said.