Zhang Zhan brought a group of people to the county city. A single trip was 60 li. It should have taken three hours, but everyone was worried about their families and did not rest halfway. They spent two and a half hours to arrive. The poor officials' backs ached from walking, but they did not say anything.
The villagers of Hu Family Village were very uneasy, afraid that they would be beaten up the moment they entered the county office.
They had heard that regardless of whether they were in the right or wrong, they would be beaten up after entering the county office.
It was only when they arrived that they found out that the county magistrate of Yongding County had been removed from his position and investigated some time ago. The reason was that he was lining his own pockets.
