"Exactly! Wound medicine is incredibly expensive at the border. Five taels of silver won't even buy a single dose.
We were hoping to send the compensation money to our relatives on the frontier so they could buy some wound medicine to keep on hand.
With that medicine, our loved ones would have a better chance of staying alive.
But the money you're offering won't even buy one dose. What is this if not making fools of us?"
"Exactly! The way Minister Qin looked at that scholar just now, he wanted to eat him alive. He must have thought the scholar was being nosy and shouldn't have asked so many questions.
He wanted to pull the wool over our eyes, but the scholar exposed him. That's why he glared at him, isn't it?"
"So if it hadn't been for this scholar, Minister Qin would have cheated us?"
"That's right. That's why Minister Qin glared at the scholar with such hatred."
At that moment, the scholar also spoke up, stammering:
"Minister Qin won't take revenge on me afterward, will he? I won't end up a corpse lying in the street in a few days, will I?"
After saying that, the scholar looked so frightened that he was on the verge of tears.
Everyone immediately stepped in front of the scholar to shield him, reassuring him over and over:
"Don't be afraid. We'll be your witnesses. If anything happens to you in the next few days, Minister Qin will definitely be responsible.
We'll go to the yamen and report it. We mean what we say!
A murderer must pay with his life. The authorities certainly won't let a killer get away."
As they spoke, they stared fixedly at Minister Qin. Clearly, those words were meant for his ears.
Minister Qin was nearly