Yi Anguo also knows, not every place is like Shenzhen, in places like this, government officials dining at hotels and leaving IOUs is basically impossible.
Even if there's a monthly settlement, by the end of the month, they will definitely clear up the accounts for you, there's no way they'd say they don't have money and need to postpone settlement to next month.
But this sort of thing is quite normal inland, Yi Anguo's third brother-in-law used to have a restaurant in the village, which was run into bankruptcy by a bunch of people from the village committee.
If you can't get the money, you don't dare to cause trouble, because if you make trouble they'll just arrest you.
They don't deny their debts, admitting that they owe you money for meals, but say they simply have no money to pay you right now, and you'll have to wait until they do.
