The clerk ran out to find two government officials who hadn't left yet, and asked them to bring the county magistrate back.
Oh, the county magistrate is still outside the city. A corner of a rice field belonging to the East family in Seven Families Village has been nibbled at, reportedly by the West family, because it was the turn of the West family to use the village's cow the day before.
The West family denied it, saying that when they saw the rice field the day before, it had already been nibbled, and that they hadn't taken the cow out but had gone to cut grass to mix with bean feed for the cow.
The two families couldn't resolve the disagreement and the dispute grew, leading them to bring the case to the county magistrate, who had no choice but to go to Seven Families Village to settle the case.
The clerk finally waited for the county magistrate before sunset and immediately approached him with a jade pendant to report Fu Yong's matter quietly.
