Chen Xu later firmly stopped Chen An from wanting to push the broken silver back to himself.
He warned him, "Go back and return this silver coins, as for the matter of repairing the canal, big brother must not go!"
When he said this, Chen An's eyes immediately turned red: "But, although we only received three taels, the authorities said from the beginning that if we want to back out, we must return at least ten taels of silver!"
"Ten taels?" Chen Xu frowned.
But obviously, this was the usual way some people operated.
Moreover, from top to bottom, for a laborer to end up with three taels per person would be a display of the officials' mercy.
Backing out and returning ten taels is simply no big deal.
Chen Xu said, "Leave the matter of lacking silver coins to me, you must go back and make it clear, big brother must not go to repair the canal!"
