However, after the stewards from the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Revenue finished drawing lots, they didn't leave. Instead, they just waited where they were.
He wanted to watch, to see whether the people behind them could draw any wine at all. He wanted to see whether there was some hidden trick in this wooden raffle box, or whether the Shopkeeper had done something to it so that they simply couldn't draw any wine.
If they just went back rashly without figuring things out, they would definitely be scolded by their master once they returned. That was something they absolutely did not want to see.
But the next scene made the two of them breathe out in unison.
They saw the remaining four stewards from the Ministers' Families behind them also only draw one or two jars of wine each. One of them didn't even draw a single jar.
Seeing this, the two of them really did feel a bit schadenfreude.
