'If I were a powerful official, someone to be feared, then even the nobodies around me would be praised and revered. How could I have let my wife's family be bullied like this? How could I have let my wife suffer so?'
The next day, Zhao Jing and Chen Wanqing went to the county seat together.
They didn't go straight to the Chen family's home. Instead, they took yesterday's order forms and went door-to-door delivering the incense.
The students who had ordered large quantities of incense yesterday had done so on impulse, caught up in the excitement. After returning home and cooling their heads, many of them began to regret their extravagance.
But when they saw the county's top scholar and his wife personally delivering the incense first thing in the morning, they instantly felt that the incense itself was imbued with the scholar's brilliant aura.
