If it were before, Zhao Erlang would have just grabbed it by force, but after becoming the Luoyang County Magistrate and dealing with more civil matters, he knew it couldn't be done.
Even though he really wanted to move the things away right now, he held back and urged the old soldier to write a letter.
He wanted to personally watch him write the letter, "I'll send someone specially to deliver it, faster than going through the post station."
The old soldier, irritated by the urging, had to take him to find other old soldiers, and a group of soldiers gathered together to write the letter.
Zhao Erlang also squeezed in, writing, and the old soldier asked Zhao Erlang, "How do you write 'copper'?"
Zhao Erlang widened his eyes, scratched his head, and said, "No need to write 'copper,' just write 'ball'.
"But how do you write 'ball'?"
Well, he didn't know that either.
