In any case, Juhua thought their suggestion was entirely necessary. If common folk like them weren't clever and sharp, they might just get hounded to death.
Zhang Huai laughed. "Who with a bit of money hasn't done something like this? The other day, I was chatting with Manager Jin at Xiatang Market, and he told me a strange tale. He said a traveling merchant surnamed Zhang bought a plot of land in town to build a new compound—he planned to set up his business in Xiatang Market. But when they started construction, they dug up several small gold bricks from the ground. A true windfall from the heavens. No one could dispute his claim to something found without an owner. The man who sold the land was hopping mad but couldn't say a thing. After all, if he claimed the gold was his, why hadn't he dug it up before he sold the land?"
Juhua snorted with laughter. 'Isn't that just like the story I was remembering earlier!'
