1849
Xia Yongtu and Wu Santong saw the coachman was quite chatty, so the two exchanged a glance and began conversing with him at the city gate, hoping to gather some information about the new magistrate from him.
However, the coachman, who seemed easygoing, had quite a tight mouth, speaking of everything under the sun except for any tidbit about Pang Jianguo. Instead, he managed to get Xia Yongtu and Wu Santong, these two clever old fellows, inadvertently divulging their entire purpose for waiting for the new magistrate. They were stunned when they realized this.
Listening to the coachman's nonsensical jokes one after another, they couldn't tell whether the coachman was deliberately probing them or just casually asking, nor could they ascertain whether he paid any heed to their words.
