Step aside, let me take charge!.

Summary

. Three days before the autumn equinox, a bustling tea house near the official road serves weary travelers. The shopkeeper and his helpers are busy attending to customers when a middle-aged man with a worn appearance arrives, seeking water. He is met with disdain by a market official who refuses to accept his bamboo sticks as payment, dismissing him and returning a copper coin. The man feels wronged and bewildered by the theft he experienced, while a neighboring vendor reassures him that such incidents are common for outsiders. .

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