Chapter 57 · for subscribers
The Office had sent one clerk nine hundred li for a piece of lacquer the width of a hand. She had been twelve years in it by then and had carried warrants into four provinces without once being told what any of them bought. The order she took south said to come back with a complete entry in the payer's own hand, and it did not say how many attempts she was to allow.
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