The next day, just as everyone expected, the Yamen officers came to the village after they had collected the evidence. When the villagers saw the Yamen officers, they all sighed with emotion. Really, what a sin. In the past, their village hardly saw a guard patrolling the area but now—because of some people—Yamen officers come to their village almost every second month!
It was really embarrassing.
The arrival of the Yamen officers basically confirmed that someone had betrayed their village and it left a sour taste in the mouths of the villagers. Because they were wise enough to understand that the days of peace were finally over.
What was going to follow was endless trouble!
“Tsk, who is this evil-hearted person? Why did they do such a thing? Now it is good; our village is in danger.” Some of the villagers were really disgusted by this traitor.
“I know, right? They knew that by doing so our village would be in danger and yet they disclosed this secret: Everyone knows that our village has its own secret; they wouldn’t let go of us.”
“Bah, shameless!”
While the villagers were worried about their future, the neighbouring villages that couldn’t gain any benefits from them were filled with envy.
“They are really shameless and cold-hearted,” remarked a woman who was heading to the city. “They have so much food and yet they refuse to help us. No wonder they built this big wall; it was because they wanted to keep people like us out.”
“Really too much! I thought that these people were really nice but it turns out that they were eating meat and giving us the dregs! Bah, who are they looking down on?”
“Haha, isn’t it good? Now that the situation is like this, I am sure someone from the court will definitely come and ask them to take out all the food that they are hiding; soon that food will be ours.”
“I say, Why wait for the officials to come? What if these people hide the food? We might as well snatch it all.”
Now that they knew that the success of the Big River Village was because of those sentient cattle, they might as well snatch them for themselves. What was the point of eating the dregs? They might as well take the lead and get whatever they wanted.
With the truth disclosed, don’t they have the chance to turn their situation around? Maybe their village would be the next one to rise to the top?
The worries that Yu Dong had came true. However, no one had the time to care about these villagers at that moment. They wanted to know who this traitor was!
“I think the person who is behind this is definitely Old Master Rong,” said one of the villagers with a shrewd glint in his eyes. “I mean, he is the only one who hates Madam Yu with his whole heart.”
“You also think so? Damn, even I think that the culprit is most likely Old Master Rong.”
“I should have known; keeping that family was nothing but letting a danger hang around their necks.”
The more the villagers discussed it, the more they felt it made sense. Old Master Rong’s precious daughter died and he believed that it was Yu Dong and her family who did it. What were the chances that this mer would not be behind this scheme?
When Old Master Rong heard the words of the villagers, he was so angry that he wished he could punch these people in the face for talking nonsense. What kind of stupidity was this? Just because he and his family were at odds with Yu Dong, they were being blamed for such a big crime?
This was not a matter of a small quibbling or quarrel! This was a serious case of theft and not to mention it also involved the benefits of the entire village! If he was proven to be the one who did it, he would be ruined!
His entire face turned purple.
He turned to look at the gossiping mer and said angrily, “I didn’t do it! Don’t put the lid of blame on my head!”
Someone in the crowd sneered when they heard his words. They said, “You really dare to say those words, Old Master Rong? Have you forgotten how you cursed Madam Yu and her husbands when your daughter died? Of course, as long as you are in the right, no one would make a move on you and wrong you. It’s just that the things that you have said—they were a bit too harsh and make us wonder if it was you.”
This mer could even hurt the daughter of his wife, just because he wanted to make sure that his daughter would get the properties of his wife. It wasn’t wrong to say that Old Master Rong nearly killed Rong Yi on several occasions.
Couldn’t a mer like him tell the secret of the village to the rest of the world?
Old Master Rong: “…”
Too much! These people were too much!
Old Master Rong was helpless, embarrassed, and angry. He knew that he had long become the target of disdain and contempt for the village but he didn’t know that it was this bad.
He did try to kill Rong Yi but that was because he thought that the woman was an obstacle in the path of his daughter. He only did what a doting father would do; Rong Yi was not his daughter; why would he care about her? He would obviously care for his daughter more.
Though he did hate Yu Dong and her family because of what happened to his daughter, he also knew his limits. If he were to do such a thing, he and his wife would have a hard time feeding the children of his daughter.
How dare he do such a thing!
He really did not do anything this time; why was he being treated like this for something he didn’t even do!
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