Chapter 49 Gender Crimes 49
Lord County Magistrate personally arrived, and after conveying the order for relocation to the border, he tirelessly reiterated the various preferential policies provided by the court. But it was in vain, as all the common people couldn’t hear a word of it once they learned they were being sent to the border city!
Their minds were filled with panic and resistance! They thought that the court intended to abandon them, the common people, and send them to their deaths at the border! To these inland commoners, the border city was as terrifying as Yama Hall, an unimaginable horror!
The county magistrate spoke until his mouth was dry, yet no one responded. Even when he mentioned that without agreeing to leave, the court wouldn’t open the granaries to provide food, and only those willing to leave would receive food supplies and travel expenses, along with many other preferential policies.
However, the common people’s hearts harbored the hope that as long as they refused to leave, the court wouldn’t let them starve to death! But if they went to the border city, they would truly be doomed!
The county magistrate finally left in great frustration. The court had issued a strict order not to release the grain, leaving him helpless. As their appointed official, he naturally did not want to see the number of people under his governance dwindle, but alas, he was merely a humble county magistrate, and could not change the court’s decision.
By now, not only had no disaster relief grain arrived, but there came a relocation order like a death knell. The mood among the villagers was extremely depressed; there was even a brawl between men from different villages who bumped into each other accidentally while walking, both becoming uncontrollably aggressive!
The two men gritted their teeth, eyes bloodshot, frantically swinging their fists at each other as if they had a deep-seated hatred, fighting relentlessly!
But in reality, they were just venting the fear and panic they couldn’t dispel from their hearts, as well as a despair they were unwilling to admit but was becoming increasingly clear!
Qin Shuangshuang frowned, glancing around at the villagers who were expressionless, ignoring the fight, and merely going about their own business, with no intention of watching the spectacle. She sighed, stepped forward, and pulled the two men apart with one hand each!