Chapter 579 Trouble (4)_1
Yang Bao heard this and responded with a bitter smile, "Uncle Yang naturally believes you can do what you say, and most people in the village will understand, but I’m worried that if some people want to use this incident to cause trouble for your family, the situation might escalate, and it might even get reported to the Government!"
This was his real concern!
Mo Yan, puzzled by his words, asked, "The wild beast hasn’t harmed any of the villagers, so even if it does get reported to the Government, would they care about such a matter?"
Seeing her genuinely unaware, Yang Bao explained the reason.
Many years ago, Jing City was struck by a severe snow disaster, and the wild beasts of Yuhua Mountain, unable to find food and suffering from the cold and hunger, banded together and wreaked havoc on several villages nearby, causing no small trouble for the livestock. Ordinary Peasants, who regarded their livestock as their livelihood, would not let wild beasts harm them.
The villagers of several villages banded together, armed with knives and sticks, and killed many of the beasts, selling their hides and meat for a good amount of Silver Coin.
However, no one expected that the wild beasts’ desire for revenge was so strong. They rallied even more companions and stormed into the villages, not only killing the livestock but also any villagers who dared to resist. In just over ten days, the several villages saw fifty to sixty people killed or injured. When the incident reached the Court, the late emperor was outraged. He issued an imperial edict personally, ordering the Government to eliminate those harmful wild beasts...
"What happened after that?" Mo Yan urgently inquired. Although she felt that wild beasts also had lives and their fate shouldn’t be decided by humans, since they had killed livestock and harmed innocent villagers, even though there was a reason behind it, it was mostly their fault, and they couldn’t be wronged if the Government hunted them down.