Chapter 682 The Imperial Edict of Slapping Faces Arrives (3)_1
Hmm, take it then. They have backers, so even if someone notices something amiss, at most their plan would have failed; they wouldn’t actually be thrown into prison to eat ’jail rice’.
Thinking this, their hands moved even faster. In the next moment, fresh red wounds on their exposed body parts became visible to all.
"Hey, these wounds look very recent, definitely from the last couple of days, and they do look like they were caused by wild beasts. Last year, when Wang Dali and his group went into the mountains, they were injured by tigers, and it looked pretty similar to this!" A villager close by saw the scene clearly, and suddenly there was an uproar.
As soon as these words were uttered, some villagers immediately countered, "Even if these are beast bites, that doesn’t prove it was done by the five beasts! It could very well be that they were bitten by other ferocious animals in the mountains and they’re framing the five beasts, trying to extort a large sum from the Mo Family, that’s not impossible."
"Ah, you both make sense! Seems this matter still needs to be argued further; not sure how it will be resolved, but those six people are indeed going too far. Even if they were injured by the five beasts, they shouldn’t demand Five hundred pieces each and sue the Mo Family at the Government Office, should they? I think this is a trap set up by them to deal with the Mo Family," another villager chimed in.
"You only realized that now? Hmph, I figured it out long ago. Those six are up to no good; I’d say the Mo Family shouldn’t be polite, just let the five beasts bite and chase them away," remarked another villager.
"Look at you, so capable! If the five beasts really did bite someone, the Government would immediately send someone to kill them, and then the Mo Family would really be convicted," someone retorted.
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