The village head trembled with fear and knelt down, wanting to beg for mercy, but then remembered what had happened to Master Zhao and immediately shut his mouth in fear.
Those who had come with him, seeing this, originally intended to quietly take the man away, but Zhao saw them and quickly blocked their way, mustering her courage to say:
"Why are you leaving already? You've wrecked this place, don't you have to pay for it?"
Gan Li also remembered this matter and complained to Lu Yuan:
"That's right, this is our newly installed... Besides, just now the village head... no, this old Deng, tried to force me to pay Master Zhao money!"
Ganli had long disliked this village head, but now she saw that he had only been dismissed—that was hardly enough.
Without hesitation, Lu Yuan said, "If that's the case, he should bear these losses. Do you have any objections?"
The village head... no, he should be called Sun Hu now. How could Sun Hu dare to have any objections upon hearing this?
He looked at Gan Li with a forced smile and said, "Manager Gan, calculate how much the loss is, and I will definitely compensate you for it all."
Ganli wasn't afraid of him at all, and nodded with a smile: "Then I'll calculate it later and deliver it to your house."
Lu Yuan nodded: "If he doesn't compensate, just come find me."
Sun Hu shuddered, completely abandoning the inappropriate thoughts in his mind, and sheepishly let his men help him out the door.
Seeing that the wicked had been punished, the onlookers cheered and praised their magistrate as a good official.
Lu Yuan was very satisfied upon hearing this, and turned to Gan Li with a smile, asking with concern:
"Manager Gan, are you alright?"
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