"Brother, the magistrate is dead, what should we do?"
A butcher holding a pig-slaughtering knife stood in front, with a deep scar across his face.
"We've already killed the magistrate, and we have no way out. We might as well just charge in."
"That bastard treats us like dirt, so we'll treat him like a dead pig and show him what we're made of."
A hint of savagery flashed in the butcher's eyes.
They were also people from Qingshui County, but their situation was even worse than that of Li Qingyao's village.
Their village had been destroyed by floods a month earlier.
The villagers traveled all the way to the county town to beg, but the county magistrate simply closed the city gates and wouldn't let them in. The people in the town didn't even have enough to eat themselves, so how could they possibly help them?
Many wealthy families took advantage of the chaos to buy people, and many people sold themselves into slavery just to get a bite to eat.
The magistrate's lackey was also among those "buying people," and he happened to take a fancy to the magistrate's daughter, trying to forcibly take her away.
When they refused, they beat them with sticks. When their daughter was taken away, his wife tried to stop them and was beaten to death on the spot.
The butcher was a strong man, and he tried desperately to stop them, which only enraged the steward, who then tried to insult his daughter on the spot.
That child, too, was fierce; he rammed himself against the city wall and died instantly. His daughter….
Two people died outside the city, and fearing that this would anger the refugees, the steward hurriedly left with his men. Before leaving, he had someone slash his face as a lesson.
This flood, a man-made disaster, wiped out his entire family.
Driven by a desire for revenge, he sold himself into the city, stirred up trouble, and finally gathered a group of people who stormed the county government office today.
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