The clan elder agreed without even asking what A-Chen intended to plant.
This time, however, Ah Chen's project was not a small-scale undertaking, but a massive undertaking that others would find hard to believe.
"That's basically it for the orchard! Everyone get busy, Uncle Dong. Where were the fruit trees that were cut down that night?"
"This way."
As Ah Dong walked, he said, "Ah Chen, this is my responsibility, I---"
"It's alright, Uncle Dong. I'll buy a few saplings next spring to replace them. I'll find a way to cultivate them and make sure they're exactly the same as the ones we have now."
"Really? It can really be repaired? And it can be just like our orchard?"
Ah Chen nodded, and Ah Dong breathed a long sigh of relief, but he still said, "Even if it can be resolved, this matter cannot be left like this."
"Has the police still not resolved this matter?"
“The two chieftains have inquired and the matter has been clarified. Now the only issue left is compensation! We don’t want money, we just want the culprit’s life.”
Uncle Dong has always held a grudge about this matter.
Ah Chen said, "If we hadn't alerted the authorities, we would have just chopped them up and buried them on the mountain! But now that the authorities have intervened, we can't just take someone's life arbitrarily. Let the law punish them."
Uncle Dong nodded and pointed to the fence to the left front, "There it is."
Ah Chen glanced to the side and saw two old men from the Han family leading several young men and women to study the roots of fruit trees.
Clearly, the academicians from Yanjing have not yet left the Miao village.
"Uncle Adong, you go ahead and do your work. I'll go check on things."
"Ah Chen, that guy with glasses, he's the Han Chinese guy surnamed Chi who yelled at Duo Duo. This old Han Chinese man coaxed Duo Duo, and Duo Duo pleaded with the Holy Maiden. Then another old Han Chinese man, claiming to be the Holy Maiden's teacher, came to plead for them, and that's how the Holy Maiden let them in."
Amo had told Achen about this last night, and he hadn't expected the old man surnamed Chi to be so persistent.
At his age, he's still so pragmatic.
But in Ah Chen's heart---
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