Liu Jian heard everything clearly from outside the window.
Watching the County Magistrate go from wavering to accepting the clerk's suggestion, Liu Jian nearly exploded with rage.
What had happened with Divine Doctor Guo earlier overlapped with what was happening now.
They looked different, but they were the same.
In both cases, those with power oppressed ordinary people.
In his previous life on Eastern Continent, this would never have happened. Under the Strange Seeds, everyone was equal. Even Otherworldly Users had no special privileges, only benefits.
If Otherworldly Users had privileges, his father would not have been arrested.
Since even his father had been arrested in his previous life, what right did these people have to rely on their power and place themselves above the law?
This world had to be burned to ashes!
At that thought, he wanted to leap through the window and kill the corrupt clerk outright.
But he stopped himself.
Killing one clerk was easy, just like killing Divine Doctor Guo.
But it would not change anything. Another Divine Doctor Guo and another clerk would still appear.
Thinking this, he gritted his teeth and left anyway.
"Young Master Liu, how could you have failed? How could that useless Wang Fat Pig have taken first place?" Miss Xiao Cui of the Flying Flower House in the county town had specially ridden a four-wheeled carriage to Liu Family Village. She found Liu Jian plowing in the fields and asked him.
With a Strange Seed, he was exceptionally good at farming. If he were not afraid of causing a sensation, he could have been like Pig Eight Precepts from Journey to the West, earning his family a fortune. There would have been no need to study for the Imperial Examination and suffer such humiliation.
Naturally, Liu Jian would