The Doomsday Prophecy (Bonus Chapter for QQ Reading Alliance Leader Porco.Fan, 33)
Originally, though this business was not something they could discuss in public, it had brought them a steady stream of wealth and turned the entire Cheng Family into well-known local gentry.
But now, rumors said the newly arrived prefect was fiercely opposed to evil and came from a powerful clan. He wasn't afraid of the local snakes or their attempts to intimidate and obstruct him.
They had only acted on a whim, abducting the young son of a family in town whose line had continued through only one son for five generations, then selling him to a wealthy household in a neighboring prefecture as a boy to be buried alive with the dead.
After receiving the report, the prefect had actually taken the matter seriously. For days, patrols had scoured the entire prefecture, looking as if they wouldn't stop until they'd dug three feet into the ground and found a clue.
That damn prefect! The boy wasn't even the son of some powerful family. Was all this fuss really necessary?!
And that boy's family were damnable, too!!
It was only a child. Why waste time searching after he'd been abducted? Couldn't they just have another?
If they couldn't have another, then it meant they were fated to have no sons. Even if he hadn't abducted the boy, the child would never have lived to adulthood!
The common folk in the prefecture were damnable, too!
For such a trivial matter, the prefect had posted a bounty of a mere ten strings of cash, and they were already roaming everywhere, making inquiries and itching to find the culprit so they could claim the reward.
Those wretches, who clearly hadn't seen money in eight lifetimes, deserved to be sold to the