"My lord, my lord~"
Inside the county office, a bailiff hurried into the rear hall.
In the study behind the hall, Luo Jin, the County Magistrate of Anning County, was frowning over a document in his hand. Hearing someone suddenly shouting and making a fuss, he raised his head in displeasure.
"What is it?"
Luo Jin was just over thirty, somewhat thin, with the air of a frail scholar. Yet he also carried the imposing authority of an official. Just those three simple words brought a crushing pressure upon others.
The bailiff rushed in and bowed as he reported, "My lord, Scarface Liu has been killed!"
"Scarface Liu!" Luo Jin murmured softly, immediately recalling who the man was.
Luo Jin utterly detested the mountain bandits causing trouble under his jurisdiction. Day and night, he thought of nothing but getting rid of them as quickly as possible.
Unfortunately, as County Magistrate, he had only a limited number of soldiers and bailiffs at his disposal. He had no way to encircle and annihilate those roving bandits on a large scale.
That was why he had spared no expense in issuing a reward in the county office's name.
"How did he die?" Luo Jin rose to his feet and asked.
"Yesterday, Scarface Liu led several dozen bandits in an attack on Jiang Family Village in Qinghe Town. Yang Zhengshan, a Martial Artist from Yang Family Village, discovered them and immediately went to their rescue. He first killed the bandit chief, Scarface Liu, then killed more than twenty bandits. Finally, Yang Zhengxiang, the village chief of Yang Family Village, led twenty young men to surround and kill most of the fleeing bandits," the bailiff reported.
They had already investigated the situation in Jiang Family Village. Though they had not witnessed the battle themselves, they