The Folly and Wickedness of All Beings

All Living Beings, Foolish and Wicked

The old man tied to the wooden stake at the center of the platform had already been beaten until his face was swollen and bruised, blood trickling from the corner of his mouth, his eyes full of despair. Yet those local gentry and wealthy households who had earlier, at the riverbank, been scared shitless by Zhang Sanxian and the tiger demon—

had now straightened their clothes, each clasping their plump hands behind their backs and thrusting out their bellies, somehow regaining their usual airs.

Among them was the fattest gentryman, the one most closely connected to the deceased Village Head Zhang.

At that moment, he was delivering an impassioned, spittle-flying speech to the townsfolk below the platform:

"That evil demon summoned a three-headed tiger demon, intending to throw Blackwind Ridge into chaos!"

Waving his arms, he shrieked, "That man's mouth is crooked, his eyes are blind, and his heart is twisted! He wanted to borrow the demons' hands to slaughter our entire town! His intentions deserve condemnation! His crimes deserve execution!"

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The several thousand townsfolk below were stirred into unrest by the gentryman's words. Confusion, terror, and indignation surfaced on countless faces.

"That night seven days ago, the sky went dark and demonic winds swept in waves. If Black Wind Town hadn't had a man of great righteousness like Village Head Zhang, we'd truly have been finished!"

The fat gentryman wept and wailed, pointing at a crude memorial tablet standing at the edge of the threshing ground. In a hoarse cry, he said, "Village Head Zhang, he—he—he did it for all the elders and folks of this town!

"Woo, woo, woo! Though he knew he was no match,