Hunting down Hua Qianxiong

The moment Xie Yu said that, the thousands of people present erupted into shocked discussion.

"So the three hundred-odd people in Li Family Village were dead all along..."

"The one who massacred the village was Zhu Youcai, the clerk in the county office's taxation department? He slaughtered a village just to collect taxes... what a damned cur of an official! Why doesn't this blasted government just drop dead?"

"Zhu Youcai only carried out the massacre. The man pulling the strings was actually Hua Qianxiong, the abbot of Returning Dragon Abbey..."

"And when evil spirits plagued our villages before, every household paid a tael of silver to hire the abbey's Daoists to drive them out. We must have been blind as dogs!"

"Returning Dragon Abbey creates evil spirits to harm people, then collects protection money from the living. Those bastards have human faces and beasts' hearts."

"..."

Just then, a Xie Household Guard suddenly ran into the crowd and roared, "The Dragon Queen has manifested her power! A debt of three hundred lives must be paid in blood—Hua Qianxiong, pay with your life!"

Another Xie Household Guard immediately followed with a roar:

"The Dragon Queen has manifested her power! A debt of three hundred lives must be paid in blood—Hua Qianxiong, pay with your life!"

The other Xie Household Guards already planted in the crowd joined in, shouting at the tops of their lungs:

"The Dragon Queen has manifested her power! A debt of three hundred lives must be paid in blood—Hua Qianxiong, pay with your life!"

The refugees present had once had homes too. Natural disasters and man-made calamities had left them displaced, yet Qingwu County's government cared nothing for whether they lived or died. They had long since come to hate it bitterly.

The Xie Household, on the other