"What happened here?" Xu Yi asked with some amusement as he looked at the conspicuous scratch on Cantona's face and the bruising around Supervisor Riley's eye. "Don't tell me you two found working here so boring that you fought each other for fun?"
Cantona smiled awkwardly, while Supervisor Riley gave a rueful smile and shook his head. "President Xu, please stop teasing us. I don't believe for a moment that you don't know what happened. We need you to decide how to handle this."
Seeing the distress on their faces, Xu Yi dropped the teasing. After considering the matter, he decided that it was indeed rather thorny. No wonder neither of them had dealt with it immediately, instead waiting several more days until he arrived to leave it in his hands.
Four days earlier, a serious clash had suddenly erupted between the thousand-plus farmers from the Lampari Kingdom who had traveled from Bunta City and the five thousand local farmers hired by the Xinfei Merchant Guild on the hundred thousand hectares of land it had leased from Patriarch Wellen.
According to the subsequent tally, more than three hundred farmers from Bunta City and over five hundred local farmers had taken part in the clash and come to blows. Although nothing as serious as a death had occurred, nearly a hundred people had suffered serious injuries, and more than four hundred had sustained minor injuries. Even Cantona, who was currently in charge of most of the farm's operations, and Supervisor Riley, who had hardly anything to do with the matter, had been dragged into it and suffered minor injuries.
Because of this serious incident, all work on the Xinfei farm had temporarily ground to a halt. Cantona and his subordinates had been busy dealing with the aftermath and had not slept