"Yes, including Shen Yushu's entire household, even his mistresses and illegitimate sons and daughters... then there were the families of the other two students involved in the hunt... not a chicken or dog was left alive, not a blade of grass remained."
"How ruthless. How cruel..."
He Yuanyue slowly closed her eyes, feeling her heart clench with pain again and again.
"What parent wouldn't burn with anger after losing a child? Why couldn't they be allowed to vent their anger with a few curses? Getting emotional is only human, and understandable. After all, these were children they'd raised, cleaning up their every mess... if Shen Yushu and the others went too far and you killed them in retaliation, then they brought their own doom upon themselves. But what right did the Meng Clan and Ning Clan have to wipe out their entire households?"
He Yuanyue said angrily, "Executing the ringleaders would have been enough. Why go so far as to slaughter their whole families?"
Qin Fangyang stood quietly without speaking.
Only after a long while did He Yuanyue ask in a low voice, "What else? Those two families couldn't have killed all those people simply to curry favor with you, could they? What do they want?"
"They hadn't had a chance to say. I complained that they'd given me too little... ahem, not too few heads. They gave me all the bounty money and so on, and I told them it wasn't enough..."
Qin Fangyang said.
"Hm? What did you say?"
"Please don't misunderstand, Former Principal. While they were trying to persuade me, I found a moment to contact Xiao Duo. He told me to seize the chance to make trouble, so I squeezed a large sum of money and supplies out of them. I have no use for these