Farm Girl's Manor
Chapter 682 The Imperial Edict of Slapping Faces Arrives (3)_1

Chapter 682: Chapter 682 The Imperial Edict of Slapping Faces Arrives (3)_1

Hmm, take it then. They have backers, so even if someone notices something amiss, at most their plan would have failed; they wouldn’t actually be thrown into prison to eat ’jail rice’.

Thinking this, their hands moved even faster. In the next moment, fresh red wounds on their exposed body parts became visible to all.

"Hey, these wounds look very recent, definitely from the last couple of days, and they do look like they were caused by wild beasts. Last year, when Wang Dali and his group went into the mountains, they were injured by tigers, and it looked pretty similar to this!" A villager close by saw the scene clearly, and suddenly there was an uproar.

As soon as these words were uttered, some villagers immediately countered, "Even if these are beast bites, that doesn’t prove it was done by the five beasts! It could very well be that they were bitten by other ferocious animals in the mountains and they’re framing the five beasts, trying to extort a large sum from the Mo Family, that’s not impossible."

"Ah, you both make sense! Seems this matter still needs to be argued further; not sure how it will be resolved, but those six people are indeed going too far. Even if they were injured by the five beasts, they shouldn’t demand Five hundred pieces each and sue the Mo Family at the Government Office, should they? I think this is a trap set up by them to deal with the Mo Family," another villager chimed in.

"You only realized that now? Hmph, I figured it out long ago. Those six are up to no good; I’d say the Mo Family shouldn’t be polite, just let the five beasts bite and chase them away," remarked another villager.

"Look at you, so capable! If the five beasts really did bite someone, the Government would immediately send someone to kill them, and then the Mo Family would really be convicted," someone retorted.

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As the villagers outside the house argued incessantly, the atmosphere inside the house grew even more tense.

The six men looked at Mo Yan and Mo Qingze arrogantly, pointed at the animals, and said brashly, "These wounds were caused by the five beasts you’re raising. Hurry up and hand over the Silver, otherwise, if you make us brothers unhappy, your entire family will suffer great misfortune."

At this point, if the Mo Family couldn’t produce evidence to prove the innocence of the five beasts, they would be liable to pay a huge amount of Silver, and they might even face the danger of imprisonment. Yang Bao and the others were sweating on behalf of the Mo Family, even Qingze was worried about whether they could resolve this incident smoothly.

However, Qingze wasn’t worried about whether his family could escape from this predicament but was concerned that the ensuing events would deeply hurt his daughter’s heart.

He believed in the innocence of the five beasts and knew his daughter had a way to break the scheme of the villains, but now that the Government Office was aware of the beasts’ existence, whether they had hurt someone or not, they could no longer stay at home. They would either be forced to return to the mountains before the Government hunted them down, or they would be cruelly killed in an ambush by the Government.

Either outcome was unbearable. Even he, who didn’t spend much time with the five beasts, found it hard to accept this. How would his daughter, who spent all her days with them and valued loyalty so deeply, cope?

At this time, Mo Yan, who was well-prepared to retaliate, was unaware of her father’s worries. She walked slowly towards the six troublemakers, and under their watchful eyes, she picked up the fur on the table, glanced at it, and put it down. She then spoke to the leader of the Government officers, Uncle Yang, and several village elders, "Officer, Uncle Yang, and respected elders, please take a close look at these four locks of hair, and it would be best if you could also feel them for yourselves."

The few, puzzled, still stepped forward and meticulously examined the hairs as Mo Yan had instructed and touched them, but they didn’t notice anything unusual.

Just as they were about to ask questions, they saw Mo Yan simply gesture to the four beasts, and they obediently came over, their intelligence evidently no less than that of a child who had just learned to understand things.

Having kept their distance up to this point had been one thing, but now that the four beasts had drawn near, everyone felt their terror even more acutely, their hair standing on end, and unconsciously, they took a small step back.