The Herbal Scents of Farm Life
Chapter 1170 Must Set a Fire

Chapter 1170: Chapter 1170 Must Set a Fire

How could he have imagined that what should have been a simple task to earn a thousand taels of silver would turn out like this? Had he known, not even all the silver in the world would have tempted him to do it.

It was a matter of life and death.

No, no, that’s not right, had he known it would come to this, he would have never let the villagers dig up that cow. He’d rather tire himself out, digging slowly!

"You say someone paid you silver to dig? Who was it?" the Eldest Prince approached and asked.

"I... I don’t know, his face was covered with... with a piece of black cloth. I only heard his voice and knew it was a man," the village chief, enduring the pain, replied.

"Lies!"

The Eldest Prince shouted fiercely.

He stepped forward, stomping on the village chief’s stomach.

"Caught red-handed and you still dare to lie. If that person had the means to approach you, wouldn’t he have the means to dig up that dead cow himself? Does he need to pay you silver to do it? Do you think we’re all so easily fooled?"

he interrogated.

"Truly, it’s true,"

seeing that none of them believed him, and the pain in his body piercing him to the core, the village chief almost wished to die.

"He asked me where the dead cow was buried. I didn’t tell him, so he... he gave me a thousand taels of silver to dig the cow out," he said.

"Hehe."

Lin Caisang scoffed coldly.

"Village chief, let me remind you, in half a quarter of an hour, your hands and feet will start to rot. Are you sure you want to continue with your lies, without regret?"

Such nonsense might deceive the villagers, but for them, she could only scoff.

"How about this."

She squatted down, eyebrow ticked up at the village chief.

"Since our people will definitely find all the poisoned beef, there’s no need to question you. We’ll just toss you into the mountains to fend for yourself. What do you think of my idea, doesn’t it sound good?"

she asked the village chief.

"No, please don’t,"

the village chief pleaded, shaking his head repeatedly despite the pain.

"I’ll tell the truth, someone came to me in the dead of night a few days ago, gave me a thousand taels of silver, and asked me... asked me to lead some men to dig up the dead cow under cover of darkness.

That person said... said that we couldn’t just leave the cow buried, otherwise the decomposing fluids might poison the entire village. It had to be burned,"

"What did you say?"

The Eldest Prince pressed down hard with his foot on his stomach when he heard these words.

This old fox knew full well that the dead cow could kill the whole village, yet he took the thousand taels without doing the job and even planned to dry the poisoned beef. What was he trying to do?

"Ah!"

The village chief screamed in agony, but no one felt any sympathy for him.

"Mercy, have mercy, I realize my mistake now. I shouldn’t have been greedy and dried the dead cow. I just thought that since the man said he would come back to check in a few days, and as he was able to give a thousand taels, he must be wealthy, so I thought to get some more silver from him.

I didn’t do it on purpose, please spare me, I won’t dare to do it again, never again,"

"A man’s greed is like a snake’s desire to swallow an elephant!" Lin Caisang spat out icily.

The person had simply paid a thousand taels to the village chief to dig up the poisoned cow and burn it.

But to the village chief, that person’s casual remark about returning to check later more than likely served solely as a reminder to make sure he took the silver and did the job well.

Instead, it turned into the village chief’s excuse for his venomous scheme, wanting more silver and resulting in so many people being poisoned!