The village chief stood in front of the house, flanked by Housekeeper Tang and Hongji.
Those who needed to sell their land were all standing at the front of the crowd, right in front of the village chief and his companions.
Before the village chief could speak, the men from the two families who had been splashed with feces and urine that morning saw the village chief and, with expressions of grievance, complained to him:
"Village chief, please help investigate who was so morally bankrupt to splash feces and urine in front of our house in the middle of the night. We must find this person and fine them, or let them eat the filth."
"Exactly, our village has such scoundrels, Village Chief, you must not ignore this! Such people should be pulled out for public critique and education. We're all from the same village, how can they be so unprincipled? If word gets out, won't other villages laugh at us?"