Chapter 70: They are All Thousand-Year-Old Foxes

His eyes concealed barely perceptible anger; to think he was being fooled with lies so absurd not even children would believe them. Did they really take him for a fool?

Ever since he arrived at Qingshui County, this was the first time he had been so disgraced. Such an ungrateful wretch, after all the kindness he had shown!

Human nature is just like this. While the County Magistrate pondered these issues, he would only remember how he once spoke favorably of Jiang Feng, how he sided with Jiang Feng, but never would he consider that without his indulgence, how could Xue Wuwei have been so lawless in Qingshui County?

How could the young man in front of him have almost lost his life? If he had intervened more, how could he have fallen to this outcome?

Corruption, greed, selfishness, everything revolving around self-interest—this is the world today, no, perhaps it's the unspoken rule tacitly accepted by those in power.