Chapter 128

I miscalculated. I had assumed that once the men of the Qian family were dead, the widows and orphans left behind wouldn't be able to stir up any trouble. I hadn't expected the eldest daughter-in-law to be such a formidable woman; she had actually rallied her parents-in-law and two younger sisters-in-law to turn this into a major commotion. Because the details of the Qian family case had not been publicly disclosed, and given the common people’s innate tendency to sympathize with the weak, the spectacle created by these mourning women was quite large. Many ignorant townspeople, blinded by an overflowing sense of justice, had spontaneously joined in to shout for the Qian family, never realizing they were merely "abetting a tyrant."