No one spoke.
If the money were to be deducted from the next settlement, the villagers below might agree. But asking them to cough up money they had already pocketed? Even if they argued until they were blue in the face, it was impossible.
"When you go back shortly, I don't care what methods you use, you must drill some sense into those villagers. We might have gotten away with mixing in bad fruit this time, but there absolutely cannot be a second time."
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