After calculating, the total number of disappearances in the three provinces over the years reached thousands, if not ten thousand.
Upon completion of the investigation, the report was sent to the Capital City with urgent dispatch, and Baili Yan was furious, issuing a decree that all officials involved in the case and their immediate families be executed, while relatives up to nine generations be exiled.
As for the people in Pingshui Town, they were all executed with a single stroke of the sword. According to Baili Yan, these people were corrupted to the bone and born to cause harm; the entire village consisted of troublemakers. Allowing them to live would only bring future worries about them reoffending. Instead of living in constant fear, it was better to eliminate them swiftly.
Originally, everything was under control, but Ye Zi'an underestimated the barefoot doctor and the Prefectural Magistrate Cui of Liangchuan.
