"What should we do? It's about to turn into chaos."
Liu Tieshan left the Xu Family's granary and approached Tong Huaqiong for advice.
He was afraid that the crowd, agitated with righteous indignation, would lose control when they saw the Xu Family's granary.
In fact, people were already arguing over who had taken more and who had taken less.
As things continued, a fierce battle over the grain was imminent.
Liu Tieshan was genuinely afraid of things getting out of hand.
Tong Huaqiong had a strategy and said to Liu Tieshan, "The worries you have, other village chiefs have too. You should go and discuss with the chiefs of other villages, like Guazhou Bay's Village Chief Hu. He seems to have a high standing. Have the villagers not take the grain for now."
"First organize the people, and later distribute the grain according to the loss in the cornfields."
Liu Tieshan said, "But who will oversee this?"
