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Above the ruins of Fierce Tiger Village, more and more people were gathering.
There were clerks from the Sihai Business Association itself, as well as idlers hired from the city. Amidst the coming and going, they loaded onto the wagons everything of value left in the ruins of Fierce Tiger Village: food, iron and gold, fabrics, medicinal herbs, and so on.
Those with a keen eye carefully tallied and found to their amazement that a total of thirty-two large wagons were loaded!
A few local ruffians, who on ordinary days prided themselves on their martial prowess, suddenly felt envious, but that feeling soon vanished when they saw the bandits' corpses being hauled from various places and piled up in stacks. The heads were chopped off, preserved with lime, and placed on a few wagons specially set aside for this purpose.
Their hearts felt as though doused with a bucket of cold water, and all greed dissipated.
