As the old saying goes, a smile can disarm anyone who's ready to cast a stone. Now that he had apologised, it was hard to chastise him further.
"Hmm!"
"A lawyer like you should have better standards! How can you lack even basic manners?"
"You're not as good as us illiterate farmers. All that studying was such a waste."
Lawyer Chen pulled a face. He felt utterly hopeless. He had handled many tricky cases before, dealing with these ignorant and uncultured villagers was supposed to be the easiest task.
It should've been a simple matter of throwing around some money. But this time, he strangely found himself dealing with this difficult bunch.
Especially this old lady, it was as if she had grown cleverer with age.
"You tell us! How are we supposed to solve this problem?" Guan Rufang signaled her neighbors, the old men and women and the middle-aged women, to calm down and reason with civility. At the same time, she posed a question, demanding a satisfactory answer.
