"What's a villager doing here Is he here to file a complaint" The crowd buzzed with speculation. They were all too far away to hear what was being said inside the hall, so they could only catch snippets of information from those at the front.,Although they had just heard the sentence of beheading, decapitation was often subject to approval from the Ministry of Punishments. Executing first and reporting later was easy to exploit and could bring trouble.,Outside the county magistrate's hall, Magistrate Wu had arrived long ago, but there were too many common people surrounding him. He couldn't get through the crowd and could only hear the murmurs of the people. The more he heard, the angrier he became.。