Magistrate Ho drummed his fingers on the table and closed his eyes.
He had to figure out something soon.
Asking him to give up the lucrative commission from the rice trade would be too painful for him.
He could ask the rice merchants to reduce the price of the rice but keep his commission from it at the same amount, but it would incur the wrath of them, and they might seek help from the Governor.
Which might have been what the Governor wanted. Getting rid of him.
And if he did nothing, the Governor would have an excuse to punish him for making the citizens in Hong Feng City suffer.
What a dilemma he was in.
Magistrate Ho's fingers clenched into a fist when he thought about this.
Governor Tan had been all over him when it was dealing with Lee Zhen Ren's birthday celebration and now this...
When he thought about how he had worked hard for the birthday celebration, it reminded him that Lee Zhen Ren, who was now gone, was now replaced by Ruo Zhi.
