Forget it, I'll just have them flogged!
After fifty strikes, the monks still wouldn't confess.
Old Master Xia was inwardly furious. Afraid of offending Prefect Liu? Well, this old master will make sure you offend him!
Prefect Liu was his superior and had not refrained from committing disreputable acts to accumulate silver. The lavish lifestyle he led was the epitome of opulence. He had dozens of concubines alone and spent his days doing nothing at all. He would visit brothels to see pretty girls or engage in leisure activities like admiring his pet birds and organizing cockfights and dogfights.
