Because on Lin Wanwan's side there were three people, two wielding swords and one holding a hammer, all of considerable strength, they confronted the villagers, who only managed to draw out wooden sticks.
Lin Wanwan already understood the situation in front of her—the person about to be burned was clearly a leprosy patient.
In the villages of the Great Tang, those afflicted with leprosy were basically burned to death as a means of eradicating the threat forever.
In the nearby deep mountains, many leprosy patients with strange appearances were hiding. Lin Wanwan, following Elder Sun into the mountains, not only gathered herbs but would occasionally go deep into the mountains to treat the leprosy patients and deliver medicine.
