"Alright, move along, stop showing off here."
Chun Xiaoman raised her bamboo pole to push aside the showboating Gouwa, then walked up to the broken-down man, carefully choosing her words before slowly asking, "Why did you come to our village? Why kill people as soon as you arrive? When did we ever offend you?"
Faced with Chun Xiaoman's questioning, the man hurriedly spilled out everything he knew, afraid that if he hesitated, the noose would soon be around his own neck.
"I... we were driven out by those soldiers on horseback, and we ran out of food while fleeing, so we followed the witch's orders to find a village far from the government office to scavenge for something to eat. Turns out your village is the farthest from the county seat in the area."
"Soldiers on horseback?" Chun Xiaoman was completely baffled by this offhand remark. So there wasn't any special reason for their trouble in coming to Niuxin Village after all?
