"You actually managed to come down from Egret Mountain. That's truly remarkable, truly remarkable." The chief of Yin Village inspected Wang Linchi up and down, a look of disbelief in his eyes.
Earlier, a villager had told him that an outlander had arrived in the village. This made the village chief wary. In ancient times, people rarely left their hometowns, so an outlander mixing into the village was even more conspicuous. Everyone recognized each other; how could they not recognize a sudden stranger?
Those who left their hometowns were typically one of three types of people: refugees, fugitives, or merchants. But there were exceptions to this rule. There were also dart masters who roamed far and wide, and travellers who enjoyed sightseeing in the mountains and along the waters.
Wang Linchi didn't look like a merchant, but rather like a scholar. Furthermore, he wasn't as ragged as a refugee would be; he looked more like a fugitive.
