But Zhao Ying, having left the courtyard and turned around, felt some trepidation. Big brother, you absolutely must not let anything happen to you; you have to stay alive.
Clearly, Zhao Ying had deliberately not allowed Mrs. Zhao to go. If something truly had happened to her brother, she could keep the news from reaching their mother's ears if she alone knew about it. But if Mrs. Zhao herself had gone, it would have been irreversible.
「At the village entrance!」
It didn't take long before several hundred people had gathered—men and women, old and young. Households unrelated to the military watched with a sense of spectacle, while military families were filled with both nervousness and anticipation.
