"Alright, move aside. Stop showing off already."
Chun Xiaoman pushed Dogwa aside with her bamboo pole, walked up to the broken-down man, thought for a moment, then slowly asked, "Why did you come to our village? Why did you kill anyone you saw? When did we ever offend you?"
In response to Chun Xiaoman's questioning, the man hurriedly spilled everything he knew, afraid that if he was even a second slower, that rope would be wrapped around his own neck.
"We… we were driven out by those soldiers on horseback. While fleeing for our lives, we ran out of food, so we followed the Witch's orders to find a village far from the Government Office to get something to eat. As it happens, your village is the farthest from the county seat around here."
"Soldiers on horseback?" Chun Xiaoman couldn't make head or tail of his rambling words. So the trouble at Niuxin Village was purely coincidental, with no special reason at all?
"Who exactly are you? Why did Da Liang's soldiers drive you out?"
