"It won't fall through, Grandma. Trust me."
Speaking of the unlucky merchant who passed through the county before the new year, Chen Wanyue had, in the last few days, recalled the exact date he would be passing through.
"It's the night of the twenty-sixth day of the twelfth lunar month, in the Cai Family Village, about ten li from the county seat. There's a large grove of acacia trees there. The story goes that the two villagers from the Cai Family Village who saved the merchant initially heard a noise and thought it was a ghost, so they were too scared to get close. But since it was the only way for them to get home, they worked up the courage to approach and ended up rescuing him."
