Killed by a beast?
Seeing Xu Jing looking at him with some surprise, Gold quickly added more details, "Lingzhou is mountainous. Although we hold beast-expulsion events every year, occasionally one or two aren't driven away completely, and incidents of people being killed by beasts do happen.
Wang Man's mother had bad luck. When she went out to look for Wang Man, the village had just completed a beast-expulsion around the nearby area. She probably thought it was safe, which is why she dared to take the forest path at night to find Wang Man.
When Wang Man's mother's funeral was held, I glanced at her corpse. Oh, there wasn't a single piece of skin intact on her body, especially from her right cheek to her neck—a large chunk of flesh was torn off, exposing the ghastly white bones.
