That evening, Yuan Si changed her clothes and went out again. Before she left, the old woman couldn't help but pull her aside and say repeatedly, "Don't go for the kill, you hear? If someone finds out, it'll be a disaster."
"Alright, I know. With my skills, no one will be able to discover me." Yuan Si was confident about that.
Then, under the cover of darkness, Yuan Si scaled her courtyard wall and headed out of the village.
The old woman had gone out earlier that evening to ask around and learned that the two drifters had been thrown out of the village by the team leader and his men. Yuan Si had a general idea of the direction they were taken, and after more than two hours of searching, she finally found them.
These two partners in misfortune were bundled up in their cotton-padded jackets, lying in the tall grass and whispering to each other.
Without any context, Yuan Si overheard them saying they were going to find someone named Zhao Si.
