Handmaid Lin was right. There were bandits lurking in the river road, however, these people seemed to have been underestimated Xhemin's wit. Or perhaps, because they thought, Xhemin was a regular handmaid then they thought just like handmaid Lin, she will just succumbed onto her fear and never dared to cross the river road. However, Xhemin don't really need to pass the river road to get to the villages, for who told these bandits that there was no other road back there?