The man kept talking. "It has to be something big, because the prefect official from the nearest city led all these militiamen here first thing in the morning. Maybe they came to arrest Official Ma, but when they arrived, all they found were the dead bodies hanging from the rafters."
It was just so much to take in and comprehend that Wang Jingyuan was stunned speechless. The man did not know anything else, so Liu Xiaochen thanked him and let him be on his way.
Wang Jingyuan gripped the letter that Official Ma had sent her. "Official Ma…is dead? Just like that?"
"What do you think of this, Junior Sister?" asked Liu Xiaochen grimly.