"What's going on that the village chief is calling us in the middle of the day?"
People gathered together and started discussing sotto voce.
"I don't know. Calling us at this time, it should be something important."
"I heard that someone in a village by Cuiwei Lake had been pretending to be a god to cheat people out of their money a few days ago. It's right after the wheat harvest and a lot of people have just sold their grains; they have money on them. This could well be the time when fraudsters are out."
"It might be possible, but speaking of pretending to be spirits, didn't Zhuang Qingning also do something similar at the entrance of her shop? Does that count as pretending to be spirits?"
