Seeing the situation, Ge Wu hastily confessed, chuckling, "I'm just doing a job for someone else in return for cash, there's really no need to risk my life."
"I didn't want to take this job at first, but I had no choice. The money at home was tight, my mother had poor health and the cost of her medication each year was crushing. I have three children, the oldest is only four, each of them needing food in their mouths. My wife always scolds me for not being able to make money, insisting on a divorce every day. I had no other choice and took Cao Jiande's thirty taels of silver to risk my life."
"So it was Cao Jiande who ordered you?" Zhuang Qingning responded with a question, raising her brow.
"Who else but that bastard," Ge Wu sneered. "Just think about it, who else in the whole county town views you as a thorn in his side and wants to burn you off clean, if it's not him?"
