Liu Mengyao immediately said, "Of course, there is. They usually hang around the county, but recently they couldn't stay there anymore or they got into some trouble, so they ran back to the village. Everyone despises them, but we had no way of dealing with them. Recently, these people have been returning to the village more frequently, and the villagers' lives have been getting worse and worse!"
"They loiter around the village all day long, eating at one household, drinking at another. Wherever they go, they help themselves to food, and whenever they see something of value in a house, they just take it. Last time, Zhao, the widow in our village, had just sold several months' worth of chicken eggs and had some money in hand. Somehow these people got wind of it and went to her house for a meal."
