"Yes."
The Old Man nodded without hesitation, with no intention of bargaining.
The situation was not in his favor. Saying anything else was useless.
"First, I want to know the origins of Qingfeng Village."
Wang Ye looked straight at the Old Man and spoke slowly.
The Old Man paused, narrowing his eyes as he studied Wang Ye carefully for a long time before finally speaking. "I don't know much about Qingfeng Village's exact origins. They're simply too far in the past."
"However, when I looked through our ancestral records, I found some historical accounts."
"Rumor has it that our village was founded when a group of soldiers settled here."
"But even I can't find any more detailed information."
The Old Man's tone was exceedingly sincere.
Wang Ye glanced at him and nodded slowly. He did not suspect that the Old Man was lying.
To a certain extent, this corroborated the information Wang Ye had learned himself.
If he remembered correctly, in the illusion of the three pages, he had seen that young general dispatch a deputy commander after his defeat, leading over a hundred soldiers away in secret.
He had found it strange at the time, because that group never appeared again in the later scenes.
Back then, Wang Ye had already suspected that those people might be connected to Qingfeng Village, though he had not been completely sure until he heard the answer from the Old Man.
But...
Why had that group left the army back then? Had they spent all these years doing nothing but establishing this village?
And then simply died away?
Or was that young general merely a reckless brute who wanted to leave behind an idle move, only for it to truly become an idle move?
Otherwise, there was simply no way to explain it.