I thought that things had come to this, and there was no other way.
I told Yun Yao to have a few people find a place to bury those bones.
Yun Yao agreed. I looked around and saw nothing else, so I was about to head back when Grandpa Yun called out to me.
"Ah Tong, come here."
Though I was a little puzzled, I still walked toward Grandpa Yun.
When I reached his side, I asked, "Grandpa Yun, what is it?"
"Mm. Come with me. We'll talk as we walk."
I followed Grandpa Yun until we were already some distance from the crowd.
Only then did Grandpa Yun speak. "Ah Tong, do you know why I didn't interfere in this matter?"
I casually answered that he wanted Yun Yao to gain some experience. Grandpa Yun nodded, then shook his head.
Confused, I asked Grandpa Yun, "Wasn't that it? Or is there something else?"
Grandpa Yun stopped and looked at me. "You were only partly right. There is another part you missed."
I wanted to ask what it was, but before I could speak, Grandpa Yun raised a hand to stop me, signaling for me not to be impatient.
He continued, "Actually, I let Yun Yao handle this matter to see how capable she was at dealing with things. Later, you saw it too.
"That child had no experience whatsoever in handling matters, and her judgment of things was far too lacking.
"Seeing Yun Yao perform like that, I had originally planned to take over and deal with it myself.
"But then you found some clues in the middle of it, and I thought that since things had already reached this point, no matter how bad they got, they could not get much worse.
"So I became a bystander and