"??"
"Wherever the Peach Blossom Fairy goes, not a blade of grass remains; when money hits the ground, heads roll?"
"Mm..."
After repeating it, Yue Lingshan pondered seriously for a while. In the end, she could only shake her head with a baffled expression, clearly having never heard the saying before.
"It doesn't ring a bell..."
"Where does it come from?"
As she asked, she curiously edged closer to Annie, wanting to get to the bottom of it.
"..."
(ˉ▽￣~)Tsk~~
Annie didn't answer. She just rolled her eyes at her.
Then, after pushing away Yue Lingshan's eager face, she pursed her lips and muttered irritably:
"I'm too lazy to explain it to you. You wouldn't understand anyway!"
╮(╯▽╰)╭
That was actually true. Annie had learned the trick from a goblin named Chun Sanshiniang, who had once lived with her by West Lake. It was a little method for punishing bad people.
That "Sanshiniang" liked to balance a copper coin on the heads of certain villains. If the coin hit the ground, their heads would follow. It was very hard for an ordinary person to keep the coin from falling, so the ordeal could go on and on. It was perfect for dealing with certain scoundrels.
"You—"
Yue Lingshan grew a little exasperated when Annie refused to explain.
Fortunately, she knew Annie's temperament well enough. After thinking it over, she stopped pressing the issue and returned to the question she'd asked earlier:
"But!"
"Couldn't they run away?"
"Are they really going to kneel there obediently for twelve hours?"
"What kind of sorcery did you use on them?"
In Yue Lingshan's eyes, those people were all treacherous and cunning. How could they honestly keep kneeling there without anyone watching them?
And yet they had done exactly that. They were still kneeling outside