"There's one more thing. During our conversation, the old woman kept mentioning the Great Feng Dynasty. You have to remember, that was the Former Dynasty, but she didn't seem to realize the dynasty had already changed," Yao Shunyu pointed out. "Her memories seem to have stopped in the Former Dynasty, back when General Guo was still alive."
Zhu Jie caught his implication. "You mean the old woman died in that era, so her memories stopped there. The village must have been massacred after General Guo and his party were killed."
Zhu Jie had a point. After all, if General Guo had still been alive, Zhennan Hou wouldn't have dared to attack the village.
Jiang Cheng took the wooden token from his robe. It had come from the marquis's manor, and the false Grandpa and all the people who had died unjustly had carried one.
The villagers hadn't killed people for no reason. Everyone who had entered the village had done so because of this token, which represented the marquis's manor. It was a guide token.
Studying the token in his hand, Jiang Cheng suspected it was connected to the way out. After all, only those who entered the dream carrying a token had seen the false Grandpa. Also, beside the many skulls buried beneath the empty lot at the village entrance, there were nothing but wooden tokens, all carefully wrapped in cloth. It looked more like some kind of ritual.
There were patterns on the token, but Jiang Cheng couldn't make them out even after studying it for a long time. Tang Qisheng seemed to have noticed something. He took the token and carefully felt its surface with his fingers. After a while, he nodded. "Like the other one, this is written in Shuishu. It's carved in reverse, so it's