Less than five minutes after the mission appeared on the Blood Gate, someone from the village came toward them, and the group went to meet him.
Half an hour later...
The five of them learned the details of this mission at the Village Chief's house.
This place was called Chen Family Village, and its clan rules were as rigid as iron. One of them stated, "Women may not enter the ancestral hall. Those who are unchaste, bring death to their husbands, or defy their elders shall be punished under clan law—sent to the Drowning Pond to cleanse the clan."
Not long ago, a widow who had violated the ancestral rules had emerged in Chen Family Village... Lin Xiurou.
Lin Xiurou had married into a household in Chen Family Village at seventeen. At eighteen, her husband had suddenly died of an acute illness, leaving her widowed at a young age. Everyone in the clan said she had brought about her husband's death.
A week earlier, someone had suddenly gone to the Village Chief to report that he had personally seen Lin Xiurou secretly meeting a traveling peddler late at night!
After discussing it with the clan elders, the Village Chief had decided to follow the ancestral rules and send Lin Xiurou to the Drowning Pond!
A few days after Lin Xiurou was drowned, someone in the village suddenly claimed that he had seen her ghost while walking beside the pond at night.
But since only one person had seen her, no one had taken it seriously.
It was only after two children went swimming in the pond and both drowned that the villagers began to feel something was wrong.
Although the pond was deeper than an adult was tall, how could children who had grown up playing beside it drown in