When everyone first saw the injuries on his face, they had been too busy asking him about them to think much else. Now they all realized that they had no choice but to leave immediately.
They had beaten up a local. Young men were hot-blooded; he might turn around and bring a whole gang back to make trouble. Besides, they had earned quite a lot of money here and already made people jealous. A little stirring up was all it would take to make this impossible to settle peacefully.
Father Ye grew anxious too. "Right. Before, when there hadn't been any trouble, things were easier. We'd saved members of the Lü Family too. We could have spent a day negotiating and found somewhere to stay without too much trouble. Not anymore. Hurry and pack everything up. We'll take it all aboard in a bit and make do with sleeping on the boats tonight."
"There are plenty of us, so we can move everything quickly. Put everything into the baskets and carry them on shoulder poles. Stack a few bamboo trays together and carry those. You youngsters start moving things. We'll pack up the rest," Father Pei said hurriedly.
"It's just gotten dark too. Let's hurry down the little paths to the shore. Don't let the people sitting outside their doors cooling off see us."
Everyone grew nervous. They had originally been about to lie down and sleep, but now they all sprang into action.
Luckily, they didn't have much luggage with them. They were all rough-and-ready men who had brought, at most, a couple of changes of clothes. There were just quite a few miscellaneous tools, baskets, bamboo trays, buckets, and such, along with the Jellyfish Brain and Jellyfish Blood they had carried back today. Fortunately, those had already been