Compared with the villagers who came to watch the show yesterday, the crowd today was obviously more worried and uneasy.
This isn't as simple as yesterday's accidental drowning...
This time, there was blood everywhere. The bluestone on the lake was covered in blood, and the snow on the lakeside was also stained red with blood...
“…What’s going on?! Another death?”
"Is this year even going to end? It's only been a short time and three people have already died!"
"Yes, yesterday a gentleman who had passed the imperial examination was drowned, and today two old women were drowned. What a sin!"
"Poor thing! I heard one of them was the old mother of that scholar? Her son drowned yesterday, and today she also drowned? Within a short time..."
There was a constant stream of chaotic discussions in the crowd.
Most people were feeling a little uneasy, after all, they had seen blood and two people had been drowned at once.
"Didn't you see? One of them had a broken forehead. They said they hit their head against a rock, breaking it open. That's why there's blood all over the floor..."
"I arrived too late and didn't see it. There were so many people surrounding the fight that I couldn't even squeeze in."
"You said these two people drowned together. Could it be that they had an argument, and one of them pushed the other, causing a head injury, and then lost their balance and fell into the lake? The other one was worried about being discovered, so he jumped in and committed suicide?"
"You think this is a storybook? If I killed someone, I would definitely run away secretly so that no one would find out it was me, instead of jumping in and drowning with them. I'm not a fool. Even fools are not that stupid."
The discussions among the onlookers grew louder and louder. By the time Hua Shi and his companions arrived, the atmosphere had reached a fever pitch...
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