GS 53: A Sacrifice

After the sick man was delivered to the ancestral hall, peace resumed in Brook Hill. Yan Xiaohan and Fu Shen hazarded the risk of being chased after by the all the village’s dogs, stealthily slipping into a family’s courtyard. They listened in for a long time at the base of a wall, and could more or less piece together what had happened here. Reportedly, the ill man had contracted an untreatable malady. All the villagers considered this a bad omen, so they would be conducting a sacrificial ceremony for driving away evil at the riverside tomorrow night.