Wei Manwen entered her room, and Zhou Hang followed her inside. Robben, who had been hysterical just moments ago, suddenly calmed down, sat back in his chair, lit a cigarette, and smoked without any expression.

I turned to the village chief standing beside me and said, "Uncle Li, can you help us find a place to stay? We really can't leave today, and even if we get out of the mountains, we might not catch a ride to the county, right?"

The village chief looked at us with a troubled expression and after a while said, "It's not that I don't want to take you in, but Teacher Wei..."

"Teacher Wei is just upset with that young man. The rest of us are innocent. Why don't you send that young man out of the mountains, and we can stay?"