Deaf or Dumb

"Do you have to go into the city to get medicine here?" Zhao Chuchu asked Mammy Liu.

"Not at all. There's a town less than two miles from here," Mammy Liu quickly replied. "We usually go there for medicine. Maybe she doesn't walk as fast as we do so she's taking longer to come back."

Zhao Chuchu glared at Mammy Liu. "Are you sure you didn't notify anyone about this?"

"Miss, I didn't do anything. There's no way I have the guts to do that." Mammy Liu got nervous immediately. "The only reason I don't like them is that they have a bad reputation."

"You've never even met them before this. What do you know about them?"

"Everyone from the Kang clan is saying the same thing. There's no way they would make it up, right?"