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Yuan Bao returned quickly, but her expression was somewhat odd.
"What's the matter?" asked Lady Guan.
"The village chief's wife found several large baskets of fish and meat as well as a few bags of rice at their doorstep. The village chief is distributing them to the villagers right now," Yuan Bao said.
That meant the whole village was crowding around the village chief's doorstep, which explained why nobody noticed the two horse-drawn carriages entering the village.
Everyone was stunned at first, but aside from Changer, they all realized the situation afterward.
Heh, to avoid making the villagers suspicious, those people really went through great lengths.
In the eyes of those people, a few baskets of fish, meat, and rice might not mean much. But for the villagers of Houling Village, who lived frugally and endured tough lives, this was like manna from heaven.