"What? One of them got away?" Cheng Beilin said in surprise.
"Yep, I heard one of them ran off." When it came to village gossip, if Aunt Cuihua claimed to be second best in Lihua Village, no one would dare claim to be first. She nodded definitively. "It was Zhang Da Kui who got away!"
"Wow!" Cheng Beilin's eyes widened with curiosity. "Aunt Cuihua, how do you know so many details?"
"Hah, it's all because of Little Heizi's family over in Lu Hua Village. After he died, they kept going to the authorities every single day to ask about the case's progress. They actually managed to find out that one of the suspects was Zhang Da Kui from Yuan Shan Village. The whole family then rushed over to Zhang Da Kui's house to demand justice, but that just ended up... what's the phrase... poking the..."
Aunt Cuihua couldn't quite remember the phrase.
Cheng Beilin quickly supplied, "Poking the hornet's nest."
