C88 Pockmark Huang

As Qin Dongfang and his companions ignored the pleas for caution and carried Huang Ya toward the village's western edge, the villagers, shaking their heads in disapproval, trailed behind them.

Nestled under several rows of towering poplars on the west side of the village stood a line of tiled houses. At the doorstep of one, two young men were squatting, idly smoking cigarettes