Near the mountains and forests lay two villages. Because they were not too far from the towns, they were not particularly impoverished, and the villagers were generally simple and honest by nature.
Bai Wutong arrived with Chan'er and Yingchun, proposing to hire a few craftsmen to help build a wooden cabin in the forest.
The village chief, a hunched man in his sixties with a face etched with deep wrinkles, shook his head immediately upon hearing this. "No, no! A few delicate girls like you go in there, and you won't last more than a few days before you die! Someone once went in to look for medicinal herbs and ran into a Big Tiger. If they hadn't been fast on their feet, they would have lost their lives!"
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