The next day, with Liang Hu's help, Lu Changsheng found a humble place to stay near the Traveling Peddler Inn.
Worried that Lu Changsheng knew nothing and might break local taboos and implicate him in the process, Liang Hu shared a good deal of information.
For instance, he mentioned that beggars on the street were said to be involved in child-abduction and mutilation rings. No matter how frail or even disabled they might look, offending one of them could easily result in finding oneself as a corpse in a ditch the very next day.
Chapter 16