Chapter 204

"Ah..." A sudden scream jolted Yuanchun from her drowsy, half-asleep state. She swept the room with her mental energy and immediately broke into a smile. Ma Xiaolan and Zhong Daming had returned with their rations. As Ma Xiaolan opened the door, she found her room strewn with paper money meant for the dead, scattered white funeral flowers, and a bloody skull painted on the wall. The skull, with blood dripping from its seven orifices, looked exactly like her brother-in-law when he had died—beaten to death, his face a mask of blood.