Because it wasn't a market day, there weren't too many people buying meat, so Butcher Zhang was cutting meat for Lian Manman while chatting with her.
"I don't know why, but these last couple of days there have been more people passing through the town. Judging by their accents, they're not from around here..."
Before long, another nosy person came over to join the conversation.
"Old Zhang, you might not know this, but these people, they're all from the Prefecture City, and some even from the Capital City. Didn't you see there were also official-looking people among them?"
"People from the Prefecture City, Capital City, what are they doing coming up here?" Lian Manman asked.
"Don't act like you're the only one in the know." Butcher Zhang rolled his eyes at the person who had joined in, "You know Aunt Li Er from the back street, right? She often comes here to buy meat. She has a nephew working at the County Yamen, and she told me..."