By the time the woman thought it through and chased after her, there wasn't a trace of a person outside.
The lady of the house asked the neighbors left and right, but they all said they hadn't seen any unfamiliar faces.
That night, bad news arrived, her man had an accident and died, and it was not long after the old woman had come to ask for shoes.
Some said that shoes carried evil spirits, and to send shoes was to send evil.
The couple was known to be good people, and the old woman had intended to take away their misfortune.
But the lady of the house didn't understand this, and by rejecting the old woman, tragedy struck.
Lin Chunju had not taken it to heart when her mother told her the story, merely listening to it as just a story.
But ever since they had Qingqing, a child with such unusual abilities, Lin Chunju slowly started to feel that many stories were not without foundation.
Qingqing rarely did things without meaning, and Jiannan's pair of shoes were new.