Bai Xue explained her purpose and gave Liu the witch thirty dollars as a deposit, all she wanted was for her to accompany her in staging a play.
As for talk of ghosts and gods, she wasn't completely disbelieving, but she wasn't fully convinced either.
For money, what couldn't Liu the witch do? Bai Xue asked her to cooperate, and she did, the specifics of when were to await Bai Xue's notification.
When she returned to her own village, Bai Xue took a detour to the Qin family's doorway and found a place to hide there, staying concealed for a long time.
After watching Lin Junping come out of the house, she deliberately removed her straw hat, revealing the newly grown stubble of hair as she passed by her.
Upon seeing Bai Xue's perfectly good hair cropped so short, Li Junping found it very peculiar and hurriedly called out to her, "Xue Mei, what happened to your hair? Why have you cut your perfectly good hair so short?"