They deserved it.
" What is going on?"
" Why did she call us here, the village head I mean?"
" Don't tell me she was serious when she said that we would have to start hunting for our meals, is she asking us to hunt for wild animals?" said a woman and the others also seemed to be agreeing with her. After all, when the village head said that she will be taking them to the forest to hunt for food, she looked rather serious.
The women all thought that the village head was just trying to punish her which was why she was calling them so when all of them smelled the scent rotting corpse they all were stunned, many women gagged and then started to heave harshly as they all turned to look at Madam Qui who was already walking over the cliff with her mouth covered, seeing her like this the women all understood that Madam Qui knew something that they didn't.