The villagers were honest people, they relied on farming and earned a decent living. If they wanted they could have become crooks and thieves to earn more money but they did not instead they worked hard in their fields and earned a living that would make them proud instead of feeling guilty for they snatched someone's money or killing someone to cover their hands with blood.
Thus when they heard the ruthless words of Qiu Bai, they were not only stunned. They were actually shocked to the point where they wanted to chase Qiu Bai out of the village with stakes and torches in their hands.
This was a mer? One who couldn't harm an ant? He was a devil in the skin of a mer! He was not even human! He not only poisoned Yu Dong's husbands but he also killed her daughter. It was a child, one that did not even get a chance to see the world and was killed by this mer, how can he even sleep peacefully like this?
