Magistrate Li had heard all about the situation from Yu Dong when the latter came to see her but she still could not just listen to one side of the story which was she went ahead and investigated the situation in the Big Stone Village.
But the result of her investigation was considerably similar to what Yu Dong had told her in her office.
The people of the Big Stone Village ate the children of their own village. Later on, when, the children of their own village ended up running out, they turned around and started stealing the children from other villagers. To make things worse the chief of that village even implemented her own grain tax, saying that she will not eat the children of those families who pay a desirable amount of grains as taxes to her causing many people to starve to death as they did not wish to let their children die.
