Inside the car with Mengyao are five women from Du Xueqi, five women from Han Bihong, and Shen Yaqing. On the way to the small town, they split at the fork in the road. Han Bihong and the others went in another direction to gather information, leaving Mengyao, Qiu Wen, and the five women from Du Xueqi together.
Among the seven women with Mengyao, Mengyao's presence was overwhelming, clearly not an ordinary person. The five women from Du Xueqi were too out of touch with reality. Only Qiu Wen, who had been mingling in the streets since childhood, could hold her own in conversations both with prominent figures and with humble folks. Therefore, the task of inquiring the uncle standing by the roadside fell upon Qiu Wen.
