"We won?"
"For real?"
The men at the table asked one after another.
"Would I lie to you? It's just that news travels slow in a small place like ours. It's already all over the State Mansion!" the man said with certainty.
"Then the Court will definitely send troops to wipe out the bandits! This True Mother Sect, I reckon they won't be around for much longer!" someone said with a laugh.
"Exactly. From what I can see, these rebels are just a bunch of mud-legs who farm for a living. How can they fight the Court's army? Isn't that just asking for death?"
"Yeah, they're just fooling those mud-legs. What Mother of Non-Birth? What a load of crap!"
...
These men seemed to be in much better spirits now that the Court had won a battle.
They then started gossiping about various things happening in the city.
Seeing that there was no more useful information to be heard, Jiang Che left.
But hearing that the Court had won a battle didn't put his mind at ease.
