Cecilia Adler, full and content, left the dining table and sat down in the living room. Leaning back in her chair, she casually picked up a newspaper from the coffee table. When she saw the back page, she was stunned by its contents.
It was a notice offering a reward for information about a criminal.
The gist was that a thirty-year-old man named Peter Warren, a longtime local tyrant, had fled after slaughtering his neighbor's entire family over a trivial matter. A reward of one hundred yuan was being offered to anyone who provided a tip leading to his capture or who was instrumental in his apprehension.
A photo of the killer was attached below.
It was the old man selling mats she had encountered today.
She could do without the one hundred yuan.
But this was an accolade she wanted to win for Ian.
He hadn't even started school yet, but he had already received a banner from the neighborhood committee for his act of righteous bravery.
