The Dragon God's Bride Asked for a Divorce novel · Chapter 18 of 24
Chapter 18: The Winch
"Right," Shizuku said. "Everybody listen."
Two hundred faces turned.
They were gaunt with fear, and some of them were weeping.
Every one of them was looking at her as though she held a rope.
She did.
"There are seventy houses on the low road," she said. "Sixty of them are yours. The canal's banks were built for one half of this flow. The gate was opened at midnight. A boy was sent down the road to warn them, and I will bet my fields that he was told to say it was a drill."
Somebody swore.
A man in the front turned and began running back toward the village, then another.
"Go," Shizuku said. "Send the children up the hill. Send the old. Take every cart. Go."
They went.
The ones who stayed were the strongest, forty or so, mostly men, all of them looking at the six hired staves on the platform.
Shizuku turned to her uncle.
He had not moved.
"You cut my straw," she said.
"Don't be absurd."
"You cut it with your own knife at the kitchen table, the night before the lot. You cut the short one and you marked it with a red thread so your hand would know. I did your accounts, Uncle. I know you keep that thread in your sewing box."
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