Inside the Ma Family Martial Arts Hall, several elderly people held a burlap sack, frantically stuffing the medicinal herbs from the shelves into it.
Two young junior apprentices stood nearby, looking helpless.
The Ma Family Martial Arts Hall treats injuries for free and can provide some basic herbs at no cost, but it's quite rare to see people filling a sack like this.
These elderly folks seemed unfamiliar—they must have just moved here. They appeared to be around seventy or eighty, the kind of age that's most problematic; yelling at them is useless, they won't listen to reason. And if you lay a hand on them, that's it—they'll lie on the ground and could sue you for everything you have.
Call the police and even they can't handle them.
So this really is a dilemma with no solution.
The two elderly people stuffed all the herbs from the shelf into the sack.
Clearly, they weren't here for treatment but intended to sell these herbs for money!
Zero-cost goods.
