<blockquote>“What’s going on in there?!” the raspy voice of a slightly inebriated ruffian comes from outside the thicket. Shen Jiu, one arm of the corpse slung around his shoulder and the other around Yue Qi’s, stares dead ahead into the shallow freshly dug grave, thinking furiously.
“We’re not doing anything!” he gasps out performatively, trying to make his voice less snappish and more flustered. He fails, miserably, judging by the wide-eyed trapped look that Yue Qi fixes him with. “Quick,” he continues, pitching his voice quieter- but loud enough to carry to the man on the path- “quick, put your clothes on, ge!”</blockquote>