They were called police officers, but in fact, they were plainclothes.
Due to limited resources, the town's police station wasn't very strict about the conditions under which officers dispatched— simply attach an identifier to their shoulders, mount the station's motorcycle, and off they went.
Three officers had arrived, none of whom had dealt with any major cases before; they usually just helped handle the frequent disputes between neighbors from the surrounding villages and occasionally investigated minor thefts.
"What happened here?" Chief Tong looked around the yard, somewhat puzzled.
It wasn't as if a life-threatening situation had occurred here; it didn't seem like that at all, seeing how contentedly the mother and her two daughters were eating, utterly unconcerned.
Looking at the others, though, the scene was indeed quite hard to watch.
