Find a chance to ask Nana what's going on

She heard his question, and sighed.
What will they do? She wanted to go down and smash that jerk's smug face, then find his gang and smash them too!
But she knew little to nothing about them, not even where was their base or whose backing they had or who was their strongest cultivator.

Because that thug downstair, she noticed, was a cultivator too.
He was stronger than Ren but not too strong, with her current cultivation she could still handle him albeit burning much of the energy she stored up till now.
But then what? If he was their strongest then good, but if there were more like him? If he was just a goon and there were still stronger thugs around?

Even if she could overdraw her cultivation to defeat them, the side-effects would leave her too **** and so that option should be left as a last choice.

"I want to deal with them, but we know too little. That man was a cultivator and his level is higher than yours... you can deal most of the goons we saw on the way here, but if there's more like him or stronger we'd be in trouble. If we are to act, first we need to find out more about them"

"And raise some money" Ren said, holding up his now almost empty purse "If we don't, we'll be homeless in a few days. At worst we'll go back to master, but..."

"We'll find a solution, we can't go back just like this" there was also the option of kicking asses and then escaping back up the mountain once they had no more money, it'd be a great way to damage one or more of the gangs and avoid the consequences... well, mostly so. If they didn't manage to eradicate those they attacked then they'd be wanted and couldn't come back here so this too was to be left as a last option, hopefully to be never used.

"Also, that girl..." Mei asked, and Ren nodded with a sad look "She's Nana, the girl i told you about, the daughter of the owner. I really don't know how she..." ... how she ended up like that.

"Then ask her. Find a chance to ask her how things became like this, and get more information about the state of the town. I'm sure she'll be more trustworthy than the gossipers in the streets"

That sounded like a plan.
Now all that was left was to find a chance to meet her privately and ask...