Who would have thought that after a walk around the county town, the streets where people used to wait for work were now deserted.

Widow Liu looked around for a long time but couldn't find anyone.

She walked into a nearby shop and asked, "Shopkeeper..."

Perhaps because too many people had been asking about it recently, the shopkeeper spoke quickly before she could finish, "I haven't moved. Everyone's busy with the harvest lately, and everyone's been hired away. I don't think we'll be able to hire anyone before the autumn harvest is over."

Widow Liu was disappointed after hearing this, but she went to several other places to ask, and they all gave similar answers.

She had no choice but to take a car and plan to go home to discuss what to do with her two sons.

The bus that Widow Liu took was not going to Rongxi Village, so they dropped her off halfway. She walked for another half a day before reaching the village entrance.

So when she saw Ye Juaner, Widow Liu felt very uncomfortable.

I wondered why Ye Juaner came home from the fields so early?

Could it be that all the crops in the fields have been harvested?

She thought to herself, and the expression on her face unconsciously showed it.

When Ye Juan'er saw Widow Liu, she originally didn't want to pay any attention to her.

But Widow Liu kept staring at her with a thoughtful look on her face.

Ye Juan'er endured it at first and walked quickly in front.

But the presence of the gaze from behind was so strong that it almost burned a hole in her back.

When the two of them walked one after the other to the big tree at the entrance of the village, there were several elderly ladies from the village sitting under the tree.

They could no longer participate in the autumn harvest, so while everyone in the village was busy working in the fields, they were still sitting here sewing shoe soles and chatting.

"Have you two finished your work in the fields?" An old lady with poor eyesight saw two people walking towards her, one in front and one behind, but she couldn't see who they were. She thought they were together, so she asked casually.

Ye Juaner rolled her eyes and said, "Grandma Huang, I just came back from the fields and was going home to cook.

"As for others, I don't know."

Before she finished speaking, Widow Liu came over. She had also heard what Grandma Huang asked and said, "I just came back from the city."

Upon hearing this, the people under the tree all gasped.

"You are so brave, you dare to go into the city by yourself?"

"Don't you know there's a bandit problem going on right now? More than a dozen people have already died!"

"I heard that the capital has sent people to suppress the bandits, but they haven't caught them yet!"

Widow Liu was previously preoccupied with the autumn harvest and hadn't thought about this at all.

When she was reminded by their words, the corpse that had died with its eyes open suddenly appeared before her.

"Ugh—" Widow Liu's stomach couldn't stop churning, and she bent over and vomited all over the floor.