"Mom... wow—"
A weak cry echoed in the threshing ground.
The villagers were stunned...
This is...resurrection!
Could it be that the gods have come down to earth?
Plop! Plop! Plop!
The villagers immediately knelt on the ground, kowtowed towards Li Wei, and cried out in gratitude to the gods for their rescue.
The woman hugged her lost and found son, crying with joy. She raised her head cautiously, with a hint of anticipation, and asked Li Wei in a trembling voice:
"Fairy... Fairy... please save my father-in-law and mother-in-law..."
Li Wei raised her eyes, looked at the two corpses hanging on the old locust tree, and shook her head slightly.
The two old people, unlike the child who pretended to be dead by drowning, had been dead for too long.
Although she is at the sixth level, she cannot reverse life and death.
When the woman saw Li Wei shaking her head, the light in her eyes dimmed, but she did not insist. She just held Wang Gou'er, who was gradually regaining his vitality in her arms, and kowtowed again, thanking Li Wei for saving her life.
At this time, Chuntang, Fuman and the young eunuch Wang Gui finally squeezed through the crowd kneeling on the ground and came to Li Wei.
When Wang Gui looked up, he saw two corpses hanging from the tree. The familiar look made him feel like he was struck by lightning.
"Grandpa! Grandma!"
He let out a shrill cry, his legs went limp, and he fell to his knees.
He pounded the ground with his hands, cried heart-wrenchingly, and his body twitched constantly.
The couple, who had just experienced a great change, saw Wang Gui's appearance and heard him crying, and then they recognized that he was their nephew who sold himself to exchange for food for the family.
They thought the child had died outside a few years ago, and never expected to meet him again today.
However, the scene of this reunion was so tragic.
Thinking of the sad thing, the three of them hugged each other and burst into tears, unable to control themselves for a while.
Seeing Wang Gui losing his composure, Fuman was about to scold him, saying "How disgraceful", but Li Wei raised her hand to stop him.
He swept his eyes across the threshing ground, taking in this human tragedy.
Li Wei asked Fuman with a gloomy face, "What were those people doing just now?"
Fuman bowed and replied carefully, "Your Majesty, judging by the situation, I'm afraid... I'm afraid they're collecting the 'autumn tiger rent.'"
"Autumn Tiger Rent?" Li Wei almost squeezed out the words through her teeth. "What is it?"
Fuman also came from a farming family, so he explained it like he knew everything.
"The landlord sends people to collect rent before the crops are harvested."
"If you can't pay, you'll have to borrow money from them at high interest rates. And once you borrow money from them, you'll fall into their trap and lose everything in no time."
"When the time comes..."
He didn't finish his words because the frost on Li Wei's face scared him so much that he dared not say anything more.
What Li Wei saw and heard when she left the palace today made her heart sink a little bit and she became extremely depressed.
She gritted her teeth and stared at Wang Gui: "Wang Gui, where is that Mr. Wang's house?"
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