"Poor child! You're finally awake." The farmer couple looked at Chen Zhou with great anxiety. The woman spoke first. She looked to be in her forties or fifties and had a large tattered cloth wrapped around her body. The cloth was probably used for wiping things and looked very dirty.
Chen Zhou was naturally very grateful to the farmer couple and immediately said, "Thank you both for saving my life!"
Extremely weak, Chen Zhou wanted to stand up and bow to his two saviors.
“Your injury is very serious. We have only been able to wash away the blood. We are not equipped to bandage your wound. We believe you should be taken to the clinic in the capital immediately,” the farmer said.
"Uncle, no need. I just need to rest for a bit. May I ask where this place is?" Chen Zhou quickly said. He didn't know which imperial city his uncle was referring to, but since he had already passed through the Mirror Heart Avenue, he should not be far from the Southern Kingdom's imperial city.
Therefore, Chen Zhou guessed that the imperial city his uncle mentioned should be the imperial city of the Southern Kingdom.
"This is Mindao, child. What happened? Why are you so badly injured? Don't you really need to go to the clinic?" The uncle asked hurriedly. He had never seen such serious injuries before.
"Uncle, I'm fine. Here are some dry rations and silver notes. I think they might be useful to you." As he spoke, Chen Zhou took out most of the dry rations and most of the silver notes from his storage ring and spread them out on the ground.
For Chen Zhou, none of this mattered. He received a monthly stipend from the Sword Cloud Sect, and some of these silver notes were saved up by himself, while others were prepared for him by the Third Elder.
But for the two farmers, this was an astronomical sum! They had never seen so much money in their lives.
These silver notes were the most expensive things in the world to them, and they were immediately stunned, unable to move.
"This...this..."
My uncle was so shocked he couldn't speak.
Seeing this, Chen Zhou thought that he hadn't given enough, since the other person had saved his life and hadn't asked for anything in return. So he immediately took out a Foundation Establishment Pill from his storage ring.
Foundation Establishment Pills are practically divine objects for those in the Foundation Establishment stage. If they are so important to cultivators, then ordinary people could probably get a large sum of money by exchanging them for silver notes.
Chen Zhou felt that this should be enough to improve the lives of the farmer couple.
As soon as the Foundation Establishment Pill was produced, the surrounding space immediately changed, and true energy filled the entire room.
The farmers had never seen anything like it before, and they were so frightened that they sat down on the ground with a thud.
The aura emitted by this Foundation Establishment Pill was practically a "miracle pill" to them.
“We don’t want anything from you. These things are too expensive for us to afford. You’re traveling alone, and these are the things you need most. You shouldn’t be giving them to two old people like us,” the uncle said calmly, though he didn’t know how these things had appeared out of thin air.
"No, no, no, Uncle, these things are useless to me. They should be of greater use to you." Chen Zhou tried his best to control his movements, as he couldn't make any large movements right now.
"Ding! Host has not cultivated for one minute! Qi and Blood Value +4! True Qi Value +4! Root Bone Value +4!"
......
“In that case, we can accept these, but we absolutely cannot accept the elixir; it will bring us no benefit whatsoever,” the uncle continued.
Chen Zhou nodded with difficulty and swallowed the Foundation Establishment Pill. As soon as the pill entered his abdomen, a large amount of true energy surged out.
"Thank you! Young man! Are you a god?" The uncle excitedly gathered the dry food and silver notes that had appeared out of thin air on the ground, his expression full of excitement.
To his uncle, all of this seemed like magic; he believed Chen Zhou was a deity descended to earth.
"Uncle, I should be the one thanking you! If it weren't for you, I might still be lying on that road right now." Chen Zhou said, as he began to guide the absorption of the Foundation Establishment Pill, which provided a large amount of true energy, exactly what he desperately needed.
Many blood vessels and meridians have ruptured and are still bleeding. Chen Zhou urgently needs true qi to gradually repair these wounds.
The true energy gushing from the Foundation Building Pill flowed to Chen Zhou's limbs under his guidance, continuously repairing his injured blood vessels and meridians.
"With these silver notes, we can go to the capital to redeem our daughter! Thank you so much! These silver notes have been a great help to us!" the woman said excitedly.
These are all the highest denomination banknotes.
Redeem your daughter?
"Let's not delay, let's set off now!" the uncle said excitedly.
"Why do we need to redeem it?" Chen Zhou asked, puzzled.
"Because we didn't have enough banknotes to pay the so-called 'civil affairs management fee,' our daughter was kidnapped, and we need a large enough ransom to get her back..." the uncle said helplessly.
Hearing this, Chen Zhou was somewhat angry. What kind of world is this?
No wonder these farmers are so poor.
So it turns out we also have to pay a so-called civil affairs management fee?
If they can't pay, they'll take away their sons and daughters?
"Then there's no time to lose. You should set off immediately with this money to ransom your daughter! I can take care of myself here on my own," Chen Zhou said.
The uncle and the woman nodded, then turned and left with the silver notes.
“This kind of thing happens often in the community. You can help this family, but there are thousands of other families like them. Even if you redeem their daughter this time, they still won’t be able to pay the management fees next time, and the result will be the same,” Old Ren said slowly.
When Chen Zhou first entered the world, he imagined the Southern Kingdom to be a prosperous and powerful nation, where the people were self-sufficient and the country was peaceful and prosperous. Unexpectedly, even before entering the Southern Kingdom, it left such a huge sense of disillusionment in Chen Zhou's mind.
Chen Zhou suddenly changed his opinion of the South.
As the true energy of the Foundation Establishment Pill covered his entire body, Chen Zhou's internal injuries were basically healed.
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