Chapter 1 A small village with only about a dozen houses. A building in that village, which had been erased from land records and forgotten even by the local lord, remembered only by the relentless tax collector who came to collect, was lit late into the night. An old woman looked at the burning lamp with worried eyes. Her wrinkled eye...
Chapter 1 A small village with only about a dozen houses. A building in that village, which had been erased from land records and forgotten even by the local lord, remembered only by the relentless tax collector who came to collect, was lit late into the night. An old woman looked at the burning lamp with worried eyes. Her wrinkled eyelids and shriveled face were the testament of a long life. If the oil ran out, she had to sell the vegetables she was growing just to afford more. Without oil, she couldn’t sew at night, and without sewing, there would be fewer side dishes on the table for a while. She normally never lit the lamp on nights when she wasn’t sewing. But tonight, she couldn’t put it out. “Grandma, I can’t sleep.” Her grandson, who would usually be fast asleep by now, was wide-eye
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