Chapter 1. The Rural Girl Selling Medicine "I've come to pay this year's taxes." I was born as a weary village girl in the countryside, living a humble yet loving life with my poor parents. But when I turned ten, they both passed away from an epidemic. However, in this world, a ten-year-old can inherit farmland, so I tilled the fields ...
Chapter 1. The Rural Girl Selling Medicine "I've come to pay this year's taxes." I was born as a weary village girl in the countryside, living a humble yet loving life with my poor parents. But when I turned ten, they both passed away from an epidemic. However, in this world, a ten-year-old can inherit farmland, so I tilled the fields alone, tended to the cows, and during winter, made woven grass baskets and hats to sell in town. Two years into this meager existence, I was paying my second round of taxes to the village chief. "Ah, Melia. Just put it in the storehouse over there." Following the chief's instructions, I led the ox pulling my load to the storehouse, stacked the bags of barley, then returned to the chief to receive my tax receipt. "Thank you." With that, I headed home, the now-
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