"The new landlord is truly a good man."
After Chen Shi left, the villagers of Fuluo Village continued to chatter.
"Mr. Chen never collected rent and didn't bully anyone. He's like a just and upright magistrate! We definitely shouldn't harm him."
"Mr. Chen only picked a cucumber and ate some cherries. If it were the Great Shang, we would have been skinned to offer as a sacrifice to the Emperor Armor. The last time the Heavenly Court's generals bullied us, weren't they buried in the back hills? How many years ago was that?"
"Who remembers? Previously, Heavenly Court sent divine beings and immortal officials to collect our rent, but many were killed, so they stopped sending people. This time, the landlord is a great benevolent man."
"This landlord seems very powerful, even more so than our village's Shangdu Gong, by one or twofold, we cannot defeat him."
"Yes, we can't defeat him. Otherwise, he'd be buried on the hillside."
"Caw caw!"
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