Chapter 105

In fact, the two brothers had been in this line of work for seven or eight years. Ever since that year when their father, Luolaogen, went hunting in the mountains and suffered a crippling injury, the family had been forced to sell all their land to pay for his medical treatment. Even so, after draining every last coin of their savings, the money merely kept him alive while leaving him permanently disabled. With no fields left to farm and a father who could no longer work, the two brothers—mere boys at the time—had no choice but to find odd jobs here and there just to survive. In the beginning, they still held onto a naive dream: with a bit of grit and hard work for a few years, once they saved up enough money, they could buy back their land and return to their old lives.