Nong Sanniang let out an audible sigh. Clutching her hoe, she trudged away from the field, heading in a specific direction.

Nong Lie plopped down into the muddy field and let out a groan. "Here we go again."

Lu Yin asked curiously, "What's going on?"

Nong Lie sighed. "It's our turn to chat with Big Face Tree."

Lu Yin's eyes lit up as he remembered his own interactions with the strange tree. The tree’s voice carried some kind of mysterious force that smashed the listeners’ minds like a sledgehammer. The tree had spoken to Lu Yin in the past, as well as Bai Xian'er.

Lu Yin had also met the tree while posing as Long Qi, and the tree had been the first to recognize that he was actually Lu Xiaoxuan.

"Does Big Face Tree know a lot of things?" Lu Yin asked.

Nong Lie nodded. "It knows a lot, but who can listen to it? Even Father can't."

Lu Yin glanced at Nong Ya, who had started working the field with an unpleasant expression on his face.

Nong Yi leaned on his hoe as he said, "Old people like to reminisce, and Big Face Tree is absolutely ancient. It often recounts the same old stories that we’ve already heard, but it never gets tired of repeating them."

The old man looked at Lu Yin. "You can go chat with it, if you want. For all you know, you might learn something use...