They had finally been allotted their land.
After registering at the City Hall late into the night, Anthony and Jike had rushed to their own plots of land by dawn the next day... Two parcels side by side, each being 10 acres in size.
Although covered in wild grass, the sight of the dark soil beneath stirred Anthony's heart with uncontainable excitement.
Land, he had land once again!
By the Life Goddess above, this was surely a blessing from the Divine.
He could still remember his father, selling their only piece of land to the Nobles' lord to make ends meet when he was a child.
It felt as if the sky had fallen; to this day, he could not forget how his father, always so full of smiles, had wept like a child in that moment.
Decades later, today, he finally owned a piece of land again, his own despite it being non-tradable.
From this point on, he truly had put down roots.