Many prestigious families employ female healers, but these healers can only treat superficial ailments and cannot handle anything more complex.

After all, let alone taking on apprentices, many medical families also have the rule of passing on knowledge only to sons, so a skilled female doctor is something that can only be encountered by chance.

Mr. Tan naturally wanted to make his acquaintance with him.

He didn't need to deliberately seek out a female doctor. His granddaughter and his daughter, who had married far away in Lingnan, happened to be going to a doctor's house in a similar direction. In the future, if they had any illnesses, they could also seek help from this doctor.

Back in the day, when Old Tan was in Beijing, he never lacked money, unless he was robbed on the street...

He even felt that the hundred-odd taels of silver were a bit too little to show off.

Once we reach Lingnan and find his daughter and son-in-law, we will definitely have to thank Lin Jinyue's family handsomely.

Old Tan was determined to befriend Lin Jinyue's family and insisted on getting them to accept the money.

Lin Jinyue accepted it without hesitation.

She thought the two men were nice; Tan Xue was guileless, and the old man was warm and welcoming, so she took the initiative to invite them: "Grandpa Tan, we're heading to the same destination, why don't you come with me?"

Mr. Tan naturally agreed; he couldn't have been happier.

Lin Jinyue left with her parents. Although she took the two of them with her, she still wouldn't easily trust others.

As soon as she went out, she went to find Li the blacksmith and several carpenters from the Wang family.

Li the blacksmith was fine; the tools the Wang family needed, as well as the short knife Lin Jinyue wanted, were already made. They just needed to pack everything up.

The problem lies with the Wang family; we can't let them carve exquisite crossbows in front of Old Master Tan.

Furthermore, you have to look carefully through the telescope. If asked, just say it's something from a foreign land. In any case, they won't let you see it.

I'm just afraid something might happen.

If this is discovered, and she's mistaken about them, and they're two people who are two-faced, wouldn't that cause a huge disaster?

Lin Jinyue had forgotten that Prince Jing was currently searching everywhere for skilled craftsmen, wanting to capture anyone who could design weapons or had exquisite blacksmithing techniques.

Hearing those rumors, they said that if I didn't work, they would dig out my patella and threaten me with my family.

Lin Jinyue only felt some pain in her kneecap.

The room was dimly lit, and the villagers were reluctant to use candles, so they simply told the Wang family to stop making them. They had already finished a complete crossbow, which could be used in case of an emergency.

Lin Jinyue then went down the mountain with her parents to find the village.

Old Man Tan was truly honest; in addition to giving them maps, he also gave them a small, lightweight compass, which would make finding directions absolutely accurate.

Lin Jinyue and the others relied on experience to determine their direction along the way, and looking at the sunrise for guidance inevitably led to slight deviations.

She thought she wouldn't stray too far, but it turned out she ended up in Miao territory.

The compass that Old Tan gave us has been a great help.

Lin Jinyue compared the map with her parents and rode horses down the mountain. What should have been a two-day journey was completed in one night.

Lin Shucheng added, "It's lucky that our daughter has incredible luck and owns a farm, otherwise she wouldn't even know how to ride a horse."

Jiang Yun also said, "That's right. It's all thanks to my daughter. The farm is fast-growing, so we planted all the medicinal herb seeds there. Otherwise, with everyone getting sick along the way, we really wouldn't have had enough medicinal herbs."

When the topic of herbs came up, Jiang Yun said, "I'll go to the farm first and take a look. I'll also make you some soup so you can rest. We'll take turns keeping watch tonight."

Lin Jinyue wasn't idle either; she went to the farm with her mother.

Since she had nothing better to do, she continued digging her pond, making a large one. She raised fish in the pond, grew lotus flowers on top, and ate lotus pods and roots. She could also raise some ducks in the pond, forming a good ecological cycle system.

Of course, they can't use all of it for breeding; the family now treats the farm like a vacation resort.

We still need some nice decorations.

Lin Jinyue planned to dig the pond bigger, and then unlock more land to further expand the pond, building a beautiful lakeside pavilion in the middle of it.

Well, if the lake is big enough, we can build a lakeside pavilion with floor-to-ceiling windows so that you can see the lake view as soon as you open the door.

More importantly, if you were to build a lakeside cottage in reality, the dampness would be quite uncomfortable.

But it's different on the farm.

Inside the farm, you can hear the sound of waves when you go to sleep at night, but there's no dampness. The temperature is pleasant, making it a great place to live. Once she levels up a few more times, she'll even be able to control the weather and temperature without affecting the growth of crops.

Sometimes Lin Jinyue felt that the farm was very magical, but it was a pity that her parents and brother could not live there forever.

Lin Jinyue dug another pond next to the small pond. The previous pond had been planted with lotus seeds, and lotus leaves had already sprouted. She was thinking about the lotus leaf chicken.

However, she didn't mention lotus leaf chicken because of the recent commotion.

Lin Jinyue dug away with great effort, and soon the aroma wafted through the air. She swallowed hard as she worked, thinking she had to level up quickly.

Outside the farm, Lin Shucheng was also busy.

During this time, they hunted in the mountains. They didn't have much else, but they did have quite a few animal hides. Lin Xueqing was accurate with her crossbow and always managed to bring back prey.

Some wild animal meat doesn't taste good, like wolf meat.

But wolf pelts are valuable, and if they are well-tanned, they can fetch an even higher price.

Lin Jinyue had already tanned the animal hides, but she didn't know how to sew, and Jiang Yun was usually too busy making medicine powder and preparing medicinal herbs to do it.

And so, the task of turning the wolf pelt into a cloak fell to Lin Shucheng.

While his wife and daughter were busy, Lin Shucheng learned how to sew clothes. Right now, he was sewing a wolf skin by the light of the campfire not far away.

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