After dinner, Tian Cai, with the help of Aunt Du, quickly cleaned the borrowed dishes and chopsticks. When returning them to each household, he also took a bowl of the dishes that were not served as a thank you gift.

There was quite a bit of food today. The villagers finally got to eat some good food, and they ate everything that was served on the table.

Just now when she was eating, she saw Liu Jinfa's son holding chopsticks and digging into the stewed pork ribs and green beans. Then he put the chopsticks into his mouth full of yellow teeth, sucked on it, and moved on to the next plate.

Tian Cai was sure that she didn't have mysophobia, but she really couldn't eat after watching someone eat like that, so she only ate half full for dinner.

Later, I got up from the table and ran to the kitchen to have a meal before I was done.

Fortunately, the moonlight was good tonight, so Tian Cai borrowed a few more wind-killing lanterns and lit them in the yard.

At around eight o'clock, the fence in Tian Cai's backyard was erected with wood more than half a person's height.

The renovation work on her house is mostly completed, with some minor parts left to be done slowly. The windows and doors that Tian Cai ordered from Carpenter Chen will take about three to five days to complete, and they will be delivered directly when they are finished, and the money will be deducted from the work points.

The windows are just ordinary wooden windows, just like the ones in the cabin, with one-inch square wooden strips crisscrossing each other. When the time comes, I'll find some old newspapers and books to paste on them.

It’s not that there is no glass at that time, not to mention how difficult it is to buy, even the price is beyond her reach.

Tian Cai stayed with Luo Xiuyan at night for the past two days, and was not idle during the day either. Whenever he had time, he would clean the vegetable garden in the backyard.

The vegetable garden had been abandoned for too long, and the weeds had grown to more than half a person's height. Tian Cai cut them all down and dried them in the sun within two days, and used them to start a fire.

Aunt Du said that the ash from burning wood is the best fertilizer for the vegetable garden, and there is no need to buy it from the supply and marketing cooperative. Moreover, if the land is opened up now, it will be possible to plant a crop of autumn vegetables.

Tian Cai used an iron pickaxe to turn the soil over and over again. After a while, he squatted down to pick up the grass roots he dug out and threw them at the edge of the field to spread out and dry.

It hadn't rained for half a month, and the team members were busy carrying water to irrigate the fields. She had nothing to do except making a big pot of summer-relief soup every morning. She also prepared summer-relief pills for each group and placed them with the group leaders.

Tian Cai sat on the ground with his legs apart in a very ungraceful manner, picked up the kettle and took a big sip, wondering whether he should move back home that night.

Yesterday, Carpenter Chen and his son came to help her install the main door, several doors and windows, as well as the one-meter-square wooden board customized by Tian Cai.

This house has a cellar, right under the collapsed unfinished kitchen, which is about two square meters and is used to store winter food and vegetables. Almost every household has this thing, so it is nothing special.

However, the wooden board on the cellar was rotten by insects, so Tian Cai ordered a new one himself.

She wiped the sweat from her forehead, took a knife to the bamboo forest on the mountain, cut a few bamboos as thick as her calves, dragged them back and put them in the yard to dry for later use.

There were also sorghum straw mats to be used on the kang, and the villagers were asked to help weave them and roll them up and place them in the yard. Tian Cai planned to put a layer of newspaper on the kang and then put the mats on it, so that no dirt would seep onto it and it would be cleaner.

She remembered that when she was a child, she went to her grandfather's friend's house. The kang was covered with a thin layer of synthetic board, painted yellow, which was easy to clean. Unfortunately, there was no such thing at that time, but she could ask if there were any bamboo mats, which should be more durable than sorghum straw.

After asking Carpenter Chen about the price of making a set of furniture, Tian Cai gave up the idea of ​​using bamboo. Wood is not valuable in rural areas, and the only thing he needs to pay is the labor cost.

That night she spread the mat on the kang and went to Luo's house to bring back the bedding.

After washing up and changing into homemade pajamas, Tian Cai carried the kettle into the house and placed it casually on the edge of the kang.

After thinking about it, he pushed the kettle further away to prevent the quilt from being knocked over when he turned over.

We are still missing a small kang table, otherwise it will be inconvenient to eat in the future.

Tian Cai was lying on the kang, thinking about how to make a simple small kang table, the approximate size and height, and what materials would be needed.

As I thought about it, I realized that there were a lot of things I was missing. The main room was still missing a set of tables and chairs for entertaining guests, and the pharmacy was also missing a medicine cabinet, a desk, a stool, and a shelf...

The next morning, after breakfast, Tian Cai went to the village aunt to exchange vegetable seeds. It was a bit late to plant cabbage now, but she was not afraid at all because of the dew. She also had some spinach, Chinese cabbage, Chinese radish, etc., which would mature in a month and could be harvested before the weather got cold.

Aunt Huijuan and Aunt Du had already taught her these common sense of life. They were worried that Tian Cai, a little girl who knew nothing, would have nothing to eat during the winter.

They were just worrying too much. Not to mention that the original owner had to stock up on winter supplies with her master every year, and she herself was not lazy or ignorant.

Every autumn, the original owner and her apprentice would go around the mountains like hamsters, collecting products from the mountains. Sometimes her master would go to the county to exchange the products for food. The master and apprentice had always lived in poverty. Even though Cai Ping had great medical skills, he didn't dare to go out to practice medicine. She refused to tell him why.

Tian Cai went out and successfully exchanged the vegetable seeds he wanted in the village. He soaked them in diluted dew for one night, and then planted them in the vegetable garden in pieces the next day, and watered them with a large bucket of dew that was diluted to the maximum.

That night, the green seedlings grew to a finger length, and it looked like they would catch up with the progress of other families in a few days.

At noon, Tian Cai cooked a pot of thick corn grits porridge, which she ate with the egg sauce given by Aunt Du and homemade refreshing pickled cucumbers. It tasted great.

I had just finished my meal and hadn't had time to put away the dishes when I heard footsteps coming towards me, mixed with the sound of a child crying.

Tian Cai quickly put down the bowl in his hand and went out to greet them. It was Uncle Yu from the village, who came over with a three or four-year-old baby who was crying non-stop. He was accompanied by a man and woman with anxious looks on their faces, who seemed to be his son and daughter-in-law.

"Uncle Yu, what's wrong?" Tian Cai asked when he saw a large, obvious red and swollen area on the child's arm. "Did it come from the hot water?"

"I didn't watch the child and he knocked over the thermos, spilling hot water all over him," Yu Guoqing said anxiously.

Tian Cai quickly turned around and poured half the water from the wooden barrel into the basin and brought it over. "How long has it been scalding?"

"It's been a while, more than ten minutes!" interrupted the child's father, Yu Xuelin.

Tian Cai asked Yu Guoqing to hold the child and bend down to soak most of his burned arm in the slightly cool well water. "Go to the well to fetch more water. When this basin is no longer cold, you have to change it."

Several adults were at a loss because of the crying of the children. When they heard what Tian Cai said, they hurriedly did as he said. The well was not far from here, and Yu Xuelin soon came back with a bucket of water.

After a few minutes, Tian Cai took the child's arm out of the water, poured the water into the yard, filled it with fresh well water and continued to soak the arm. He repeated this several times until he had soaked the child for nearly half an hour.