Based on her understanding of Cai Ping, even though she is not young anymore and her living ability is not as good as Tian Erya's, she cannot run all the way from the distant port city to Liao Province by herself. She must have had help from others, and even helped her clean up a lot of traces along the way, otherwise they would not have found her for five or six years.

Tian Cai had no idea. If he wanted to know more details, he could only find a way to meet people from the Bian and Yang families later. Even given the current situation, he would have to wait at least ten years.

The next day, Old Master Jiang came over again. The two of them were busy with their hands and their mouths. Thanks to him, Tian Cai knew almost all the gossips about all the famous people in the pharmaceutical industry.

Who had a dark history when they were young? Who was two-faced and did things that only harmed others and benefited themselves? Who was idle all day and got beaten by the elders? Or, for example, whose wife cheated on her husband and even gave birth to a child...

But I didn't expect that Mr. Jiang, who looked kind and sage, actually liked to gossip so much, and he didn't feel embarrassed at all when he talked about that daughter-in-law cheating in front of Tian Cai.

Early in the morning of the third day, Mr. Jiang left Kaoshan Village with the prescription, and the golden wound medicine was about to be put into production.

Tian Cai also received various medicinal powders sent by Commander Yu, asking her to help prepare hemostatic powder and detoxification pills.

She spent a day preparing the two medicines, another day rolling the pills, and then left them in the pharmacy waiting for someone to pick them up.

Tian Cai didn't have much chance to go up the mountain to dig wild vegetables this year. He has been busy with medicinal powder recently. Now that he has finished the work at hand, the wild vegetables are past their most fresh and tender time.

However, Qu Ting had given Tian Cai a basket of Artemisia selengensis sprouts before, so she had some fresh food.

One day, when Tian Cai was fishing by the river, he saw a stone slab and an idea suddenly flashed through his mind.

She had originally planned to dig the cellar deeper and then make a wooden box to hide all the Cai family's things in it, but after checking it out, she gave up.

The location of Tian Cai's house is not far from the river, and the land is relatively moister than that in the village. If she digs deeper, it will inevitably become even more humid. The wooden box is not moisture-proof. If the things inside are soaked and ruined, she will be so sorry to Cai Ping.

Even if you can get an iron box to store these things, it won’t work because iron boxes are afraid of water rust, and iron boxes are not easy to get in this day and age.

After much thought, Tian Cai decided to use the side wall of the cellar, preferably the wall that was already filled with things. Seeing this stone slab gave her an idea.

Tian Cai did what he said. He immediately went home and brought back two worn bamboo baskets. He picked and chose on the riverbank and finally carried them back on a shoulder pole. He also borrowed quarrying tools from Zhang Defa and spent several days to make a few larger stone slabs.

She had previously dug a small hole in one side of the cellar wall to put things in, and this time she enlarged the hole and lined it with stone slabs.

As for the filling material to fix the stones, she decided to use local materials, yellow mud mixed with chopped straw, which should be able to withstand the test.

Tian Cai first chose a place next to the bamboo shed in the backyard to try it out, and made sure that there would be no problem if the yellow mud was made a little drier. Only then did he start working in a hurry.

Except for a few unmarked medical books, she put all the things related to the Cai family into the hole in the wall, and used the largest stone slab to block the hole. Then she began to smear yellow mud on the stone slab and the walls around the hole. Occasionally, she picked up flat stones of suitable size from the bamboo basket next to her and embedded them. It didn't take long to finish it.

Tian Cai took two steps back and observed it. The whole wall looked seamless, and there was no sign of a hole in it.

Practice makes perfect. Tian Cai quickly cleaned up the remaining walls in half an afternoon. He even paved the ground with stones and filled the gaps with mud. It only took a few days of drying in the cellar for it to return to its previous dryness.

She had asked Luo Xiuyan before, and learned that the walls of the village cellars were made of all kinds of materials. The rich used bricks, the poor used stones, and those who found stone too cumbersome could use adobe. Some also used yellow mud mixed with straw to paint the walls. Anyway, there were all kinds of materials, as long as it didn't fall off the soil.

Tian Cai moved the things originally stored in the cellar into the inner room and found that there were still some soybeans left in the cloth bag.

Not knowing how to eat these soybeans, Tian Cai decided to try it himself, remembering the fried soybean snacks that Grandma Tian used to make.

She had eaten the food made by Aunt Zhao before, but she only added a little salt and it had no taste.

Grandma Tian’s way of cooking is to put nothing in the pot, just put the dried soybeans into the pot, and then stir-fry over low heat. When the soybeans are hot, pour in the seasoning. This seasoning is a powder made of salt, pepper, and fennel. If conditions permit, some ground dried mushrooms will also be added. Tian Cai still has some left from the ones she harvested last year.

Put them into the pan and stir-fry until the soybeans change color slightly, so that every soybean can be coated with seasoning and taste particularly fragrant.

After the fried soybeans are taken out of the pot and allowed to cool, they are placed in a sealed jar and can be kept for a month without going bad.

Tian Cai originally planned to fry them and keep them as a snack, but the aroma of the fried soybeans drifted too far and directly attracted a group of greedy cats.

She had just heard some chattering outside and thought that the group of children from the village would come here to play for a while and then leave. However, after a long time, they were still there and the noise was getting louder and louder.

She took off her apron, opened the gate and looked inside.

Outside the wall of his own courtyard, he saw four or five children standing in a row. The one leading them was Li Dabao, and Tian Cai knew most of the remaining children. There was even a cannon from Old Man Feng's family among them.

The reason why a few people were arguing outside just now was because Dapao came over smelling the fragrance and wanted to go in to ask for food, but Li Dabao wouldn't let him and insisted that they leave. The two of them started arguing because of their disagreement, and the rest of them helped to separate them.

When Tian Cai came out, he happened to hear Da Pao yelling something. After listening carefully, he said, "...Why can't I go over and ask for something delicious when she has one? She has no parents, and she dares to hit me. I'll beat her up!"

Tian Cai raised her eyebrows. It was this kid again. He really only cared about eating and not being beaten. She had given him a hard time before because he came to steal the dried meat, and now he actually dared to come over again. So she said bluntly, "I don't know if your grandfather can beat me, but I can beat you right now, believe it or not."

Dapao was extremely arrogant. He held his chin high and pinched his waist. "I don't believe you dare to hit me. My grandfather said that if anyone dares to touch me, I will make sure that he loses all his underwear!"

"Tsk..." Tian Cai curled his lips at him, "Then if you have the guts, ask your grandfather to come over and blackmail me now."

Everyone knows that Old Man Feng has been completely lame since his leg was broken. His good son was afraid of spending money, so he waited for half a month before sending him to the health center. As a result, one of Old Man Feng's legs was lame, and the other one was said to have not recovered well either.

Ever since he became lame, Old Man Feng could no longer walk around. He spent the whole day lying on the kang and cursing people. He was almost living in poverty.

Dapao turned a deaf ear to Tian Cai's words and said, "I don't care, you have to give me food."

"I give you shit, will you eat it?"