"Doctor Tian!" Sun Aiguo also saw Tian Cai, greeted him warmly, parked the tractor next to him, and was about to get out to help Tian Cai carry things.

Tian Cai quickly waved her hand to refuse. There were not many things and they were not heavy. She put the bamboo basket in first, then turned over and sat in the truck bed.

After chatting for a while on the way, Tian Cai realized that being a tractor driver was not an easy job. These days, they were shuttling between various villages and brigades, and transporting grain to the county at least three or five times a day. Their arms were sore from the shaking that they couldn't even sleep when the pain was severe.

This doesn't even include loading and unloading the grain. Spring and autumn are the busiest times of the year. In spring, they deliver seeds to various villages, and in autumn, they harvest the grain. It's not easy working in the wind and rain.

But who has it easy these days?

After Sun Aiguo sent Tian Cai to the commune, he continued to work. If he hurried, he could make one more trip before dark.

Tian Cai asked the old man at the gate of the commune and learned that the donkey cart from Kaoshan Village had returned just after noon.

She knew the route back, so it seemed she had to rely on herself.

Tian Cai tied the two thermoses tightly together, folded some straw from the roadside and placed it around them, and fixed it with white cotton cloth. This way, even if the bamboo basket shook, it would not affect the thermoses inside.

Otherwise, if the inner liner of the kettle is broken, the kettle will be almost scrapped.

After several months of recuperation, although the physical condition of this body is still not as good as her previous life, it is already very good.

Tian Cai adjusted his breathing and ran at a steady pace on the way back to Kaoshan Village.

She thought that she could prepare some ointment to relieve her arm pain when she got home and give it to the tractor driver in the commune so that it would be more convenient for her to go to the county in the future. As for how to deliver it, she still needed to think about it.

For example, her first target was Sun Aiguo, who had a car to borrow to go to the county town. They were now going back and forth every day to transport food, so she could take advantage of this opportunity to sell everything that needed to be sold, otherwise the cellar would be so crowded that no one could get in.

I thought that next time I could enrich the variety of products brought down from the mountains by adding hazelnuts, walnuts, hawthorns and the like, and sell as much as I can, since she can't finish them all by herself anyway.

Before dark, Tian Cai arrived at Kaoshan Village. When she entered the village, smoke was rising from the chimneys of every household. She didn't know who was roasting sweet potatoes, but the air was filled with the tempting aroma of sweet potatoes.

The smell made Tian Cai even hungrier. He took a deep breath and then went home with a flat stomach.

In the evening, Tian Cai put all the money he earned today into the small cloth bag where he had previously put the money, and hid it on the top of the medicine cabinet again.

The old saying is true: if you have money in your hands, you will not be worried. She has a little bit of that feeling now, but she still has to keep working hard.

The next morning, after getting up, Tian Cai found a pen and paper and wrote down the soap-making process in his memory to avoid any mistakes after he started.

Then I used the leftover wood from making the examination bed to make two wooden box molds, and poured the soap into them to shape it.

Breakfast is shredded potatoes with a small bowl of brown rice. After eating, I start to sort out the previously dried soapberries, break them into small pieces and put them in a medicine grinder. When they are only the size of a little fingernail, I put them in a pot and cook them on low heat for an hour. After that, I filter out the residue and set it aside.

He also took out a small basin of wood ash from the stove. This is the simplest way to extract alkali.

Tian Cai put the soybean oil in a clay pot to heat it. During this time, he put wood ash into the freshly prepared soapberry water. When the oil temperature was about 70% cooked, he poured the mixed liquid in and stirred it vigorously.

This process is the most tiring. Tian Cai changed hands several times until he felt the resistance getting bigger and bigger. This means he is almost successful. He can only stop when he stirs it to the point where it can stick to the wall.

Then pour it into the prepared wooden box mold and place it in a cool and ventilated place in the backyard to wait for it to dry in the shade.

It takes at least ten days to dry in the shade. According to the original owner's memory, it sometimes takes half a month.

Tian Cai was a little dissatisfied when looking at his finished product. The color was too ugly, with yellow mixed in with the black and gray.

Thinking that she would need to use this product to wash her hair in the future, she felt that she could improve it. The efficacy was already very good, and the only thing that needed to be improved was the color.

Tian Cai washed and put away the two used basins, looked up at the sky, and decided to take a walk up the mountain to try his luck.

Tian Cai was going up the mountain carrying a small bamboo basket and a medicine hoe. He happened to meet Luo Xudong who was coming back with a bundle of firewood. The two nodded to each other.

She had to admit that the man was good-looking, and it seemed that he had been actively adapting to life in the countryside during this period. What was very rare was that he could be seen to have grown up in a privileged family, but after coming here, he did not complain or feel tired. Instead, he took the lead among a group of educated youth.

Tian Cai went straight over the outer perimeter and headed towards the mountains. She soon arrived at the place where she found the second chestnut tree. There were already many signs of animal activities nearby.

Tian Cai even saw deer footprints by the stream, but he didn't know what species it was.

The weather is getting colder day by day, and it will be frozen soon. Yellow and red fallen leaves can be seen everywhere in the forest, and they fall down with the wind.

Tian Cai walked a little further along the stream. She had brought a slingshot with her today to see if she could have an extra meal for herself in the evening.

Just as I walked around a large rock more than one meter high, I heard the sound of leaves shaking in the bushes next to me.

“Rustle…”

Tian Cai's heart tightened, his eyes fixed on the bushes where the sound had just been made, and his hand holding the medicine hoe tightened.

The rustling sound became louder.

Tian Cai used the hoe in his hand to push away the leaves and looked into the shaking bushes. A furry head popped out, followed by a chubby figure slowly crawling out.

Tian Cai widened his eyes, it turned out to be a red panda!

The little guy was not afraid of people, but moved towards this side, panting.

Only when Tian Cai got closer did he smell the smell of blood in the air. He lowered his head and took a closer look. He found that the smell was coming from the little guy.

Its reddish-brown fur was stained black and red with blood and was also covered in mud. Its hind legs were drooping unnaturally, and it looked like it had suffered serious injuries.

Tian Cai moved his fingers. At this time, he still wanted to rub someone's head. Was he abnormal?

After restraining herself again and again, she still couldn't help but rub it, mmm mmm, it felt so good!

"I won't cheat you. Let's make a deal. Since you let me touch it, I will save you, but you can't bite me!" Tian Cai squatted down and said to it.

The little guy hummed, his wet eyes full of begging.

"Hey, it's quite human." Tian Cai stretched his head to look behind it. There were scattered bloodstains on the hillside behind it. It must have crawled all the way over there.

These creatures usually live in deep mountains and are rarely seen outside.