Thinking of what Old Man Jiang had just said about several families they were close to going to Gangcheng, Tian Cai asked the question in his mind, "Do they also make a living as doctors over there? Gangcheng is so small, with so many doctors rushing in all of a sudden, can they treat so many patients?"
Old Master Jiang smiled when he heard this. His family thought the same thing at the time, so they didn't go.
However, I heard news from there a few years ago that the children of several families have started to get involved in other businesses. One must survive first before planning for the future.
Tian Cai: "So which families went to Hong Kong? Did their entire families go there? Didn't they have any relatives left in China?"
"If there are only a few people, the whole family will go, like the Cai family. If there are many people, only the direct branch and a few side branches will go. The side branches and other relatives with more distant relationships will stay in the country." Old Master Jiang really knew something. Tian Cai did not belong to any of their families, so he was willing to tell her about those family matters. In his eyes, Tian Cai was still far away from those families. This far was not in terms of distance, but more in terms of status.
After all, no one would have thought that a girl from a mountain village would be involved with a family like that.
Tian Cai didn't hear the rest of the conversation clearly. She only heard the first sentence of Mr. Jiang, "Those with few people will have their entire family go, like the Cai family." For example, the Cai family! The Cai family! Is this the Cai family she thought it was?
Tian Cai's hands trembled as he ground the medicinal powder. After his violently beating heart slowly calmed down, he continued his discussion with Old Man Jiang about the direct and collateral branches. Then he pretended to be indifferent and said, "You said the Cai family is small. How many are considered small? My grandfather said that the big families in the past had many people. How many people were there in those large families?"
"The Cai family is small, only two people, and even with a few loyal servants, there are no more than ten people," said Old Master Jiang, giving a thumbs up. "But the Cai family's old man's medical skills are definitely outstanding. For some reason, the Cai family has almost always had a single son in every generation, so they have never had many descendants."
"When he came to Cai Chuanbai, he only had a daughter. However, Old Cai did not feel sorry for her. He taught her carefully and raised her as his heir. He even wanted to find a son-in-law for her so that the child would have the surname Cai and inherit the Cai family."
"This girl is quite capable. When they left the country, she was so talented," Old Master Jiang counted on his fingers and continued, "She was only seventeen or eighteen, but she was already the best among her generation. If Old Cai hadn't spread the word about recruiting a son-in-law, I think several other families would have wanted to marry her off. When Old Cai passed away, this huge Cai family would have fallen into the hands of her husband's family."
Tian Cai thought of Cai Chuanbai's name, which is a medicinal herb. Then he thought of Cai Ping's name, and tentatively asked, "Could it be that the Cai family names their children after medicinal herbs?"
Old Master Jiang nodded. Fortunately, the Cai family was small, otherwise a pharmacopoeia wouldn't be enough. "According to the Cai family's tradition, children are named after medicinal herbs. So, this girl from the Cai family is named Ping, which means four-leaf clover. It clears away heat and detoxifies, acts as a diuretic and reduces swelling, calms the nerves, and can treat malaria and snake bites."
"So the girl from the Cai family is called Cai Ping." Tian Cai murmured. The Cai Ping she had always thought of was actually Cai Ping.
Old Master Jiang nodded, and when he thought of the well-behaved, smart and beautiful little girl, he was full of praise.
"What happened later? Did the girl find a husband?" Tian Cai came back to his senses and continued to ask.
"We recruited him, but it would have been better if we hadn't." Old Master Jiang couldn't help but sigh when he heard this. He heard about it later. He didn't know the details of what happened, but he roughly knew that the Cai family, a family that had stood in the pharmaceutical industry for a hundred years, was ruined by their son-in-law. "I don't know what happened later, but I heard that the son-in-law they recruited was so ambitious that he angered Cai Chuanbai to death and took firm control of the Cai family."
Tian Cai didn't know why, but she seemed to hear the ups and downs of Cai Ping's life from these few simple words. Thinking of that gentle and resolute woman, she felt very distressed. "What about the girl from the Cai family?"
Old Master Jiang shook his head. "I don't know about that. There are all kinds of rumors. Some say she was so angry that she fell ill in bed, some say she was imprisoned by her son-in-law, and some say she fled back to her country. In short, there are all kinds of stories, but it is true that no one has seen her since Cai Chuanbai passed away."
It is said that several other doctors also asked to see Cai Ping in person, but they were all turned away by that heartless person. I don’t know what kind of person Cai Ping is.
"So how's that son-in-law she brought back doing now? Doesn't Cai Ping have any children?"
Old Master Jiang wasn't sure, but he could guess. "The Cai family started out as a doctor, and this son-in-law doesn't have the skills of Cai Chuanbai. No matter how big the family business is, it will be squandered in his hands sooner or later. I heard this a few years ago. The relationship between the two sides has been tense in recent years, and a lot of news has been blocked. I haven't heard that Miss Ping has given birth to a child."
Tian Cai didn't dare to keep asking about the Cai family for fear of arousing suspicion, so he picked out several other families to ask, and also found out that the two families with the best relationship with the Cai family were the Bian family, a medical family, and the Yang family, which also practiced medicine. Ever since the son-in-law came to power a few years ago, the two families have been suppressing the Cai family openly and secretly, with the purpose of forcing this man to release Cai Ping. He didn't know what the situation is like now.
Tian Cai was doing two things at once. On one hand, he was asking about the news from Hong Kong City, and on the other hand, he was explaining the medicine making techniques to Old Man Jiang. Although this thing was said to be complicated, in the eyes of those who knew the business, it would not be difficult once you understood the preparation methods of the most critical ingredients.
Besides, she had already gotten the information she wanted, so there was no point for Mr. Jiang to stay any longer.
After sending the person back to Zhang Defa's house, Tian Cai sat alone under the crabapple tree.
It turns out that the Cai family is now in Gangcheng. No wonder people who come here are treated as special Ws. I just don’t know whether those people were arrested because they were inquiring about my news, or whether the son-in-law of the Cai family is really connected with the authorities in Gangcheng.
Otherwise, why has no one come to see me?
As for whether Cai Ping left any children, Tian Cai felt that she probably didn't. After all, the two had lived together for so many years, and Cai Ping had never mentioned any children in her words or deeds. If she did, she would definitely not be able to help but talk about it, right?
If there really is a child, his father's identity is as Mr. Jiang said, and he angered Cai Chuanbai to death. That means he is Cai Ping's father's murderer, so it is possible that she does not want to have a child with him.
Somehow, Tian Cai is more inclined to the first possibility, that is, there are no children between the two.
She put herself in Cai Ping's shoes and thought that she would deliberately not have children. For a medical student, not having children is as easy as eating.
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