The next morning, Tian Cai got up at daybreak, heated up the food he had cooked last night, and had a bite for himself and the cat.
He put on yellow rubber shoes, tucked his trouser legs tightly into his socks and tied them with cloth belts, then took two cloth bags, put them in a bamboo basket and went up the mountain.
It was a dewy morning and her socks got wet soon after she entered the mountains. Tian Cai didn't dare to delay any longer and went straight to the place where she caught rabbits yesterday.
By the time daybreak came, her bamboo basket was already filled with five fat rabbits.
This time, Tian Cai learned from yesterday's experience and did not tie the rabbits with vines. Instead, he put them all into a cloth bag and sealed it with a rope. This way, he could carry it to the county without attracting attention.
I jogged all the way down the mountain and finally caught up with the village donkey cart. After waiting for a while at the commune, I got on a shabby car heading to the county.
This was the first time Tian Cai had returned to the city in more than a month. As soon as he got off the car, he saw several people in a miserable state being surrounded and beaten, and the people who were beating them were still shouting something.
Tian Cai saw with his own eyes that the glasses of one of the gentle men fell to the ground during the tearing process and were crushed by several young men who followed closely behind.
The middle-aged man lost his glasses and was groping on the ground with trembling hands. His lifeless eyes were stepped on and his face was covered with mud.
Tian Cai felt as if something was choking her throat, but she only felt deeply powerless in the face of these things. She simply walked around these people and headed towards the purchasing station. After walking for about half an hour, she saw the eight bright red characters "Develop production, ensure supply" on the outer wall of the purchasing station.
Tian Cai had been here before when she was buying herbs for the brigade, but she hadn't known they also bought game. The young man at the counter saw her stunned for a moment, then quickly smiled warmly, "Have you run out of herbs?"
Tian Cai was stunned. She didn't expect that someone still remembered her after several months.
Tian Cai had no idea that the purchasing station dealt with fellow villagers from various villages every day, and there were very few young people who came, let alone a young and beautiful girl. The reason why the young man was stunned was that Tian Cai looked much more beautiful than last time.
"I'm not buying herbs this time," Tian Cai said after looking around and seeing no one else. "I'm looking for Liang Yushan."
The young man then called out to the house, "Brother Liang, someone is looking for you!"
"Here I come!" A middle-aged man's voice came from the room.
Soon a bearded man walked out of the room. Seeing that Tian Cai was the only one in the room, he was stunned for a moment and asked, "Who are you?"
"Qin Ling asked me to come find you." Tian Cai hurriedly revealed his identity and gestured to the bamboo basket behind him.
Liang Yushan blinked and said deliberately, "You are Qin's sister, right? Just call me Third Brother like him."
Tian Cai saw him like that and knew there were outsiders present. He did not refute him and followed his lead, calling him "Third Brother."
"Come over here, let me take a look." He carried Tian Cai's bamboo basket to the side to inspect the goods. Seeing that the rabbits were in perfect condition and all alive, without any injuries, he was very satisfied.
"I want all of these. I'll give them to you at the same price I gave to your brother: 45 cents a pound."
Tian Cai was quite satisfied with the price. The price paid by the purchasing station was definitely much lower than the supply of non-staple food. Even if a few educated youth caught too much of this stuff, they would not be able to digest it. It would be better to sell it to the purchasing station to save time and effort.
It was the hottest time of the day when Tian Cai got off the bus at the commune. After waiting for a while, the tractor from Beishan Brigade still didn't come back. She had no choice but to walk back slowly with an empty bamboo basket on her back. By the time she reached Kaoshan Village, it was dark.
Tian Cai opened the door of his house while calling "Mimi", but did not see the cat. Later he realized that he had given Mimi to Luo Xiuyan today, and she probably didn't know she was back yet.
I thought I could take this time to clean myself up and pick up the little guy after dinner.
Tian Cai put the bamboo basket in the kitchen, lit a fire to boil water, and planned to take a shower before cooking. When he was about to go back to the house to get a change of clothes, he was stunned.
The hair tied to the door handle broke.
Tian Cai's originally lazy expression suddenly became alert.
Thinking of the mastermind behind the killing of the two, her heart tightened slightly, and thousands of possibilities flashed through her mind in an instant.
Who could it be and why would they come here when she is not at home?
Tian Cai pretended not to notice anything unusual, hummed a song as if nothing had happened, went into the house, got a set of clean clothes and went to the kitchen.
As a result, when she was getting firewood from the bamboo shed in the backyard, she saw a footprint on the ground under the window. A few days ago, when Qin Ling poured quicklime on her roof, some of it fell on the ground. Tian Cai had been busy these days and had not had time to clean it up. Now there was a very obvious big footprint in the middle of the quicklime, which clearly indicated that a stranger had come to the house.
While waiting for the water to boil, Tian Cai carefully recalled the things at home. She had put all the medical books of the Cai family in the cellar, and would replace them with new ones when she finished reading one. A few days ago, she had just finished reading the medical records compiled by Cai Ping's father, and she put them back in the cellar and had not had time to replace them with new ones.
Her bookshelf was filled with common medical books such as "Compendium of Materia Medica" and "Treatise on Febrile Diseases". She and Cai Ping didn't even like to use the same medicine bottles. Tian Cai used small jars made of bamboo joints to store medicine for the villagers.
It is convenient and most importantly, cheap. There are large bamboo forests on the North Mountain, and you can make a lot of them by just cutting some bamboo.
Tian Cai thought carefully about the possible flaws she might have revealed during this period of time, but she still had no clue after thinking for a long time. She had been very low-key since she came to Kaoshan Village and had never done anything out of the ordinary.
wrong!
Tian Cai suddenly thought of the schistosomiasis that appeared some time ago. Is this creature that shouldn't appear in the north related to the person behind it?
The more she thought about it, the more suspicious it seemed.
Since he had already come here to search when she was away, and hadn't come to her house yet, was it because he was just a suspect and hadn't found anything unusual yet, or was it because he had already seen something and was making other arrangements?
Tian Cai was in no mood to take a shower. Her intuition told her that someone was going to attack her, but she had no idea when or what move the other party would make. This feeling of being a lamb to be slaughtered was really terrible.
She wouldn't necessarily be afraid if she could face the other party head-on, but she was afraid that they were like mad dogs hiding in the dark, ready to jump out and bite her at any time.
There is no such thing as guarding against thieves for a thousand days, but she has no idea where the thief is!
Tian Cai closed the kitchen door, hummed a song and made the noise of taking a shower, but secretly checked the situation in the cellar.
Fortunately, the grass leaves she had clamped aside were still in place. It was not known whether the visitor had not paid attention to the cellar or had left without having time to pay attention. This time at least served as a reminder to Tian Cai that she must never be careless in the future.
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