novelraw Chapter 180 The original tunnel was filled in.
Chapter 180 The original tunnel was filled in.
"No, at the very least we can't bully ordinary people who don't know martial arts. Also, we should try our best not to reveal our identity as ancient martial arts practitioners in front of them, so as not to affect their lives."
Of course, if someone bullies us or picks a fight, like Fan Yaqing did, we can fight back. But try not to use your internal energy, or you might kill someone!
"Looks like I'm the weakest. I don't plan to cultivate to become too powerful; just enough to keep my body healthy is fine," Tong Jiahui said with a smile. "I'll take care of the logistics for you. Do the laundry and cook; you just focus on doing your own things."
"Haha, thank you, Mom! You'll have to work hard then! Grandpa works hard too, making so many pills every month." Yuheng thought about the work she had taken on, and realized that her grandfather was the main breadwinner!
"Dad, could you give some of the medicine-grinding work to Xiao Liu and Xiao Qi? It'll help temper their tempers. You can also let Lao Liu and me do many other things. We came to the countryside to take care of you, not to make you suffer."
"I'm in great health now, and making those pills isn't tiring at all. It's only one or two thousand pills a month, and as long as there are enough medicinal materials, I can manage it all by myself."
Having endured the agonizing torment of the past two years, Grandpa Tong felt that life was now incredibly good. Moreover, making medicine and treating patients was what he most wanted to do in his life.
He's getting more and more energetic now, and his body is much stronger than before; even his hair has turned a bit darker!
"Father-in-law, you can't be the only one suffering. How about we all make the pills together on weekends when we're off work? You can just treat the villagers during the week."
"Grandpa, wait for us to come back and help. Don't do it all by yourself. Like today, we can work together after dinner!"
Linglong eagerly requested to participate; how could they be left out of something that would increase the family's income?
"Grandpa, I'll help too! I made the roundest and most even pills!" Xiao Qi quickly interjected, and Xiao Liu was also eager to try.
"Hahaha! Great! Come help with the work today and tomorrow!" Tong Anfu said with a smile. His happiest thing was that his granddaughters were willing to make medicine with him. It meant that the family business had a successor.
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Since Tong Anfu and his son's family were removed from the poverty list, the villagers all knew they were a family, so Tong Jiahui simply let her father move into their home.
Now, only Tong Yuheng among the sisters has a room to herself again.
After the house was renovated, there were two bedrooms in each of the east and west rooms. Now, Tong Jiahui and her husband live in the front bedroom of the east room, while the old man lives in the back bedroom.
Liu Fengyi specially created a small bedroom for Yu Chen in the east wing's living room using a partition wall with openwork windows. The windows were fitted with glass, so they didn't block out the light during the day, and the curtains could be drawn when she went to sleep.
Xiao Liu, Xiao Qi, and Linglong shared a room in the west wing. Just like when they were in Yan City, they were used to being paired up.
In the courtyard, there are two side rooms at the back. Yuheng will have one room to himself, while Yuyao will still share a room with Xiao Wu. Now that Yuchen has gone to live with his parents, Xiao Wu will be staying in his room. If Yuchen returns, the rooms will be rearranged.
Yuheng planned to give each of her younger sisters a room; they were all grown up and needed their own private space. If their uncle's family came back, they could build another row of rooms along the back wall, since there were still plenty of red bricks left.
Originally, there was this plan, but Yuyao will soon be going to join the army, and if all goes well, Linglong will also leave home by the end of next year. My uncle's family may not come back to stay permanently, so the room will be much more spacious, and there is no need to build an additional bedroom.
Having more rooms is convenient in the summer, but heating in the winter is a problem. Lighting coal stoves in each room is troublesome and unsafe. So this year she plans to install central heating to make the winter more comfortable for her family.
You can buy a smaller boiler and try your luck at the black market in the provincial capital. As for the radiators, you can make them yourself by welding folded iron sheets onto iron pipes. There's always a way to overcome difficulties.
"Grandpa, I'm going to a three-month intensive training camp, starting next month. Let's go to the pharmacy these next few days to make some things I need. We won't make anything else besides the body-strengthening pills, but we need to make a lot more of the tonic for strengthening muscles and bones. Thank you for your hard work!"
"It's alright. After these people retire, aren't they still disciples of the Tong family? I'm basically working for my own people now, hahaha!" Tong Anfu was very happy that he was becoming more and more valuable.
"That's true. I need to make our family rules clear to them and not allow them to act recklessly in our name."
The medicine-making room was carved out by Tong Yuheng in the underground passage; the clinic's room was merely a facade. This underground medicine-making room was much larger than the underground study and storage room.
The pharmaceutical room was square, measuring 3.5 meters long and wide, with a height of about 2.5 meters. It was located directly below the old man's room.
For safety, she also erected a wooden frame and beams inside to prevent collapse. The floor and walls were paved with bricks, waterproofed with plaster, and finished with cement.
Now, the old man spends most of his evenings working here. If someone comes looking for him from the front yard, he can come out from the back yard in time to receive the person seeking medical help.
He dedicated his life to traditional Chinese medicine, and his love for medicinal herbs was ingrained in his very being. He often stayed here for most of the night, requiring Tong Jiahui to ring a bell in the middle of the night to remind him to come out and go to sleep!
For the safety of his family in the future, Tong Yuheng blocked the passage leading to the cowshed, leaving only the entrance to the hay shed and the small storage room not far below for Professor Zhang and his group.
The tunnel was truly sealed off. She removed all the bricks that had been laid underground and filled it back with compacted soil. Even if the underground storage room in the cowshed were discovered in the future, it would no longer be related to their family.
She and her grandfather would sometimes secretly slip some supplies through the window of the clinic's observation room for Li Guanglin and the others to keep. These people had gone through thick and thin together, so he still wanted to take care of them.
On her own side, she filled in the original passageway and planted a peach tree behind her grandfather's house. Actually, the tree was planted in a large vat.
The entire tank was submerged underground, blocking the entrance to the basement. The button to activate the lifting mechanism was located under a brick at the base of the back window.
Tong Yuheng only planned to have his grandfather make these few kinds of medicines. His current strength was barely enough to protect himself, and he was too old to spend too much energy researching medicine making. As long as he perfected these few medicines, he could entertain people in the ancient martial arts circle in the future.
It seems she still needs to work harder on her alchemy skills. The high-level pills she produces can be auctioned off using her identity as Dong Wuyou, and she needs to make good use of that identity.