Bab 76: Chapter 76: Charity Diagnosis_1

Yingbao was also busy preparing medicinal pills for her father.

These pills were actually made by steaming date paste, red bean paste, and wheat flour, kneading them into small balls roughly the size of bird eggs, and mixing in wu ding zhi.

She made fifty in total, enough for her father to consume one every day, and even to spare some for her uncles.

On the day they started working, before the break of dawn, the villagers picked up shovels, hammers, and baskets, some shouldering yokes, came to Jiang Sanlang's house and called for him to join them.

Jiang Sanlang also shouldered a yoke, put his tools and bedding on it, and blended into the crowd with his elder and second brother who were shouldering the same loads.

Yingbao got up early to stand with her mother at their courtyard to see her father off.

"Mother, where is father going to do the river work?" asked Yingbao.