Pei Qin set up her stall to sell sesame sauce pancakes. They no longer sold red yam balls; they had used up the remaining red yams. At this point, some of the red yams had frozen and turned bad. They ate the spoilt ones themselves and dried the rest to make red yam chips and ground them into red yam flour.
Shen Songming stayed for a few more days, familiarizing Zhang Gengshan and Feng Wei with the medicinal herbs they had gathered. He also badmouthed Mo Heng and his servant in front of Pei Qin to the point that Pei Qin almost thought Mo Heng was a fugitive murderer, before he finally left Yuanyang County.
After he left, Pei Qin dug her ears and cursed "idiot" before going to fry some peanuts. This time, she fried sugar-coated peanuts and Drunkard's Peanuts, which that dimwit took away with him, along with so much red yam flour. She wondered if he could even stomach it all!