Lanchen took Zhao Wenfang to the county hospital, while the other educated youths went to rent a handcart. The village carpenter was a kind man; seeing that they had ordered quite a few chests and wardrobes, he volunteered to help deliver their grain to Liu Tiezhu's house.
After the educated youths had all left, Yuanchun shouldered her back basket once more and headed up the mountain to gather medicinal herbs.
When she returned from the mountain at dusk, she heard the village aunts discussing how Zhao Wenfang and Lanchen had returned from the county town, and that Zhao Wenfang had cried the entire way back.
Chapter 84