Siheyuan: A master brewer starts with a jar of bone-strengthening wine!

"Okay!" Liu Dong turned and left.

At 3:00 a.m. the next day, Vladimir pushed open the door and came in right on time.

He pulled out a sheet of printed paper: "Dude, the total cost, including shipping, is four hundred thousand US dollars. Converted to gold prices today, that's exactly 324 kilograms of gold—yes, that's what you call 'kilograms'!"

"Go through the count in your mind and see if it's correct?"

"No problem!" Liu Dong had already checked it several times on his phone.

Vladimir added, "Our superiors also said—goods first, payment later."

"Alright!" Liu Dong reached out his hand directly. "Give me the port warehouse keys, and send me the address via WeChat; three days later, you can just sit outside the warehouse in Haishen City and wait to collect it!"

"Oh right, same old place—that crude oil depot in Vladivostok. Empty it, don't pile anything else on it!"

What followed was all physical labor.

First, fly to a port in Malaysia, land, enter the gate, and head straight to the target warehouse.

With a wave of his hand, two thousand tons of natural dry glue, along with the ash and packaging, were all sucked into the wine cellar.

This stuff has a density similar to water; one ton is approximately one cubic meter, so two thousand tons would at most be a little over two thousand cubic meters.

Piled up in the wine cellar? It's just a large cube measuring 20 meters by 20 meters by 5 meters, not even filling a third of the space.

Two days later, they flew to Vladivostok, opened the gates, unloaded the goods, and closed the gates in one smooth motion.

More than 320 kilograms of gold bars were obtained.

Cool!

"Ding-dong~ Mission complete! Reward received: 888 RMB!"

"A complimentary [Medical Wine Jar] is included!"

"Your wine has been deposited into your magical wine cellar. Please check it!"

Back in the courtyard house, Liu Dong poured out the gold bars and counted them—a total of 846 kilograms.

It's still more than 150 kilograms short of a full ton!

Beautiful!

After carefully storing the gold, he had a sudden thought and brought up the system interface.

Click on "Enter the Wine Cellar".

The next second, they were already in the wine cellar.

Sure enough, a new jar appeared in the corner—it was entirely purple, with a warm, matte finish.

He reached out and touched it, and a message popped up:

[Medical Skill Wine Vat]: A specially supplied brewing vessel for brewing [Medical Skill Wine]. Drinking it will greatly enhance your medical skills; the more you drink, the better you understand pulse diagnosis, the more skilled you are at acupuncture, and the more capable you are of determining life and death.

"It's done!"

Exactly as expected!

Liu Dong took a deep breath and started brewing.

With the time-accelerating technology of the wine vat 360 times, a vat of wine is ready in less than five minutes.

To save on raw materials, he didn't brew the full batch, but only made 100 jin (50 kg), enough to drink for several days.

"Gulp..."

He tilted his head back and took a gulp.

Haha ...

My stomach had barely warmed up when the control panel popped up with a "whoosh":

Name: Liu Dong

Age: 18 years old

Lifespan: 180 years (the ceiling for human lifespan)

Strength: 947 (Human maximum 99)

Resilience: 976 (Human maximum 99)

Agility: 78 (Human maximum 99)

Flight skill: 989 (989 meters per second)

Medical Skill Ability: 1 (Human maximum 120)

Hidden physical ailments: 0

Already possesses the following abilities: Strength, Bones, Time, Good and Evil, Curses, Music, Flight, Rejuvenation, and Medicine.

He glanced over at once—

There's an extra wine vat: the Medical Skill Wine Vat!

I've gained an additional ability: medical skills!

But... only 1 point? That's so stingy!

Keep drinking!

"Glug... Glug... Glug..."

Liu Dong hugged the jar and gulped it down, as if he were drinking water.

result--

After just over a hundred sips, my stomach felt like it was pressing against my throat, and I started burping after just one more sip.

Looking at the panel again:

Medical skill: 138 points!

That's off the charts! 18 points—the superhuman limit!

Now, looking across the whole country—no, looking around the world—no doctor can match his speed of operation, his ability to diagnose illnesses, his prescription skills, or his capacity to save lives!

At eighteen, he can prescribe medicine to save lives while practicing medicine. With a single silver needle, he is as steady as a veteran Chinese medicine doctor. He is truly a "prodigy doctor"!

The sky turned cloudy again.

Liu Dong pushed open the courtyard gate and looked up at the sky—it was dark and gloomy, with low-hanging clouds.

Today is the 30th day of the twelfth lunar month, the last day of the Lunar New Year.

Tonight is Lunar New Year's Eve.

Families are having reunion dinners, staying up late on New Year's Eve, putting up Spring Festival couplets, and grabbing red envelopes... it's all very lively.

"Smack! Thud—!"

"Smack! Thud—!"

Firecrackers went off incessantly in the courtyard, sending red paper scraps flying everywhere. Children chased after the sparks, laughing so hard their eyes disappeared.

"Uncle Xu, are you feeling any better?" Liu Dong stepped out of the door and bumped into Xu Fugui sitting on the steps.

Ever since this man was struck by lightning and bitten by a wild dog in the summer, his health has deteriorated.

Two more fires broke out in winter, and due to insufficient nutrition, he became extremely thin and his face turned as white as an old sheet of Xuan paper.

As soon as he saw Liu Dong, a sheepish smile immediately appeared on his face: "It's nothing! Once we get through the New Year and spring comes and it warms up, my old bones will naturally be sturdier again... Hehe... Liu Dong, from now on, I'll have to trouble you to look after that kid Da Mao! Tonight, I'll have Da Mao call you over, shall we warm up some wine and have a chat?"

Liu Dong snorted lightly, his lips drooping downwards: "Ha—coming to your house for drinks on New Year's Eve?"

That's really thoughtful of you. You could have invited them a few days ago.

"Then I won't disturb your family's New Year's Eve vigil!" He glanced to the south.

The house to the south, next to his, was also a large courtyard with four main rooms and gray tiles. An old lady lived there—known as the "deaf old lady."

She was hard of hearing, but she was of high seniority and prestige. She was also a recipient of the Five Guarantees (a government welfare program for the elderly, disabled, and orphans). I heard that a martyr had come from her family, so no one in the entire compound dared to boss her around or give her the cold shoulder.

The old lady was in her early sixties, and she lived alone in such a big house.

But a while ago, Yi Zhonghai's house caught fire, burning down to just the walls. For some reason, he and an old lady moved into the deaf old lady's house and squeezed together to live together.

"Liu Dong, have you finished making the dumplings for New Year's Eve dinner?" An older woman poked her head out from the deaf old lady's room.

Liu Dong grinned: "They were all made a while ago! This noon, my mother-in-law chopped the filling, rolled out the dough, and cooked a whole pot of it by hand!"

"What kind of filling?" The woman's eyes lit up as she asked.

Xu Fugui and Liu Haizhong also craned their necks to get closer, their faces clearly saying, "Tell us quickly!"

Liu Dong shrugged: "Stir-fried chives with eggs! What else could it be? I don't raise chickens, and I don't save up meat coupons, where am I supposed to get meat?"

"It smells so good!" Liu Haizhong clicked his tongue, looking envious. "I rode my old bicycle all over the alleyway three times today, and I didn't see a single egg seller! My egg coupons were practically warm in my pocket, but I couldn't get even half an egg!"

"Ours is even more amazing—pure chive filling!"

Liu Dong changed the subject, smiling as he asked, "How about I give you an egg to try?"

Liu Haizhong waved his hands and shook his head, "No, no, no! Absolutely not! We all have to make a living, who's always broke? We're just trying to be practical, not stingy!"

Back then, when ration coupons were first introduced, everyone was tight on money and anxious, but they hadn't reached the point of being shameless and disregarding etiquette.

Liu Dong handed over an egg. If Liu Haizhong, as the "second uncle," really accepted it, he would be too embarrassed to look up when he went out in the future.

Face is something you can't see or touch, but you really can't afford to lose it.