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After sorting out the affairs of Tohai Commandery and the Tang Tribe, Luo Chong boarded a ship back to Hanyang City early the next morning. Xiao Die and Zhan Ying also boarded early with the two children, and everyone waited by the Tang Tribe's shore for Tang Yao.

Tang Yao would be returning with him this time as well, to continue revising the seven medical textbooks of the Han Tribe.

Before long, a Personal Guard came to report that Tang Yao had arrived with a convoy of wagons.

This time, she was not only returning herself; she was also bringing some plant seeds to Hanyang Commandery, such as the sesame, Chinese cabbage, and celery that had been discovered a few days earlier. Some were brought as seeds directly, while others had been transplanted into water buckets for transport.

There were also the two precious kinds of fragrant wood from the Tang Tribe. One log of each had been brought back as well. Luo Chong planned to see whether he could make sandalwood incense. He knew how to make incense: grind the fragrant wood into powder, add something like bone meal, knead it into dough, then press it into long strips in a mold and leave it to dry. It was much like making noodles; he had seen someone do it in his previous life.

Besides that, there were dozens of kilograms of rubber, all collected and delivered overnight during the past few days. Natural rubber latex would coagulate on its own even without any chemical additives, though it took more time. Thus, among the batch of rubber Tang Yao had sent, some had already been made into rectangular sheets according to Luo Chong's instructions, while a small bucket of rubber latex remained. It still had not dried.

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