"become!"
After the words were out, Tian Baobao suddenly became alert, "Sister, what do you want me to do? I tell you, I won't do anything I can't do!"
Tian Tian was speechless. How could this Tian baby still act like a little adult? "What kind of work can I ask you to do? With your small body, there is nothing you can do. Didn't grandma buy newspapers? We will paste the newspapers on the walls later. You don't have to do the things on the ceiling. My dad and second uncle will do it by then."
"Oh! That's a good job. I can do it!" When he heard it was this job, Tian Baobao immediately agreed readily.
Old Mrs. Tian worked quickly and soon a pot of paste was ready. She poured the paste into a basin and brought it to the kang, then took a small brush and gave it to Tian Tian and the others.
While waiting for the glue to be applied, Tian Tian folded a hat out of newspaper and put it on her head to show off to Old Lady Tian, "Grandma! Look at the hat I folded! Does it look good?"
Old Mrs. Tian was particularly supportive. "Oh! This hat is really nice. I won't be afraid of getting my hair dirty when I wear it. Tiantian is really smart. Meiyu! Meiyu, Tian Lisong! Come and take a look at the hat your daughter folded!"
Lin Meiyu and Chen Guihua poked their heads out of the kitchen and saw the hat on Tian Tian's head. They immediately smiled and praised, "My daughter is so skillful. She folded this hat beautifully."
"This guy is also good-looking. Look at this guy. He looks good even if he wears a newspaper."
Old Mrs. Tian called the family over with such fanfare, which made Tiantian feel embarrassed. She covered her face and acted shy.
"That's enough! Stop being so conceited!" Old Mrs. Tian slapped Tian Tian on the butt, "Hurry up and work with your brother and the others!"
Old Mrs. Tian didn't use too much force, and Tian Tian didn't feel anything because she was wearing thick clothes in winter.
She laughed and was about to paste the paper on the wall, but Tian Baobao and Tian Zhuo hugged her thighs, "Sister! We want paper hats too!"
Tian Tian folded a paper hat for each of them. After they put them on, they ran to the kitchen to show off to others.
Tian Tian also calmed down at this time, and started to apply glue on it with newspaper, and finally slapped it against the wall.
It’s quite simple, and applying glue and pasting the walls is strangely stress-relieving.
Tian Tian soon found pleasure in this work. Just then, the two brothers Tian Baobao and Tian Zhuo came back after showing off. Tian Tian supported them in pasting the newspapers she had painted with glue on the wall.
Tian Baobao is usually quite unreliable and likes to show off, which makes him very conspicuous, but he never lags behind when he is working. The three siblings work together very efficiently.
Soon they had covered all the places they could reach in Old Mrs. Tian's house, and then they moved to the smaller house.
The hut is smaller and usually not lived in, but it was left to Tian Lijuan by Old Lady Tian, and Tian Lijuan had been kind to them since they were young, so Tian Tian and the others put special care into decorating it.
By the time of lunch in the afternoon, Tian Tian and the other two had already pasted up the east and west rooms and the small house. In the afternoon, they would just paste up Tian Tian's small house and the house where Tian Lilin and the others lived.
The rest of the places that Tian Tian and his team couldn't reach, like the roof, were painted by Tian Lisong and his team.
Tian Lisong and his team had experience and were much faster than Tian Tian and his team. They had pasted the roofs of several rooms in the house before dark.
Tian Tian and the others did not follow Tian Lisong to watch the fun. Instead, they all gathered in the kitchen to watch Old Lady Tian fry radish meatballs and eat them.
These fried radish balls are actually made by cutting radish and carrot into shreds, then adding some batter and eggs, rolling them into small balls and frying them in a pan. After frying, the outside is crispy and the inside is very soft and tender, and very delicious.
In addition to fried radish balls, there are also fried tofu balls, fried hemp leaves, sweet potato balls, fried sweet potatoes, and fried red dates. However, there were not many dates at home this year, so Grandma Tian did not make any.
They fry these things every year. Sometimes they are fried on New Year's Eve, and sometimes they are fried a day or two before the New Year.
These fried foods can only be eaten during the Chinese New Year. They are made of white flour and fried in a large pot of oil. You can't afford to eat them on other days.
I can't even get full with normal meals, so how can I have the time to prepare these things to eat?
Tian Tian and her two siblings had been standing by the wok since the frying started. They would eat one each time one was fried. After frying for a long time, nothing in the pot came up. When Tian Baobao reached out to take the meatballs again, old lady Tian couldn't bear it anymore and slapped her hand away.
"Ouch!" Tian Baobao let out a cry and withdrew his hand.
"Stay away from me. I'll fry one for you to eat. If others don't need to eat, go play somewhere else. You guys usually have enough food and clothes. Why are you all so greedy?"
Tian Baobao and Tian Zhuo ran out in a flash.
Tian Tian was embarrassed beside her, and Old Lady Tian glared at her, "Don't stay here anymore, go teach your brother to read and write! You guys will have to eat tonight."
Tian Tian also went out and called back the two naughty boys, and took them to the east room to study.
As a result, the chimney in the kitchen did not stop chimneying that afternoon. Old Mrs. Tian and the others had been cooking delicious food all afternoon, and the kang was very hot, making it impossible to sit on it. Tian Tian felt that her butt was about to be burned after sitting for a while, so she quickly picked up all the quilts, folded them and put them under her butt, and hung all the quilts on the head of the kang out to dry.
Tian Tian and the others were smelling all kinds of aromas coming from the house and their saliva was almost drooling. Tian Tian was okay, at least she was an adult and still had some self-control. Tian Baobao and Tian Zhuo were not focused on their studies at all and were drooling as they looked outside.
Gu Yinghua had tried twice but failed, so he decided not to let them study today. When the two brothers heard this, they hurriedly got up and put on their shoes, ran to the kitchen, peeped inside through the door, and stared at the big pot of meatballs that Old Mrs. Tian had fried.
Old Mrs. Tian had already seen the two little ones. She neither asked them to come over to eat nor asked them to go back into the house. She just let them stand there staring eagerly.
"Grandma! Is there anything I can help you with?" Tian Tian also went to the kitchen and asked.
Old Mrs. Tian glanced at Tian Tian and said, "Go get a basin and pour all the pork skin jelly in the pot into the basin. Then cover it and put it on the windowsill. Remember to skim out the foam."
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