These days she really disliked Tian Baobao. He came home covered in dirt every day, and when he took off his pants at night, all the dirt got into the quilt.
Although it's a good thing that Tian Baobao can sleep at night after playing during the day, Chen Guihua doesn't want to wash clothes for Tian Baobao every few days.
Nowadays, cotton cloth is easily torn if washed too many times, but we don’t have that much cloth at home to make clothes for Tian Baobao.
"Tian Baobao! When the pigs are brought back tomorrow, all the matters concerning the pig feed at home will be handed over to you. If you earn a lot of work points today, I will buy you candy for the New Year!" said Chen Guihua.
Tian Baobao curled his lips and didn't believe it. This was not the first or second time that Chen Guihua had been so rude to him.
But he didn't say anything to get beaten. Instead, he took the opportunity to eat two bites of the cicada tofu while everyone was talking.
"I heard that more educated youth will come in July this year!" Tian Lisong suddenly dropped a big bomb.
Today he went to the commune again and heard from the leaders in the commune that the city had started to sign up educated youth to go to the countryside. It would take another two months to sign up, which would be July, and their team would start to receive educated youth again.
"Another group of educated youth are coming?!" Not only Old Lady Tian and Chen Guihua were shocked, but even Lin Meiyu, who had been eating in silence, was shocked.
"We send educated youth to the team every year. We have to let them come down, but we can't let them go back. Not only can they not do the work, but we also have to get food for them. We don't even have enough to eat ourselves. They can't do anything well, and there's not enough food to eat." Chen Guihua said unhappily. She lost her appetite when she looked at the cicada tofu in front of her, as if money had flown away from her pocket.
After a year of hard work, the amount of food earned was limited. In addition to food distributed according to work points, 40% of the food was distributed per person. The more people there were, the less food they would get. Especially these educated youth who were lazy and didn't know how to distinguish between grains. They couldn't do the work. All the work was done by the rural people, and the food had to be shared with these educated youth. It would be strange for them to be happy.
"That's enough! You can just say this at home, but remember to keep your mouth shut when you're out there. It's not easy for the second son to be an accountant now."
In fact, the cadres of the team that brought the educated youth here were even more unhappy than the team members. When it came to distributing food, the people in their team were actually no different from the team members, and they would not get more.
Whenever the educated youth encountered any problems, such as running out of food or conflicts among themselves, they would look for the cadres of their brigade to mediate.
Moreover, it seemed that the place where the educated youth came was no longer big enough to accommodate them. If more people came, they would have to expand the place, or build two more houses. They had to take care of all these things.
"I just hope that there won't be too many educated youth coming, as our youth settlement won't have enough accommodation," said Tian Lisong.
We have to go to the fields to work tomorrow, so after eating and cleaning up, everyone will go back to the house to sleep.
The next day everyone had to go to the fields to work, and Tian Lisong and his two brothers had to go to the county town. Old Mrs. Tian got up early to prepare dinner, and waited for everyone to finish their meal. Old Mrs. Tian packed a few pancakes for Tian Lisong and his brothers, and asked them to take them with them to eat at noon.
Then everyone went to do their own work. Tian Lisong and his team went to call a few strong laborers to hitch a cart to the county town to transport fertilizer and piglets. Chen Guihua and Lin Meiyu went to the warehouse to register and get farm tools so that they could work in the fields. Old Mrs. Tian turned over the vegetable field at home and prepared to plant potatoes.
Tian Tian took the earthen basket that Lin Meiyu used yesterday and prepared to go up the mountain to find Shen Lingling and the others.
The two little guys, Tian Baobao and Tian Zhuo, took basins to pick crickets.
After Tian Tian and Shen Lingling met up, they went to look for Tian Yun together. On the way, they ran into Li Jiuniang and Ke Ying who were walking towards them. Tian Tian smiled politely at them, and then decided to go look for Tian Yun separately.
As a result, Li Jiuniang didn't know what was going on and called out to Tian Tian.
Tian Tian looked back at Li Jiuniang with a puzzled look on her face. The two of them didn't have much in common, so why would Li Jiuniang ask her to do anything?
Li Jiuniang was a little embarrassed. She pursed her lips and asked in a low voice: "How did you eat the crickets you picked up yesterday?"
Yesterday she fried crayfish like crayfish. Although the taste was similar, crayfish were much smaller than crayfish and had very little meat, so it was not satisfying to eat. So she wanted to ask if there was any other way to cook crayfish.
It turned out that he was asking her for a recipe. Tian Tian breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed that Li Jiuniang was also a foodie. "Make cicada tofu!"
Seeing Li Jiuniang silently taking out a small notebook to record the cooking method, Tian Tian suddenly thought she was a little cute, so she generously told her the method, "Finally, add a little salt and soy sauce, sprinkle some chopped green onions and it's done. If you have chives, it will be even better. It tastes delicious this way, but it's a little troublesome!"
Li Jiuniang carefully wrote down everything Tian Tian said, "Thank you!"
"You're welcome!" Tian Tian looked at Li Jiuniang with empty hands and was a little curious. "Why don't you go get some farm tools and work in the fields? They have to plow the soil today!"
"Are you ready to go now?" Li Jiuniang put away the notebook and thanked Tian Tian again, "Then we'll go first."
After Li Jiuniang left, Shen Lingling bumped into Tian Tian and asked, "When did you become so familiar with Li Jiuniang?"
Tian Tian was puzzled. "We are not very familiar with each other. Didn't she just ask me about a dish? You know, we haven't talked much before. We just greeted each other when we met."
"Why would she ask you how to cook when we haven't talked yet?" Shen Lingling muttered softly. However, seeing Tian Tian's confused expression, she knew that she really didn't know, so she didn't ask her about it. Instead, she changed the subject and asked, "Did you make crayfish tofu last night?"
Tian Tian nodded, "My grandma said she was going to start farming and she was tired, so she made some delicious food for us to replenish our energy."
"That's great! My grandma said that making cicada tofu is too troublesome, and you have to beat eggs into it, so she didn't make it for me. The old cicadas I picked up yesterday are still being kept at home. My grandma even complained that they took up two basins, and told me to dump them into the river. She didn't even think about the fact that I worked hard to pick them up under the scorching sun all day long." Shen Lingling said dissatisfiedly.
"Won't your grandma make it for you? She can eat it herself!"
"She thinks it's too much trouble. She spends all day sewing clothes for the baby in my sister-in-law's belly. How can she have time to cook for me what I want to eat?" Shen Lingling said dissatisfiedly.
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