After Tian Tian looked around the living room several times, she finally smelled the fragrance of food. She quickly got up to set the table and helped Tian Lijuan and the others get the dishes and chopsticks.
Under the repeated insistence of Old Lady Tian, Tian Lijuan finally did not stew the toad that Old Lady Tian sent. Instead, she stewed a pot of cabbage and vermicelli, put a can of canned meat in it, and cooked rice grits porridge.
"Tiantian, eat more. If it's not enough, just get more from the pot. Don't be polite with your aunt!" Tian Lijuan kept putting the meat from the cabbage into Tian Tian's bowl.
Tian Tian was flattered holding the bowl, but also a little overwhelmed, "Aunt! You don't have to serve me some food, I can just serve myself if I want to eat! This is enough."
Nowadays, canned meat is actually more valuable than meat itself. Not only is it filled with large chunks of meat, it is already cooked and does not require any seasoning when put into dishes. In addition, the supply and marketing cooperatives sell very little of it, making it even more valuable.
Tian Tian watched as Tian Lijuan put most of the meat into her bowl, and she felt embarrassed to eat so much by herself.
The most common foods in her food are canned meat, canned fish, and canned luncheon meat. She often secretly gives herself snacks at night. She really has no shortage of canned food, and these canned meats are all fat, and she doesn't like fat.
"What do you mean by enough? You don't get to eat meat all year round, so eat more." Seeing that Tian Tian's bowl was full of meat, Tian Lijuan took back her chopsticks with satisfaction and started to put meat into Old Lady Tian's bowl.
"You don't have to pick some for me. We have enough meat at home. I still have a lot of salted bacon left from the New Year. We ate stewed toad yesterday. Tiantian and Tian Zhuo picked up a lot of crickets in the river a few days ago. We have a lot to eat. It's better than your city." said Old Mrs. Tian.
If it weren't for the need to eat more meat to replenish energy during the spring planting, Old Mrs. Tian would have brought some to Tian Lijuan today.
"You picked this up. This is my gift to you. Okay! Eat it quickly!" Tian Lijuan said.
Although the canned pork smelled delicious, Tian Tian really couldn't eat it, so she gave some of the meat to Old Lady Tian.
After dinner, Tian Lijuan cleaned up the dishes and prepared to go to work at the supply and marketing cooperative, leaving Tian Tian and Old Lady Tian to take a nap at home and go home in the afternoon.
Since they had eaten a meal at Tian Lijuan's house, they certainly couldn't rest there for the whole lunch, so they both went home after the meal.
Tian Lijuan prepared a lot of things for Old Lady Tian to take away, but it was Old Lady Tian's strong refusal that made Tian Lijuan give up the idea.
On the way home, Tian Tian looked at the white cherry blossoms blooming on both sides and was so fond of them that she couldn't take her eyes off them.
In her previous life, there was a row of cherry trees outside her school. The flowers bloomed luxuriantly in June and July every year. The trees were densely packed with small white flowers. When the wind blew, the petals would float down with the wind and fall to the ground in circles, which was extremely beautiful.
Now many people in their brigade have cherry trees growing outside their walls. They are not planted specially, but sometimes they just spit out the cherry seeds when eating them on both sides of the road, and they grow on their own.
Tian Tian particularly liked this little flower and thought that if she could pick two, she could put them in a vase and place it on the desk, it would be pleasing to the eye.
It’s a pity that Mrs. Tian strictly prohibits such behavior at home.
Last winter, Tian Tian went up the mountain to pick several rhododendrons, intending to take them home and put them in a vase so that they would bloom when the weather warmed up. However, she was scolded by Old Lady Tian, who said that her behavior was petty bourgeois and that she would be criticized if anyone saw it.
Tian Tian was so scared that she immediately threw away the rhododendrons she had carefully selected, and from then on she gave up the idea of decorating her little room.
Life this year was too comfortable, and the chaos was too far away from Tian Tian, which made Tian Tian lose her initial vigilance and start to indulge in enjoyment.
After being scolded by Old Lady Tian, Tian Tian came to her senses and stopped thinking about these things.
Just look simple and plain, and I hope I can get through this period safely.
After returning home, Tian Baobao and his friends pestered Tian Tian for candy. Tian Tian took out two pieces of candy and gave them to the two brothers.
Only then did the two of them, contentedly, take the candy and go to collect grass for the pigs.
Old Mrs. Tian went into the house and took a look at the meal they had for lunch today. It was just a simple dish of stir-fried cabbage and potatoes, but it was pretty good. So she gave up the idea of making something delicious in the evening.
Old Mrs. Tian rested for a while, changed her clothes, and took Tian Tian to the mountains to pick wild vegetables.
After picking wild vegetables, I went home and cooked some wild vegetable soup in the evening, and then went to bed after eating.
The spring planting time passed quickly, and it was June in the blink of an eye. The crops in the fields had been almost planted. Now all that was left was to sprinkle some fertilizer and add some water to the fields and there would be nothing else to do.
Chen Guihua and Lin Meiyu are not as busy as before.
The piece of salted bacon at home was almost eaten up. Spring planting was very tiring, and the family needed more oil. So Old Mrs. Tian used the salted bacon to cook every day, so that she could have meat and save some oil.
Tian Tian had a very painful time eating. She didn't like the taste of salted bacon. Whenever Old Lady Tian made salted bacon, she would eat either wild vegetables or pickles. In addition to the big and small chores she had to do every day, Tian Tian lost a lot of weight in this month.
The Dragon Boat Festival arrived just after the spring planting season.
Old Mrs. Tian went to pick a lot of zongzi leaves in advance, brought them back and soaked them in well water, and also soaked two kilograms of glutinous rice and two kilograms of rhubarb rice, preparing to make zongzi the next day.
The leaves for the rice dumplings are reed leaves that Grandma Tian picked from the river. Some people also use corn leaves, but Grandma Tian thinks the taste is not right, so she specially cut reed leaves.
Tian Tian and Lin Meiyu went to the river to wash clothes together, while the brothers Tian Lisong and Tian Lilin, along with other strong laborers in the village, went to the fields to pick up manure.
These manures also come from the toilets of every household. Every household has a task and must contribute some from their rice fields.
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