Tian Baobao and Tian Zhuo were sent by Old Lady Tian to the mountain to pick mugwort and willow branches.
I have been working all spring and have no time to go to the river to wash clothes. I have saved up a lot of clothes after so many days.
As Chen Guihua was taking off Tian Baobao's clothes, she couldn't stop complaining, "Tell me how he wears these clothes? He changes them every day and they get dirty every day. I had to wash his clothes when I came back from the fields a while ago, but now he still has so many dirty clothes! Does he roll around in the mud every day?"
"Aren't all children like this? Aren't my son Tian Zhuo's clothes getting a lot dirty? It will be fine when he grows up a little!" Lin Meiyu advised.
Tian Zhuo's clothes were not clean either, but at least she had Tian Tian, who could help her take care of her younger brother and wash clothes for Tian Zhuo when she had nothing to do. So she was not as tired as Chen Guihua.
"He is eight years old now, he is not young anymore, right? He goes up the mountains and down the river to play all day long? If you want to play, then go ahead and play. We are not forbidding him to play. Can you be a little cleaner? You think his mother is not tired from working all day!" Chen Guihua became more and more angry the more she thought about it. She threw her clothes on the stone slab and wanted to quit.
"I will definitely teach him a lesson when I get back. If he makes his clothes so dirty again, I will let him wash them all by himself. But I don't have the time for that. I have to cook and wash dishes all day, and serve them both. He really treats them like his boss!" Chen Guihua chattered.
Lin Meiyu tried to persuade her a little, but later found that Chen Guihua was not listening at all, so she stopped talking.
Silently, He Tiantian finished washing all the clothes in her house and prepared to go home with the big basin.
On the way back, I met Li Jiuniang who was also there to wash clothes.
Tian Tian smiled at her in a friendly manner. The two of them greeted each other and walked away, each holding their basins.
Tian Tian wanted to stay away from Li Jiuniang before, mainly because in the novel, Li Jiuniang actually caused a lot of trouble. Regardless of whether it was Li Jiuniang's original intention or not, it was all related to her. He was simply a troublemaker. Tian Tian didn't want to get involved in those things and just wanted to live her own life in peace, so she avoided Li Jiuniang.
But for some unknown reason, Li Hong, Li Jiuniang's former archenemy, has now reconciled with Li Jiuniang. Although their relationship cannot be said to be close, at least they can still be in a good mood when they meet.
Meng Rui, who had harassed many girls before, is now quiet.
Seeing that Li Jiuniang was actually quite calm, Tian Tian no longer objected to contacting her.
On the way back, Tian Tian also picked two branches full of cherries.
The small leaves on it are emerald green, and the ruby-like little cherries dotted among them look quite beautiful.
The cherries at this time are ripe. The cherries nowadays are not like the big cherries in later generations, which are all flesh when you bite them.
At this time, the cherries are just a thin layer of cherry skin, with not much flesh inside, but mostly juice. They melt in your mouth with a sip of your tongue, but the core is a bit big.
But the cherry flavor is strong, sweet and sour, and it can be considered a delicious snack.
Tian Tian held the large basin with her belly and left hand, and two cherry branches in her right hand. She took a bite of cherry and spit the pit out to the side of the road, hoping that these rivers would also grow cherries in the future.
After Tian Tian and Lin Meiyu returned home, Tiantian felt that all the cherries on the two branches had been eaten. Tian Tian threw the branches to the ground, attracting a group of chickens looking for food, and then hung all the clothes up to dry.
Lin Meiyu walked into the house and saw Old Lady Tian sorting the leaves for the rice dumplings. She asked, "Mom! How about we make the rice dumplings today?"
These glutinous rice and rhubarb rice were soaked last night, and now is the perfect time to make them.
"Let's wrap it tomorrow. You can get some corn to grind into flour, and then we'll clean up the cellar. The new potatoes will be harvested in two days, so we'll make room quickly." said Old Mrs. Tian.
This year's potatoes will be harvested in July, so we have to clean out the cellar quickly, otherwise there will be no place to store the new potatoes.
"Okay!" Lin Meiyu agreed, and went to get some corn to grind cornmeal from the mill.
Tian Tian wanted to help, but was stopped by Old Lady Tian. "Tiantian! Go get ten eggs from home. Don't you have a pen? Draw a few tiger heads on the eggs!"
Tiger head?
Tian Tian was stunned for a moment, and the next second she remembered how to draw a tiger head. She agreed and went to the house to get a pen.
This is the custom of the Tian family. Every time they boil eggs on the Dragon Boat Festival, they would draw a few tiger heads on them, saying they are tiger eggs. They believe that the children in the family will be safe and sound after eating them.
After she picked out ten particularly large eggs, she painted tiger heads on each one. She didn't draw them in great detail, just a king on the head and six whiskers, and the tiger was done. Although the painting was a little abstract, Tian Tian didn't mind because she couldn't draw anyway.
And from what I remember, Mrs. Tian and her colleagues also painted very abstractly.
When the painting was finished, Tian Baobao and Tian Zhuo came back holding a bundle of mugwort and peach branches respectively. Old Mrs. Tian took these two things and went back to the house to get a curtain.
Then put all the mugwort and peach branches on the curtain to dry in the sun. The drier they are, the longer they can be kept. There is also a small green peach on the peach branch.
No one knew where Tian Baobao and his friend had gone to pick the fruits, and they were covered in grass and mud. When Chen Guihua came back and saw Tian Baobao like this, she got angry again and pinned Tian Baobao on her knees and beat him up.
After being beaten, Tian Baobao was well behaved for the whole afternoon, and took Tian Zhuo to catch insects and feed chickens in the vegetable garden at home.
The next morning after breakfast, Grandma Tian prepared to start making rice dumplings. Lin Meiyu and Chen Guihua did not go out that day and made rice dumplings with Grandma Tian.
Old Mrs. Tian prepared to make four kinds of dumplings: rhubarb rice dumplings, glutinous rice dumplings, and rhubarb rice, adzuki beans and glutinous rice, adzuki beans dumplings.
Old Mrs. Tian originally planned to put some dates in it, but she didn't have any dates at home, so she used some red beans instead.
Tian Tian had never made rice dumplings before, but the original owner had done so. Tian Tian watched how Old Lady Tian and Lin Meiyu made them, and then she learned from them. Her dumplings looked a bit ugly at first, but after making a few, they looked like real dumplings.
When Lin Meiyu saw that the rice dumplings made by Tian Tian were ugly, they did not doubt it and thought that Tiantian had not made any for a year and her hands were not used to it. Chen Guihua teased Tiantian a few words and did not say anything else.
Tian Tian breathed a sigh of relief and concentrated on fighting the zongzi in her hand.
At first she thought making zongzi was difficult, but now that she has made more, she finds it quite interesting.
The four of them worked together to wrap the dumplings quite quickly and soon finished a whole pot, by which time half of the rice had been eaten.
Old Mrs. Tian put the pot of rice dumplings into a big pot to cook. It took a long time to cook the rice dumplings thoroughly. Old Mrs. Tian poured a large pot of water into the pot, put firewood under the stove, and went into the house to continue making rice dumplings.
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