"Drink it!" Tian Tian handed the bowl to them, and the two brothers started drinking it, taking turns to drink it.
The cherry juice with sugar added is much more flavorful and both brothers like it very much.
"Sister! Let's pick some more cherries tomorrow! Can you still make this juice for us?"
Before Tian Tian could say anything, Old Lady Tian spoke first, "What are you doing? How expensive is a pound of sugar? How can we have so much sugar for you? Just drink this once!"
The two brothers immediately became dispirited.
Seeing that Old Lady Tian disagreed, Tian Tian didn't say anything more.
But there was actually some white sugar in the shell, so she decided to secretly use the white sugar to make some cherry juice so that she could pick more cherries and make jam.
She had already eaten the grape jam she made last time, so it was a good opportunity to add some cherry jam.
There is just one thing: there is not much sugar in the shell, and jam requires a lot of sugar, so she has to eat the sugar sparingly.
Everyone gathered together and chatted for a while, then went back to their rooms to sleep.
Tian Tian was sleeping soundly when she felt her ears, hands and feet itchy. She tried to hide several times but failed. She opened her eyes in a daze and found Lin Meiyu sitting at the head of the kang, tying colorful ropes on her hands.
"Mom? What are you doing?" Tian Tian turned over in a daze and felt like there was something in her ear. She reached out and touched it, and found it was two clumps of grass.
"What is this?" Tian Tian took the grass out of her ear and looked at it, but couldn't recognize what it was. She then stuffed the grass back into her ear. The grass was cool and quite comfortable.
"This is mugwort. Put it in your ears and you won't get sick for a whole year!" Lin Meiyu carefully tied the colorful rope around Tian Tian's wrist, and then took a pair of scissors to cut the remaining rope.
"Okay! Go back to sleep! It's still early!" Lin Meiyu patted Tian Tian's butt and went out with the sewing basket.
After Lin Meiyu did this, Tian Tian couldn't sleep anymore. She sat up and saw that her hands and feet were all tied with colorful ropes.
Today's colorful ropes are not like the fancy ones in later generations, with braided patterns and beads strung together. They are just ordinary ropes of five colors tied together, which are called colorful ropes.
Tian Tian yawned, got dressed, and went out to wash her face. Now Old Lady Tian and Lin Meiyu were all up. Mugwort and peach branches were inserted above the gate, and even the door handle was tied with colorful ropes.
Tian Baobao and Tian Zhuo were the only two people at home who hadn't woken up yet.
Tian Tian solved the three urgent problems, then went to wash her face. After washing her face, she looked in the mirror and applied clam oil. Suddenly, she turned around and saw Lin Meiyu holding a colorful rope with a small broom tied to it, and walked towards Tian Tian.
"Tie this little broom to your body! I forgot when I sent you the colorful string this morning!"
Tian Tian was quite curious, so she just stood there obediently and let Lin Meiyu tie her up.
They all get up early, and it's only five o'clock now, and the two little ones are sleeping soundly.
Tian Tian went to the kitchen to help Old Lady Tian light the fire. Old Lady Tian first boiled the eggs in a big pot, and then fried a pot of vegetables.
When Tian Baobao and Tian Zhuo got up, Tian Tian saw that they were both wearing the same colorful ropes and small brooms as Gu Pei'an.
"Sister! Look at my colorful rope!" Tian Zhuo jumped in front of Tian Tian and said excitedly.
Tian Tian touched their heads, praised them perfunctorily, and followed Old Lady Tian to serve dishes and rice dumplings to the table.
"Today is May Day and we're eating eggs! Everyone has a share!" shouted Old Mrs. Tian.
When they heard that they would have eggs to eat today, Tian Baobao and Tian Zhuo immediately followed Old Lady Tian like little chicks.
The last time I ate eggs was during the Chinese New Year.
In winter, the weather is cold and the chickens don’t lay eggs as often. Sometimes they lay only one or two eggs a day, and sometimes they lay only one every two or three days.
Old Mrs. Tian said that she wanted to kill the chickens and eat them, but the three hens were only three years old and could still lay eggs, so Mrs. Tian was reluctant to do so.
Today is May Day. Old Mrs. Tian attaches great importance to this festival. Even though she has no conditions, she will try her best to celebrate it well for everyone. She specially cooked a lot of eggs for everyone to eat.
It would be a bit difficult to eat as much as you want, but everyone can still have one egg.
After eating the eggs, Tian Tian picked a glutinous rice dumpling from the basin. She didn't like red beans, and she could still eat a few bites of red bean paste, but she felt disgusted with cooked red beans like this, so she only picked dumplings with pure glutinous rice and pure rhubarb rice.
"The oak leaves have fallen in the next two days. Let's pick some leaves and come back to make glass leaf cakes and boil a pot of red beans!" said Old Mrs. Tian while eating rice dumplings.
"Okay! After my second brother's daughter Lili gets married in a few days, I will go up the mountain to pick some leaves." Tian Lilin said.
Tian Lili is 21 years old this year. The wedding was planned last year and the date was set for the slack season during this year’s farming season, which is in two days.
"Why did their family set the date now? The vegetables in the fields have just been planted, and there is nothing to eat. I don't know if we can get the vegetables together for the day of the event!" said Old Mrs. Tian.
Nowadays, people usually choose July and August to get things done, because at this time all the vegetables in the house are available, and you can put together a table of dishes. Add some scrambled eggs, and it can be considered a table full of dishes.
It is June now, and the vegetables planted late have just sprouted. If planted earlier, even if the vegetables have grown now, it is not time to eat them yet. How can we get a table of vegetables together? We can't just give everyone a table full of wild vegetables.
"This matter has nothing to do with our Tian family! It was all arranged by the man!" said Chen Guihua.
Old Mrs. Tian glared at Chen Guihua. "What are you talking about? Isn't Tian Lili the daughter of our Tian family? What if the man doesn't even take things seriously, even if he is Tian Lili? What if our Tian family's daughter is wronged?"
"No! Second brother loves Lili so much. He chose her very carefully when he first met her, for fear that her husband and the old lady would not let Lili suffer any grievances. If things are not done well now, second brother will definitely not agree to it! It will be done in a few days, and the two families must have discussed it beforehand!" Tian Lisong said.
After breakfast in the morning, everyone went about their own business. Although today is the Dragon Boat Festival, no one can sit idle. There are no big jobs in the countryside at this time, but there are a lot of small jobs.
Tian Baobao and Tian Zhuo were filling the sauce jar in the yard. Tian Tian was thinking about yesterday's cherry juice and prepared to go outside to pick some cherries.
There are many cherry trees on both sides of the road. It doesn’t matter whose house the cherry trees belong to. If you want to eat cherry blossoms, just pick one. No one will stop you from picking them.
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