She had only eaten a piece of compressed biscuit to fill her stomach in the morning. She knew she would have to eat later, so she didn't eat too much and she can still eat now.
"Then I'll put these potatoes in the pot and cook them for dinner!" Tian Tian said.
Old Mrs. Tian didn't mean to force Tian Tian to eat potatoes now, she just reminded Tian Tian.
Not long after Old Mrs. Tian got up, other family members also got up one after another, and the kitchen suddenly became lively again.
After dinner, Tian Baobao and his friends cleared the jar of soy sauce, while Tian Tian sneaked back into the house to brush her teeth.
After brushing her teeth, Tian Tian collapsed on the kang and didn't move. Every muscle in her body was very sore. She had been able to force herself to cook just now, but now she didn't have to do any work. Tian Tian decided to lie on the kang for a whole day.
After Tian Baobao and his friends finished cleaning the jar of soy sauce, they came in with their arms swinging and their homework books in their hands.
As usual, Tian Tian tested them on the words they had written before and taught them new words. After they both learned the words, they ran out to collect grass for the pigs, laughing.
Tian Tian looked at the two of them with envy. They had clearly done the same work yesterday, but she didn't know why they were so energetic while she felt like she was half dead.
Tian Tian yawned, picked up the pillowcase to cover her belly button, turned over and prepared to sleep.
It was too hot with the windows closed in the middle of summer, and she couldn't read in the house, so she had to go to sleep.
Halfway through the sleep, Shen Lingling came to Tian Tian with clothes to play, and told Tiantian the recent gossip in the brigade, saying that someone's son and someone's daughter were together again, and someone's daughter-in-law and someone's man were seen hiding in the cornfield.
"The corn plants are so short now that it would be strange if we could crawl into them without being seen." Tian Tian yawned and said. In their team, if the corn plants grow well, they can grow to the height of the calves. If they grow poorly, they can only grow to the ankles.
"Oh! Isn't that what they say?" Shen Lingling was very unhappy that Tian Tian interrupted her gossiping process.
Although her grandmother loved to gossip at home, she never let her talk about it outside, saying that it was not good for a little girl to talk about those trivial matters every day. Shen Lingling didn't dare to tell anyone else, and only dared to tell Tian Tian, and now there was also Tian Yun.
Tian Tian tactfully shut her mouth and prepared to listen to Shen Lingling continue gossiping. Shen Lingling was not affected by her interruption at all and continued to talk enthusiastically.
"Do you know? A few days ago, a matchmaker came to our brigade to look for people. He picked the girl from the Wang family at the bridge head and the Zhou family under the walnut tree to the west."
Tian Tian immediately became interested, sat up straight and asked curiously, "Have they been dating people from the county town before?"
Nowadays, there are really few people who would date people from rural areas, regardless of whether they are men or women.
Because of the household registration issue, it is difficult for rural people to find jobs in the county town, and they don't bring their own food rations. This means that if they marry a rural woman, not only will they not have any food rations, but she will also take up their original food rations, which is very uneconomical for them.
"What kind of person are you dating? You know Zhou Ni'er and Wang Cui. They are only one year older than you and only went to primary school for one year. After that, they have been helping with housework. How could they have the chance to meet people in the county town? I heard that this time the people in the city wanted to find a wife from the countryside, so they came to our team to look for one." Shen Lingling said mysteriously.
"People in the county specifically asked to marry rural women?" Tian Tian repeated in disbelief, "This must be a lie. Either the family of the woman has bad intentions! Or they saw that we are capable and wanted to marry us home as free labor."
It would be fine if they had been together before and truly loved each other, but why would they go to the countryside without even knowing each other? Which city dweller would be so stupid as to not marry someone who can provide her own food, but instead marry someone who, in their eyes, has no food.
"Everyone in the brigade said so, telling their two families not to agree to the matchmaker's matchmaking! You know the situation of the two of them. Zhou Ni's father married a stepmother, and later her father died of illness, leaving her stepmother to take care of Zhou Ni and her three-year-old brother. Although Zhou Ni is not treated harshly by her stepmother, she is not very good either. Wang Cui's family is even more wasted. There are old and sick people in the family, and young ones. I heard that the two families in the county gave a lot of money this time. I guess Wang Cui also wants to leave the betrothal money for her parents."
Tian Tian has met both of these girls. They are both very hardworking girls. Zhou Ni has two younger brothers, one is her biological child and the other is brought up by her stepmother.
Her stepmother actually treated Zhou Ni quite well. At least she didn't deliberately starve her, nor did she make her do too much work. However, as a woman with three children, she really didn't have that much energy. She would definitely use her limited energy to pay more attention to her two biological sons, and tended to neglect Zhou Ni.
But there is nothing wrong with this. If it were Tian Tian, she would definitely care more about her own children. It's just human nature.
Wang Cui'er's family is relatively hard-pressed. Her grandparents are still alive, but they are quite old and cannot do much work. Her father was too tired when he was young and now his lungs are not very good, so he cannot do heavy work.
Her mother died of heavy bleeding after giving birth to her younger brother. Now her younger brother is only five years old. It can be said that Wang Cui is the only relatively capable person in the family.
Because their family conditions were not particularly good, they both only studied for one year, the same year as Tian Tian.
But later, Tian Tian continued her studies, and the two of them went back home to help, so they rarely spent time together.
"If they give a lot of money, that would make people even more suspicious. Since they are so rich, why don't they just find a girl from the city? Why do they have to come to the countryside to find one?" Tian Tian was even more puzzled.
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