Tian Tian agreed and ran into the house to help Old Lady Tian with the work. She had been busy all day and after exercising, she felt her muscles were not so sore anymore.
After picking cucumbers in the backyard, Tian Lisong went into the house to get a set of clean clothes, intending to change out of the dirt-covered clothes on his body. When he entered the house, he saw Tian Baobao with red eyes and Tian Zhuo sitting on a small stool in an awkward posture, looking aggrieved.
Tian Lisong looked at it strangely, these two children have been very strong since they were young, they grew up with hardships, they don't cry easily, but now they have tears in their eyes.
"Hey! What happened to you two? Are you crying after being bullied?"
"They went to the cowshed and imitated others by throwing stones inside. I came back and told grandma, and she beat them up!" Tian Tian interjected.
Tian Lisong's face immediately turned stern, "Good spanking! Didn't your grandma slap you a few more times?"
After hearing this, Tian Baobao and Tian Zhuo pursed their lips and wanted to cry again.
"They were beaten!" Tian Tian glanced at the two of them. "They were beaten until they screamed and cried. Now they know they are wrong and will never hang out with those kids again!"
"Well! It's good that you know you are wrong. No matter who the person is, you can't hit them with stones. What if you hurt them?" Tian Lisong taught them a few more serious lessons and then went back to the house to change clothes.
During dinner, Tian Lisong asked them to go to the warehouse early the next morning to distribute the potatoes.
They have dug up all the potatoes in the field today, and picked out the good ones for seeds. The rest can be distributed to other people in the team tomorrow.
"After the potatoes are harvested, you plan to plant corn, right?"
If we don't plant corn now, it will be too late. If we plant corn now, we can at least harvest some tender corn in the autumn. Otherwise, the two acres of land planted with potatoes will be wasted.
"We will plant corn tomorrow, but the two acres of land will have to be left fallow next year and we can no longer plant potatoes. We will plant soybeans and other crops then!" said Tian Lisong.
Their family is lucky as they still have a lot of grain left, enough for them to eat until the autumn harvest. However, some families received less grain last year and are basically running out of food now. Although planting these two acres of potatoes is not much, it can help them get through to the autumn harvest.
If it weren’t for this, Tian Lisong wouldn’t have been willing to take care of it.
"Then I'll go clean up the cellar after dinner and make some room!"
"Okay!" All matters concerning food at home were taken care of by Old Mrs. Tian.
Old Mrs. Tian had a hard life when she was young, and she was particularly frugal with food.
Tian Lisong understood her and did not interfere with her food issues.
After dinner, Tian Tian followed Old Lady Tian and the others to the cellar to tidy up the place. By the time they finished, it was already dark, so they quickly washed up and went back to the house to sleep.
When Tian Tian woke up, it was bright outside. Old Mrs. Tian and the others had already gone to get the potatoes and put them in the cellar. The meal was ready.
There was not much work for the next two days. Tian Tian helped Old Lady Tian pick vegetables and cook every day. Tian Lisong still went out early and came back late every day. There was no big deal as long as he planted corn on the two acres of land.
Tian Baobao and Tian Zhuzhu might have been beaten by Old Lady Tian, so they have been a little more well-behaved in the past few days. They even wear clean clothes without Lin Meiyu and the others helping them to wash them.
In the blink of an eye, it's July.
That day, Tian Tian and Shen Lingling went to the river to wash clothes, and then went home with the basins.
When passing by the cowshed, Tian Tian took a look inside and saw an old man in his sixties bending over to clean cow dung, and the man in his thirties was carrying the dung to the backyard.
Ever since Tian Tian went to deliver medicine to them, she hasn't come here on purpose, nor has she paid too much attention to the two people living here.
It’s not that there were no people in their brigade who were sent down before, but those people didn’t last more than a few years and all died.
What's more, the harvest of their brigade in the past few years was not very good, and each household did not have much food. The people in their brigade still knew what to eat when patrolling in the mountains according to the season, but these people who were sent down had been beaten and frightened. Even if they had no food, they would hide in the house and refuse to go out. In addition, they were depressed and could not hold on for long.
On the contrary, the two people who were demoted this time would take a look inside every time they passed by. It seemed that they were both in a very stable mood. Every time I saw them, they were working, but there was no numbness on their faces like those before.
Tian Tian didn't want to get involved with them in public, so she took the big basin and took two quick steps.
Just when Tian Tian turned the corner, Li Jiuniang came slowly from another road carrying something. When passing by the cowshed, she raised her hand and threw the things in her hand into the cowshed, then hid behind the pile of firewood.
"Is someone sending something again?" Song Zhenwei said as he looked at the things thrown into the yard.
He ran over and picked up the thing. He had gotten used to it over the past few days. When he first received something, he would go outside the door to look for it, but after failing to find the person several times, he gave up.
Gu Xingshu walked over, pounding his waist, and took a look at the things in Song Zhenwei's hand. "It's the best millet again! Who is the person who sent these things to us? What does he want?"
"Who cares what he wants? With our current status, what's there for others to plot against? It's good enough that we can fill our stomachs!" Song Zhenwei accepted it very quickly.
The food this person brought every day was only enough for the two of them to eat for one day, and what he brought were precious things like millet, flour, and rice. He really couldn't imagine that there would be anyone who would not keep these fine grains for himself, but instead give them to these people with a bad reputation.
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