"Xiao Zhuo is willing to do so. He was very envious when he heard that his brother went to school. Besides, he is very serious in learning to read with Tiantian." Chen Guihua said first. If you didn't know, you would think she was Tian Zhuo's mother.
"If he likes studying, then send him to school!" Old Mrs. Tian made the final decision. "When the elementary school starts recruiting students, you two can take them to register. I'll pay for you."
After making a lot of money from selling ginseng, Old Mrs. Tian has become very generous, especially when it comes to spending money on serious matters like schooling, which she does without a second thought.
When the two sisters-in-law heard that Grandma Tian had made the decision and would pay for all the tuition fees, they were very happy.
When they went to bed at night, they both gave instructions to Tian Baobao and Tian Zhuo in their own rooms.
"Your grandma promised to let you and your brother go to school together this year. You must study hard in school and don't just play around. Don't get into conflicts with others. Of course, don't endure being bullied. Your parents will support you." Lin Meiyu muttered to herself as she mended Tian Zhuo's clothes.
"My grandma asked me to go to school with my brother?!" Tian Zhuo asked in shock, "Is this true? Mom, you didn't bully me, did you?"
"What are you doing, Mom? Your grandma told you herself that she would take you and your brother to register when the time comes. Mom and your aunt heard it." Lin Meiyu said.
"Ah!!! That's great! I can go to school too!" Tian Zhuo jumped up and down on the kang excitedly.
"Please be quiet, or the kang will collapse and we won't be able to sleep tonight!" Tian Lisong, who was almost stepped on by Tian Zhuo, said with a stern face.
Tian Zhuo immediately calmed down, "Mom! Please make me a school bag too. I also want a small army green shoulder bag like Shenggen's, with a five-pointed star on it!"
"That depends on whether we have army green cloth at home. If we do, Mom will make one for you. If not, you are not allowed to cry!" Lin Meiyu gave Tian Zhuo a heads-up in advance.
In her impression, his family didn't seem to have any army green cloth, mainly because cloth of this color was very fashionable now, and ordinary people like them had to save for years to get enough cloth coupons to buy a set of clothes, so they rarely bought them.
The small piece of cloth that Tian Ligang's family had was also obtained by chance and was only enough to make a schoolbag.
"Don't cry, don't cry! If you can't make a shoulder bag for Xiaojun, then mom, please make me a schoolbag exactly the same as my brother's!" Tian Zhuo said sweetly.
"Sure!" Lin Meiyu agreed. It wasn't a big deal. She could just tell Chen Guihua when the time comes.
The rain lasted for a day and a half. When it finally stopped and the sky cleared up, everyone came out to work.
The rain has been heavy and fast these past two days. There has been a lot of water on the road and your shoes will sink halfway into the mud when you step on them.
A lot of water had accumulated in the ground, and the ditches were all full of water.
Fortunately, the drainage facilities in their fields were well built, and ditches were dug on both sides of the fields. After the hot rain stopped for a while, the water in the fields gradually receded.
Tian Lisong and his people also hurried to check on the condition of the wheat. Fortunately, the wheat had not sprouted or anything. Once the moisture content of the wheat dropped a little, they could prepare for the harvest.
The rush to harvest had not started yet, so there was still some free time. Before dawn in the morning, Lin Meiyu and her friends all put on rubber shoes and prepared to go up the mountain to pick mushrooms.
It rained yesterday, so there must be a lot of mushrooms in the woods today.
Tian Tian knew last night that they were going to go up the mountain to pick mushrooms today. She was so excited that she couldn't sleep all night. In the morning, she heard a rooster crowing from somewhere and she woke up with a start.
Wearing rubber shoes and some rather worn-out clothes that were seldom worn, Tian Tian braided her hair into two long, shiny braids that hung in front of her chest, and was ready to go out with them in high spirits.
When I went out, I saw that Old Mrs. Tian had her hair combed neatly, and she was wearing a straw hat, the only pair of rubber rain boots in the house, and a tattered towel stuffed around her neck.
"Grandma! You are so well prepared!" Tian Tian looked at Grandma Tian's equipment with envy.
A pair of ordinary rubber Liberation shoes is very valuable nowadays. Tian Tian's shoes were worn out too much when she walked to school, so Old Lady Tian bought her a pair of rubber shoes. This pair of rubber shoes has been worn for many years and has many holes on them, so Lin Meiyu had to mend them with cloth from home.
As for Lin Meiyu and Chen Guihua, they were wearing the rubber shoes of the Tian Lisong brothers.
The road was too muddy today. It was easy to get your feet covered in mud no matter whether you were wearing cloth shoes or rubber shoes. It was uncomfortable to wear and inconvenient to clean. So today the two brothers wore straw sandals and planned to rinse them in the ditch when the time came.
Lin Meiyu and the others packed the dry food they had prepared the night before and prepared to eat when they were hungry on the way up the mountain. They put the rest in the pot and heated it up for Tian Baobao and Tian Zhuo.
Then they left through the back door and prepared to go up the mountain.
There is a path behind their yard that leads directly to the mountain. Their house is located on high ground, and although it rained heavily, the path was not flooded. There is vegetation next to it, and it is still very solid when you step on it.
It only takes fifteen or twenty minutes to walk along this path to reach the foot of the mountain.
Their hill is not high, but it stretches for a very long distance with one hill next to another.
At the foot of the hill are hazelwood seedlings, and a lot of hazelnuts have grown there now. If you want to eat them now, you can, but you need to wait a few more days for the hazelnuts to become more fragrant.
There are quite a few pine trees on the mountain. It rained yesterday, and today a lot of hazel mushrooms grew under the trees in clumps. Tian Tian could squat there without moving.
The dew on the mountain was quite heavy. By the time they passed through the hazel seedlings at the foot of the mountain and arrived at the pine forest, their bodies were already soaked in the dew, especially their trouser legs, which were cold and stuck to their legs. However, no one cared and started picking mushrooms separately.
Unlike Tian Tian who worked and played while going up the mountain, Old Lady Tian and her friends really went up the mountain to pick mushrooms. Sometimes when Tian Tian saw something strange, she would squat down to study it for a while, and when she saw beautiful flowers, she would pick them.
Old Mrs. Tian and her family have lived to such an old age that these things are no longer surprising to them. When they go up the mountain, they just squat there picking mushrooms, picking up basket after basket.
When the basket is full, he puts the trash into the sack he brought, then squats down and continues picking.
Tian Tian picked two baskets of mushrooms and was very hungry. She didn't have time to eat in the morning, and she walked a long way and climbed the mountain. Now she was so hungry that her stomach hurt.
She took a biscuit from the package brought by Old Lady Tian and the others and ate it dryly. They didn't ask her to bring a drink of water, so she only brought the biscuit to eat.
They came out early, and although they had been on the mountain for quite some time, the sun had not yet come out. The ground was covered with dew and rain, and there was no place for people to sit. Tian Tian just strolled around the mountain, eating a pancake.
The mountain is not big and there is nothing special about it. I didn’t even see any rabbits or pheasants. I could see the end at a glance.
While Tian Tian was eating biscuits, she had nothing to do, so she picked a lot of hazelnuts from the hazel seedlings and put them in her pocket. She also saw a lot of yellow mud balls inside the hazel seedlings.
She swallowed the biscuit in a few bites, ran back to get the basket, then lay prone on the ground and crawled into the hazel vines to pick mushrooms. The hazel vines were low shrubs with dense branches, which could easily pierce through thin cotton clothes.
In order to pick those yellow mud balls, Tian Tian really didn't care about her image at all. Her pants were covered with mud, her neatly combed hair was messed up, and there were several small cuts on her body caused by tree branches.
"Ah!" Tian Tian didn't know what he touched on his hand, and suddenly he felt a needle-like pain. He pulled his hand back abruptly, and saw a large red and swollen area on the back of his hand which was still covered with mud.
It felt hot and as if there were thousands of tiny needles piercing her. Tian Tian couldn't bear the pain and cried out.
"Mom! Grandma! My hands hurt so much!" Tian Tian held her hands and went to find Old Lady Tian and the others with tears in her eyes, still holding the earthen basket filled with the yellow mud balls.
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