Moreover, Old Mrs. Tian attaches great importance to the three chickens at home. Sometimes Tian Tian even feels that these three chickens are more important than her eldest granddaughter.
"Kill it! There is an old hen that is not laying eggs frequently anymore. It used to lay once every two days, but now it only lays once every three or four days. Why should we keep it there? It is wasting my food." Old Mrs. Tian was happy but also a little worried.
It's a good thing that the eldest grandson has returned, but the key is that her family doesn't have much food. Tian Yuan is a big boy and he must eat a lot of food a day. How can his family have so much food? If there is one more person, they will not be able to survive until the autumn harvest.
If there is really no other way, Old Mrs. Tian plans to take a chance on the black market and see if she can get some food back. Anyway, the family is not short of money now.
After thinking it over, Old Mrs. Tian was no longer particularly anxious. She decided to just eat and drink. Everyone was busy with the autumn harvest now, and she couldn't let her family members go hungry.
She began to bustle in and out of the house, planning dinner.
Although we had a chicken in the evening, we couldn't just have this one chicken. There were many people in the family and they all wanted to eat, so it would be difficult to get just one chicken.
Old Mrs. Tian was wandering around the house. After Tian Tian went to soak the mushrooms, she was called away by Tian Yun.
Tian Yun also had the autumn harvest holiday this week, but she was very busy at home, helping her grandmother Li Dahua with work, so Tian Tian had hardly seen her.
"Why does Lingling want to go to school? I was so scared when she came to tell me that day." Tian Yun asked.
"That must be because of you! Seeing that you are going to school, you will be so far away from us soon. We can't be too far away from you. What if we have nothing to talk about in the future? That's why Shen Lingling goes to school." Tian Tian said.
"It's not as exaggerated as you say. We are from the same team. How could I be a chatty person?" Tian Yun didn't care about Tian Tian's statement.
"By the way! Why is your brother back today?"
"You already know everything?" Tian Yun never leaves the house, and unlike Shen Lingling, she doesn't gossip with other people. She knows about Tian Yuan's return every day at home. The speed at which gossip spreads is really scary.
"Why else? He must be on home leave!" Tian Tian muttered, "My brother hasn't taken home leave for two years."
"Being a soldier is so hard!" Although Tian Yun was not very familiar with Tian Tian before, he had some understanding that Tian Yuan had not been home for more than two years.
"So when does your brother plan to stay at home and leave?"
Tian Tian shook her head. "I don't know. He said he could take a long break, but they can't be sure even if they are in the military."
"Hey! What did your brother do when he was in the army? You said that we are not at war anymore, so would it be very relaxing to be a soldier? And you can get a lot of salary every month?"
Tian Tian was speechless, "How can he be so leisurely every day? Haven't you seen that my brother is as dark as coal? If he really enjoyed himself, he would be plump and white, right?"
"That's right!" Tian Yun nodded thoughtfully.
Tian Tian turned around and looked at Tian Yun strangely, "Why are you so curious about my brother all of a sudden? Is there something your family wants my brother to help you with?"
Tian Yun rolled his eyes at Tian Tian, "Based on the relationship between our families, I don't need to ask your brother to do anything for me. I'm just curious! You said that since we were young, the farthest place we have been to is the county town. Your brother can go to other provinces and take the train. Maybe there are some means of transportation out there that we don't know about. I really envy your brother!"
Tian Tian nodded in agreement. What Tian Yun said was correct. With the original owner's personality, if she didn't like reading and didn't grow up in the Tian family, she wouldn't have taken the initiative to pester Old Lady Tian to go to the county town like Tian Tian did. The original owner might have to wait until she became a mother-in-law before she could go to the county town.
When Tian Yun mentioned the county town, she suddenly remembered something. She excitedly pulled Tian Tian's hand and said, "Do you know what I saw when I was in school in the county town?"
"What?"
"I saw Zhou Ni and Wang Cui!"
"Ah?!" Tian Tian opened her mouth in surprise, "Where did you see them?"
This county town is neither big nor small, but it is definitely not the kind of place where you can meet acquaintances unexpectedly on a regular basis.
"Isn't our junior high school affiliated with the steel plant? The school is very close to the steel plant's residential area. It just so happens that both of them married people from the steel plant. Sometimes I can see them when I go out on Saturdays."
Now they are both living a pretty good life. Both of them have gained weight. Wang Cui is not as skinny as before, and Zhou Nier is whiter and plumper than before.
"It seems Wang Cui is really a worker now. I saw her twice, both times she was wearing a female worker's uniform. It was very pretty, dark blue."
"What about Zhou Nier? She seems to be doing well. Her boyfriend is so gentle and her old lady looks good too. She should be treating her well too."
"Just be good to them both. This proves that they made the right choice in the first place."
"I think Zhou Ni'er is pregnant!" Tian Yun leaned close to Tian Tian's ear and said.
"Is it true? How do you know?" Tian Tian asked curiously.
People certainly couldn't tell Tian Yun about this matter on their own initiative, so how did Tian Yun know about it?
"Really? Can I still lie to you? I'm telling you, I met Zhou Ni'er that day. She went to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy something. There were a lot of people there, so she couldn't squeeze in. She almost got stuck. I gave her a big hand to support her. She probably thought she was going to fall, so she subconsciously protected her belly. When my mother was pregnant with Shenggen, I took care of her. I could tell at a glance."
"That's great! She got pregnant less than two months after she got married. She must be very popular with her mother-in-law!" Tian Tian said.
This is the situation at that time. If you get pregnant as soon as you enter, it means you are blessed. Which old lady would not like such a daughter-in-law?
"I think it's good too." Tian Yun also agreed, "Hey! I'm only telling you this! Don't tell anyone else!"
"Don't worry! I won't tell anyone. I won't even tell my parents about this!"
Tian Tian chatted with Tian Yun for a while, but it was getting late outside, so she went back to help.
When Tian Tian got home, Old Mrs. Tian had just boiled water and was catching a chicken to kill.
Tian Tian didn't want to let Old Lady Tian kill the chicken alone, as she couldn't do it alone, so she volunteered to help Old Lady Tian.
Tian Tian had never experienced killing a chicken before. Last year during the Chinese New Year, they planned to kill a chicken for food, but Old Mrs. Tian asked for a lot of meat, enough for the whole family, so they didn't kill a chicken.
There is no special festival after the Chinese New Year that requires killing chickens, and it is even more impossible to stew them for food.
Tian Tian watched as Old Lady Tian quickly grabbed the chicken that didn't lay eggs in her mouth.
"Tian Tian! Help grandma catch the chicken!" Old Mrs. Tian handed the chicken to Tian Tian.
Tian Tian was not afraid of taking the chicken. She grabbed the chicken's wings with one hand and held the chicken's head with the other.
The hen lay obediently in Tian Tian's hands, not moving or struggling.
Old Mrs. Tian held the knife in one hand and used the other hand to scratch the hen's neck a few times. After finding the blood vessel, she plucked out all the feathers in that area, and with a flick of the knife, she made a big cut on the chicken's neck. The chicken struggled for a while.
The chicken blood slowly flowed out from the small mouth and was quickly caught by Old Mrs. Tian in a small basin.
As the chicken blood slowly flowed out to fill half a basin, the chicken in Tian Tian's hand finally began to struggle.
Maybe it knew it was going to die soon, the chicken used quite a bit of strength, its wings flapped, Tian Tian failed to hold it, the chicken flew out, chicken feathers flew all over the sky in an instant, Old Lady Tian quickly protected the small half basin of blood to prevent any chicken feathers from falling into it.
Tian Tian looked at the chicken with only half its head left, fluttering around in the yard like a headless fly.
Old Mrs. Tian stuffed the basin of chicken blood into Tiantian's hand and ran over to catch the chicken.
The chicken had lost too much blood and was easily caught by Old Lady Tian. She chopped off the chicken's head with a knife. The chicken flapped its wings weakly a few times, but finally died.
Then Old Mrs. Tian went up to the house and brought a bottle of hot water to pluck the feathers from the chicken. Then she cleaned the chicken out, chopped up all the internal organs, added seasonings, and made a bowl of chicken blood porridge, which was sticky, oily, and fragrant.
Tian Tian loves eating blood the most. She loves eating it no matter it is pig blood, chicken blood or duck blood.
She also knew that blood was very dirty, but there was nothing she could do, she just loved to eat it.
As soon as the chicken blood porridge came out of the pot, she couldn't wait to take a spoon and taste it. It was tender and smooth, and contained chicken gizzards and other chewy things. Coupled with the taste of spices, it was simply the most delicious thing in the world.
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