Tian Tian was washing clothes while pressing water in the yard, and she finished all the clothes by around nine o'clock.
The clothesline in the yard was hung with piles of clothes.
After washing the clothes, Tian Tian took a small earthen basket and went to the mountain to pick mountain sorrel.
At this time, the mountain red and hawthorn are already ripe, and the trees are all bright red. The dense mountain red has bent the branches, and many fruits have ripened and fallen to the ground. They look particularly beautiful from a distance.
There were many children squatting under the trees picking mountain sorrel to eat. They couldn't pick those on top, and although there were many fallen on the ground, they were actually all good, they were just ripe and blown to the ground by the wind.
Tian Tian picked up a lot of mountain sorrel. She planned to go home and pick out the cores, dry them, and boil the sorrel peels to drink.
If she had sugar at home, she could actually make some canned hawthorns or some canned yellow peaches, which would taste good and no worse than the canned hawthorns sold.
Tian Tian went back and picked out all the cores of the hawthorn. She didn't throw away the cores, as there was still a lot of hawthorn flesh attached to them. After soaking them in water and shaking them, they tasted sour and sweet and were quite delicious.
After Tian Tian finished squeezing the hawthorns, she put all the hawthorn skins on the curtain to dry outside, then went into the house to cook lunch.
The food that Old Mrs. Tian left for her in the morning was not enough for their whole family to have lunch. Tian Tian went to the vegetable garden in the backyard and picked a big squash, preparing to stew the squash and eat bean flour pancakes for lunch.
By noon, Tian Tian had finished cooking and was about to deliver the meal to them. That's when Old Mrs. Tian came back.
"Grandma! Have you had lunch? Let me get you some rice." Tian Tian took the twenty kilograms of food from Grandma Tian. These twenty kilograms of food were nothing to her.
She has been working hard and has become stronger now. Not to mention 40 kilograms, she can also try to carry something 40 kilograms.
"No need, I can do it myself. You go and deliver the food to your dad and the others. They must be hungry now." said Old Mrs. Tian.
It was really getting late, and Tian Tian spent a lot of time cooking by herself. Since Old Mrs. Tian had already returned, Tian Tian carried a basket and went to the fields to deliver food to everyone.
While everyone was eating, she picked up some small vegetables and took them back along with the used bowls and chopsticks.
After lunch and a short rest, Tian Tian took a sack and went up the mountain to pick chestnuts and hazelnuts in the afternoon.
It's that time of year when chestnuts and hazelnuts mature. These are naturally grown edible, so people will never just leave these wild fruits to rot in the mountains. In their free time, people go up the mountain to pick chestnuts.
However, there were not many people when Tian Tian went to the mountain in the afternoon. At this time, most people were still working in the fields.
Tian Tian couldn't take her eyes off the thick layer of hazelnuts and chestnuts on the ground. She squatted down and didn't move, like a mouse entering a granary.
The chestnuts here are not the kind that are particularly large, but relatively small, but they taste particularly good.
Tian Tian ate this chestnut last year. It was soft and sweet. She could eat it for the whole afternoon while squatting in front of the brazier.
The hazelnuts are also big and fragrant. In the winter, they would smash hazelnuts and eat them on the kang when they had nothing to do.
Few people eat this acorn because it tastes bitter and astringent and needs to be processed before it becomes delicious.
It’s not that Old Lady Tian hasn’t eaten acorns before. During the famine, they ate grass roots and tree bark, not to mention acorns, which could fill their stomachs but didn’t taste very good.
It’s just that the preparation of acorn jelly is too complicated and time-consuming, so Mrs. Tian is unwilling to make it.
Although the Tian family seldom eats acorns, there are many people in their brigade who cannot afford to eat meals and pick up acorns to eat.
Tian Tian picked up a big sack of things and went home. She also did not forget to put the Yangla cans on the branches in her pocket. The Yangla cans smelled so good when roasted over the fire. Tian Baobao and his friends especially liked to eat them. They picked up a lot of them last winter. They took two big bags of Yangla cans home and roasted them by the brazier. The whole house was filled with the aroma of barbecue.
If Tian Tian couldn't get over it mentally, she would probably like to eat it.
Today, when she saw it, she caught some for the two brothers and gave them as a snack in the evening.
Tian Tian dragged the big sack down the mountain and went home. The sack only looked full, but it was actually filled with more chestnuts and thorny peaches.
Tian Tian originally had the patience to pick out the chestnuts one by one and put them into the bag, but later she became impatient. Moreover, the peaches were prickly and Tian Tian's hands had been pricked several times. It was troublesome to stomp them open with her feet, so she simply rolled up two branches and used them as wooden chopsticks to pick the peaches directly into the bag.
Tian Tian dragged the big sack home and dumped everything inside into the yard. She then picked out the acorns, chestnuts and hazelnuts and used a small wooden stick to pick the chestnuts out of the peaches little by little.
It was already dark at this time. Tian Tian peeled chestnuts for a while. Old Mrs. Tian came out of the house to prepare cooking. When she saw the chestnuts Tian Tian had picked up, she said that if she had picked the chestnuts earlier, she would have stewed chestnuts and chicken for dinner last night.
But Old Mrs. Tian was just saying this casually, and then she went to the backyard to pick vegetables, feed the chickens and cook.
When she got home at night, she went straight to bed and didn't have to do much work. Old Mrs. Tian just stewed a bowl of cornmeal porridge, which was enough to fill her stomach.
After finishing, she washed the small root vegetables that Tian Tian had prepared and prepared to eat them with dip in sauce in the evening. She didn't need to prepare any other dishes. She also heated up the large squash left over from lunch and ate that in the evening.
Everyone worked hard for more than a month and finally finished the autumn harvest. This year, probably because of the fertilizers we bought, the harvest was quite good, although it rained during the period.
At that time, Tian Tian had just come out of the snail shell after studying. Before she could react, she heard people in other rooms jumping high and running outside, putting on their clothes as they ran. Even Old Mrs. Tian ran out.
Just when Tian Tian opened the window and stuck her head out to ask a few questions, raindrops fell on her nose. The next second, the village loudspeaker started broadcasting that it was raining and everyone should hurry to the threshing ground to harvest the wheat.
Tian Tian still doesn't know how she knew it was raining outside when they were all asleep.
The broadcast on your loud speaker is for the people who guard the wheat every night. They live in the open air with the wheat, so they can definitely feel the rain. There is nothing to say about it.
For example, Tian Lisong and his friends were suddenly awakened in the middle of the night, and then they knew it was raining outside and ran out to collect grain. Tian Tian didn't know how they knew it. When Tian Tian asked them the next day, Tian Lisong said he heard some noise, but he didn't know what it was.
Anyway, they would rather get soaked from head to toe than let the food get stained by a drop of rain.
After the autumn harvest, Tian Yuan accompanied Tian Lisong to the county town to pay the public grain tax, and then the grain was distributed. Only then did they prepare to return to the army.
It was only then that Tian Tian realized that Tian Yuan had been transferred to a unit near them, the same unit that had hunted wild boars before.
I heard that the unit is quite close to Tian Tian's home, just over two mountains. It's just that living in the deep mountains and forests is a bit inconvenient.
But this is much better than Tian Yuan being in other cities before. At least they are in the same province now, and Old Mrs. Tian also feels more comfortable knowing that Tian Yuan is closer to them.
After more than a month of getting along, Tian Tian likes Tian Yuan very much. He thinks Tian Yuan is a very qualified brother.
Sometimes they get off work early, and Tian Yuan will pick all kinds of delicious food for Tian Tian, such as yellow-skinned girls, strong raspberries and black taro. Sometimes he even goes into the water to catch fish for Tian Tian to play with.
He would also use the withered yellow furry dog to weave various small things for Tian Tian. Tian Tian's hands were not dexterous, and she had never had the experience of weaving things as toys, so Tian Yuan weaved a lot of little rabbits, puppies, and silly roe deer for Tian Tian.
Tian Tian likes it very much and can't put it down on her desk.
On the day they came to deliver food, Tian Lisong and Tian Lilin were both helping out in the brigade. Tian Yuan was the only adult male in their family.
It was impossible for him to bring back thousands of kilograms of food by himself. Tian Tian had already prepared to make several trips, but she didn't expect Tian Yuan to ask Gu Zhao and Fang Siwen to bring back all the food.
Tian Tian had no idea why Tian Yuan had become so familiar with these two educated youth.
She had met Gu Zhao twice and knew that this person was pretty good and could be a friend. After all, he was so filial to his grandfather and must be a very kind person.
Fang Siwen and Tian Tian had only been mentioned twice by Shen Lingling, and she had a unilateral bad impression of Fang Siwen.
Tian Tian actually felt that it was unfair to casually decide whether a person was good or bad, but at that time Tian Tian always felt that Fang Siwen was a scumbag who played with girls' feelings.
Now it seems that Fang Siwen and Tian Yuan's relationship is pretty good. Tian Tian has also changed her mind about him a little. She thinks her brother's friends are not bad people and she can wait and see for a while.
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