I saw Fang Siwen and the others enthusiastically put all the food away, and they also helped Old Mrs. Tian put the sweet potatoes into the cellar.
After putting the things away, Old Lady Tian warmly invited them to stay, but Gu Zhao and Fang Siwen refused, saying that they had to go to the threshing ground to help.
Old Mrs. Tian had no choice but to send them away. After sending them away, she said with a look of regret: "These two children are quite good and good-looking."
Tian Tian, who was carrying soybeans into the house: …
She didn't know when Old Lady Tian became so fond of looking at faces. It was not the first time that educated youth came to help their family move things.
After all, her father was the accountant of the brigade, and those educated youth had come to her house to do a lot of work in order to please her father, but her grandmother didn't treat them as enthusiastically as she did to Gu Zhao.
Old Mrs. Tian took the soybeans from Tian Tian's hand and poured all of them onto the kang in the hut.
This kang is so hot that people can't sit still. It's perfect for drying soybeans.
After the soybeans are dried, they can be taken out for oil extraction.
This is because their family still has a little bit of oil, which can last for a few more days, otherwise Grandma Tian would get some undried soybeans for emergency use.
Although the oil extracted from the beans is less if they are not dried, you cannot have no oil at all at home. You will feel weak without it.
The kang in the small house was covered with a bed full of soybeans. Old Mrs. Tian even moved a small stool and sat on the kang to pick out the crooked and cracked soybeans.
While Old Mrs. Tian was picking soybeans inside the house, Tian Tian took a small shovel and went to the fields outside to pick small root vegetables.
She didn't like eating cauliflower, but it was a lean season and there were no other vegetables in the fields. The cabbage the old lady had just planted had not yet grown. Apart from cauliflower, there were no other fresh vegetables to eat. She could only eat the dried beans and cowpeas that she had dried some time ago.
There were many people digging small vegetables in the field. Tian Tian found a place, squatted down and started digging small vegetables.
When the moist soil is dug up, you can see all kinds of colorful worms wriggling inside. Tian Tian used to be very afraid of these worms, but now that she has been in the countryside for a long time, she can see all kinds of worms everywhere. Sometimes even in the big jar of soy sauce there are some white wriggling maggots. Tian Tian has accepted these well.
Even if she saw small white animals wriggling in the soybean paste when scooping it, she would calmly brush the bugs away and continue eating the soybean paste.
Even though there are bugs inside, it doesn't mean the soybean paste is unclean.
Although the process of making soybean paste is definitely not as standardized as that in the factory, Mrs. Tian is a clean person. She always washes the jar and her hands thoroughly before making soybean paste.
The bugs grew inside because the lid of the big jar of soy sauce was not closed in time when it rained, and some insect eggs were brought in, which is why the bugs grew inside.
What's more, their family doesn't have the conditions to throw away the whole jar of soybean paste. The soybean paste is made entirely from soybeans, and they need to eat it for a whole year.
All kinds of seasonings throughout the year were supplied by soybean paste. The soybeans used to make soybean paste alone determined that they could not just throw away a jar of soybean paste.
There was a large patch of small root vegetables on the ground, and Tian Tian scooped up a large basket of them without having to move.
"Hey? Isn't that Zhou Nier? Why is she back?" The aunt who had been chatting with him about gossip suddenly looked up into the distance and said.
When Tian Tian heard Zhou Nier's name, she also looked up. Sure enough, she saw Zhou Nier in the distance, protecting her belly and walking carefully on the ridge of the field.
"Is she pregnant?" Everyone has been through this and has sons and grandchildren at home, so it's easy to tell that Zhou Ni is pregnant.
"It looks like he came back to tell us good news."
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