Upon hearing this, Tian Mu and Tian Zhuo immediately pricked up their ears.
In the whole family, they are the only two who often go to the cowshed to ask questions.
Although the cowshed was surrounded by fire walls on all sides to prevent the cows from freezing, it was still quite warm inside.
However, the quilts and mattresses that Gu Xingshu and Song Zhenwei covered themselves with were very thin, and there was no kang, so they slept directly on the ground. The ground was even colder, and when the weather got even colder in two days, they would easily get sick.
But Tian Zhuo and Tian Mu had no other choice. Quilts were a very precious item in every household. It took several years to save up the cotton and cloth needed to make a quilt. They did not have the ability to get a quilt for Gu Xingshu and the others.
"They won't freeze to death, as there's always firewood in the cowshed. But sleeping on the ground all the time is indeed bad for their health," said Tian Lisong.
"Don't they have thick quilts to cover themselves with? You should find a way to get them a thick quilt. When spring comes, you can build a small house for them next to the cowshed and put a small kang on it. Although they are here to be reformed, we can't just work them to death. It's okay for them to do more work, but we still have to give them a better place to live." Old Mrs. Tian also said.
Although Old Lady Tian usually doesn't meddle in these trivial matters, she also doesn't agree with other brigades forcibly demoting people just because of their status. Some people who were sent down from some brigades are living like degenerates, and Old Lady Tian looks down on those people.
"The kang will be built in the spring of next year at the latest, so let them make do with it this winter. As for giving them quilts, where can we get so many thick quilts for them? It will be good enough if they have just one to cover themselves with," said Tian Lisong.
There are many people in their team who have only one quilt in their homes for three generations. Some stuff reeds into their quilts, and some just cover themselves with a thin mat in winter. It is good enough to have a quilt like Gu Xingshu and his family.
Every household is in difficulty. If their team has the ability, they will definitely give priority to their own team members. People like Gu Xingshu will have to be pushed back a little.
After hearing what Tian Lisong said, Old Mrs. Tian said nothing. She was mainly afraid that her son would be like those cadres in other brigades, who enjoyed bullying others and did nothing but empty talk.
Tian Tian felt a little unhappy after hearing this, but after thinking about it carefully, she felt that Tian Lisong was right. Every family is living a hard life now, and Gu Xingshu and the others are nothing compared to them.
At least, except for some ignorant children in their team, the rest of the people did not bully Gu Xingshu and his friends.
Thinking of this, Tian Tian even felt that Gu Xingshu was living a pretty good life. It might be a little cold, but cows were very important in their team, so the environment in the cowshed was also very good. From morning to night, the fire wall in the cowshed never got cold, and there were people who went to add firewood to Niu Peng in the middle of the night.
For example, when Tian Tian slept until the kang became cold in the middle of the night, no one gave her any more firewood.
Thinking of this, Tian Tian became happy and no longer cared about Gu Xingshu.
Time quickly came to the twelfth lunar month, and everyone began to think about the New Year and prepare what to cook for it.
Tian Mu, Tian Zhuo and others also had their holidays. It had only been a few days since the primary school holidays, and now they were also having their holidays.
The day after Tian Yun came back from vacation on a ox cart, Shen Lingling came over and took Tian Tian to go find Tian Yun, and told him all the gossip she had accumulated for several months.
Shen Lingling heard most of these gossips from her classmates. The people mentioned in the gossips were not from the same team as them. Tian Tian and Tian Yun did not know clearly who the protagonists of Shen Lingling's conversations were, but they listened to them with gusto and were very shocked by some of the gossips.
Shen Lingling has a very good articulation. She can describe some very ordinary things in a very vivid, interesting and vivid way, and Tian Tian listens with great interest.
Tian Yun hadn't been with the two sisters for a long time, and he had a lot of things he wanted to say to them.
Among the three sisters, only Tian Tian's life is very poor. Every day she is either working with Old Lady Tian at home, or fighting wits and courage with her two naughty brothers.
Compared with Tian Yun and Shen Lingling, Tian Tian's life seems very boring.
Listening to the two of them happily talking about the interesting things that happened at school, Tian Tian felt very uncomfortable, but she quickly comforted herself that she could go to school next fall, and then she would be the same as them.
After adjusting her mood, Tian Tian happily joined the conversation between Shen Lingling and the others.
Li Dahua was so happy to see her granddaughter coming back from school for the rare occasion and talking with her two little sisters.
In addition, my grandson Tian Shenggen also performed very well in the final exam. The teacher said that if he maintains this result in the next semester, he will definitely not be held back.
These two pieces of good news made Li Dahua even happier. She took out all the delicious food at home and placed them in front of Tian Tian and the others, telling them to eat with confidence. If they didn't have enough, she would get more.
That day, Old Mrs. Tian cut a large basin of shredded radish, rolled them into balls and threw them outside in the snow. She also gave Tian Tian a scoop of beans, exchanged them for two blocks of tofu, cut them into pieces and threw them outside to make frozen tofu.
Every household was busy preparing for the New Year. Old Mrs. Tian also asked Tian Lisong to go to the supply and marketing cooperative in the town to buy a stack of red paper, and asked someone to write several pairs of couplets and put them away.
Tian Mu and his friends knew that Tian Lisong was going to the supply and marketing cooperative, and they pestered Tian Lisong to go with them.
They haven't spent the New Year's money they received last year. They had been saving it until the Chinese New Year and had been thinking about using it to buy firecrackers to play with. Now that the Chinese New Year is finally here and Tian Lisong has to go to the supply and marketing cooperative, they definitely can't miss this opportunity.
Tian Lisong was so annoyed by them that he had to put one person on each of the bicycle's handlebars and back seat and take the two of them to the supply and marketing cooperative.
There was still a lot of snow on the road, and it was quite difficult to ride a bicycle in the snow. Although a large bicycle was easier to ride, Tian Lisong still broke out in a sweat after taking his two children to the supply and marketing cooperative in the town.
Tian Zhuo and Tian Mu went into the house chattering to choose firecrackers.
Tian Lisong quickly bought a roll of red paper, paid the money and then accompanied the two of them to pick out firecrackers.
Tian Zhuo saw that his father had finished shopping so quickly and asked, "Dad! Are you really just buying some red paper?"
"What else?" Tian Lisong asked.
"Didn't our family get a lot of tickets this year? I thought you could buy everything on those tickets!" Tian Zhuo muttered.
When their brigade distributed money, their family got a lot of firewood tickets, kerosene tickets and other small tickets. He was thinking that his father could buy these things together when he came to the supply and marketing cooperative this time.
"Your grandma can go to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy those things herself, and I will just buy some red paper." Tian Lisong said.
There were few things in the supply and marketing cooperative in the town, and there was only one kind of firecrackers, which were the small firecrackers scattered on the long hanging firecrackers. Tian Mu and Tian Zhuo quickly chose them, and after paying the money, the three of them went home again.
Tian Zhuo and Tian Mu had only a few cents on them, so they could not afford to buy many firecrackers. After they got home, neither of them was willing to set off the firecrackers, so they put them all in a drawer with great care. Every morning and evening, they would go to the drawer to touch and check to make sure the firecrackers were safely there, so that they could sleep peacefully.
Sure enough, two days later, Mrs. Tian was dressed neatly again and took her small basket to go to the supply and marketing cooperative.
Tian Tian didn't plan to go with Old Lady Tian this time. There was nothing she could do in the county town anyway. The weather outside was so cold, and it would be tiring to walk from home to the county town. It would be better for her to lie down at home.
Many people went to the county town to buy things today, so Old Mrs. Tian made an appointment with Aunt Huang next door to go shopping together.
There was not much work to do at home. After Lin Meiyu and Chen Guihua cleaned the kitchen, they took a few cobs of corn to the kang and twisted them. Tian Tian and Tian Zhuo cut the sweet potatoes into slices and roasted them on the ground.
Tian Lisong and Tian Lilin sat aside twisting hemp rope.
Suddenly, they heard the sound of a door opening. At that time, Old Mrs. Tian had just left. Everyone thought that Old Mrs. Tian had forgotten to take something and came back to get it. Unexpectedly, the person who opened the door of the east room was Tian Yuan who was going to the army.
"Mom and Dad! Uncle and Aunt!" Tian Yuan smiled at everyone while carrying his luggage.
“Brother!”
“Brother!”
Tian Tian and Tian Zhuo shouted in unison
Everyone was very surprised at once, and Lin Meiyu was the happiest among them. She slipped down from the kang, stood in front of Tian Yuan with her shoes on, and took the luggage bag from Tian Yuan's hand.
"Why didn't you tell us in advance that you were back? So that your dad could pick you up!" Lin Meiyu pulled Tian Yuan to the kang and asked with concern: "Is it cold outside? Are you cold? Look at your hands, they are cold. Hurry up and get on the kang to warm them up."
"Mom! It's okay, I'm not cold." Tian Yuan sat on the edge of the kang. "I came back by bus. The bus dropped me off at the entrance of our brigade. I didn't walk a few steps."
Lin Meiyu looked Tian Yuan up and down for a long time, and only felt relieved when she found that he was really fine.
"Brother! Drink some water to warm yourself up!" Tian Tian went to the kitchen and poured a glass of mountain red water and came back and said.
Since the beginning of winter, their mountain red water has been available almost every day. Whenever you want to drink it, you can just pour it from the pot.
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