"If you dislike what an old woman like me cooks, you'll have to get up and cook for yourself in the future! I won't serve you anymore!"
The rest of the people were as quiet as chickens. Lin Meiyu was also a little embarrassed. She didn't suggest getting up early to cook a meal. Basically, when she got up, Grandma Tian was already cooking.
Tian Tian silently brought the food to the table, while Tian Lisong and his brother also took basins and went to the well outside to fetch water.
Tian Baobao and Tian Zhuo hid outside the door, and did not dare to go in and offend Old Lady Tian.
After hearing Old Lady Tian's reprimand, Chen Guihua realized what she had just said and hurriedly defended herself, "Mom, I didn't mean that."
Old Mrs. Tian listened to Chen Guihua's explanation with a gloomy face.
"Mom, what I mean is that it's too tiring for you to get up early every morning to cook for us. It's just right that Tian Tian can help you share some of the burden." Chen Guihua said flatteringly.
After hearing what Chen Guihua said, Old Lady Tian's face darkened. "Come on! Stop talking about Tiantian. It would be better if you were less angry with me!"
Chen Guihua shrank her neck awkwardly.
Old Mrs. Tian turned around and saw Tian Baobao at the door. "Why don't you come in quickly to wash your face and eat? What are you hiding there for?"
Tian Baobao pulled Tian Zhuo in and smiled at Old Lady Tian ingratiatingly, "Grandma, we've both washed our faces."
"Then let's go eat!" Old Mrs. Tian didn't turn her face away from Tian Baobao, but her expression was still not looking good.
Turning around and seeing Chen Guihua still standing in the room, Old Lady Tian's face darkened again, "What are you still doing standing there? You don't do any work all day, just waiting for someone to feed you?"
Chen Guihua didn't dare to refute and went looking for work to do like a bullied young wife.
Most of the work in the kitchen had been done by Tian Tian and Lin Meiyu. Chen Guihua looked around but didn't find any work. Fortunately, Tian Tian stuck her head out of the east room at this time, "Grandma! Second Aunt, it's time to eat!"
Chen Guihua breathed a sigh of relief and ran into the east room to put some stools aside.
Old Mrs. Tian snorted coldly and ignored Chen Guihua, "Big brother, second brother! Come in and eat!"
After washing their faces for a long time, Tian Lisong and Tian Lilin looked at each other and then went back to the house to eat.
After dinner, Tian Lisong and his friends went to work in the fields. Tian Zhuo and Tian Baobao also went to play in the threshing ground, leaving only Tian Tian and Old Lady Tian at home.
"Tian Tian! Go to your second uncle's house later. There are two hawthorn trees behind his house. Go and pick some hawthorns and make hawthorn water in the evening!" said Old Mrs. Tian.
There are hawthorn trees on their mountain, but when Old Mrs. Tian saw that Tian Tian encountered a snake when she went up the mountain yesterday, she asked her to go to her second uncle's house to pick some.
"Don't pick too much for now. After the autumn harvest is over in a few days, we'll go to the mountains and pick more to dry and save for the winter."
"Okay!" Tian Tian agreed.
Old Mrs. Tian took the roll of wool and went out.
Tian Tian finished washing the dishes at home, then picked up a small basket, got on her step and went out.
The second uncle and aunt went to work in the fields, leaving Tian Lili alone at home.
Tian Lili is twenty years old this year. She just got engaged in the spring and is going to get married after the Chinese New Year.
Second Aunt asked her to stay at home to take care of her skin and avoid getting tanned by the sun, and to do all the chores around the house, because she would have no work to do after she got married.
"Sister Lili!" Tian Tian greeted Tian Lili while carrying a small basket.
"Tian Tian? Why are you here? Come in and sit down!" Tian Lili was very happy to see Tian Tian. She took Tian Tian's hand and wanted to take her into the house.
"Sister Lili, I came here to pick some hawthorns. My grandma is going to make hawthorn peel water for us in the evening." Tian Tian made it clear why she came.
"Oh! Come and pick hawthorns. It's in the garden in my backyard. Go by yourself. I won't lead you." Tian Lili said as if it was a matter of course.
Now the two hawthorn trees are full of fruits, and every year they are covered with black hawthorns. Since they can’t finish eating them themselves, they will give some to people they have good relations with. In previous years, Tian Tian would also come to pick hawthorns.
The layouts of the courtyards in their team were all similar. When Tian Tian came alone to the back of Tian Lili's house, she could see the red hawthorn tree at a glance.
"Wow!" Tian Tian exclaimed in a very ignorant voice.
The scene was so beautiful. On one side was a lush green vegetable field and two hawthorn trees were planted at the two corners of the field. The numerous hawthorns bent the branches of the hawthorn trees and many of them had fallen to the ground. From a distance, it looked like a layer of red carpet.
Tian Tian carefully avoided the vegetables in the field and came to the hawthorn tree. She picked a hawthorn, rubbed it on her clothes, and took a bite.
This hawthorn is big and round, and tastes sour, sweet and chewy.
After eating the hawthorn in Tian Tian's hand, his mouth was filled with sourness.
She swallowed hard, suppressed her desire to eat another one, and squatted down to pick up the hawthorn that had fallen on the ground.
These hawthorns fell when they were fully ripe, and there was no damage or rot on them. They can be eaten after being wiped clean.
Apart from not being able to preserve for long, some of these hawthorns taste even better than those on the trees.
She was going to eat the hawthorns when she got them home, so she didn't care about how long they could be preserved.
Tian Tian picked a full basket of hawthorns and walked outside with the heavy basket. Before leaving, she said hello to Tian Lili, "Sister Lili, I have finished picking the hawthorns. I will leave first."
Tian Lili came out of the house, looked at Tian Tian and said with a smile: "If you have eaten it, come and pick more. There are so many hawthorns on our tree that we can't eat them all. By then, they will all fall to the ground and rot."
"Okay!" Tian Tian agreed and left.
Tian Tian carried a basket and hummed a song as she walked home. The crops in the fields she passed by along the way had all been harvested, leaving only bare land.
Tian Tian was in a good mood, but she heard a female voice coming from the front, "My mother said the day before yesterday that you were sick again. Look at you, you are so lively and energetic, you don't look sick at all. Are you lying to avoid working?"
Tian Tian looked up and found that the person in front of her was her "archenemy" in the village - Tian Yun!
Tian Yun is her distant cousin. Their grandfathers are brothers, and their fathers have a good relationship.
Only the two of them will be sarcastic when they meet.
Of course, with the original owner's personality, he would definitely not provoke Tian Yun. Usually, it was Tian Yun who unilaterally "ridiculed" the original owner.
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