But it was said before that if Tian Lili got pregnant, her boyfriend would have to sign up for the army. Although he might not be selected, I always felt that the old lady was not an easy person to get along with.
"This is a good thing!" said Chen Guihua.
Not to mention joining the army, having children is indeed a good thing.
It is indeed a good future for a man to join the army, but it is not the case for a woman.
"This is a great thing. I heard that my second sister-in-law went back to catch some chickens and send them to Tian Lili to nourish her body." Tian Lisong said.
"Why send chickens at this time? Pick up some eggs and send them over, and ask someone to get some goose eggs so that Lili can eat one a day to nourish her body. Keep the old hens first, and send them to Lili when she is in confinement after childbirth." said Old Mrs. Tian.
To be honest, pregnant women at this time have no concept of nourishing their bodies. Mothers-in-law like Mrs. Tian who cooks an egg a day for their daughter-in-law when she is pregnant are considered rare.
It's mostly just like usual, pregnant women eat what everyone else eats, and no one will specifically supplement them with anything.
During the busy farming season, pregnant women still have to work in the fields with big bellies. The food is only better during the confinement period after giving birth.
But this cannot be said to be bad for pregnant women. The current conditions really do not allow us to do more. Some people rely on eggs to make a little money a year, and there is not enough food, so we cannot give pregnant women more.
"This is also a good thing. If Li Jianjun really becomes a soldier, Tian Lili will have someone at home to accompany her in the future." Lin Meiyu said.
Although a family member was pregnant, everyone just talked about it for a few words after knowing it. Old Mrs. Tian asked Tian Lisong to pick up ten eggs and deliver them to Old Second Tian's house, and then they went about their own business.
Today is the Lantern Festival, and we will eat Yuanxiao in the evening.
Old Mrs. Tian instructed Tian Tian and Tian Yuan, four brothers and sisters, to pick a lot of walnut kernels and hazelnut kernels in the morning. After picking them out, they crushed them with a rolling pin, added a little sugar and a little lard, and then kneaded them into small balls.
Add some rhubarb rice flour, wrap the filling and make it into a round little dumpling.
Logically, their Yuanxiao should be shaken. Put a circle of water on the filling, then put it into the rhubarb rice flour and shake it. After one circle, dip it in another layer of water and continue shaking. When the dough is shaken, the Yuanxiao is ready.
But this is too time-consuming, and shaking the Yuanxiao is also a physically demanding job. Grandma Tian thinks it is too troublesome, so she just wraps them one by one like she does with sticky rice dumplings.
After wrapping them, they put them outside to freeze. They didn’t wrap too many Yuanxiao, just a whole bun, which was enough for them to have one meal.
When it was getting dark in the evening, Grandma Tian put all the Yuanxiao into the pot and cooked them.
Tian Tian doesn’t like Yuanxiao very much. She can eat one or two bites, but she can’t eat more than five.
In the end, these Yuanxiao were taken care of by other people.
On the seventeenth day of the first lunar month, Tian Yuan was about to leave for the army. Tian Tian felt reluctant to let him go as she watched him packing his things.
Tian Zhuo and Tian Mu kept circling around Tian Yuan, chattering and asking when Tian Yuan would be able to come back.
The two of them were so annoying that Tian Yuan tripped over them several times. Finally, he could only stand still and said to them with a helpless look, "I will be back when I have another holiday. It's not like I will never come back again. There's no need for you two to do this."
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