It didn't take Tian Tian long to get used to the food. Old Mrs. Tian moved the sauce jar from her home into the yard and prepared to make some soybean paste for dinner.
It’s a bit early to make soybean paste now in March, but after a while everyone will be busy and there will be no time to make soybean paste.
Old Mrs. Tian was cleaning the big jar of soybean paste at home. Lin Meiyu and Chen Guihua peeled off the newspaper on the soybean paste that was boiled last winter, brushed the surface, and then broke it into small pieces and put them in a basin.
Tian Lisong went to the brigade headquarters and discussed spring planting with the brigade cadres.
Tian Lilin now basically stays in the mountains all day long. After eating in the morning, he takes dry food up the mountain and goes down the mountain when it is almost dark in the evening. Then he goes up the mountain again to collect firewood the next day.
Anyway, there is no idle person in the family, except Tian Tian who has nothing to do.
It just so happened that the family was out of salt for making soybean paste, so Old Mrs. Tian asked Tian Tian to go to the supply and marketing cooperative in the town to buy some coarse-grain salt.
The town was not far from their brigade, and Tian Tian had nothing to do, so she took the money handed over by Old Lady Tian and went out to buy salt.
On the way back, I met Li Jiuniang and Qin Changfeng who were going to the county town.
Thinking about it carefully, Tian Tian hadn't seen Li Jiuniang for two or three months. During this period, Li Jiuniang and Qin Changfeng lived in the educated youth center. Because of the wolf incident, Tian Tian didn't go out to play much, so she didn't know what Li Jiuniang was doing.
There are people in the team saying that Li Jiuniang and Qin Changfeng are a couple.
Now, Li Jiuniang and Qin Changfeng were walking side by side intimately, and the two were talking and laughing.
Tian Tian didn't know why she suddenly remembered the rumor and suddenly felt a little embarrassed. She didn't know whether she should go over and say hello to them.
She did have some friendship with Li Jiuniang, but she had not had much contact with Qin Changfeng. To her, Qin Changfeng was still a stranger whose name she only knew, and she was a little scared of interacting with Qin Changfeng.
Just when Tian Tian was hesitating, Li Jiuniang was the first to see Tian Tian and raised his hand to greet her.
"Tiantian! Are you going shopping?" Li Jiuniang asked, looking at the oil-paper bag in Tian Tian's hand.
"Isn't my grandma going to make soybean paste? We are out of salt at home, so I'll go to town to buy some coarse salt." After saying this, Tian Tian nodded to Qin Changfeng beside her as a greeting.
"You should have told me you wanted to buy salt earlier! I didn't know how to cook before, so I bought a lot of salt. Now I can't use it all at home. I always feel that it will go bad if it is kept for a long time. If I had known you wanted to use salt, I would have given you some of the salt I have at home! It's all refined salt! Much better than this coarse salt."
Coarse-grain salt is coarse salt, which contains a lot of impurities and is not as white as refined salt, but it is much cheaper than refined salt. People in rural areas eat this kind of coarse salt, and even many city dwellers in county towns eat coarse salt.
"We can't afford refined salt. We use so much salt every year! How much does it cost to buy refined salt? We can't afford it."
They have to make soybean paste, pickles, and spicy cabbage throughout the year, and they are so thirsty for salt that they can't afford to buy refined salt.
"By the way, Tiantian, wild vegetables will be out soon in spring, but we have to go to the fields to work. I want to go up the mountain to pick some wild vegetables, but I don’t have time. Can you help me pick some?" Li Jiuniang said, holding Tiantian's hand.
When Tian Tian heard what she said, she knew that the relationship between Qin Changfeng and Li Jiuniang was not as good as she imagined, but for some reason the two of them were always together, causing misunderstandings among the villagers.
"I thought it was something serious. It just so happens that I will go up the mountain to pick wild vegetables in a while, so I picked some for you. But I can't pick too much for you, as our family members need to eat them." Tian Tian said.
I think she is quite busy. She has to pick wild vegetables for her family, do business with Li Jiuniang, and owes a big favor to Gu Zhao. I don't know how many wild vegetables she has to pick.
Li Jiuniang and the others might have something else to do, so after saying a few words to Tian Tian, they left together.
After Tian Tian brought the salt home, Old Lady Tian put the salt and sauce cubes in a jar, poured half a jar of water into it, and then poked the water up and down with a sauce rake. When there was some dirt floating on the water, she scooped it out and then covered the water with the lid.
In the coming year, their whole family will depend on this big jar of sauce.
The job of collecting grass for pigs in the morning and evening is also the job of Tian Mu and Tian Zhuo. It happened that their team hasn't brought back the piglets yet, so they don't have to go to collect grass for pigs in the morning and evening, and can use this time to collect grass for pigs.
Tian Mu was very unhappy. He had never liked the job of beating the soy sauce jar since he was a child. He always felt that beating the soy sauce jar took up his playing time.
But the good thing about Tian Mu is that even if he doesn't want to do a job, he will still complete it seriously if the job is given to him.
He just complained a little, but he was very dedicated in his work.
On the Qingming Festival in April, all the men in the village had to go up the mountain to worship their ancestors. Old Mrs. Tian got up early, cleared out some cornmeal cakes, took out the tofu that she had changed yesterday, and gave them to Tian Lisong and Tian Lilin to take up the mountain to worship their ancestors. She also let them eat a few cornmeal cakes to fill their stomachs first.
Originally there should have been paper money and gold ingots, but now that feudal superstitions have been eradicated, people don't dare to bring them when they go up the mountain anymore.
They all got up early to go up the mountain to worship their ancestors. Before there was any light in the sky, they started walking up the mountain.
For example, most of the families in their brigade have the surname Tian, and their graves are all in the same place.
Families like the Shen family, who were outsiders, had just joined their team a few years ago and no one in their family had died, or they had come here from the previous one or two generations. A few new tombs had been built, not too far from the Tian family’s, and everyone went up the mountain together.
Tian Lisong and his companions went up the mountain to worship their ancestors quickly. They came back just after dawn, holding food as tribute to their ancestors.
Nowadays, no one's family conditions are good and people still can't get enough to eat. It is impossible to just leave all that food on the mountain and not care about it. After the worship, you must show your gratitude and bring all the food back when you go down the mountain.
There is no need to make anything else when I come back. Now that the weather is getting warmer, it is just right to eat the pancakes when they are a little cooler.
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