After the vegetable garden was ready, Old Mrs. Tian took out all the vegetable seeds and prepared to get up early the next day to sow the seeds in the fields. Then she began to prepare what to eat in the evening.
Seeing that the dried beans at home were almost gone, Old Mrs. Tian felt a little worried. They could only be eaten for a few meals at most and were not enough to grow vegetables. After that, they would have no vegetables to eat.
Tian Tian looked at Old Lady Tian's embarrassment and said, "How about I go up the mountain tomorrow to see if there are any wild vegetables growing? If I pick a few more, it will last for a while. It will be fine when all the wild vegetables grow completely."
"No need! What wild vegetables do I have now? They have only a few tiny sprouts. Where can you pick them? We can still eat the roots of the wild vegetables." Old Mrs. Tian refused.
Now the wild vegetables have grown small sprouts that are slightly bigger than rice grains. They are not edible at all, and it is also difficult to pick them out. I don’t want to do that hard work.
"Don't we have some old pickles in our jar? Take those pickles out, cut them into pieces, wash them, and mix them with lard. Then they will have oil and water, and they will have a salty taste. You can also eat a few more mouthfuls of rice. Use that for a while. By the time you've eaten the pickles in that jar, the vegetables will probably have grown."
Old pickles are pickles that his family pickles with extremely salty brine. Because the pickles are too salty, and they don't lack vegetables to eat in the winter, the pickles have been pickled for a whole winter, so the taste becomes even saltier. One bite can make you drink water all night.
Even after soaking in water several times, the pickles are still very salty.
But there is no other way now. Without vegetables, I can only eat pickles.
The next day, Lin Meiyu and her colleagues went to work in the fields before dawn.
In the morning, Tian Tian got up and finished her meal with Old Lady Tian and Tian Mu, then packed their lunch into the lunch boxes.
Tian Mu likes to eat this pickle and puts a lot of it into his lunch box.
Old Lady Tian saw this and patted Tian Mu on the head, "Are you going to die by eating so many pickles? Aren't you choking?"
Tian Mu took two more chopsticks into the lunch box under pressure and shouted, "Pickled vegetables are delicious! I love them!"
"What's so delicious about that crappy pickled vegetable? Why didn't I see you eating so much when I cooked for you before?" Old Mrs. Tian closed the lunch box and put it in Tian Mu's bag.
Tian Tian poured water into his family's pickles several times to try to make them less salty. He also added some lard when mixing them. Because they were too salty, he didn't add any other seasonings, only some vinegar and two grains of saccharin. Tian Tian also secretly added some MSG to them, which made the taste fragrant, sweet and sour, and bright.
Everyone else in Tian Mu's class ate pickles. Tian Mu tried them and found that their pickles were not as delicious as the ones his family made.
Tian Mu thought about it and felt a little proud. His family’s pickles were the most delicious.
Tian Mu and his friends packed their lunch, and Tian Tian also packed up the food for Lin Meiyu and the others. The three siblings prepared to go out together.
When he went out, Tian Mu looked up at the sky and found that it was a little cloudy. He ran over to cover the jar of soy sauce to make sure that if it really rained, the rain would not drift in. Only then did he run out with peace of mind.
The three siblings went their separate ways after they left the house. Tian Tian went to deliver food to Lin Meiyu and the others, while Tian Mu and the others went to school.
After Lin Meiyu and the others finished their meal, Tian Tian took her bowl and chopsticks home.
Old Mrs. Tian at home is already sowing vegetable seeds in the vegetable field.
After washing the dishes, Tian Tian ran to help Old Mrs. Tian.
Sowing seeds is much easier than hoeing the ground. Just pinch a handful of seeds with your hands, scatter them evenly on the ground, then kick a thin layer of soil on top, and you're done.
In addition to vegetable seeds, there are also eggplant seedlings and pepper seedlings that Mrs. Tian had grown in the house earlier.
Dig holes in the ground, put the seedlings in them, fill the holes solid, and then sprinkle some water on them. The vegetable garden in front is ready.
The vegetable garden at the back will also be used to grow beans, cowpeas, cucumbers, tomatoes, and Chinese cabbage.
I spent the whole day hoing the vegetable garden yesterday, but today I was planting vegetables and it only took me the morning to finish.
After growing the vegetables, the grandparents and grandchildren washed their hands and started cooking.
The meal for lunch today was the same as in the morning, cornmeal pancakes and pickles.
Grandma Tian cooks a lot in the morning, so she just needs to put it in the pot to steam for a while at noon.
There was no need to worry about the food just sitting there. Old Mrs. Tian took a handful of soybeans, washed them and soaked them in water.
After the two of them finished their meal at home, Old Mrs. Tian went back to the house to take a nap. Tian Tian went to bring them some food. While they were eating, Tian Tian did not forget to go to the cowshed to get the questions that Gu Zhao had given her.
There was only Gu Xingshu in the cowshed. He was old now and could not do much work in the fields, so the team asked him to clean up the cowshed.
Cleaning the bullpen is not an easy job, at least for someone of his age.
The cowshed has to be cleaned every day, and the cow dung in the cowshed has to be rubbed to the backyard.
If he had nothing to do, he would go outside to pick up cow dung. Some cow dung would be left in the fields, and some people would tell him if they saw him.
The cow dung here is not used as fuel, but as fertilizer. The cow dung is fermented in the backyard and then spread on the ground as fertilizer.
They don't have much fertilizer here. If they can get the fertilizer indicators from the fertilizer factory, they may have enough fertilizer.
If there were no fertilizer quotas, even if they collected manure from every household and added cow dung, it might not be enough.
Tian Tian felt a little sorry for Xingshu, who was so old and kept bending over.
She put the notebook in her pocket and wanted to help Gu Xingshu. The cow dung was piled in the backyard and no one could see Tian Tian here.
"No need! You should take your things and go home quickly. It would be bad if they come back and see you." Gu Xingshu refused.
Tian Tian's family is willing to get along with him, so he can't harm them.
"They will be able to bring the cows back to seal the cows soon. You should go back quickly and don't run into them."
During this period, they took the oxen out to plow the fields every day. Basically, the oxen worked as long as the workers did. But at noon, they would lead the oxen back to let them rest for a while and feed them at the same time.
I have come back to rest today, but Tian Tian doesn't know.
Sure enough, after hearing what Gu Xingshu said, Tian Tian stopped talking about helping him. She said hello to Gu Xingshu and went to the field with her notebook to clean up her dishes.
After taking the dishes home and washing them, Tian Tian took out her notebook and started studying the questions.
She has gotten a better grasp of chemistry and physics recently. She is not as confused as before. She no longer has no idea how to solve any difficult problem. She can study it for a while and try to solve it by herself. Tian Tian is full of confidence in her future high school life.
After an unknown amount of time, there was a noise outside the door. Tian Tian opened the window and saw that Old Mrs. Tian had woken up and was taking some corn kernels to grind into cornmeal.
Moreover, it was raining outside, and Tian Tai was worried that the corn in the bag would get wet, so he took out the plastic sheet from home and covered the grain with it.
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