Seeing that Old Lady Tian was about to put the bag of grain on her shoulders, Tian Tian quickly called out, "Grandma, wait! I'll go with you to grind the grain!"
As she spoke, Tian Tian hurriedly packed up all the books on the table, put them in the shell, then put on her clothes and went out to help Old Lady Tian carry food.
Old Mrs. Tian did not plan to grind too much grain this time. She was going to grind 50 kilograms of grain first for emergency use. After they finished their spring planting, she would let Tian Lisong and Tian Lilin grind the bulk of the grain.
"No need for you, just rest at home, I can do it by myself. Besides, you can't carry all this food, and it's raining outside, you'll get wet." Old Mrs. Tian refused. She was reluctant to let her granddaughter carry such heavy food. It's not like she couldn't carry it. She would do the work she could do by herself.
"It's okay! I don't have anything to do at home anyway, so I might as well go out for a walk with you. The rain isn't heavy now, and I'm planning to change my clothes and wash these ones!" Tian Tian said with a smile.
If it were before, she wouldn't dare to ask to help Old Mrs. Tian carry 50 kilograms of things because she couldn't do it.
But now she has lived here for more than two years, and she does a lot of work on weekdays. For him, as long as he works hard, he can still carry 50 kilograms.
After saying that, Tian Tian squatted down and leaned the bag against her body. With an effort, she lifted the sack up.
When Old Lady Tian saw this, she quickly reached out to help Tian Tian hold up the sack. She watched Tian Tian stumble forward two steps before she could stand firm, and she complained, "I told you I could carry it myself! You didn't move, but you insisted on being stubborn and said you wanted to change clothes. What clothes do you want to change? It's not even May yet, and you have to wear those cotton pants until May. Put down the food! I'll carry it!"
"It's okay!" Tian Tian said while gritting her teeth. This was indeed a little too heavy for her, but she could still hold on.
"I'll carry the food for a few more steps, and then you'll take over the load later!" Tian Tian said, and walked out carrying the food. Old Mrs. Tian quickly closed the gate and chased Tian Tian out, for she was afraid that Tian Tian would drop the food on the way.
Tian Tian couldn't carry the bag halfway through, and Old Lady Tian kept grumbling at her for trying to be stubborn and wasting a lot of her time.
He deftly carried the grain on his shoulders and walked quickly to the mill.
Tian Tian followed behind, panting heavily, wondering why Old Mrs. Tian, who was so thin and small, and a hunchback, could still carry such a heavy load and walk so fast.
Although she was in her prime, she carried the load like an old lady in her seventies or eighties, staggering with every step.
In the end, it was not Old Lady Tian who carried the grain to the mill, but Gu Zhao who saw Old Lady Tian in the field and helped her move the grain to the mill.
There was no one in the mill at this time. Most people were working in the fields and had no time to come and grind grain.
Old Mrs. Tian put the corn kernels on the millstone, and while sweeping inside with a small broom, she pushed the millstone to grind the corn kernels.
Tian Tian also ran over to help.
The two of them worked for an entire afternoon and ground all the grain into cornmeal. Then Old Mrs. Tian took out the cloth bag from her pocket and poured all the cornmeal into the bag. She filled two small 20-jin cloth bags, but each bag was still not full.
Tian Tian couldn't carry 50 kilograms of grain, but 20 kilograms was more than enough for her. She carried the grain in one hand and a sack of corn kernels in the other, and went home with Old Lady Tian.
After arriving home, Old Mrs. Tian took the flour bag from Tian Tian and went to put the grain away.
Tian Tian went into the house, took off her clothes, put them on the kang to dry, and then went out to prepare dinner.
Although it was drizzling outside, Tian Tian had been outside for quite some time, so her clothes were damp on the outside and cold on her body.
The cornmeal cakes left over from the morning were eaten at noon, so fresh meals had to be prepared in the evening.
Since she didn't have to work after dinner, Grandma Tian didn't plan to make cornmeal cakes. She boiled a large pot of water, grabbed a few handfuls of cornmeal and threw it into the pot, making a pot of cornmeal porridge.
Just as I finished mixing the cornmeal, Tian Mu and Tian Zhuo came back from school.
There were still drizzles outside. Old Mrs. Tian was worried that the soybean paste would be infested with bugs, so she told Tian Mu and Tian Zhuo not to clean the soybean paste jars tonight.
After hearing this, the two brothers happily threw their schoolbags on the kang and ran out to play.
After the cornmeal paste was cooked, Old Mrs. Tian poured it all into a basin, then scrubbed the pot, threw the Tiantian several times, and threw the cut pickles into the pot and fried them. After they were done, she could no longer sing.
Tian Lisong and the others can only come back to eat after they finish work, but Tian Mu and Tian Zhuo can also eat with their parents.
Old Mrs. Tian and Tian Tian didn't wait for them. They finished their meal first and then put the remaining food in the pot to heat it up, letting them come back to eat.
After finishing her meal, Tian Tian washed the dishes and added a few large spoonfuls of water into the pot. She boiled the water below and put a strainer on top to heat the rice, so she could do anything without any delay.
Then Tian Tian went back to her room to study for a while and then went to bed.
It was dark outside. Tian Lisong and his colleagues were returning home after work. Tian Mu and Tian Zhuo also came back with them.
Although it has been raining outside all afternoon this day, spring planting is a time-sensitive job, and the rain outside was not heavy, so it was impossible to come here to take a break in the middle of the work. We still finished work at the usual time.
After working outside for a whole afternoon, their clothes were all wet. After they came back, they ordered a meal in the kitchen and ate it quickly in the light.
There happened to be hot water under the pot, so after dinner they washed themselves thoroughly with the hot water, soaked their feet, and went back to sleep after they felt a little more relaxed.
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