In addition, sometimes she returned to the dormitory very late after working part-time, and there was nothing to eat in the cafeteria, so she could only cook instant noodles. Later, she even wanted to vomit when she smelled the instant noodles.
It can be said that the good things that Tian Tian ate were basically what she had seen and eaten after the zombie siege when she went to various places to search for food.
After eating it, she felt that it was no different from the cheap food she usually ate, and was even not as delicious as those things.
However, after arriving here, Tian Tian usually eats cornmeal. These simple meals, which can be grown in her own fields, have been eaten for a long time. She feels that instant noodles and other fast foods are rare delicacies.
After Tian Tian finished eating the noodles, she started picking wild vegetables with a small hoe.
She now owes a lot of wild vegetables. Some of them are for her own family to eat, some are for Gu Zhao to pick, and the rest are for Li Jiuniang to exchange for things.
There are quite a lot of wild vegetables on the mountain, but it still takes some time to pick so many.
It rained heavily two days ago, and there were still dew on the grass in the mountains, making it wet. Tian Tian had not been walking in the mountains for long when her trouser legs became wet.
Tian Tian spent an afternoon in the mountains and picked a lot of wild vegetables.
When Tian Tian went down the mountain to go home in the afternoon, she packed the wild vegetables that she was going to share with Gu Zhao in a cloth bag in advance. When she passed by the cowshed, she went in and gave the wild vegetables to Gu Xingshu.
Then everyone was still working in the fields, and the rest of the people were cooking at home, and not many people were outside.
That's why Tian Tian walked in so calmly and gave the things to Gu Xingshu.
It just so happened that Gu Xingshu was also preparing to cook, and he had just put cornmeal into the earthenware jar.
There was no pot in the cowshed. Normally, when Gu Zhao was not busy, he would cook in the pot in his little house. But now Gu Zhao was busy with the spring planting work, so the meal had to be cooked by Gu Xingshu, who was relatively free.
Gu Xingshu could only use a clay pot to make some simple porridge, chop up the wild vegetables and put them in the pot to cook together. Although the food was a bit simple, under the current conditions, he couldn't complain.
After Tian Tian gave the things to Gu Xingshu, she went home. Old Mrs. Tian was washing the pot and cooking at home. When she saw the wild vegetables that Tian Tian picked, it was obviously not the amount that Tian Tian could pick in the mountains in an afternoon.
But Old Mrs. Tian didn't say anything. She just thought that Tian Tian went up the mountain to play and pick wild vegetables.
In fact, in addition to giving the wild vegetables to Gu Zhao, Tian Tian also secretly kept some wild vegetables to exchange for Li Jiuniang, which is why the quantity was so small.
Tian Tian also left enough wild vegetables for two meals. She could go up the mountain to pick the wild vegetables for tomorrow's lunch and dinner during the day.
Tian Tian's body was covered with dew and mud. She went into the house and changed into clean clothes. She then fetched a basin of water to wash the dirty clothes and hung them up to dry. Then she moved a small stool and sat in the yard to start picking wild vegetables.
The two remaining chickens in the house all surrounded Tian Tian and prepared to eat the vegetable leaves.
Old Mrs. Tian came out and splashed the water from washing the pot into the yard. Seeing the two chickens quickly running over to dab at the water, she said, "The two remaining chickens at home are old now. They just eat food every day and don't lay eggs anymore. It's spring planting time now. When the chicks are born, we can catch one and kill it for ourselves. Let your father take the remaining chicken out and see if we can exchange it with others for something else."
The three chickens in their family have been raised for four or five years. Last year, they were not very willing to lay eggs, but Mrs. Tian was reluctant to do so. She thought that if she fed them more, they might lay more eggs. Except for the chicken they ate last winter, they have raised these two chickens until now.
Tian Tian's eyes lit up, "Do you want to kill a chicken?"
At this time, an old hen is very valuable. Many people need old hens to replenish their health. For example, the old hens that their family has raised for several years can be sold for four or five yuan each.
"I have worked hard for such a long time, and I want to give the chicken to everyone to nourish them. Especially your father and others are very tired. If they don't eat some meat, their bodies will not be able to bear it." Old Mrs. Tian said.
She had seen too many lives and deaths when she was young, and her life was extremely hard. In order to avoid the Japanese invaders, she didn't even dare to cook, for fear that the smoke from the chimney would attract the Japanese invaders.
The Japanese came to plunder from time to time, and they didn't have much food left. They grew up hungry from childhood to adulthood.
Now that there is no war, she doesn't want her children to go hungry or be greedy even if she is poorer. If she can feed her children better, she will feed them better.
"Grandma will go and see your great-grandmother tomorrow to see if there are any chicks. If not, we can bring back a few eggs and start laying eggs ourselves. Then we can go and ask those pregnant women if they want an old hen. If they do, we will leave one of our chickens for them." said Old Mrs. Tian.
Hearing that they were going to eat chicken, Tian Tian felt much better and was full of anticipation. Even the gray and bare wild vegetables in front of her seemed to turn emerald green and look as beautiful as jade.
Tian Tian hummed a song as she picked the wild vegetables and then washed them.
Old Mrs. Tian quickly picked out the artemisia from the wild vegetables, and fried them together with potatoes to make a plate of artemisia fried potato slices. She blanched the remaining wild vegetables in hot water and ate them directly with soybean paste.
After breakfast the next day, Tian Tian continued to go up the mountain to pick wild vegetables. At this time, there were quite a lot of people on the mountain. Many aunts and grandmothers who stayed at home to cook all went up the mountain to pick wild vegetables.
Tian Tian chose a place where there were few people and spent the whole morning picking wild vegetables.
It was time to cook at noon, so Tian Tian took the wild vegetables home. On the way, she put the wild vegetables she had prepared for Li Jiuniang behind the firewood pile at their educated youth site.
Li Jiuniang is the one cooking today, and you’ll be able to see her when she comes out to get firewood.
Tian Tian put the wild vegetables away and saw a piece of oil paper pressed under the stone, folded into the shape of a red envelope.
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