By this time Old Mrs. Tian had also cleaned up all the toads, and fetched some water from the well outside and soaked them in the water.
Throw all the toad's internal organs into the toilet. Now there is only one brooding chicken left at home. The brooding chicken doesn't eat much, and the chicken won't eat these internal organs even if they are there. It will be unpleasant when they become smelly.
As the aroma of stewed toad gradually emerged, everyone got up.
Tian Mu and Tian Zhuo put on their clothes and ran into the kitchen.
"Grandma! When are we going to eat?" Tian Mu shouted.
"It's time to eat! I don't know who you look like day by day, you're like a starving ghost reincarnated, all you do is eat. Go wash your face and brush your teeth, and you can eat when you come back!" Old Mrs. Tian said impatiently. Tian Mu was noisy every day, and Old Mrs. Tian felt that she would be scared to death by him any day.
"Hehe!" Tian Mu was not afraid. He laughed twice and went to fetch water to wash his face with Tian Zhuo.
Lin Meiyu and the others got up early and went to work in the fields. Now they took some time to come back for breakfast. After waiting for Tian Mu and the others to wash their faces, they washed their faces with their face-washing water. After washing their faces, they went to set the table and brought the dishes and chopsticks to the table.
Tian Tian lifted the lid of the pot, and the aroma of toad meat immediately filled the entire kitchen. Tian Tian swallowed her saliva, picked up two toad legs, and gave them to Tian Mu and Tian Zhuo who were staring at the toad meat eagerly.
After the two of them left, Tian Tian scraped off the cornmeal cakes on the edge of the pot, then used a rice spoon to scoop all the vegetables into a large basin, and poured a scoop of water into the pot to prepare for washing the dishes later.
"Okay! Let's eat!" Tian Tian brought the potato stewed with toad, and Old Lady Tian came into the house carrying the bowl of cornmeal cakes.
The toad has been stewed to the right time. Its bones have become soft and the meat on top can be completely separated from the bones with a slight shrinkage.
The potatoes at this time taste particularly soft and are now stewed into a paste. They are sticky inside and when you pick up a toad with chopsticks, you can see that it is covered with a layer of potatoes. It is tasty and flavorful.
The cornmeal pancakes are also very fragrant, with the sweetness of the corn itself and a faint burnt aroma, and the side that sticks to the pan is crispy.
Tian Tian likes to spread the stewed potatoes on cornmeal pancakes. The light salty taste goes well with the aroma of grains and the taste of toad meat. Tian Tian can eat two cornmeal pancakes in one meal.
"If I can't come back at noon today, Tian Tian will cook at home. I plan to go to the county town. There are still a lot of frogs you caught last night. I will send some to your sister and others." said Old Mrs. Tian.
"Okay! Then you can pack more frogs for my sister. They can't eat this in the county town. If my family likes it, I will pick up some more frogs in the evening." Tian Lisong had no objection.
"Don't give them too much. There aren't many people in their family. If you give them too much, they won't be able to finish it and it will go bad. Besides, you are very tired from working every day. If you don't have a good rest at night, how can you have the time to go out and pick up frogs! Okay! Don't worry about it. I know what I am doing." Old Mrs. Tian said without question.
When Tian Lisong heard this, he really stopped talking.
After dinner, Old Mrs. Tian went to see the brooding chicks. Tian Mu and Tian Zhuo were outside getting the soy sauce jar, and Tian Tian brought them lunch.
They are both older now and their appetites have grown, and the food in one lunch box is not enough for both of them.
Tian Tian packed each of them a cornmeal pancake, and then put a lot of potatoes stewed with toads into their lunch boxes, and even specially picked out a few toad legs to put in.
Seeing Tian Tian close the lid of the lunch box, Chen Guihua, who was washing dishes with Lin Meiyu, looked envious, "Tiantian! What are you going to cook for lunch today? I see there are not many frogs and potatoes left in the pot. This is not enough for our lunch!"
"Grandma said to make Chinese cabbage stewed with tofu and a pot of pancakes for lunch," said Tian Tian.
Old Mrs. Tian packed up the frogs she brought for Tian Lijuan early on, and the remaining frogs were enough for them to have another meal tomorrow morning.
Old Mrs. Tian was planning to cook it tomorrow morning, saying that they had already eaten meat today, so there was no need to have a second meal of meat. It was not possible to have meat at home every day.
Chen Guihua was a little disappointed for a moment, but she didn't say anything, as no one had missed a meal this morning.
After they finished washing the dishes, they went back to work in the fields. When Tian Mu and the others came back from filling the jars of soy sauce, they first checked the lunch boxes and found that they were full of toad stewed potatoes. They immediately expressed their love to Tian Tian happily, "Thank you, sister!"
"Alright! You two should hurry up and go to school, or you'll be late! Walk slowly on the way, and don't drop your lunch boxes again, or you won't have anything to eat at noon!"
"Don't worry, sister! We will definitely not spill the lunch." Tian Mu shouted while pulling Tian Zhuo out.
After they all left, Old Mrs. Tian went back to the house, changed her clothes, took the toad she brought for Tian Lijuan, put it in an earthen basket, and covered the basket with a small floral cloth. She told Tian Tian to close the door when she was at home and to close the door when she went out, and then she left with the small earthen basket.
After Old Mrs. Tian left, Tian Tian locked the door and went to the field with a small basket.
She walked around the fields in the village for a while and finally found Li Jiuniang who was working hard. She stood on the ridge of the field, walked along the ridge into the field, then squatted in a shady place and began to pick wild vegetables on the ground.
There are also many wild vegetables on the ridges next to the fields, but everyone likes to go to the mountains to pick wild vegetables because the wild vegetables there are tender in taste, and there are too many weeds on the fields, making it inconvenient to pick wild vegetables.
"Tiantian! Why are you picking wild vegetables here? Go a little further and go to the mountains to pick wild vegetables!" Someone saw Tiantian, stood up straight and shouted at Tiantian.
When Li Jiuniang heard Tian Tian's name, he stopped sowing seeds on the ground, stood up and looked at the edge of the field. As expected, he saw Tian Tian standing up and shouting into the field, "It's too far to go forward. I'll stop here and pick some young vegetables before going over."
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