"That won't work! Grandma has already talked to your aunt and asked her to keep an eye out for us. Your aunt said that there are those unwoven rattan thermoses, which are considered defective products. If there are any, please keep them for us. We don't need industrial tickets." said Old Mrs. Tian.
I have to say that it is very convenient to have someone you know in the supply and marketing cooperative. Otherwise, how could they possibly get such internal stuff? They would definitely have to spend a lot of money to buy it.
"Thank you, grandma." Tian Tian thanked with a smile.
"That's enough! What's there to thank me for? Aren't you my eldest granddaughter? Go back to work." Old Mrs. Tian felt a little uncomfortable when she heard Tian Tian's thanks, and waved her hand. "The weather is getting warmer day by day, and the flies will come out in a few days. If you have nothing to do, you can either go up the mountain to pick wild vegetables, or pick some grass beads to make door curtains."
Grass beads are a kind of plant here. The fruit is a small bead with a natural hole in the middle, which does not need to be drilled artificially.
In the summer, they often string grass beads together to use as door curtains.
Tian Tian also used the grass beads to string a small bracelet for herself, but the bracelet had little elasticity, so Tian Tian threw it aside after wearing it once.
Tian Tian took a small woven basket to pick grass beads. Grass beads are quite common here, and can be found in front of and behind houses and in ditches.
Tian Tian picked a lot of them very quickly.
There are many rumors about grass beads in their brigade. Some say that grass beads can absorb blood, and some say that wearing grass beads for a long time will cause people to wet the bed. However, these rumors still cannot stop the children from playing with them.
The little girl uses it as jewelry to string bracelets, necklaces, and earrings.
The little boy used it as a slingshot or a bullet for a mummified gun.
This thing is not only usable but also edible. Old Mrs. Tian once said that they used these things as food when there was famine.
At that time, you couldn't see a single grass bead within ten miles because they had all been eaten.
Later, when the famine was over, no one ate the grass beads anymore, but they were still a good feed for pigs. They could be used, eaten, and played with. They were truly a treasure.
Tian Tian was picking up vegetables while strolling behind her house. Occasionally, when she saw wild vegetables like the citrus reed, she would pick some.
When the basket was filled with all the mess, Tian Tian looked up and saw smoke coming out of her chimney.
When we got home, Mrs. Tian was indeed cooking.
Tian Tian picked out all the wild vegetables in the basket, tied the basket filled with grass beads to the beam, then took up the picked wild vegetables, washed them and went into the house.
Old Mrs. Tian was boiling water. When she saw the wild vegetables Tian Tian brought in, she said, "That's perfect! Let's make wild vegetable dumplings today."
Old Mrs. Tian pulled out a bunch of keys from her waist and threw them to Tian Tian, "Go get some cornmeal and bean flour, mix them together and make dumplings."
Tian Tian took a ladle and a basin and went to the east room to scoop noodles.
Old Mrs. Tian put the wild vegetables that Tian Tian had just picked into the pot and blanched them for a while, then took them out and wrung them dry, chopped them up on the chopping board, and then mixed them with the noodles that Tian Tian brought back.
"Tian Tian, go pick some cabbage and stew it for dinner."
Tian Tian went to the vegetable garden to pick Chinese cabbage. There was only one chicken left at home these days. It was sitting on its nest and didn't eat much every day. Plus, Tian Mu and Tian Zhuo were at school and had no time to catch insects. Now the leaves of the Chinese cabbage were full of cabbage caterpillars, which had bitten the cabbage into skeletons.
Tian Tian used to be afraid of these bugs and would scream when she saw them. But now, when she sees these bugs, she can calmly pick up the one and throw it to the ground, then crush it to death with her foot.
After Tian Tian washed the cabbage, she took it into the house. When Mrs. Tian saw that only the stalks were left, she muttered, "Is this vegetable for people or for bugs? The leaves have all been eaten by bugs."
After saying that, she looked up at Tian Tian again, "Did your dad say that there's some kind of fertilizer that we can spray on vegetables to stop bugs from growing?"
"Grandma! It's not that there are no bugs there, it's that all the bugs that eat the vegetables have been poisoned to death." Tian Tian still doesn't want Grandma Tian to use pesticides on the vegetables at home. Now they just use water to wash off the dirt on the vegetables, and there is nothing to wash the vegetables with. If they use pesticides again, wouldn't they be eating pesticides into their stomachs all the time?
Although there are a lot of bugs on the vegetables now, they are not poisonous. At most, they are a little disgusting and the leaves are a little rough, but it does not affect their eating of the vegetables.
"Oh my God! It's poisonous? Then why did your father still want to buy it? Isn't this harming people?" When Mrs. Tian heard that it was poisonous, she immediately gave up the idea of asking Tian Lisong to get some pesticides.
"These people are so wicked. They sell the stuff even though they know it's poisonous!" Old Mrs. Tian muttered.
Tian Tian broke the Chinese cabbage into several pieces with her bare hands, and smiled when she heard what Old Lady Tian said. Vegetables nowadays are clean, and people in the future will have to worry about pesticides when eating. But there is nothing that can be done. Some people like to buy vegetables that look good, and vegetable farmers also need to eat and make money.
After the dishes were ready, Tian Mu and the others went home. I wonder what they did next.
She went there and her body was covered with green grass juice, which turned her dark blue clothes black.
"Where have you been making trouble again? Look at the clothes you are wearing, don't you think they are dirty?" Old Mrs. Tian was furious when she saw their dyed clothes. These two children didn't know how to care for their parents at all. It's spring planting now and everyone is so tired that they don't have the time to wash their clothes every day. Yet they don't even wear their clothes cleanly.
"Baby Tian! You are nine years old now, it's time for you to be sensible." Old Mrs. Tian looked at Tian Mu's flattering smile and sighed helplessly.
Whenever she got angry, she would say Tian Mu's real name.
Children nowadays generally mature early. They are sensible at the age of six or seven and can help with housework.
Their family just spoils their child too much. Although Tian Mu also helps with housework, he always grumbles a few words.
Besides, everyone in my family is a clean person, so we change clothes when they get dirty. Sometimes I want to be lazy, but when I think about the child who only has two sets of clothes, if both sets get dirty, there will be no change of clothes, so no matter how tired I am, I have to get up and wash the clothes.
Before, the original owner was in school and didn’t have much time to help the family. He could only help during breaks, and then the people at home were even more tired.
Old Mrs. Tian has to cook meals for the whole family by herself. After dinner, she has to clean the house and go up the mountain to pick wild vegetables and mountain products.
At that time, Tian Mu and his friends were not in school yet. Tian Tian was playing around in the brigade, and her clothes became dirty even faster. They had to wash and mend their clothes. All these tasks were done by Old Lady Tian. She would go to the fields as soon as the others opened their eyes in the morning and would not come back until dark at night.
Whether it is spring planting or autumn harvest, we have to race against time. We cannot delay planting crops and come back to do housework.
But sometimes, Lin Meiyu and the others also wanted to give Old Lady Tian a break, so they and Tian Lisong and the other three took turns washing clothes when they finished work in the evening, and they did the whole job until she finished.
Later, Tian Tian stopped going to school and went home, helping with all the work, and everyone felt a lot more relaxed.
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