There were very few frogs on the road at night when it was not raining. She had been catching frogs from eight o'clock last night until almost two o'clock in the middle of the night, but she felt that the number of frogs she caught was not as many as she had imagined.
Then I felt bad the whole morning, my head was dizzy and painful. Tian Tian felt that this efficiency was too low. It would be better for me to sleep better at night and be energetic all day long.
The weather was getting warmer, and the chicks at home were hatched. Grandma Tian laid a total of ten eggs, and nine chicks hatched. It was a very high hatching rate, which Grandma Tian did not expect.
Nine tender yellow little chicks follow the hen every day. They are lively and cute. Tian Tian, Tian Mu and Tian Zhuo all love them. Now after Tian Mu and Tian Zhuo come back, they no longer run outside. Instead, they sink into the vegetable garden and start catching insects, which they feed to the chicks.
Thanks to Tian Mu and Tian Zhuo, the family's vegetable garden was not completely eaten by insects, and everyone didn't have to eat the vegetable stalks.
Old Mrs. Tian saw the chicks following the big hen, so she didn't kill the hen for meat. She thought she would wait until the chicks were bigger.
After more than a month of hard work, all the land in the village was planted.
There has been a lot of rain this year, basically every two or three days. However, the rain is not heavy, either drizzling or light rain, which saves everyone the work of carrying water to the fields.
Zhou Ni and Wang Yan, who were both married, also gave birth to their children this month. Wang Yan gave birth to a daughter and Zhou Ni gave birth to a son.
On the surface, everyone congratulated them on having a child, but in private they always said that Wang Yan was unlucky for not having given birth to a boy.
Tian Tian has become accustomed to these people's double-talk in front of others, and she also agrees with and admires Old Lady Tian's refusal to get along with those aunts and big breasts in the village.
After all, not everyone can resist the temptation of gossip. Just like Tian Tian, although she did not agree with what those people said, she still listened with great interest when Chen Guihua recounted it.
Tian Tian was also very busy during this period. She had to go out to pick up frogs every rainy night, help Old Lady Tian with work during the day, and take time to go up the mountain to pick wild vegetables. At noon, she had to secretly make deals with Li Jingliang, and also take time to do science questions and show them to Gu Zhao.
Later, Gu Zhao had less and less time and became busier and busier, so it was Gu Xingshu who explained the questions to Tian Tian.
Gu Xingshu is worthy of being a university professor. Although he does not teach physics and chemistry, high school questions are very simple for him and his explanations are clear and understandable. Tian Tian has learned a lot from him and her ideas for solving problems have become clearer little by little. She didn't know what formula to use or where to start like before.
Later, after the stage of the toad climbing up the ladder, Tian Tian could no longer make money from this.
Later, Li Jiuniang said that he could also exchange money with her by catching cicadas, so Tian Tian went to the river to catch cicadas when she had nothing to do.
Crickets are different from toads. Unlike toads, they don’t come out only when mating. They stay in the mountains when they have nothing to do.
There are crickets in almost every small river here, and they can be caught throughout the entire spring and autumn, from the thaw in spring to the freeze in winter.
Tian Tian made a lot of money from crickets and toads, and also got a lot of food coupons. She also got a lot of other coupons and industrial coupons.
Tian Tian still felt a little strange. During the spring planting period, Li Jiuniang was very well-behaved and did not go to the county town. She wondered how Li Jiuniang dealt with the toads and crickets she gave him.
However, when she thought that there might be a place to keep the goods fresh in Li Jiuniang's space, Tian Tian stopped thinking about it. Since the other party had received the goods, he must have a way to deal with them. Why did she care what they did? She just had to sit back and collect her money.
Spring planting is over, and everyone in the family can relax for a while, but they can't necessarily relax immediately, as there are still many miscellaneous tasks for them to do.
It’s like a quilt that has been used for a whole winter and a whole spring and needs to be cleaned up in the river.
In addition, Tian Tian has also picked enough grass beads during this period of time, and she and Old Lady Tian want to string the grass beads together to make a door curtain.
After breakfast early in the morning, Lin Meiyu and Chen Guihua took the quilts for the whole family and went to the river to wash them.
There was still some finishing work to be done, so Tian Lisong and Tian Lilin went to the fields after finishing their meal.
Tian Mu and Tian Zhuo went to school as usual, while Tian Tian stayed at home stringing grass beads with Old Lady Tian.
These grass beads are quite pretty, with different colors, some darker and some lighter. After putting them on, they are no worse than those door curtains with various patterns sold later.
Threading grass beads is also very simple and does not require any skills, but it is a little strain on the eyes.
Tian Tian and Old Lady Tian spent the whole morning putting up the door curtains. There were three door curtains in total, one for the door of the main house, and one for each of Tian Tian and Tian Lilin's rooms.
After putting on the door curtain, Old Mrs. Tian prepared to go to the fields to pick vegetables and cook. Tomorrow she would go to the river to see if Lin Meiyu and the others had finished washing the sheets. If they hadn't, Tian Tian would go and help.
When Tian Tian arrived at the river, she saw several quilts hanging on the riverbed. Some of them were already dry. They were all her family's quilts.
Tian Tian ran over to see if Lin Meiyu and the others had finished washing the quilts, and found that there was only one left, so she took the clean quilts they had washed back home today.
After washing the quilts, Grandma Tian straightened them out again and hung them on the string to dry. The sun was strong at noon and in the afternoon, so all the sheets could be dried in an hour or two.
After it’s dried, you can sew the quilt before going to bed so it won’t disturb everyone’s sleep.
The chicks at home grew very fast. In a blink of an eye, all the down on their bodies fell off, and feathers grew out. They no longer followed the hen around.
Old Mrs. Tian saw that there were three roosters and six hens. Now each household was only allowed to raise three chickens, so Old Mrs. Tian asked in the brigade if anyone had chickens.
There was a response soon. Some families did not want to raise chicks from eggs, so they waited for other families to raise their chicks and then exchanged their chicks with them.
The hens were particularly popular, and the three hens were soon traded for their eggs.
There were three roosters left, and one was taken away by a family who would raise a rooster specifically to inseminate the hens and then exchange the fertilized eggs.
Zhang Lanru exchanged one of the remaining two and prepared to stew it for her son.
There was one chicken left, so Old Lady Tian sold it privately to Gu Zhao, who stewed it and ate it.
Old Mrs. Tian saw that everyone in the family had lost a lot of weight after the spring planting, and the old hen just happened to no longer lay eggs.
Old Mrs. Tian picked a day, caught the hen, killed it and stewed it for meat.
The old hen was quite old, and Tian Zhuo and Tian Mu always caught insects to feed it, so it grew very fat, and they stewed a big pot of it.
None of the chicken feathers and chicken blood were wasted. Old Mrs. Tian picked out some good chicken feathers, tied them into a feather duster, and made a shuttlecock.
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