As long as she grabbed a handful of it, Old Lady Tian would be able to detect it, so Tian Tian didn't dare to make any unnecessary movements.
There was no need to think about steaming the dry food. Tian Tian went to the backyard, pulled up a few radishes, cut them into pieces and threw them into the pot.
After the rabbit meat was stewed over high heat, Tian Tian put all the meat and potatoes into a clay pot and simmered it slowly over a brazier.
The longer it stews, the more fragrant it becomes.
Originally, Tian Lisong and the others could still sit there quietly, but as the fragrance grew stronger they could no longer sit still.
The fragrance was very faint before, and people who lived far away couldn't smell it.
The fragrance is so strong now, and with a slight breeze, it can more or less blow to the neighbors' homes.
They quickly got up and closed the kitchen door, and blocked the window gaps with rags to prevent the fragrance from escaping.
The three of them stayed in the small dormitory and looked at each other.
After waiting for the sound coming from outside the gate, Tian Lisong and Tian Tian finally breathed a sigh of relief when they heard Grandma Tian and the others coming back.
Tian Tian opened the door of the kitchen a little, squeezed out through the gap, and then immediately closed the door.
"Grandma! You're back!" Tian Tian rushed over as if she had seen them. The kitchen was so hot that she was sweating all over.
Chen Guihua sniffed and her eyes lit up, "What a nice smell!"
When she entered the yard just now, she was quite disappointed because she didn't smell the meat, thinking that Tian Tian didn't do it.
As a result, Tian Tian came out with such a strong fragrance.
"Where is it? Let me smell it?" Tian Baobao jumped out from behind, hugged Tian Tian's thighs, and said with an intoxicated look on his face: "Sister! You smell so good!"
Today he wanted to catch a rabbit like he did yesterday, so he followed Old Lady Tian and the others up the mountain. In the end, he caught nothing and his pants were torn.
Chen Guihua first looked at Tian Baobao with disdain.
"Second Aunt! The meat is still stewing and the smell is too strong, so I blocked the gap." Tian Tian said quickly when she saw Chen Guihua was anxious to eat.
If this door is opened, the fragrance will come out and the neighbors will definitely be able to smell it.
"What should I do?" Tian Tian looked at Old Lady Tian for help, waiting for her to come up with an idea.
Old Mrs. Tian was at a loss for a moment. People nowadays are short of oil and water, and they are very sensitive to the smell of stewed meat and can smell the slightest smell.
"Let's go inside and eat, and then open the door after we're done to let the smell dissipate slowly." said Old Mrs. Tian.
Chen Guihua and Lin Meiyu looked at each other. There was nothing they could do now as they had to be so sneaky when eating meat.
In order to prevent the fragrance from escaping, they opened the door a little, squeezed in, and quickly closed the door.
When Old Lady Tian came into the house and saw Tian Lisong and Tian Lilin, she was shocked. "Why didn't you two make any noise in the house? You acted like thieves."
The two brothers looked at each other and touched their noses in guilt.
"Hurry up and eat. If we take too long, they might wonder what we are doing at home."
Seeing that everyone had come in, Old Mrs. Tian quickly asked them to take bowls and eat the meat.
"Grandma! I saw that there was not much food left, so I didn't make dry food. I put more potatoes and radishes in it." Tian Tian said.
"It's enough to be full. Why eat dry food when we have meat? The autumn harvest is over." Old Mrs. Tian doesn't care about these things. She can go without food for a day if she can have a meal of meat.
Eight people were crammed into the small kitchen. It was difficult to get anything from them. Everyone had a bowl full of meat and potatoes, and they squatted on the ground eating more deliciously than anyone else.
This was Tian Tian’s first time eating rabbit meat. She didn’t even bother to eat less to leave more for them. She just held the bowl and ate it by herself, enjoying the delicious food.
Even Tian Baobao and Tian Zhuo were squatting beside her, eating with their mouths full of oil.
Fortunately, Tian Tian peeled two more radishes and put them in the pot, otherwise this pot of rabbit meat would not be enough for the eight of them.
After they finished eating, there was not even a drop of soup left in the earthenware pot. Everyone's stomach was full from eating so much that Tian Zhuo and Tian Baobao even sat on the floor next to the stove with their big bellies.
"This meat is so delicious. If my sister could catch more rabbits, wouldn't we be able to eat meat more often?" Tian Baobao said with lingering desire.
"You think this rabbit is so common? You can catch it a few more times. It's good enough if you can eat it this time. Be content!" Chen Guihua said.
"I'm just thinking about it!" Tian Baobao muttered softly.
"Okay! Big brother and little brother, you two have rested for the morning. You two will wash the dishes after lunch today. And those pears, hawthorns, walnuts and other things we picked from outside, you two should sort them out and put them away. We will go back and rest for a while." Old Mrs. Tian said.
Tian Lisong and Tian Lilin had no objections and started to clean up the dishes quickly.
"Grandma, I'll go back to the house too." Tian Tian said.
She has been busy this morning, washing clothes and cooking. Just now, the whole family had a meal in the dining room.
Tian Tian was sweating all over now, and her clothes were sticking to her body, making her feel uncomfortable. The smell of sweat was mixed with the smell of oil smoke.
If this wasn't the smell coming from Tian Tian's body, she would have vomited out the meat she had just eaten.
"Go!" Old Mrs. Tian nodded at Tian Tian.
Before Tian Tian returned to the house, she even brought a bucket of water into the house.
As soon as she entered the room, she bolted the door, wrung out a towel and began to wipe herself.
The water has been outside in the sun for the whole morning and has been heated by the sun.
After Tian Tian wiped her body and changed into clean clothes, she breathed a sigh of relief.
She originally wanted to take a nap, but then she remembered that there was still a pot in the shell where she had made jam yesterday that had not been washed, so she went in to wash the pot.
While brushing Tian Tian, she regretted that if she had known it would be so difficult to brush off the sugar stuck to the pot, she would not have been lazy last night, so she would not have to go through so much trouble now.
Tian Tian used several pots of water to clean the pot, put away all the used items, and put away all the empty plastic bottles. Looking at the neat and tidy snail shells, Tian Tian nodded with satisfaction and went out to sleep.
It didn't rain for the next two days, so everyone dried the grain very well. When all the grain was weighed and stored, the entire team finally breathed a sigh of relief.
"Hurry up, hurry up! Let's go deliver the grain to the grain station and distribute the new grain when we come back!"
Everyone in the team urged the young and middle-aged men to go to the grain station to deliver grain.
If they don't distribute the food quickly, they will all go hungry. Even Tian Tian's family has run out of food. They have been eating vegetable leaves every day these days.
Tian Baobao ran to the mountain every day, thinking of catching another rabbit to satisfy his hunger.
Even though the family was in such a state, Old Mrs. Tian didn't even bother to cook the food that Tian Tian had previously given out for everyone to eat.
While Tian Tian was full of admiration, she became more alert in her heart, and repeatedly reminded herself to be careful when taking things in the future and not to reveal her true identity in front of Old Lady Tian.
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