At the same time, she conscientiously plays the role of a little country girl who is loved at home.
On the day when the team went to the grain station to deliver grain, Old Mrs. Tian got up early, spent a lot of money to cook twenty eggs, and gave ten to Tian Lisong and Tian Lilin respectively.
Baby Tian, who was standing by, was drooling with envy and staring at the eggs.
Although Tian Baobao was greedy, he was also sensible and knew that the eggs were for his father. He just couldn't control his eyes from looking up.
Now hearing Old Mrs. Tian say that there was rice to eat, he withdrew his gaze with great difficulty, nodded, and ran to the yard.
If you can't see it, you won't be greedy.
"Baby Tian!" Old Mrs. Tian packed up the eggs and called Baby Tian's name loudly.
After Tian Baobao came in, he handed him the bag of eggs and said, "Take these eggs to your uncle and your father."
Tian Baobao ran to the barn with the bag.
At this time, a lot of people gathered in the barn, and everyone was watching the grain being loaded onto the ox cart one bag at a time.
A cow is so expensive nowadays that farmers would rather suffer themselves than let their cows go hungry or suffer.
Half of the cart was filled with fodder for the cows, and the remaining food was only a few bags. Uncle Niu Si, who was in charge of raising the cows, said distressedly: "That's enough. If you load more, the cows won't be able to walk on the road."
The heaviest bag of grain must be about two hundred pounds. With four bags of grain on top, plus the fodder for the cows, it must be at least one thousand pounds. The cows can't pull it at all.
After hearing what Uncle Niu said, Tian Lisong asked everyone to move the grain onto their own wheelbarrows. When the wheelbarrows were full, they carried the grain on their shoulders or in their hands.
The able-bodied laborers from every household went to the city together to deliver food, and even the strong women followed along.
Over there, grain was being weighed and loaded onto the truck in a hurry, while Tian Tian was sitting here with Shen Lingling in a daze.
"Finally we get to deliver the public grain. We've been eating vegetables every day these days, and my face is turning green." Shen Lingling said.
Shen Lingling's family did not earn as many work points as Tian Tian's family, nor did they get as much grain as Tian's family. Before the autumn harvest was over, there was not much grain left in their family.
"My family has run out of food a long time ago. We don't even have oil at home. The vegetables we have eaten these days are basically boiled in water and have no taste at all." Tian Tian also complained.
Fortunately, she still had some food in her shell so she could cook a little, otherwise she wouldn't be able to bear it.
"It's good for our two families to earn work points, but I heard that Uncle Yang's family can only eat porridge with more water and less rice since the autumn harvest."
Autumn harvest is a big deal. It’s okay to not have enough to eat in summer and autumn, but it’s important to eat well and enough in spring and autumn, otherwise you won’t be able to persist in such heavy farm work.
"As for the educated youth in our village, I heard that the new educated youth and the old educated youth had a fight a few days ago. They said that the new educated youth had eaten all the food and wanted to borrow from the old educated youth. The old educated youth refused, so a few people secretly ran to the old educated youth to get it, but they were caught red-handed, and the two sides started fighting."
"I heard that the beating was very intense, with hair pulling and face scratching!" Shen Lingling became more and more excited as she spoke, her eyes shining.
"I usually think those educated youth are well behaved, but I didn't expect that they fight even more fiercely than those in our village!"
The new educated youth had only arrived in their village last winter. They had no idea how to cook and eat, and would rather eat dry food for every meal. The food distributed by the brigade was not enough for them to survive until the autumn harvest.
During the autumn harvest, they were not well fed and the work was exhausting. After being hungry for so long, they became angry and asked the old educated youth to borrow food. When they were refused, they could not bear it any longer and a fight broke out between the two sides.
To be honest, this happens every year when the educated youth first arrive, and before that it was always the brigade cadres who were causing trouble.
At the beginning, the brigade cadres also spoke to them in a kind tone. After all, they were very young, left their hometowns and came to the countryside, the work was hard and tiring, and they had little to eat, so they were quite tolerant of the educated youth.
Later, I found that the better their tempers were, the more the educated youth would get in their face. So I simply stopped sympathizing with them. They all played the bad guy and spoke in a gruff voice. Sure enough, things became much quieter, and the educated youth didn't dare to ask them to solve trivial matters.
However, everyone still hates the educated youth very much. Now Tian Lisong seldom mentions these things about the educated youth at home. Old Mrs. Tian is not the kind of old lady who goes out to gossip, so Tian Tian doesn't know these rumors.
For example, Shen Lingling's grandmother was keen on visiting every household with melon seeds in her pocket every day, so she was quite familiar with the gossip in the village.
"Is it so serious?" Tian Tian was a little surprised.
The newly arrived educated youth have not yet had their edges smoothed out, and they are all very sharp.
When they came to the countryside, they complained about everything. They thought it was too dirty to apply manure to the fields, and they also complained that the people in their village were just peasants.
It was when the people in the team were avoiding him that he would not go out of his way to remind them.
The old educated youth would talk to them, but they wouldn't listen, so the food was quickly eaten up.
"That's right! There are conflicts in our village, but no one fights!" Shen Lingling was also very emotional and felt that the people in the city were no different from them.
Even worse than them, they can't do any work and are clumsy.
They are still dreaming about good things every day, thinking that they can have food to eat without working. This is simply because they are spoiled.
"I was wondering why I didn't see any educated youth today!" Tian Tian said after looking around.
"Is all the food loaded? Is there anything left behind?" After all the food was put on the truck and the remaining food was carried on the back, Tian Ligang shouted.
Tian Ligang is the eldest of Tian Lisong's generation. Because of his ability, he was elected as the team leader. Tian Yun is his daughter.
"Everything is loaded!" The grain delivery team shouted in scattered voices. Tian Tian saw her father walking from beginning to end, checking the amount of grain one by one.
Her second uncle was not like her father, who was a skilled worker with an easy job, and could only push a wheelbarrow in the team.
"Dad! Uncle! My grandma asked me to bring you some food!"
Tian Baobao squeezed out from the crowd like a flash, quickly stuffed two cloth bags to Tian Lisong and Tian Lilin, and then tactfully made way for them.
"Now that everything is packed, let's go!" After Tian Ligang gave the order, Uncle Niu cracked the whip in the air, and the ox slowly pulled the cart.
The wheelbarrows and people behind followed one after another.
Delivering grain to the city was a major event that concerned the entire brigade. If they paid more public grain, they might be selected as an excellent brigade, and the possibility of getting fertilizers and borrowing tractors in the future would be greater.
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