"Grandma, when will we finish eating all these cowpeas?" Tian Tian asked as she looked at the cowpeas that covered the kang.
They picked these cowpeas this afternoon, and since it’s already been a while, there aren’t many left on the shelves.
String the cowpeas together with a rope and put them in the sun to dry. Once the moisture is dried, they can be preserved. When you want to eat them, just soak them in water and they are ready to eat. It is no different from drying mushrooms.
"There are not many left. The three of us can string them all together in a while." said Old Mrs. Tian.
"oh!"
Tian Tian agreed, took out a handful of hazelnut kernels from her pocket, and gave each of the three of them a small handful.
"Mother! I'll give you hazelnuts and walnuts!"
The walnuts that Tian Tian took out were all broken pieces. The walnuts were too difficult to pick out, so Tian just smashed a few and then didn't do anything else because it was too troublesome.
Old Mrs. Tian didn't expect Tian Tian to give them cracked hazelnuts to eat. She was a little surprised and a little relieved. "You can keep them for yourselves, why give them to us?"
"I've eaten them all. I specially smashed them for you. I ate too many walnuts and hazelnut kernels. I'm having a headache now. The two of them are eating chestnuts in that room now. They don't want to eat these hazelnuts and walnuts." Tian Tian said.
She also wanted Grandma Tian and the others to eat something, as Tian Baobao and the others were young and could eat a few more bites.
Old Mrs. Tian and Lin Meiyu really couldn't bear to eat them and wanted to leave all the delicious food for their children.
Chen Guihua wanted to eat a few more bites, but she didn't have the courage to break the tyranny of Old Lady Yu Tian.
"Then we won't be polite!" Chen Guihua happily took the hazelnuts and walnuts, not even bothering with the walnut kernels. She tilted her head back and poured them all into her mouth, squinting her eyes and saying, "They smell so good!"
Mrs. Tian and Lin Meiyu next to them also ate the nuts.
Tian Tian sat contentedly beside them and helped them dress in cowpeas.
She actually wasn't full and was still very hungry, but it didn't matter, she could go home and cook for herself in the evening.
When it got dark, everyone went back to their rooms to sleep. Tian Tian also went back to her room, locked the door, and went into the snail shell to cook something for herself.
She was starving. She had only eaten two meals today, and both meals were soup, which was not enough to satisfy her hunger.
When she cracked the walnuts, she didn't eat a single bite, leaving them all to Old Mrs. Tian and her mother.
Tian Baobao and Tian Zhuo are still young, and they can openly say that they are hungry.
Since Old Lady Tian and the others were adults, they couldn't say anything and could only endure it silently. Last night before going to bed, Tian Tian saw Lin Meiyu secretly drinking a ladle of water.
Tian Tian felt sorry for them going hungry, so she prepared some walnuts and hazelnuts to trick them into eating.
She dug out a pack of fatty rice noodles from the shell, cooked them to fill her stomach, and then studied for a while in the space. She didn't plan to sleep outside.
She set an alarm for four o'clock, took a quick shower, and fell asleep on the soft mattress.
This mattress was the one she got when she went to the mall to look for supplies after the apocalypse. She passed by a famous mattress brand and tried them out for a long time before choosing the one she liked. It has great resilience and is very soft.
She even picked out a single bed for herself at the home furnishing store in the mall.
The bed she had previously used in the snail shell was just a bed made of small wooden boards, and it wasn't as sturdy as the one she has now.
She had been sleeping on a hard kang for such a long time, so it felt quite strange to suddenly sleep on a bed.
Tian Tian rubbed her chin against the smooth silk quilt cover and fell into a happy dream.
The next day she was woken up by the alarm clock. Tian Tian sat up from the bed with a look of despair, turned off the alarm clock with a slap, and got out of the snail shell.
Tian Tian crawled into the bed that had been made last night and shivered from the cold.
Last night before she went into the snail shell, she lit the kang, making the room very warm.
Now the kang went out in the middle of last night, and the room is like an ice cellar.
It's even colder now, in the morning.
Tian Tian lay in the bed for a while and felt that all the warmth in her body was sucked away by the bed. She resigned herself to her fate and sat up from the bed, quickly put on all her clothes, folded the quilt and went out.
Old Mrs. Tian had already gotten up to feed the chickens. Seeing Tian Tian, she was a little surprised. "Why did you get up so early today? It just so happens that I cooked some cabbage soup. Go and give it to your dad."
Tian Tian nodded obediently, and after washing up, she went to bring food to Tian Lisong. She saw the threshing ground was full of weighed grains.
Tian Lisong saw Tian Tian coming over, he smiled at her and said, "Tiantian, you came just in time. When you go back, tell your grandma that we will distribute the food in the afternoon and ask her to come over early."
Tian Tian agreed. Seeing Tian Lisong looking a little haggard, she asked distressedly, "Dad! Didn't you sleep last night? I see your eyes are sunken!"
Tian Lisong pinched the bridge of his nose and smiled, "It's okay. Everyone in the brigade is out of food. The sooner the food is distributed, the more people will know. I'll just go back and get some sleep after distributing the food today."
Tian Tian felt very distressed after hearing this. Tian Lilin just followed the convoy to deliver food, and he slept soundly when he came back. He only woke up before Tian Tian left.
Tian Lisong was also an accountant. He had to keep an eye on everything from weighing the grain to storing it in the warehouse. The pressure on him must have been greater than that on Tian Lilin.
When he came back he was busy distributing food to the villagers and he didn't get a good night's sleep. How could it be as easy as he said?
But seeing how enthusiastically the brigade cadres were working, and seeing how motivated Tian Tian's cousins and uncles were to load grain into the sacks, Tian Tian couldn't complain, so she just agreed and went home.
Food distribution was a major event that the entire team was concerned about. In addition, with so many people coming to help weigh the food, the families of these people naturally also knew when the food would be distributed. The news spread quickly and spread throughout the team.
Before Tian Tian arrived home, Old Mrs. Tian had already started preparing to distribute the food.
When Tian Tian got home and saw the sacks in the car, she was a little confused.
"Grandma! My dad said that the food distribution will start in the afternoon. It's still morning now."
Old Mrs. Tian said without even looking up, "They said the grain would be distributed in the afternoon, but the grain for many households has already been weighed out, they just haven't finished weighing it all. Your father and his friends are so mean that they want to weigh out the grain for each household before distributing it. It doesn't matter if they weigh it while distributing it."
Tian Tian was stunned when she heard this. So that's how it was.
Old Mrs. Tian took the time out of her busy schedule to look up at Tian Tian and said, "I think you are quite stubborn! You believe whatever others say and your mind won't change at all."
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