Tian Tian could see the layout of things in the lower room through the gaps in the wooden board below.
Old Mrs. Tian and the others were no longer surprised by Tian Tian and her friends climbing into the corn house.
It's cool inside the corn building, and it's high up, so the feeling is different from being on the ground.
Not to mention the children, even the adults like to stay in there.
After all, Tian Tian is grown up now, unlike Tian Baobao and Tian Zhuo who are still young. After playing on the ladder for a while, they wanted to climb down.
"Tiantian! Don't come down. Just stay here and pour the corn in!" Old Mrs. Tian said quickly when she saw Tian Tian was about to come down.
They don't have any machines to deliver corn to the corn house now, so they can only put the corn into earthen baskets and pass them in manually. There must also be someone in the corn house to deliver the corn from the door inside.
Tian Baobao and Tian Zhuo are both young and can hardly lift a basket.
Tian Tian fits perfectly inside, being able to lift the earth basket without any inconvenience in moving around due to her height.
After hearing this, Tian Tian just stayed at the door of the corn building without moving.
When Tian Lilin climbed up the ladder and brought her an earthen basket, she poured all the corn in the basket into the corn house and then threw the basket down again.
Lin Meiyu and Chen Guihua squatted down below and picked up corn from the dirt fence.
Tian Zhuo and Tian Baobao were also busy throwing corn into the pot.
When Tian Tian first started doing this job, she found it quite interesting. She didn't have to use her brain, she just had to mechanically throw corn into the pot.
But she got tired after working for a while. She had to take the corn from Tian Lilin's hands and put it into the corn basket, and then put all the corn into the corn cage. Tian Tian's arms were so sore.
Seeing that the corns in the corn building were getting more and more, and the corns against the wall were almost reaching the top, and there were more and more corns at the door. Tian Zhuo and Tian Baobao sat behind Tian Tian and kept throwing corns up.
In the end, the only area in the entire corn house without corn was the small circle where Tian Tian was sitting. The corn in the other corners had already reached the bottom and slid down the slope to Tian Tian's side.
"Tian Tian! Come down!" Old Mrs. Tian shouted from below.
Tian Tian, Tian Baobao and others climbed down the ladder.
After they all came down, Tian Lisong took a few pieces of wood and went up to block half of the door of the corn shed, and then the whole family threw corn in.
When the corn was thrown to the top, the door of the corn house was sealed with wooden boards.
The corn basket on top of the lower house was not big, only a few square meters, and was more than half filled with corn.
The remaining corn could not fill up another corn house, so just pour the corn into the corn house and seal the door. Tian Tian and the others were no longer needed.
When Tian Tian heard that she was not needed, she ran back into the house. Her arm was in so much pain that she would definitely not be able to lift it the next morning.
After the corn was harvested, the grain distribution issue came to an end.
Old Mrs. Tian put some corn that she had specially set aside on the kang to dry, and after drying it could be ground into cornmeal.
He went to get another ten kilograms of soybeans and gave them to Lin Meiyu to exchange for oil at the oil mill.
Most of what they eat now is soybean oil and lard.
Now that their team hasn't slaughtered the pigs yet, they can only make do with soybean oil for now.
Old Mrs. Tian is unwilling to exchange soybeans for soybean oil because the oil yield is too low. Ten kilograms of soybeans can only produce one kilogram of soybean oil.
Moreover, there will be losses when pressing soybeans for oil, and an extra pound of soybeans will have to be set aside to send to the oil mill. Old Mrs. Tian thinks it is not cost-effective.
But there was nothing we could do now as we were in a hurry to use up the oil, so we could only ask Lin Meiyu to change it for soybean oil.
Before, Mrs. Tian had agreed with Tian Baobao that she would make a meal of rice for the family after the grain was distributed, and Teacher Tian did not intend to go back on his word.
But she was thinking that Tian Lisong was still distributing food at the brigade, and it was impossible for them to eat rice without telling Tian Lisong.
Old Mrs. Tian called Tian Baobao over and said, "Baby! Grandma promised to make rice for you."
Tian Baobao had forgotten about this matter long ago, but when he heard Old Lady Tian talking about rice, his eyes lit up.
"The grain has just been harvested and the rice hasn't been pounded yet. You should pound the rice in the afternoon, and then wait for your grandfather to come back and your grandmother will cook it for you!" said Old Mrs. Tian.
When Tian Baobao heard Grandma Tian say that they could cook rice to eat, he started pounding rice with great enthusiasm without waiting for her to say anything else.
The mortar and pestle in Old Mrs. Tian's house is made of stone, and the pestle handle is made of wood, but it is still a bit heavy for Tian Baobao at his age.
The little man was holding a pestle that was taller than him. If someone who didn't know saw it, they would think they were abusing Tian Baobao.
In particular, when Chen Guihua saw Tian Baobao pounding rice, she asked Tian Baobao to pound more so that he could eat more. She didn't mean to feel sorry for Tian Baobao at all.
Tian Tian couldn't bear to watch this, so she sneaked into the hut to find Old Lady Tian, "Grandma, why don't you take the rice to the mill to husk it? It's more convenient and hassle-free. It will take Tian Baobao forever to pound the rice, how tiring!"
Old Mrs. Tian picked through the sweet potatoes and took out all the small ones, preparing to boil them and then dry them.
This is one of the few snacks for children in the village.
"Why send a mill? Send a mill. Baby Tian is getting more and more naughty. It's just right for him to pound rice to use up his energy so that he doesn't have to run outside every day." said Old Mrs. Tian.
This is just one reason. Another reason is that the mill is on the other side of the bridge. If you want to grind rice, you have to carry the rice from home to the bridge, and there are too many people passing by.
Moreover, there are many people at the mill and they have a lot of gossip. Old Mrs. Tian doesn't want everyone to know what the food is like in her family, and she doesn't want everyone to guess how much fine grain there is. Pounding the grain at home is the best option.
When Tian Tian heard what Old Lady Tian said, she couldn't help but shed tears for Tian Baobao.
However, she looked through the wide open window and saw that Tian Baobao seemed to be enjoying it, so she didn't say anything more.
"Wash these sweet potatoes and then simmer them in the pot!" said Old Mrs. Tian, pointing at the sweet potato babies she had picked out.
Tian Tian no longer paid attention to Tian Baobao who was pounding rice foolishly. She put the sweet potatoes into a basin and pressed water to wash them.
The food that had just been distributed today had not been processed yet and could not be eaten for a while. Old Mrs. Tian was just about to boil a pot of sweet potatoes for lunch when Lin Meiyu came back with soybean oil and a sack.
"Mom! This soybean oil is 1.2 jin, and soybean meal is 7.6 jin."
Soybean meal? Isn't that what pigs use to feed?
Tian Tian had never seen soybean meal before, so she ran over excitedly to take a look.
The bag was filled with light yellow, irregular flakes, a little bit like oatmeal, and had a smell of roasted soybeans, which was very tempting.
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