In the past, when Tian Tian went to see Shen Lingling, she would never come back until she had been there for quite some time, but today she suddenly showed some promise.
"Lingling is going to the river to wash clothes, and there are so many things to do at home. I must help grandma with the work!" Tian Tian said sweetly.
Even after the autumn harvest, people are busy picking vegetables, chopping firewood, pickling vegetables, and drying vegetables. As soon as the grain is harvested, they have to shell it and grind it into flour. They are busy all the time.
After hearing what Tian Tian said, Old Lady Tian was very pleased. "Why are you so sweet-mouthed after coming back from your trip? Do you have something to ask of me?"
"How could that be?" Tian Tian chuckled. "When I went to deliver something to Lingling, I met Aunt Zhang from next door. Aunt Zhang was so pitiful. Her belly was so big, but she still had to fetch water. After fetching water, Aunt Huang asked her to wash clothes! Grandma! Isn't Aunt Zhang pregnant with Aunt Huang's grandson? Why did Aunt Huang ask her to do such heavy work?"
Old Mrs. Tian glanced at Tian Tian and said in a rare stern tone, "Don't meddle in other people's affairs. That's how the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law get along. Your sister-in-law Zhang didn't say anything, so don't get involved. Don't do something bad with good intentions and get yourself involved."
Tian Tian heard the warning in Old Lady Tian's words and knew that there must be something going on.
But the more Old Lady Tian told her not to interfere, the more curious she became, and she wanted to ask Old Lady Tian what was going on right now.
However, her current goal is to get through this special period in a low-key and safe manner, not to attract the attention of the heroine, to be a background board, and then to take the college entrance examination, the farther away from the heroine the better.
So Tian Tian suppressed her curiosity and pretended that she had never run into Zhang Lanru today and didn't know about this matter.
Moreover, she felt that based on the personality Zhang Lanru displayed when they were alone together today, she didn't seem like someone who would quietly endure being bullied. There must be some big hidden story behind this.
"Grandma! I have pounded the rice!" Tian Baobao ran to Grandma Tian excitedly and said.
Old Mrs. Tian said calmly, "You did a good job, Tiantian! Go and use the winnowing basket to sift out the rice bran, and then put the rice into the rice jar."
When Tian Tian heard this, she opened her mouth and wanted to say something, but finally agreed obediently, "Okay!"
Tian Tian had never used a winnowing basket or sifted rice bran before, so she didn't know how to do it at all.
But the original owner knew how to do it. She was the one who sifted the newly harvested rice in the past two years.
This made it impossible for her to refuse, so she had to go ahead with it.
She instructed Tian Baobao to go into the house and get out the winnowing basket, and asked him to pour the pounded rice into the winnowing basket. At the same time, she frantically recalled how the original owner used the winnowing basket to winnow the rice.
She recalled the original owner's easy use of the dustpan, in which the rice was turned over little by little, and the rice bran was blown away bit by bit.
Even though she understood it clearly, she still wouldn't do it.
Looking at the expectant eyes of Tian Baobao and Tian Zhuo beside her, Tian Tian gritted her teeth and started to raise the rice. She originally thought that raising the rice would be quite difficult.
Unexpectedly, she didn't even have to think about it, her hands started moving on their own, and one by one, she swept out all the rice bran.
Tian Baobao only pounded a few kilograms of rice in total and finished it quickly. After that, Tian Tian still felt a little unsatisfied, which was quite relaxing.
Tian Baobao had already brought the rice jar over, and he and Tian Tian carefully put the rice into the jar, fearing that a grain of rice would fall out.
"Okay! Cover it and put it in the bowl rack!" After putting all the rice into the rice can, Tian Tian said to Tian Baobao.
"Grandma! Do you want to make rice this afternoon?" Tian Baobao turned around and asked Grandma Tian who was busy picking vegetables.
"I promised to do it for you, so I will definitely do it for you. Put the rice jar in the house first!" said Old Mrs. Tian.
Tian Baobao got a satisfactory answer and went into the house contentedly holding the clay pot.
Tian Tian was also busy, helping Old Lady Tian pick vegetables in the fields.
There are not many vegetables left in the field. Old Mrs. Tian and Chen Guihua have picked most of them. If they are not picked, these vegetables will not grow and will just take up nutrients and space.
Tian Tian only picked a few peppers and then she finished picking them all.
Tian Tian looked at the many peppers picked in the basket. She originally thought that these peppers should be strung together and hung on the door frame to dry like in TV dramas.
Unexpectedly, just after picking them, Old Mrs. Tian picked out some peppers and asked Tian Baobao and Tian Tian to wash them.
He also asked Lin Meiyu and Chen Guihua to peel more garlic.
Fortunately, the peppers nowadays are clean and do not contain any pesticides. You just need to rinse them twice with well water.
If it were modern peppers, Tian Tian would definitely wash each pepper carefully.
After washing the peppers, place them on the covered curtain and wait for the sun to dry the moisture on the surface of the peppers.
The temperature is a little chilly now, but the sun is still very hot, and the moisture on the surface of the peppers will soon evaporate.
Old Mrs. Tian collected all the peppers, picked out the seeds with a spoon, and then chopped the peppers and garlic separately.
Heat oil in a pan, put the chopped garlic into the pan and stir-fry until fragrant, then put the chopped chili in. After the water comes out, pour some sugar, vinegar, salt and homemade bean paste into it and continue to simmer. When the chili becomes sticky and starts to bubble, put it in a jar and let it cool.
Tian Tian had already been drooling at the spicy and sour aroma. When she saw that Old Lady Tian had made the chili sauce, she picked up a little with chopsticks to taste it without waiting for it to cool down.
It tastes sour and sweet at first, without any obvious spiciness. After a while, the spiciness of the chili and garlic comes out.
Maybe because there is less sugar in it, the chili sauce is still a bit sour, but Tian Tian herself prefers sour food, so this is just what she likes.
If this is served with steamed buns, Tian Tian can eat two big steamed buns in one go.
There is very little salt in chili sauce, and you can hardly taste any saltiness, so the shelf life of chili sauce is relatively short. In addition, there are no refrigerators nowadays, so chili sauce is even more difficult to preserve.
Old Mrs. Tian didn’t make much, just a small jar, which was basically eaten up in a few days.
Tian Tian was amazed by what she saw. She really underestimated the intelligence of people nowadays.
She always felt that people nowadays were short of food and could not eat anything good on a regular basis.
Not to mention the countryside. Apart from the vegetables and grains produced in the fields and the food in the mountains, there is nothing to eat in the village.
It’s not like in the city where you can still eat biscuits, cakes, malted milk and so on.
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