Old Mrs. Tian said, "This thing is so precious. If it really breaks, where can you get a new one?"
Old Mrs. Tian had long disliked Tian Tian. Every time she took the radio back, she would give it away. Since it was so precious, Tian Tian didn't worry about it getting damaged.
"Hehehe! Grandma, don't worry. I was more afraid of it getting broken than anyone else. I was very careful along the way. I held it in my arms and brought it back carefully!" Tian Tian said.
She kept the radio in the case along the way. After getting off the bus, she found a deserted place in the group, took out the radio, and put it in her luggage.
"Tian Tian! Oh, you're back? Your grandma has been talking about you every day at home, asking when you will be back." Lin Meiyu came out and smiled when she saw Tian Tian.
"Mom!" Tian Tian saw Lin Meiyu and wanted to give her a hug happily, but was pushed away by Lin Meiyu.
"Please stay away from me. You smell so bad that I'm about to vomit!"
"Hmph!" Tian Tian snorted unhappily, but she also knew that she smelled bad, so she didn't insist.
"In the bag are the gifts for Tian Zhuo and Tian Mu. Don't forget to give them to them when they come back!" Tian Tian said.
"What gifts are you going to buy for them? They never go anywhere and don't need anything. Just keep the money for yourself!" said Old Mrs. Tian, who came in carrying a bucket of water.
"One of them was admitted to high school, and the other to technical secondary school. I bought them some gifts to reward them and told them that they would be rewarded if they did well in the exams, so that they would continue to work hard in school."
"How did you go to college? And you learned how to do scenery? Who did they learn from? They didn't learn from us. If they do well in their studies, we will reward them. Why don't we let them reward me? I still cook for them all day long!" said Old Mrs. Tian.
Tian Tian couldn't argue with Old Lady Tian and stuck out her tongue guiltily.
Old Mrs. Tian poured all the two buckets of water into the pot, then poked open the stove pit and put firewood in it.
"What did you buy for your two brothers?"
"I didn't buy anything. I just bought a pen for Tian Zhuo and a kettle for Tian Mu. It didn't cost much."
"Look, you bought Tian Zhuo a pen. It's only been a few years since he bought it. It's still usable. What did you spend that money on?"
Tian Zhuo bought that pen from the supply and marketing cooperative because he needed one for writing after he entered junior high school. It was the cheapest pen he bought, which only cost one yuan and the quality was not very good. Last time, Tian Zhuo complained to Tian Tian that the pen was running out of ink.
After entering high school, you are useless. You don’t have a good thing and you have no motivation to study.
"I didn't buy a very expensive pen, just a little better than Tian Zhuo's. This way he can use it longer and it's a one-step solution. It saves him from having the pen break down in the future and spending money all the time." Tian Tian said as she helped Old Lady Tian boil water.
"Okay, stop busying yourself here. Go back to the house and put away the luggage you brought back. When the water boils, I'll bring it to you!" Lin Meiyu felt sorry for Tian Tian who had to sit on the train for such a long time and still have to work after coming back. She put the luggage in Tian Tian's room, sent Tian Tian away, and went back to rest.
Tian Tian was indeed very tired. She was so sleepy that she could not even open her eyes. After hearing what Lin Meiyu said, she went back to her room.
She lay on the kang to relax for a while, then forced herself to fight sleepiness and came back to take out all the clothes and radio she had brought back from her luggage. She put things that should be put in the closet, and things that should be given away in a small drawer on the side.
After everything was in place, Lin Meiyu and the others also boiled water for their bath. They poured the hot water into a bucket and brought it to Tian Tian's room.
Tian Tian took a nice bath with the water.
After taking a shower, Tian Tian felt like she had lost two pounds. She felt so relaxed that she fell asleep on the kang.
When I woke up, it was already dark outside and I could hear Chen Guihua's loud voice from the yard.
Tian Tian pushed the door open and saw Chen Guihua sitting at the door, picking vegetables and saying something to Lin Meiyu in a gesticulating manner.
Seeing Tian Tian coming out, Chen Guihua immediately shouted, "Hey! Is our college student back?"
"Auntie!" Tian Tian greeted with a smile.
Although Chen Guihua said this in a sarcastic tone.
But Tian Tian knew that Chen Guihua didn't mean that. She was just too happy recently and so she was a little bit showing off.
"Aunt! Are you having dinner at our house tonight?" Tian Tian asked curiously as she watched Chen Guihua picking vegetables.
Although their two families have separated, they often eat together. In Chen Guihua's words, food tastes better when there are more people around. Otherwise, she would not be able to swallow her food when looking at the faces of Tian Lilin and Tian Mu at home.
So when Chen Guihua had nothing to do, she would bring her husband and son to get some food and eat at Lin Meiyu's house.
It’s true that Chen Guihua feels that having a large group of people busy at home is much more exciting than her doing it alone at home.
So Chen Guihua went to her house more frequently.
"Our college student is back, and we want to have a meal together as a family. What? The college student doesn't welcome us?" Chen Guihua joked.
"How could I? Auntie, look at what you said, how can I not welcome you? I miss the meals you cooked when I was at school, especially the pickles you made. I couldn't stop craving for them when I was at school!" Tian Tian cried out in injustice.
The food cooked by Chen Guihua is indeed not very delicious, but the pickles made by Chen Guihua are first-rate, crispy and not too salty like those made by others, and are especially good with rice.
Every morning when Tian Tian was eating at school, she especially missed the pickles made by Chen Guihua.
She didn't believe it either. Chen Guihua said it was because she came back and came to have dinner.
Her mother wrote to tell her that Chen Guihua could come over for meals when she had nothing to do, come over to work during the spring planting season when there was no one at home to cook, come over for a meal during the Qingming Festival, and come over to eat with everyone during the Dragon Boat Festival, and also come over to have a meal with everyone when it was Old Lady Tian and Lin Meiyu's birthdays.
"Where are Tian Mu and Tian Zhuo? They haven't come back yet? I have specially prepared gifts for them!" Tian Tian squatted beside Chen Guihua and helped them pick vegetables. All the vegetables were from the garden, just picked and very juicy.
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