Tian Tian changed her clothes and originally wanted to lie on the kang for a while, and then go out to help Old Mrs. Tian.
As a result, I fell asleep on the kang, but was woken up by the noise made by Lin Meiyu and others coming back.
She woke up completely and it was already dark outside.
Tian Tian touched the drool on her lips. She was sleeping so soundly that she didn't even notice that she was drooling.
"Mom! Dad! You're back!" Tian Tian put on her cotton jacket and went out.
Lin Meiyu and the other three were piling firewood onto the firewood pile. When they heard Tian Tian's words, Tian Lisong and Lin Meiyu turned around and said with a smile, "Tian Tian, are you awake? Did you have a good time in the county town today?"
"Happy!" Tian Tian replied casually.
She looked at the firewood that was half-filled in the yard and said, "You guys picked up so much firewood, that's amazing! Is this enough for us to burn for the whole winter?"
"How can this be enough?" Tian Lilin smiled back at Tian Tian while carrying the firewood: "We have to heat the kang and cook in winter, so there is a lot of wasted firewood! Besides, the more firewood the better, so you can stay at home in peace in the winter. Otherwise, you will always be wondering if there is enough firewood."
"Mom! Dad! Uncle and Aunt, let me help you stack the firewood!" Tian Tian saw that they seemed to have a hard time moving the firewood and thought about lending a hand to help.
"Stop it! You can't even lift this firewood! Go into the house and play with the babies!" Chen Guihua quickly stopped Tian Tian.
When she came back just now, she heard Tian Baobao tell her that Tian Tian wanted to teach Tian Baobao to read and write, and now she wants to worship Tian Tian.
Besides, Tian Tian really couldn't do the job of stacking firewood.
This bundle of firewood weighs at most one hundred kilograms, and at least sixty or seventy kilograms. Tian Tian can't lift it at all.
Sure enough, Tian Tian tried to lift it, but couldn't.
She let go of their hands and smiled at them, "I'll go into the house first."
They were all busy, and when they heard Tian Tian's words, they replied without turning their heads: "Go in!"
Tian Tian entered the house. Tian Baobao and Tian Zhuo were roasting chestnuts beside the brazier. Old Mrs. Tian was also sitting beside the brazier, altering her clothes in the light.
"Sister! You are awake! Come and sit down."
"Sister! I've peeled the chestnuts for you to eat. They're so sweet!"
When Tian Baobao and Tian Zhuo saw Tian Tian enter the room, each one was more attentive than the other.
Tian Tian sat on the small stool that Tian Zhuo brought over, holding the chestnuts that Tian Zhuo handed over to her.
"Grandma! It's so dark now, you should stop sewing clothes. You might damage your eyes!" Tian Tian said worriedly.
"No need. The baby is waiting to wear these clothes. The weather will be cold soon." Old Mrs. Tian kept moving her hands and said.
The clothes in her hand belonged to Tian Tian's elder brother Tian Yuan, and they were altered to be smaller for Tian Baobao to wear.
"Then, let me light the kerosene lamp for you!" Tian Tian said again.
"No need!" Old Mrs. Tian raised the clothes in her hand, "There are only two stitches left to sew. It's too troublesome to light the kerosene lamp."
As expected, Old Mrs. Tian finished sewing the clothes with just two more stitches. After that, she handed the clothes to Baby Tian to try it out.
When Tian Baobao tried on the clothes, he found that they were a little big, but they didn't make him look sloppy. He jumped for joy.
Isn’t it that Old Mrs. Tian deliberately made it larger so that it can be worn for two more years?
Now I wear clothes left by my older brothers and sisters, and I don’t feel ashamed to wear such clothes.
Moreover, Tian Yuan has always taken good care of things since he was a child. Even the clothes he wore were all clean and without patches. When they were passed to Xiaocao, except for the color that looked a little old, everything else was no different from new clothes.
Tian Baobao and Tian Yuan are different. The clothes they take off look like they were chewed by dogs. Even a dog would dislike wearing them.
It was also difficult for Old Mrs. Tian to mend the clothes every year and then give them to Tian Zhuo to wear.
Old Man Tian saw that Tian Baobao's clothes were in good condition, so he asked Tian Baobao to take off his clothes and put them away.
Tian Baobao was reluctant to take it off.
"Take it off quickly! It will get dirty if you wear it for a while. Now is not the time for you to wear a thick cotton-padded jacket. What do you want to do by wearing it? Are you going to show off outside?" Old Mrs. Tian frowned and said in a stern tone.
Tian Baobao immediately took off his cotton-padded jacket, folded it and handed it to Old Lady Tian.
"Give the clothes to your mother later and ask her to keep them. When the weather gets cold, ask her to find clothes for you." Old Mrs. Tian didn't take it. She reached out and pinched the bridge of her nose and rubbed her sore eyes.
"I'm going back to sleep first. We can talk about it tomorrow if you have anything to say." After saying that, Old Mrs. Tian took off her apron and went into the house.
Tian Baobao and Tian Tian looked at each other and felt that Old Lady Tian seemed to be in a bad mood, so they didn't dare to speak loudly.
Tian Baobao also obediently put his clothes on a stool beside him. Several people ate roasted chestnuts in the house obediently, not daring to make a sound.
They only had two meals a day in the winter, and when they couldn't stand the hunger at night, they would eat some chestnuts to fill their stomachs.
After Tian Lisong and the others had piled up half the firewood in the yard, he ate some roasted chestnuts with them.
Everyone went back to their rooms to sleep.
When it was late at night and everyone was asleep, Old Mrs. Tian, who should have been sleeping soundly, suddenly opened her eyes and pricked up her ears to listen to the noise outside the yard.
There was no other sound except the sound of the north wind blowing through the window. She then slowly sat up, put on her clothes, took out an iron box from the cupboard, and sat down under the windowsill.
Then he took out a thick stack of money from the iron box and began to count the money quietly in the moonlight.
"1, 2, 3, 4, 5,...148, 149, 150."
Old Mrs. Tian put the money back into the box with trembling hands, closed the lid of the iron box tightly, and picked up a leather case to hold it tightly.
Then he walked to the suitcase, lay on the ground, reached his hand under the suitcase, fumbled inside for a moment, and pulled out a piece of bluestone slab.
Then she took the iron box and put it under the suitcase, fiddled with it for a while, came out empty-handed, and pushed the bluestone slab back in.
Old Mrs. Tian reached in and felt around, then dropped a lot of the surrounding yellow mud onto the bluestone slabs. Then she nodded with satisfaction.
He stood up and brushed off the dust on his body.
This money is what she earned from selling ginseng today.
She originally wanted to sell it on the black market, but after looking around she still felt it was not safe, so she went to a legitimate purchasing station.
The person at the purchasing station was an expert at identifying the ginseng. He could tell that it was wild ginseng that was more than ten years old, so he offered her a price of thirteen thousand yuan.
Old Mrs. Tian also had contact with ginseng diggers when she was a child.
I know that ten-year-old wild ginseng can be sold for 1,700 yuan, and the higher-quality ones can even be sold for 1,800 yuan, or even 2,000 yuan.
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