Although Mrs. Tian is old, her eyesight is still very good. Her vision is not blurry at all and her hands are not shaking. She can thread the needle in no time.
Tian Tian shyly retracted her outstretched hand and scratched her head awkwardly, "Thank you, grandma!"
Cloth is very expensive nowadays. It takes several years to save up enough to buy a set of clothes, so there is less cloth to make quilts and mattress covers.
Even though his family had Tian Lijuan who worked in the supply and marketing cooperative and could save some scraps of cloth from time to time, there was basically only one big quilt in each room in their house, and only a mattress cover and a bed sheet.
If Tian Tian hadn't soiled the mattress sheet today, Old Mrs. Tian would not have given the mattress sheet to Tian Tian, thinking that a dirty mattress would be more difficult to clean.
"Please help me bring the kerosene lamp over here and light it! It's so dark in this room that I can't see." said Old Mrs. Tian.
Ever since the window was sealed, the sleeping room has been very dark. Usually, when they need to sew something, Lin Meiyu and the others stay in the kitchen. Today's quilt is too big, so it definitely cannot be sewn in the kitchen, so it has to be placed in the room on the kang.
Tian Tian ran to get the kerosene lamp, lit it, and carefully placed it next to Old Mrs. Tian.
Old Mrs. Tian began to sew a quilt in the light of the dark.
When Tian Baobao and Tian Zhuo saw Old Lady Tian sewing a quilt, they immediately took off their shoes and climbed up, then lay on the mattress and rolled around.
They were free to throw tantrums without any regard for others' opinions. Several times they almost bumped into Old Lady Tian's needles, and once they almost knocked over the kerosene lamp next to them.
Seeing that Old Lady Tian was about to lose her temper, Tian Tian quickly stopped them and said, "I have a lot of things to do today, so I won't teach you two how to read. You two should review what you learned before and write it all down on paper. I will check it in the evening. If you write well, I will reward you with a candy each."
After hearing this, Tian Baobao and Tian Zhuo looked at the quilt spread on the kang reluctantly. In the end, the temptation of the candy was stronger, so they put on their shoes, moved a stool, and ran into the kitchen to write.
Without Tian Baobao and the others to disturb her, Old Mrs. Tian sewed the mattress quite quickly and finished it in no time.
Tian Tian went out with the mattress in her arms, hung it on the string, and took the broom to sweep the kang to get rid of the dust. She heard the loud speaker in the village shouting, "Accountant Tian! There's a letter from your family at the brigade headquarters. Hurry up and get it!"
"Accountant Tian, your family has..."
When Tian Tian heard someone calling her dad on the loud speaker, she quickly stretched her neck and shouted into the house, "Grandma! Mom! Dad! There's a letter from our family at the team headquarters!"
"Listen!"
Lin Meiyu had already heard what was said on the loudspeaker. She put down the hemp rope she was twisting halfway and went into the house to call Tian Lisong.
"Li Song! The boss sent a letter back, go get it!"
"Hmm?" Tian Lisong was woken up by Lin Meiyu and looked at her in confusion, "What did you say? What do you want me to get?"
"Go to the team headquarters to get the letter! The boss sent a letter!" said Lin Meiyu.
When he heard that it was Tian Yuan who sent the letter, Tian Lisong immediately came to his senses, wiped his face, put on his clothes and went to get the letter.
Tian Tian went back to the house and spread out the mattress, then ran to the kitchen to help Lin Meiyu and the others twist the hemp rope.
Lin Meiyu was obviously uneasy. She rubbed the hemp rope in her hands and looked outside.
It was just too cold and the doors and windows were closed tightly, so I couldn’t see outside.
"Sister! We have finished writing!" Tian Baobao and Tian Zhuo chattered and ran over with their homework books to show Tian Tian.
Tian Tian took it and checked how they wrote it. The two of them looked at Tian Tian with expectant eyes.
They are both young and cannot sit still all day long, so Tian Tian cannot teach them too many words in a day.
Tian Baobao learns five words a day, and Tian Zhuo only learns three words a day.
They had only studied for a few days and had not written many words, so Tian Tian finished translating quickly.
But when she saw the expectant eyes of Tian Baobao and Tian Zhuo, she wanted to tease them, so she frowned and flipped through the notebook back and forth, making them both anxious.
"Sister! How are our writings? I wrote them very carefully, writing every stroke carefully!" Tian Baobao said anxiously.
"Well! There is nothing wrong with the handwriting! But look at how you wrote the last stroke. Also, look at this character, you wrote it too heavily and it even tore the notebook."
The more Tian Baobao and Tian Zhuoyue talked, the more anxious they became. They tiptoed to look at the notebook in Tian Tian's hand. Every time Tian Tian said something, their faces fell a little. By the end, they were both about to cry.
Seeing tears welling up in their eyes, Tian Tian decided to quit and quickly make up for it.
"But you two are still young and can't control the strength of your hands, so it's normal to write too hard and too hard. It's amazing that you didn't make a single mistake."
After saying that, Tian Tian took out two candies without candy wrappers from her pocket and said, "These are rewards for you! Take them and eat them!"
"Yeah!" Tian Zhuo and Tian Baobao both jumped up and cheered, and took the two candies from Tian Tian's hand, "Thank you, sister!"
Tian Baobao and Tian Zhuo picked up the candies and stuffed them into their mouths impatiently, eating them with a slurp.
Chen Guihua looked at the candies in their hands with envy, then looked at Tian Tian's pocket, swallowed her saliva and asked, "Tiantian! Where did you get this candy? What does it taste like? It looks delicious."
"This candy is delicious! It's sour and sweet, and my sister said it has a fruity flavor!" Tian Zhuo said happily.
Hearing what Tian Zhuo said, Chen Guihua swallowed more frequently, "Really? I haven't eaten sour and sweet candy before. Tiantian, do you have any candy?"
Tian Tian knew Chen Guihua wanted to eat her candy, so she smiled and said, "There's still a little left. I'll bring some over to Auntie later."
She did not have any bad feelings towards Chen Guihua. Although Chen Guihua was a little greedy and lazy at work at home, she was never lazy when doing farm work. She worked harder than anyone else and earned a lot of work points a year. Tian Tian did not mind giving her candy.
Chen Guihua immediately smiled happily, "That's great! I won't be polite!"
"You, as an aunt, are still going out with your niece, but that's all you can achieve. It's not easy for Tiantian to save some money, but you have to buy some candies for her." Old Mrs. Tian said, but she did not stop Tian Tian from giving candies to Chen Guihua.
Chen Guihua didn't care. What Old Lady Tian said was of no use to her and didn't disturb her good mood at all as she was about to eat candy.
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