After Chen Guihua saw Old Lady Tian leave, her eyes rolled around. While putting away the dishes and chopsticks, she quietly approached Tian Tian and whispered, "Tian Tian! Which ice hole did you use to catch the fish? Tell your aunt to let your second uncle try his luck tomorrow!"
Tian Tian smiled and said, "Aunt! I didn't pay much attention. I was planning to try my luck there, so I just found an ice hole. I remember that ice hole was quite close to the shore."
Tian Tian was telling the truth. She just found an ice hole at random. As soon as she stood there and looked inside, a fish jumped out, which scared her a lot.
Chen Guihua nodded but didn't say she didn't believe it. She saw that Tian Tian also liked to eat that fish. She thought that if Tian Tian really had some tricks to catch fish, she would not hide it from her.
After finishing the meal and washing the dishes, it was already dark. After washing their feet, everyone went back to their rooms to sleep.
Tian Tian took a nap this afternoon and was not sleepy at night, so she heated up the kang, crawled into the quilt, and finally slipped into the snail shell.
She had said before that the temperature inside her shell was the same as the temperature outside, and it was very warm inside the quilt. She left her shell inside the quilt, and the temperature inside the shell was almost the same as that inside the quilt.
At this temperature, she doesn't even need to wear a sweater, just a shirt and pants will be enough.
Tian Tian opened the math book and flipped through a few pages, then she began to feel sleepy.
Forgive her, a liberal arts student who has been in college for three years and has long forgotten everything she learned in junior high and high school.
Besides, mathematics was never Tian Tian's strong point, and it was extremely difficult for her to start from scratch.
Tian Tian insisted on studying for a while, but she was so sleepy that she quickly closed the book, got out of the shell and lay down in the warm quilt.
She sighed contentedly, but vaguely heard a woman's voice coming from outside, but when she listened carefully, she could only hear the whistling of the north wind and the sound of it hitting the windows and door panels.
"Maybe I heard it wrong! Who is still outside so late at night?" Tian Tian said to herself, and fell asleep the next second.
Tian Tian slept until dawn. After waking up, she sat there in a daze for a while, then got dressed, folded the quilt and went outside. Only then did she realize that the house was exceptionally quiet today. Even Old Lady Tian, who got up the earliest, had not gotten up yet.
Tian Tian quietly opened the door of the east room where Old Mrs. Tian lived and took a look inside. She found that Old Mrs. Tian was still sleeping and there was no movement in her parents' room.
Tian Tian was wondering in her heart while she boiled water in a pot.
After a while, the door of Tian Tian's parents' room opened. Tian Tian turned her head and saw a short leg coming out from the crack of the door.
It was Tian Zhuo. Although his clothes were in a mess and the buttons were all unbuttoned and broken, he was still wearing them properly.
"Sister! I want to pee!" Tian Zhuo said while rubbing his eyes when he saw Tian Tian.
"If you want to pee, just pee. I put the urine bucket behind the door." Tian Tian buttoned up Tian Zhuo.
It is too cold at night in the Northeast, and people take off their cotton coats and pants when they go to bed. It is inconvenient to put them on again when they get up at night. Every household has a urine bucket or spittoon in the house, so they go to the toilet directly in the house and empty it into the toilet the next morning.
However, in their team, no one buys spittoons except rich families. After all, the price of a spittoon is almost the same as that of a ceramic basin. People with that much money would buy basins, so they all use urine buckets.
This urine bucket was originally placed at the door of the kitchen, because there was a door in the kitchen, so people would not run into people using the toilet when coming out of the east and west rooms, although only Tian Zhuo used it at night.
When Tian Tian came out to cook in the morning, she felt annoyed by the urine bucket next to her, so she took the urine bucket out of the kitchen and placed it next to the door.
After Tian Zhuo finished peeing, he ran to Tian Tian and watched her cook.
While cutting pickled cabbage, Tian Tian asked Tian Zhuo, "Are mom and dad still sleeping in the room?"
Tian Zhuo nodded, "They are both lazy bastards. They are still sleeping even when I am up."
Tian Tian was puzzled. It was dark at five o'clock in the evening in the winter. Every household went to bed early and got up late in the morning. Although they didn't get up early, it would not be like now when no one was home until bright outside.
Especially since Old Mrs. Tian didn’t get up, it makes people very suspicious.
"Did our parents go out last night?" Tian Tian asked.
Tian Zhuo shook his head and looked at Tian Tian with confusion.
Seeing him like this, Tian Tian knew that Tian Zhuo knew nothing. Well, this kid always sleeps soundly, how could he know what happened in the middle of the night.
Tian Tian was confused and didn't think of disturbing the adults at home. If she got up late, she got up late. What was wrong with sleeping in after working hard all year?
"Sister! Wash your face!" Seeing that Tian Tian didn't ask any questions, Tian Zhuo pulled the corner of Tian Tian's clothes and asked.
"Wait a minute, when the water in the pot boils, I'll get you some water to wash your face!" Tian Tian pulled Tian Zhuo's hand away, she hadn't even washed her face yet.
In the past, when she got up in the morning, there was ready-made hot water to wash her face. This morning, she was the first one to get up, and no one boiled water in advance, so she didn't wash her face.
There was only one big pot at home, and we had to wait for the water in the pot to boil before we could cook. Fortunately, the pot had enough fire and the water boiled quickly.
Tian Tian poured the hot water from the pot into the ointment pot and then placed it on the brazier to warm it.
There was still some water left in the pot. Tian Tian scooped the water into a basin and added some cold water. She reached out to test the water temperature and found it was just right. She said to Tian Zhuo who was squatting by the fire, "The water is ready. Come over and wash your face!"
Tian Zhuo ran over to wash his face, smeared it with water twice, and then wiped his face with his little hands, "I'm done!"
Tian Tian looked at the eye booger still standing in the corner of Tian Zhuo's eye and was a little speechless, "Who taught you to wash your face like this?"
"This is how I usually wash!" Tian Zhuo didn't feel anything was wrong with him. He tilted his little face up and waited for Tian Tian to wipe his face.
Tian Tian had no choice but to wash his face herself. The child's face was tender, and Lin Meiyu had washed his face before going to bed last night, so it could be washed clean with just water.
Tian Tian carefully washed Tian Zhuo's little face, cleaning away all the eye boogers and other things, then she picked up a towel beside her, wet it with water, wrung it out and used it to wipe his face.
"Okay! Go rinse your mouth. I want to wash my face." Tian Tian gently pushed Tian Zhuo aside.
Everyone in their family, like Tian Tian, has been brushing their teeth, but the bristles of today's toothbrushes are too hard, and Tian Baobao and Tian Zhuo have tender skin, so they both dislike the pain in their mouths.
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