Lin Meiyu asked Tian Zhuo to rinse his mouth with salt water in the morning and brush his teeth with a toothbrush at night.
Tian Tian didn't pour herself new water. Tian Zhuo's face wasn't dirty anyway, and the water after washing his face was quite clear, so Tian Tian just used the remaining water to wash her face.
After washing her face, Tian Tian went back to the house, took out a bottle of clam oil, and applied some on Tian Zhuo's face.
It's dry in winter and your face will get irritated by the wind. You have to apply some clam oil on it.
After applying the oil to Tian Zhuo, Tian Tian put the clam oil in her pocket and started cooking.
There are only two kinds of dishes for winter, so Tian Tian fried some sauerkraut and potatoes. There was only one pot at home, and it was not very convenient to cook. So she kneaded some dough and made a circle of pancakes around the edge of the pot, then covered the pot and let it simmer slowly.
As soon as the lid of the pot was put on, there was a noise coming from inside Old Lady Tian's room. Tian Zhuo heard it and sat up suddenly from the stool, "Grandma is awake!"
After saying that, he ran into Old Mrs. Tian’s room.
Not long after, Mrs. Tian came over after getting dressed and saw Tian Tian. "Have you prepared the meal?"
"It's ready, grandma! The water is on the brazier, go and wash your face!"
Old Mrs. Tian rubbed her face and said, "It will only take a while!"
Old Mrs. Tian went out to the toilet and picked up the eggs. The cold wind outside woke her up.
"Grandma! Why did you get up so late today? My parents, uncle and aunt are also not up yet." Tian Tian asked.
"Zhang Lanru gave birth last night! It was a difficult labor. We all went to help last night and only came back in the late night!" said Old Mrs. Tian.
They had no idea that Zhang Lanru had started the riot last night, and Aunt Huang didn't come to look for them. Later, Zhang Lanru's screams were so shrill that they heard it and kept them awake, so they decided to go to the Huang family to see if they could help.
After they got there, they found that the situation was worse than they had imagined. Zhang Lanru had been in labor for four or five hours, but the baby was still not born.
The screams were so shrill that even someone who had seen the world like Old Lady Tian was scared. No wonder the screams could still be heard in their home at night when the wind was so strong outside.
Later, seeing that Zhang Lanru was unable to give birth, Old Lady Tian and Lin Meiyu went into the house to help. Tian Lisong went to the infirmary to find a doctor. It was not until the late night that Zhang Lanru gave birth to a son. Only then did they go home to sleep.
They were busy almost all night last night, so they woke up a little late this morning.
After everyone got up and finished their meal, Tian Tian took Tian Zhuo and Tian Baobao back to their room to study.
After finishing her studies, Tian Tian reviewed what she had learned in junior high school by herself.
Tian Tian and Tian Baobao looked up words one by one in Tian Tian's Xinhua Dictionary and looked at Tian Tian's primary school textbooks.
There are several short stories in Tian Tian’s primary school textbook, which are quite interesting to read.
Tian Tian had read it to Tian Zhuo and Tian Baobao several times before, and they became addicted.
But they didn't know how to read, so they pestered Tian Tian to read to them. Tian Tian got impatient, so she taught them how to use pinyin to look up words in the dictionary themselves.
Later, the two of them watched it with great interest.
After they had studied for a while, they heard voices outside.
Tian Tian was curious, so when the voices died down, she pushed the door open and went out. She just happened to see Aunt Huang from next door walking out with a small basket on her arm.
Tian Tian glanced at her and ran to the main room, "Grandma! What did Grandma Huang do here just now?"
"Here are some red-skinned eggs! Do you want some? They're in the bowl on the bowl rack. Take some if you want."
Tian Tian leaned over to take a look out of curiosity, and saw a basin full of red-skinned eggs, with a red dot on one end of one of the eggs.
Tian Tian counted them and found there were ten red-skinned eggs in total, all of which were quite large.
Nowadays, a large egg can be sold for two or three cents, so this basin of eggs is two or three yuan, which is a considerable sum of money at this time.
"Grandma Huang gave away so many eggs? If all her relatives and friends had given away eggs, how many eggs would she have given away?"
"Do you think she is stupid? She wouldn't send so much to every household. Our family helped them last night. Besides, we have been neighbors for so many years and get along well with each other. That's why she sent so much to us." said Old Mrs. Tian.
What Old Mrs. Tian didn't say was that over the years, her family had added more red-skinned eggs and had given away many more than these ten. This was the first time in all these years that she had received red-skinned eggs from Aunt Huang.
Chen Guihua looked at the red-skinned eggs and drooled, "Mom! There are so many red-skinned eggs here, let's share them!"
Old Lady Tian glared at Chen Guihua and said, "Why are you trying to divide them? You had fish yesterday and you want to eat eggs today. Why don't you just go to heaven? How can you eat all the good things in one go?"
What kind of family are they? They ate meat yesterday and eggs today.
It's cold now, so the eggs won't go bad even if they are kept for a little longer. We can just leave them there and eat them after a while, or let the little ones eat one every few days.
Chen Guihua was not angry when Old Mrs. Tian picked on her. She just looked at the red-skinned eggs with regret. Thinking that out of sight, out of mind, she lowered her head and went back to picking corn.
Tian Tian knew what had happened and didn't plan to stay in the room any longer. She grabbed a handful of peanuts that were roasting by the stove, took a bunch of dried sand apples that were hanging on the door frame to dry, and went back to her room.
When Tian Baobao and Tian Zhuo saw their sister coming back with so many delicious foods, they jumped for excitement, and the three sisters gathered together to eat peanuts and dried crab apples.
This dried sand apple is purely natural without any additives. It is naturally sun-dried and has a very refreshing sweet and sour taste. You can't taste any additives at all.
Tian Tian especially loves to eat them. Whenever she passes by a place with sand apples hanging, she will pick one and eat it.
Several clusters of sand apples are now bald.
Time soon arrived in the twelfth lunar month, and it was also the day that Tian Tian was most looking forward to, slaughtering the pig.
As someone who had never seen a pig being slaughtered before, Tian Tian was extremely curious about the slaughter. She got up early in the morning and ran to the yard of the brigade to watch the pig being slaughtered.
At this time, there were many people in the yard, and it was very lively. Some were boiling water, some were sharpening knives, some were carrying firewood, and some were waiting to put the pig on the big table.
There were many children playing in the yard, so Tian Tian didn't stand out much by acting silly beside them.
Tian Tian looked at the pigs locked in the cage next to her and felt a little bit sorry and a little excited.
After all the preparations were done, several men in the team tied up the pigs' legs together and lifted the two nearly 200-pound pigs onto the chopping board.
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