As the accountant of the brigade, Tian Lisong could not stay out of the busy farming season and had to work in the fields.
Tian Tian nodded, ran to the vegetable garden to pick a few cucumbers, washed them and brought them to Tian Lisong and the others.
After they all left, Tian Tian pressed some water to wash her face, then went back to the house to wipe off the stickiness on her body.
Pouring the water into the yard, Tian Tian went into her father's room and saw Tian Zhuo sleeping soundly, with a red mark on his face from the kang leather.
Tian Tian didn't call him. Sleeping is one of the few ways to keep a child quiet. As for Tian Zhuo sleeping too much during the day and making noises at night, Tian Tian really didn't believe that Tian Zhuo would dare to make noises in front of Tian Lisong at night.
Tian Tian left the west room and thought that Old Lady Tian seemed to have buried chestnuts for her at noon. She forgot about it after dinner, and she didn't smell the aroma of roasted chestnuts.
Tian Tian went to the stove pit to dig out the ashes, but found nothing.
"Could it be that the baby ate it while washing dishes?" Tian Tian guessed.
She didn't think much about it. The chestnuts were originally picked by Old Mrs. Tian, so it didn't matter who ate them. As long as they weren't wasted, it was fine.
Seeing that there was still a little spark in the pit, Tian Tian grabbed a handful of chestnuts and buried them, not knowing whether they could be roasted.
Tian Tian sat in front of the stove and stared at the chestnuts for a while.
"What are you doing sitting here?" Old Mrs. Tian came out of her nap and looked at Tian Tian who was sitting there with her eyes wide open.
"Mother?" Tian Tian was startled, "You're awake!"
Old Mrs. Tian knew what Tian Tian was doing as soon as she took a look at the stove.
"You remember the chestnuts now?" Old Mrs. Tian snorted. "I picked them out for you and put them in the dish rack. By the time you remembered them, they would have been burnt to ashes!"
"Thank you, grandma!" Tian Tian shouted and ran to the bowl rack behind Grandma Tian to get the chestnuts.
Old Mrs. Tian was going to the fields to pick small vegetables in the afternoon, and Tian Tian wanted to go with her. However, just as she put on her straw hat, Shen Lingling came to find her.
"Lingling is here? Looking for something sweet?"
"Grandma Tian!" Shen Lingling was a little afraid of Grandma Tian when she saw her greet her obediently.
When Old Lady Tian was young, she was also a bully in the village. At that time, she would never suffer any loss. She had quarreled with many people in the village, including Shen Lingling's grandmother, but no one could win the argument against Old Lady Tian.
After Tian Tian was born and Old Man Tian passed away a year later, Old Lady Tian stopped being as picky as before and became much calmer.
However, Old Lady Tian's reputation in the village remains undiminished. At least Shen Lingling has heard a lot about her from her grandmother.
Shen Lingling came over and Tian Tian couldn't go out anymore, so Old Mrs. Tian went out alone.
The two little sisters walked into Tian Tian's room hand in hand.
Tian Tian was sitting on the kang peeling chestnuts, while Shen Lingling was looking around Tian Tian's room.
"Tian Tian! Your grandma is so good to you. She even built a house for you so that you can have your own little room. Unlike me, I still live with my grandparents." Shen Lingling said with envy and disappointment.
This was not the first time she had entered Tian Tian’s little house, but she was always envious every time she saw Tian Tian’s house.
"Didn't your family build a new house? The small house is now empty. You can tell your grandma that you want to move into the small house." Tian Tian handed the peeled chestnuts to Shen Lingling.
Shen Lingling's situation is different from Tian Tian's. Her father is the second child in the family and there are many children in her family.
She has four older brothers, three from her uncle's family and one from her own family, and she has a younger brother.
Uncle Shen's family of five lives in the west room. The kang is big enough to accommodate five people.
The second Shen family and their couple and Shen Lingling's brother lived in the small house, while Shen Lingling lived in the east house with her grandmother and grandfather.
Later, Shen Lingling's younger brother was born, and Shen Lingling's brother moved to the east room to live with Shen Lingling and the two elders of the Shen family.
During the slack season this year, Old Man Shen built a new house and let Old Man Shen and his family move in.
The small house was originally empty, and Shen Lingling thought that she would feel uncomfortable living with her grandparents, and even wiping herself was like a thief. She is the only girl in her family, so it is not too much for her to live in a small house.
But she didn't expect that the cottage was left to her eldest brother.
It was her grandfather who saw that his eldest grandson was getting old and it was time for him to find a wife, and now the house was not big enough for him, so he discussed building a house and let the small house live in for his eldest grandson.
Shen Lingling knew that most people in the village did not have their own rooms. Although her grandparents were a little biased towards boys, they were quite good to her, their only granddaughter. At least she ate and dressed the same as her brothers.
Her older brother is already eighteen years old this year, and he really needs a house to get married.
But when she came to Tian Tian's house and saw Tian Tian's small room, she felt very envious.
I envy Tian Tian for having a place to put her own clothes, while her clothes are all put together with those of her parents and brother;
I envy Tian Tian for being able to wash in her own room, but she can only wipe herself when no one is at home, and she has to keep the door closed tightly.
I envy Tian Tian for having her own desk, but she can only crawl on the dining table to do her homework, and every time when it’s time to eat, she has to scramble to make room for her.
"My eldest brother has moved into that little house. He said he will marry his wife there in the future." Shen Lingling said somewhat depressed.
"Marrying a wife in a hut?" Tian Tian was a little surprised. "Will the new wife bring several quilts as a dowry? The hut is so small, there is no way to put them in? And in the summer, when cooking, the kang in the hut is so hot, how can people sleep there?"
The hut is really small, and the kang can only accommodate three people side by side, and it is still very crowded. And apart from a hanging shed, there was nowhere to put anything in the hut.
The hut is very hot in summer. It is originally placed between the east room and the kitchen. The kang in the east room cannot be heated up, so it is completely uninhabitable in summer.
Although her aunt lived in the cottage when she was a girl, she lived with Old Mrs. Tian at night and stayed in the cottage during the day. Normally, when she had any private matters, she would stay in the cottage. Her family would not go to the cottage unless they had nothing to do.
Shen Lingling looked up at Tian Tian weakly and said, "My parents have always lived in the small house for seventeen or eighteen years."
This old man Shen is really strange. He has two sons. The eldest son lives in the spacious and comfortable west room, while the second son and his family live in a small, narrow room with poor lighting.
You said that a new house will be built here sooner or later, so why can't it be built earlier so that your second son and his family can live there comfortably?
It doesn’t cost much to build a house nowadays, it’s just like treating people to a few meals. There are stones by the river, and they can also be dug near Huangni’s team.
What's more, building a house only takes a few days.
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