Tong Yiya hadn’t started eating the pancake yet, so Deng Laowu didn’t complain and just started eating it.
As a farmer, he doesn't talk much when facing outsiders. Aunt Guihua said because she was afraid that Tong Yiya would feel uncomfortable: "Your fifth uncle doesn't talk much, let's ignore him, just pick up some food and eat."
As he said this, he picked up a piece of food with chopsticks and put it on the steamed bun in Tong Yiya's hand.
Tong Yiya didn't say anything, just nodded and lowered her head to take a bite of the steamed bun with vegetable juice. Although it was mixed with some coarse grains, Aunt Guihua's cooking skills were good and it tasted very good.
Deng Laowu was quietly eating the pancake in his hand, occasionally taking some pickles to eat with it. He wanted to save the fried dishes for his wife and the young educated youth.
When he took the second bite, he discovered that there was a filling in the pancake. Although the pancake looked black, it tasted like white flour, very delicate and delicious.
He raised his head and glanced at the young educated youth opposite him, then looked at his wife who was eating steamed buns. He wanted to say something, but after thinking it over, he didn't say it out loud.
The three of them finished their meal in a short while. Aunt Guihua was busy going back to work on the land allocated to their family. She cleaned up the dishes on the ground and said to Tong Yiya, "Tong Zhiqing, we will go back first. Remember not to bring lunch tomorrow. I will bring it to you at noon."
Tong Yiya did not refuse and said: "Okay, I will give you my rations then. I'm sorry to bother you for the next few days."
Aunt Guihua said: "Okay, let's go over there first."
After saying that, she picked up the packed basket and returned to the mission site in the east with her man.
After walking away, Deng Laowu looked around to see if there was anyone around and said to Aunt Guihua, "Wife, the pancakes that I ate just now from Tong Zhiqing had meat fillings inside, and the flour seemed to be white, but I don't know why it turned out to be black."
"What? Why didn't you tell me that we are taking advantage of Tong Zhiqing?" When Aunt Guihua heard what her husband said, she immediately felt that she had let Tong Zhiqing suffer a loss.
She was afraid that Tong Yiya was eating coarse grain biscuits, so she gave the biscuits to her man.
"I saw that Tong Zhiqing didn't say anything, so I guess she's not the kind of person who would mind these things. Why don't you save a few more eggs and send them to her?" Deng Laowu said
"This is the only way. We are out of flour and meat. Otherwise, we should make some cakes and send them back," said Aunt Guihua.
The two of them had long been accustomed to eating coarse grains in the village. Usually, their sons and daughters-in-law would give them some money when they came back, but the two of them saved it, thinking that they could take out the money when they needed it urgently in the future.
Although their three sons are all quite successful, the couple are still relatively frugal in the countryside. They usually eat and use what they can get at home, and when the grain is distributed, they will send most of the white flour to the county for their grandchildren to eat.
They usually keep five to ten kilograms of it at home, and add some to steamed buns to make a two-grain flour for consumption.
It is autumn harvest time again and everyone is busy with the harvest. There is no time to go to the commune to buy some. Now I can only do as my husband said and save some eggs and send them over.
Not long after the two left, Tong Yiya put on her hat again, put on a thin coat, picked up a hoe and continued to dig sweet potatoes in the field.
It took her more than an hour to dig up all the sweet potatoes allocated to her. Then she started picking them up in a basket and carried them back to the brigade headquarters.
Some of the other villagers had strong laborers at home and used two large baskets to carry the goods, but Tong Yiya could not lift them, so she could only carry them in a backpack.
She harvested nearly 300 kilograms of sweet potatoes from Sangou, and it took her several backpacks to carry all the sweet potatoes.
After carrying the sweet potatoes, she went to find the scorer to record her work points. She earned ten work points that day.
At this time, a child would run through the fields from time to time, searching around for any sweet potatoes left in the fields. If they picked them up and handed them over to the brigade, they would get one or two work points.
Nowadays, children have a half-month autumn harvest holiday, so all the children in the village, regardless of age, as long as they can walk, will go to the fields to help pick up some small sweet potatoes and potatoes during this period. Later, they can also pick up the corn that has fallen on the ground. These can earn two or three work points a day.
After Tong Yiya recorded her work points, she began to collect the sweet potato leaves that she had cut in the morning. She had to carry them to the cowshed and have them chopped up by the pig feeders to feed the pigs.
During this period, pigs and cows mainly eat sweet potato leaves and potato leaves, because the villagers are now busy with the autumn harvest and no one has time to cut grass to feed the sheep.
Tong Yiya cut two baskets of pointed sweet potato vines from Sangou Sweet Potatoes. This side was far from the cowshed, so she had to carry them back and forth twice before she could carry them all.
In the cowshed, she saw the old man she had rescued a few days ago. He has now recovered from his illness. She would put some food at their door from time to time, but they never had face-to-face contact since then.
The old man had seen her later when she went for a follow-up checkup, so they all knew each other, but when they met in the daytime, everyone pretended not to know each other. She didn't say hello either. After dumping the sweet potato vines into the pile, she returned to the yard carrying the empty basket.
She returned to the yard and tried the water in the water tank, which had been heated up by the sun. She then took it directly into the house and cleaned the house.
After changing clothes, I washed them with water and hung them in the yard.
She went into the kitchen to make herself dinner. She fried an egg specially in the evening. But she didn't rush to eat it. She separated the egg into a bowl, took the rations she had prepared, and went out to deliver it to Aunt Guihua's house.
Aunt Guihua's family was preparing dinner at this time, and Uncle Deng was repairing the stools at home in the yard.
Tong Yiya walked into the yard and saw Uncle Deng Wu and asked, "Uncle Wu, is Aunt Guihua home? I came to deliver food."
"Tong Zhiqing, your aunt is in the kitchen, wait for me, I will call her out for you."
Deng Laowu put down the tools in his hands, got up and went to his kitchen to call someone. Tong Yiya was waiting in the yard.
Not long after, Aunt Guihua came out. Seeing that she was holding a bowl of food and carrying some other things, she hurried forward and said, "Your uncle is the same. Why didn't he help you get the food and let you sit and wait first? Come and sit quickly. Have you eaten? If not, you can eat at Aunt's house tonight."
Tong Yiya put the things in her hand on the table and said, "It's okay, Auntie. I have already prepared dinner at home. I came here at this time to bring you some of my dishes so that you can try my cooking skills. I'll just tell you about my rations. I have to go back for dinner soon, so I won't sit down."
"Well, I won't be polite then. Since you have already cooked at home, I won't keep you here. Just wait for me to pour out the dishes and you can take the bowl back." Aunt Guihua said as she picked up the bowl and saw that there was scrambled eggs in it. She just paused for a moment and didn't say anything.
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