When little Xinxin saw that her great-grandmother and her parents had all eaten, she did not forget her younger brother.
"Mom, give it to my brother..."
Yao Xiujuan shook her head gently, "Xinxin, your brother is still young and can't eat now. Can you eat it yourself?"
Having said this, little Xinxin started to eat the marzipan in small bites.
Li Meiling looked at Xinxin with fondness on her face, "Grandma Chu, Xinxin is so lovable..."
Old Mrs. Chu laughed heartily, "Xinxin is just like her father when he was a child..."
Yao Xiujuan looked at her daughter who was eating candy obediently with a smile on her face, thinking that all the hardship she had suffered in the past few years was worth it to have such a well-behaved daughter!
Chu Min watched Xinxin's series of actions, and then listened to the conversation between Li Meiling and her grandmother. He couldn't help but praise her in his heart. He thought that when he and Dazhu got the marzipan candy, he didn't think to ask his father whether he wanted to eat it, but compared it with his grandmother. Xinxin, who was still young, was really well-behaved. It would be great if his daughter Si Ya could be so well-behaved...
Chu Tian also felt that his daughter was thoughtful. He smiled and turned around to see Daya carefully covering her pockets with nothing in her mouth. He asked curiously, "Daya, why aren't you eating?"
Daya smiled shyly, "Uncle Si, I want to take it back for my dad and grandma to try too..."
Chu Tian was stunned when he heard this, then he stepped forward and rubbed her hair, "Your father is blessed to have a daughter like you..."
Chu Min and Chu Jie also thought in their hearts, Brother Jun, to have a daughter like Daya who is obedient, sensible, and good at studying, he must have done good deeds in his previous life...
When Chu Lifang and Sun Jianjun came back, everyone immediately went back. When they went back, Chu Tian did not ride a bicycle, but asked Sun Jianjun to ride a bicycle and take Chu Lifang back first, while they drove two horse-drawn carriages slowly back.
It was already five or six in the afternoon when Chu Tian and his group got home. Fortunately, they had eaten something at the Grand Bazaar at noon, so no one was very hungry when they got home.
Old Mrs. Chu cut the Mo He cigarettes into two and divided the wild mushrooms she bought into several portions. She took out one portion of the wild mushrooms and gave it to Yao Xiujuan, and she personally carried the remaining two portions of Mo He cigarettes and wild mushrooms to her two sons.
When Mrs. Chu came back, she brought back a large beef bone and two pounds of camel meat that Chu Jie had bought today, as well as a piece of homemade Uighur cloth that Chu Lifang had bought. Not long after, Chu Min also brought over two pounds of smoked horse meat and some ghee made by the Kazakhs...
Chu Tian looked at the things that Old Lady Chu brought back and couldn't help but laugh, "Grandma, this grandson got a great deal!"
Old Mrs. Chu was also happy, "Haha, does my dear grandson like it?"
Chu Tian hugged Mrs. Chu's arm and said with a smile, "I like it. I have received so many good things. My grandson will definitely like them. They say that an old man in the family is like a treasure. My grandson is so lucky..."
Old Mrs. Chu was coaxed by Chu Tian so much that she couldn't see her eyebrows and laughed heartily.
In fact, when Old Lady Chu first came, Chu Tian was also worried. He was worried that his concealment of some things would arouse Old Lady Chu's suspicion and that she would ask questions. But no, nothing. No matter what he brought back from outside, Old Lady Chu would not ask where it came from. She would just eat whatever he asked her to eat.
What Chu Tian admired most about Old Lady Chu was that after his eldest and second uncles came, Old Lady Chu never said that she would give the food or fabrics he brought home to her other descendants...
Although Mrs. Chu was particularly partial to their family emotionally, in fact, except for the Chu Wen family whom she disliked, Mrs. Chu treated all other grandchildren, granddaughters, and great-grandchildren equally and impartially. If she had something to give, she would give it all, and if she didn't, she would not give it all...
Therefore, Chu Tian was happy to support Old Lady Chu, especially with her around, he could teach Yao Xiujuan privately on many things. Just looking at the changes in Yao Xiujuan in the past few months, you will know how right his decision was...
Yao Xiujuan coaxed Xinxin to sleep, carried Pingping, who had just woken up, into the main room, put her son in Chu Tian's arms, picked up the smoked horse meat and camel meat from the basket on the table, and asked Old Mrs. Chu.
"Grandma, what should we do with this smoked horse and camel meat?"
"Ah? Grandma doesn't know either..."
Old Mrs. Chu had never seen a camel, and she only saw a horse after coming to Xinjiang, because there were only mules or cows in her hometown. How could she have eaten one if she had never seen one?
So when Yao Xiujuan asked, she looked at the meat in the basket with a headache.
Upon hearing this, Yao Xiujuan looked at Chu Tian expectantly, "Brother Tian..."
"I suggest that since smoked horse meat has been smoked and dried, you don't have to rush to eat it. You can put it in a cool place and eat it slowly."
"As for camel meat? Hmm, let's stir-fry it. Don't we still have the cumin that Aunt Wu gave us? Put less chili powder and more cumin, and stir-fry it like we would mutton..."
Chu Tian looked at the two people who were at a loss when faced with a few pieces of meat, and he didn't find it funny at all. This era was not as developed as it would be a few decades later, especially since Xinjiang was a frontier area and the supplies were not as good as those in southern cities. So it was no big deal to see meat that they had never eaten before.
Yao Xiujuan nodded vigorously when she heard this. "Yeah, what about the beef bones?"
Chu Tian didn't know what to do. Instead, Mrs. Chu smiled and said, "There's no meat on this big beef bone. It's mainly for drinking soup, but this bone is too big. It's useless to cook it for an hour or two."
After thinking for a moment, Mrs. Chu continued, "How about this? Before you go to bed tonight, light the stove in the yard, add some coal, and simmer it over low heat all night. Tomorrow morning, I'll make you some dumpling soup with beef bone broth. How do you think?"
Chu Tian nodded indifferently, "Sure, I'll listen to grandma."
Time passed, and soon it was mid-to-late August from the end of July. Nearly a thousand acres of wheat in the field gradually turned from green to yellow.
Captain Sun picked up an ear of wheat, rubbed it with his hands together, looked at the plump and slightly green wheat, with joy on his face, turned around and shouted to the team members.
"Comrades, it's time to start harvesting wheat. We'll slaughter one of the five pigs in the brigade and distribute it to each team member. Everyone will have a good lunch at noon. At 5 p.m., when the sun is not too strong, we'll start harvesting..."
August, September and October every year is the autumn harvest season in Xinjiang. First comes wheat, then soybeans, corn, and peanuts. Finally, from late September to the end of October is the cotton harvest season. As for carrots, yams, sweet potatoes, potatoes, chamagu and so on, there is no rush to harvest them as long as there is no frost. They will start to harvest slowly after the main food rations are harvested.
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