The Snail Spirit Travels to the 1970s

After lunch, Tian Tian put all the chestnuts picked by Old Lady Tian into the pot and cooked them. There was not enough food now, and the lunch was watery and not filling at all.

These chestnuts can be eaten as snacks or to fill your stomach.

The chestnuts had been trapped in the mountains for two months and smelled very sweet. In the afternoon, Tian Baobao and Tian Zhuo didn't want to go out and said they wanted to stay at home and eat chestnuts.

Seeing that the two of them were at home, Tian Tian did not lock the door and went up the mountain with Old Lady Tian and the others to collect firewood.

After the autumn harvest, the weather started to get colder, and the temperature at night was getting lower day by day. People in the village started to heat their kangs one after another. For people like Old Lady Tian who lived in the east and west rooms, the stove was connected to the kang. No matter how deep the firewood was placed when they cooked every day, there was always some warmth in the kang.

For houses like Tian Tian and Tian Lilin's, where the kang is not connected to a stove, they have to build a kang.

Tian Tian felt a little cold in the second half of the night these past few days, and she had been planning to light the kang.

We have to collect more firewood at this time, otherwise we will have a restless winter.

Someone like Tian Tian was small and young, and not very strong. She could neither chop a few pieces of firewood nor bundle them into bundles. She could only run to the pine tree and pick up a lot of pine needles into the sack.

These pine needles are good materials for starting fires. Just throw a little in there and the fire will be particularly strong. Many people come to pick up pine needles.

There are pine trees on this mountain, and chestnut trees on the other mountain. I don’t know if these trees were planted by humans or if they grow like this naturally.

There was a thick layer of pine needles on the ground, so Tian Tian didn't have to move and quickly filled the sack.

Tian Tian dragged a large sack to find Lin Meiyu and the others.

The pine needles were so prickly and the gaps in the sack were large that if Tian Tian was carried, all the pine needles would pass through the sack and clothes and prick her body.

Moreover, the sacks nowadays are big. One sack can hold more than 200 kilograms of grain. Although they are filled with pine needles now, the weight is not light when they are fully filled. Anyway, Tian Tian cannot carry it.

On the way to find them, Tian Tian discovered several wild pear trees and picked all the wild pears and stuffed them into a sack.

These wild pears are not as difficult to preserve as grapes. They are hard and can be stored for a long time. When it snows, bury them in a snow pile and freeze them a few times to become authentic frozen pears.

Tian Tian has been curious about the frozen pears from Northeast China for a long time. She has tried freezing them herself, but they don't taste like what people say on the Internet that you can suck them. Instead, they are chewy and have no flavor at all.

Thinking of eating cool, authentic frozen pears in winter, Tian Tian felt full of strength. The big sack was no longer too heavy for her and she dragged it with great speed.

Lin Meiyu and the others were very efficient and quickly tied up two bundles of firewood.

The firewood they use here is not cut into pieces like in TV dramas, and then divided into several pieces. Instead, they pick a thick branch from a tree, cut it, and then tie many branches together.

This bundle of firewood may not look thick, but it is actually very heavy. People like Lin Meiyu who are used to doing farm work cannot carry a bundle of firewood by themselves. They usually take two people to drag a bundle of firewood back.

Lin Meiyu tied the hemp rope to the firewood and said, "Mom! Let's drag this bundle of firewood back with you!"

"No need! You go and drag a bundle with the second son's wife! I can do this firewood by myself." As Old Mrs. Tian said this, she lifted one end of the firewood onto her shoulder and dragged the other end on the ground. She then walked down the mountain pulling the hemp rope that bound the firewood.

Although Old Mrs. Tian doesn't work much now, she had suffered a lot when she was young. Let alone the 100 kilograms of firewood, she had even carried more than 200 kilograms of grain.

Lin Meiyu watched Grandma Tian walk briskly down the mountain, still a little worried, and turned to Tian Tian and told her, "Don't just stand there, follow your grandma, don't let her fall!"

"Oh!" Tian Tian thought that Lin Meiyu was going to be with Old Lady Tian, ​​so she planned to go home with Chen Guihua and help Chen Guihua.

As a result, Old Mrs. Tian carried the firewood downstairs by herself, and Tian Tian quickly followed dragging the sack.

It was not easy for Tian Tian to walk on the mountain road dragging a sack of pine needles. The sack would be caught by the branches beside her after every two steps. Fortunately, the sacks nowadays are strong and do not break even if they are caught from time to time.

But Tian Tian's speed was slowed down, and she could not catch up with the brisk Old Lady Tian. Tian Tian could only lag far behind Old Lady Tian, ​​making sure she did not leave her sight.

As a result, when they got down the mountain and walked onto the flat ground, Old Mrs. Tian walked even faster, and Tian Tian could no longer see her after only a few steps.

By the time Tian Tian got home, panting, Grandma Tian had already rested. She, Tian Baobao, and Tian Zhuo, the three generations of the family, were happily eating chestnuts.

"Grandma! Why are you walking so fast!" Tian Tian threw the sack to the ground, and all the pine needles inside scattered out, and a few wild pears rolled out.

Old Mrs. Tian glanced at the worn-out sack with disdain. "It's only a hundred kilograms, nothing. When I was young, I carried two hundred kilograms of food with nothing in my hands. You're just dragging some light pine needles, and you're already so tired."

Over there, Tian Baobao and Tian Zhuo saw the pears rolling out of the sack. Without Tian Tian saying anything, they ran over and turned out all the pears from inside the pine needles.

"Sister! You picked so many pears!" Tian Baobao said while holding the pears in his clothes.

Tian Tian scooped up a scoop of well water and was drinking it. Upon hearing this, she glanced at the pears in their hands and said casually, "There are still many more growing on the tree. I can't reach them, so I just picked up the ones that fell on the ground."

Tian Baobao and his friend didn't mind that the pears were picked from the ground. They picked one that looked good, rubbed it on their clothes, and took a big bite of it.

"Grandma! I'll put these pears downstairs!" Tian Baobao ran downstairs with a pear in his mouth.

The lower room is where they store things or sundries, and above the room is the granary, which is generally used to store corn and the like. The four walls of the granary are nailed with wooden boards, and there is a large gap in the middle, but it can ensure that the corn will not fall out.

This allows for ventilation and ensures that the corn will not be covered.

Tian Baobao and the others put all the pears in a basket and hung it on the roof. Gu Yinghua also piled all the pine needles he had picked up in a corner of the lower room.

At this time, Lin Meiyu and Chen Guihua finally came back carrying firewood. They untied the hemp rope and piled all the firewood on the firewood pile at the door in one go. Only then did they dare to sit down and take a breath and rest for a while.