The Snail Spirit Travels to the 1970s

Pigs are slaughtered so that everyone can have meat to eat during the Chinese New Year, so they will definitely not be slaughtered too early. The weather is cold in the twelfth lunar month, and the Chinese New Year is only a few days away. The pork that is distributed can be stored, so the timing is just right.

"The twelfth lunar month?" Tian Baobao and Tian Zhuo were both still young and had no idea about months. "When is the twelfth lunar month?"

Tian Tian on the side had a bitter face. It was only the tenth month of the lunar calendar, and there were still two months left until the twelfth month. The time seemed a bit long.

But let it grow, you can always eat fresh meat.

Thinking of this, Tian Tian immediately forgot about the two-month wait. Her mind was filled with fresh meat, and the apple in her hand tasted even better.

The apples in her hand were not the kind sold in the supply and marketing cooperative, but wild apples from the mountains.

There are very few apple trees on their mountain, and you have to rely on luck to find them. This year, Tian Tian happened to see an apple tree with many apples on it, and she picked quite a few of them.

Originally, she thought that Old Lady Tian would not be generous enough to let them eat apples. After all, apples are still quite expensive now, and even the supply and marketing cooperatives have very few of them. She also secretly put some into the space.

I didn't expect that Old Mrs. Tian would hide all the good things and not be willing to let them eat, and would not take them out until they were rotten.

She carelessly put the apples in the lower room, and anyone at home who wanted to eat could go and get them.

But one thing is, once you have taken the apple, you have to finish it. No leftovers are allowed, otherwise you are not allowed to eat it.

This was not a difficult task for their family. The apples nowadays were not as big and crisp as the apples of later generations. They were very small, about the size of Tian Tian's fist.

Moreover, the skin of the apple is very thick, and it makes me feel a little nauseous when I eat it, especially since it is a green apple.

When Tian Tian saw the apples, she thought they were not ripe. She picked one and found it tasted sour and sweet. Only then did she realize that the apples were ripe.

Maybe because this apple is wild, the taste is sour.

However, Tian Tian always likes to eat sour things, so she likes this apple very much and eats one every day.

Although the firewood in the house had been almost collected, Tian Lisong and Tian Lilin were not idle either.

In addition to calculating how much money he had earned this year in the brigade every day, Tian Lisong would go up the mountain with Tian Lilin to collect firewood in his spare time. After all, no one would think that they had too little firewood at home, and the more the better.

Old Mrs. Tian took Li Meiyu and Chen Guihua to boil soybean paste, pickle sauerkraut, and then pickle pickles at home.

Tian Tian also worked with them. Although she didn't know how to stew soybean paste or pickle sauerkraut, she just helped Old Lady Tian and the others.

Then teach Tian Baobao and Tian Zhuo five words and five numbers every day.

In the remaining time, she would either go up the mountain with Tian Lisong and the others for a stroll, or go and play with her little sisters Shen Lingling and Tian Yun.

Thanks to Tian Tian's unremitting efforts, Shen Lingling finally got rid of her prejudice against Tian Yun and became good friends with Tian Yun.

Of course, Shen Lingling personally does not admit that Tian Yun is her friend, and they would quarrel every time they met Tian Yun.

Although Tian Tian thought that the quarrel was just Tian Yun teasing Shen Lingling one-sidedly, Shen Lingling would get angry and fall into the trap every time.

In short, the relationship between the three of them became better and better amidst the quarrels, and even the relationship between Li Dahua and Old Lady Tian was eased a little.

It just eased a little, at least he wasn't so cold when we met.

As for the unpleasantness between her and Li Jiuniang before, Tian Tian had long forgotten it.

The weather was getting colder day by day, and there were fewer and fewer people walking on the road in the team. Only a few scattered children were playing outside all day long.

When Tian Tian got up that morning, the firewood in the kang had already been lit. The warmth from the kang was gone, and the room was as cold as a cellar.

Tian Tian shivered as she added some firewood into the kang. When the fire started, she felt a little warm.

She sat in front of the kang, warming herself by the fire and sighed with warmth.

The light in the room was very dim, with only the fire in the kang emitting light.

The days are shorter now, the sun rises late in the morning and sets early in the evening, and with the windows covered with oil paper, they are even less light-transmitting.

Even though it’s so dark in the room now, it’s actually almost six o’clock.

Tian Tian turned around and roasted the snails from front to back. When her body was warm, she brushed her teeth in the snail shell and then went out.

"Grandma! The kang was cold again in the second half of last night!" As soon as Tian Tian went out, she complained to Old Lady Tian who was picking eggs.

Old Lady Tian glanced at Tian Tian calmly and said, "I asked you to add some firewood at night, but you didn't. You added corn kernels instead. I asked you to get up in the middle of the night to add more fuel, but you didn't. You deserve to be frozen!"

She is now picking eggs all over the yard. There is a chicken that has been acting up for the past few days for some unknown reason. It doesn't lay eggs in the coop but hides in some corners every day. So Old Mrs. Tian has to look for where the eggs were laid every day.

It snowed the night before yesterday. Although the snow in the yard had been swept clean, there was still snow in the corners, which invisibly made it more difficult for Mrs. Tian to find eggs.

Tian Tian curled her lips in grievance after hearing what Old Lady Tian said. Her house was too small and there was no place to step once she put the firewood in the house. Corn kernels were small and a lot of them could be put in a basket, and they didn't take up much space if they were placed in the corner.

Who else can get up and add firewood when you are sleeping soundly at night?

If the temperature inside the snail shell was not the same as outside and followed the temperature in the room, she would have gone to sleep in the snail shell long ago.

"Oh my God! Why did the chicken lay the eggs here? I almost crushed them!" Old Mrs. Tian muttered a few words and picked up the eggs from the pile of corn kernels.

After saying that, Old Lady Tian turned to look at Tian Tian again, "I was wondering why you got up so early these days. It turns out you were woken up by the cold!"

Tian Tian felt a little embarrassed after being exposed. It was cold in winter and the day came early, so there was not much work to do. People would not get up as early as before. Tian Tian's getting up now was considered early.

If the room wasn't too cold and she felt the quilt wasn't warm anymore, she wouldn't have gotten up.

Now that she was up, Tian Tian didn't plan to go back to sleep. She waited until she helped Old Lady Tian finish cooking and the house was warm before going back to sleep.

Tian Tian ran to the toilet and solved her urgent needs as quickly as possible. After the weather got cold, she became less and less willing to go to the toilet. There was no reason, it was just that her butt was a little cold, and it was more obvious when she had to go to the toilet. So now she drinks as little water as possible and tries to go to the toilet only twice a day.

After dinner, Tian Tian's room was already very hot. Tian Tian added a few more pieces of firewood into the stove and lay down in bed for a nap.