The Snail Spirit Travels to the 1970s

Old Mrs. Tian glared at him fiercely again, "You are really living a good life now, but you still want to exchange grain for food coupons. Have you forgotten the days when you couldn't afford to eat? Now you still want to eat snacks, you are so beautiful!"

Chen Guihua stopped talking and lowered her head to rub the hemp rope.

Old Mrs. Tian and Lin Meiyu went back to the house to put the money away. Tian Tian glanced at Chen Guihua, who looked a little depressed, thought for a while, then turned back to her room and took out a few pieces of fruit candy from their shells.

He tore off the wrapping paper, put it in his pocket, and ran to the kitchen again.

"Auntie! Here's the candy!" Tian Tian handed the candy in her hand to Chen Guihua.

As soon as Chen Guihua saw the candy, she forgot everything else and couldn't wait to take one and put it in her mouth. The sour and sweet taste immediately spread.

"Mm! Delicious!" Chen Guihua nodded to confirm the taste of the candy, and then said to Tian Tian: "Thank you, Tiantian."

"It's okay!" Tian Tian said and then sat down next to her to rub the hemp rope.

For a moment, the only sounds in the room were Chen Guihua and Tian Zhuo slurping candy.

Old Mrs. Tian and Lin Meiyu returned the money very quickly.

With the candy in her mouth, Chen Guihua became much quieter than usual and no longer clamored to ask Old Lady Tian for delicious food. This made Old Lady Tian a little uncomfortable and she glared at Chen Guihua several times.

In the evening, I stewed a pot of sauerkraut and vermicelli. After it was cooked in a big pot, I poured it out and put it in a basin, then stewed it on the brazier. The whole family ate the hot food around the brazier.

The pickled cabbage was pickled by Mrs. Tian herself, and it tasted very good. If it was put in the barbecue and roasted dry around the baking pan, Tian Tian would always love to eat it. But the stewed vermicelli was also very delicious, and Tian Tian ate a lot of it.

The vermicelli is also made by Grandma Tian herself. From potatoes to potato starch and finally to vermicelli, everything is made by Grandma Tian herself.

The texture is chewy and soft, the only drawback is that it cannot be stewed for too long, otherwise it will be completely melted and you won't be able to pick it up with tongs.

After dinner in the evening, when Tian Tian was about to go back to the house with firewood, Lin Meiyu quietly called her.

"Tiantian! Come here!" Lin Meiyu stood at the door and waved at Tiantian.

Tian Tian put the firewood at the door and brushed off the sawdust and dead leaves stuck on her body. "What's wrong, Mom?"

"Come into the house with me, I have something to tell you!" After saying that, Lin Meiyu pulled Tiantian into the house.

Tian Zhuo had fallen asleep on the warm kang, snoring softly. Tian Lisong was sitting on the kang with a cotton jacket on and a quilt covering his legs.

"Dad!" Tian Tian greeted Tian Lisong first, then turned to ask Lin Meiyu, "Mom! What did you ask me to come in for?"

"Didn't your brother send some money? Mom will give you some pocket money too!" After Lin Meiyu pulled Tian Tian into the house, she went up on the kang and opened the cabinet to look for things.

Tian Tian's eyes lit up, and she couldn't help but move closer and asked, "Is this true? Are you really going to give me some pocket money?"

There was no concept of pocket money at that time. In Tian Tian's memory, children like them would never have money in their hands. She remembered that the brother of one of her junior high school classmates went to work and had to hand over all his salary to his parents every month. He did not have a penny in his hands.

As for children in rural areas, let alone, some adults don’t even have a few dollars.

"I'll really give it to you! How could your mother and I lie to you?" Tian Lisong laughed when he saw Tian Tian, ​​the little money-grubber. Why didn't he realize that Tian Tian's look was so funny before?

However, he did not doubt that Tian Tian had a new heart. He just thought that Tian Tian's personality changed drastically because of falling into the river. Although Tian Tian had changed a little, she was still the kind and well-behaved girl overall.

Lin Meiyu took out fifty cents and quickly put it in Tian Tian's hand, whispering, "Take this fifty cents, and don't let your brother know. He is young and can't keep secrets. It would be bad if the whole village knew about it. You can keep it secretly and spend it or save it. Your parents won't care about you."

Tian Tian nodded, "Thank you, Mom and Dad!"

Lin Meiyu touched Tian Tian's little face and said, "Go back to sleep! Add more firewood at night so you don't get cold in the middle of the night."

When Tian Tian came out of Lin Meiyu's room and was about to go back to her room, she was stopped again.

"Tiantian, take these two slices of ginger back and rub them on your toes." Old Mrs. Tian handed over two slices of ginger.

"Thank you, grandma!" Tian Tian had forgotten that her feet were frozen, but she didn't expect that Grandma Tian still remembered it.

Tian Tian took the ginger slices back to the house. The first thing she did was to throw the sanitary napkin into the kang hole and burn it, and then added a few large pieces of firewood into it.

Suddenly, an unpleasant smell of burning plastic came from the kang.

She opened the door a little, and waited until the smell had dissipated before closing it.

Although it is a bit disgusting to do this, I can't care about it at this moment.

After the kang hole was added, Tian Tian went up to the kang and rubbed her toes with ginger slices until they felt hot and there was no moisture on the ginger slices. Then she threw the ginger slices into the kang hole and went back to study.

Tian Tian was sleeping in the late night when she was woken up by her itchy feet.

Tian Tian was half asleep. She stretched out her legs and rubbed them against the wall a few times until her toes hurt. Then she put her feet against the wall and continued to sleep.

The next morning after breakfast, Tian Tian went outside to collect all the sheets that had been hung out to dry yesterday.

It was windy all night last night and there was a lot of snow blown onto the quilt.

The mattress sheet that had been hung outside for a day and a night was now cold, so Tian Tian spread it on the hot kang to remove the moisture.

"Tiantian! Aren't you going to grind flour? Come on!" Tian Lisong said while carrying corn kernels.

"Wait for me!" Tian Tian hurriedly put on her shoes and cotton jacket, and went to the mill to grind flour with Tian Lisheng.

They would grind the noodles when they were almost done eating. Normally they would just twist off the corn kernels at home and leave them there. When they had finished eating the noodles, they would carry the corn kernels to grind the noodles.

The same goes for small and large pieces of ballast.

Inside the mill, Tian Lisong pushed the mill to grind flour, and Tian Tian took a broom and swept the flour into the millstone.

After all the cornmeal and corn bran were ground, Tian Lisong walked back carrying them, and Tian Tian followed him with her head down.

"Comrade Tian Tian!" Suddenly someone called Tian Tian from behind. She turned around and saw Li Jiuniang holding a basket in his hand and wearing a very thick cotton jacket, and was quickening his pace towards her.

"Tiantian! Your friend is looking for you, so I'll go back first!" After Tian Lisong said this, he left with the flour on his back.