Rebirth of the Poor Girl

Tian Minyan's family and several other families worked together to harvest the crops. They worked together for a total of ten days, and finally harvested all the crops. The Tian family has a lot of land, and the drying field is not enough.Fortunately, the weather in July is fine and the sun is hot, and the harvested crops are dry, and we can borrow land from other families to dry the grain.

Threshing is hard work, and the sky above Yangmei Village is almost filled with the sound of soldiers threshing grain, mixed with people shouting loudly, like a melodious movement.

Tian Minyan and Xiao Wu couldn't do the threshing work, so they went to the grain drying field and used the bamboo rake to catch the grasses that fell together with the grains, and kicked out the valley pits with their feet, so that The millet dries up quickly.

"Second girl, are the two siblings here to kick the valley?" Some villagers passed by the valley field and greeted them with smiles, Tian Minyan also responded one by one.

"Look at the three children of the Tian family, even if they teach well, the brothers have all gone to school, and they may become masters in the future. This sister, hired a long-term worker at home, and they all come to help. Tian Lao San and his wife are really good. Good luck."

"That's right, I'll use these children to preach to my bastards, and I won't come out to work unless I beat them with bamboo sticks."

The sound of going away drifted into the ears of the two siblings, and Xiao Wu giggled and said, "Sister, the folks praise us."

"Stop arrogance and impetuosity." Tian Minyan pretended to be sombre and said: "Kick the valley quickly, let's go home, the sun is too fierce."

Back home, Luo Shi and Xiaoxing were picking peanuts, and even Aunt Zhu and the others came over to help take off the peanuts.

"Aunt Zhu, sister-in-law, are you here to help again?" Tian Minyan greeted Aunt Zhu and her new daughter-in-law Wu with a smile.

Mrs. Wu only married into Zhu's family in June. She is round and beautiful, with fair skin. She is also hardworking and very friendly. Especially when she smiles, the faint dimple on the corner of her mouth is even more beautiful.

"Yan'er is back? Drink some herbal tea, Xiao Xing, bring some tea for your second daughter." Mrs. Wu said with a smile, "Is it hot outside?"

"No, the sun is almost roasting the land. Hey, it would be great if there is an air conditioner here." Tian Minyan said while wiping off his sweat.

"No matter how hot it is, you're not allowed to shower with well water, it's fine to use dish water to wipe your face." Luo Shi warned.

"Sister Yan, what is an air conditioner?" Zhu Yanyin noticed the air conditioner Tian Minyan mentioned, and asked curiously.

"It's a good thing. It's like an ice cellar. It's extremely cold." Tian Minyan stuck out her tongue, went to the well and brought a bucket of water to wipe her face. It was very cool, not to mention very comfortable.

She decided in her heart that when she has money, she will build a big house and build two or three cellars, one for storing ice in winter, and the other for storing food and vegetables, so that there will be ice for summer, and that is ice for food. Sand bowls are also out of the question.

"Selling watermelon, big and sweet watermelon, three pennies a catty, no money if not sweet." At this time, there was a sudden shout from outside the yard.

watermelon!

When Tian Minyan heard this, she quickly threw the handkerchief away and ran out, seeing an old man pushing a cart with many big watermelons piled on it.

"Old man, how do you sell this melon?"

Tian Minyan had never seen this old man before, so he probably lived in another village, so he asked with a smile.

"Girl, I only need three Wen a catty." Seeing someone asking about his melons, the old man stopped quickly and answered Tian Minyan with a smile.

"Old man, I bought several, you can give me less." Tian Minyan bargained.

"Here, how many do you buy?"

"At least a dozen or so, count as two cents a catty, huh?" Tian Minyan gestured with her fingers.

"Succeed, God bless this year, our melons are harvested plentifully, so it's cheaper for you." Seeing that Tian Minyan bought a lot, the old man was very cheerful and grinned.

"Old man, please pick some sweet ones for me."

"Okay!" The old melon seller immediately bent his fingers and tapped on the melon, put his ears on the melon to listen to the sound, and only picked the loud one and put it aside. Two melons come.

Twelve melons weigh more than [-] catties. Tian Minyan paid the copper coin and asked the old man to help move them into the yard.

"Oh, this watermelon grows well. I'll buy two and let them satisfy their hunger." When Aunt Zhu saw that the watermelon was growing well, she also stood up.

"Aunt Zhu, don't be busy, I bought them all, and you will take the two home later." Tian Minyan tugged at her sleeves in a hurry.

"How can this be done?"

"Why not? You have come to our house to help pick peanuts. We didn't pay the wages, so these two melons are considered wages." Tian Minyan laughed.

"Her aunt, don't shirk, two melons are not worth much." Luo Shi also persuaded.

"Well, well, I'm not afraid that people will say I'm hungry." After hearing this, Aunt Zhu sat down again.

Tian Minyan put the two melons in a big wooden basin, poured two buckets of ice well water up and down, and then picked the peanuts.

The three acres of peanuts planted by Tian’s family harvested nearly eight stones of seedlings this year, and they were all piled up in bundles in the backyard of Tian’s family. Picking peanuts was a troublesome job. After several days of picking, only half of them were picked.

Tian Minyan pushed aside a peanut and threw the pink kernels into his mouth, and suddenly thought of the dried salted peanuts that he had eaten before, and the ones dried at home in the countryside are the most fragrant, so he said: "Mom, let's make some dried salted peanuts as snacks too." Bar."

When Luo Shi heard it, he immediately laughed and said, "You foodie, it will be strange if you don't want to eat someday."

Tian Minyan stuck out her tongue, and faced everyone's questioning eyes, she simply explained how to do it. Everyone wanted to try it, so they started working together.

Wash the peanuts, put them in the pot, add salt, cook them over high heat, Tian Minyan tested the taste when they came out of the pot, and found that the saltiness was moderate, so he took a large dense sieve and spread them flat, and put them in the sun to dry.

"That's it?" Wu asked curiously.

"You can eat it when it's dry."

"I said, where do you have so many strange ideas in your girl's head? You have never seen this dried salted peanut, so you can cook it or fry it. The poor one is a luxury even if you eat it boiled." I have to save the oil or sell it for money." Aunt Zhu shook her head and sighed, "If the family doesn't have much money, it's not easy to raise a foodie."

Tian Minyan laughed and said: "Auntie, why do you work so hard? It's just to live a better life. Money can't be earned. We have to combine work and rest, and eat as much as we want. We don't even bring this money with us. You don’t take it with you when you die, don’t you think that’s the reason?”

Aunt Zhu was taken aback, looking at Luo Shi, she couldn't laugh or cry: "Yes, this girl has taught us to be human instead."

In a word, everyone laughed, and Tian Minyan was even more triumphant, with joy in his eyes. These days are the ones with a bright future!

This chapter is too much, but it completely writes out Yan's childhood memories. Yes, Yan came from the countryside, kicked through the valley and picked peanuts, and the piles of peanuts made my fingers hurt.I also bought watermelons to eat when harvesting in the field. Of course, until now, I have always loved the salted and dried peanuts in the countryside. Unfortunately, there is no land now, woo~