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Chapter 153 Pushing the Stone Mill

It doesn't matter how much you mock Wang Ting on weekdays, but you can't make things difficult for yourself. There are only two or three delicious things in the countryside, and they can only be eaten during festivals. Dumplings for the Dragon Boat Festival, glutinous rice cakes for Lixia , Mid-Autumn Festival moon cakes, and sweet cakes made of sweet ear grass, which are delicious.

Students from other villages who passed by on this road saw sweet ear grass in the vegetable field, and jumped down to pick it. For a while, they saw only students bending over to pick sweet ear grass in the vegetable field.

Wang Ting and Liang Xiangmei saw Liang Mei'e and the others coming down, and they stopped picking them for a while. The two of them were the first to come down, the tender ones and the fat ones. My schoolbag is also full.

Liang Xiangmei pulled a handful of iron wire grass from the ridge of the field. This kind of weed has very good toughness and is very suitable for tying things.

Liang Xiangmei buttoned up the clothes, tied up the hem with wire grass, and tied the two long cuff buttons with wire grass, leaving the collar, like a big cloth bag, filled with clothes, and then tied with wire grass , tie up the collar buckle, hold it and carry it, it will not fall out.

Like Liang Xiangmei, many students took off their coats and pretended to be sweet ears.

Back in the village, Liang Xiangmei followed Wang Ting and went back to her house first.

"There's no need to share, there are only three of us in our family, and the sweet ears in my schoolbag are enough. Your family is large, and there is not enough for you to eat." Wang Ting looked at the stubborn Liang Xiangmei and advised her not to go back with her.

Liang Xiangmei is also stubborn, it's useless to decide what to do.

"There are so many, how can our family finish it? It's not cooking, but also with glutinous rice. You see, this is a big clothes, enough to make six or seven times, and our family doesn't use so much glutinous rice. You There must be a lot of glutinous rice at home, I saw Grandpa Xi trade a lot of glutinous rice with someone before, and it was just for you to eat."

Ok!Wang Ting was speechless.

Her family really has a lot of glutinous rice, which Ada exchanged with the villagers, and occasionally makes some snacks to satisfy her cravings, and the pastries bought at the family market are the first in the village.

"Ah, I'm back." Wang Ting shouted as soon as she entered the yard, which startled Liang Xiangmei who was beside her.

"Why are you talking so suddenly, you startled me?" Liang Xiangmei patted her chest, and came back as soon as she came back, did she need to shout out?

Dabai also called out.

Qian Xiaofeng, who was embroidering flowers on the upstairs porch, was talking to Liang Shan, and when she heard Wang Ting's voice downstairs, she smiled and said to Liang Shan, "My daughter is back." She looked downstairs, only to see Dabai entering the building, and Footsteps sounded on the stairs.

"I came back late today, what's going on at school?" Seeing no one, Qian Xiaofeng sat back and continued to embroider.

"School is fine. On the way back, I saw sweet ears in the vegetable field, so I picked some." Wang Ting ran up, opened her schoolbag to show her, and called Liang Shan again, "Ada."

Liang Shan was weaving bamboo baskets, and when he heard what Nana said, he also looked at her schoolbag.

"Grandpa, grandma, I have some more here." Liang Xiangmei, who came up from behind, shook the clothes she was holding.

"I picked so much." Qian Xiaofeng got up, went to the stove, took out a dustpan, and put it on the ground, "Put it here."

Then went back to the house.

The sweet ears from Wang Ting's schoolbag poured in, and Liang Xiangmei untied the neckline, and poured a small half in, and was stopped by Wang Ting when she wanted to pour some more.

"Enough, enough, don't pour it out, you can't finish it."

Liang Xiangmei saw that the dustpan was almost full, stopped her hands, tied up her collar again, and was ready to go home.

"Wait a minute," Qian Xiaofeng came out at this time, took a few glutinous rice cakes, and stuffed them into her clothes.

"No need, grandma, I still use it at home." Liang Xiangmei stopped her.

"Take it, there's still a lot at home. My daughter eats less, and your grandpa and I also eat less. Don't push it, it's not good to push it back and forth." Qian Xiaofeng had a straight face, showing no refusal.

Liang Xiangmei looked at Wang Ting begging for help.

"Take it, it's not some expensive food, let's go, let's go, it's not easy to go when it's dark." Wang Ting pulled up the collar of her jacket, stuffed it into her hand, and pushed her away without giving her a chance to speak , has been sent to the yard before going upstairs.

Liang Shan didn't weave bamboo baskets anymore. He was cleaning Wang Ting's schoolbag. The schoolbag was filled with sweet ear grass, and there was a lot of soil in it. Liang Shan turned over the schoolbag and brushed it with a brush.

Qian Xiaofeng was cleaning the sweet ear grass.

"Ah, I heard from Xiangmei that sweet ear grass is delicious to make sweet cakes, let's make sweet cakes tonight!"

"It's delicious." Qian Xiaofeng smiled and poked Wang Ting's forehead, "It rained a few days ago, and the sun came out again these days. The sweet ear grass is growing well, and I want to pick some back in two days. , now it’s easy to save. Make a meal tonight.”

Qian Xiaofeng grabbed a few handfuls, picked out the weeds, and took them to the stove to wash them.

Wang Ting carried the textbooks back to the house, and then went to the kitchen.

"Ah, I'm here to help."

"I don't need it here, see if you want it on Ada's side." Qian Xiaofeng waved her out, her daughter had never done this kind of meticulous work, the more she helped, the more help she got.

Well, Ada despised her.

Wang Ting ran out to look for Ada again, but she couldn't find it in the corridor outside, and was about to look downstairs when she saw Liang Shan coming down from the third floor with rice dumplings, Wang Ting's eyes lit up.

"Ada, I'm here to help."

Wang Ting moved forward, and couldn't help but grab the little dustpan and hug her. She was worried that Ada would also despise her and wouldn't let her help.

"Take a fire cage and go downstairs." Liang Shan liked that Wang Ting was around him, but he didn't bring her the dustpan, and ordered her to do some other small things.

"Okay!" Wang Ting didn't ask for anything, just ask her to help, and instead of grabbing the dustpan, Pidianpidian went to the house to get a fire cage, grabbed a handful of pitch pine trees, and went downstairs.

Liang Shan was cleaning the stone mill with a brush, and carefully brushed the stone mill with a straw brush. After brushing, he took a dry cloth and wiped it carefully. A long cloth bag is placed on the bamboo tube that produces fine rice below.

Wang Ting took the fire cage over, lit the hook on the beam, and then watched from the side, slowly following Liangshan, Liangshan turned around a few times, Wang Ting's eyes were hot, and she was eager to try.

"Ah, let me try it!"

"The stone mill is heavy, you can't push it." Liang Shan didn't refuse, telling the truth.

In the past, Wang Ting would not have talked about this job at all. Her body was really poor before, her body was delicate and weak, and her feet trembled even when she carried half a bucket of water, not to mention the stone grinding.It was different now, she felt she could push the stone mill.

"Ada, I'll give it a try. If it doesn't work, you keep pushing." Wang Ting took Liang Shan's arm and acted like a spoiled child. Now she is more and more comfortable acting like a spoiled child, and she doesn't blush.

(End of this chapter)