As darkness approached, Tian Dalin, Li Guihua, and Erya each came back with a load of firewood. Tian Shao had a bad impression of Erya before, but he felt a little distressed when he saw her carrying two heavy bundles of firewood at such a young age.
Tian Shao knew very well that this emotion was not hers.
While eating, Li Guihua couldn't help but cursed when she saw the dishes on the table: "Cooking so many dishes and putting so much oil in them, will it be difficult for you in the future?"
Tian Shao wasn't angry either. She knew that Li Guihua was used to being thrifty: "You and dad have to do so much work every day. If you don't eat better, your body will be exhausted."
Li Guihua's expression paused, then she said unnaturally: "Then, let's forget it this time, we can't do such things in the future."
Tian Shao shook his head and said: "Mom, the summer harvest will be over soon. You can ask someone to leave a message to my uncle. If anyone catches game, help me buy two to eat."
The Li family is a mountain people, and they lived a very hard life in the past. But now that the outside world is under public ownership, the life of the mountain people has become better. Because they live on mountain roads, which are difficult to walk and far away from the commune, they raise more in the mountains.
No one knows about raising poultry. Moreover, you can find a lot of wild products and other stuffing in the mountains. Unlike commune members, there is a fixed number of poultry raised, and even other things.
"Buy two? You are so bold..."
Seeing Tian Shao looking at her, Li Guihua remembered that she had received a large amount of compensation today, and her tone couldn't help but soften a little: "Da Ya, our family still owes a lot of debts. There are one hundred and eighty in the team alone, and you two
There are also many great-grandfather’s and uncle’s families.”
When Tian Erya heard this, her face turned very ugly.
Tian Shao saw that her face was in pain even before she bought it, so he knew that trying to get her to buy meat would not work.
There is no electricity in Tianjia Village yet, and kerosene is also very expensive. Li Guihua is reluctant to use it. After eating, the whole family went back to the house and lay down.
The Tian family has four rooms, which are quite spacious, but there is no room for storing all kinds of things in one room, so Da Ya takes three and five girls into one room.
Sanya climbed onto the bed and asked, "Sister, if someone says something unpleasant in your ear, just pretend they didn't hear it."
"Someone gossiped about me?" Gossip news spreads very fast, and it is the same in any era.
Sanya hummed and said, "Sister, those people like to gossip all day long when they have nothing to do. If you ignore them, you will make yourself angry."
Tian Shao smiled and said: "I won't care. Sanya, how many of the words I taught you before do you remember?"
Tian Daya was a good sister. After she learned how to read, she taught several younger sisters. Unfortunately, Erya was not interested in literacy, Siya couldn't sit still, and Wuya was too young at that time, so only Sanya learned a lot of words.
Sanya was a little embarrassed and said: "Sister, I have forgotten most of them."
"You can learn from me again tomorrow." If you don't know how to read, it will be difficult for you to go out twenty years later.
Sanya hesitated and said, "Sister, they all say it's useless to read and write, so why don't you just stop learning!"
Literacy was really a boring thing, and she would rather do needlework than learn to read. It was because Tian Daya was so interested at first that she couldn't bear to refuse, so she followed her for a year.
Tian Shao smiled and said: "Why is it useless to study? If it is useless, why do the captain and brothers Tian Chun send their children to study? Why do factories require a junior high school degree or above to recruit confessions?"
Her great-grandfather's family was also very poor, but his grandfather could study and was admitted to a technical secondary school. Vocational secondary school students in that era were assigned jobs. After graduation, her grandfather was assigned to work in an agency. This is also the case. The old man attaches great importance to studying.
Sanya retorted: "They can join the army and work in factories after studying, but we can't? Sister, you have studied hard for so many years, but in the end you still have to work in the fields to earn work points."
Tian Shao did not continue to say that studying can change your destiny. Now there is no college entrance examination and you cannot change your destiny through taking the exam. Now, you can't change Sanya's mind even if you talk about it in a flashy way; "Use your free time to study without affecting working in the field to earn work points. Sanya, eldest sister
It won’t hurt you. It will do no harm to learn more words.”
Sanya was a little hesitant.
Tian Shao said: "You can't read. If you go to the city to buy things, you don't know the characters on the goods and you have to ask the salesperson. Sanya, if you don't read with me now, you will definitely regret it in the future."
When it came to this point, Sanya no longer refused.
Wu Ya, who had been silent all this time, said: "Sister, I can read too."
"Okay, let's learn together then."
After a while, the two little girls fell asleep. Tian Shao couldn't fall asleep because he was full of thoughts, and lay on the bed tossing and turning. His grandparents died of illness two years ago, so in modern times, there is nothing to worry about.
The countryside is very lively at night. The sounds of ‘croaking, croaking’, ‘buzzing’ and ‘cicada’, frogs, insects, and cicadas interweave together, one wave higher than the other.
For a long time, Tian Shao muttered to himself: "Now that I'm here, I'll settle down. At least my father is pretty good, and my mother is pretty good too."
Although Tian Dalin and Li Guihua have their own shortcomings, they both love their children. Unlike her scumbag father, after the divorce, his daughter still went out of his way to suck the blood of his parents. His grandparents were seriously ill and were hospitalized, but they showed up and ran away after everyone was gone.
Come to inherit the inheritance. When he found out that there was no inheritance and found out that she had two houses in Shanghai, he forced her to transfer the big house to her half-brother. If she didn't agree, she went to court to sue. As for her mother, she never showed up again after the divorce.
After she started working, she pretended to be dead again. She confidently claimed that she was not doing well and asked her to support her half-brother.
Fortunately, she made a will after her grandparents died of illness. If she had an accident, all the property in her name would be donated to the Children's and Teenagers' Foundation. I think her father and mother would be very happy if they knew about this.
In the master bedroom, Li Guihua pushed Tian Dalin beside her and said, "Dad, have you noticed that Daya seems to be a different person?"
Tian Dalin is neither blind nor deaf, so how could he not see the changes in his daughter: "I often heard people say that people's temperaments will change drastically after experiencing life and death. It is normal for Da Ya to have some changes in temperament after she has been so stimulated."
Li Guihua didn't think so. She hesitated and lowered her voice and said: "Dad, do you think Da Ya might have gotten something dirty? No matter how bad her temper is, she won't be able to become this big?"
Tian Dalin was startled and shouted angrily: "What are you talking about? Now we are breaking down the feudal superstition. If anyone hears this, you will be criticized."
"Who can hear us if we whisper?" She lowered her voice because she was worried about being overheard.
Tian Dalin felt that he had to be cautious, lest someone listen to him: "Don't think nonsense. Da Ya's temper has only gotten louder, but nothing else has changed. She is still as diligent and filial as before."
Thinking about Tian Shao saying that their bodies were deficient and needed to be replenished, Li Guihua also felt that she had thought too much: "Not only has her temper become bigger, but her hands have also become wider. The oil at home usually lasts three days, and she uses it up in one meal. This counts.
She still wants to buy wild game to eat, how can she be so capable?"
For Li Guihua, who wished she could break a penny in half and spend it, spending money on game would be like killing her.
"After all, Daya got that money in exchange for her reputation. If she wants to eat, buy it for her!"
Li Guihua hesitated and said: "This wild animal doesn't have two ounces of meat, and the meat is still very firewood. In two days, you can send firewood to your cousin and ask her to help buy two pounds of suet."
The lard refined from suet is very fragrant for cooking, and the oil residue is very fragrant for cooking or mixing with rice, and the whole family loves to eat it.
Thinking of his cousin's temperament, Tian Dalin said with some uncertainty: "I'll give it a try!"