The ordinary countryside has been reborn.

Chapter 14 Stewed Sweet Potatoes

Before the sun came out, Li Mei and the two of them packed up their things after breakfast and went to the field.

It was still early, Tianyuan picked up some flammable firewood outside the house, and prepared to roast sweet potatoes for eating.

After lighting a few matches, the fire was finally lit, and a few dried sticks were added to the field.

She stood up, took a basket casually, and walked towards the main room.There was a place on the floor of the main room covered with wooden boards. She removed a few boards and jumped into the cellar, where she picked up some sweet potatoes and threw them up.

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After the sweet potatoes were buried in the ashes, and a few more firewood were added, grandma's coughing could be heard in the field.Grandma is probably about to wake up.

She walked into the room and saw that grandma was already sitting on the head of the bed, spitting into the basin.

Tian Yuan asked: "Grandma, are you getting up now? I'll bring you face water."

People in the village don't use the honorific "you", and if a teacher visits home and uses the title "you", they will feel weird instead.

Grandma raised her head and took a look at Tian Yuan. She took a few slow breaths, and after a while, she said: "Yuan Yuan, please help me bring the water here. I want to rinse my mouth." Grandma said politely replying.

She is obviously used to talking like this. In this family, even though the seniority is the highest, there is a generation gap between her and Tian Zhi, so she can't be careless.

The son didn't care about her, and directly assigned the two elders to the grandchildren to take care of them. She was ashamed to bother Tian Zhi and the others.

A few years ago, when she was in good health, she could still help the family with small things, such as lighting a fire, looking after the children and so on.

Now that the old one can't move anymore, she also wants to try her best not to cause too much trouble to the family.Only when you really need help will you politely say your request, for fear of being rejected by others.

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The countryside is not worth it for grandma.

Grandpa was adopted by grandma and grandpa from the next village. Grandma loved him as much as her own son. Now that they are both old, grandpa made such a decision to shirk the responsibility of supporting their parents!

But in today's countryside, people speak little, and they can only do small things within their capabilities.

She quickly responded: "Okay, grandma, just wait a moment, I'll be right there."

Tianyuan fetched hot water in the kitchen, took a special cup for grandma, filled her with mouthwash, put bamboo sticks on it, and brought it to grandma in the room, "Grandma, I simmered sweet potatoes, let's eat sweet potatoes later. "

Grandma smiled, "Okay, then you have to watch the ignition, don't get burned again,"

Because in the past, the field often forgot to turn the sweet potatoes, which caused one side of the sweet potatoes to be burnt black, and the other side was not very ripe.Grandma always teased her about it,

"No, grandma, I will cook it evenly this time, just wait and eat!"

After she finished speaking, she hurried to the kitchen. Don't break the cowhide you just finished blowing!

Tian Yuan went back to the kitchen and turned the sweet potatoes over, making sure they were not burnt, and buried them again.

It was estimated that it would take a while, so she went back to her room and found all the textbooks for the first and second grades.

In fact, Chinese is not bad, there is not much to learn, but many of the above must-recite texts have been forgotten.

As for mathematics, this is Tianyuan's strong point. You only need to memorize some formulas you have forgotten. The most important thing is to do the questions to consolidate your memory.

I took a rough look at the Chinese and math textbooks for the first grade of junior high school, and the field was burning while memorizing the text.

Although I forgot, but now I see the textbook, I have a little impression again. After reading it a few times and going through it in my mind, I can almost memorize it.Occasionally, the order is out of order, and she re-reads it a few times and it's almost the same.

When the sweet potatoes were almost ripe, she put down her textbook, took out the sweet potatoes with iron clips, first patted the ashes off the ground, pressed them with her fingers, and after confirming that they were ripe, Tianyuan picked the biggest one and picked it up.

She came to the room, handed the sweet potato to grandma, and said, "Grandma, the sweet potato is ready, look, it's not burnt at all."

Grandma took the sweet potato and just took it out of the fire, and it was still a little hot. She tossed it with her left and right hands a few times, and blew a few breaths on the sweet potato to blow off the ash on it.

Seeing that the outer skin was not burnt, and it was soft to hold, she praised: "Yes, it's not burnt, this time it was roasted seriously. Go and eat it quickly, isn't Xiaoyu up yet?"

Tianyuan looked at Tian Yu who was sleeping soundly on the bed on the left, and said, "Yeah, she hasn't woken up yet, so I'll go eat first too. I'll go to Xiaoxiao's house later, and I'll give Xiaoyu Simmer one, let Tian Yu get it by herself when she wakes up."

Grandma has already torn off the sweet potato skin, eating red and soft sweet potatoes, exuding a slight sweet fragrance, she was very satisfied with the pastoral technology this time, and said with a smile: "Okay, you go, I will come Tell her."

"Well, okay." Tian Yuan wanted to eat it when he smelled it.

The sweet potato was peeled in a few strokes in the pastoral field, revealing the red potato flesh, and steaming white smoke, the fragrant sweet potato taste, sweet, waxy and soft after a bite.

Since she went to college, she has never eaten home-simmered sweet potatoes, and she really misses this taste.

After eating the sweet potatoes, I washed my hands and went back to the room. Seeing that grandma had finished eating, she was wiping her hands with a towel. Tian Yuan walked over to pick up the washbasin and went out.

After a while, she came in with the washbasin again, which had been replaced with clean water, "Grandma, let's wash it, it's hot water."

"Okay, then I'll wash it, thank you for your hard work." Grandma said with a smile.

"It's not hard, this little thing is not tiring at all. Parents are the only ones who have worked hard, and they went to the field again early in the morning."

In fact, grandma has already felt the changes in the countryside in recent days, and has become more active than before.

In the past, Tianyuan only did what the adults arranged for her, one command and one action, and after completing the tasks instructed, she ran out to play by herself.

Although she is very obedient, she won't complain about being tired when the work is arranged too much.

But grandma always felt that she was a little stupid and not clever enough, especially compared with Tian Jing and Tian Xiao, who were clever, she seemed a little stupid.

But now, she can see the work in her eyes, and there is no need for adults to arrange tasks.And he has also become able to speak, unlike before, he always needs an adult to guide him to ask questions in order to be able to speak a few more words.

Grandma just thought that she had reached the age when she should be sensible, so she was a little relieved.

The child is sensible now, and can help Tian Zhi and his wife. They have to take care of her as an old woman and provide for the child to study in the past few years. It has really suffered a lot.

Tianyuan has no idea what grandma is thinking, otherwise.
Otherwise, it's nothing, and it's not that she was pierced by another soul, she is not at all hypocritical.

She is still her!

After grandma finished washing, Tianyuan packed up her things and was going to visit Tian Xiao's house. She told her grandma that she would be back before noon.

(End of this chapter)