The Snail Spirit Travels to the 1970s

He didn't have to feed his grandfather Song Zhenwei here, but there was really no other place in the cowshed except this room.

He couldn't ask his grandfather to go to his room to drink malted milk, so he could only let Song Zhenwei down for now.

He had no opinion about Song Zhenwei himself, and was even very grateful to Song Zhenwei. He also brought Song Zhenwei some of the mushrooms and wild vegetables he usually picked in the mountains.

After all, he couldn't be there to take care of his grandfather all the time, and Song Zhenwei was a very careful person and was especially good to his grandfather, so Gu Zhao trusted him very much.

"I'm also planning to open a vegetable garden in my yard. It's not too late to plant something now, so we don't have to worry about having no vegetables to eat in winter."

"That's great!" Song Zhenwei turned around quickly when he heard about planting a vegetable garden. "I also want to plant a vegetable garden in this cowshed, but it doesn't seem very convenient. After all, the yard of the cowshed is not big, and there are piles of cow dung, firewood, and corn stalks. There is no extra space for planting a vegetable garden."

"It's okay! I'll plant more vegetables and we'll eat together." Gu Zhao poured the last bit of water in the earthenware jar into the bowl, rinsed the remaining malted milk, and let Gu Xingshu drink it.

"It's no use using a clay pot to boil water here. Can I go to the city and find a pot for you?"

"No need. We two grown men can't cook, and we really don't have the space to put the pot here. We can just use a small clay pot to cook some porridge that's enough for the two of us." Gu Xingshu refused.

He was not stupid. He knew that Gu Zhao must have gotten the pot on the black market. It was not safe to do business on the black market now. If he was caught and charged with speculation, the lightest sentence would be jail time. He was reluctant to let his grandson take that risk.

Before Gu Zhao came, the two of them had always been eating porridge in clay pots. At that time, they didn't know what the future would be like, so they didn't dare to eat too much food. They just cooked a small pot of thin porridge every day. The soup was watery and there weren't many rice grains in it.

Later, when Gu Zhao came, the two of them were able to relax a little and dare to cook the porridge thicker.

“That’s fine. If you want to eat anything in the future, just tell me and I will try my best to learn how to cook for you.” Gu Zhao said.

Now all the meals for the three of them are cooked in Gu Zhao's shabby little house. Gu Zhao bought a pot on the black market, which makes cooking much more convenient than theirs. They can also get some dry food when they have nothing to do, but the taste is not good. At this time, no one is picky.

Before leaving, Gu Zhao boiled a new clay pot of water and sat on the small brazier he had made to warm it. He then helped Gu Xingshu spread the quilt and hid the malted milk under the cowshed before leaving.

After Gu Zhao left, Song Zhenwei blew out the small candle beside him, covered the bed with the worn quilt, closed his eyes and prepared to go to sleep.

The next day, before dawn, people from the team came to feed the cows, and then harnessed the cows to go to the fields to pull grain. Gu Xingshu and the others had no way to continue sleeping.

I got up, washed myself briefly, cleaned the cowshed, shoveled out all the cow dung, picked out all the corn stalks left in the trough, and piled them together with the cow dung into compost.

It was already late when they finished all the work. They had no time to eat breakfast and hurried to the warehouse.

Originally, the two of them were not qualified to lead the team's farm tools like other members of the team, but Tian Ligang believed that harvesting grain was a big deal and nothing else mattered more than harvesting grain.

Since they need suitable farm tools to harvest crops, everyone should give them some farm tools.

After the two of them took the sickles, they hurried to the field where they had worked yesterday. The others had already started working.

When Gu Zhao saw the two of them, he calmly stuffed some dry food into each of their bags, then went back to work on his own acre of land.

At noon, Tian Tian went to bring lunch to Tian Lisong. After lunch, Tian Lisong helped Tian Tian clean up the dishes. "Tian Tian! Yesterday I promised Gu Zhiqing to bring him some cabbage seeds, but I forgot about it this morning. Can you help Dad get some seeds and send them to him later?"

"Okay!" This was not a big deal. Tian Tian agreed and went home carrying the basket.

After returning home, Tian Tian asked Old Lady Tian for some cabbage seeds and radish seeds. Thinking of taking some veggies home as well, she took the seeds, carried a basket, and wore a small straw hat and went to the field to find Gu Zhao.