The Snail Spirit Travels to the 1970s

Tian Tian secretly looked at Tian Lisong and Tian Lilin who were not far from her, and saw that the two of them were concentrating on catching frogs and not paying attention to her. She poured the frogs she had caught into the bucket she had prepared in advance in the shell, and then continued to pick up frogs from the bucket.

After Tian Tian put another bucket of toads into the shell and picked up some more toads, Tian Lisong also filled a bucket with toads.

"Tiantian, how many toads did you pick up?" Tian Lisong looked into Tian Tian's bucket with a flashlight and found that she had only picked up a quarter of the toads.

Tian Tian looked at Tian Lisong and smiled, "I don't dare to catch toads, so I didn't catch many."

Tian Lisong didn't say anything. He didn't expect Tian Tian to catch many toads. Tian Tian has been afraid of insects since she was a child, so it was normal that she didn't dare to catch toads.

Moreover, he looked at Tian Tian several times just now. Tian Tian was squatting in one place and didn't move much. It didn't look like she caught a lot of toads.

The three of them carried the buckets back, put all the frogs in the buckets in place, and then went back to the house to sleep.

Although Tian Tian had a plastic sheet tied around her body, her trouser legs were wet and she was wearing cloth shoes, so her feet were ice cold.

After she locked the door, she took off her pants and went straight into the shell, then boiled some water to soak her feet.

Once inside the shell, Tian Tian first boiled some water and then squatted beside the bucket containing the toad.

It was very quiet inside the barrel, without any movement at all.

No living thing can be put in her shell. The toad will die as soon as it enters, and it has no function of preserving food.

Fortunately, the weather is not hot now, so it can be kept in well water for a few days.

However, Tian Tian still didn't plan to keep these toads with her for too long. She planned to sell these toads to Li Jiuniang tomorrow. Otherwise, if the toads went bad, she would have caught them in vain.

After the water boiled, Tian Tian soaked her feet comfortably and felt that all the pores on her legs were opened.

While wiping her feet, Tian Tian was still considering whether to boil some water for a bath, but she was reluctant to use the mineral water in the space, as she used it to cook noodles.

So Tian Tian happily decided to secretly draw some water from the well tomorrow, and bring back some firewood to boil water for a hot bath.

It is a bit troublesome for her to take a bath here now. It is very troublesome to boil water every time, and she dare not soak in it for too long. The water will get cold after a long time. She can only soak for a while, rub her body simply, and then get out of the bathtub.

She found this bathtub in a department store. It's more like a bathtub than a tub. It's a foldable type with frames around it. If you want to use it, you can prop up the frames. If not, you can just fold it and put it away.

After Tian Tian finished washing up and went out, it was already past twelve o'clock, so she quickly got into bed and went to sleep.

When she woke up the next morning, she felt groggy. She now gets up at four or five o'clock every morning and this has become her biological clock. However, she went to bed a little late last night and felt that she did not get enough sleep. She sat on the kang for a long time to relax, and the headache was relieved a little.

She put on her shoes and went down to the field. Smoke was already coming out of the kitchen chimney and Old Mrs. Tian had gotten up and started cooking.

After washing her face and brushing her teeth and taking care of her physiological problems, Tian Tian ran to the chicken coop to see if the only chicken left in the house had laid eggs. The coop was empty, without a single egg.

Tian Tian then remembered that the remaining chicken at home was sitting on brooding eggs and could not lay eggs.

She went back into the house to help Old Lady Tian cook. Old Lady Tian was cleaning toads, cutting open their stomachs and taking out their hearts and lungs. There was a pile of toad entrails at her feet.

Tian Tian felt a little disgusted and moved a little further away from the toads.

"Go to the cellar and get some potatoes. We will stew them with frogs in the morning! Then go get some cornmeal and make some cornmeal cakes!" Old Mrs. Tian instructed Tian Tian.

She was busy dealing with the toad and had no time to do other things, so she had to ask Tian Tian for help.

"Okay!" Tian Tian agreed and went to the vegetable cellar in the backyard to pick out some potatoes.

Take the potatoes to the dry well, wash them clean, peel them, then bring them back into the house, cut them into pieces and soak them in water.

After the potatoes were cut, Tian Tian went to Old Lady Tian's house, scooped a few spoonfuls of flour, and took it to the kitchen to knead the dough.

"You guys must have come back pretty late last night, right? Why didn't you sleep a little longer this morning?"

Old Mrs. Tian didn't go to wake up Tian Tian in the morning. She thought that Tian Tian had picked up so many frogs last night, so she wanted her to sleep a little longer. Unexpectedly, Tian Tian got up by herself at this time.

"I'm used to getting up at this time in the morning, and I can't sleep, so I thought of getting up early to help you." Tian Tian said.

"That's fine!" Mrs. Tian was indeed a little too busy this morning. "If you're sleepy, just go take a nap during the day."

"Okay!" Tian Tian agreed.

"You should stew all the frogs in the basin later. I'm busy here. You caught a lot of frogs last night, and our family can't finish them all. I'll take some and send them to your aunt when the time comes." Old Mrs. Tian said to Tian Tian in advance.

Tian Tian had no objection to Old Lady Tian giving the toads to Tian Lijuan, and she didn't say anything. They did catch a lot of toads yesterday. In order to prevent the toads from jumping out, Tian Lisong and the others didn't fill the buckets. But with the few toads caught by Tian Tian, ​​they could make up enough for two buckets of toads.

They wouldn't be able to finish it for several days, so instead of leaving it here and letting the frogs go bad, it would be better to send some to Tian Lijuan.

She just felt a little awkward facing the disemboweled toads in the basin; she had never dealt with them before.

"It's not difficult! Just chop off the head and legs, and then fry them in the pan. You weren't afraid of catching frogs last night, so why are you afraid of this dead toad?" Old Mrs. Tian saw that Tian Tian didn't dare to touch these frogs, so she spoke.

Tian Tian thought so too. He had caught live toads last night, and these dead ones couldn't move, so what was there to be afraid of?

Thinking of this, Tian Tian cut the toad into pieces with a few cuts.

After the pot was heated, Tian Tian shoveled a shovel of lard into the pot. Now the spring planting work was tiring, and Old Mrs. Tian never saved money at this time, and she always used enough oil and water when cooking.

In addition, the frogs in this season are thin and have little oil on their bodies, so you should add more oil.

After the oil was heated, Tian Tian added the scallions, ginger and garlic to stir-fry, then threw the toad in and stir-fried it. She also poured some soy sauce. The soy sauce at this time was pure brewed soy sauce, and it tasted much better than the soy sauce sold later. Tian Tian rarely used the soy sauce in her shells now.

After stir-frying the toads in the pot for a while, Tian Tian poured all the potatoes into the pot, added water, sprinkled some soy sauce and salt in it, and then covered the pot.

After the water boiled, Tian Tian opened the lid of the pot, put the cornmeal cakes that had been kneaded in advance on it, and then covered the pot.

He pulled out a few more pieces of firewood from the stove, and when he saw that the fire in the stove had gotten smaller, he simmered it slowly over low heat.