In fact, since the weather has warmed up, sweet potatoes have been available to eat one after another. Although they have not grown very large and it is not the harvest season, the size of the sweet potatoes under the roots is already quite small.
Some kids are so greedy!
Not all of them can eat as much as the children of the Lin family and the Fan family. These little ones who couldn't eat enough got the idea of sweet potatoes. They gathered in groups at night and secretly peeled sweet potatoes to eat.
How can this happen? These sweet potatoes belong to the whole factory. If these guys keep stealing like this, they will eat and take most of them without waiting for the harvest.
What does the security department do? It's so arrogant.
The people from Miao Jiafu's morning security department were hiding in hiding, waiting to arrest them. They were all half-grown boys, one by one. They also had home-grown sweet potatoes in front of their house. Why not eat their own?
Stealing property from the public? An incident of this nature cannot be done without arrest!
Of course, they are all children of the factory, their own children. If caught, they will not be severely punished. The sweet potatoes you dug out are still yours, and we will not confiscate them. The key is that if they are confiscated, it will not be easy to deal with. Whoever gives it will not be given to whom.
Is that right? So, it can only be put on punishment. People have said that when your sweet potatoes are harvested, they will be returned ten times as much.
These sweet potatoes will be harvested one after another in more than half a month, and I will be so hungry that I can’t wait.
The adults are so angry that if they are caught, they will be beaten up. They will use brooms to chase these careless ones out of the factory.
Lin Yutong's sweet potatoes were harvested relatively early. Because Lin Yutong secretly watered them, the sweet potatoes grew big. They couldn't dig them out because the basket couldn't hold them. Each one looked like it was about to break free from the soil.
It's that kind of long and very flamboyant posture. Many people said to Lin Yutong: "You can't keep watering in order to grow! Such sweet potatoes don't taste good."
Lin Yutong laughed: "Yes, yes! It's not good to do it."
But in Duanyang’s view, whether it tastes good or not, it’s fine as long as the output is large.
I planted five sweet potatoes in my long basket. When I dug out each sweet potato plant, there were six or seven sweet potatoes hanging underneath. It is normal for a single sweet potato to weigh more than one kilogram. My own sweet potato weighs more than two kilograms and less than three kilograms.
They all look like the heads of children. So they can no longer be called long, and there is no room for them in them. Based on this output, it is extremely normal for one basket to produce more than a hundred kilograms of sweet potatoes.
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But for the work of growing sweet potatoes, we always do it slowly in the yard with the door closed at night. After digging out the sweet potatoes, we have to put them under the eaves in the corridor of the yard to dry and ventilate.
Only then can you enter the cellar.
In fact, Lin Yutong is more willing to process this stuff into sweet potato noodles, which are more durable than sweet potatoes.
Therefore, you need to wash the sweet potatoes and cut them into slices, expose them to the sun, and then dry them. Then find a grain mill to grind the dried sweet potatoes into powder, then put them in a bag and store them for several years.
Bring bad ones.
Adults only find it tedious to do this, but children find it interesting to do this.
Danyang occasionally came back from her grandma's house and saw this being done at home. She seemed happy and never went back. While her parents were at work, she would work with her younger siblings at home. The sweet potato slices she cut were thin and thick.
It's so thick that it can't be exposed to the sun at all.
How to do it?
Lin Yutong taught her to steam this stuff and then dry it in the sun. This is dried sweet potato. It's okay to eat it as a snack in winter.
As a result, the children enjoyed it more and more.
The baskets planted with sweet potatoes cannot be wasted, so what should we do? Plant radish and cabbage.
This time, I didn’t need Lin Yutong’s instructions. Duanyang knew how to do it. He spread the rapeseeds so densely that they grew like this.
Lin Yutong had the same idea as the farm. It's the season to plant radishes and cabbages. What should we do?
The field director then said: "Sprinkle and make the seeds thicker."
Things like radish and cabbage need a certain amount of space to grow. It is definitely not possible to keep growing densely like this. But why do you do this?
This is making the best use of the land. Once these things grow, they will be edible once they emerge.
The seedlings keep growing, and everyone keeps thinning them out. The seedlings that come out are all vegetables! Let’s not talk about cabbage and radish, but the carrot seedlings are also good things. When the seedlings grow up, they will be thinned out by everyone.
It’s almost the same. One acre of land grows more than a hundred kilograms of vegetables for nothing, which is a very cost-effective thing.
This is the case in Lin Yutong's family. Once the vegetable seedlings grow up, they can all eat vegetables.
She planted early, and the seedlings sprouted early. People in the factory rarely cared about this. This one came to pull out a little, and that one came to pull out a little. Of course, they all followed the rules. They kept all the strong and good seedlings.
Maybe everyone is embarrassed because they always eat Lin Yutong's food. So, people like Sister Miao remember to return the gift to Lin Yutong. On this day, Sister Miao came in with a big bag of things: "Hurry and dry it, don't worry."
It’s enough to eat for several days.”
What is it?
Danyang opened the bag and looked at her mother doubtfully, "I've never seen it before..."
It made Sister Miao laugh so hard: "Silly girl, how come you haven't seen it before? Take a closer look!"
I haven’t seen it no matter how closely I look!
It looks like some kind of flower, purple-red, but a little shriveled, like a flower that has fallen off.
Lin Yutong was also surprised: "This is cotton... flower!"
That’s right! It’s cotton flowers!
Cotton also blooms first, and then forms bolls. The bolls open their mouths and spit out white cotton.
Danyang suddenly realized: "But when I look at it, cotton is not just a purple flower."
"That's what you see in the fields." Lin Yutong said: "It's milky white in the morning, pink in the afternoon, and purple the next day. Cotton flowers don't bloom at the same time, so what you see
Flowers are naturally not the same color."
Sister-in-law Miao also said: "You can't touch other colors. If the flowers had not become like this, people's farms would not be allowed to pick them. We have to wait until the cotton bolls grow. This kind of flower will dry up and fall off at any time."
, you are allowed to pick it down. This is not picked off, it falls off as soon as you touch it."
"What do you want this for?" Danyang didn't understand.
Sister-in-law Miao was happy again: "Eat it! Otherwise, why bother with this?"
eat?
Even Lin Yutong was surprised now. To be honest, she had never eaten this thing before.
It’s really hard to say that she has lived a lifetime without seeing anything! Look! There are still things that she has never seen or eaten.
To be honest, she had never even heard of it, let alone seen it.
Sister-in-law Miao vowed: "Grab a handful of noodles and steam them, they will taste great."
ok?
After she left, Lin Yutong stared at the bag of cotton flowers. When the fourth master came back, she showed it to him: "...How about you try this today?"
It was rare that she was curious, so Fourth Master nodded: "Eat! Eat whatever you want."
Lin Yutong was afraid that this dark ingredient would not taste good. After steaming it, he added minced garlic, seasonings, and oil. He also fried bacon... He was afraid that it would not taste good, but at least there are these good things.
Provide food for the children.
The result is really... surprisingly delicious.
So, when someone brought food like this, Lin Yutong accepted it.
She also received unconventional ingredients such as the top buds of bean vines, the top buds and leaves of pumpkin vines, pumpkin flowers, and so on.
I really feel that I have learned a lot.
It's autumn, the sweet potatoes have been harvested, and all the workers have a share. On average, one person can divide more than half of the sacks. For Lin Yutong's side, if there are three employees, then they can divide three and half of the sacks.
This is quite a lot.
I had left some of my unground sweet potatoes before, and with this added in, I felt that the leftovers were enough to eat roasted sweet potatoes and the like in the winter.
After the sweet potatoes were divided equally, each person was also given a cartload of sweet potato vines. What to do with this thing after it was brought back? Lin Yutong hung it on the wall behind, but most people carefully put it in the vegetable cellar.
Factory 115, it seems that this year has passed smoothly. But most people still have no hope for the coming year.
"There is almost no autumn food this year. We managed to survive the spring famine, but there was no harvest in the autumn. So far, only a few drops of rain have fallen here and there, and even the ground has not gotten wet. It's spring...
what to do?"
Yes! People who live a successful life are all calculating their food rations. No matter what, they must have enough to eat next spring.
As a result, like Lin Yutong before, more and more people were processing sweet potatoes into sweet potato noodles. Sweet potato slices were dried everywhere in the factory.
As soon as winter comes, everyone's food becomes even more difficult to find.
If I want to eat some noodles, they have one layer of sorghum noodles and one layer of sweet potato noodles. When cooked, they feel sticky and sticky.
So everyone invented a new way to eat it, making sweet potato noodles??.
In fact, both buckwheat noodles and wheat noodles are delicious, but sweet potato noodles are not that common.
How to make it? Steam the sweet potato noodles into steamed buns. When the steamed buns are hot, they are really sticky and sweet, especially hard to swallow. But what if you take advantage of the heat and press the sweet potato noodles into...
?That at least makes people think it should be delicious.
Many people share a pressing machine, which is made of wooden stakes with a groove at one end and is placed on top of the pot. Five or six steamed buns are placed in the groove at one time, and then another person sits on the wooden handle.
As soon as it is pressed, the sweet potato buns are squeezed into puree, squeezed out from the small holes below, and dropped into the pot of boiling water.
To make this thing, it doesn't matter if you make less at one time. The sweet potato buns have to be hot, and several people have to occupy them. Someone has to keep adding buns to the grooves, and a strong boy sits on the wooden handle to press hard, and the steamed buns need to be pressed hard.
Someone needs to keep stirring what has fallen into the pot??.
It is already cooked. Once it is put into the pot, it is boiled twice, then taken out into a bucket of cold water, and then taken out.
If you do this once, you have to eat it for a day or two. Otherwise, it won’t be worth the expense.
Lin Yutong's family doesn't make sweet potato noodles, but they make a lot of white noodles and buckwheat noodles. This kind is more palatable. Several children also like to eat it. It can be eaten cold and can be used as a dish, and it can be stir-fried at night as a staple food. Or
Put it in a hot water pot and pour the hot sauce over it, and it's also good for eating soup.
Is there anyone selling this outside now? Once Lin Yutong made it at home, several children fell in love with it.
I think it’s delicious!
But if you ask other people, if they eat sweet potato noodles, they almost make them vomit.
But this has to be said on the other hand, it’s good to have sweet potato noodles, but it’s terrible to eat them without.
Winter has come, and suddenly there are many relatives in the factory. They are all here to visit relatives. They say they are visiting relatives, but in fact? They are just here to open their mouths and borrow food.
Lin Yutong discussed with Fourth Master on which day it would be better to go back to his hometown and take a look. He would bring some food and see if he could survive there.
As a result, before they could go back, a young man came to the door.
It was Tie Dan from the Miao family who brought someone to the door, "He said he was looking for my Uncle Jin. I thought he was from my hometown, so I brought him here."
The person standing at the door was a young man. Lin Yutong was stunned, as if he didn't recognize him.
The young man suddenly knelt down and said, "Auntie, I am Dachun."
Dachun, the eldest son of Jin Dani’s family.
Jin Laosi’s nephew.
"Ouch!" Lin Yutong remembered: "Child, get up quickly."
One side pulled Dachun up, and the other side thanked Tiedan: "Thank you for sending me here, otherwise we wouldn't be able to find this child."
Tiedan laughed and said, "Uncle Jin is not at home. I will go to the steel mill to find him for you."
"It's okay. If you have anything to do, just go and get busy. I'll ask Danyang to go." Lin Yutong was embarrassed to always bother other people's children.
"I'll go." Tiedan chuckled, then turned and ran away.
Lin Yutong knew that this boy was waiting to run errands and give him delicious food.
Afraid that the children would be tired of eating them, Lin Yutong made various cakes with sweet potatoes, baked them, and added some sugar. The children all loved the taste.
Even though Tiedan is over ten years old, he still retains his hobby of running errands for Lin Yutong, just for a delicious bite.
She smiled and let the children go, called Dachun into the house, told Duanyang and others who he was, and the children all called him cousin.
Dachun only nodded nervously, not knowing how to say hello.
Danyang brought the sweet potato balls that were fried just today: "Cousin, eat some first."
Lin Yutong said: "You eat first, I will cook for you."
Dachun suddenly sat up: "Auntie, I won't eat it. If...if...if...you can ask me to take this thing back, I will remember your great kindness." After saying that, he knelt down again.
Lin Yutong supported him: "What's wrong? Life at home is difficult?"
Dachun nodded: "My father died when spring came... Only my mother was left with the seven of us... The family has been without food for three days. If I don't rush back, the family will really starve to death."
ah!
This cannot be delayed.
Lin Yutong quickly called Danyang: "Go find your brother and come back. Hurry! Your dad and I have to go out."
As soon as he finished speaking, Fourth Master and Duanyang walked in.
The fourth master then asked: "Going out? Where are you going!"
Dachun knelt down again: "Uncle, I am Dachun."
Lin Yutong then added: "The eldest brother-in-law disappeared when spring came to spring, and only the eldest sister was left with seven children."
The older one is only fourteen or fifteen, and the younger one has just learned to walk. Needless to say, we know how difficult this life is!
The fourth master turned around and went out. As he walked, he said to Dachun: "Your father is dead and you don't even know how to write to him." When he got to the door, he called to Lin Yutong: "I'll borrow the car while you pack your things."
Lin Yutong responded and asked Dachun to get up again: "Get up, your uncle has borrowed a car. Drive quickly." He also asked him to eat quickly, "After you finish eating, you can go on your way."
Duanyang was busy looking for bags: "Bring more food and see how my uncle's house and second aunt's house are doing."
Before Lin Yutong could speak, Dachun said over there: "...the second aunt's family is begging for food in the county during the day...will go home in the evening...the uncle's house...the aunt wants to order food for us for emergency purposes, but grandma gives it to us."
Beaten..."
This is nothing!
Lin Yutong packed things. Food, regardless of coarse and fine grains, had to be given to people. It would not work if people did not eat food. It would not work if they gave too much. In fact, they could not give that much. The only things that could be given more were sweet potato noodles and sweet potatoes. And then there was cabbage.
She harvested a lot of radishes this year. She packed them all with radish tassels and sweet potato vines. No matter how much she harvested, it would arouse suspicion. Even if she helped a few times in the future, she would definitely not dare to take too much at one time.
But there isn’t much. If you take a little bit as a family, it’s a lot.
The fourth master drove the factory jeep, leaving only a space for Dachun in the back seat, and the rest was stuffed with better food. As for the cabbage, radish and dried radish tassels and sweet potato vines that took up more space on the roof of the car, they were there.
Place it on the roof of the car and tie it tightly with ropes.
Duanyang was asked to take care of the children at home, and the two of them took dry food and returned to their hometown with Dachun.
Jin Dani is the most urgent, so go to her house first.
It’s true that when we arrived, the children slept on the bed.
Just lie down, you won't be hungry anymore.
Jin Dani has a head full of white hair. She looks like she is only in her thirties, but she looks older than she is in her fifties.
"Fourth brother..." she shouted to the fourth master, "I'm dragging you down..."
Fourth Master went over to help her: "If you can't survive, ask someone to send you a message. I will know at least."
"It's not easy..." Jin Dani cried: "...I can't help you, and I'm dragging you down..."
Don't say this.
Lin Yutong took out the dry food from the bag and stuffed it for several children first: "Eat quickly, there is still some in the car."
I was very hungry, but I didn’t dare to eat everything. I was given a steamed bun, and I only ate half of it, and put the rest in my pocket.
Lin Yutong looked at the two children on the kang, one was only four or five years old, and the other was two or three years old, and sighed again. She quietly gave half a bag of millet to Dani: "This... is for the little one to eat, it's so big."
It’s hard for kids to digest other food if they eat it..."
I also gave them some flour and rice to celebrate the New Year. I also gave them a big bag of sweet potatoes, which weighed a hundred kilograms of sweet potato noodles. Then there were two sacks of radish and cabbage, and two sacks of sweet potato vines and radish tassels.
"This... is too much..." Dani quickly pulled Lin Yutong: "Don't make your butts tight..."
"Eat first." People have to survive!
They didn't stay at Dani's house for long. Seeing that it was still early, the two of them didn't go to Erni's house. They went straight back to Murakami.
When passing a ruined temple outside the village, Fourth Master stopped the car.
Nowadays, few people pass by this place. The person sitting at the door of the ruined temple is not the old landlord Qian Laojin. The Fourth Master saw him, and he also saw the Fourth Master.
The fourth master got out of the car, took half a bag of sweet potato noodles and stuffed it into the grass, then drove away.
Lin Yutong looked out of the car window and saw Qian Laojin quickly running over and taking out the bag. Then he bowed once in the direction of the car and quickly returned to the temple.
When we arrived at Jin's house, it was noon. It was time to eat, but there was no smoke coming from every house. There were no people in the village, and it was quite cold outside. It was uncomfortable to feel hungry and cold. Still, I had to
Staying in a slightly warmer place can help you conserve your energy.
Therefore, the car that usually caused a sensation when it entered the village now had not even a single person running over to take a look.
Li Yuefen opened the door when she heard the noise, and when she saw the fourth master, she sobbed and cried: "...Fourth brother...you are back...if you don't come back, someone will die at home..."
Compared to other families, the Jin family's life is actually not tight.
Not to mention the financial support given by Fourth Master and Tongtong, Liu Lingdang himself, who is a master of the family, also saved the family from starving to death. But Lin Yutong knew this. She heard Liu Lingdang say that she kept wild vegetables every year
Vegetables and other things. She rarely wanted anything that others didn't want in the past. Even the wild vegetables in autumn have grown seeds and it's a bit bitter to eat. But she still wants it. Mainly because when she was a girl, her mother's family was so poor.
She was used to it. As long as it was food, she would go back and tidy it up. It had become a problem that could not be changed.
As a result, the whole family's life was saved.
There is no food, but at least there is vegetable soup to survive. If you can eat something every meal, it is considered good.
There is no shortage of vegetables at home, and there is not enough room in the cellar, and several vegetable cellars have been dug in the backyard. Dani's family can no longer survive, and the child is really hungry, so Dani comes back and asks her mother to see if she can feed the child.
Take a bite to eat.
Liu Lingdang carried half a bag of dried wild vegetables. They were not delicious, but they would keep people entertained for a few days without starving to death.
But Li Yuefen quit: "My dear grandson doesn't even have enough to eat, so you are taking advantage of outsiders."
At this time, the strength to protect food is endless. When the mother-in-law used her strength, she was trying to snatch the bag from her daughter-in-law's hand. But who knew that Liu Lingdang was not full to eat, and she was pregnant without knowing it?
I was already so hairy that I couldn't withstand my mother-in-law's attack.
It was broken! He was knocked down and fell hard to the ground. No one cared about it at the time, but something went wrong at night. Liu Lingdang had a miscarriage. Now she was lying on the kang, unable to do anything. What was going on at home?
It was Li Yuefen who made the decision. If her nutrition could not keep up, she would never be able to maintain her health well. After the miscarriage and ischemia, she became severely anemic. She felt dizzy when she raised her head and could not get up.
The more you look weak, the less able your family members are to take care of you.
Li Yuefen said: "It seems that it is useless now, don't waste it..."
When Lin Yutong went in to see Liu Lingdang, she learned from Lin Yutong what was going on. Then she said: "...I am really heartbroken."
Lin Yutong kept all the dry food and a dozen steamed buns that he brought with him, "Put them in your house and hide them. Eat enough first to take good care of your body."
Liu Lingdang took Lin Yutong's hand: "...I have to remember your kindness...If you hadn't come back, my life would have been lost to Lao Jin's family..."
When Lin Yutong went out, he saw Li Yuefen pushing a seven or eight-year-old child into the fourth master's arms: "Mom, I don't want you to ask for anything, but please take your nephew with you. He is suffering at home..."
"Okay!" Lin Yutong said, "Take all this food back, since we have to raise a child anyway."
Li Yuefen hugged Liaodu in her arms: "...what do you mean..."
What does it mean?
Lin Yutong said: "Ever since last autumn, we have asked acquaintances to bring food to the house, but why do we only have dried wild vegetables at home?" Then he looked at the child: "Liao Da, I will eat dried vegetables at my aunt's house, are you going?"
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"I'm not going." The child turned around and hid behind his grandma. "I'm not going. I can eat white flour pancakes at home."
This time, not only Liu Lingdang's eyes turned black with anger, but also Jin Dashan and Lao San were stunned: "Does our family still have food?"
"What's wrong with the food?" Li Yuefen glared at the father and son, "Even if we all starve to death, we can't let our family go hungry. This is the only one in our Jin family."
She has her own reasons. Adults can starve to death, but children cannot suffer. There is only one child in the family, and the hope of the whole family rests on him. Is she wrong to do this?
Can't evaluate.
But the situation here is indeed not a situation where he cannot be fed. Lin Yutong will not take the child back no matter what.
The fourth master didn't say much, he just said to Jin Dashan: "...the food given to me includes food from you and my mother, so don't be reluctant to eat it."
With that said, the two of them got up, got in the car and left. Then they went around to Erni's house.
There was still no one at Erni's house, so Lin Yutong asked the neighbors to leave a message and told them to go to the 115 Factory to prepare food for them.
I thought Erni's family would come to pick up food in the next three or two days, but I waited and waited, but no one was there.
I just said that if I really can’t wait, I’ll ask acquaintances to stop by and have a look in a few days. What’s the result? Within two days, a call from my hometown went directly to the factory, asking for the fourth master, saying that his father Jin Dashan died.
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Why did he die? When I went back last time, he was still fine and had no symptoms!
Food was left for them. Not to mention the food left over from the last time, it was the food I gave them before. I'm afraid they haven't even finished it yet.
Why is this so dead?
This time, it's not enough for Lin Yutong and Fourth Master to go back. All four children have to go back.
Zhao Ping gave the car to Fourth Master and asked people from the factory office and the labor union to come and take a look the next day. This was a funeral, so he had to at least express condolences on behalf of the factory. This was also to save face for the two couples.
The family of six left first. Chang Qiuyun and Lin Baichuan took Oyuan with them and planned to go back the next day. Since the in-laws were gone, they had to go back and have a look no matter what.
Lin Yutong and Fourth Master arrived home first. At this time of year, there was nothing to prepare. They were just left on the wooden board.
None of these children had seen their grandfather, and they all looked at him curiously. They knelt down and kowtowed with the adults, but they didn't even cry at all.
If the person is gone, Fourth Master will definitely want to ask: How did the person disappear?
Sick? Or something?
It turned out that the family had cooked elm bark porridge, which was thick and sticky. Jin Dashan was so hungry that he ate it anxiously. If he ate it piping hot, he would die.
This is scalding to death.
The fourth master looked at Li Yuefen. Li Yuefen lowered her head and didn't say a word.
The fourth master asked her: "Can my father save a tael of those grains?"
Li Yuefen didn't answer, covering her mouth and crying: "...I really didn't mean it...I didn't expect..."
Yes! No one expected that.
Many people who did not have overnight food at home did not starve to death. On the contrary, people like them, who could survive through the spring famine with enough food at home, ended their lives in this way.
What can you say about Li Yuefen?
There was a funeral, and we couldn't bury it today. We still had to stay overnight. Liu Lingdang cleaned the kang bed at home and put several children to sleep. Dani also came with a few children, but they were just for
I kowtowed and went home, saying I would come back tomorrow. The main reason was not to eat the food here. What about Er Ni? I found out that the couple took their children out to beg for food and never came back. So this must be
I can't notify you. Let's just leave it like that. If you don't come, no one will be there anyway.
The next day, another colleague of Qian Siyuan came to represent the factory. Lin Baichuan and Chang Qiuyun also returned to the village and came over to offer a stick of incense. Dayuan said to Lin Yutong: "Su Jin is coming too. I didn't call
Come……"
"No need to come." Lin Yutong said: "Xiaoxing is already a month old, so don't bother."
The funeral ceremony is very simple. The person is moved inside the coffin made of paulownia wood and then buried. There is no process like setting up a banquet. People are buried, and that’s it. Whether they are relatives or friends, just
Dispersed.
Lin Baichuan didn't come back for several years and went to live with other people in the village. He would definitely have to stay there for a few days. Lin Yutong was with his children, so he went back without staying long or waiting for them.
On the way, Danyang said: "Why is that guy like me!" After that, he said: "He secretly asked me who my eldest brother is."
Of course Li Yuefen had to ask about the birth of an older grandson.
"What did you say?" Lin Yutong asked her.
"Just say that's my eldest brother, his name is Lin Duanyang." Danyang covered his mouth and smiled, "As soon as my grandma heard that his surname was Lin, she didn't ask any questions."
I'm afraid he might be regarded as a distant relative of the Lin family.
On the surface, this incident has little impact on a few children. But in fact, the impact is not small. At least I no longer hear them ask for anything to eat. They eat what they are given, and strictly follow the principle of only eating 70% full for each meal.
The requirement is to never eat more than one bite. For example, I don’t dare to peel the roasted sweet potato and eat it with the skin on.
The children realized: Food is really too precious.
Everyone knows that food is precious, so Qian Siyuan was especially sincere when he came to thank Fourth Master at night, carrying someone on his back.
The last time he went back he said it was to express condolences on behalf of the factory, but actually he was looking for an opportunity to go back and see his parents. He even secretly stuffed two large bags of food into his luggage bag.
When I got home, I discovered that there was food at home. I heard from my father that someone had helped.
Qian Siyuan felt all sorts of things in his heart.
It is rare to be able to provide food at this time!
Lin Baichuan came back from his hometown and was looking for connections everywhere to get some food for his hometown. To this end, Murakami also sent two young men who were good at troubleshooting to follow him. Both of them were good at judging faces.
After watching it for two days, I knew it in my heart. I didn’t ask for much, so I just said, "Uncle Baichuan, I can’t let you make mistakes. We don’t want food, we just want sweet potato vines and corn stalks and corn cobs." We couldn’t give them food.
If there is too much, it will be enough for anyone. It is better to order something more substantial.
But such a request made Lin Baichuan particularly uncomfortable. He still tried to find a way to get a truck of small and thin sweet potatoes and take them back, so that he could overcome the famine next spring.
In the past, corn stalks and corn cobs were only considered to be burned with firewood, crushed into powder in a stone mill, and then eaten as food.
If animals can eat it, people can eat it.
When I eat, I loose my throat, and when I have a bowel movement, my butt is loose. Anyway, the taste is unpleasant.
But with this thing, life can still go on. I haven't heard of anyone going out to beg for food, or of anyone starving to death.
The Spring Festival of 1960 was held in this atmosphere.
Such a difficult year has finally passed. I feel lucky!
The New Year is the simplest. No one says to prepare New Year’s goods in advance. There is nothing left to sell in the non-staple food stores outside. Don’t even think about meat and the like, you can’t buy them.
New Year greetings, which were not very popular in previous years, suddenly became popular again this year.
Many relatives who have not been in touch with each other from back home came to pay their respects. What did they bring? A handful of dried wild vegetables was regarded as a holiday gift. But a whole family came, including the whole family, old and young, making it into a family of ten.
.Eat for the whole day as soon as you come.
To put it bluntly, it’s just to have a good meal.
But no one is rich in food!
Lin Yutong took her children to Lin's house and saw more than a dozen people at the door of Guilan's house. But as for Guilan, the door was tightly shut and she would not open the door. An old lady came over and asked: "My eldest daughter, you know
Where has our Guilan gone? When will she come back?"
"Who are you?" Lin Yutong didn't know who this person was. If he was an unimportant relative, it would be a bit embarrassing to come to the door like this.
The old lady said: "I am her aunt!"
Lin Yutong looked at the smoke coming out of Guilan's chimney and sighed in his heart: This must be someone at home, but he doesn't want to open the door. He can't feed so many people!
She said, "Maybe she is visiting relatives. When she comes back, I will tell her that you have been here."
But the old lady shook her head: "No need... we will wait for her..."
It’s a must!
As a result, when the family came back from Lin's house, it was almost night, and these dozen people hadn't left yet.
It was said that there was someone at the door of his house. When he arrived at the door of his own house, Lin Yutong saw someone squatting at the door. The fourth master pulled Tongtong back, took a closer look, and called out: "Second brother-in-law?"
The man stood up and said, "Fourth...is he back?"
"When did you come?" Lin Yutong said quickly, "Hurry in."
The second brother-in-law rubbed his hands and took out a small cloth bag from his arms, "I didn't bring anything with me, just these things. Don't dislike it. When you went, your second sister and I were not at home. It was New Year's Eve.
I'm back. No, I'll be here after the first day of the new year."
There were one or two kilograms of peanuts in his pocket. They must have been taken out of the field mouse's nest.
Lin Yutong went to prepare the meal, and the fourth master asked him where he had been.
The man said it, and then said: "... I won't go out anymore, it's the same everywhere. Even in the city... I looked around, and there's no extra rations..."
Lin Yutong brought him steamed buns, and he gritted his teeth and ate only one: "Keep it for the children."
I asked him to stay one night, but he refused no matter what: "Your second sister is still waiting at home. She won't worry if she doesn't go back."
It was late at night, so the Fourth Master borrowed a car again, took his second brother-in-law with the food, and sent it back. He also sent some to Dani's house on the way. It would be better to choose this time in the evening, so that the family can save food.
People care.
The food Fourth Master brought this time was not only for his family, but also for the exploration team!
When I went there last time, I wanted to go see it. But after asking people in the village, I found out that the exploration team went deeper along the mountain. No one knew where they went. They didn't encounter it!
But now that the Chinese New Year is here, Fourth Master wants to try his luck and see if they have returned to the village.
He brought more than ten kilograms of pork, a sack of cabbage, a sack of radishes, and fifty kilograms of flour to see how these people spent the New Year.
Now, under such conditions, he still insists on exploration. The fourth master feels that he cannot feel at ease if he doesn't go and take a look.