Steamed buns with stewed horse meat were something you wouldn’t necessarily be able to eat during the Chinese New Year in the past!
Although the third and fourth children were very tired, they still stood up from their chairs as if they had been given a shot of blood. Their eyes shone brightly and they shouted: "Great, we have meat again..."
"Mom, let's do it now..."
The wife did not move. There was a flash of hesitation on her face first, and then she spoke: "Master, didn't you just eat steamed buns and horse meat a few days ago, and now you are eating it again! Although our family has saved a lot of food, we can't afford it.
Eat like this!"
The third and fourth children quickly turned their attention to Father Zhang and looked at him eagerly!
Whether you can eat meat and steamed buns tonight depends on what dad says!
They were very happy that their father finally decided to eat meat and steamed buns!
"My dear, don't be reluctant, our family has food!"
If Mr. Zhang remembers correctly, this sentence should be the most confident sentence he has said in the past few years!
After I finished speaking, I was stunned for a moment!
But he quickly came to his senses and started calculating with his fingers: "Boss will provide intelligence to the Eighth Route Army and lead the way, in exchange for two hundred kilograms of grain!"
"The eldest brother joined the army, and the family received another 100 kilograms of food as settlement allowance. After a while, the second eldest son and I can carry 50 kilograms back, which adds up to 350 kilograms!"
"There are still more than half a month before spring plowing. As long as everyone is full, it will be no problem to open another four acres of land before spring plowing!"
"Four acres of land can be exchanged for two hundred kilograms of grain, which adds up to five hundred and fifty kilograms!"
"If we eat three kilograms a day, this food can last us half a year!"
"And I heard from the village chief that after the spring plowing is over, the Eighth Route Army will organize everyone to dig canals, build dams, and dig wells outside the village. And when doing this, the Eighth Route Army will all take care of the food. Maybe they will get some food as reward! So,
There will definitely be no problem with our food until the autumn harvest!"
"Especially if it takes a long time to repair the canals after spring plowing, the family can save food for at least two people, and there will still be one or two hundred kilograms of food left during the autumn harvest!"
"After the autumn harvest, our lives will be better! We will also have more ambition!"
"My family now has 18 acres of land. After all the wasteland outside the village has been turned into fertile farmland, each person can still get one acre of flat land and one acre of mountain land before spring plowing!"
"By then our family will have twenty-four acres of good land and six acres of mountainous land!"
"With good care, twenty-four acres of good land can yield three thousand five hundred kilograms of grain!"
"Reducing 20% of the grain tax will leave almost three thousand kilograms of grain!"
“This doesn’t even count the harvest from the slopes!”
"The village chief said that sweet potatoes will be grown on all the slopes and then sold to the Eighth Route Army!"
"This is how they do it in Lingqiu. The sweet potatoes harvested from one acre of slope land, minus the grain tax, can be exchanged for at least fifty kilograms of grain!"
"Six acres of sloping land add up to more than 300 kilograms of grain, which is enough to support one person's rations!"
"I have been farming for most of my life, and my granary has never held so much grain!"
"More than three thousand kilograms is not only enough for us to eat for a year, but we can also exchange a lot of grain for the ocean, repair the house, and make a set of clothes for everyone!"
Having said this, the smile on Father Zhang’s face became even thicker!
It seems that I have seen the picture of a warehouse full of grain!
The corners of his mouth raised, and he couldn't help but sigh: "I'd better follow the Eighth Route Army to achieve success!"
"I now feel that it is a good thing to let the boss serve as the Eighth Route Army!"
"They are indeed a team of our people, and they consider us people in everything!"
"Okay, stop talking, second brother, let's go to the guerrilla station to get food now!"
"Child, you go cook!"
"Don't be reluctant to give up. After we eat, we will have the strength to work tomorrow, cultivate more land, and exchange for more food!"
The worry on my wife’s face disappeared!
Although he didn't smile like Father Zhang, his expression was obviously much more relaxed!
Her husband's words also gave her hope, and she felt more and more promising in the coming days!
He immediately replied: "Okay, I'll listen to you. If you say you want to eat steamed buns, I'll eat steamed buns!"
The guerrillas were stationed at the entrance of the village, and dozens of ordinary people were surrounding it!
When I walked in, I had different expressions, some were looking forward to it, some were worried!
When they came out, everyone had a bag of grain on their shoulders and a smile on their face!
It can be seen that their happiness comes from the bottom of their hearts!
"Uncle Zhang, are you here to collect food too?" Seeing Father Zhang coming, the guerrilla leader who was distributing food quickly said hello!
There are seven young men in the village who have joined the main force and local troops, and the eldest son of the Zhang family is one of them. As the guerrilla leader of the village, he must be familiar with the family situation of each soldier, and provide as much help as possible in future life so that the new recruits can
The troops have no worries!
Father Zhang quickly replied: "I'm here to collect food. I just finished cultivating an acre of land yesterday!"
"Fifty kilograms of grain per acre, I will pack it out for you right now!" the guerrilla leader replied immediately, and then started to get busy!
Fifty kilograms of grain, every kilogram is a lot, was quickly delivered to Mr. Zhang!
The second child subconsciously wanted to take it and carry it back, but Father Zhang refused!
Fifty kilograms of grain was heavy on his shoulders, but Mr. Zhang didn't feel it was a burden. He walked more briskly than when he came, and greeted everyone along the way!
The neighbors looked at Mr. Zhang with envy!
Providing intelligence to the Eighth Route Army, joining the Eighth Route Army, and joining the guerrillas. When these things just started, many people were waiting and watching, undecided!
And waiting and watching means missing out on opportunities!
After the formation of the guerrillas was completed and they began to organize everyone to reclaim the wasteland and slopes outside the village, these people began to wait and see again, and were very suspicious of the Eighth Route Army's commitment, thinking that the Eighth Route Army was deceiving everyone!
The land that was reclaimed was not only distributed to everyone for free in the end, but they were also given fifty kilograms of grain per acre of land as a reward!
In the end, all the benefits belong to everyone. The Eighth Route Army, as the organizer of the whole thing, gained nothing!
In the eyes of many people, the Eighth Route Army is a rare and good force that does not rob or take advantage of everyone!
How can they help everyone so freely? They are not stupid!
With this kind of skepticism, more than half of the people in the village did not cultivate the land!
Almost all the people who went there were family members of recruits who joined the Eighth Route Army and family members of guerrillas!
And he went there amidst the laughter of other people in the village!
They thought that they must have been deceived by the Eighth Route Army. They spent a lot of effort to cultivate the land, but in the end it all benefited the Eighth Route Army. Not only did they get nothing, but they also wasted a lot of effort!
Now they can't laugh anymore!
Watching Mr. Zhang carrying food back from the Eighth Route Army, eating steamed buns and living a good life!
I still stay at home and eat cereals and wild vegetables with my family to satisfy my hunger!
There was nothing but envy and regret in my eyes, and I wanted to slap myself in the mouth!
The only thing that made them happy was that the Eighth Route Army did not give up on them!
As long as everyone goes to reclaim land outside the village in the coming days, they can also exchange food from the Eighth Route Army and live a good life themselves!
When Father Zhang walked past them carrying the grain on his back, all of them had firm expressions on their faces!
I hurried home in a hurry and asked my wife to change my dinner to dry food so that I could fill my stomach and go to cultivate land in exchange for food tomorrow!
At the same time, I no longer had any doubts about the Eighth Route Army and began to believe their propaganda. The Eighth Route Army was really the people's own team. It considered the people in everything and kept its word. It was completely different from the anti-Japanese teams that we had encountered before!
On the surface, they used the banner of anti-Japanese aggression, but secretly they used various means to exploit the people, steal things from everyone, and reap benefits!
