I will plant a field in the last days

Chapter 44 The Lantern Festival in the first year of the end of the world



Jingshu also likes to drink soup, so she cooked 1 cubic meter of seafood and shrimp porridge, 1 cubic meter of carrot, corn and mutton soup, 1 cubic meter of mushroom stewed chicken soup, 1 cubic meter of pork ribs and lotus root soup, and 1 cubic meter of crucian carp and tofu soup.

In order to save electricity, Jingshu fried her late-night steak and Yuqing sausage and filled 2 cubic meters.

Anyway, Jingshu will cook all kinds of delicacies whenever she has time at home, and then store them in the space like a hamster. She is also planning to wait for Jingye Jingnai to grind the soybeans and make various tofu for a while.

Jing’s mother still goes to work every day, complaining every day about why the Dark Days are not over yet. It has been more than 30 days, and she asks Jing’s father to go to the wholesale market every day to buy some more things. Recently, everyone is anxiously waiting for the end of the Dark Days. , while quietly saving some more food.

Don't even think about fruits and vegetables. Prices have risen to hundreds of yuan per pound, and they're not even fresh.

Various water drinks and cold drinks are no longer on the shelves.

The shelves full of various snacks, daily condiments, grains, oils and non-staple food have gradually become less and less, and it seems that they have never been replenished. Now the purchase limit is 200 yuan per person, and you can’t buy much. But mosquito legs are still meat no matter how small they are. , unless you go to scalpers to buy it at a high price.

But since the small supermarket had countless supplies confiscated due to crazy price increases, there were a lot fewer scalpers, and the citizens didn't know where the supplies were confiscated. Jingshu knew that when people were about to starve to death, the official power came to save lives.

Some small shops closed their doors to stock up on supplies when they saw that raising prices was not enough. The next day, two official armed men served as doorkeepers, scaring the shopkeepers so much that they had to keep opening their doors to sell goods.

In Wucheng's largest farmer's market, the sale of aquatic and non-staple food, grains and oils was officially suspended and quietly controlled. Jingshu only found out later that the price of these aquatic and non-staple food was getting more and more outrageous. The official force confiscated all the supplies in one pot without saying a word. , to put it politely, it’s called: expropriation.

As the dark day didn't look like it was ending, the people above were worried. According to the assumption, the light should be restored slowly in more than 20 days, but it is still the same these days. Professionals estimate that it will take at least a month, so the huge machine of official power begins to act.

Today is the Lantern Festival on February 5, 2023. The superiors originally planned to move the Spring Festival on January 22 to February 5, when the Dark Day ends. The Lantern Festival is celebrated on the day of the reunion dinner, but who would have thought that the Dark Day would still not end.

But in order to stabilize people's hearts, the Spring Festival Lantern Festival party started on time at 20:00. This year, all the hosts wore their original clothes: dirty suits, unshaven beards, skirts with no visible color, haggard faces and greasy hair. No makeup, no dressing up.

"Sorry, viewers, I haven't had a shower in half a month." The female host without makeup still maintained her elegant temperament.

"What a coincidence, I haven't washed it in a month." The male host took the microphone and started his opening remarks.

There will be no power outage today, so every household will have a reunion dinner and watch the Lantern Festival party happily.

Jingshu's family of three is sitting at her uncle's house for a reunion dinner today. This is their custom. They will be at grandma's house on New Year's Eve and at her uncle's house on Lantern Festival.

Considering the lack of vegetables, Jingma brought some dry goods, eggs, tomatoes, bean sprouts, cabbage, garlic sprouts and bacon, as well as 2L of Sprite.

These things that usually seem ordinary have become hot things now.

Jing’s father also wanted to mention two fishes, and the fish in the pond multiplied again. Jingshu fried a lot of crispy fish and there were still many left. Jingshu was about to refuse, but Jing’s mother refused first: “Okay, these are enough. My sister-in-law knew that we had so many good things and refused to give them, so she turned a blind eye again."

In fact, it was Jing Ma who held a grudge, and she still cared about borrowing money.

Jing's father drove, and the family of three arrived at the uncle's house in the afternoon. My uncle's house belongs to the old town in the west of the city, with many people, low buildings, poor environment, and high housing prices. The floods in the second year did not come over, but an earthquake in the third year buried all three of my uncle's family downstairs, and the end was very miserable.

In order to keep Jing's mother from returning to Baozi, Jing Shu decided to let her uncle's family survive no matter what.

When Jingshu's family arrived, two groups of people had already arrived at the uncle's house.

"Oh, I'm already here, why did I bring so many things? I'm so embarrassed! I'm better than some people after all, so I got it for free."

Aunt Wang Fang opened the door and took a bunch of things from Dad Jing's hand. Her eyes lit up when she saw green vegetables, tomatoes, cabbage and bacon, and she was so happy that she could eat some food during the Chinese New Year and save some.

"Come on, come on, come in. This year my eldest brother Wang Gang is celebrating the New Year with us. This is my sister-in-law Liu Shufen, whom you all know. This is their daughter Wang Can. When she is 25 years old, my brother got it and became a small leader." Gang Gang. After showing off to my aunt, I felt a little inappropriate.

In order to celebrate the New Year, my aunt's family cleaned up specially. They wiped their bodies with water, washed their faces and put on clean clothes. They didn't bother to wash their hair. Unexpectedly, Jingshu's family was clean except for some dust that had just fallen, their hair was not oily at all, and they also smelled of Blue Moon brand laundry detergent.

Looking at my own family, no matter how they dress, they all have a rustic feel.

Jingshu's family came in and greeted their aunt and brother's family. The three bedrooms and two living rooms of the eldest uncle's house were decorated by Jing's father back then. Now they are much dilapidated. There is also an indescribable smell. There are large and small jars filled with water. , a freezer was forced into the small bedroom, and through the glass I could see there was half a freezer of frozen meat inside.

With only the lights in the kitchen, the TV in the living room and the air conditioner on, the light is a bit dark. Nowadays, every household has a quota for electricity consumption, and the power will be cut off when usage exceeds.

"Sprite! Sister Jing, it's awesome that you can still get 2 liters of Sprite now!" Su Long saw Jing Shu holding a drink in her hand and rushed up to take it away with eyes gleaming like a hungry wolf.

Su Long is my uncle's elder son. He wore glasses when he was 17 years old. He loved eating snacks since he was a child, so he was short and thin. It was this naughty child who insisted on going home to live in trouble during the earthquake, which caused the death of his family.

Jingshu put her head on Su Long's forehead with her finger, "We are all drinking together during the meal. We are not allowed to drink it now." In fact, Jingshu didn't want to take the Sprite because Sprite is versatile, Sprite with lemon, Sprite with sour plum juice, and milk. The taste is unique and exciting.

"Tch, what's the big deal?" Zhang Hanhan hugged Wang Can's arm and looked at Jing Shu with hatred, and whispered something to Wang Can in a low voice. They didn't mind the heat either. In order to save power, the air conditioner was only turned on to 28℃. Outside But the temperature is 47℃.

Zhang Hanhan is the daughter of her aunt Su Meimei. She specially put on a red dress today, had her hair tied in a bun, and also put on makeup and sprayed some perfume to cover her smell. Jing Shu always felt that people from the art college were too dressed up. She has the same Internet celebrity face, and she also liked to dress like this in her previous life more than ten years ago.

My aunt Su Meimei and my uncle Zhang Zhongyong are both here. Didn't these two people have a falling out? Does my uncle still want to put her in a pig cage?

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