NOVEL SIMPLE Chapter 122
Chapter 122 Variety
Chapter 122 Changes
The cafeteria bell rang, and it was time for lunch.
The people who got off work walked back one after another. Li Xiaoyu and the old man took the rice bowl at home and stood outside the hospital waiting for Li Ma to come back from work to eat together.
Father Li was going to call the old lady, but when Li Xiaoyu stopped him, he would be scolded for calling. Why bother?
“Old man, think about how many brothers and sisters we have, okay?”
Father Li could not help but ponder when he heard the words of his youngest daughter, yes! Think more about your children! There will always be someone who needs their own!
“Okay, the old man promises you that if anything happens, just think about your four brothers and sisters!”
When Li Xiaoyu saw her mother coming back, how could she care about the old man, she ran forward and handed her a toffee from the space.
“Mom, I’m back! Hurry up and don’t let anyone see it.”
Mama Li took the candy, thinking that there were people behind her, so she put the candy in her pocket and hid it.
“Let’s go to dinner together when we come back, Brother Yan, hurry up!” Li Ma urged the father and daughter to hurry up, and only had soup for dinner.
Now the rice is getting thinner and thinner every day, and the vegetables are getting less and less. Now the private plots are also owned by the public, not a single vegetable is allowed to be grown, and the only food to eat is to let children find wild vegetables.
The Bamboo Forest is a hilly area. There are no mountains and no wasteland. What kind of wild vegetables can be found. Now that it is winter, it is even more difficult to find.
The cabbage, radish, and cabbage that were planted in the sandy land by the river at the beginning can be eaten except for cabbage. Although they have not grown up, they are better than eating without vegetables!
The problem of dishes is temporarily solved, but the rice is getting thinner and thinner, so there is no way to solve this. After experiencing a full stomach, and then making people hungry, many people cannot accept it.
What to do? Didn’t the team collect tens of thousands of catties of red glutinous rice? Accountant Li asked the cooks in the cafeteria to add red glutinous rice to the porridge.
Although red glutinous rice is added, it is better than thin, and the acceptance of the villagers is still very high. Under such circumstances, the village began to implement rationing, one tablespoon for the elderly (one tablespoon, a thick bowl can fit half a bowl, and the elderly can eat 80% full), one and a half tablespoons for adults, and half a tablespoon for children.
Li Xiaoyu’s age is only half a scoop. Now she has started to make quantitative preparations, avoiding waste and saving a lot of food. But there is a saying: wood has become a boat, rice has become cooking.
Li Xiaoyu put the mature baogu in the space into the No. 1 library, and planted the next season. She put everything that she could collect into the warehouse, and she felt more and more urgent. The fish in the small river had grown twice as long in the space, and there were already seven or eight catties, and there were a lot of them.
In this situation, we can only temporarily stay in the space, and then put some big fish into the river. If you want to stutter, it depends on your luck.
The New Year is approaching, and the people from Eagle Mountain all came back in one afternoon. One by one, they were so thin that only bones could be seen, no flesh, their bodies were exhausted, and they were sloppy.
When I first entered the village, I thought it was beggars from somewhere, and almost didn’t drive them out.
The people in the village were startled, they pulled their family members to ask about the situation, and everyone shook their heads and said nothing. In desperation, I had to ask the captain. The captain was so annoyed by these people that he had to tell them the truth.
“Steel-making failed. Eagle Mountain has nothing to eat or burn. How can we continue to make it? All the people have withdrawn.”
“What about our pots and knives?”
“Now they are all iron lumps, lying at the foot of Eagle Mountain.”
“What, why is this? Then what will we do in the future?”
“What should I do? You ask me, who do I ask? Everyone goes home and packs up, and gathers in the storage room at night.” Li Jianyuan sighed and walked to his house, feeling that he was really embarrassed to be the captain.
Because the people who went to Eagle Mountain came back, the cafeteria gave them extra food tonight and killed a pig in the village farm. Now there are two pigs and twenty chickens on the farm, all of which have been eaten.
A group of people devoured their food, burying their heads and eating for a while. The cafeteria prepared more meals for them than usual because of their return, but it was still not enough for them to eat. After eating, they stared at the bowls of the villagers.
When the villagers saw their fierce energy, how dare they look at it, they hurriedly finished eating the food in their bowls, and they showed an empty bowl for them to see, and a group of talents gave up.
This scene made Li Xiaoyu sweat constantly on her back, mother! If you are really hungry, these people are afraid to grab it! Then am I not very dangerous, and I dare not do anything out of the ordinary, what should I do then? You can’t just watch the villagers die, can you?
Li Xiaoyu hugged her shoulders and shook a few times, she must not expose herself, or she would have to be eaten by these people.
Father Li sensed his little daughter’s fear and reached out and touched the top of her head. He secretly made up his mind that at that time, if it was really impossible, the family would leave here, and he would never put his children in danger.
The captain asked Accountant Li to understand the current situation in the team. When Accountant Li saw the captain’s return, he couldn’t help but feel a lot more relaxed. It would be great to have someone come up with an idea, since he doesn’t have to take over everything, and the burden is much easier.
“The food left in the team is enough for two months. In addition, there is a batch of red glutinous rice, which can last for a period of time. There are only two pigs, twenty chickens, and nothing else. The crops in the fields All have been planted, and as for the harvest, it will depend on next year.”
When Captain Li heard the situation, he immediately asked Accountant Li, “Why is there only so much food in the team? It’s only the end of the twelfth year, and it’s still very early. What should we do in the future?”
“This year, there is no labor in the village. Although the grain has been recovered, part of it has been lost due to germination, mildew, and deterioration. In addition, I ate too much in the early stage, and it became like this.”
Captain Li listened to Accountant Li’s words and knew that this situation is not the case for one team, I’m afraid that is the case for most of them.
Find some time to go to the commune to see if there is a way to do it, otherwise people will starve to death.
“The Chinese New Year is coming, should the team kill a pig?”
“I killed both pigs, and there will be no more food to breed in the future. I also killed the chickens. The farm is temporarily closed, and I will raise it later. Go back and tell my sister-in-law.”
Captain Li came out of the storage room and shouted loudly, “Everyone be quiet and listen to me.”
“It will be the Chinese New Year in two days. Tomorrow, all the pigs and chickens in the village will be slaughtered. Everyone will have a good meal during the Chinese New Year, and work hard next year to earn more work points.”
When you hear that there is meat to eat, who else can hear the next two sentences and only think about meat.
On the second day, Banzhulin pulled out the pigs and chickens from the farm and killed them. Many people gathered around to watch the fun, including Li Xiaoyu.
All the students who went to school in Banzhulin came back, and even Li Xiaoyan, who went to school in the county town, came back with them. They were all the same as the villagers when they came back from Eagle Mountain.
It seems that the situation outside is a bit serious, and it is far more serious than imagined.
(end of this chapter)