The educated youth was reborn and wanted to disappear, but he was locked into a military marriage.

It is a custom in the countryside that every family reunites on New Year's Eve. On the first day of the Lunar New Year, neighbors go around to pay New Year greetings, and on the second day of the Lunar New Year, married girls return to their parents' homes.

The educated youth are all single, their homes are in the city, and they have no way to go back, so they are still busy in their own yards.

There was only one chicken left in the New Year shopping. The three female educated youths discussed that no matter how they cooked the chicken, more than thirty people could only eat one bite each, so they simply stewed the chicken soup and added noodles in the chicken soup to eat.

Although one chicken boils a large pot of soup, there is no way to make it rich, but with the carefully prepared seasonings, there is still meat to eat, plus pure white noodles, noodles with fried tomato sauce and the remaining eggs, it is This era is already considered rich.

After the second grade of junior high school, life was still the same as before. It was just that in this season, except for guarding the forest in shifts, there was no other work to do. Xie Chengzhi gathered several team leaders together to discuss their future living conditions.

The Chinese New Year is over, but we have to change chickens and muttons, and eat dumplings made with pure white flour, which consumes a lot of food.

The food they have now will have to be eaten until the next autumn when the food is distributed. If the plan is not good, everyone will go hungry.

Miao Shiwen was a girl, and it was inconvenient to go to the male educated youth dormitory, so the meeting was held in the female educated youth dormitory. Zhu Xiaomin and Zhang Qiaomei also attended and helped count the food.

Looking at all the grains listed, Miao Shiwen sighed softly and said, "Looking at it this way, before the autumn harvest, each of us will have less than one kilogram of grain per day. When we start work, we can have a big pot of rice at noon. But it’s more difficult during the off-season, and that’s even if we don’t have to eat meat anymore.”

These days, everyone has little fat and water in their stomachs, so they eat too much. One pound of grain is not enough for both male educated youths and even female educated youths.

Song Zhian thought for a while and said, "Now that Ming Zheng is in the city, we will send money and let him find a way to help us buy some food."

Xie Chengzhi shook his head: "Let's not talk about needing food stamps to buy food. Even if he can buy it, how will he get it back? It's more than just a package."

Yes, these days, it is not difficult for them and their families to ask for money. What is difficult is food stamps. Each family provides food stamps on a per-capita basis, so how can it be evenly distributed?

Xing Qingsheng tried to say: "Otherwise, we can replace the remaining white flour with whole grains?"

Wu Xulin was helpless: "We can't always eat coarse grains instead of fine grains."

Zhu Xiaomin was not worried. She shook her head and said, "Buying food is one thing, but we can't just count on foreign aid. We are guarding a mountain. There are wild vegetables in spring and summer. Also, although we don't have private land, we have such a big yard." , you can also grow some vegetables, raise a few chickens, raise them until they lay eggs, and cook them together, so that coarse grains will not taste worse than fine grains."

Xie Chengzhi pondered for a while and nodded: "Now every household raises chickens based on head count. Later I will go to the team and ask. We have more than 30 people here, but I don't know how many chickens we can raise."

Zhang Qiaomei was uneasy: "They are a family, are we afraid we won't let them raise them?"

Zhu Xiaomin patted her: "That's why I have to ask." Looking sideways at Xie Chengzhi, "When does the team leader get to work?"

"After the fifteenth day, there will only be people on duty these days." Xie Chengzhi replied.

Zhu Xiaomin nodded and thought about it silently.

They were all young people. They had been bored in the yard for a few days. By the sixth and seventh day of the lunar month, they could no longer sit still. After everyone discussed it, Xie Chengzhi and Song Zhian organized most of them to go into the mountain together.

It's just that there was heavy snowfall a few years ago, and the snow in the mountains has not yet melted. There is no way to go deeper, so I just wander around nearby places. Even if I can't find food, it's good to collect some firewood and come back.

The three female educated youths did not follow the educated youths into the mountain. Thinking of the few young men in the village, Zhu Xiaomin was unwilling to go to the village, so she took Miao Shiwen and walked around the educated youth spots to see where they could plant more. vegetable.

Miao Shiwen followed her and saw that she was carefully calculating the open space around her. He sighed and said, "Xiaomin, even if we can grow vegetables, the vegetables are not worth the food. The most important thing we have now is the lack of food."

Zhu Xiaomin nodded, thought about it for a while, and then said with a smile: "I know, but other vegetables cannot be used as food, but beans can. I see that our walls are all bare. If we plant some climbing vines inside and outside, When the beans grow old, they are picked and ground into flour, and mixed with other grains to make them. Although it is more troublesome, it can still be eaten as grain."

Miao Shiwen's eyes lit up and he nodded immediately: "Plant them in spring. Short-ripened beans will be ripe in summer. Even if there are no long-ripened beans, as long as they are full, you can pick them and eat them."

Inspired by Zhu Xiaomin, she counted on her fingers: "Also, we can grow some Japanese melons, which can be used as vegetables or as food. They are all climbing vines and don't take up much space. There are also beets, which can be used for cooking." , it can also make sugar, and that stuff will make you hungry..."

Zhu Xiaomin smiled and listened to her talk, occasionally adding a few words.

While the two were talking, they saw Poxia Gu Mancang coming up with their hands behind their backs. They saw the two of them smiling: "Why are you outside in such a cold weather?"

Miao Shiwen's eyes lit up and he immediately said: "Secretary, just in time, we have something to discuss with you." He welcomed him in enthusiastically, took a bowl and poured water.

Gu Mancang took a look into the room and saw a circle of newspapers stuck on the kang along the wall. He said with a smile: "You girls still like to be clean." He took a sip of water and asked, "What did you just say?"

Miao Shiwen hurriedly sat down next to him and tried to ask: "Secretary, you see, those of us who came early are five or six years old, and those who came late are only two or three years old. Although we are the same as those in the village, Each household is different, but if they live and eat together, it’s pretty much the same, right?”

Gu Mancang thought about it and nodded: "Yes, you also take care of each other. Many times our team cannot take care of each other." He said he was very sorry.

Miao Shiwen immediately said: "Secretary, you see, every household in the village has private land and can raise chickens per capita. We, more than thirty people, have only relied on the food from the autumn harvest for so many years. Every year when the harvest fails, It’s difficult, why don’t you apply for us to get some land and let us raise a few chickens?”

She first talked about the situation of the educated youth spots, and then talked about the current policies, which made Gumancang unable to reject it all at once. After thinking about it, he shook his head helplessly: "How many chickens do you want to raise? I can discuss it with the team. Anyway, It's in your yard, but this place... I can't say for sure."

The land is publicly owned, and the more private land is allocated, the less collective land is. There are more than 30 educated youths in the area. If calculated on a per capita basis, that is a lot of land.

Zhu Xiaomin immediately sat on the other side of him and said with a smile: "Secretary, we don't all need it according to the policy. If we are given so much land, we people are afraid that we won't be able to plant it. We just want to be able to plant in the open space around our yard." We are not allowed to grow anything on our own, just to subsidize food.”