Reborn in 1940 and survived until the new century

“To be honest, it’s not just Uncle Zhang and Aunt Zhang who are concerned about this. All the elderly people who come from the countryside understand that most of the people you saw digging wild vegetables should be them, right?

Moreover, this area around us used to be a rural area. Even though the elderly people in the village can hardly read, they are full of life experience.

This is because the canteen has not been disbanded. If the canteen is disbanded, I am afraid that the elderly in every household will start to ask the family to live a tight life again!"

"Even if we have to live a tight life, it's okay as long as the family has enough to eat, right?

But the food in the cafeteria is getting less and less, and I don’t know what will happen then.”

"Who says it's not?

It's the same in the cafeteria in our post office, and the porridge this morning was mostly beans, with not much rice?

Judging from the current situation, I am afraid that we can’t hold out for too long?”

"So what do you think we should do?

Do you want to store some more food?

Am I really feeling uneasy? "

"If it really doesn't work, I'll take a day off and go to the countryside again. It would be great if I can buy some food. If not, I'll just have to try my luck somewhere else."

"Will this be dangerous?"

“Even if there is danger, compared with food, food is still the most important.

And judging from what you said, we don’t know what the food situation will be like in the future?”

"Yes, what do you think? How about I take the kids to town next Sunday?"

"You mean, where are you going with your son?"

"yes!

If you want to go, you have to ask for leave, but I don’t need to ask for leave. Even if I go to the city, it won’t attract other people’s attention. It’s definitely more convenient than you going to the city!

If possible, there is no need to buy too much food. Just buy a little at a time, and it will eventually add up."

"this?

Or should we just forget it?

It’s too dangerous!”

"I don't want to take this risk, but you can see that if we don't prepare some food in advance and leave it there, I'm afraid that even if there is food, we may not be able to afford it when the time comes."

“Yes, in the past, the price of food was incredibly high. Now it has finally returned to normal, but if something goes wrong, the price of food will not be very stable.

In this case, you should be more careful. If it really doesn't work, safety is the most important thing."

"Okay, are you still worried about me doing things?"

"Too."

It was just an excuse to go into the city, how could he really buy food from somewhere?

It's just an excuse to dig some food out of the space.

But there is no need to be too anxious at the moment, just get some sweet potatoes out.

There is quite a bit of food and wild vegetables at home, so I’ll focus on eating the stored food at home. When cooking, I’ll just take out a small handful from the space and mix them in with the food.

In this way, the food at home will decrease more slowly, and we can think of a solution when the food at home is really running out.

Especially at this time, we should be more careful.

When I took my children to the city frequently, I heard that the treatment in many city canteens was getting worse day by day.

Many people were sighing there.

“I was able to eat enough food some time ago, but now I can only drink porridge.

Ugh!

Life is getting worse day by day!"

"It's a little worse, but at least we don't have to spend our own money, right?"

"That's true. Besides, if we don't have any food, the higher-ups will definitely find a way to solve the problem. So let's just do what we have to do, right?"

“I see…

Forget it, it’s getting late, let’s go back!”

"Go back, go back!"

What's the sentence after "I think..."?

Although the other party did not finish speaking, I think smart people should understand what he meant.

Yes, people of this era have experienced a lot and can understand more or less, but they just don’t know what to do with the food?

I go to the city whenever I have time recently, but I never see anyone selling food.

There were quite a few people selling other things, so I bought some fruits.

Except for those taken home, most of them were placed in the space. There were really too many things in the backpack, and I was afraid that they would be seen and arouse suspicion from others.

In fact, I didn't go into the city many times, nor did I buy much, but I heard that many canteens were disbanded due to food problems.

At this time, winter was about to arrive. From the implementation of the big pot meal, it had only lasted for two or three months, and there was not much food left.

It shouldn't happen, but when everyone is eating to their heart's content, they don't know how to control themselves and end up wasting more than they eat. Even if there is plenty of food, they won't just eat it all.

It also means that after the canteens are disbanded, people can return to their own homes to cook, but even so, people don’t have much food at home?

In some places, when there is no food in the canteen, people run home to grab it.

If we ask the people to go home and cook for themselves at this time, they still need food, right?

Fortunately, neither the post office canteen nor the factory canteen did so when they were short of food.

In fact, even if they did so, it would be useless. After all, the food supply of every household was dependent on the unit, and they did not have much food at all.

The people living nearby are all employees of various units. Their food every month depends on the food coupons they are given, so it is not easy to get extra food.

Only those residents who don’t have enough food to begin with and calculate every time they cook might have some food left over. Even if there is some food left, it probably won’t be more than a few pounds, right?

Now if we want ordinary people to go home and cook their own meals, they not only need food but also a pot, right?

Don’t forget, all the pots at home were used to make steel. Where were the pots to cook with?

Fortunately, everyone knows that if there is no pot, they can use a casserole instead.

When I came back from the city with my children, a neighbor who lived nearby saw the casserole in the basket and asked curiously.

"Comrade Wang, why did you buy a clay pot?

We don’t even need to cook at home now, so why buy this?”

"It's not that the thermos at home is no longer warm. If it were just the two of us, it would be fine!

But the children at home are still too young, and they are prone to stomach upset if they don’t drink some hot water, so I thought about buying a clay pot to boil some hot water.”

"Yeah, that's how it is with kids. It will be fine when they grow up a little bit."

"I really hope he grows up quickly?"

"Wait!

You don't have to hope, the child will grow up in the blink of an eye!"

"is not that right?"

That being said, when the children grow up, won’t I be old too?

In fact, I bought a clay pot not only to boil water, but more because I wanted to cook something at home.