Reborn in 1940 and survived until the new century

Even at home, with plenty of supplies, I dare not let my family eat more.

Every meal is still like other families, with food allocated according to the number of people. It is impossible to fill the stomachs of the whole family, even if it is not difficult!

When everyone is starving, how can we allow our own family to fall too far behind others?

All I could do was add more water to the pot, add various wild vegetables, and cook it into a pot of thin wild vegetable porridge to fill my stomach.

Even though no one comes to your house to borrow food, that’s because they know that you don’t have much food.

If you eat a little more weight at this time, I'm sorry, not only will someone come to borrow food, but I'm afraid someone will come to cause trouble.

In this situation, we can only focus on the children at home first, after all, they are too young.

In fact, even if you just take the children into consideration first, there won’t be much good in it.

Apart from what we receive every month, there is also the animal oil stored at home.

But I am also afraid that the meat oil will go bad if left outside for too long.

They could only secretly take out the meat oil prepared before from the space and give it to them to eat, and at this time, the adults outside didn't care how long the meat oil had been stored.

Whenever this happened, Guo Huaian would always say,

"Let's give as much oil as possible to the children!"

"I know, don't worry, the meat oil we have saved is enough for the whole family.

If it wasn't enough, I wouldn't do it.

Besides, don’t you see that many people out there are a little swollen, but others may not care.

But it’s not possible in our family?

There are only two adults in our family, and we have no other relatives. We can't fall down.

What's more, there are three children. In this situation, no one can be missing, otherwise what will happen to the children?"

"Yeah, then you should eat more and stop focusing on me."

"Okay, I know, don't worry, I won't gamble with my life.

I still have to watch my children grow up safely, so what?"

"That's fine, that's fine."

What's good?

If I wasn't afraid of the huge gap between me and others, I would have consumed all the food in the space long ago.

But now if I want to eat something, I not only have to do it secretly, but also have to control my food intake.

Ugh!

It's really, really difficult.

When will days like this end?

But if you complain every day for a long time, there will always be a few words.

There is really no time at other times, except in the early spring, when the wild vegetables in the fields start to grow.

Whether it is family members or other people, as long as they have time, they will go to faraway places to dig wild vegetables to fill their stomachs.

At this time, unlike other families, my family does not have people who are not working and can go out to dig wild vegetables at any time, but I can only do it on Sundays.

On this day, we go out all day just to dig more wild vegetables. Even if we dig a lot, there is no need to worry too much.

Most of the wild vegetables that cannot be eaten are still placed on the balcony to be dried slowly, so that they can be eaten later.

But this situation is not common, because there are too many people digging wild vegetables.

Fortunately, the wild vegetables at home had been eaten long ago, and there were still a lot in the space, so I could secretly take some out at any time.

At this time, the most common foods in every household are vegetable dumplings made of three-grain flour, vegetable cakes made of bran flour, and black-flour steamed corn bread.

Or other edible things, such as barley grits, oat flakes, sweet potatoes, dried sweet potatoes, black beans, sweet potatoes, and even bean dregs used to feed pigs.

I can eat anything as long as it fills my stomach, but I'm afraid I won't be able to eat these things.

Some families save good things like corn flour, taro flour, and peanut cakes for men or children, after all, they need more nutrition.

In a family, men and children are still the most important.

This is only the case in other families, but it is not the case in my family. Apart from the fine grains, we give priority to the three children. Everything else is exactly the same as what Guo Huaian eats.

After moving the food supply out of the canteen, the family mixed the stored food with wild vegetables. Even if they didn’t eat until they were 70% full at every meal, they could at least stay 30% to 50% full.

In this case, there is still some food stored at home.

The only thing is that it is not easy to eat some meat. Even if it is the jar meat or bacon prepared before, you can’t eat it whenever you want.

After more than a year, the meat in the jar was gone, leaving only the meat oil.

As for bacon, how dare we make it when others don’t eat meat?

Even though the big guy doesn't eat well, to be honest, his nose is even more sensitive than a dog's.

I remember one time, I was secretly steaming bacon at home. I opened the window a little bit, and I heard several people talking there.

"Ouch, what's that smell?

It smells so good.”

"Why do I smell like meat?"

"How can it smell like meat? It smells like meat, okay?"

"No, whose family is eating meat?"

"Who knows this?

The taste is so bland?

But it’s not easy to keep the meat until this time!”

"It's really not easy."

After hearing what the old ladies downstairs said, I quickly closed the window. Fortunately, I opened the window after the meat was steamed, otherwise the smell would be very strong.

Even if I ate secretly, I was afraid of being found out, so I never dared to do it again.

I had originally thought that after the meat had been separated from the queue, I would steam some more bacon and save it for later consumption.

But no one expected that by July, there would be no fresh meat available on the market, which means that no one was raising pigs anymore.

All the pigs we raised before have been slaughtered. How could this happen?

Many people don’t believe it and keep asking, but no matter how they ask, there is only one result: there is no fresh meat to buy.

The big guy looked at the hostages in his hands and could only talk.

"Then why are we still issuing meat coupons?

What’s the difference between this and a blank sheet of paper?”

"That's right, isn't this just a joke on us?"

"Ugh!

I never thought that there would be a day when meat would be gone. Does that mean there might be a day when food would be gone too?"

"this?"

While everyone was still immersed in such remarks, the country urgently began to distribute canned meat to allay people's concerns.

But even so, no matter how many cans of meat there are, it doesn't mean that anyone who wants to buy it can buy it, or anyone who wants to grab it can grab it.

After all, there are too many people and the demand is great. Even if the canned meat is aged, you need several tickets to buy a box (tin) of canned meat.

But even so, most of them were snatched up by people with connections.

On the night when he heard the news, Guo Huaian said to himself just after dinner.

"Give me all the meat tickets for the past few months, and I'll go and queue up later."