Reborn in 1940 and survived until the new century

“No, haven’t you heard that there is no meat?

Why is it happening again now?"

“How could there be meat?

It was just when I was getting off work that I happened to meet my comrade from the Public Security Bureau. He told me that a batch of canned meat would be sold in the supply and marketing cooperative in our area tomorrow morning.

You just need a meat ticket, otherwise they won’t sell it to you.

Although canned meat is not as delicious as fresh meat, it is better to have it at this time.”

"Really? I'll find the ticket for you right away."

"Okay, I'll go for a while and then I'll get in line."

"How about I go?"

"No, I'll go at this late hour. How can a lesbian like you do this?"

"Yes, then you should bring your coat too, after all, the temperature is low at night."

"it is good."

The family originally planned to save the meat coupons to buy fresh meat. Even if they couldn't buy fresh meat, they could always go to state-owned restaurants.

But since you can buy canned meat, let’s buy canned meat!

Even if you don't eat this thing for a while, you can keep it for a while.

If you want to eat other things, such as fried dough sticks to replenish oil, you can go out and buy them.

If you miss this canned meat, it will be difficult to buy it again.

Such a good opportunity is hard to come by.

Even though I saved up meat coupons for several months and waited in line for a long time, I could only buy a few cans of meat.

I really don’t know what to say, I can only keep it and satisfy my craving slowly!

What was even more unexpected was that although they only bought some canned meat, no matter how frugal they were in eating, there wasn't much left, so they planned to go to the state-owned restaurant to buy some oily food.

It's actually stipulated that we have to have coupons to buy it, and there's only one month left before we can use the meat coupons to exchange for canned meat?

How come it happened so fast? Without any preparation at all?

Ugh!

It is said that in the past, all you needed was money, but now you need tickets, even to buy fried dough sticks and pancakes you need food coupons.

When it was first implemented, many people didn't know about it and went there with money. When they found out that the tickets were not in use or sold, they had to leave in shame.

If the family was not short of food and had no extra food coupons, who would eat at a state-owned restaurant?

After all, the food in state-owned restaurants is definitely more expensive.

Didn't you hear someone saying that?

"Oh! It's really unexpected that even going to a state-owned restaurant and buying toothpicks requires a ticket. What can we eat in the future?"

"I don't know. I don't have much food at home, and I don't have oil or water. I wanted to come to the state-owned restaurant to eat something good, but I bought a ticket early. It's simply impossible to move without a ticket."

"Really? It's a pity that I can't come here to eat again?

In the past, when I didn’t need a ticket, I could still eat some good food, but from now on, I can forget about it.”

"There's really no other way. After all, we only have so few votes. What can we do?"

"There are indeed a lot of things that can be done, but unfortunately there are no extra tickets."

"What you said, if there were extra tickets, how could we go hungry?"

"Yes."

After this, we couldn’t go to the state-owned restaurant because we didn’t have many tickets.

I have no way of taking the opportunity of staying in a state-owned restaurant to provide good nourishment for my family.

Even if it was only once or twice a month, I would always go out to get fried dough sticks, buns, steamed buns, etc. But now it seems that there will never be such an opportunity again.

Alas! No one expected it to be like this.

Not only can you no longer go to the state-owned restaurants, but before you only needed a voucher or food coupon to buy tofu, cakes, and biscuits, you now have to have the corresponding tickets to buy them.

Not only that, additional bean coupons, cake coupons, biscuit coupons, children's food subsidy coupons, overseas remittance grain and oil coupons, holiday subsidy oil coupons, etc. were also issued.

Looking at the ticket in my hand, I just want to say that buying it is the most important thing. What’s the difference between it and waste paper in my hand?

Every time I get the ticket, I tell Dongdong about it.

"Dongdong, look after your brothers and sisters at home. Mommy has to go and line up early, or you won't be able to get the good stuff."

"Okay, let's go, Mom!

I will stay at home and take good care of my younger brothers and sisters."

"Good boy!

Mommy, try to grab as many cookies and cakes as possible that Dongdong likes to eat."

"it is good."

As for Guo Huaian, his task was even heavier, which was to go to the grain station and queue up to buy grain.

If you go early, you will still have options. If you go late, not only will there be no options, but sometimes you will even run out of food.

Because there are only two adults in the family, we have to queue up separately every time.

It is also because of this that after snatching things from the supply and marketing cooperative, I will take out a little bit from the space according to the situation.

And it has to be something available in the supply and marketing cooperative. If not, then forget it.

As for food, there is no need to worry about it, but as long as you cook for yourself, there is some chance.

Otherwise, there would still be some food stored at home.

Even if it's not much, even if there is no food in the grain station one day, it can last for a while.

In this way, in the following period, food shortages continued.

In addition to reducing the urban population and lowering food ration standards,

We launched work to increase grain income and reduce expenditure in both urban and rural areas, vigorously carried out the autumn harvest, planted large amounts of melons and vegetables, and promoted substitute foods, implementing the policy of "low standards, substitute melons and vegetables".

In fact, it’s not that this method is not feasible, but it’s really inconvenient to live upstairs like we do at home.

For this reason, no matter which family compound it was, the original garden was reorganized and a little piece of land was distributed to each household so that they could grow fruits and vegetables.

Just listen to Guo Huaian, sitting there and talking.

“Whatever it is?

I can't either?"

"It's okay, you won't, don't you still have me?"

"Why, wife, you can do this?"

"I can't say I know how to do it. When we were in the orphanage, we all learned from Uncle Zhang and the others, but I never practiced it myself."

"That's okay, at least you've seen it, but I haven't even seen it.

But what should we plant in the fields?"

“What to plant?

At present, the growth cycle of vegetables is short, so let’s grow vegetables!

As for other things, it's not that I can't do it, but I'm afraid that after I plant them, before I can wait for the harvest, what if they are stolen?

After all, every household is short of food. If someone is starving, who can guarantee such a thing? "

"That's right. I don't know how to farm anyway. I'll do it according to your wishes."

"it is good."

In this way, I planted a little bit of vegetables in the few centimeters of land that was allocated to me, and then found stones or other things to enclose it like a fence.

In fact, it is useless at all, but at least there is some comfort in my heart. At least it can block it. You can guard against a gentleman, but not a villain.

Once the vegetables grow, the manager won’t have to spend a lot of money to buy them.