Siheyuan: Struggle Begins in the 1950s

The day after Cui Dake announced that he would make a bitter-recalling meal, the logistics department brought back a truckload of wild vegetables including wheat bran, sweet potato leaves, vegetable stems, and old elm leaf dumplings from the vegetable market.

This wild vegetable is considered a representative of health and green in later generations.

But this era is not welcomed.

Some people pick them and sell them in the vegetable market.

But the prices are very cheap, almost 20% of the price of ordinary vegetables.

As for the vegetable stalks and sweet potato leaves, they are even less valuable, and some are simply used to feed pigs.

After these things were transported to the kitchen, a group of chefs began to prepare to make wild vegetable dumplings.

There are tens of thousands of people working in the steel rolling mill, and wild vegetables are not enough, so they mix some wheat bran and sweet potato leaves into it.

Anyway, it’s okay as long as it doesn’t taste good.

Because of Cui Dake's strange request, the vegetables were not even washed, but were directly cut and mixed with corn flour and rolled into balls.

The better ones will have some salt added to them, while the worse ones will be steamed directly without any salt added.

Not even plastic surgery is needed.

The workers in the kitchen suddenly found that Cui Dake's strange request was quite good.

At least they don't have to work so hard.

As for the poor food? Don’t you see that everyone eats the same thing?

The clever cook even secretly made some steamed bread for himself.

On the other hand, Sha Zhu made a few baskets of improved version of wild vegetable dumplings.

I can’t say it’s very delicious, but at least it’s better than steamed corn bread.

In order to avoid being discovered, everyone in Sha Zhu's cafeteria had their mouths sealed with two modified wild vegetable dumplings.

People are not fools, and no one will tell on others if they get benefits.

Anyway, it doesn’t matter as long as I’m not the one suffering.

At noon, when it was almost time to get off work, the voice of Yu Haitang, the factory flower, was heard from the steel mill radio station.

"In order to implement... thought, persist in... movement, and improve... ideological awareness.

After research and discussion, the committee finally decided to implement the bitter memory meal throughout the factory. The canteen will provide bitter memory meals every other day. I hope that all workers will not forget the hard days they once struggled, remember the hardships of being demoted, and never forget the blood and tears of revenge. . . . . "

Yu Haitang was also confused after reading the manuscript. It was bad enough to eat the bitter memory rice, but he actually had to eat it every other day.

Can your stomach digest it?

Xu Damao and his gang must have nothing better to do than to do something like this.

Yu Haitang didn't understand the situation, and the workers at the steel mill were even more confused.

Everyone was discussing the bitter memory rice they were going to eat today.

When it was time to get off work at noon, a group of workers swarmed into the canteen, and then they saw baskets of gray things at the canteen window.

Everyone was dumbfounded.

What is this?

Is this something humans eat?

Even pigs wouldn’t eat it.

Someone who didn't believe it bought a wild vegetable dumpling and took a bite.

Then his expression suddenly became extremely wonderful.

The man spat out the vegetable dumpling in his mouth, spat a few times on the ground and cursed:

"Damn it! Is this food for human consumption?! It's so dry and hard! They even put bran in it. They don't even treat us as human beings! Give us back! Give us back now!"

"I'm sorry, but you've already bitten into the vegetable dumpling so there's no reason to refund the money."

The cook in charge of serving the food said expressionlessly.

He had guessed this would be the case a long time ago. Fortunately, all the security personnel were here, and there was someone to take the blame.

What is he afraid of?

Just when a few workers were about to lose their temper, Li Xinmin came over with people from the security department.

"What are you doing? Who wants to cause trouble? The radio has said that this bitter memory meal is a political task! Anyone who doesn't eat it is anti-government!"

Li Xinmin's words immediately discouraged the workers who were about to cause trouble.

Anyone who is stubborn at this time is a fool.

The worker who took a bite of the wild vegetable dumpling could only consider himself unlucky and took the wild vegetable dumpling to find a place to soak it in water and eat it.

These vegetable dumplings are dry and hard and are completely inedible.

As for throwing it away, that is naturally impossible.

There is no reason to throw away things you bought with money.

Although people will not starve to death in this era, there are still people who do not have enough food to eat.

Everyone looked at each other and finally had no choice but to buy a wild vegetable dumpling to fill their stomach.

Factory work takes a whole day, and if you skip lunch, you won’t have the energy to work in the afternoon.

No matter how unpalatable a wild vegetable dumpling is, it can at least fill your stomach.

But these wild vegetable dumplings are really unpalatable.

Many people forced themselves to swallow.

Couldn't even finish one.

And the most annoying thing is that this kind of food has to be eaten every other day.

Everyone decided that in the future, whenever they had to eat the hardship-recalling meal, they would just pack the food from home and eat it at the factory.

Although it is a little troublesome, at least I can eat normally.

In the evening, the canteen director took the money received today and showed it to Li Huaide.

Looking at the numbers in the account book, Li Huaide nodded with satisfaction.

This Cui Dake is indeed a talented person just as he thought.

If Xu Damao's talent is playing tricks on people, then Cui Dake's talent is making money for him.

Li Huaide also knew that too much is as bad as too little, so the cafeteria resumed normal supply the next day.

The workers' stomachs finally felt better.

After eating the wild vegetable dumplings that day, many people got upset. Either they couldn't digest it or they had diarrhea.

But no one cares about this.

If you encounter this problem, you have to overcome it yourself and take medicine.

After all, this kind of thing is also part of the effect of recalling the past and thinking about the present.

However, the next day, the factory clinic was crowded with people, and many people came to get digestive tablets or anti-diarrhea drugs.

By the third day, the workers in the steel mill had learned their lesson.

I packed food from home and brought it to the factory early in the morning.

By noon, the originally crowded cafeteria was empty.

Everyone in the workshop eats the food they brought from home.

Coincidentally, Wang Jianjun happened to come to the factory for dinner today.

When he arrived at the cafeteria, he thought he had remembered the day wrong, and the entire factory had come to work on its own.

However, Liu Lan, who was a little bored at the window, called him.

"Brother Wang! Here it is!"

"Sister Lan, what's going on today? There's no one in the cafeteria?"

"Don't you know? Today is the factory's turn to have the bitter memory meal again."

"Bitterness Rice?"

Wang Jianjun was a little curious. He had been in Hong Kong with his two wives these days and had not come to the steel mill, so he missed a lot of news.

"I almost forgot you're a purchaser. It's like this. A while ago, a new director came to the committee and said he wanted to promote something called "bitter memory rice". Now the cafeteria has to eat wild vegetable dumplings every other day. People don't want to eat it, so they just pack their own food and eat it in the cafeteria."

"Wild vegetable dumplings, this is really fresh. Sister Lan, give me one to try."

Wang Jianjun had never eaten wild vegetable dumplings or even wild vegetables in his life.

At first I was a little curious about what it tasted like.

We eat a lot of fish, meat, seafood and mountain products every day, and occasionally some wild vegetables to experience different flavors.