There is Room for Rebirth in the 1950’s

Chapter 492 What did you eat

Want to ask what is popular recently?

—That must be what you ate.

This wind blows all over the north and south of the river, inside and outside the pass.

Father Zhang finally wrote a complete letter. For the first time in his life, after sending a letter to the capital, he said a simple sentence: Xiao Wu, don't send food stamps!

The sudden sentence made Zhang Guoqing puzzled. Fortunately, there were letters from Zhang Laoer and his brothers and sisters immediately after him.

Several brigades near Zhangjia Village attracted peak crowds—in the past, farmers envied the city dwellers, but now the city dwellers put down their dignity, searched for relatives, and stepped into small farm yards and open fields.

I have to say it’s ironic—how does it feel to follow the so-called country people behind the poor relatives who used to look down on the door?

The old Zhang family has been farmers for generations, and their ancestors have lived by hunting and farming for generations. That is to say, except for the accident of Zhang Guoqing, the whole family moved to the county seat.

At this time, Father Zhang looked at the noisy families in the village, and secretly rejoiced that his three brothers had no thick-skinned relatives. He subconsciously ignored his bad nephew and niece.

Uncle Zhang frowned and scolded, settled the quarrel and followed his second brother to the old captain's house.

Why are you coming back? Look at your rosy complexion. You are younger than my younger brother. Don't wander around if you have nothing to do. You don't wink at such an old age. What if something happens along the way?

Brother, what you said is wrong. I can hit ten by myself without any problem.

Uncle Zhang glanced at his second brother with a headache. How confident is this guy? Ten more?

Go back. It won't be a problem to arrange people to live in the yards of the second child and the fifth child. It's okay to go to the capital and don't dawdle in front of my eyes.

Father Zhang was not angry when he heard this. This time, it was thanks to my eldest brother who arranged for the widowed and lonely elderly in the village to live in the house of the two sons, otherwise it would be difficult to drive people away if they really wanted to let the young ones live in.

Seeing the fork in the road, Father Zhang watched him leave with his back bent, and shook his head helplessly.

When he returned to the old house, he found his two sons coming over again, and he glared at them angrily.

Father, let's go. There are so many wastes in this cold day.

Zhang Lao Er hurriedly pulled his elder brother. Ouch, I really can't speak, maybe his father thought he came here because he was worried about the waste of their old couple.

Father, it's not a problem that Xiaowu's courtyard is empty, you have to go back and see if there are any missing things.

Sure enough, when Zhang's second son said this, Zhang's mother hurriedly took his wife away and returned to the city.

Others don't know, but Zhang Laoer knows that his younger brother has prepared a lot of private goods for his parents. Last month, his father asked him to exchange fifty catties of rice for coarse grains.

If it weren't for his father and younger brother, he and his elders would be in trouble.

On the way back, Zhang Laoer walked slowly behind Zhang's father. Seeing his mother walking quickly with his elder brother, there was a distance between them.

He whispered to Father Zhang: Uncle Zuo said that all the universities in the capital have also reduced their food supplies, and even my Uncle Zhou has reduced their supply a lot. Xiao Wu's food stamps can no longer be sent back.

Father Zhang took a look at him and bowed his head in silence. To put it bluntly, if it wasn't for subsidizing them with some coarse grains, they would have already written to the capital for help.

However, the old son really can no longer send food stamps back. If I have too many things in my hands, those daughter-in-laws will be anxious again. Don't think that he doesn't know that the old family secretly gave her parents ten catties of corn noodles.

After returning to the county seat, father Zhang was unwilling to live with the other two sons this time. The son is his own, but the two daughters-in-law are outsiders. Avoiding his own man every day, licking his face and smiling at his old couple, talking about the plight of his mother's family from time to time, looking at him and wondering what their thoughts are? He just doesn't care.

Mother Zhang ignored the begging of her two sons and insisted on living alone. You and your wife can eat whatever you want, and you don’t have to look forward and backward if you want to make a good meal to supplement your grandchildren. The old son left a lot of things, and she was stupid to suffer with her daughters-in-law.

The old couple nestled in the room and finally wrote a letter after wasting a lot of energy. Well, the old couple are satisfied, it's still convenient for them to write letters.

This letter was extremely heavy, and with the love of Zhang's father and mother, it finally arrived in Zhang Guoqing's hands ahead of schedule.

When Zhou Jiao saw the letter from Zhang Lao Er and the others, and learned that her in-laws had gone home to live by themselves, something might have happened, which made the old couple feel uncomfortable.

This time, the couple did not stop them in the reply letter, but sent a letter to the eldest sister Zhang Meili, asking the three brothers Ziwen to accompany the old man from time to time. I believe that having children like Xizi and Ziwen will not make their parents lonely, and it will also reduce the burden on Zhang Meili's family by the way.

The couple analyzed from the clues that the food stamps sent back must have made the two sisters-in-law jealous and embarrassing the parents. Considering the food stock in their hometown, the couple obeyed Zhang's father's order this time and never sent food coupons back.

This kind of behavior also made Father Zhang heave a sigh of relief. Especially when they saw the emergence of alternative foods and green algae in the canteen of the textile factory, the old couple secretly rejoiced that their old son didn't need to save food stamps from his teeth, so he shouldn't have to eat these things.

His old son Zhang Guoqing does not need to eat any food substitutes, but unfortunately the food situation in the school has not improved, but it has become more and more depressed.

Starting from this autumn semester, all cornmeal, dried sweet potato, sorghum noodles, buckwheat noodles, and even the occasional white noodles are not the original standard 85 noodles, but bran poured without removing the bran.

What is even bran pouring? That is, 100 catties of wheat are ground to produce 100 catties of flour. Swallowing can clearly feel a sharp pain in the throat. And even that is rare.

The most common dry food on the table is buckwheat noodles in addition to cornmeal. Its surface looks very white, but when it is made into steamed buns, it turns black.

These coarse grains have been improved many times in the cafeteria, adding a lot of tree leaves, corn core powder and other messy things. The taste is harder and astringent, with a bit of bitterness and a hint of sweetness. constipate.

In the past, Zhou Jiao still had the confidence to pretend to be similar to the dark corn buns, vegetable dumplings, and steamed buns, but this time she was helpless. The ingredients are too complicated, no matter how hard she tries, she still can't make a finished product similar to it.

Not long after, in order to keep everyone full, many varieties were added to the cafeteria, and some substitutes appeared. Most of them are green algae.

After eating this thing, my stomach was stirred hotly, and then my abdomen became distended like a drum, and even exhaust became a problem. But at any rate, the hunger was relieved.

In order to get more food, many people braved the wind and snow to go to the countryside, staggered back to school after dark, handed over the picked up trophies to the cafeteria for weighing, and exchanged for a few food coupons.

Fortunately, it is not mandatory to eat in the cafeteria in the school now. Unless necessary, Zhang Guoqing and his wife were with everyone, and they never dared to stay in the cafeteria for a second at other times.

And Yi Jiefang and the others were so hungry that they went home for a day or two to bring back dry food and cook some soup in the house, barely able to support themselves.

Seeing other students who gradually lost weight, everyone tacitly dared not go back to school with meaty food.