Yun Suji said: "Have you implemented the meal distribution system? Distribute meals. [Read the latest chapter] Remember, it must be sent to the villagers' homes, not to the cadres' homes. By the way, you are all Shandong people here, so just follow the rules of Shandong people You get used to it, so you don’t have to make rice specially.”
The village chief agreed, not worrying about others, so he went to make arrangements himself. One of the chief's soldiers followed him closely: this was to ensure the safety of the chief's food.
While Yun Suji was waiting to meet with the heads of each Group A group. The village chief went from house to house and arranged:
"Zhao Xinjia's family will distribute rice today. Your family will kill the chickens. Hurry."
"What? Where should I send it to? You, mother-in-law, give it to the first family."
"Liu Chuan's family, we will distribute food today, and your family will cook fish. Don't think that I don't know that you are fishing in the river. The three boys of your family just went there with their bare buttocks carrying fish baskets. Get the fish that is alive, or else Pay careful attention to your skin. Make it ready and send it to the first home."
"Caipi, go to your uncle's house, collect all the porcelain from their families, and send it to the first family for official reception."
Then he explained to the soldiers following him: The first family was a family in this village who was designated to distribute meals. Others are worried.
Unexpectedly, this soldier said: "Chief safety comes first. You can't just give food away, and you don't use the tableware here. It must be done at home."
"My dear, there's no time for this."
"Just do as you're told. I looked at the store in front of me. There were some dried fish hanging in front of the door. That's the store. I looked at it just now and kept it clean. As for the ingredients, you can't use them casually. Make it simple. I want the whole process Supervision.”
The village chief looked at the family he was pointing to and said, "It's bad."
The soldier had already walked in on his own. The village chief had no choice but to follow him: "Kong Xiaode, your family will distribute food today." He glared at the head of the household fiercely.
The head of the household is also from Shandong, and he and his mother-in-law are the only two people in the family. The Kong family had never practiced this kind of system. Firstly, they didn’t understand that taking care of the meals was just a matter of cooking for them, and they thought they were getting paid after eating. Secondly, they didn’t know that home-cooked meals were enough, so they thought it was the same. People who come to the Yamen must eat well. Since he thought this way, he made the matter bigger. When he saw the soldier entering the house, he looked around without saying anything, and then opened the grain cabinet and rice vat to check carefully. Even more panicked.
Because this family has little labor, they don't beat much grain, and they are not used to eating brown rice, so their daily meal is multigrain pancakes with some green onion sauce. If he wanted to change his style, it would be multigrain wotou. After thinking about it, the head of the household couldn't get hold of these two items. Making pancakes would be a good meal, but he didn't have white flour, so he had to go to the neighbor's house and borrow a ladle of whole wheat flour. Ask my wife to make noodles. I took out a few eggs from my chicken coop and saw that there wasn't a drop of oil in my house, so I had to go to my neighbor's house to borrow some sesame oil.
Yun Suji took the guards to the Kong family for dinner. They saw a neat dustpan of pancakes placed on the square table in the main room, and a coarse glazed earthenware jar filled with brown rice porridge. In the center is a plate of fried eggs with shrimps. Four plates were placed around it: shredded mustard greens, mixed cucumber, pickled chives and bean curd.
At first glance, you can tell that you are being treated like a guest. Flour is a rare commodity in Lingao. It was probably the village chief who paid special attention to this when he was distributing meals. He washed his hands and sat down. Kong Xiaode, the head of the household, scooped out a bowl of muddy wine, held it to Yun Suji with both hands and said respectfully:
"Please have a meal, sir. We are a poor person who can't eat anything good. Let's drink some sugar cane bar!"
The more polite he is. Yun Suji felt more and more uncomfortable, and said as he continued: "I will scoop it out myself! Oh, fellow countryman! We can just eat one pot of rice, why do we need to cook something else?"
"To tell you the truth, I didn't prepare any meals. After harvesting the rice, it's time to rest for the winter, so we don't eat at noon," Kong Xiaode said.
Kong's wife continued: "Long! There's nothing, just a few plates of cold dishes! Not even a meat dish! If I were in my hometown, I wouldn't even be able to prepare this meal for the Chinese New Year! I came to Hainan Island two years ago to prepare these!"
Yun Suji nodded, feeling that this family was very knowledgeable and sensible. Sit down and eat and drink slowly with the four guards. The Kong family stood by and waited on him. Yun Suji couldn't stand it and insisted that they sit down. The couple couldn't resist. Then he dragged a bamboo stool to the side and sat down.
While eating, Yun Suji asked, "Do you still eat two meals a day?"
"It's not just two meals. It's three meals when the farming is busy. It's a lot of effort. I can't stand it if I don't eat more." Kong Xiaode took out the dry tobacco and put it away again.
"It doesn't matter. Just smoke. I also like to take a few puffs."
Kong Xiaode filled the tobacco leaves, bent down and said, "Please bear with me." He picked up a match, rubbed it on the sole of his shoe, and lit the pot.
Seeing that he was no longer so nervous, Yun Suji asked, "Does everyone in the village have two meals?"
Kong Xiaode said: "I haven't even eaten two meals yet!"
Yun Suji said: "It seems that life is going well."
Kong Xiaode didn't know what he meant. He took a puff of cigarette first and then said slowly: "Nowadays, during the busy farming season, I can eat three meals, some of which are rare and dry, and some of which are white rice. In the past, I couldn't even dream of it! These days in my hometown During the spring famine, even small grain farmers had to eat cornbread." Speaking of the past, a bitter expression appeared on his face.
Yun Suji suddenly stood up, walked to the stove, opened a bamboo hat, and sure enough, there was a pancake village underneath. Although he is not from Shandong, he is very familiar with the customs of Shandong people: most of them spread out many pancakes at one time and eat them slowly in the pancake village.
The pancake village is 80% full, and it looks like there is plenty of food in stock.
Kong Xiaode panicked and quickly stood up: "Chang, long..."
Yun Suji ignored it, picked up a pancake and returned to the table, folded off a piece, sandwiched some shredded shepherd's purse, and ate it in big mouthfuls.
The pancakes are sour, and the rough texture indicates that the ratio of sweet potato flour in them is quite high. He chewed for a long time before swallowing, and took another sip of porridge.
"This is a rough diet for villagers," Kong Xiaode said quickly, "Don't bite your old teeth! If it's not enough, just bake pancakes."
"It doesn't matter. You can eat it, but I can't?" Yun Suji said with a smile, "It's just a change of taste and something new."
Kong Xiaode didn’t know where he came from. What’s so delicious about these multigrain pancakes? He remembered the village chief glaring at him, but he didn't dare to say anything, he just kept smiling in apology.
While they were talking, a little girl came to the door of the house. She looked like only five or six years old, with two pigtails and a coarse cloth gown. She watched them eating pancakes. She put one finger into her mouth and drooled. A greedy look on his face.
Yun Suji looked interesting and called her: "Come in."
After greeting her several times, the girl didn't dare to come in. Kong Xiaode said, "Heini, come in, I'm calling you."
Heini was probably quite familiar with the Kong family, so she came in after listening to his words. Yun Suji saw that although she had dark spots, she looked upright and was chubby and cute. He couldn't help but think of his daughter, so he took a pancake from the table to him and said, "Heini, eat it."
The girl still didn't dare to pick it up, so Kong Xiaode said again: "You can just take what I gave you and eat it."
After he said this, Heini took the answer. She stood at the table with her dark eyes open, looking at this and that, which was really cute. Yun Suji teased her and asked, "Is this your child?"
Kong Xiaode sighed: "How can I be so lucky? This is the daughter of my neighbor Lao Yang's family - she was naked when she got on the boat and was as thin as a skeleton. She was just short of breathing. But she still has one breath at last!" As he smoked again and again, Yun Suji saw tears in his eyes. Knowing that it caused him grief.
While they were talking, Lao Yang came to see Kong Xiaode. As soon as he entered the door, he met Yun Suji and his daughter. Seeing that the leader was enjoying the food, Heini also ate it. She was surprised and bowed to Yun Suji first, and then He scolded Heini and said, "You're such a bastard! Why are you here looking for wild food to eat?" As he said this, he raised his hand and was about to hit her.
Yun Suji hurriedly stopped her: "What are you doing? A greedy kid, it doesn't matter how many bites you take." Then he said to Heini, "Don't be afraid of eating. I still have it here."
Then Lao Yang said to the head of the Kong family: "Old Kong! Everyone else's grains have been filled with ammonia, and my son has been pulled out of hard labor. Can you please give me ammonia later?"
Kong Xiaode said: "I will also apply ammonia water in the afternoon!"
Lao Yang said: "Then I can help too. After finishing your job, you can also finish mine later!"
Yun Suji asked: "Lao Yang, what kind of labor does your son do?"
Lao Yang said: "We are organizing to go to the reservoir construction site to build the canal. Every family needs at least one strong laborer. I only have one son. If he goes, I will do the farm work alone."
Yun Suji said: "You only send one of your sons to work?"
Lao Yang said: "It doesn't matter whether you have one son or several sons. If you are told to go, you will go. Otherwise, you will be said to be 'anti-production' and 'a drag on'. I can't stand being tied up by the militiamen and digging sand. Anyway, this one The old man can still afford it, so he can just ask the neighbors for help. Now he can live a peaceful life and have food to eat, which is pretty good.
Kong Xiaode felt something was wrong and winked at Lao Yang. Old Yang was a good talker, and he couldn't stop talking when he was talking, "Don't say there are no strong laborers, even if there are only women in the family, you will still be asked to go to the construction site. Last winter, Du Changfei wanted to cause a Qiannu Embankment, Every village is asked to send women to the construction site, saying that "women can hold up half the sky." Specifically asking women to build embankments has never been heard of in the world. The women of Nanmanzi are easy to say - they don't bind their feet when they are young, and they have a pair of natural feet. . Our women are half disabled even if their legs are lifted. It would be great if they can go to the fields, but they also have to carry heavy loads! It doesn’t matter if they go, every household in the village has no fireworks, and the whole family has no food or drink! The work on the construction site is heavy, After a few days, some were injured, and some were so tired that they vomited blood. Well, you still have to be taken care of when you come back! - I don’t know what this Du Chang thought."
Yun Suji lost her smile. This "Thousand Girls Embankment" was a water conservancy project that Du Wen personally took charge of. The executive committee approved it because it felt that it had great symbolic significance and that manpower was really needed for infrastructure construction. I didn't expect this to be the case! (To be continued.)
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