When I heard the words "dinner is served", the happiest person was Bao'er in Ye Lifang's arms.
This girl was born to be a foodie, and her eyes immediately lit up when she heard there was food!
Dad Zhou Yawen immediately asked Zhou Yang: "Have you brought a lunch box?"
"Bring it!"
It's impossible to go out without bringing a lunch box these days. After all, not everyone can afford a restaurant and not always have a place to eat, so it is very necessary for people to prepare their own meals.
"Come on, take the lunch box and I'll take you to get some food!"
Then he said to his wife: "Lao Ye, you guys just wait in the house!"
After saying that, Zhou Yawen picked up two large lace bowls full of gaps from the side of the broken water tank, and took Zhou Yang out of the door.
The place where I prepare meals is not very far from the shack where my parents live, only about ten meters away.
Along the way, Zhou Yang also met a lot of people who were going to get food, but no matter they were men or women, everyone was the same dry, thin and dark skin.
Moreover, all of them were staggering when walking, and their lower body was unstable. It was obvious at first glance that they had been malnourished for a long time.
But even so, everyone greeted Zhou Yang one after another.
When he came to the place where he was cooking, Zhou Yang saw that more people had gathered here, probably no less than fifty people.
"Dad, do you usually eat together?" Zhou Yang asked with a frown.
"Well, there are more than two hundred people in the village, divided into four groups. Each group has a big iron pot, so we can only eat together!" Zhou Yawen replied.
After getting this answer, Zhou Yang couldn't help but be a little confused.
They brought a lot of rice and noodles this time, so it was good to eat separately. Everyone had their own food, and no one was in the way.
But now that they are working together, it will not be easy.
But he didn't say anything, and just followed his father, queuing up to get food.
When it was their turn, Zhou Yang finally saw what was in the pot and was stunned.
A large iron pot with a diameter of more than one meter and two meters was filled with soup and water. From the boiling soup, Zhou Yang could recognize at a glance that there were leaves, wild vegetables, and grass roots in it.
In addition, the soup is not clear soup. It looks sticky. There should be some flour added to it. I don’t know whether it is wheat flour or corn flour.
All in all, this messy hodgepodge is really unappetizing.
To put it bluntly, this is not much different from the swill prepared by Babaoliang Brigade for pigs, and people will definitely not eat it.
After all, no matter how poor the team is, they can still afford wild vegetable pancakes!
The cook obviously had a good relationship with Zhou Yawen. He knew that relatives were coming to his house, so he got them some more thick rice.
After thanking him, Zhou Yawen took Zhou Yang back to the shack with two large bowls and a lunch box of food that was not soup but soup!
After entering the door, Li Youwei was stunned when she saw the things they brought back!
"Mom, do you usually eat these things?"
Hearing her daughter-in-law's question, Ye Lifang said with some embarrassment: "There's no autumn harvest yet. It's the time when there's no harvest, so we have to make do!"
Li Youwei immediately took out the dry food prepared on the road from her bag, and then said: "Father, mother, you can eat this!"
Zhou Yawen and Ye Lifang swallowed subconsciously when they looked at the boiled eggs, fried golden scallion pancakes, and even a few pieces of sun-dried meat that Li Youwei took out.
They have forgotten how long it has been since they had these goodies!
The last time I had pure grain rice was at a party organized by the management office after the busy farming season last year.
Zhou Yawen remembers that he seemed to have eaten six large white steamed buns during that meal, and he still remembers the taste.
"Forget it, keep it for Bao'er to eat!" Zhou Yawen said.
Although he really wanted to take a bite of the scallion pancake, he didn't know if his son and daughter-in-law would be able to adapt to the situation.
Besides, adults can endure it, but children can’t, so I’d better save this delicious food for my precious granddaughter!
Zhou Yawen is very rare for this little girl Bao'er!
Although Zhou Yawen also thinks that the old Zhou family should have a grandson to pass on the incense, he does not favor girls over boys. The reason is simple: the old Zhou family has no daughters!
It's not just that there are no girls in Zhou Yang's generation, there are even no girls in Zhou Yawen's generation and the previous generation, the old Zhou family.
Therefore, Zhou Yawen was happy from the bottom of his heart when he heard that his daughter-in-law had given birth to a girl for the first time!
However, what Zhou's father didn't expect was that after hearing his words, Bao'er shook his head and said, "Grandpa and grandma eat it, Bao'er doesn't like eating eggs!"
Li Youwei didn't listen to her father-in-law, she peeled a few eggs directly, and then forcibly put two into the bowls for the old couple.
"this..."
Seeing his mother's frightened expression, Zhou Yang suppressed the sadness in his heart and said, "Mom, eat it, these foods are very common where we live!"
Zhou Yawen glanced at his son and saw that he didn't seem to be lying. Then he nodded and said, "You can eat as much as you want. Don't let the children's kindness down!"
After greeting his parents and eating eggs and green onion pancakes, Zhou Yang picked up the bowl of mixed vegetable soup. He wanted to taste what it tasted like.
When he took the first bite, he almost spit it out.
It's bitter, astringent, and has a strong earthy smell!
Apart from that, Zhou Yang couldn't taste anything else.
He resisted the nauseating feeling and took another sip, but it still tasted bad.
But this time he tasted something wrong, and immediately asked: "Dad, don't you put salt in your cooking?"
Zhou Yawen shook his head and said: "No, we have to earn all the living necessities here by ourselves. We people are not very good at taking care of crops, and the land is relatively barren. The food produced every year is not enough to eat. How can there be any surplus food for other livelihoods?" Supplies!”
Zhou Yang immediately understood why the people here looked so weak when walking. It turned out that it was not only caused by malnutrition, but also directly related to their long-term lack of salt.
As we all know, not eating salt for a long time can easily cause electrolyte imbalance in the body, leading to hyponatremia, hypotonic dehydration, etc., and symptoms such as headache, drowsiness, nausea, vomiting, and muscle weakness.
He believes that ordinary people like this understand common sense, and these intellectuals will not know it. Obviously, conditions do not allow it!
Zhou Yang sighed, said nothing, and forced himself to finish the bowl of vegetable soup.
Seeing that daddy's food seemed to be quite delicious, the child Baoer immediately asked for a bite.
As a result, after taking a mouthful of vegetable soup, the little guy burst into tears and said aggrievedly: "It doesn't taste good...it tastes too bad!"
Looking at her precious granddaughter who kept dropping golden beans, Ye Lifang felt heartbroken and hurriedly gave her the eggs in the bowl.
Li Youwei saw this and said hurriedly: "Mom, you eat eggs, Bao'er has other things to eat!"
With that said, she immediately took out a few pieces of chicken cake from her luggage bag and handed them to Bao'er.
The little girl liked this fragrant and sweet chicken cake very much. After getting it, she stopped crying.
After stumbling to finish her first meal at Dongquan Farm, Ye Lifang poured half a bowl of water into each person's bowl and used chopsticks to scrape the vegetable stains on the edge of the bowl while drinking.
The water is finished and the bowl is clean!
Seeing his parents save dishwashing water in this way, Zhou Yang was once again shocked by the harsh environment and hard life here!
