Chapter 043 The Lantern Festival in the First Year of Doomsday
Jingshu also likes to drink soup, so she cooked 1 cubic cube of seafood shrimp porridge, 1 cubic cube of carrot, corn, and mutton soup, 1 cubic stewed chicken soup with mushrooms, 1 cubic cube of ribs, lotus root soup, and 1 cubic crucian carp tofu soup.
Considering the power saving, Jingshu fryed her late-night snack steak and Yuqing Sauce and filled it with 2 cubic meters.
Anyway, Jingshu will cook various delicacies whenever she has time at home, and then store them in the space like a hamster. She is also planning to wait for Jing's grandma to come and grind the soybeans and make various tofu after a while.
Jing's mother still goes to work every day and complains about why the dark day has not ended. More than 30 days have passed, and she asked Jing's father to go to the wholesale market every day to buy something. Recently, everyone was anxiously waiting for the end of the dark day, while quietly saving some food.
Don’t think about vegetables and fruits. Not only does the price rise to hundreds of yuan per pound, there is nothing new yet.
All kinds of water, drinks, cold drinks have never been on the shelf again.
The variety of snacks, daily necessities, grain, oil and side dishes are also unknowingly reduced, and it seems that they have never been replenished again. Now each person is limited to purchase 200 yuan, so they can't buy much, but no matter how small the legs of mosquitoes are, they are still meat, unless they go to find scalpers to buy at a high price.
But since the supermarket was confiscated due to crazy price increases, scalpers have been reduced a lot. Citizens don’t know where the supplies were not received. Jingshu knew that when people were about to starve to death, the government helped them.
Some small shops saw that the price was not enough, so they closed the door and stocked up supplies. The next day, two policemen were door gods, which scared the boss so much that they had to continue opening the door and selling things.
The largest farmers' market in Wucheng, aquatic products, food, oil, etc., was suspended from being sold by the government and was quietly controlled. Jingshu only found out later that the increase in aquatic products and food became more and more outrageous. The government cooperated with the armed police to confiscate all supplies in one pot. To be polite, it is called: collection.
As the dark day did not end at all, the country became anxious. According to the idea, it would take more than twenty days to slowly recover the light, but it was still the case in these days. Professionals expected that it would take at least one month, so the country's huge machine began to act.
Today is the Lantern Festival on February 5, 2023. The country originally planned to move the Spring Festival on January 22 to February 5, when the dark day ended. The reunion dinner on the Lantern Festival was celebrated. Who would have thought that the dark day still did not end?
But in order to stabilize the people's hearts, the Spring Festival Lantern Festival Gala started on time at 20:00. This year, all the hosts wore their original clothes: dirty suits and unshaven beards, unsightly-colored skirts, haggard faces and greasy hair, no makeup or dressing up.
"Sorry, everyone, I haven't taken a shower in half a month." The female host with no makeup still maintained her elegant temperament.
"What a coincidence, I haven't washed it for a month." The male host held the microphone and the opening remark began.
Today, there are constant electricity everywhere, allowing every household to have a reunion dinner and watch the Lantern Festival party happily.
Jingshu and her family were sitting at their uncle's house for a reunion dinner today. This is a routine. On New Year's Eve, they were at their grandparents' house and on Lantern Festival.
Considering the lack of vegetables, Jingma brought some dry goods, eggs, tomatoes, bean sprouts, cabbage, garlic sprouts and bacon, and 2l of Sprite.
These things that usually look very ordinary have become popular now.
Jing's father wanted to mention two fish, and the fish in the pond grew a batch of Jingshu. There were a lot of crispy fish left. Jingshu was about to refuse, but Jingshu refused first: "Okay, all these are enough. My sister-in-law knew that we had so many good things and didn't give them, so she was blowing the wind in her ears again."
In fact, it was Jing's little woman who held grudges, and she still cared about it just to borrow money.
Jing's father drove, and the family of three came to my uncle's house in the afternoon. My uncle's family belongs to the old city in the west of the city. There are many people, low buildings, poor environment, and high housing prices. The flood in the second year did not flood. However, an earthquake in the third year buried my uncle's family of three downstairs, and the ending was very miserable.
In order to keep Jing's mother from becoming a bun, Jingshu decided to let her uncle's family survive.
When Jingshu's family arrived, two groups of people had already arrived in my uncle's family.
"Oh, I'm here, why are you bringing so many things? I'm so embarrassed! I'm finally better than some people, and I'm free to eat."
Aunt Wang Fang opened the door and took a bunch of things from Jing's father's hand. When she saw green vegetables, tomatoes, cabbage, bacon and other eyes were lit, she was so happy that she couldn't stop talking about her. During the Chinese New Year, she could eat some food and save some.
"Come on, come on, come in quickly. This year, my elder brother Wang Gang celebrates the New Year with us. This is what you know about my sister-in-law Liu Shufen. This is their daughter Wang Can. When I was 25 years old, my brother took her to the agency as a clerk." As soon as my aunt showed off, she felt it was a bit inappropriate.
For the sake of the Chinese New Year, my aunt and family cleaned it up, wiped it clean, washed their faces and changed into clean clothes, and they didn't want to wash their hair. Unexpectedly, Jingshu's family had clean and clean hair, and their hair was not oily at all, and they also smelled of Blue Moon brand laundry detergent.
Look at my family, no matter how you dress up, you will feel like you are rustic.
Jingshu's family came in and greeted her aunt and elder brother's family. The uncle's family had three bedrooms and two living rooms, which was decorated by Jing's father back then. Now it is much dilapidated, and there is an indescribable smell. Cans of all sizes are filled with water, and a freezer in the small bedroom was forced to be stuffed into it. Through the glass, I saw that there was half a refrigerator in the refrigerator.
Only the kitchen lights, the living room TV and air conditioning are turned on, and the light is a bit dim. Now every household has indicators for electricity use, and the power will be cut off if it exceeds the use.
"Sprite! Sister Jing, you can still get a 2-liter Sprite now, which is so awesome!" Su Long saw Jingshu holding the drink in her hand and her eyes rushed up with a hungry wolf-like light and was about to take it away.
Su Long is the old son of his uncle. He wore his eyes at the age of 17. He loved snacks since he was a child, so he was short and thin. This naughty child insisted on going home during an earthquake, which caused their family to die.
Jingshu pointed his head and pressed Su Long's forehead, "Everyone drank it together for dinner, but it's not allowed to drink it now." In fact, Jingshu didn't want to take Sprite because Sprite was versatile, Sprite plus lemon, Sprite plus sour plum juice, and milk. The taste was unique and exciting.
"Tsk, what's so great about it?" Zhang Hanhan hugged Wang Can's arm and looked at Jingshu with hatred, and muttered something to Wang Can. They didn't bother them. In order to save electricity, the air conditioner only turned on at 28c, and the outside was 47c high temperature.
Zhang Hanhan is the daughter of her aunt Su Meimei. Today she specially wore a red dress, tied her bun, and put on a dress, sprayed some perfume to cover her body. Jingshu always felt that people from the Art Academy looked the same internet celebrity face after dressing up. She also liked to dress like this more than ten years ago in her previous life.
Chapter completed!