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Chapter 5 Food Crisis

Although the source of food has been settled, the old lady who has experienced the wasteland did not stop there. When she got free, she began to savor what she could eat and get home.

Although their family doesn’t eat much, the more food they have, the more secure they will feel during the disaster year.

Anyway, the food will not be exposed in the space of the little granddaughter, so the old lady used the skills of treasure hunting rats and began to search for food all over the mountains.

Shanglin Village is located in a mountainous area, at the foot of the mountain. There is a wild forest between the mountains and the village.

Compared with the dangerous mountains, this wild forest is often visited by people. Although there are many mountain products in it, there are very few left after autumn picking.

However, the old lady followed the principle of not leaving any grass wherever she passed. In the days to come, she would go to the wild woods to pick up mountain goods that she had picked up in autumn whenever she had free time.

Because he was too young, Lin Yuan couldn't help with anything, so he could only be a caring little cotton jacket.

The old lady occasionally makes her soft-hearted and can follow her behind her and walk around the woods for a few times.

Although Lin Yuan was curious about the mountains, the old lady told her many deeds of tigers and wild boars killing several villagers these days, and finally dispelled her eagerness.

The old lady worked in the wild woods for a few days before returning home with half a basket of dried wild walnuts.

After the frying of the mountain goods, Song Weibing and Old Man Song pushed the cart and delivered the previously ordered food to them in the middle of the night.

After paying off the remaining funds and sending the Song family and his son away, Lin Yuan put all the food into the small space with the old lady's expectant eyes.

Although the food you bought may not be able to end the famine, you can save some food and think of other ways to supplement it. The grandparents and grandchildren don’t have to worry about being hungry anymore.

The food matter was successfully resolved. The old lady took advantage of the supply and marketing cooperative's abundant supplies during the New Year and bought all the remaining money for buying grain and stocked up, for fear that the shortage of supplies would not be able to buy them, and the young granddaughter's mouth would be lost.

The young and old in Shanglin Village were busy until the end of the twelfth lunar month. Seeing that the Chinese New Year was about to be ready to eat pig-killing vegetables, the captain Lin Laoguo, who had been actively carrying out the commune movement, only then did he find that there was not much left in the storage in the warehouse after Accountant Zhang’s reminder.

Lin Laoguo looked at the remaining grain in the warehouse and wrinkled his face.

Why didn't he find these villagers all starved to death and reincarnated?

If you don’t control your appetite and continue to eat, you will have to stop eating before the summer harvest. If you don’t have any food at that time, these villagers will not rebel?!

The captain of the team, Lin Daan, looked coldly from the side.

"I have said this is not possible, but now it's good. If you continue to eat like this, you will be at most a month and a half. I'm afraid you won't even be able to drink the thin ones."

Lin Laoguo knocked on his tobacco pipe in his heart and muttered.

However, he also knew that although Lin Daan's words were not very pleasant, they were the truth and were not in the mood to argue with Lin Daan. Lin Laoguo sucked his pipe and asked everyone to brainstorm how to solve the problem.

"There is nothing else. The best way to deal with it is to disband the canteen, let the villagers go back to their own houses and find their mothers, divide the remaining grain by the head, and let them go home to eat it themselves. This is not a pity for eating the public, and eating the home will definitely save money. I can't say that I can survive the summer harvest smoothly."

"Lin Da'an, your thoughts are wrong. You are trying to destroy the enthusiasm of our communist cause. No matter what, this canteen cannot be disbanded!"

As soon as Lin Da'an finished speaking, the captain Lin Laoguo couldn't help but pat on the table.

Lin Laoguo was very angry about Lin Da'an's proposal. When he wanted to work in the commune canteen, Lin Da'an kept obstructing him, but he didn't expect that he still didn't give up.

If his father hadn't been the only old Red Army soldier in the village and had been received by the chairman, he would have suspected that Lin Da'an was a rat shit mixed in their revolutionary ranks.

What else can Lin Daan say? The practical suggestions he made were not accepted, and the purity of the revolution was questioned. He was yelled by the captain Lin Laoguo, and Lin Daan shut up.

Accountant Zhang, who was standing beside him, looked helplessly at the two people who were about to fight together as soon as they met. Seeing that the opening was endless, he had to propose: "If the canteen was not disbanded, we would have to start reducing everyone's appetite to evenly reduce the food, or apply for relief from the higher authorities."

"How can we apply for relief grain now? We can't cause trouble for the comrades above. The yield we reported was more than 1,000 kilograms less than that of Xiaolin Village next door, and we paid less public grain than others. Xiaolin Village did not ask for relief grain. How could we ask for it first? This is something we will be criticized."

Regarding Accountant Zhang’s two proposals, Lin Laoguo chose the former without hesitation, and the option of relief grain was directly excluded by him.

Although reducing the food rations of big guys will shatter the beautiful blueprint he has drawn for the communist to eat in advance, it is nothing to let these mud legs go hungry than to leave a bad impression on the leader than to ask for relief food above.

"Well, we can't forget the hard-working spirit of the revolutionary ancestors after a few good days. I remember that the Red Army had chewed tree bark and eaten grass roots during the Long March. This spirit of remembering bitterness and sweetness can never be forgotten."

"Okay, comrades, after tomorrow, after eating pig-killing vegetables, this decision must be implemented. All captains remember to inform the news from door to door."

After arranging the task, Lin Laoguo walked out with his cigarette puff in his arms, and left the rest of the work he would offend people to several team leaders to do.

"I should have stopped him from committing fraud on the grain yield per mu. If most of the grain collected had been handed over to public grain, how could he have calculated this way?"

After hearing Lin Daan's complaint, except for Zhang Ming, the captain of the fourth team who was angry with Lin Laoguo, rolled his eyes, everyone else sighed.

Fortunately, they stopped him and did not let Mr. Lin act on his own and want to be the first person to release satellites. Only then did they cut off half of the yield per mu of 10,000 kilograms that they had originally reported.

Every household in Shanglin Village who received the notice complained, but the villagers were dissatisfied with what the leaders decided, but although the villagers were dissatisfied with it, they were unable to change it.

Fortunately, there was also a rich meal of pig-killing vegetables, which sucked a lot of resentment that had just gathered.

The old lady who was calm in her hands didn't complain much, but the limited supply time in the cafeteria was earlier than she had expected, which made the old lady more confident about the coming of famine.

The old lady also thought about spreading the news, but not to mention that there is a problem with her source of information, she may even be arrested as a bad person who destroys social harmony and stability and is criticized and fought.

With such concerns, the old lady didn't dare to say anything everywhere. She only revealed some of her relationships with a few families. She almost wrinkled her mouth and found some excuses to make people reluctantly believe her.

In short, the old lady did everything she could. She would prepare early if she believed her, and there was nothing she could do if she didn't.

Lin Yuan had no objection to the old lady's actions. Although she knew what would happen in the future, she could not bear to starve to death, but she was unwilling to expose herself.

But in the end, I couldn't get through the hurdle in my heart. I found a piece of straw paper and wrote down the famine with a black wooden stick. I threw it into the window of the brigade while no one was paying attention.

Doing this is just a request for peace of mind, she can't actually do anything.

For several days, Lin Yuan didn't see anything in the village. He didn't know whether the piece of paper she wrote was read but didn't believe it, or was swept it directly as garbage.

The villagers happily killed the New Year pigs and ate a sumptuous meal of meat and vegetables, and began to eat rice with a full meal and remember the bitterness and sweetness of the sweetness of eating.

The living standards have dropped sharply, which has made it very uncomfortable for everyone who has opened their stomachs to eat a few days ago.

Lin Yuan also tasted the wild vegetable dumplings. Although they were a little bitter and a little irritated, they were not unbearable.

Although the old lady couldn't bear to give up her granddaughter to eat this rough thing, every family ate this way, and she couldn't make her granddaughter too special. She had to go home at night to cook rice porridge and cook eggs in a small stove, and secretly find replenishment for her granddaughter.

After eating pig-killing vegetables for a few days, it was the New Year, and the food was still eaten in the cafeteria.

The New Year’s Eve dinner was pork dumplings. The fragrant dumplings made the villagers who had eaten wild vegetable dumplings for several days in a row and were satisfied.

Even Lin Yuan, who has not had a lot of appetite, has eaten a big bowl this time.

The pork these days does not have clenbuterol and various additives, and Lin Yuan is satisfied with eating the rich meat flavor.

While eating dumplings, Lin Yuan was thinking about the issue of eating meat.

Although her family has stored a lot of food that has been damaged, it is not enough to eat food. If there is no oil or water in her stomach, the food will not be hungry and consume quickly. The combination of meat and vegetables is the king.

But the problem of eating meat is not easy to solve. Nowadays, rural areas are not allowed to raise livestock without permission, and chickens, ducks, pigs and sheep are collectively owned. If you eat pork openly like this, you have to wait for the New Year.

I can get meat tickets every month for the urban household registration, so it is not easy for them to get meat tickets in the countryside.

The pigs raised collectively were sent to the supply station in the county, but there were meat tickets back. The villagers could also get these meat tickets, but the number was not large.

For example, Lin Yuan's family only has two grandparents and grandchildren, and the total amount of meat tickets is less than half a pound by head, and the amount is still the whole year.

This is simply bad news for Lin Yuan, who had never had any flesh in his previous life.

After dinner, he returned home and lying on the bed until he finished washing and lying on the bed. Lin Yuan was thinking about eating meat.

Logically speaking, Shanglin Village is leaning against the mountains, and there will never be few wild animals in the mountains.

But a few years ago, the village organized hunting in the mountains. There was not much prey to be hunted, but instead he was unlucky to encounter beasts and several strong laborers died.

Since then, no one from Shanglin Village has ever mentioned hunting in the mountains. On weekdays, villagers only dare to wander around the wild woods outside and pick up some mountain goods. Sometimes they are lucky, but they can meet a pheasant and hare.

Lin Yuan didn't know if there were any brave people in the village sneaking into the mountains to hunt, but she was drooling at the mobile meat warehouse in the back mountain.
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