MTL - Attack Stream of Life-Chapter 18

After entering the 1960s, the situation did not go smoothly as people thought, but the daily life was severe. Relief food was delayed, and families who were really in difficulty began to flee to the homes of relatives who were in better condition.

The situation in Changshan Village is not bad. Although the system is despised by the system as sending feed, the 50 kilograms of oil residue really saved lives. Even the most populous and most difficult family persisted in the cold winter. When spring comes, the grass and trees sprout, and the days can go on.

There is no such good luck in other places. Everyone has news exchanges in private, and starvation has begun to appear in the most difficult places.

First of all, the elderly and children were unable to survive. They couldn't find anything to eat in one winter, and they became a stickman from starvation. Because of lack of nutrition, women are not pregnant, and they will not survive until they are pregnant. Grain has begun to replace money in the marriage market. As long as one hundred and eighty catties of grain are given as a betrothal gift, a middle-aged old man can marry eighteen daughters.

The situation in the city is slightly better, but the 'staple food' of sweet potato peels has also begun to appear in the food supply, and eggs have become scarce. Sister Qingchuan sent less and less food. Now she has sent 18 catties of cornmeal, and the money is a little more. But the money is not good at the moment to buy food.

The grains in the black market are almost sold out by the gram, and the eggs should be put in the window with diamonds. Even the large dining halls of the slaughterhouses, which have always been extravagant, have degraded their quality. Qingchuan has not eaten the pig's trotter soup, which is the specialty of the master chef for a long time.

The master felt that he was serious about his work, and he increased after asking the leaders for instructions. This year, the two regular employees of the slaughterhouse retired, so the two temporary workers became regulars, including Tang Yu. He is cheerful and enthusiastic, works carefully, and has a relationship. It is not surprising that he is a positive person. The other is an old employee, who has worked for six years, and it is time to turn.

The job at the moment is inheritance system. The old employee retires and his children take over as temporary workers. The newcomer became an assistant for handling duck feathers and chicken feathers, and all the old employees moved up one rank. Qingchuan finally began to handle chickens and ducks independently with a knife.

The old master looked at him without batting an eye, grabbed the duck's neck, and stabbed the blood into the basin without shaking. He praised him as a talent who was born to do this. General wind.

The system just laughed, that’s because I’ve never seen Qingchuan cooks, it’s more fun and neat than cooking ducks, it can make people have nightmares for three days, and from now on, I have a physiological effect on this kind of smiling humans with knives fear.

Because of the Zhang family members, Qingchuan is more restrained. Except for the free livestock once a month, he has never bought meat again. The staple food is basically sweet potatoes, potatoes, occasionally mixed with brown rice, millet, etc. . Salt, oil, sauce and vinegar are also used sparingly, so the dishes are mostly steamed and stewed, as well as many pickled vegetables and homemade sauces.

The Zhang brothers and sisters do not know this. They have a father in a transportation team in the county town. They live better than most of them. They can often eat rare cans, candies, biscuits, and malted milk. Wait, but that doesn't mean you can eat meat as often as you like. Nowadays, life in the county is also difficult. Those with other incomes are fine. With only dead wages and limited supply, most of them eat eighteen full, and the quality is not high.

Of course, no matter what, it is better than eating only five points in the countryside. The Zhang brothers and sisters lived for a few months and knew that even the students in the town could not eat meat and eggs once a month. However, Qingchuan feeds them a few days of meat every month. He makes chicken floss from chicken, fish floss from fish, and pork floss from pork. The children can eat a small dish every day, sometimes with Bring it to school in the dish, and friends who have made good friends can get a little bit of it.

The chickens raised at home don't lay much eggs anymore. Six hens can receive two eggs a day, or even only one. This egg will be made into egg custard, each person takes a bite, or open the hot water with sugar and boil it to make egg tea, half a bowl for each child.

Although Qingchuan always said that their parents gave the money and food, the two children are not stupid, they know that the family has not received a package from the county for almost three months, but two letter.

Zhang Lili took a peek at Qingchuan when she was going to work. The letter was written by Zhang Yong. He said that the food in the county is also in short supply. replaced with money. It is easier to find food in the country than in the city, although I know that I am embarrassing my brother-in-law, but there is nothing I can do.

Aunt’s house is out of cooking, so the children’s rations are saved? Zhang Lili burst into tears.

They know that now every grain of rice is Qingchuan's ration. How hard is food nowadays? Money can't buy it. Even if there were a lot of them in the market, the price would be several times higher than in previous years. Zhang Yong sent ten yuan a month, which was really unbearable at this time. Zhang Lili suddenly felt resentment. Even if she did something wrong, her younger brother is always innocent. Is the family planning to abandon their siblings?

Mom abandoned them, and now even Dad doesn't want them anymore.

Zhang Lili is very thoughtful. Although she tried her best to hide it, Qingchuan could see it clearly. He didn't know what to say either, he was really struggling with this kind of human sophistication.

Zhang Lili had a lot of fear in her heart. She was a child after all. She felt that her closest parents didn’t want them as siblings, and she was even more afraid that Qingchuan who had no blood relationship would also want them, so she was desperate. Work brush presence.

Qingchuan feels like she has raised a snail girl.

Emotions such as the gratification that a normal person should have is reflected in him, that is, bonuses for outstanding performance. Just buy, buy, buy, the little girl likes the headband clip, the meat floss candy snack, the army green schoolbag with embroidered ***, the fashionable sea soul shirt... special material.

He also set up two swings for the two children in the yard. According to the requirements of the two children, one chair was made into a flower basket shape, and the other was made into a big plane. All the people in the village come to play, girls like flower baskets and boys like planes.

He was so spoiled that the old lady was so curious that she called Qingchuan over and asked him what he was thinking. He was just as fond of Zhang’s siblings as kissing babies. Not so fond of it.

"I have never raised children, so I should practice my hands first." Qingchuan said.

At this time, the eldest sister especially wanted to put the eldest sister in her uncle so that he could practice. I have never heard of raising a child and you have to practice your hands first, which is also miraculous.

However, Qingchuan is also very good to the eldest sister. The high-priced rice noodles and daily milk feed the eldest sister to be fat. There are a lot of children in this village, and they all come out skinny. Her eldest sister's hands are full of meat, which is really the only one in the village.

"If you want children, it's easy, marry a wife, and have as many children as you want. What do you like? My sister-in-law will help you to inquire, and be sure to find someone who is capable and beautiful. Yes." Sister-in-law is like all women who are keen to introduce objects to unmarried men and women, and her eyes light up when it comes to being a matchmaker.

"I don't get married, and I don't have children. I'm fine by myself."

"Then you raised other people's children so happily?" The old lady didn't understand Qingchuan's divine logic.

"Of course other people's family is easy to raise, and you don't have to give birth yourself. When I think of a woman living in my family, my hair stands up. If this one day offends the other party, she quietly gets up in the middle of the night with a knife and cuts me off. What should I do? Even if the other party is a little more cautious, not using a knife or using insecticides, they are still very afraid of people. Children will not, they are so cute and innocent. "

Old lady, sister-in-law:…

"Then are you married or not?" the old lady asked.

"No knot." Qing Chuan ended the topic in one sentence.

It was too late, the old lady bent over to pick up her shoes and wanted to beat her son, but Qingchuan ran faster than a rabbit, turning back and shouting, "No knot, kill him No knot, no death, no knot."

The three hills behind Changshan Village are all assets of the village, so theoretically the bamboo, wood and vines on the mountain are collective, and private picking is not allowed. to these. Qingchuan unearthed such a wonderful thing as kudzu powder. The hungry villagers evacuated the back mountain overnight, and basically all the kudzu roots that could be found were dug up.

They cut the thick roots with an axe, chopped them, polished them and filtered them with water to filter out the starch called kudzu root powder. It doesn't taste very good when eaten dry, but it is very good to bake it into a paste or to make pancakes with other grain flours.

Qingchuan grinds more than ten kilograms of kudzu root powder by himself, and other families with large populations get more. Changshan Village has not died of starvation for two years, but the situation in other villages is very serious.

Many local daughters-in-law's parents and married daughters' in-laws come to borrow food. If there is more, they will definitely not borrow food. If there is really no surplus food, they are taught to go up the mountain to dig kudzu and grind flour, which is also a way to survive. At this time, I have to mention Qingchuan, the 'first person to eat crabs'.

In fact, kudzu powder was not the first to be discovered by Qingchuan, but it was not spread before. Because this thing was troublesome, it took a long time to get a little powder. In normal times, it was very uneconomical, so no one Know. Now Qingchuan is deliberately promoting it, and everyone knows it.

In the year of disaster, a little bit of powder can also save lives.

Such a pass of ten, ten passes of a hundred, indirectly saving countless people, the system suddenly told Qing Chuan that he is now considered a person of high moral character, Qing Chuan is simply inexplicable.

"You can use this standard to judge who has a high moral character." The system said.

But Qingchuan didn't understand how his high morality came from, let alone any standards. Coming to and from get off work every day and killing lives every day, is it considered noble?

With pueraria powder this year, Qingchuan will no longer deliver food (feed) from house to house. The slaughterhouse’s welfare this year includes glutinous rice flour. Qingchuan gave a pound to the old lady and kept one for herself. Jin, use half of the sesame dumplings to make sesame dumplings on New Year's Eve, and eat the other half on Lantern Festival.

The glutinous rice flour for making glutinous rice **** is only half a catty, so each glutinous rice ball is made with thin skin and thick filling, the size of a ping-pong ball, with sesame filling, purple potato filling, and red bean paste filling. sweet. Qingchuan spooned five glutinous rice **** for each of the two children, poured in sweet-scented sweet-scented osmanthus water, set up a few firecrackers in the yard after eating, and then carried a sleepless vigil.

The two children were so sleepy after twelve o'clock that they fell asleep on the chair. Qing Chuan took them back to the room, took off their shoes and coats, and put two new sets of woolen hats and scarves by their bedside.

The elder sister is reddish-brown, and the younger brother is navy blue, with thick wool threads, diagonal plaid pattern, and a small rabbit fur pom-pom on the top of the hat, which looks very cute.

This is a big surprise. People who love their children at home, even if they can't make new clothes for their children, they always try to make other new things, such as new shoes and hats, to make the children happy. Zhang Lili used to watch other children receive gifts, but she didn't expect that she would have them too, and she liked it so well.

Sister and brother put on new hats and scarves happily, and looked carefully in the mirror for a while.

Qingchuan came over, wiped the children's faces with facial oil, and then took them to pay New Year's greetings. The old lady and sister-in-law prepared a red envelope for the child. For a dime, you can buy ten candies at the supply and marketing cooperative, which is a big number in the eyes of the child. Qingchuan still gives two cents, bachelors have the right to spoil their children. The two siblings, holding red envelopes, and the eldest sister, who had just walked steadily, went to each household hand in hand to look for sweets and desserts for the New Year.

"In the past, my uncle sent it to the outside world, but this year it can be considered to be back. Come on, get a lot, you're welcome."

The two children came back at noon, and they were full of sweets and snacks, less sugar and more melon seeds and fried peanuts. They sprinkled the candies on the table and counted them one by one, counting how many days they would last. If there are children who can survive, these candies can last for half a year, but most of them will be almost completely eaten within the first month.

Qingchuan came over, holding two iron boxes in his hand, "Eat melon seeds and fried peanuts early, they will get wet after a long time. Well, see if you like the gift your uncle gave you. like."

New Year's money is New Year's money, and New Year's gifts are New Year's gifts. Uncle Qingchuan is still so materialistic today and so pleasing to children.

The children cheered. In the morning, they saw Qingchuan holding a similar box and giving it to the eldest sister, which was full of cod intestines filled by Qingchuan himself. Of course, others do not know that it is cod intestines, but they know that it is fish intestines made of sea fish, which is very delicious and tender.

Zhang Lili opened her own box first, and there were two sparkling glass jars, one filled with her favorite pork floss, and the other with her favorite white rabbit toffee. In Zhang Shijie's box is a can of malted milk essence and a can of honey-juice pork jerky.

"Thank you uncle."

On the first day of the new year, the system always gives big animals, and this year is no exception, a young stag became his soul. Qingchuan stayed up all night to deal with the deer, antlers, a whip, buckskin, venison... Except for a little meat, he was going to sell them all to pharmacies, leather shops, restaurants, etc. in the county. If it is common meat, it is most suitable to send it to the black market, but venison is rare, and the price of sending it to the big restaurants in the county is high.

There is also deer blood, which can be used to make wine.

In the second year of junior high, the eldest sister's family came from the county seat. The Zhang brothers and sisters followed Qingchuan in a complicated mood. They called parents dryly and entered an awkward time. They were a little worried that Zhang Yong would take them home, but when Zhang Yong brought them back without a word, they were unspeakably sad.

Zhang Yong saw that a pair of daughters were well raised here, they grew taller and whiter, their eyes were bright, and their spirits were different, and he knew that his brother-in-law loved them very much. Besides, the old lady had always complained that Qingchuan refused to go on a blind date for the sake of the two children, and Zhang Yong felt very guilty. The children's uncles and uncles left them and ran away, but Qingchuan, who has nothing to do with it, is really rare.

"When this period is over, I will come and pick them up." Zhang Yong gave Qingchuan 100 yuan, and there are many tickets, cloth tickets, food tickets, tobacco and alcohol tickets, etc. . In addition, there are things to prepare, such as malted milk, sugar, biscuits, bacon, rich and strong powder, etc., as well as new fabrics and new cotton, and some small books.

The eldest sister held the child and watched without saying a word. She didn't expect her brother to be so kind and take care of the unrelated children so well. Seeing that the two children's faces were white and tender, she knew Never suffered or starved. That's fine. Her mother's family takes care of her carefully. It's not a mistake for her to send her child to the countryside.

Today, the eldest sister and her husband came here, in addition to greeting the New Year, there is also a happy event. The eldest sister found a job and found a temporary job in the large canteen of the county machinery factory. Now her household registration can finally be transferred to the county seat, and her food relationship with her children can also be transferred. After the household registration was transferred, I gained 50 kilograms of grain every month, as well as other eggs, meat and so on.

Stomach, the first child is more than a week, and it is almost ready for the second child. She glanced at her stepdaughter and stepson vaguely. She couldn't bring them back at this time, so she had to aggrieve her younger brother first.

After lunch, Zhang Yong took the two children to the side. He gave the two children a big red envelope of five yuan each, and reached out to touch their heads, but the Zhang siblings avoided them subconsciously. Zhang Yong retracted his hand in embarrassment, "Are you used to living here? Is there anything you want Dad to buy for you?"

This is too late, a year too late.

Zhang Lili clenched her brother's hand tightly, "It's good, my uncle takes good care of us." She especially wanted to stab Zhang Yong, telling him that his uncle did more than her father did. , Uncle dotes on them more than their father. But looking at Zhang Yong's wry smile, Zhang Lili couldn't say anything.

"You are here, listen to your uncle." Zhang Yong said again.

"Hmm."

"Dad will pick you up when the time is right."

When is it right? What is the right time? Do you have to wait until the younger siblings are born one by one and grow up one by one? Did they completely forget about their siblings at that time? Throw it away like throwing out the trash?

Zhang Lili's anger and resentment turned into tears, she forcibly held back and told herself, think about the swing frame at home, think about the big white rabbit and meat floss under the bed, think about the warm new clothes, she Someone hurts too.

She also has an uncle. Her parents don't love her, and her uncle loves her. What's good in the city, the room is so small, the eggs can't be eaten, and the neighbors are weird.

Forget it.

Forget it.

"Okay." Zhang Lili replied.