Chapter 125 Longyang Town, Food Has Been Distributed

In the current weather where the temperature is a bit cold, it is the most enjoyable thing to have a bowl of dumplings at noon.

More than half a head of cabbage plus meat, the filling alone is three kilograms, and two and a half kilograms of flour. One person can eat an average of eight taels, because it is hand-rolled and larger than the quick-frozen ones in later generations. Counting the wrappers, one person can eat twenty. Pour these eight taels of dumplings into the water, put some soy sauce in the bowl and serve some dumpling soup. How can one person consume a kilogram of useful food?

To burn briquettes in the coal stove, first boil a pot of water in a hot water kettle, and then also boil a pot of water in a small pot. When Luo Cheng comes back, the dumplings will be put into the pot and the dumplings are all wrapped.

The engine sound of the Bisanlun was not quiet. When Shishi heard the sound in the yard, she guessed that the eldest brother was back. She ran to the door of the yard and saw that it was indeed the eldest brother who was back. He immediately turned around and shouted to the people in the courtyard that his eldest brother was back. Only when Luo Cheng entered the courtyard did he realize that everyone was waiting for him to come back before putting the dumplings in the pot.

The pot is small, and only about thirty can be placed in one pot. If there are more, it will be difficult to cook. The bowls and chopsticks are all set on the table. It takes four or five pots of cooking for seven people, but the dumplings cook quickly, so it won't take long to cook them while eating. If there is less water, you can directly heat the boiled water in the kettle.

The first pot was cooked quickly, with ten dumplings in each bowl. The dumplings were quite big. Even if it was a big bowl, the ten dumplings were almost as big as the bowl.

After it was put together, no one ate. They all waited until the second pot was cooked and almost everyone had a bowl before eating together. The same goes for the second pot. Add hot water to the pot and the skin-wrapped dumplings will be cooked in about five minutes. Even if the hand-rolled dumplings are thicker, seven or eight minutes will be enough.

The second pot of dumplings was put in. I counted them when I placed them, and there were exactly ten in one bowl. The third pot is put in first, and everyone can start eating while it's cooking.

"Thank you Comrade Luo Cheng for the hospitality. Let's eat."

"Comrade Dai Qiqian, you're welcome."

Holding the bowl and about to start eating directly, Luo Cheng almost laughed at Dai Qianqian's serious words. However, in this era, partners do call each other gay, and Luo Cheng responded with a smile.

Luo Cheng's response was of no importance to the three art soldiers who followed the squad leader. Anyway, the squad leader didn't say anything, so they didn't dare to start eating. When they heard that they were starting to eat, they immediately picked up the bowl with chopsticks, blew on it twice, and then stuffed it into their mouths. By the time Luo Cheng got back to the monitor, he had already eaten one dumpling.

It's so delicious, even better than the dumplings I ate in the army during the Chinese New Year. The wrappers of these dumplings are as sweet as corn.

Several people finished eating the dumplings in the pot before they were cooked, and Dai Qianqian was no exception. Compared with the people in the army, the eating speed is really incomparable to ordinary people.

People here are happily eating dumplings, but most people in Longyang Town are feeling sad.

Because of the drought in the summer, people here are constantly thirsty. Everyone has barely enough water to eat, but the fields are really short of water. Irrigation relies on fetching water from distant rivers or reservoirs. Even if the rice survives, the rice is often in a state of water shortage, and the harvest is still good. In some places, the nearby water source is too far, and if it dies, there will be no harvest. There are situations.

In fact, everyone has known for a long time that this season's rice harvest is not very good. It is a bumper harvest. How can you marry a daughter off like selling her daughter off? Even if there is no food at home now, it will be fine if we endure it for a while.

If the harvest is poor, pay the public grain and then count the remaining grain. Then calculate it based on all the work points earned by everyone in a year. For example, the entire brigade has 10,000 work points, and if the remaining harvest is 10,000 kilograms of grain, then one work point is worth the price of one kilogram of grain. But if there is only one thousand kilograms of grain, one work point is worth the price of one tael of grain.

After you figure out how much work points will be paid, you can choose to ask for food or money. But this year there is no need to ask, everyone will choose to ask for food. But even so, there is not much difference. This winter, many old people will have to die again. When the food was distributed, no one was happy at all. Some elderly people with poor health had even begun to prepare for a hunger strike.

Even an old man with a strong body has only two choices: either go there, or take advantage of the fact that he can still move, put on a shabby cotton-padded jacket, pick up a broken bowl, and go begging. If you don’t have a broken bowl, you have to deliberately break a corner. When you go begging, let the almsgiver understand that my bowl is broken and the water in it is only so high, so I won’t ask for more from you.

If you take a good bowl and go begging, a kind-hearted person will look pity on you and want to give you a mouthful of water, but how much will he give you? If you give too much, people will be reluctant to give it. If you give too little, and they feel sorry for it, they will simply ignore you. The mouth of the bowl is broken, and the thin stuff cannot hold much. The kind-hearted person thought that it would save him a sip, so he gave it away.

The Luo family is also worried. They are not worried about whether their own family can survive. The two girls followed their eldest brother to the city. During the busy farming period, they also earned a lot of work points. This can save a lot of money. Moreover, except for the ten yuan given to Luo Bing on his wedding day, the rest of the money left by Luo Cheng was only touched a little.

Therefore, life for the Luo family will not be difficult today. To take a step back, if the eldest son is in the city, there will be a way out. But I still have to worry. My father, Luo Wen, has younger brothers and sisters. The eldest brother is my father. Although my younger brothers and sisters are already parents, they can even become grandparents in a few years.

With such a harvest, it is really difficult to ignore the situation. Of course, this is just the time when food distribution has just begun, and it’s not that time yet. When I finally spoke, I basically couldn't hold on any longer.

The Luo family sat at the dining table and drank thin vegetable porridge. It was just a few slices of vegetables, and the porridge was very clear. I didn’t make any cornbread today. The food at home has actually been pretty good lately, but after dividing the food, I just wanted to save some money. Daughter-in-law Qin Ru also knows the situation. In the past few days since her marriage, her parents-in-law have been very good to her.

Qin Ru is also worried today. Even though she is married, her natal family will be Hakka in the future, and she will be a guest when she returns home. But there are no children who really don’t worry about their families. The divisions in the Luo family’s brigade are not good, but the Qinling Pass can be easily divided. It’s all the same. Some villages and fields may be divided even less.

When eating, the door is closed, but only ajar. Suddenly the door was pushed open, and an old man wearing a tattered cotton-padded jacket and holding a tattered bowl in his hand appeared in front of everyone.

"Uncle."

"elder brother."

The person who calls uncle is his father Luo Wen, and the person who calls him brother is Luo Cheng's grandmother.

"Yan, brother is leaving. I'll come see you on the way."

Grandma Luo Cheng’s brother, uncle, is from Liujiagou, and grandma’s surname is also Liu. Liujiagou is located at the bottom of a ravine. Originally, the fields in the village were not very good. After several consecutive years of drought, it was really unbearable. I know that today's harvest is not good, but there are not many old people who are really willing to die. Who doesn't want to live. Sometimes I just deceive myself and others, thinking that if the grain is enough, next year's harvest will be better.

But this time the communes distributed grain, and it was time to face reality.

My uncle is planning to go begging. In fact, he also understands that if he goes out to beg, once he hits the road, he may actually hit the road. Coming to Luo's house means saying goodbye to my sister, so I don't miss her anymore.

Grandma Luo Cheng looked at her brother with tears streaming down her face. If her eldest grandson hadn't come back this year and changed the situation at home, she might have been on her way.

Rowan didn't know how to face his uncle. He was just thinking about how much food his younger brothers and sisters would get and how long it would last. My mother's eldest brother actually came to say goodbye. This farewell may very well be a farewell to life or death.

Sighing one after another, this God really doesn't want people to live. In the end, the Luo family did not let the uncle leave. It only took three months, so what could one more old man do?

My uncle stayed behind and lived in Luo Bing's old woodshed. I couldn't tell my uncle's family about this yet. Not only did this family finally take her in, the uncle's children even came to ask Grandma Luo Cheng for help. The uncle's children are also equivalent to grandma's nephews and nieces. This relationship cannot be broken within one or two generations.

Luo Cheng's grandmother also knew that taking in her brother would actually be a drag on his eldest grandson in the end. Without his eldest grandson Luo Cheng, let alone his eldest brother, it would be difficult for him to survive this year. If the Luo family couldn't survive any longer, how could they not go to the city to find their eldest grandson Luo Cheng.

Courtyard room.

Everyone had a great time eating the dumplings today, and everyone drank the soup in the end. Put the dumplings in and cook them, but if there is flour, how could the water used to cook the dumplings be poured out? With so many people, it would be gone in less than one bowl per person, and you wouldn’t be able to drink more even if you wanted to.

After finishing the dumplings, Zhao Qian and the others rushed to clear away the dishes. They knew that with the rationed food stamps they would pay then, they would not be able to afford this. Now that we're done cleaning things up, there's no need to bother Luo Cheng and his sister.

Dai Qianxi was somewhat interested in the tricycle he drove. It was obviously different from the ones in the army. She also drove one in the army. But it wasn't in the art troupe, it was in her father's army. I also learned how to drive a car in my father’s army.

The opportunity to be alone together came unexpectedly. Luo Cheng asked the two sisters to make their own clothes, while he took Dai Qianqian to see the modified tricycle. Although three-wheel driving has definitely improved over there, except for turning the steering wheel, everything else is the same as a car. But so what, others don't even have bicycles, but he has his own real car.

Don't say that this is the property of the factory and is public property. Luo Cheng did not deny this. Couldn't he be testing the performance of the modified rear three wheels?