Now the year is not good, even the annual winter solstice village has few activities.
If it was replaced by a few years ago when each family ate by themselves, they could still grit their teeth and tidy up the delicious food, make dumplings or something, even if the stuffing was not meat, it would be good to get some cabbage and egg stuffing. .
Too bad it can only be thought.
At present, the situation in Dahuai Village is not optimistic. The food canteen has been saved again and again, and the rice is still getting less and less.
The brigade on this side brought all the fine grains to the grain station and replaced them with coarse grains long ago. The grains are several times more. Now there is no fine grains mixed with cooking, and their throats are cut, and their mothers are all thin.
But the commune members also understand what is the purpose of doing this, just to make them last a little longer. This year, the big guy has no requirements. It is rare that the cafeteria is cooked a little thicker, and a few handfuls of wild vegetables are added to it. The soup that boils the vegetables is a soup made from a few fish, and the fish is called by a few gangsters on the team who are usually despised.
The gangsters are not all bad. They know that they are usually lazy because the villagers are tolerant of them and reciprocate. Under the leadership of Qin Yuli, a few young men went to the river to the east of the Dahuai production team to fish for fish.
While it was still not too cold, the water had not yet snowed or frozen, a few young men went down to the river to touch a few fatty fish.
The fish in the soup are all boiled, the thorns are picked out, and they are put in to cook, so this coarse grain vegetable looks sloppy, but it tastes quite fresh. The taste of grain is suppressed, and there is both the fragrance of wild vegetables and the umami of fish soup.
The members were satisfied, and muttered that a few bastards had finally done something.
"Not to mention, the three sons of the old Qin family have rarely caused trouble recently. Since he had his daughter, he has either brought the baby to work every day, and sometimes brought the baby to the field. It really looks like that. Son."
"I'm a father, and I'm very reliable. I'm thinking about whether to find a partner for my son as soon as possible, and I'll be more steadfast when I have a baby in the future."
"In this year, you still want to marry a daughter-in-law and go home? You will feel better when you go back and have more mouths. Although it doesn't matter if you eat a big pot of rice now, have you ever thought about it? What should I do? Bring one more person home and starve to death."
That's right, the old aunt doesn't mention it anymore.
It stands to reason that in the winter near the end of the year, I always like to have happy events, but this year, there are no married couples on the team, and even babies are rare. Maybe it is because of insufficient nutrition.
When it comes to the third Qin of the old Qin family, it is really strange for the members to think of the people of the old Qin family. The food in the cafeteria is getting worse and worse. Difficult to endure, all faces are yellow and skinny, and the spirit is not very good.
But the people of the old Qin family are thin and thin, but they are in good spirits. Their eyes are clear and energetic, and their words are full of energy. They seem to be two worlds.
Uncle Wang, who was smoking a cigarette beside him, said faintly: "I told you a long time ago that people must have hope, and they must be positive to be energetic. The people of the old Qin family are worthy of being the captain's family, and their ideological awareness is high. That's in good spirits!"
"Don't give up hope of living at any time, we have to learn from them."
Uncle Wang has said this more than once. He likes to talk about it. The members are used to listening to it, so they will bypass this matter and just think that the people of the old Qin family are really like Uncle Wang said, and they have a good mental awareness, so Only then did he run his head, and he walked in a turbulent way.
What is the old Qin family, who is envied and admired by the members, doing now
From the cafeteria, one person came back with a big bowl of gooey, and then Chen Qiuhua went to the kitchen to take out the clay pot. As soon as the pot was opened, the aroma of the meat instantly hit the nostrils.
A few children snorted and looked at the jar in front of the milk with bright eyes, "Milk, meat!"
Chen Qiuhua was proud, took the homemade long wooden chopsticks and fished it out of the jar, and took out a piece of meat.
Everyone in the old Qin family looked at the oily piece of meat with sauce, their eyes glowed green, and their saliva kept swallowing.
There is no way, anyone who has eaten coarse grains for two or three months in a row and sees such fragrant and attractive meat slices will have a green light in their eyes.
Chen Qiuhua is stingy and spends her life carefully. In the past two months, no matter how bad the food in the cafeteria is, she has only cut meat slices once a month for the big guys. There are only two times in total, and only these two times are the size of the old Qin family. The comrades endured it and felt that there was hope for the day. The cured meat hanging in Chen Qiuhua's room was like a carrot that fell in front of people's eyes. As long as it couldn't last, think about the taste of the meat. I feel that I have the strength, and if I hold on, I will be able to eat meat next month.
Before another month passed, the winter solstice came, and the old Qin family ate meat again.
And this time, the meat slices were made by Chen Qiuhua with soy sauce and five-spice star anise, two precious ingredients.
Cut the meat into slices, add the few condiments, and pour a small bowl of soy sauce tricked from Aunt Zhu into the clay pot, add a little water, and simmer slowly over a small fire. , Stewed for a day, from morning to evening, this sauce is done!
Although it is simpler, but this is meat, stewed softly, salty and fragrant, not to mention a few children, even a few adults almost couldn't control themselves.
Qin Guoshu suppressed his desire to eat, and said dumbly, "Mother, why do we have meat again in our family?"
In the past two times, there were only three or five slices of meat per person, and they were thinly sliced. Chen Qiuhua perfunctoryly said that the eldest son said that it was the cured meat that she brought back from her parents' home, and Qin Guoshu believed it.
Chen Qiuhua's family was the next-door laterite production team. Because of its rich laterite production, a laterite base was set up there to attack the bricks used by the above units to burn red bricks, which belonged directly to the county's brick burning factory.
Even though this small red clay base is small, it has supported many people in the red clay production team. It has developed well there. The living standards of the members are much better than other production teams, and some are even better than those in the town.
The members of the red clay production team are full of confidence when they go out. They have land and red soil, so they are not afraid of starvation!
Chen Qiuhua's natal family is one of the members of the red soil production team. Chen's surname is the surname of the red soil village, which is a clan-style village. The Chen family is also rich and powerful. There are many strong men in the family, and Chen Qiuhua has two. The nephew is a worker at the red soil base and is responsible for digging soil. Her eldest brother is a small cadre, and she is very beautiful. By the way, her nephew and daughter-in-law are also the salesperson of the village supply and marketing cooperative. There are not many cowards in the family.
Chen Qiuhua would marry into Dahuai Village. First, everyone in the village had the same surname. It was hard to find someone else because of their kinship, so when he looked outside, he fell in love with Old Man Qin.
The young old man Qin is also a grass in the village. The old Qin family has good genes. When he was young, the old man Qin was tall and tall, honest and diligent, and he was down-to-earth and motivated.
Chen Qiuhua's eyes are sharp, and the conditions are not good, so the appearance is not bad, and the character can be grasped is a good object.
She then got married.
Having said that, in short, the Chen family is a wealthy family. Every time Chen Qiuhua returns to his mother's house, he can always fight back with a lot of autumn wind. Qin Guoshu will believe his mother's nonsense and it's justified.
Right now, Chen Qiuhua is too lazy to hide it from his eldest son. Anyway, you have eaten meat, and you have eaten it twice, including three times today. I will tell you the truth, what can you do
After Qin Guoshu heard the whole story, his whole person was not well, and he stayed in place stupidly.
"… "
He also murmured: "No wonder my son always smells a smell of meat when he passes by in front of his mother's door. So..."
It turns out, he is a big fool!
When I smelled that smell earlier, I didn't dare to think that I would hide meat in my house. I just thought that after eating meat once, I was greedy and thought about it, so I had hallucinations. The courage is really hiding the meat!
After Qin Guoshu discovered the truth, he didn't feel angry for the first time, but suddenly realized, and patted his head, "I'm so stupid!"
"Of course you're stupid. You have to think about thousands of people for a little bit of food. Can you worry about it?"
"To tell you the truth, this meat was sent by your third brother to honor your parents, and you eat it as well. If you go back and say it, I will say that you, the captain, openly brought us to steal meat!"
Qin Guoshu: "..." Really cruel! Is this still mom
This meat thing is over. Qin Guoshu has become a painful and happy existence. While eating meat with satisfaction, he is full of guilt, feeling that he has stolen every needle and thread of the people and digs the corner of socialism. , is not a good captain.
During the winter solstice, the people of the old Qin family had a delicious meal of mushy vegetables and sauced meat, and they felt alive again. As usual, it is eaten with rice paste.
After the meal, the dumplings ran back to the room, took out the white sugar cakes and toffee that they had collected, and shared them with several brothers and sisters.
The last time Uncle Chen bought her a pound, and that package of toffee also contained twenty pieces. I was reluctant to eat it at ordinary times, but occasionally I broke off a small piece and put it in my mouth to taste the sweetness.
The rest Chen Qiuhua helped put into the small wooden box of the dumplings. Today, for the festival, the dumplings wanted to take out the good things and share them with the brothers and sisters.
The twins and the big flower had eaten their sister's candy, but the toffee was not opened at the time, so they didn't eat it.
They have seen this toffee before, and I heard that it is a rare commodity in the city, and it is expensive.
I've been thinking about it since the last time, but my sister didn't say that they dare not mention it for fear of being beaten. My uncle said that it was given to my sister by someone else, not to spend the family's money. Yes, you can't grab food from your sister.
Several children looked at their sister with bright eyes, and silently prayed that my sister would open the toffee to eat today.
Under the gaze of the four pairs of eyes of the brothers and sisters, the dumpling first opened the oil paper bag containing the sugar cakes, twisted out two pieces from the inside, and broke them into two pieces and handed them to the twin brother and sister big flower.
Waiting for someone to pick it up, Danzi stretched his claws to the unopened bag of toffee.
The twins watched nervously, and the dumplings tore the bag for a long time without opening the package, which made several children anxious.
The white face and the black face are eager to try, rubbing their hands: "Sister, brothers, come, brother is strong!"
In the end, the twins asked Chen Qiuhua to give a chestnut to each other, and contentedly held two toffees and hid them in their trouser pockets. They decided not to eat them for now, and kept them for school to eat!
The sugar cake is also sweet, or milk-flavored, delicious!
I thought that life would go on like this until the rest of the food was eaten up in the cafeteria. Whether the big guy can survive or not depends on God.
This matter took a turn for the better after the winter solstice. On that day, not only the commune, but the county sent leading cadres down, and the commune cadres led the production team to Dahuai Village.