Yun Suji said: "Have you implemented the meal distribution system? Distribute the meal. Remember, it must be sent to the villagers' homes, not to the cadres' homes. By the way, you are all Shandong people here, so just follow the Shandong people's habits.
, no need to make special rice.”
The village chief agreed, not worrying about others, so he went to make arrangements himself. One of the chief's soldiers followed him closely: this was to ensure the chief's food safety.
While Yun Suji was waiting to meet with the leaders of each group A, the village chief went from house to house to arrange:
"Zhao Xinjia's family will distribute rice today. Your family will kill chickens. Hurry."
"What? Where should I send it to? You, mother-in-law, give it to the first family."
"Liu Chuan's family, we will distribute food today and your family will cook fish. Don't think that I don't know that you are fishing in the river. Your three boys just went there with their bare buttocks carrying fish baskets. How about taking some good fish?
Pay careful attention to your leather. Make it ready and send it to the first home."
"Caipi, go to your uncle's place, collect all the porcelain from their families, and send it to the first family for official reception."
Then he explained to the soldiers who were following him: The first family is a family that is designated to distribute meals in this village. Others are worried.
Unexpectedly, this soldier said: "The commander's safety comes first. You can't give away food casually, and you don't use the tableware here. It must be cooked at home."
"My dear, there's no time for this."
"Just do as you're told. I looked at the store in front of me. There were some dried fish hanging in front of the door. That's the store. I just checked it and it was cleaned up. As for the ingredients, you can't use them casually. Make them simpler. I want to do the whole process.
Supervision.”
The village chief looked at the family he was pointing to and said, "It's bad."
The soldier had already walked in minding his own business. The village chief had no choice but to follow him: "Kong Xiaode, your family is going to distribute food today." He said and glared at the head of the household fiercely.
The head of the household is also from Shandong, and he and his mother-in-law are the only two people in the family. The Kong family has never practiced this kind of system. At first, they didn’t understand this kind of food management and just cooked for them. After eating, they had to get paid.
Secondly, he didn’t know that home-cooked meals were enough, and he thought that people coming from the Yamen must be well-fed. Since he thought this way, he made the matter worse. When he saw the soldier entering the house, he looked around.
He said that he opened the grain cabinet and the rice vat to check carefully, and he was even more panicked.
Because this family has little labor, they don’t beat much grain, and they are not used to eating brown rice, so their daily food is multi-grain pancakes with some green onion sauce. If they want to change the style, it is multi-grain wotou. The head of the household thought about these two things.
He couldn't even get it out. Making pancakes was a good meal, but he didn't have white flour, so he had to borrow a ladle of whole wheat flour from his neighbor's house and asked his wife to make the flour. He also took out a few eggs from his chicken coop and looked at them.
Seeing that there was not a drop of oil at home, I had to go to the neighbor's house to borrow some sesame oil.
Yun Suji took the guards to the Kong family for dinner. They saw a dustpan of pancakes neatly placed on the square table in the main room, and a coarse glazed earthenware jar filled with brown rice porridge. In the middle was a plate of scrambled eggs with shrimps. Four plates were placed around it:
Shredded mustard greens, mixed with cucumber, pickled chives and bean curd.
At first glance, you can tell that he is being treated as a guest. Flour is a rare thing in Lingao. The village chief probably paid special attention to it when distributing rice. He washed his hands and sat down. The head of the household, Kong Xiaode, poured out a bowl of muddy wine and treated his hands with respect.
He gave it to Yun Suji and said:
"Invite the chief to a meal. We, a poor man like us, can't find anything good to eat. Let's drink some sugar cane bar!"
The more polite he became, the more uncomfortable Yun Suji felt. As he continued, he said: "I'll scoop it out myself! Oh, fellow villager! We can just eat from one pot. Why do we need to cook something else?"
"To tell you the truth, chief, I didn't prepare any meals. I had harvested the rice and it was time to rest for the winter. I didn't eat at noon," Kong Xiaode said.
The Kong wife continued: "Chief! There's nothing, just a few plates of cold dishes! Not even a meat dish! If I were in my hometown, I wouldn't even be able to make this meal for the Chinese New Year! I came to Hainan Island the year before last to prepare these!"
Yun Suji nodded, feeling that this family was very well-educated, so he sat down and ate and drank slowly with the four guards. The Kong family stood by and waited on them. Yun Suji couldn't stand it and insisted on them sitting down. The couple couldn't resist.
Then he dragged a bamboo stool to the side and sat down.
While eating, Yun Suji asked: "Do you still eat two meals a day?"
"It's not just two meals. It's three meals when the farming is busy. It's a lot of work. I can't stand it if I don't eat more." Kong Xiaode took out the dry tobacco and put it away again.
"It's okay, just smoke. I also like to take a few puffs."
Kong Xiaode filled the tobacco leaves, bent down and said, "I'll take care of you." He picked up a match, rubbed it on the sole of his shoe, and lit the pot.
Seeing that he was no longer so nervous, Yun Suji asked, "Does everyone in the village have two meals?"
Kong Xiaode said: "I haven't even eaten two meals yet!"
Yun Suji said: "It seems that life is going well."
Kong Xiaode didn't know what he meant. He took a puff of cigarette first and then said slowly: "Nowadays, during the busy farming period, I can eat three meals, some of which are rare and dry, and some of which are white rice. I couldn't even dream of it in the past! How many days are there in my hometown?
During the spring famine, even small grain farmers had to eat cornbread." Speaking of the past, a bitter expression appeared on his face.
Yun Suji suddenly stood up, walked to the stove, opened a bamboo hat, and sure enough, there was a pancake village underneath. Although he was not from Shandong, he was familiar with the customs of Shandong people: most of them spread out many pancakes at one time and put them on the table.
Eat slowly in the pancake village.
The pancake village is 80% full, and it looks like there is plenty of food in stock.
Kong Xiaode panicked and stood up quickly: "Chief, chief..."
Yun Suji ignored it, picked up a pancake and returned to the table, broke off a piece, sandwiched some shredded shepherd's purse, and ate it in big mouthfuls.
The pancakes were sour, and the rough texture indicated that the proportion of sweet potato flour in them was quite high. He chewed for a long time before swallowing, and then took another sip of porridge.
"This is a rough diet for villagers," Kong Xiaode said quickly, "Don't bite your old teeth! If it's not enough, just bake pancakes."
"It doesn't matter, you can eat it, but I can't?" Yun Suji said with a smile, "It's just a change of taste and something new."
Kong Xiaode didn't know where the leader came from, and what was so good about these multigrain pancakes? He remembered the village chief glaring at him, and he didn't dare to say anything, so he just kept smiling in apology.
While they were talking, a little girl came to the door of the house. She was only five or six years old, with two pigtails and a coarse cloth gown. She watched them eating pancakes, put one finger in her mouth, and drooled.
A greedy look on his face.
Yun Suji looked interesting and called her: "Come in."
After several greetings, the girl did not dare to come in. Kong Xiaode said: "Heini, come in, the chief is calling you."
Heini was probably familiar with the Kong family, so she came in after listening to his words. Yun Suji saw that although she had dark spots, she was upright, chubby and very cute. He couldn't help but think of his own daughter, so he took a picture from the table.
She gave him pancakes and said, "Heini, eat it."
The girl still didn't dare to pick it up, so Kong Xiaode said again: "You just take what the chief gives you and eat it."
After he said this, Heini took the answer. She stood at the table with her dark eyes open, looking at this and that, which was really cute. Yun Suji teased her and asked, "This is your home."
child?"
Kong Xiaode sighed: "How can I be so lucky? This is the daughter of my neighbor Lao Yang's family. When she got on the boat, her buttocks were bare and she was as thin as a skeleton. She was just short of breathing. But she still has one breath at last!"
As he smoked a cigarette again and again, Yun Suji saw tears in his eyes and knew that it had caused him sadness.
While they were talking, Lao Yang came to see Kong Xiaode. As soon as he entered the door, he met Yun Suji and his daughter. Seeing that the leader was enjoying the food, Heini also ate it. She was surprised and bowed to Yun Suji first, and then
He scolded Heini and said, "You are such a jerk! Why are you here looking for wild food to eat?" He then raised his hand and was about to hit her.
Yun Suji hurriedly stopped her: "What are you doing? Children are greedy. It doesn't matter how many bites they take." Then he said to Heini, "Don't be afraid of eating. I still have it here."
Then Lao Yang said to the head of the Kong family: "Old Kong! Everyone else's grains have been mixed with ammonia, and my son has been pulled out of the labor force again. Can you please give me ammonia later?"
Kong Xiaode said: "I will also apply ammonia in the afternoon!"
Lao Yang said: "Then I can help too. After finishing your work, you can also finish mine later!"
Yun Suji asked: "Lao Yang, what kind of labor does your son do?"
Lao Yang said: "We are organizing to go to the reservoir construction site to build canals. Every family needs at least one strong laborer. I only have one son. If he goes, I will be the only one doing farm work."
Yun Suji said: "You only send one of your sons to work?"
Lao Yang said: "It doesn't matter whether you have one son or several sons. If you are told to go, go, otherwise we will say that you are 'anti-production' and 'a drag on'. I can't bear being tied up by the militiamen to dig sand. Anyway, this is
The old man can still afford the trouble, so he can just ask the neighbors for help. Now he can live a peaceful life and have food to eat, which is pretty good.
Kong Xiaode felt something was wrong and winked at Lao Yang. But Lao Yang was a good talker and couldn't stop talking when he was talking, "Don't say there are no strong laborers, even if there are only women in the family, I will still ask you to go to the construction site. Last year.
In the winter, Chief Du insisted on making a Thousand Women Embankment, asking every village to send women to the construction site, saying that "women can hold up half the sky". Specifically asking women to build embankments has never been heard of since the beginning of the world. The women of Nanmanzi are easy to say -
―They didn’t have their feet bound since they were little, so they have huge natural feet. Our women are half disabled even if their feet are untied. It’s great if they can go to the fields, but they also have to carry heavy loads! It doesn’t matter if they go, every household in the village has lost its fireworks.
The whole family had nothing to eat or drink! The work on the construction site was so heavy that after a few days, some were injured and some were so tired that they vomited blood. Well, they still had to be cared for when they came back! - I don’t know what Chief Du was thinking.
have to."
Yun Suji lost her smile. This "Thousand Girls Embankment" was a water conservancy project that Du Wen personally took charge of. The executive committee approved it because it felt that it had great symbolic significance and that manpower was really needed for infrastructure construction. Unexpectedly, it was like this.