017 Drought
After eating the memory pill, I feel that a lot of things that I can't remember are now very clear, because there is too much grain in the summer harvest, and now the vegetable nest in the village has become a vegetable ball, and everyone can't stand it, and the sweet potatoes in the self-reserved land are made into dried sweet potatoes and preserved.
The work is boring, and the crops are smaller than before due to the lack of water, and it is estimated that there will not be much left of this autumn's harvest.
"We can't wait to starve all the time, all of them cheer up to carry water, carefully serve the ground, you look at the children and look at the elderly, can the living still suffocate urine to death" Ye Tieniu made the village dissatisfied because of what happened before, and now it has stopped, and the village chief has to come out to mobilize.
At this moment, the big and small in the village took buckets to carry water, Mo Qing lost a lot of weight, and finally raised some meat and went back, the dolls in the village smaller than her seemed to have a big head and a small body, and people were sad to watch.
"It's not time yet, wait a little longer" Mo Qing wanted to wait, so that the village realized that it was hungry, and told the village that the Huai Mountain, Gegen Land, was even more severe in the future, and the current wind of production comparison has not passed, even if it is taken out now, it will be starving!
"Peach Swallow, you will go to my house later" Mo Qing gasped, if she had a good meal, she didn't hold on, spread it on the field, and called her friends to open a small stove today.
"Qingqing, why do you still have steamed buns? There are potatoes here!
"This is the potato I kept from being hungry before, and the steamed bun was bought with a food stamp sent by my brother, let's eat it together"
"Qingqing, we can't eat your rations, what's going on in the village now! I don't know what will happen in the future! You can buy some coarse grain for the food stamps your brother gave you!"
"Eat, eat, it'll be fine to get through, you will be able to return me in the future, it's really not okay, let's go up to the mountains!"
Yes, it will be fine, Qingqing said to her before, it is indeed good, the three of them ate in a big gulp, and the tears couldn't stop falling! Many years have passed, and the three of them still remember this scene when they get together.
Mo Qing graduated, and there are peaches and swallows, this year is not good Peach doesn't plan to continue reading, Yanzi's family asked her to go to the county uncle's house to study, in fact, Peach's grades are better than Yanzi's, but she still has Brother Dashu studying at home, Yanzi and her brother followed the village as a soldier, and the pressure is not great.
"Peach, you continue to read, you look at the people in the city, you can go to the factory when you study, and when the time comes, you will eat the supply of food, you have saved a lot of money in the past few years, if your family does not promise you to go to the mountains on weekends to earn money, do you really want to farm for the rest of your life and find a farmer when you are old and then have a small farmer?" Mo Qing knew that girls did not study in this era, and it would be like this in the future, and they would be farther and farther away because of the gap.
"My mother also let me continue to read, but the commune has to take grain to cook for myself, you look at this situation, my brother took all the grain from my family's own land, my mother went to the mountains to get wild vegetables after work, and I can finally eat in the canteen at home."
Grandpa and Dad get up in the middle of the night when they are hungry to drink water, and Grandpa and Dad cry every night.
Mo Qing didn't know what to do? She can buy food in the system, but how can she take it out? Now is not the time, she can only wait for the autumn harvest to see, and wait before school starts.
"Let's work hard, collect the food, and let the family have a full meal!"
Everyone dug up the potatoes and sweet potatoes, some secretly stuffed them in their sleeves, some stuffed them in the crotch of their pants, and hid them in all kinds of tricks.
The village chief, including the activist Ziye Tieniu, did not say anything, even if there were team members watering, but the yield was much lower, after the autumn harvest, everyone raised the mountains to run, and everything that could be eaten was taken home. Little dolls of three or five years old all carry baskets to dig wild vegetables.
The drought is getting worse and worse, the well in the team has dropped a lot, and the water level of the river has also dropped, so the village chief has to organize people to catch fish, and every household has a smile because of this batch of fish!
"Deliver the public grain!" Suddenly someone from the commune came! This year's grain was just enough to eat, but now we have to pay the public grain, which is forcing people to death!
"Director Chen, this year's harvest is not good, can you owe it first, you see that the children are hungry like this, and they are all running to the mountains to pick up wild vegetables for a while" Ye Tieniu looked flattering, praying to be accommodating and accommodating, so that the village could have a good year.
"How much do you owe before? This year's yield has not been reported, and you must pay the grain today!
"What can I do?"
"I'm going to kill people."
"It's not raining yet, this year's output is very low, and the team members can only be full of water, Director Chen, can you let the village get through it first!" The village chief looked sad, if he took it away, he would have no way to live in the next year!
"Do you take the initiative to hand it over or wait for the inspector to come down? You must know that your village owes a lot! The Lijia Village next door has all been handed over! Besides, the state will not ignore it when the time comes, we will just do things according to the rules!"
Under coercion and temptation, the village still handed over, and handed over more than half of the granary in the village! The woman cried, the children knew that they were starving, a group of swarthy men covered their faces, Mo Qing only felt chills when he looked at this scene!
The next day, Mo Qing led his friends to the mountains: "Clean the rhizomes of the kudzu root, then split and beat, break it and then put it in the water to clarify, filter, and finally control the moisture to dry, and finally the powder can be made directly into cakes, or it can be washed into a paste like lotus root powder, and even cold cakes, which will pull the throat when cooked."
"Qingqing, is this really edible?"
Peaches is very concerned about what she can eat, her family is also a little green these days, almost every day is grass paste, if it is not often supplemented by hunting, it is estimated that the whole family should have no strength at this time, even Ye Da Niu is also excited to dig the ground, his eyes are shining. But looking at the black lump and the cracked rhizome that was accidentally hit by the hoe just now, Peaches was still a little puzzled.
"Yes, you can eat it by sifting out the flour, make cakes, and flush it with boiling water."
So what are you waiting for? Everyone dug it out one after another, this piece is a small area, and the harvest is full and rushes home.
"I've eaten this thing of yours, a lot of tendons, it tastes like a throat, the first few years there were outside the mountains, now I can't see it, if there is one in the mountains, then I have to look for it, you go to sift the powder first, I'll go to the meeting!"
Mo Qing lifted the graphite out, the half-grown girl and the young man were busy, half grinding and half sieving, when it was dark, the village chief brought people over, that is, Ye Tiejun Ye also came, looking at the little adult who was half a laborer, this look, naturally he couldn't go, seeing that the children were so busy, he immediately began to work together, in the end, the adult, the hands and feet are more neat than the child.
As for Mo Qing, at this time, he and Peach Swallow had already begun to make paste and cakes with Peach Swallow, and after a while, the aroma of the food continued to waft into the yard, causing everyone to start sniffing.
"This stuff is very fragrant, it must be delicious. ”
"Nonsense, that powder is snow-white, can it be good? I look at it is almost inseparable from white noodles, I really didn't know that this thing could be eaten like this. ”
Anyway, everything that can go into the stomach is good, what has happened to this, the rain has not fallen, and now the water at home has to be saved!
"Uncles and uncles come over to taste it" Mo Qing handed the cake to his little friend, this busy work wasted a lot of physical strength!
"This cake is delicious. ”
"The paste is also good, sticky, and I guess it's quite filling. ”
"If any of the fine flour is made into a paste, it will definitely taste better, but the coarse flour is still a little rougher. ”
"Some of them are good, if you can eat a big bowl of paste at each meal, you won't feel as uncomfortable as a dry stomach when you work. ”
"Yes, but it feels so good to eat such a piece of bread and a bowl of mush, I haven't eaten it so comfortably in a few days. ”
Listening to these relatives with thick skeletons, but thin like bamboo poles, and black and yellow faces, Mo Qing felt secretly uncomfortable in his heart. These men, doing the heaviest work, bear the livelihood of the family, but one by one has not eaten for almost many years, this day by day to survive, I don't know how much of the root is consumed, I used to hear people say, this generation almost does not have a few longevity, Mo Qing still doesn't feel anything, now looking back, but the pain in my heart is terrible, it's not that they don't want to live long, can't live long, but they struggle in poverty and hunger in the way of spending longevity, and bear responsibility and dignity in the way of burning themselves.
"There must still be this thing in the mountains, it would be good to organize people to go up the mountain, just the waterhole outside the mountain, there is still a lot of water!" Mo Qing secretly poked and poked the temptation of the village to go up the mountain, the village still has rations, and I also hope that the country can come down to relief, not to mention that it is still a collective big pot of rice, and no one wants to risk their lives to earn a stutter, and they can't share much.
"I'm looking at this matter, Tie Niu and I will go to the commune tomorrow!" Of course, the village chief also thought that since the collective meal, the team members have been lazy and hardworking, there are many dangers in this mountain, who is willing to go up the mountain, if they are separated, it will be different.
Of course, the two of them went to the commune and did not say that they had found good things in the mountains, but only inquired to see if they could eat separately and probe the wind.
"You want to break away from the collective? This idea is not good! This commune has just issued a document, and it has to be rationed every day, so you can take it back and look at it!"
The secretary of the commune crossed his legs and criticized seriously, originally thinking that Yejiacun had a high ideological consciousness!
"Secretary, that's not the case, it's just that, the grain has been handed over, and there is not much left in the village, and the collective can't eat the spring when they eat hulala, so we want to distribute it to the members and let them measure it!" Ye Tieniu also knew that the village now had a big opinion on him and wanted to remedy it.
"This order from above, everyone does this, don't you see Lijia Village doing the same?
The two of them walked out of the door and hung their heads, they really couldn't wait, let the little doll go up the mountain, how much is their own ability, adults can go up the mountain and hand it over to the collective, a report is all over!