The Chinese New Year is coming soon, Xing Youliang was thinking about whether to go to the town to buy something for the New Year two days ago, but after counting the money in his hand, there are only about ten yuan left, his father is still missing, his younger brothers and sisters are still young, and his grandmother's hair has turned gray faster in the past two years, and her face is getting older and older. Xing Youliang put the money that had been taken out into the cabinet and hid it.

After Songjia Village paid for the work, the Song family went to the town to exchange for food stamps, but who knew that people like her who wanted to exchange money for food stamps were standing on the dam of the grain station, and they were all disappointed around the posters. Song couldn't read, so he asked the young man next to him, and then he learned that the whole country was in short supply of grain, and he had stopped changing grain, so he could only exchange for oil stamps and cloth stamps.

Song held the more than 30 yuan in his hand and felt like he was holding waste paper.

"How are you going to spend this day? ”

Xing Youliang has always been worried about any accidents, so he only puts a small amount of grain in the rice jar in the kitchen, which is all wheat, and the husk is not removed cleanly. Song looked at the bottom of the rice jar and sighed, sent the children to the mountain to pick some Guanyin Han, and went to Zhang's house with the last wheat. Because only the Zhang family has a stone mill, which can grind wheat into powder.

In the granary of the Zhang family, Li Lilian took off the sundries on the stone mill, and grabbed the rags next to her to take care of it a little.

"It's been useless for a long time, so much ash. ”

"If this thing wasn't too heavy, I guess it was carried away at that time. Song looked at the stone mill in front of him, and it was estimated that there were hundreds of catties.

"yes, but what's the use of staying?"

Song smiled, she could understand what she meant, firstly, now they are all eating in the cafeteria, and secondly, no one has any surplus food, what else can they grind.

After Song cleaned the stone mill, Song began to talk about the small amount of wheat in the bag and began to grind it into flour.

"Auntie, you want to make dumplings when you grind into flour, right?" There was nothing to do in this farming slack, Li Lilian was chatting with the Song family while mending her son's clothes.

"Yes, but there is not enough wheat, so let the children pick some wild vegetables and mix them together to make some dumplings, I heard that your commune is also going to eat dumplings tonight, or meat filling. ”

Li Lilian bites off the finishing thread with her teeth,

"Yes, there is such a thing, and now there is no food, and there is no meat for the two or two pairs, and the villagers are looking forward to this meal, saying that it is open to eat, and there is no limit. ”

"That's good, you and Xiaochuan need to eat more, just one meal all year round. ”

Li Lilian smiled, folded the mended clothes and put them aside, and took out the cotton clothes she usually wore for farming.

In the thatched hut, Song asked the children to mash Guanyin into a sauce and knead it with flour, and it didn't take long for the dough to turn purple.

"Wow ~ purple. Xing Youqian was very happy, and kept poking the kneaded dough with his hands.

"Don't move, we'll make the noodles now, and we can make dumplings in the evening." ”

Fu Xiaojian kept staring at the rabbit in the bamboo basket, wondering if the rabbit also felt the malice of the person in front of him, and shrank in a corner motionless.

"Mother, do you say that we should braise this rabbit at night, or make it into dumpling filling?" After thinking for a while, I felt that if I made it into dumpling filling, the bones would not be easy to make.

"Or maybe it's still braised red. ”

It was slowly getting dark, more and more people gathered in front of the cafeteria, and the weather froze to death, all of them stood in the cold wind and shivered.

"Why don't you open the door yet, didn't you say that you can eat meat dumplings tonight?"

"Isn't it, where did Wang San go, it's dark. ”

Chen

Chen Tianba had just eaten the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, his stomach was a little supportive, and her mother specially got a big elbow, he didn't eat less, and he ate too much this time.

"Hiccup~. Chen Tianba burped and let go again, feeling that his stomach seemed to be looser.

Wang San rubbed Chen Tianba's protruding belly, laughing a little in his heart, but he didn't dare to laugh out loud.

"Big brother, the cafeteria is full of people, are we really not open?"

"No, the document that my father just received this morning will start to be released to the canteen tomorrow, and let the rest of the food be distributed. ”

"Are we going to distribute food tomorrow?"

Chen Tianba lined up Wang San's head and said angrily,

"What to send, what to eat, eat the air, after the canteen was released, we were beaten back to our original shape, where is there such a good day, there is only this little food in our hands, speaking of which people are really enough to eat, how long has it been before they are almost exhausted." ”

"And what about tonight? Are they still guarding?"

"Take this document and tell it the truth, let them do whatever they like, and do what they want. ”

The entrance to the cafeteria

After waiting for a long time, the villagers were already impatient, and when they were clamoring to go to Wang San to see what was going on, Wang San finally appeared, holding a piece of paper in his hand, climbed on the table to clear his throat, and said in a pinched tone,

"Everyone can see clearly, this is a document that was issued today, don't you like the commune canteen, now it's okay, now start to decentralize the canteen, in the future, you can live on the stove and cook and eat by yourself, you can cook as much as you want, and eat as much as you want. ”

There was a commotion in the crowd, and I don't know who yelled,

"What about the meat-stuffed dumplings that I said tonight?"

Wang San touched his head, very embarrassed,

"Eh,,Well,this,, the cafeteria is decentralized, naturally you can't let everyone eat inside, everyone disperses, hurry home and make Chinese New Year's Eve dinner." ”

As soon as these words came out, the crowd below boiled directly, lifted the table he was standing on, and let Wang San fall to the ground and eat, feeling that something was wrong, he quickly got up and wanted to run, but he didn't know who caught him, and he screamed with a few punches. It may be that the few people who punched were not full, and their fists were weak and weak, so they let Wang San run away along the gap without two hits.

"Village names, this Chinese New Year's Eve, we were played by Chen Tianba's dog ×, usually let us work hungry, even if we are hungry Chinese New Year's Eve, we are hungry, he still starves us, he doesn't talk much, he wants to swallow our grain alone, he is worse than the landlord rich peasant. ”

"But no, I think it's better for us to go and bring the granary and give the adults and children in the family a full meal than to starve to death in the Chinese New Year's Eve." ”

I don't know who said this, but as soon as this word came out, it was like throwing a bomb in the crowd, and everyone responded to it. The villagers came to the granary where the grain was stored from the door of the canteen, and Wang Si didn't know if he had eaten the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, but there was no one guarding the door.

"Even God is helping us, old and young masters, we broke this lock, moved all the food that belonged to us inside, and never fed these wolves, tigers and leopards again. ”