Chapter 2: Three Difficult Years
Hearing this, Wang Xin felt that his heart, which had almost stopped in fright, jumped again.
Mom, this is the first time I bought it, and I almost gave it to the stuffing, and the nose of the people here is inevitably too smart, and the smell of a steamed bun can be smelled when I fall asleep.
Fortunately, this may be the existence of his eldest brother who has rounded things up, otherwise where would he know how to explain, he doesn't even know where he is, who is in the family, and even his current name.
With a mum sound, Wang Xin picked up the steamed buns that fell on the bed again, and just wanted to eat them, he saw Wang Tiezhu on the other side swallowing saliva longingly.
It made him embarrassed.
Hurriedly broke the steamed bun and gave him half of it.
"This ...... You'd better eat it yourself!"
Wang Xin almost wanted to roll his eyes, if he hadn't swallowed his saliva when he said this, he might have been able to believe it.
Anyway, he doesn't just have this one solid steamed bun, there are still more than 100,000 in the card, and he won't starve to death in a short time.
So he stuffed the half of the steamed bun into Wang Tiezhu's hand quite toughly, and then began to eat his own half of the steamed bun.
I don't know if it's because I'm too hungry, or if the ingredients for this steamed bun are really good.
When you bite into it, even if it is cold, it is full of wheat fragrance, and it is not very dry when chewed in your mouth, and the saliva overflowing from your lips and teeth is enough to moisten the slightly dry steamed bun.
After eating half a steamed bun and drinking two sips of water, I finally felt a little bit in my stomach, and I was no longer hungry.
Wang Tiezhu was the same, he fell asleep directly after eating.
The next morning, when it was just dawn, there was a loud rooster crowing outside the window, and it was not one or two.
One after another, the voices are far and near, and it is estimated that there are more than a dozen.
Wang Xin actually didn't sleep much all night.
If you can still be comfortable and fall asleep without any worries, the heart is inevitably too big.
"Quick, get up, I'm going to the cafeteria for breakfast, if I'm late, maybe I won't even be mushy. โ
Wang Xin was half-squinting over there, and Wang Tiezhu on the side had already gotten up with the sound of a rooster, and quickly woke him up.
urged.
Wang Xin's mind was a little confused, what the hell is the canteen?
Could it be that they are staying in the accommodation?
But it shouldn't be, this environment doesn't look like a student dormitory, and if the student dormitory is really shabby like this, it is impossible to live in it with only two people.
Although there were a lot of doubts in his heart, Wang Xin still didn't say anything, and hurriedly got up to find shoes, ready to follow his eldest brother who didn't know what his name was.
After a while, Wang Xin was dragged to the canteen by Wang Tiezhu in rag shoes that didn't fit well, and when he went out, he saw the big words on the earthen wall outside the house.
"Work hard, strive for the upper reaches, and build socialism as quickly and efficiently as possible!"
"Running into communism!"
See the various slogans of the times in the so-called canteen.
Wang Xin finally understood the environment he was in.
It seems that it should be between the late 50s and the early 60s for two or three years, because of the big pot of rice, it lasted for a total of two or three years.
These three years can be described as quite difficult.
After Wang Xin understood the era he lived in, he immediately thought of the various materials he had collected in order to write the chronicles, and his heart sank.
It's going to be a bad day.
First, there was the Great Leap Forward, the release of satellites, and then there were the chaotic ten years and the intellectuals going to the countryside.
It will take at least seventeen or eighteen years before it can be truly settled.
"What are you doing stupidly, hurry up and get the bowl with me to make the paste, if you go late, you may get something!"
Wang Tiezhu always felt that his third brother was a little stunned today, and he had to be urged to do everything.
"Oh!"
Wang Xin was pushed by him, and he didn't dare to make up for it in his mind anymore, so he hurriedly followed him and took a clay bowl and squeezed it forward.
It was sour, and I felt like I had experienced the high school cafeteria again.
After finally squeezing in, and finally squeezing out, the two of them each had an extra bowl of food in their hands.
Wang Xin looked at the bowl in his hand with a few unknown vegetable leaves floating and two or three grains of rice soup, a little confused.
In the past, there was almost no one in the cafeteria to drink the free soup, so you can fish out more leaves than that.
Look at the slogan posted in the cafeteriaโโโโ "Let go of your belly to eat, and work hard to produce!"
It feels kind of ironic.
But I didn't know that in a few months, I wouldn't even be able to drink this soup with vegetable leaves and two or three grains of rice.
At this time, Wang Xin saw the contents of his eldest brother's bowl again.
It's different from myself, at least it looks a lot thicker than the one in my bowl, and it's a bowl of green paste that doesn't look very good.
"Why did you hit this thing again, didn't you tell you that Aunt Zhang gave you this thing, you want to refuse, and ask her for wild vegetable paste?
Although the wild vegetable paste is not very delicious, it can still be enough to be full, you are all water, what can you be full!"
Wang Tiezhu also saw the things in Wang Xin's bowl, and said with some hatred that iron does not become steel.
Since last year's large-scale grain production was reduced, and then the team reported another 2,000 catties per mu, the food in the canteen has become worse and worse.
From the original white rice, white flour steamed buns to eat casually, and throw them away if they can't finish eating, to the fact that they can't even eat a dry meal, it has taken less than half a year in total.
Until now, only wild vegetable paste and wild vegetable soup have been eaten.
Wild vegetable paste is for those who go to the field, and wild vegetable soup is for the elderly and children who can't go to the field.
In order to be able to eat wild vegetables, most families will take everything they can walk to the field.
Anyway, it's all a grinder! It's not very hard, if you really drink that wild vegetable soup every day, it won't be long before you're hungry and swollen!
Although Wang Xin was only nine years old and looked like he was only seven or eight years old, he was also taken to the field to help, so he should be able to eat wild vegetables.
But Aunt Zhang, who was in charge of cooking, often made wild vegetable soup for those children who looked young, in order to save some wild vegetable paste and let their Zhang family eat more.
How many children of this age know how to argue?
When her parents brought her over to settle the account, she said that she had forgotten and accidentally read something wrong.
I don't have to fight her for a bite to eat.
That's it.
Obviously, Wang Xin was often drunk wild vegetable soup like this before. Now that he doesn't know, he is obviously also fooled by Aunt Zhang.
"I ...... I forgot!
I won't forget it again tomorrow!"
Wang Xin hurriedly assured.
"What's tomorrow, I'll have to ask that Aunt Zhang for wild vegetables in the evening!
I'll give you some of it first. โ
Wang Tiezhu said that he was going to pour his bowl of green wild vegetable paste to Wang Xin.