stared at the meat in the enamel jar for a long time, until it was cold, Qi Shufang was ruthless, took out a white porcelain bowl, picked out the largest piece of meat from the enamel jar, and sent it to the eldest brother next door.

When her husband is not at home, she needs to stammer with the two uncles, and their selfishness can be seen from the matter of dividing the meat, and their savings represent their annual rations. Fortunately, because their younger brother was away all the year round, they left their younger brother and daughter-in-law at home alone, and they felt very sorry for their younger brother and daughter-in-law, so they took good care of Qi Shufang, remembered the work high, and gave a lot of rations.

When she went out, according to the habits of this body, she put the enamel jar in the drawer of the chest of drawers, so as not to be stolen by cats and mice.

Seeing a piece of meat in the bowl, Wang Chunling's eyes narrowed into a slit with a smile, and she pretended to push in her mouth: "You can keep it for yourself for the New Year, and why do you send a piece of meat?" Our father lives with us, and even if we don't eat the meat, we have to hold on to our father first. With that, the hand took the bowl quickly and swiftly.

Qi Shufang smiled and said, "Who doesn't know that the eldest brother and sister-in-law are filial to their father? Jianguo is not at home, I am doing my best for Jianguo." "If she really eats alone, she will definitely be poked in the back.

In this regard, this body is very thoughtful, don't look at her young age, she understands the world very well.

Wang Chunling put the meat away, ignored the greedy staring of the three men, one woman and four children in the house, and directly locked the meat into the cupboard together with the five or six pieces of meat she had brought. Qi Shufang's house does not have a lock to lock the door, but Wang Chunling's house has an iron lock, which locks not the door, but the cabinet, Qi Shufang guessed that all the delicious food in their house is in the cupboard, so they will do this.

Looking at the four children staring at the cupboard, Wang Chunling said: "Wait a while, chop it up and mix it with cabbage stuffing to make dumplings, you can eat it today, otherwise just a few pieces of meat, not enough points, if you can't taste it, it will be gone." ”

Hearing this, several children had no choice but to go out, afraid of staying in the house and smelling the meat and wanting to eat.

Qi Shufang was accustomed to this kind of thing, since the meat was delivered, she went home with an empty bowl, and when she stood at the door of her house, she looked at her home and couldn't help sighing.

Although the sky is blue, the water is clear, the soil is clean, and the meat is delicious, but she must not be able to stand eating such meat once a year, and in her memory, this body has not eaten a bite of meat for several years. According to historical records, in this era, supplies were very, very scarce, and you had to get a ticket to buy a lot of things, and tens of millions of people died of starvation in the famine seven or eight years ago, and the only advantage was that the food was not contaminated.

In my own time, although there was a shortage of food and clothing, not only was there no shortage of shelter, but most of the daily necessities were available, and later, because of the emergence of the supernatural, clothing was no longer very scarce, and what was scarce was food.

can't go back, really can't go back, thinking of her parents and family who will never see her again, Qi Shufang is sad.

Living in a harsh environment, Qi Shufang's temperament is very tenacious, sad for a moment, and soon cheered up, determined to live a good life here, and taste the rich life that the old people say.

Although, they say that the good life comes after the turmoil is over.

My current home is a stone wall, a thatched roof, a wooden door, a small kitchen with a straw shed, and a fence yard without a gate. The east room is a bedroom, with only a wooden bed and two large boxes, but there are two not very old quilts on the bed, and a coarse cloth quilt with white flowers on a blue background. The west room is a hall for hospitality, with a table and four chairs, and a chest of drawers.

In addition to these, next to the chest of drawers there is a sand jar and two jars with small mouths and round bellies, on which are placed a kettle with rattan shell and a rattan basket, behind the door is a three-legged basin shelf, with a very old white towel, and an enamel basin sitting on the shelf, Qi Shufang looked up and saw that the portrait of the founding man was pasted on the middle hall of the hall, the portrait was a little old and spotlessly clean.

The people live on food, and the most important thing is food.

Qi Shufang stepped forward to lift the lid of the rattan basket, which was filled with layers of local staple pancakes, which took up most of the basket's space, as well as more than a dozen rolls, including cornmeal, sweet potato dried noodles, and black noodles.

The staple food is there, and there is no need to bother in a short time, Qi Shufang put the lid of the bun basket back in place, and then uncovered the sorghum stalk pot on the casserole at her feet and patted the lid, and found that there was a small half jar of cornmeal inside, although it was not very thin, but the golden one was very dazzling and dazzling, exuding bursts of fragrance, Qi Shufang couldn't help but take a deep breath, it was so good.

One of the two jars next to the sand jar contains pickles, and the other contains sweet garlic, the pickles are black, the color of the sweet garlic cannot be described, a little sugar-colored, it seems to be pickled with vinegar and brown sugar, which is rare.

Then, Qi Shufang opened the drawer of the chest of drawers again, and she remembered that when she put the meat, there were a lot of things in it.

In the first drawer, in addition to the meat I put in, there is half a jar of clear cottonseed oil, half a jar of coarse salt, and three pairs of chopsticks.

In the second drawer, there is half a bowl of black pickles, half a bowl of reddish-brown dried radish, and half a bowl of radish beans that are somewhat similar in color to dried radish, which is a dish that this body usually eats.

The third drawer is filled with a variety of dried vegetables, such as dried beans, dried radish, and dried eggplant.

Qi Shufang continued to open the fourth layer, and inside it turned out to be a small cloth pocket full of patches, with black noodles in the pocket, she took it out and checked it, there were about seven or eight catties of flour, which can only be eaten by wealthy people.

The fifth floor is empty, and I guess there is nothing to put in.

Qi Shufang pushed the drawer back, went to the bedroom according to the memory, took out two keys from her neck, and used one of them to open a large wooden box at the end of the bed.

At the bottom of the wooden box is half a box of dried sweet potatoes, it is said that there are more than 100 catties, there are two cloth bags full of patches on the dried sweet potatoes, one large and one small, Qi Shufang reached out to open the hemp rope tied to the pocket, revealing the grain inside, the big bag contains golden corn kernels, and the small pocket contains wheat, the corn kernels are about more than 50 catties, and the wheat is more than 20 catties.

What she saw was all the rations of the body, which according to the rules here, had to be supported until the sixth and seventh months of the solar calendar, and when the wheat was harvested and handed over to the public grain, the production team would distribute the new grain.

The other box also has its own lock, which contains the soft stuff of the body.

Qi Shufang looked at it for a while, there were only two or three sets of clothes in total, including spring, summer, autumn and winter, all of them were black, gray and blue, most of them were old, and there was a brand-new military cotton jacket that was the most conspicuous, which was sent by He Jianguo, and this body was not willing to wear it.

This body put all the savings and letters in this military cotton jacket, Qi Shufang turned it out and saw that more than a dozen letters, written by He Jianguo, the money was wrapped in a gray-blue checkered handkerchief, the largest denomination was ten yuan, and there were also five yuan, two yuan, one yuan, and five cents, two cents, one cent, five cents, two cents, two cents, and one cent, a total of two hundred and seventy-six yuan and five cents and eight cents.

He Jianguo's salary is very high, nearly forty yuan a month, he will send twenty yuan to his wife every month, the original Qi Shufang is very thrifty, except for buying stamps, almost never spending, together with the fifty yuan He Jianguo gave before leaving.

In memory, more than 200 yuan is a huge amount of money, and the original Qi Shufang has always been wealthy, and no one knows that she is rich.

There is money and food, Qi Shufang said that she is very satisfied, which shows that she will not starve in a short time, that is, she has searched inside and out, except for a few pieces of meat distributed today, she has not found any non-staple food, and there is no New Year's goods.

Qi Shufang is so disappointed, she is not happy without meat, she has no meat, and her life is so bleak.

Qi Shufang wanted to see what she looked like, but she gave up because she couldn't find a mirror in the house, it is said that this body is quite beautiful, because she is handsome and literate, she can marry the only soldier in the He Lou brigade.

As for the mother's family, there is no need to mention it, ask the He family for a bride price of 200 yuan, and the dowry is only one set of clothes, two quilts and two boxes.

Qi Shufang recalled this, and found that the Qi family used the He family's bride price to marry their daughter-in-law, and also searched the two new clothes that the He family made for their daughter to give to their future daughter-in-law, and before her daughter got married, she also explained that her daughter often went back to her parents' house, and sent a lot of money and food to her mother's family, which was really hateful! Fortunately, this body was not stupid, except for returning to the door and giving gifts after marriage, she never went back, and every time her mother's family asked for money, she insisted that she didn't, saying that He Jianguo had never sent her money in other places.

Well done! Qi Shufang gave a thumbs up in her heart.

This body has eaten little for many years, has a small appetite, after eating that piece of meat, now not hungry at all, no need to eat at noon, but thinking that today is Chinese New Year's Eve, Chinese New Year's Eve should eat dumplings, she quickly took out the sand basin in the kitchen, water and black noodles in the drawer, and a piece of dough, first put it in the basin to wake up, and then opened the cellar under the thatched eaves and took out a cabbage and two green onions.

This body can cook, Qi Shufang can also cook, if you can't cook, it is difficult to survive in a harsh environment, everyone has to run for survival, few people sell finished food, they are all do-it-yourself, and they have enough food and clothing.

Wash the cabbage and green onions, cut half the cabbage, and chop out a large bowl of filling with the remaining two pieces of meat and the already solidified broth.

When chopping the dumpling filling, some crushed coarse salt has been sprinkled into it, and it is mixed well, but other than that, there is no seasoning.

Qi Shufang is a person who eats enough for the whole family and is not hungry, making dumplings in the afternoon and dumplings in the evening, a total of four bowls of dumplings came out, she sent a bowl to the sister-in-law and the second sister-in-law's family respectively, and the two sisters-in-law suddenly smiled, and did not let her take the empty bowl back.

The bowl that gave the dumplings to the sister-in-law was filled with a bowl of white flower plate oil and came back, and the second sister-in-law filled the bowl with a full of stewed pork offal, even hot, Qi Shufang guessed that this must have been secretly intercepted by the two eldest uncles when they killed the pig and divided the meat.

Qi Shufang put the oil in the drawer, and ate dumplings with pork offal, fragrant, her mouth was full of meat, and she was so happy that she wanted to cry. Two bowls of dumplings, one in the evening and one tomorrow morning.