Yang Shugen is a swollen face and a fat man, there is already a famine in the county, there is not enough food to eat, and even the rations of the county cadres have been cut, but he cannot say this, and he must not stretch out his hand to the state until it is absolutely necessary, this is a matter of principle.

In 1959, after starvation, the country entered a period of thrift, and even the People's Liberation Army changed its 58-style military uniform, put away its large-brimmed hat and gold epaulettes, and put on the liberation cap and cloth military uniform again.

In 60 years, the harvest was still poor, and the house leaked and rained overnight, and the Soviet Union announced that it would withdraw all its experts and demanded the payment for weapons during the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea.

The news was reported to the county party committee, and Yang Shugen immediately ordered the county public security bureau to block the station and wharf, and found similar blind flow personnel, and immediately arrested and repatriated, and at the same time ordered the communes to dispatch the basic militia to block the traffic arteries and gold personnel to go out.

"No matter how hard it is, the big canteen must be persistent, and if there is a shortage of food, it will be replaced by melons and vegetables, and it will still be difficult for us proletarian revolutionaries?" Yang Shugen told the commune cadres at the county meeting that his speeches were now ghostwritten by Nguyen Minh Chuan.

Although Secretary Yang is also a talent, he is still slightly inferior to Ruan Da reporter in terms of writing, Ruan Mingchuan has a very good set of speeches, the same subject, in the face of cadres, the masses, workers, peasants, and troops, there are different ways of writing and wording, and there will be notes at the climax: pause here for three seconds, waiting for applause.

Yang Shugen admired Ruan Mingchuan's talent very much, although he could not directly appoint this rightist, but he gave some care in life, such as giving an extra ten catties of food stamps every month, Ruan Mingchuan was grateful, and was willing to be Secretary Yang's supernumerary secretary.

Once, Yang Shugen half-jokingly said: "Lao Ruan, you are really the number one pen in our Jiangdong, and you wrote Chen Zikun's speeches in the past, right?" ”

Ruan Mingchuan said: "It's really not, Chen Zikun never wants a script to speak, he comes when he opens his mouth." ”

Yang Shugen smiled: "Nonsense, I don't believe that a warlord has such talent. ”

After a pause for a few seconds, Ruan Mingchuan said: "Hehe, Secretary Yang is right, although Chen Zikun didn't ask me to write for him, someone else must have written it for him, and it is likely to be his mistress Liu Ting." ”

Yang Shugen lowered his face and said: "General Chen is still a senior cadre of the country, how can you talk about people's style behind your back, even if you are ridiculous and shameless, you can't put it on the table and say it, let the masses hear how bad the impact is." ”

Ruan Mingchuan hurriedly said: "Yes, yes, I will pay attention next time." ”

Yang Shugen was very satisfied with the other party's attitude, and said: "I'm going to the provincial capital for a meeting tomorrow, aren't you at home in the provincial capital, go back with me, and save a ticket." ”

"Thank you so much Secretary Yang." Ruan Mingchuan is grateful to Dade.

……

Yang Shugen went to the provincial capital to attend a half-month study class to learn "how to make food substitutes on a large scale," and a professor from the Provincial Academy of Agricultural Sciences gave a lecture to the secretaries of the county party committees and county magistrates from all over the province, which opened the eyes of these leaders.

"Acorn kernels, corn roots, wheat roots, bubble milling can be eaten, corn roots of one acre of land can be milled more than 50 catties, if it can be popularized throughout the country, with corn roots, wheat roots 20 percent of the root powder, the country can get billions of catties of food substitutes."

The middle-aged man with glasses spat on the stars, and he was energetic in what he said, but the secretaries of the county party committee didn't think so, they were all cadres who knew politics very well, and it was okay to deceive the people, but it was almost hot to deceive the cadres.

Of course, this does not affect them from listening carefully and taking notes carefully.

At noon, the canteen was opened, and the food was all new food invented by the Academy of Agricultural Sciences, artificial meat, leaf protein, chlorella, these things were made into the appearance of meat by the master of the Party School of the Provincial Party Committee, and some gravy was poured on it, which looked very pleasing to the eye.

The professor continued to explain: "Chlorella contains a lot of chlorophyll and protein, which is excellent for human health, and eating more can lower cholesterol and reduce the onset of cardiovascular diseases, which should be vigorously advocated and comprehensively promoted. ”

The cadres all nodded thoughtfully, and Yang Shugen even took out a notebook on the spot to make a record.

In fact, the party committee gathered these county-level cadres not for study, but to supplement the nutrition of the cadres, the province allocated a batch of soybeans and sugar, and the canteen was fully supplied every day.

At the end of the study class, Yang Shugen went to the first food building in the provincial capital to buy two catties of chicken cakes, with a special coupon, everything to buy this year must be planned to supply, no ticket, even if the official is not big, the county official is not as good as the current management, the county magistrate is not as good as the salesman of the food store, the cook of the big canteen.

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Chen Zikun's former adjutant Shuangxi worked in the provincial No. 1 deputy food company, and he was still a middle-level cadre, in charge of the warehouse, and he was very oily.

Double Happiness is over fifty years old, he has two sons, the eldest son is only ten years old and is in the fourth grade of primary school, and the second son is seven years old and is in the first grade of primary school.

He brought ten pounds of eggs home, and when he entered the door, his wife was complaining, scolding and scolding his man for not being capable, this wife was still married by him back then, and she has always been awkward, even if she gave birth to two children.

"Look what this is." Shuangxi and Yan Yuese put the basket on the table, his wife looked at him suspiciously, lifted the cover, and was suddenly surprised: "Eggs!" ”

"Shhhh Shuangxi hurriedly put his finger on his mouth, and his wife understood, quickly ran to the window and closed the curtains, and said in a low voice: "What happened?" ”

"Do some tricks on the accounts, it's fine." Double Happiness Road.

My wife picked up two eggs and pasted them on her face: "Great, let's eat scrambled eggs with green onions at night." ”

"Low-key, it must be low-key." Double Happiness Road.

"I still need you to say, I know it in my heart." My wife said.

That night, the Shuangxi family ate a meal of scrambled eggs with green onions, and the two children ate with their mouths full of oil and were happy, but the adults didn't move their chopsticks much.

At night, after the two children fell asleep, his wife took a bath and climbed on Shuangxi, and took the initiative to tease him, Shuangxi has not lived as a husband and wife for half a year, and every time he gets his wife, he is very impatient, urging him to finish quickly, but this time it is an exception, very gentle.

"Double happiness, my mother's two younger brothers are having a hard time, see if you can support it." After finishing the matter, my wife asked softly.

"I'll try to figure it out." Double Happiness Road.

"I know that we are the most capable of double happiness." The wife took another bite in his face.

At twelve o'clock in the middle of the night, Shuangxi, who was already asleep, found his wife getting up in clothes and asked, "What are you doing in the middle of the night?" ”

"It's not good to pour eggshells and be found by neighbors." My wife said.

At six o'clock the next morning, the loud voice of Lao Wang, the cleaner who picked up the garbage, sounded at the end of the alley: "Who is so arrogant and eats so many eggs." ”

Neighbors who went to work and went to school for morning exercise gathered around the garbage bin and saw a small pile of egg shells, which weighed four or five eggs, and they were all amazed: "What a loser, such a way to eat eggs." ”

Shuangxi's wife boiled two white water eggs, gave one to each of her two sons, and told them to eat them in the next class, so as not to let their classmates see it.

The two children went to school hand in hand, the eldest son Chen Zhong is in the fourth grade, and he is already very sensible, and after the second class, he secretly took out the eggs from his schoolbag and stuffed them into his trouser pocket, came to the back of the school's public toilet, and squatted on the ground to peel the egg shell.

Suddenly, a shadow enveloped him, and when he looked up, he saw that it was Wang Xiaofei, the leader of the Young Pioneers, who was looking at him condescendingly with several squadrons.

"Chen Zhong, what are you doing behind everyone's back!" Wang Xiaofei wore a red scarf around his neck, stepped on a brick, and asked majestically, one of his arms crossed around his waist, and the signs of the two bars were particularly eye-catching.

Chen Zhong is not a Young Pioneer, because of family composition, he has not been accepted by the organization, he is one of the three people in the class who did not join the team, the other two are the descendants of capitalists, and the other is the son of a bully.

"I ...... I eat eggs. Under the majesty of the two bars, Chen Zhong did not dare to lie.

"Where did you get the eggs?" Wang Xiaofei continued to question.

"My mom gave it to me." Chen Zhong said timidly.

"Other people's families can't afford to eat eggs, but your family can afford to eat them, you bourgeois young master!" Wang Xiaofei's family composition is very high, he is a working class, and his gestures are domineering.

The classmates followed suit: "Bourgeois young master, whoa! ”

Chen Zhong took the eggs, he didn't eat them, he didn't eat them, he thought about them and handed them to the squadron leader: "I invite everyone to eat eggs." ”

Wang Xiaofei took it, threw it directly on the ground and said: "You still want to corrode us with bourgeois sugar-coated shells, dream about you." As he said this, his throat visibly jerked, and he was swallowing.

The white eggs were stained with dust, Chen Zhong was very distressed, and reached out to pick it up, Wang Xiaofei kicked the egg away and fell into the toilet manure pit.

The Young Pioneers cheered and ran away.

When he returned home, Chen Zhong was depressed, and his father didn't say anything when he asked him, thinking that his ingredients were brought by his parents, he was very uncomfortable, and wondered why I wasn't born in a working family.

At nine o'clock in the night, Shuangxi rode a bicycle back to the company, sneakily came back with a bag of flour, and said to his wife: "This is a hundred catties of noodles, half of which will be sent to your mother's family, so that they must keep it secret, otherwise our family will be finished." ”

My wife was also shocked: "A hundred catties is so much, don't you want to be careful, how good it is for a long stream." ”

Shuangxi said: "I won't care about the warehouse next month, if I don't start now, I won't have a chance, you can rest assured, I have settled the accounts, as long as no one reveals it, there will be absolutely no accident." ”

Through a curtain, his eldest son, Chen Zhong, listened to these conversations.

The next morning, the family ate gnocchi soup, and the two children went to school with a full meal, walking on the road, Chen Zhong said to his seven-year-old brother: "Brother, do you want to be a red scarf?" ”

The younger brother Chen Shi nodded stupidly.

"You come with me to the principal's office, what do I say, you will be a red scarf."

Chen Shi still nodded.

When he came to the school, Chen Zhong took his younger brother straight to the principal's office, shouted a report at the door, and his heart was pounding.

When the principal saw the two students coming to him, he was a little puzzled and said, "Come in." ”

Chen Zhong walked into the principal's office, very at a loss, and his eyes didn't know where to look.

The principal said, "Little classmate, what's the matter?" ”

Chen Zhong plucked up the courage and said, "Principal, I want to expose it!" ”