Chapter 043: The Lantern Festival in the First Year of the Last Days

Jingshu also loves to drink soup, so she cooked 1 cubic of seafood and shrimp porridge, 1 cubic of carrot, corn and mutton soup, 1 cubic meter of stewed chicken soup with shiitake mushrooms, 1 cubic meter of pork ribs and lotus root soup, and 1 cubic of crucian carp tofu soup.

Considering the power saving, Jingshu fried her supper steak and Yuqing sausage with 2 cubic meters.

Anyway, Jingshu will cook all kinds of delicacies at home as long as she has time, and then store them in the space like a hamster, and she is also going to wait for Grandpa Jing to come and grind the soybeans to make all kinds of tofu after a while.

Jing's mother still goes to work every day, and every day she has to complain about how the dark days are not over, more than 30 days have passed, and let Jing's father go to the wholesale market every day to buy some more things.

Don't think about vegetables and fruits, the price has risen to hundreds of yuan a catty, not to mention, there is no fresh one.

All kinds of water and cold drinks have never been on the shelves again.

Full of all kinds of snacks, life seasonings, grains, oils and non-staple foods are also unconsciously becoming less, it seems that they have never been replenished, now each person is limited to 200 yuan, and they can't buy much, but no matter how small the mosquito legs are, they are also meat, unless they go to the scalpers to buy them at a high price.

But since the small supermarket was confiscated because of the crazy price increase, there are many fewer scalpers, and the citizens don't know where the materials have not been received.

Some small shops closed their doors to stock up on the price when they saw that the price was not working, and the next day there were two policemen who acted as door gods, so scared that the boss had to continue to open the door to sell things.

The largest farmers' market in Wucheng, aquatic non-staple food grain and oil were suspended by the government, and they were quietly controlled, Jingshu also learned later, this group of aquatic non-staple food is rising more and more outrageous, the government cooperated with the armed police to directly confiscate all the materials, to put it mildly, it is called: expropriation.

With the appearance that the dark days were not over at all, the country was in a hurry. It was envisaged that it would take more than 20 days to slowly restore the light, but it was still the case for these days, and the professionals expected that it would take at least a month, so the huge machine of the state began to act.

Today is the Lantern Festival on February 5, 2023, and the country originally planned to move the Spring Festival on January 22 to February 5, when the dark day ended.

But in order to stabilize the hearts of the people, the Spring Festival Lantern Festival Gala started on time at 20:00 in the evening, and all the hosts this year wore their original clothes: dirty suits and beards, skirts that could not be seen in color, haggard faces and greasy hair, no makeup and no dress.

"I'm sorry audience friends, I haven't taken a shower for half a month." The hostess without makeup still maintains her elegant temperament.

"Coincidentally, I haven't washed it in a month." The male host holds the microphone, and the opening remarks begin here.

Today, there is no electricity in various places, so that every family can have a reunion dinner and watch the Lantern Festival party happily.

Jingshu's family of three sat at her uncle's house today to have a reunion dinner, which is customary, Chinese New Year's Eve at grandma's house, and the Lantern Festival at her uncle's house.

Considering the lack of vegetables, Jing Ma brought some dry goods, eggs, tomatoes, bean sprouts, cabbage, garlic sprouts and bacon, as well as 2L Sprite.

These things that usually look ordinary have now become hot things.

Jing's father still wanted to mention two fish, and the fish in the pond bred a batch of Jingshu fried a lot of crispy fish, and there were still a lot of crispy fish left, Jingshu just wanted to refuse, Jing's mother refused first: "Okay, these are enough, my sister-in-law knows that we have so many good things and don't give them them, and the wind is blowing in her ears again." ”

In fact, it was Jing's mother who held a grudge, just to borrow money, she still cared a lot.

Jing's father drove, and the family of three came to his uncle's house in the afternoon. Uncle's house belongs to the old city in the west of the city, with many people, low buildings, poor environment, high housing prices, and the flood in the second year did not flood, but in the third year, there was an earthquake that buried the uncle's family of three downstairs, and the end was very miserable.

In order to keep Jing's mother from returning to the bun, Jingshu decided how to let her uncle's family live.

When Jingshu's family arrived, there were already two groups of people from the uncle's house.

"Oh, it's all here, why do you bring so many things, it's so embarrassing! It's finally better than some people, and I ate it for nothing. ”

Aunt Wang Fang opened the door and took a bunch of things from Jing's father's hand, and saw that her eyes lit up when she saw green vegetables, tomatoes, cabbage and bacon, and she couldn't close her mouth with joy.

"Come on, come on, come in, this year my eldest brother Wang Gang is with us for the New Year, this is my sister-in-law Liu Shufen, you know, this is their daughter Wang Can, 25 years old was made by my brother to become a clerk." As soon as I finished showing off my aunt, I felt a little inappropriate.

In order to celebrate the New Year, my aunt's family deliberately cleaned up, wiped their bodies with water, washed their faces, and changed into clean clothes, but they were reluctant to wash their hair. Who knew that in addition to some dust that had just fallen on Jingshu's family, it was clean, the hair was not oily at all, and it also exuded a smell of Blue Moon brand laundry detergent.

Look at your own family, no matter how you dress up, you have a rustic feeling.

Jingshu's family entered the door and said hello to her aunt and eldest brother's family, the three bedrooms and two living rooms of the uncle's house were hardcover by Jing's father back then, and now they are much dilapidated, and there is an indescribable smell, large and small cans are filled with water, and the small bedroom is stuffed into a freezer, and through the glass I can see that there is still a half-refrigerator of frozen meat inside.

Only turn on the kitchen lights and the TV in the living room and the air conditioner, the light is a little dim, and now there are indicators for each household electricity, and the power will be cut off if it is overused.

"Sprite! Sister Jing, you can still get 2 liters of Sprite now, it's awesome! Su Long saw Jing Shu holding a drink in her hand, her eyes glowing like hungry wolves, and rushed up to take it.

Su Long is the elder son of his uncle, 17 years old with eyes, he loves to eat snacks since he was a child, so he is short and thin, and it is this bear child who had to go home to live during the earthquake to kill their family.

Jing Shu pointed her finger against Su Long's forehead, "Everyone drinks together when they eat, but they are not allowed to drink now." In fact, Jingshu doesn't want to take Sprite, because Sprite is versatile, Sprite with lemon, Sprite with plum juice, milk and other flavors are unique and exciting.

"Cut, what's the big deal." Zhang Hanhan hugged Wang Can's arm and looked at Jingshu with hatred, and whispered something to Wang Can, they were not too hot, in order to save power, the air conditioner was only turned on to 28 °C, and the outside was 47 °C.

Zhang Hanhan is the daughter of her aunt Su Meimei, she deliberately put on a red dress today, tied her ball head, and put on a costume, spraying some perfume to cover the smell on her body, Jingshu always feels that people from the art academy look the same Internet celebrity face after dressing up, and she also liked to dress like this more than ten years ago in her previous life.

Aunt Su Meimei and sister-in-law Zhang Zhongyong are all there, didn't these two people fall out, do the sister-in-law still want to invade the pig cage for the sister-in-law?