50s: Starting with a storage ring

Chapter 121 Nutrition Pills

After hearing what he said, Tong Jiajia thought it made sense and stopped insisting.

The next day was Monday. The three of them got up early in the morning. Tong Jiajia went to make breakfast, while Sun Zhiwei and Sun Ailai picked dates together.

He worked very quickly and picked more than 50 kilograms in less than half an hour.

Then he packed the dates into two baskets. One basket was a small backpack with 20 kilograms of dates in it. This was for Sun Ailai to carry to school.
Another large basket was filled with more than 30 kilograms of food, which he wanted to bring to the kindergarten teachers and guards to try.

All in all, each person gets half a pound of dates, which is not a small amount for trying something new.

There are still quite a few left on the tree, but most of them are not ripe. They are left on the tree. When they are ripe, some will be given to relatives and friends. The rest can be picked fresh when you want to eat them.

After breakfast, the three of them went to school or work.

When Sun Zhiwei arrived at the kindergarten, he went straight to Principal Wang's office.

"Director, the jujube trees at home have borne fruit. A new batch has ripened. I brought a basket here for everyone to taste." Sun Zhiwei grabbed a handful and handed it to the director.
"Oh, jujubes! These are nutritious and good things." The head teacher didn't take it, but just took one and tasted it.

"How are you going to divide it?" the headmaster asked him.

"How to divide it? Whoever wants to eat can just take it. Is there any need to divide it?" What's the point of this? He doesn't know much about this.

"You, if you don't pay attention to these little things, it's very likely to destroy unity."

"Well, you send all the dates to the logistics aunt, and let her be in charge of the distribution."

"Auntie is the most trustworthy when she does things. That way, no one will say anything more or less. Otherwise, you will do good things and still be blamed. That would be a loss."

Director Wang's advice was invaluable, and Sun Zhiwei listened to it. He immediately sent the dates to the logistics aunt and then left him alone.

At noon, when the teachers were having lunch, each of them received a small bag of fresh dates from the aunt. Everyone was smiling and thanked Sun Zhiwei and his wife. As expected, no one said anything bad.

Sun Zhiwei secretly told Tong Jiajia about this. They both expressed their feelings and felt that they had learned something.

A week passed quickly, and on Saturday, the park held a meeting to select advanced workers, and Sun Zhiwei was among them.

Director Wang announced that Sun Zhiwei was promoted one level and officially entered the ranks of department head, with a monthly salary increase of 94.4 yuan.

In the evening, the two returned home and prepared to celebrate with the whole family. Of course, they couldn't buy meat in a big way, and they couldn't buy any.

The three of them cut a piece of bacon at home and opened another can of food.

Everyone enjoyed the meal happily in the evening. Sun Ai said that the school cafeteria had no meat this week, and everyone was starving in the dormitory at night and looked everywhere for something to fill their stomachs.

Sun Zhiwei looked at the thin Sun Ailai, thought for a moment, and suddenly asked Tong Jiajia, "Are the chickens at home still laying eggs?"

"It's cold now, and the chickens at home don't lay eggs anymore."

"Is it possible to buy eggs outside now?"

"Yeah, I haven't seen anyone selling eggs in the past two months."

Calculating the time, it is indeed time when eggs are no longer available for purchase.

The big eggs have all been shipped north, and the small eggs have also been subsidized. It is normal that there are no eggs on the market. Now we can only see whether our own hens can provide enough.

"Well, I'll build a chicken coop in the kitchen today. You can move all the chickens there. It's warmer there, so they can lay eggs."

"There's also the issue of Nannan's meals at school. All the other students eat the same meals, so I can't make special arrangements for you." "But Nannan can't lack nutrition right now. I'll think of a way tomorrow to see if I can alleviate the problem."

What solution? He thought of nutritional pills.

The ingredients of the nutritional pills are very random, usually fried red beans, soybeans, black beans, rice flour, sugar, salt, sesame seeds and other ingredients.

Then it is ground into powder, glued with oil, and finally wrapped with beeswax to make finger-sized balls.

These meatballs are nutritious and take up very little space, making them suitable for nutritional supplementation.

Of course, if the human body does not have enough fat intake, the body's energy will still be insufficient and the stomach will feel hungry. In this case, you can only go home and eat more on weekends.

Now that he has most of the materials at home, he plans to try making some.

He didn't remember the specific proportions, he could only grab some to make up the weight of two kilograms, and then stir-fry them in the pan.

Of course, it was Tong Jiajia who took action, as he was afraid that he would mess up the food.

After frying, the mixture in the pot will be filled with a unique fragrance. After cooling slightly, it needs to be ground into powder.

There are no home wall-breaking machines nowadays. There are two ways to grind it into powder: one is to send it to a place with a powder grinder, such as a flour mill or grinding mill, but he didn't plan to go outside to get it;

Instead, he chose to manually crush it into powder at home using a medicine pounding tool. This job was given to Sun Ailai.

This thing was originally made for her to eat, so it was only natural that she should put in some effort. The main thing was that the mixture tasted so good that she could mash it and eat it at the same time.

The fried mixture was very crispy, but it needed to be pounded finely to make it into easily digestible balls. It took more than an hour to pound two kilograms of the mixture into a fine gray-black powder.

At this time, dissolve a small amount of oil in the pot, pour the powder in and stir into a paste, then it can be used to make meatballs.

In order to make the meatballs of uniform size as much as possible, he first kneaded the clay powder into long strips, then cut it into small pieces, and finally everyone worked together to roll the small pieces of material into balls.

2 kilograms of ingredients made 1 kilograms of cooked material, which finally became hundreds of black little meatballs.

Sun Zhiwei ate one and it tasted good, but that was not the end.

"We also need to seal it with beeswax, firstly to preserve it for a longer time, and secondly to seal in the smell of the balls, which smell so good."

As he said this, he threw another one into his mouth, and classmate Sun Ailai glared at him.

Sun Zhiwei ignored her and found a piece of beeswax and started melting it on the stove.

This thing was originally placed together with honey. He recognized it after he brought it back. Because it was not as delicious as honey, he had never touched it. It came in handy today.

Soak the rolled balls in beeswax once and then dry them, and the final product will come out. From the outside, they look black and look like Chinese medicine balls.

He put all the nutritional pills into a few empty cans and began to instruct his sister.

"Starting from Monday, bring a can to school and take one pill with each meal. If anyone asks you about it, just say it's a Chinese medicine prescribed by the doctor for your health."

"When you eat this thing, you really should treat it as Chinese medicine. Swallow it directly with water. Don't chew it in your mouth. If you chew it, the fragrance will be indescribable."

"Brother, is this stuff meant to satisfy your hunger?" Sun Ailai took the prepared nutritional pills and turned them around in his hand.

"Hungry? No, it's not hungry."

(End of this chapter)