50s: Starting with a storage ring

Chapter 122 Chlorella

"After all, it's only this small. If there's nothing in its stomach, it will still get hungry when it's time to get hungry."

"But it can supplement nutrition. If the swelling is caused by malnutrition or hunger, eating a few pills should be helpful."

"Sun Ailai, remember, this is medicine, made from a folk remedy. It's for treating illnesses, not for consumption. No matter who asks, you don't know anything. Just let them come to me."

"Brother, I remember this. This is medicine, not something to eat. If you have any questions, come to me."

"That's right, Luo."

Sun Zhiwei confirmed that Nannan understood, then nodded in satisfaction. There are always bad people in this world, especially at this time, so we can't let our guard down at all.

It is winter now, and the fields everywhere have almost no output, and everyone is eating stored food.

Even the rations at Beihai Kindergarten have been reduced a lot. If it weren't for Sun Zhiwei's idea in the summer to set up a planting base for the kindergarten, the kindergarten would have almost collapsed.

In the second half of the year, the land produced a harvest of 5 jin of sweet potatoes from 1 mu, 2 jin of carrots from 2000 mu, and 1 jin of potatoes from 400 mu.

There are also 3 acres of land planted with vegetables, and two rounds of 4000 kilograms of cabbage were harvested.

With the supplies allocated by the higher authorities, although the food in the kindergarten is not as good as before, there is no problem in having enough to eat.

But the Yucai Middle School where Nannan is studying has been opened to the public and no longer receives state funding, so the meals provided are now extremely difficult to come by.

Sun Zhiwei could imagine that among Sun Ailai's teachers and classmates, there must be many people suffering from edema.

Based on his understanding of Sun Aila, she was very likely to give some of the nutritional pills to others.

This quality itself is not a problem in this era, but it cannot bring risks to the family. That is why he emphasized that this is medicine, this is medicine, this is medicine.

As long as it's medicine, there's no problem. If she tells others what it's made of, then there's a problem.

Others have nothing to eat, but you still have so many kinds of nutritional products at home. There will always be jealous and hateful people who will report you.

In his opinion, Nannan is still too naive and thinks everything is beautiful. This is because she has never suffered the beatings of society.

If he was really reported at this time, he would still be happy to see it, at least it would let his daughter see the evil of human nature.

In short, there is no need to be afraid of some small problems now, because he has the ability to solve the problems, or rather, he has the ability to solve the people who raise the problems.

The sooner this happens, the better. One strike is enough to prevent a hundred blows. If we don't kill a chicken, how can we let the monkey know how powerful the Sun family is?

After making several contingency plans for possible future events, he handed over several bottles of nutritional pills to Sun Ailai.

On Sunday morning, I picked dozens of kilograms of newly ripe dates and gave 5 kilograms to each of my godmother's family, Aunt Liang's family, Lao Zhang's family and other relatives and friends who I often visit.

In the afternoon, he was resting at home reading books and newspapers, and he saw a piece of news: "Mass production of Chlorella".

He immediately knew that something disgusting was about to happen, that is, everyone would raise Chlorella.

There was a report mid-year claiming that chlorella was a high-quality feed source, effective for raising pigs, chickens, and ducks. Less than six months later, the hype has begun, claiming chlorella is an excellent concentrated feed with high nutritional value. They're ready to get everyone started.

The newspaper gave an example: some places use chlorella to try to make cakes, bread, candies, dishes and other foods, which are fragrant and delicious; some people use chlorella powder to feed their babies, and the effect is comparable to milk powder.

The claim that Chlorella is rich in nutrients is not misleading. If it is cultivated and propagated correctly and then processed correctly, it is indeed nutritious.

In theory, chlorella is rich in multiple nutrients: protein, lipids, carbohydrates, minerals, vitamins, dietary fiber, and 18 kinds of amino acids. It is the natural and balanced nutritional food that is closest to the needs of the human body.

The reason why Chlorella is promoted is because it has a particularly strong photosynthesis, does not compete with crops for land, is easy to cultivate, and grows fast.

In clear weather and with the right conditions, it can reproduce rapidly, turning the water into a turquoise color. Chlorella is the only plant and animal on Earth that can quadruple its size in 20 hours.

Chlorella reproduces asexually, producing 2, 4, 8, or 16 spore-like cells per cell.

When mature, the mother cell ruptures and the spores escape. If they divide two or three times a day, the number will be dozens of times the original.

However, while it's great in theory, the reality is more difficult, as Chlorella doesn't taste very good.

Experts cultivate Chlorella in the laboratory. The nutrient solution has a special formula, uses nitrogen fertilizer, and is sterilized under high pressure. Other microorganisms are killed, and the purity of the Chlorella is high.

After harvesting, filters can be used to remove impurities mixed into the culture tank, and the washing and centrifuge dehydration processes can be repeated to make algae pulp and concentrate it into chlorella raw material.

Then use chlorella as an ingredient and mix it with flour to make food, such as chlorella biscuits, cakes, noodles, etc. This way you can eat something novel, it is very nutritious, but the taste is very poor.

But you have to know that Chlorella has three layers of tough cell walls.

Without special methods or tools such as a wall breaker, it is impossible to break the cell walls and release enough nutrients.

If you eat chlorella without its cell wall broken, the effect will be almost zero. Naturally, it will be excreted in the same way as you eat it, and it will just deceive your stomach.

It’s just that the daily newspapers have already started reporting on it, and local media will certainly follow up. It’s foreseeable that a boom in Chlorella farming is about to come.

Looking further down, there is a letter forwarded from above, which calls for the full promotion of Chlorella.

It's not something you can raise whenever you want. You need a place, manpower, the conditions to make the culture medium, and seedlings.

However, the wisdom of the people is infinite. In this era, we believe that strength lies in numbers and that man can conquer nature. No matter what the task, we must tackle it if conditions permit, and even if they don't, we must create them and take action.

Ordinary people like us cannot make standard culture medium, but we can use a simplified version.

For example, the instructions say to use clean spring water, stream water, or well water.

We don't have any water, so we can use river water. As for filtering, I don't know how to do it in a complicated way, so filtering with sand and gravel will be enough.

For example, the human urine culture medium says that it needs to be made of cooked urine, but we don’t know how to do it. We can just let a child pee a few times. Boy’s urine will definitely be more useful.

As for fecal culture medium, it is not so difficult in rural areas because people are not afraid of it and the materials are available everywhere. But people in cities may not be willing to do it. If you really culture it, who are you going to feed it to?
I definitely won’t eat it anyway.

(End of this chapter)