50s: Starting with a storage ring

Chapter 123 No Cloth Coupons from March to August
After seeing these reports and thinking about the foul smell that was about to fill the whole city, he decided to give his family a shot of prevention.

"Nannan, Jiajia, come and read this report."

When the two came over, they saw him pointing at the news in the newspaper and starting to explain it to them.

"It's foreseeable that this will be promoted throughout the city. By then, there will be places where chlorella is cultivated everywhere in the city, and the chlorella culture medium has a very unpleasant smell."

"Jia Jia, you're only three months pregnant now, so your pregnancy symptoms aren't obvious yet. But let's make a pact: don't bring any of these things home."

"If the school allows us to keep a pet, we can keep it in school. We are not allowed to take it home."

No one had any objection to this suggestion, as no one wanted to sleep with the smell of a toilet.

As expected, starting from Monday, a guidance team came from the school to teach everyone how to cultivate Chlorella and also brought everyone seedlings.

Not only Beihai, Yuying, Yucai, but also all universities, colleges, and primary and secondary schools, as well as street units, have begun to promote it. Reports from all over the country have begun to appear in newspapers.

In school, the situation is better for middle school students, who can try their best to follow the instructions.

Primary school students don’t have that much patience. Basically, they just get a basin or bottle, fill it with water, and then pee in it and think they’ve started raising the fish.

Adults or factories and enterprises with the conditions will build a large pond to raise them. The fragrance is so good that it can be smelled from ten miles away and it is hard to describe in words.

In the following months, people cultivating Chlorella were everywhere in the city and the countryside, and some of them actually achieved results.

For example, a pharmacist in a factory uses large tanks to cultivate Chlorella on a large scale, and then dries the finished product into a green powder.

Then, the chlorella powder is fed to patients with edema as medicine. It is said to be effective. A small spoonful of green algae powder is equivalent to several taels of rice.

Beihai Kindergarten also responded to the call and built a cultivation pool. However, the principal still followed Sun Zhiwei's advice and dug the cultivation pool in a remote corner.

Sun Zhiwei oversaw the cultivation of Chlorella. They first dug a pond, added water, and finally poured urine in. The kindergarten had a full garden of children, and there were plenty of them.

Then pour in the seedlings and start stirring it every day. After ten days or half a month, the pond water will first turn green, then black, and finally smell bad, and the algae cultivation is declared a success.

No one wanted to eat this stuff, so Sun Zhiwei arranged for people to build a stove on the spot, scoop up the pond water and boil it dry, then collect the dried Chlorella, and finally collected a large jar.

In the transparent jar, there are about ten pounds of collected chlorella powder, but it smells like urine and algae.

Sun Zhiwei didn't know what to do with it, so he simply gave it all to the director. Director Wang was also overwhelmed by the strong smell and asked him to put it outside the office quickly.

"Director, I've completed my mission. You can handle the finished product later. I'm going to refill the pond. The smell is too strong there."

"Okay, I'll take care of it. Go ahead and do it quickly. Don't leave any hidden dangers."

After Sun Zhiwei left, Director Wang thought about it in his seat and decided to return this thing to its original purpose: as livestock feed.

As for the original plan to make some chlorella cookies and chlorella buns, forget it. No one in the garden would want to eat them, so I won't waste the flour.

One weekend in March, Sun Ailai was also cursing at home because the school cook was not a good person.

"Brother, do you know that the food in our school cafeteria smells like urine?"

"Guess what? Every day, the canteen brings two buckets of chlorella water to the pot to cook rice, and the rice turns out green."

"What's most infuriating is that the people in the cafeteria don't eat this kind of food themselves, but they actually set up a special meal for them."

"What's the result? Is there any effect?" Sun Zhiwei asked after hearing this. "I can't see any effect. The swelling is still there."

"Principal Yuan has decided to set up a nutritionist's office to provide nutrition to students suffering from edema. I heard that the dishes in the nutritionist's office will be added with some oil."

"Brother, I gave some of the medicine you gave me to a few classmates and they worked great. A lot of people wanted it, but I don't have much left."

"Why, you want some more, right?"

"Well, bro, can you make some more?"

"Of course you can, but I still say that this is medicine, do you understand?"

"I understand. I will never tell anyone."

"Okay, then make some more."

That afternoon, the family started making nutritional pills again. This time, they made 10 kilograms, and let Sun Ailai do all the hard work by himself.

Sun Ailai sweated profusely as she made more than a dozen bottles, but Sun Zhiwei still only allowed her to take a small bottle to school. It was already medicine, so if she took more, it would be worthless, and no one took medicine by the kilogram.

In fact, there are still things similar to nutritional pills in hospitals, which is "recovery powder".

This so-called "recovery powder" is made of wheat bran, soy flour and sugar. It can effectively supplement nutrition and has good results.

Only when the doctor confirms that the patient's edema is caused by hunger will he prescribe them a dose of "recovery powder". This gray powder should be taken several times a day with boiled water and will take effect in a week.

Only a limited number of classmates in Nannan's class know that the black pills Nannan brought to school are more effective and can basically show obvious improvement in two or three days.

Before giving them the pills, Nannan repeatedly warned them that there were not many pills and they should not tell anyone about it. If they did, everyone would come to ask for them, and then they would have nothing left to eat.

The situation in 1961 had reached its worst point, and Sun Zhiwei no longer dared to eat and drink lavishly at home.

Others are pale and thin, with dry and yellow hair and not a pound of flesh on their faces. If your family members all have rosy faces and greasy lips, it will really bring disaster and trouble.

Therefore, the family tries to make sure the children are full and take nutritional pills to supplement their nutrition. As for meat and fish, they are only allowed once every one or two weeks at most, and the quantity is also controlled so that their family is not so conspicuous.

In February, a notice was issued:

The quantity and validity period of the civilian cloth coupons issued by the XX Bureau

In recent years, due to the severe cotton shortage, no tickets will be issued from March to August this year. However, in order to meet the needs of the general public for mending clothes:
1、X1年前期民用布票不论城市、乡村，不分职工、农民每人发给布票贰市尺，使用期限由X1年3月1日起至8月31日有效。（售棉优待布票继续使用至3月底）

2. All cloth coupons of X0 will cease to be used from March st.

3. The quota of cloth coupons for marriage, death and childbirth originally stipulated in X0 will be issued according to the new regulations starting from March st.

⑴ Each of the married couple will receive a subsidy of 5 shichi.

⑵ The deceased will receive a subsidy of 5 shichi (15 chi for Muslims).

⑶ Newborn baby subsidy of 5 feet (10 feet for the first baby, double subsidy for twins).

(End of this chapter)