1942, I lived on hunting

Today's breakfast was much simpler, millet porridge with steamed bread and sweet potatoes, and Li Hao was also carefully prepared with pickles. While eating, Li Hao talked to the little soldier: "What time do you usually have breakfast?"

Little Soldier: "We usually have breakfast at 11 o'clock!"

Li Hao was stunned for a moment. How could it be eleven o'clock? So late?

The young soldier said: "We used to eat two meals a day, breakfast at 11 a.m. and dinner at 5 or 6 p.m. For two meals a day, we had very little rice or flour, and most of it was porridge, mainly pumpkin and sweet potato. These two days, we have food, so we changed to three meals a day, and each meal has steamed bread and corn bread, and we can eat pumpkin and sweet potato to our heart's content! The instructor said we can eat until the end of the Chinese New Year, and then change to two meals a day!"

Li Hao: "I am totally confused. I don't even know what day it is today. When will the Chinese New Year be?"

Little Soldier: "I know this. We just celebrated the Beginning of Winter two days ago. It's the fourth day of the tenth month of the lunar calendar now. It's still a long way to go before the Chinese New Year! Are you looking forward to the Chinese New Year too?"

Li Hao thought: In my later life, I don’t look forward to the Chinese New Year. Every Chinese New Year is my day of suffering. I have a lot of debts to pay off, and every time I am urged to get married by my parents and relatives in various ways! Do you know how I spent those years?

Li Hao: "Oh! What's on during the Chinese New Year?"

The little soldier said in surprise: "You didn't know? We can eat dumplings during Chinese New Year! Sometimes we can even eat candy!"

Li Hao thought: I know that I can eat dumplings and candies, and I also know that people in the south eat glutinous rice balls and rice cakes! But I didn’t know that you only thought about such simple happiness in your innocent hearts! As expected, when people grow up, they lose their innocence, and losing innocence means losing happiness!

Li Hao: "Oh, I also know how to put up door gods and Spring Festival couplets! I can also set off firecrackers!"

Little soldier: "Yes, yes, yes! But that's something only the landlords can afford. We usually just put up door gods and eat dumplings. If anyone has candies this year, I'll go to pay New Year's greetings and get one for you. You gave me all the candies yesterday, so I can give you one then."

Li Hao was so moved, what a simple child's words! However, it was this kind of purest emotion that touched people's hearts, and Li Hao was so moved that tears were about to fall!

This is the first friend that Li Hao has treated as an equal since he came to this age. Although Li Hao treated him as a child before, from this moment on, he also has to treat his new friend equally!

Li Hao: "Thank you, but I don't like candy. It would be nice if I could have walnuts or dried persimmons. I like those! Do you have any?"

Little Soldier: "No, but why don't you like candy?"

Li Hao: "It's mainly because I eat too much! I used to beat up a bully, and his family sold candy! I got a lot of candy, and I couldn't finish it no matter how much I ate. Now my teeth hurt when I eat candy, so I dare not eat too much!"

Little soldier: "Will eating too much candy cause toothache? I don't know about that. I haven't eaten much candy, but including the one you gave me yesterday, I've eaten it six or seven times in total! Yesterday I ate half a piece, kept the other half, and gave the rest to my friends. They all said your candy was the sweetest and most delicious!"

Li Hao: "Eating too much candy will not only cause toothache, but also tooth decay! Then you have to find someone to pull out the tooth with pliers, which is very painful! Have you ever seen a stall that pulls out teeth at the market?"

Young soldier: "I haven't seen it. I went to the market with my father once when I was six or seven years old. Later, my parents died in the war, and I followed the captain and the team all the time, walking and walking. Basically, we rested during the day and marched with them on their backs at night. Later, we came to this mountain. When we got here, we always had to fight. No one took me out, so I never saw the market again!"

Hearing him say this, Li Hao estimated that the young soldier's father might have died in northern Shaanxi. Captain Li took him across the Yellow River to the Taihang Mountains, established a revolutionary base step by step, and then brought him to this area to develop revolutionary armed forces. So the young soldier is an old revolutionary!

Li Hao: "My name is Li Hao, I am 15 years old. What's your name? How old are you this year?"

Young soldier: "My name is Dong Hongjun, and I'm 14 years old this year."

Li Hao: "Then we are brothers. I want to ask you a favor, is that okay?"

Dong Hongjun: "That's definitely possible, tell me!"

Li Hao: "You know I like to eat walnuts and dried persimmons, but I don't like to eat candy, right? But I have a lot of candy but no dried persimmons or walnuts. Can you help me ask which friend has them at home, so we can exchange them for candy!"

Dong Hongjun: "I need to ask someone about this. These things are very valuable to the villagers. Usually, they are used to visit relatives at home. They are usually hidden tightly to prevent mice or children from stealing them."

Li Hao: "There's no rush, just pay attention. I'll get you a few more candies. I usually put some in my pocket, but sometimes I forget to finish them, and I don't know where they are when I run and jump."

As he said this, he took out some candies from the space and pretended to take them out from his pocket.

This was just a thought that I exchanged from the system mall. Li Hao had not paid attention to these simply packaged loose sugar cubes before. Just now, they were not expensive. The price of a large bag was not much more expensive than rock sugar, but the packaging was much larger. A wholesale package of 20 kg only cost 35 points, which was much more cost-effective than buying small packages of rock sugar. Is the difference between wholesale and retail so big? Next time, I can go to the mall to search to see if there are large packages of loose rock sugar and white sugar, and see how much the price difference is!

Dong Hongjun blushed immediately: "I don't want to eat your candy, I still have more!"

Li Hao: "I know, I still have some!" He then rummaged through his pockets and took out a handful of cash.

Dong Hongjun: "Brother Hao, you have so many candies. This candy is wrapped in candy paper, it looks really nice!"

Li Hao: "What's the point of looking good? Aren't they all for eating?"

Dong Hongjun: "You can put them away after eating, and fold them into flowers and wear them on your head during the Chinese New Year!"

Li Hao: "You are not a girl, why would you wear flowers?"

Dong Hongjun: "I am a girl, why can't I wear flowers?"

Li Hao: "........."

It was then that he noticed the messy long hair under Dong Hongjun's hat. He thought that the conditions in the village were limited and he couldn't get a haircut. He saw that the hair of several children on duty at the entrance of the village was not short, so he subconsciously thought that they were all boys! And listen to the name Dong Hongjun, it sounds like a boy, right? In fact, he didn't know that his name was Dong Hongjun, and he thought it was the word "Red Army" when he heard the name. Now, brothers have become besties!

We finally know why he has been single for so many years!

Li Hao thought: I thought so! Captain Li went through so much trouble to bring Dong Hongjun from northern Shaanxi. He probably treated Dong Hongjun as his own daughter and was definitely worried about leaving his own cabbage alone in northern Shaanxi. If he returned to northern Shaanxi many years later and saw that his cabbage was eaten by wild boars from nowhere, he would probably be so angry that he would explode with a machine gun. So he had to keep her under his nose to watch over her!