Dreaming of Lion Rock: Recipe in Hand

Due to the loss of one season's harvest, the people living around Lion Rock had to tighten their belts and live frugally. Harvesting sweet potatoes became their only hope for survival.

The villagers, including Chunni's family, became thinner. When the team leader announced to dig sweet potatoes, everyone's eyes seemed to be filled with stars and hope.

Chunni was also very happy.

Cut the sweet potato vines, dig the sweet potatoes, wipe off the mud on the sweet potatoes, and then carry them back to the drying dam one by one.

The team leader made very clear arrangements. The villagers performed their duties in an orderly manner, with smiles on their weathered faces.

With sweet potatoes, this famine is finally over!

Chunni and Yunshu were assigned the task of spreading sweet potato puree, and Donglin still followed Chunni.

Even during the summer solstice holiday, we were assigned to cut sweet potato vines. As a strong laborer, He Yanqing was assigned by the team leader to pick sweet potatoes. He was quite happy, for these busy people and for the land that feeds millions of people.

The cold weather can't stop people's enthusiasm for the harvest!

"Chun Ni, this year's sweet potatoes are quite big. Look at mine." Yun Shu was in a good mood and picked up the sweet potato in his hand and showed it to Chun Ni.

"It's quite big. This year's sweet potato harvest is good!"

Chunni took a look at the thumb-sized sweet potato in her hand, quickly cleaned it, and handed the sweet potato to Donglin, who was drooling with greed.

Dong Lin took it quickly, put it into his mouth impatiently, chewed it, and nodded with satisfaction.

Yun Shu poked Dong Lin's chubby little face in amusement, intending to tease him.

The little kid had never seen any good food, but he thought this kind of raw sweet potato was delicious.

Seeing this, Chunni poked Donglin's other cheek decisively. Sure enough, it was still symmetrical and beautiful.

"Dong Lin, how did you turn into a little cat?" He Yanqing happened to pass by, and seeing injustice, he drew his sword to help.

Dong Lin looked at He Yanqing blankly, having no idea what he was talking about.

"Puchi, Dong Lin is so cute, so cute." Yun Shu continued to destroy the little flowers of the motherland with her dirty hands.

"Xiao Donglin, why don't you be Sister Yun's younger brother? I love you!" Yun Shu felt deeply regretful when he thought of his naughty little brother at home.

Why didn't she teach her little brother to be like Dong Lin when he was young? What a pity, what a pity.

Dong Lin didn't want to change his sister, so he decisively left Yun Shu and hid behind Chun Ni. He whispered to Chun Ni: "Sister, what should I do? Everyone likes me so much. But, sister, don't worry, I will be yours in life and yours in death!"

Chunni...

Yun Shu...

He Yanqing...

"Lackneck!" Only Qiu Guo took a sip.

Dong Lin puffed out his chest and said proudly: "I am just my elder sister's lackey, what can you do to me?"

Qiuguo was also speechless!

"Hahaha, Dong Lin is so cute!" Yun Shu's laughter could be heard from far away.

Chunni looked at Donglin with satisfaction, but her hands kept moving.

Dong Lin received the signal from his elder sister, and walked around Chunni and the others with his head held high.

"What a little flatterer." Qiu Guo looked at Dong Lin with contempt, said something to Chun Ni, and went back home.

She is going back to make lunch.

"Lion Mountain is a really nice place, with mountains and water, but it's too poor." Perhaps because he was about to return to the city, Yun Shu actually felt reluctant to leave Lion Mountain.

"Yes! Too poor!" Chunni had long been thinking about the future of Lion Rock. Seeing her uncles working from dawn to dusk and only being able to make ends meet, Chunni felt bad.

But now it is still a collective economy, and there is no room for maneuver in many things.

Just wait until the household contract responsibility system is implemented.

Now, Chunni had some ideas in her mind, but it was not convenient for her to tell Yunshu.

The sweet potato yield was good, and the government had already exempted this year's public grain. As soon as the sweet potatoes came up, Yang Anzhang distributed them.

If we don’t divide them, some families will go without food!

The sweet potatoes were distributed according to the public quota, and the deathly silent Lion Rock began to regain its vitality.

Yang Anzhang also organized each household to hand over their share of rabbits to the brigade headquarters.

Those who had surrendered five adult rabbits were naturally very happy. The remaining rabbits were theirs, and it would be nice to kill one for the adults and children to satisfy their cravings!

Several families ate all their breeding rabbits when they were hungriest.

What could Yang Anzhang do? He could only record these cases and criticize them at the village meeting.

Those families were so embarrassed that their faces turned red like monkey butts.

There was no other way, so Yang Anzhang found families with extra rabbits and moved some of them away to fill the hole.

Yang Anzhang has long seen the benefits of raising rabbits, and he is even thinking about raising some again next year!

We can't block the road.