Affection for Sidaogou during the Famine

The two girls nibbled on half a piece of steamed bread in their hands, chewing it slowly and eating some pickled radish with their meal.

It’s not that they suddenly became particular about etiquette, but they really didn’t know what was mixed in the steamed corn bread this time, and it was hard to swallow it without any preparation.

"Zhao Zhao, tell me, what kind of dough is used to make today's steamed bread? Why can't I taste it?"

"You ask me, but who should I ask? Anyway, our family has never made such steamed corn bread!" Han Zhaozhao was upset and had no intention of studying the raw materials of the steamed corn bread.

The grain station supplied coarse grains such as corn flour, sweet potato flour, sorghum flour and buckwheat flour. However, perhaps because the bottom of the granary was scratched, the grain had gone bad and moldy, and the taste was bad.

Ouch! Moldy food contains aflatoxin, which can easily cause poisoning!

Han Zhaozhao was frightened. He dropped the piece of steamed bread in his hand and refused to eat it no matter what.

If she doesn't live to be 99, she will try to live to be 88. She doesn't want to get cancer.

Some cancers are extremely painful after they occur. It’s too late for her to prevent them, but she won’t seek disease upon herself!

Niu Xiaoyun was puzzled: "Zhao Zhao, why don't you eat? You can't not eat enough. We still have to go up the mountain today. If you don't eat enough, you won't have the energy to work!"

But she knew that Han Zhaozhao's appetite was even bigger than hers. He could eat at least three steamed corn breads and four steamed buns in one meal, and he could still have a big bowl of vegetables!

"I can't eat anymore, this steamed bread is too hard, and one of my teeth is loose, I'm afraid it will fall off.

The porridge this morning is good. I'll get another bowl. It's better to drink more watery food!"

Everyone else was enjoying the food, would she dare to say she was afraid of poisoning? No! She wasn't that stubborn!

I can only talk about my own baby teeth.

Niu Xiaoyun chuckled, quickly picked up the steamed bread and held it in her hand, "If you don't want to eat it, I'll eat it for you. It just so happens that I'm not full!"

Be thick-skinned and eat enough!

She looked triumphantly at the three hands stretched out on the table, and took a big bite.

Han Zhaozhao was stunned and hurriedly tried to stop him, "Throw it away, I've already eaten it!"

She doesn't want to be poisoned herself, nor does she want to poison her friends!

Niu Xiaoyun chewed hard, shook her head, and only poured it out of her mouth after it was chewed into pieces, saying, "I don't mind you being dirty! From now on, whatever you can't eat, leave it to me."

In the past few days, most people have realized that something must have gone wrong and they have to save food again.

After eating full meals for more than a month, everyone's stomachs were bloated, and many people couldn't accept the sudden reduction in food intake.

Several old ladies at the same table complained about their grandchildren, "You are always fighting and making trouble, but you fail at the critical moment! Look at the girl from the Niu family, she is very considerate.

You guys hesitated when you should have taken action, so you deserved that you didn't get any good things. Humph, one by one, you can't even eat shit when it's hot."

Han Zhaozhao had a shallow stomach, and the food kept rushing up his throat. Without saying a word, he pushed his bowl in front of Niu Xiaoyun and ran out.

As soon as I ran out of the cafeteria, I couldn't help but vomit while holding onto the wall!

There was a pool of yellow and white water, and even the pear that he had been chewing in the space last night was vomited out.

Ugh, the taste of vomit is indescribable, sour with a hint of sweet, and a faint taste of pear.

Han Zhaozhao felt better after vomiting, but then she realized that the place she vomited was wrong. This was in front of the cafeteria, and she couldn't be so unethical!

He quickly ran to the trash basket at the back kitchen door and found a palm-sized piece of broken bowl pieces. He then dug a few handfuls of soil from the ground and tried to cover it up.

Why don't you use a shovel? Sorry, I don't have one. All the iron tools were burned in the steelmaking furnace!

At this moment, there was a "whoosh" sound, and a gust of wind blew past. A large khaki dog came out from somewhere, and started to lick her vomit with a "gulp gulp" sound.

Han Zhaozhao stood there stupidly holding the soil in his hands, watching the big yellow dog finish the food in a few bites, wag its tail happily a few times, and then walk away.

Where did this dog come from? She remembered that there was no one with a dog in the yard nearby.

Looking at the wet marks on the spot, Han Zhaozhao covered the dirt in his hands, spread it evenly with his feet, and stomped it flat.

"Zhao Zhao, why did you vomit? Are you sick?" Niu Xiaoyun came over with the bowls and chopsticks for two people.

“It’s okay, I have a small appetite, I was just disgusted by what the old lady said just now.

Let's go out later today. I'll go home and take a rest and boil some water."

After returning home, Han Zhaozhao boiled water in a clay pot, added two pieces of firewood to the stove, and went back into the house and entered the space.

He poured the walnuts in the sack into the yard to dry, then used a small electric rice cooker to cook himself a bowl of tomato and egg noodles. He ate all of it, drank all of it, and ate a big apple before coming out.

The walls of the ceramic pot are thick, the heat conduction is slow, and the heat preservation time is long, so it takes half an hour to boil.

Holding the pottery jar with the cotton gloves I made myself, I carefully filled two thermos bottles.

He took a pot of water, two sacks and a rope, and called Niu Xiaoyun to go up the mountain.

"Zhao Zhao, why haven't we arrived yet? How far is it? How did you find your way here yesterday?"

Niu Xiaoyun was panting and sweating profusely. She counted in her mind and realized that she had walked seven or eight miles but had not yet reached her destination.

"It's almost there. Just walk for another ten minutes and we'll be there after turning a corner!"

Twenty minutes later, following Han Zhaozhao through many twists and turns, we finally entered a small valley with a depth of two thousand meters.

"Zhao Zhao, why are there so many fruit trees here? Are they planted by others or are they wild?"

Niu Xiaoyun opened her eyes wide and looked at the tall persimmon trees growing scattered throughout the valley in surprise.

Centennial Persimmon Tree

Each tree is four or five feet thick and at least a hundred years old. It is late autumn, the leaves have fallen, and the trees are densely packed with persimmons. At a glance, the trees are orange and red!

"Get rich, get rich!"

Niu Xiaoyun had a silly smile on her face and murmured to herself. Suddenly, her expression froze and she asked cautiously, "Zhao Zhao, do these trees have owners? Can we pick some of them and take them home?"

This thing is so heavy, it's hard to carry it home. If we go through so much trouble to get it home and someone finds us, that would be terrible!"

Han Zhaozhao led her to turn over the thick leaves under the persimmon tree. Under the leaves was a thick layer of old dried persimmon shells.

“See these dried persimmon shells? I didn’t know this before, but no one must have come to pick persimmons in the past two years.

They were planted by others. They joined the cooperative in the past two years. It is so far away from the village, and the persimmons are not valuable. It is labor-intensive and time-consuming to transport them back, so they must have been abandoned. "

As he spoke, he led her to the walnut tree, put on gloves, bent down and started picking walnuts. Some of the walnuts had not been completely peeled off. Han Zhaozhao stepped on them, the skin cracked, and the walnuts came out.

"Don't worry about it. We don't need that many persimmons. They are too heavy to carry home. Let's pick up walnuts quickly!

Look at the thick layers of leaves and walnut barks under the tree. It must be that no one has been here for several years.

Walnuts are valuable and much lighter than persimmons. If someone really came here, they would definitely pick up the walnuts first.

Don't worry, everyone is busy making steel this year, and they don't have time to harvest the crops, let alone these dried fruits!"

Niu Xiaoyun also found a branch and pulled out the thick leaves under the tree to find walnuts, confirming that Han Zhaozhao's analysis was correct.

She had come such a long way, and she would not be willing not to take some of the good things from the valley home!