Affection for Sidaogou during the Famine

This lock weighs nearly half a pound, and it should be worth a few dollars if it is sold as scrap copper, right? But her grandmother used it on the kitchen cabinet.

Fortunately, life is not rich nowadays and we can only eat meat once or twice a month. If it were in the future, with the living conditions being poor and no range hood, our house would be covered with grease in a month.

This copper lock has a simple and rustic design. It is opened and closed several times a day. Well, it has been polished by her grandmother to a shiny patina, and it is also very eye-catching in the dimly lit kitchen.

This means to guard against gentlemen but not villains. With such a naked big lock, you can know where the most valuable things in the house are hidden as soon as you enter the door. If a thief really comes to steal things, the target is very clear!

After opening the cabinet door, Han Zhaozhao discovered that the cabinet was designed with five layers, upper and lower.

The top two layers are not locked and are used to store clean plates, bowls, chopsticks, spoons and other tableware.

The bottom three floors were locked, and the bottom floor had several jars filled with staple foods such as rice, millet, noodles, and cornmeal.

There are several wooden boxes on the middle layer, which contain sorghum rice, red beans, mung beans, peanuts, sesame and other grains.

The top layer is a few small jars and wine bottles, which contain oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, sugar, and some miscellaneous seasonings such as pepper, star anise, cinnamon, etc.

Han Zhaozhao first looked at the peanuts. There were only about two pounds of large peanuts with skins.

It was too small. If she grabbed too much, her grandmother would find out. So Han Zhaozhao only grabbed a small handful, about five or six peanuts, which produced about ten kernels.

There was about one pound of red beans, and she had eaten too many mung beans in the summer, so only half a pound was left. There was a handful of sesame seeds, about two ounces. She counted these grains and decisively grabbed a small handful each and put them into her left and right pockets.

However, the staple food she wanted most disappointed her. All the food at home was processed. The rice and millet were husked, the corn and noodles were all flour, and even the sorghum rice was husked.

There is no way to grow this! Han Zhaozhao thought: Where can I get staple food seeds? It seems that I have to go to the streets to look.

Touching the few seeds in his pocket, Han Zhaozhao felt a little unwilling and looked through them carefully again. There were indeed no other seeds that could be planted in the cabinet.

By the way, the pepper seeds are dried, so they should be able to sprout, right? I dug up the peppers and took out a handful of the black, oily seeds that fell from the bottom and put them in a small bowl. I also pinched out a handful of star anise seeds and put them in the small bowl as well.

She is from the north, where there are no star anise trees. She heard that star anise must be boiled in boiling water after being harvested.

Normally, seeds heated by high-temperature boiling water will not germinate, but the heating process is very short, only five to ten minutes. If there are some seeds that slip through the net and are not boiled thoroughly, they may sprout.

Han Zhaozhao decided to give it a try. It didn't matter whether there were any jujubes or not. There was no loss anyway. If it survived, her family would never have to worry about not having star anise in the future.

After putting the jars and cans in the cupboard back in place, Han Zhaozhao locked the cupboard door, took three sweet potatoes from the basket in the corner, went into the cellar and found a small pile of potatoes, picking out five with dense buds.

There were three pumpkins, a pile of sweet potatoes, and a pile of turnips in the cellar, but nothing else in stock.

Although Han Zhaozhao looked at the big pumpkin with envy, she didn't dare to touch it. Her grandmother valued food very much, and she hadn't planned to eat the pumpkin yet. If she cut it open, her grandmother would be angry, and she was the kind that was hard to appease.

Sooner or later these pumpkins will be eaten and the seeds will be obtained. Han Zhaozhao also kept calm and took the basket out of the cellar.

As soon as he entered the space, Han Zhaozhao fixed the clothesline that had not been finished last night and put the bedding on it to dry first.

She put away the tools in the yard and went to the warehouse to get the hoe, shovel and ditching tool that she often used in her previous life.

I chose a piece of land close to the yard, prepared the ridges, dug furrows, and planted the shelled peanuts.

Red beans and mung beans were planted in one row each, sesame seeds were planted in four rows, Sichuan pepper was planted in a small plot, and star anise was planted in a small plot.

The last three sweet potatoes were laid flat and covered with soil for seedling cultivation. The potatoes were cut into small pieces according to the buds and planted on the ridges 20 centimeters apart.

This is the second batch of seeds in her space. After they grow and mature, Han Zhaozhao decides not to rush to eat them, as sustainable development is the key.

She wants their fathers to give birth to sons, their sons to give birth to grandchildren, and their descendants to be endless!

There would soon be a steady supply of new crops in the space, prosperity was just around the corner, and her family's future was bright.

In this era, she couldn't even talk about becoming rich and powerful, but having enough food and drink was a foregone conclusion, and she was no longer afraid of being hungry.

After planting the seeds, Han Zhaozhao carried a bucket of space water and left the space.

There was only half a tank of water left in the kitchen, so it was time to get some water. In view of the magical function of space water, she did not plan to replace all the drinking water in the house with space water immediately.

She wanted to play it safe, step by step. This month she would add half a bucket every day, and next month she would add a bucket every day, so as to improve the water quality at home imperceptibly.

Let her breastfeeding gradually improve her physical fitness and become healthier and healthier without her noticing.

She had never thought of telling her grandmother about the space. It wasn't that she didn't trust her or that she had no conscience. She still had some reservations about her only relative.

She was a time traveler who had experienced the previous life, and her thoughts were completely different from those of people of this era.

Asking her to risk her life to help others was something she really couldn't do. She didn't deny that no matter what time it was, she was always petty-bourgeois, selfish, and just wanted to live her life peacefully.

She can try to occasionally help people around her who she thinks deserve help, without affecting her own life.

If she is asked to help others all the time, take pleasure in helping others, and put others before herself, she really can't do it.

Everyone has to pay for his own actions. There are many pitiful people in the world. Those who don’t work hard and expect others to help them with everything are bound to be eliminated by society.

She was afraid of trouble, especially! She had lived a long time and had seen everything. The human heart was deeper than the sea! There must be something hateful about pitiful people, and this saying touched her heart.

Although her grandmother spoke tough, she was actually soft-hearted. When her parents were alive, the family had few people and lived better than other large families with 10 or 20 people. Her grandmother helped her relatives in her hometown and neighbors a lot.

Her parents are gone, and her family back home hasn’t heard the letter, so I don’t know how they’re reacting now.

But the neighbors! … ​​They just came to take a look at the beginning, just to go through the motions and offer some comfort.

When they came, they just opened their mouths and said that if there was any problem in the future, just give us a call and everyone would come to help.

The words were nice, but in reality they were useless. He didn't return the money and things that her grandmother had lent him, saying that he was short of money and would give them some time.

Han Zhaozhao scoffed at this. Her family had encountered such a big problem but they didn't try to pay the debt. In the future, there would be only a widow left in the family. She would be of no use to them and their relationship would only become more distant. Is there any future for them?

However, after this incident, two families that stood out from the crowd were discovered in the alley: the Niu family and the Li family.

In the past, no matter how difficult their situation was, they never came to ask for help. When her family was in trouble, they didn't say anything sweet, but quietly helped her family transport coal, sweep the yard and change the couplets...

I have done all the heavy and miscellaneous work. It is better to do one thing than to say a hundred words! Han Zhaozhao kept it in mind and will report back one by one when he has the chance.

As for other families, meeting them again is just a matter of face, and we are just irrelevant acquaintances.

Han Zhaozhao knew that after this incident, her grandmother had a clear idea of ​​who was good and who was bad.

However, now that life at home was good and people came to her house and acted pitiful, Han Zhaozhao was not sure whether her grandmother would be soft-hearted again.