Affection for Sidaogou during the Famine

Han Zhaozhao put down his chopsticks, thought for a moment and said, "Grandma, we have to think of a way. Many people in the alley have caught wild ducks during this period of time, so we can deal with the strong-smelling meat.

I have to be careful when I cook. I will remember this and try to make the food smell less pungent.”

The old lady complained again, "This is the bad thing about living in the city. We live too close to each other, and if one family farts, the other family can smell what it is.

It’s not as good as my hometown in the Northeast, where every house has a big yard. We are far away, and once the door is closed, no one knows what we eat or drink.”

Han Zhaozhao smiled and said, "Grandma, you won't bring Zi with you when you go back to your hometown this time. Are you unwilling to come back?"

The old lady also laughed, "That can't be possible. Grandma can give up anything except my Zhao Zhao!"

"So you don't bear a grudge against me for always making you angry?"

The old lady laughed, "There's chaos everywhere and children are making noise. It wouldn't be lively without noise and commotion!

Life is all about vitality. It would be bad if it were like stagnant water in a bay with no movement at all!

I'm old, and life is meaningless without you jumping around and making noise around me!"

This is what the old lady really thinks. Her granddaughter was too well-behaved in the past, which deprived her of a lot of fun in entertaining children!

How good it is now! The child has become more active and playful, and has become more thoughtful. She no longer has to worry about being bullied when she goes out.

Well, it’s better for children to be a little naughty, because honest people will suffer!

Han Zhaozhao said shamelessly: "Then if I do something wrong in the future, please don't get really angry. Just quarrel with me, scold me a few times, and don't take it to heart. Only in this way can you live a long life!"

"Hehe, I didn't argue with you. I raised you, and you're wrong. Aren't you saying that I didn't raise you well?

I won't do stupid things that will make me contradict myself!

Besides, where can I find a kid as smart, sensible, and family-oriented as you? I searched all over East City and couldn't find anyone like you!"

"Hahaha! Grandma, you change your expression so quickly! You were just scolding me, and now you're bragging about yourself!"

The old lady snorted proudly: "What are you saying? As long as the melon sellers are not stupid, they will definitely not say that their melons are not good. How can they sell them? Won't they all be wasted?"

Han Zhaozhao smiled and gave her grandma a thumbs up, "Grandma, you are so smart!"

The old lady was amused and the grandparents and grandchildren were in a good mood. They prepared four dishes, a pot of porridge and five pancakes for the whole meal!

After the meal, both of them were too full to move.

"Don't mention it, the spinach at this time is quite delicious when eaten cold! Zhao Zhao, let's continue making it tomorrow! The spinach roots are pink and sweet when chewed, and they are delicious too!

You said I threw away the spinach roots when I was cooking before?"

The old lady regretted talking about the spinach roots, and then she said that the celery roots and coriander roots also had a special flavor when stir-fried dishes, so they should not be thrown away in the future.

Listening to the old lady teaching common sense in life, Han Zhaozhao felt calm and happy. Although she understood all this common sense, she felt at ease having a relative by her side to nag her in this strange world!

She was very glad that she didn't travel back in time and become an orphan surrounded by the best of the best. Compared to the intrigues and struggles of the best, she still preferred to have her family around her to rely on and accompany her.

Live a simple life and enjoy the life of ordinary people!

At night, Han Zhaozhao continued to go back to the space to plant sweet potatoes, and the old lady did needlework until half the night.

The closer it got to the time when she would return home, the more anxious she became, and no one knew what she was thinking.

The next morning, before daybreak, Han Zhaozhao had just washed up and was about to run to the park to practice boxing when the old lady hurriedly chased after him.

"Zhao Zhao, stay home and make breakfast today. Don't go out to practice boxing yet. Let's go to the morning market and buy some things."

The old lady went to the morning market, so Han Zhaozhao had to go into the kitchen to add water and light a fire to cook.

First put the steamer on the table, squeeze out the soaked dried vegetables, blanch the soybean grits, millet flour, and corn flour in boiling water, mix them into flocs, add the dried vegetables, pinch them into balls, and steam a basket of vegetable balls.

After half an hour of steaming, the steamed bread was cooked. He took out the steamer, washed the pot, changed the water, put in millet and cut pumpkin, and cooked a pot of millet and pumpkin porridge.

If the old lady cooked, she would not allow the water used to steam dry food to be changed. But Han Zhaozhao did not agree. In later generations, there was a saying that drinking water that was boiled thousands of times was unhealthy, and she believed it, so she never drank water that was boiled repeatedly again.

Later, an expert debunked the rumor, saying that it is okay to drink water that has been boiled thousands of times. However, she had already developed a habit of doing so. Besides, drinking water that has been boiled repeatedly always tastes strange, which may be a psychological effect. However, she could not change this habit.

But in this day and age, the water in the steamer always has a layer of white powdery scale, which is disgusting to look at, but she still can't help but scrub the pot and change the water.

The old lady saw this but disagreed. She thought that reboiling water was a waste of firewood and time, and that her granddaughter was being pretentious and fussy!

After the porridge was cooked, Han Zhaozhao cut some bacon and stewed a pot of dried beans and potatoes. He sprinkled some chives on them before serving. He then put out a lunch box for the old lady as her lunch.

Finally, she fried two large goose eggs, one for each of the grandparents and grandchildren.

Just as she put the food on the table, her grandmother came back on time.

When the old lady saw her granddaughter stewing vegetables and frying eggs, she opened her mouth to say something, but swallowed it back.

Oh! It's useless to say it, and it makes the child unhappy. She won't say it anymore. She should just rush to cook in the future!

“There are more buyers than sellers at the morning market now, and even wilted radishes and cabbages are being snapped up.

Zhaozhao, don't you know how much radish and cabbage cost now? One cent!

These people really dare to ask for a high price!

A cabbage can be sold for two or three cents! If I had known it could be sold at such a high price, I would have planted a few acres of cabbage and radish in the mountains last year, and I could have sold one acre for hundreds of yuan!"

Han Zhaozhao poured cold water on her, "Grandma, you planted so much, aren't you afraid that someone will find out and confiscate the crops we planted?"

The old lady chuckled and said, "Why aren't you afraid? Isn't it because you are afraid that we decided to stop?

I just feel unfair! The price is too high, it makes me nervous. "

Han Zhaozhao comforted her, "Why are you upset? There is only a small amount of land in our mountain, and how much is the total loss?

Aren't the farmers in the suburbs the ones who should be upset? Those vast tracts of fertile land, not to mention the loss of autumn crops, can free up one-tenth of the land to plant radishes and cabbages, and the farmers will become rich in one fell swoop! "

The old lady nodded repeatedly and said, "You are right, many people outside say this.

Alas, people don’t have foresight, who could have imagined that this situation would occur?

But then again, if someone had taken the grain harvest seriously last year, the grain wouldn’t have rotted in the fields, there wouldn’t be a famine now, and cabbage and radishes wouldn’t be sold at such high prices!”

Yes, every sip and every bite has a cause and effect!

Without man-made disasters, natural disasters would not have such destructive power!

If we could have harvested more food last autumn, the following three years would not have been so difficult.

At least, not so many people will starve to death!

Han Zhaozhao sighed. What's the point of thinking so much? They are just ordinary people. Just live your life well!

I think too much and have too many worries, but I don’t have the ability to solve them. Who should I show my sadness to?