Affection for Sidaogou during the Famine

Taking out two wild rabbits from the space and throwing them into the kitchen, Han Zhaozhao thought to herself, when her grandmother comes home and sees her granddaughter catching rabbits again, will she be willing to stew them and eat them?

The old lady was used to living frugally, and this lifestyle habit was inconsistent with her philosophy. She had to find a way to subtly make the old lady change it.

There was no way out. Unless her grandmother changed her lifestyle of eating too tightly, she would starve.

Since she started exercising, Han Zhaozhao felt that her appetite had increased greatly. If her family did not improve the quality of the food, it would affect her growth.

In the past few days, she only ate one dry food and one bowl of porridge for each meal as usual, which only made her half full. She ate two dry food and one bowl of porridge, which only made her 70% full at most.

In addition, she went up the mountain every day and her activity level increased, so she often couldn't make it to mealtime before her stomach started to rumble.

According to the ration book, their family only had 48 kilograms of food per month.

Including all coarse grains and fine grains, the grandparents and grandchildren have an average of 1.6 jin of food to eat every day.

Some people would certainly say that eight ounces of grain a day is definitely enough for a person to eat, so how can they not be full? People in later generations cannot even eat two ounces of rice in one meal.

At the beginning, Han Zhaozhao also thought so, but the reality could not be calculated that way.

People in later generations eat fruits, vegetables, meat, eggs, and milk in a full range of combinations, and also have a constant supply of various nuts and snacks. So they will not go hungry even if they don't eat grains.

People eat food not just to fill their stomachs, but to balance nutrition and obtain corresponding nutrients such as carbohydrates, dietary fiber, vitamins and minerals.

But in that era of material scarcity, a family that could eat a meal of stewed cabbage or radish a day was already considered to have a good standard of living.

Not to mention meat, eggs, milk, fruits, nuts, and various vegetable snacks. Not only ordinary people cannot afford them, even our national leaders cannot afford such high standards of food.

Not only did people not have enough food in their stomachs, but they could not even get a drop of oil or water on a daily basis.

They are also unlike people in later generations who do not move much after eating a full meal and consume less energy.

Nowadays, almost everyone does manual labor and doesn't get much food. They work hard and consume energy quickly, so isn't there enough food to eat?

In her family, with a pound of corn flour, without adding any vegetables or other wheat bran or soybean meal, they can only make four steamed buns as big as a fist.

One pound and six ounces of grain can only make six steamed buns if all of it is made into steamed bread.

Not to mention Han Zhaozhao, the portion was barely enough for the old lady alone, and even with that, the old lady was only about 80% full.

What's more, we have to save some food for breakfast and dinner to make some porridge to fill our stomachs. If the food is not enough, we have to at least have enough water to fill our stomachs.

Han Zhaozhao's appetite is no less than her grandmother's now. Given the current food standard in their family, if she wants to eat her fill, she needs at least four kilograms of grain a day.

Even though their family had just secretly bought 200 kilograms of food, if they really ate as much as they wanted, the grandparents and grandchildren wouldn't be able to survive for even two months.

It was precisely because he had experienced the feeling of hunger that Han Zhaozhao was even more afraid of the difficult three years that would follow.

Now they only eat until they are 70% full, and both the grandparents and grandchildren are so thin. If they can't even guarantee this standard of living, they will soon become paper people.

In his previous life, Han Zhaozhao had read reports about paper people on the Internet. They looked like dead bodies, like breathing zombie skeletons. It was terrifying!

Regardless of whether it looks good or not, the key point is that when a person is hungry to a certain extent, the body has no resistance and can easily get sick and die if one is not careful.

Han Zhaozhao doesn't want to die. Traveling through time is an adventure that billions of people can't get. She is extremely lucky, so she must cherish what she has obtained.

Since she was a child, she has believed in a saying: It is better to live a miserable life than to die a good death!

Life has infinite possibilities, but when you die, you will just burp in the cold, and there will be no place to cry if you want to regret!

Why is Han Zhaozhao not in a hurry to go to school, but instead runs outside every day, trying every means to get everything to eat for such a small child?

To be honest, she is afraid of death!

Not only was she afraid of starving to death, she was also afraid that the old lady would starve to death! If she had the energy to spare, she also wanted to quietly help the people around her.

Grandpa Guan, Xiao Sanzi, Xiao Minge, Xiao Yun... those who have really helped her, and her friends, she hopes that all the good people around her can safely survive the disaster and live well!

It's not just a simple outburst of saintly heart, but she has no choice, humans are social animals!

It’s impossible not to help!

Just think about it, by that time, everyone around them would be so hungry that they would be blown away by a gust of wind, but the two of them, the grandparents and grandchildren, would be plump and rosy-cheeked with food. Wouldn't that arouse suspicion?

In this chaotic society, anyone who does something a little bit out of line will easily be targeted.

There is no young and middle-aged man in her family, and she is an elderly widow alone. If someone reports you, you may be accused of something.

At the very least, they will accuse you of undermining socialism, stealing, embezzlement, etc., and say that you are what you are, without giving you any chance to defend yourself.

If the case is serious, you might be charged with a serious crime like being a spy, and be shot without knowing it, with no way to seek justice.

The more chaotic the world is, the scarier people are! Especially when you are targeted by people around you, all your actions will be magnified, and every move will be over-interpreted by others. Keeping your mouth shut may be a serious crime. Such a living environment will make you have no way to escape, no way to avoid, and you can only accept your fate and die unjustly.

At night, under the attack of Han Zhaozhao's magic sound, the old lady finally killed the two rabbits and yesterday's pheasant.

The rabbit was smeared with salt and hung under the main beam of the warehouse to dry, so that it could be eaten later. The pheasant was stewed with a pot of potatoes and eight pancakes were made.

The old lady also noticed that her granddaughter's appetite had increased in the past few days, "Zhao Zhao, I think it's time for you to eat a big meal!

If you are not full, you must tell your grandma that people only have one chance to have a good meal in their lifetime.

When your grandfather was fifteen years old, he was growing taller and ate a lot of big meals. He ate a whole bucket of stewed Spanish mackerel and a basket of sweet potato dumplings in one go.

Even so, he later said that he was not full, and he was still talking about it before he died!"

Han Zhaozhao: "Is my grandpa such a big eater? Can my family afford to feed him? Isn't it said that my hometown in Shandong is quite poor?"

She asked three soul-searching questions in surprise!

The old lady said: "That's right! Your grandfather was working for the landlord at that time. He was so hungry that he ate up all the lunch of the landlord's family.

He was beaten so badly that time! It is said that he had to lie on the kang for more than half a month before he could get up.

So your grandfather regretted it later. If he had known that he would not be able to escape the beating, he would have tried his best to drink half of the porridge in the landlord's pot.

That was the only time in his life that he felt full. Later, I asked him how full he was, and he said he was only about 80%. If he drank half a pot of porridge, he would definitely know what it felt like to be full and stuffed.

The old lady's tone was very calm, without any resentment or anger towards her old life. When she talked about her husband's past suffering, it was as if she was talking about someone else. Han Zhaozhao didn't hear any nostalgia from her grandmother for her grandfather.

Could it be that the old couple, husband and wife, had no feelings for each other? Han Zhaozhao really didn't understand the feelings of people of this era.

Han Zhaozhao: "My grandfather is obsessed! However, for a meal, he was beaten and unable to move for more than half a month. This price is too high!"