nycdaug Chapter 315 He knew that there was still justice in this world
Chapter 315 He knew that there was still justice in this world
Due to the disaster, the autumn grain harvests across the country were not ideal.
The late rice yield per mu in Zhoujiawan is only 500 jin, and this is the yield that was maintained only after everyone scrambled for water and Zhang Xiuying used every possible means to mix pesticides.
The yield per mu in many places did not exceed 300 kilograms, and in the severely affected areas, there was not even a single harvest.
Due to drought in summer and autumn, the sweet potatoes grew very small and the yield was far lower than in previous years.
The food gap is widening again...
Public canteens in many places are currently using methods such as "replacing vegetables with vegetables, two liquids and one dry food" to save food.
That is, replace grains with fruits and vegetables, and replace staple foods with side dishes.
For example, high-yield sweet potatoes, carrots, and white radishes are used instead of grains as staple food, and in some places, corn stalks are ground into powder and used as staple food.
However, this method of "using vegetables instead of the main dish" or "using side dishes instead of the main dish" still could not solve the problem of food expenditure exceeding income. Everyone was not able to eat enough every day and complained bitterly.
In order to solve the problem of food shortage, public canteens in various places almost simultaneously started to work on the "food increase method".
Some places have created the experience of using one pound of corn to steam five pounds of steamed buns, breaking the old custom that corn can only be used to make steamed buns and drink porridge, and improving its utilization rate.
Some places also invented "Yuejin Cake" and "Double-steamed Rice", which is to steam bowls of rice in a steamer, and then add water to steam it a second time, which makes the volume look a lot bigger.
However, the rice cooked using this “incremental method” has one thing in common: it will not make you feel hungry.
People were not full in the canteen and wanted to go home to cook, but they found it difficult to buy a set of pots and pans because these daily industrial products were out of stock...
Since May, the Jiangcheng Municipal Committee has proposed to unify thinking, concentrate efforts, and take measures to grow large amounts of vegetables, raise pigs, fish, chickens, and ducks, and develop the production of non-staple foods and daily industrial products in response to the tight supply of non-staple foods and daily industrial products that began in the second quarter.
The tension was relieved to a certain extent, but the supply was still less than the demand. All the goods in the market began to be supplied with tickets, such as meat tickets, egg tickets, lard tickets, cigarette tickets, wine tickets, cloth shoes tickets, water bottle tickets, and even to buy a bench, you needed a bench ticket...
(Water bottle ticket)
(Bench ticket)
(Soap Ticket)
The supply in Jiangcheng was relatively normal in the first half of the year, and rice could be bought at grain stores. After the autumn harvest, the supply of rice became tight.
Although the monthly food ration amount has not changed, the contents are different. Food rations have begun to be mixed with coarse grains, such as barley flour, corn flour, sorghum flour, and three-grain flour.
For the people in Jiangcheng who mainly eat rice, eating rice is considered a meal.
Making dumplings and cooking noodles are all called eating noodles.
In the past, everyone has only seen flour, but they didn’t know that things like barley, buckwheat, corn, and sorghum can also be eaten as meals.
The rice currently available in the market is mainly brown rice, which costs 10.8 cents per pound. Everyone calls it "10.80".
This kind of rice is reddish, and the cooked rice becomes loose, so it doesn’t taste good even if you cook it into porridge.
When Zhou Rong was queuing up to buy rice, he heard people whispering that brown rice like this was usually stored in the grain warehouse for two or three years, and now it was being sold, and he didn't know where the rice that produced tens of thousands of kilograms per mu last year went...
Even if it is brown rice, you can't buy as much as you want. You have to buy it together with whole grains, and buy mostly whole grains, otherwise the people in the grain store will not sell it.
On average, people can only eat rice a few days a month, and the rest of the time they mainly eat various noodles.
In the past, rice was supplied in small quantities by grain stores. If there were infants or patients at home, you could buy a little bit with a note from the neighborhood committee, or you could buy it on the black market at a high price.
Although Zhou Rong was transferred to the Industrial and Commercial Bureau, he did not receive any preferential treatment in terms of food supply.
In order to let the children know the hardships of life, Zhou Rong's family ate what everyone else ate, and only added snacks occasionally to prevent the children from malnutrition.
The school mainly feeds on various grains. Zhou Jiaguang and Dawa can never get enough to eat at school every day. They have to eat two bowls of porridge after coming back in the evening.
Sometimes when I go out in the morning, I would stuff two corn cakes into my schoolbag to prevent myself from being hungry at noon.
Barley flour is not as fine as wheat flour, so it cannot be rolled into noodles and can only be cooked into dumplings.
Add water to barley flour to make a semi-thin batter. Like frying dumplings, use a spoon to put them one by one into a pot of boiling water. Cook them into a paste and add some vegetable leaves.
Those who can afford it will add some oil, while those who don’t will just add some salt and start eating.
Zhou Jiaguang sighed while cooking barley flour porridge, and Zhou Rong asked him what was wrong.
Zhou Jiaguang: "Sister, I've never seen this kind of powder for sale in the market before, how come there are so many of them all of a sudden this year?
I don’t know where the people in the grain store got so much barley flour, sorghum flour, and corn flour.
I would eat a big bowl of this porridge each time and it would be digested after going to the toilet a few times. Every day at school, I would be so hungry that I couldn't wait until the end of the school.
And the cornmeal baba is so hard to swallow. I feel like my throat will get ruined if I eat it a few more times.”
Zhou Rong: "Many places have been hit by disasters this year and the grain harvest has failed. It's good enough to have these things to fill our stomachs.
I heard that people in the worst-hit areas are eating tree bark and leaves. You should be thankful that you live in the city, and thank our city government for doing everything they can to provide food for everyone."
Zhou Jiaguang: "I know. The teacher told us to save food so that we can save food for the disaster-stricken areas. But I can't go to the toilet recently. It's so uncomfortable."
Meat is now supplied with tickets, with each person getting one pound of meat per month. But whether you can buy meat depends on luck. If you go too late, you may not even be able to buy the leftovers.
Having not eaten meat for a week, Zhou Rong knew that Zhou Jiaguang was constipated.
"I'll go to the market early tomorrow to see if I can buy some meat or chicken to make soup for you."
Zhou Jiaguang was delighted: "Thank you, big sister!"
Seeing that Zhou Rong seemed to be in a good mood today, Nini took her hand and said coquettishly, "Mom, my mouth tastes bad. I want to eat candy. I really want to eat it."
Zhou Rong: "Wash your clothes and clean your shoes later, and I will reward you with a candy."
Nini: “…Okay.”
Erwa: "Mom, I want to eat too."
Zhou Rong: "Go to the water room and fetch some water to fill up the water tank."
Erwa: “No problem!”
In November, in accordance with the instructions of the Central Committee and the provincial and municipal committees on removing the label of "Y faction members", the relevant departments organized special forces and established a leadership body. After going through stages such as policy publicity, universal identification, investigation and queuing, research and approval, more than 11 people were removed from the label of "Y faction members".
It accounts for 5.2% of the total number of people classified as "Y faction" in the city.
Comrades who have been removed from the "Y faction" label will continue to undergo labor reform, and only a few who have "better reformed and have special work needs will be assigned appropriate work after approval by the higher-level party committee."
Meng Anpu took this opportunity to join forces with several friends to help Dong Huiru appeal.
After going through layers of approval, Dong Huiru was removed from the Y faction, but he still needed to gain experience in the countryside.
Despite this, Dong Huiru was still very happy. He held the organization's approval documents and the letter written to him by Meng Anpu, tears streaming down his face.
He knew that there was still justice in this world...