Chapter 587: Starving

Auntie, you just have too soft a heart, and you won't be happy when you meet someone who is in difficulty at home.

Not only does it not cost money to treat a doctor, but also puts medicinal herbs in it.

The mung beans are not easy to exchange now, there is a shortage of food everywhere, and the price of a pound of mung beans is not low.

The aunt was too generous, and directly gave him no money. ”

When the three members of the Liu family left, Xuemei and Yufen came over to complain.

"Then Uncle Liu is really picky, my aunt said no, he really didn't give it, and he knew to take advantage."

Qiao Lian smiled and shook her head, "What kind of identity are we, we are doctors who save lives and help the wounded, we have to be a little compassionate."

The Liu family is also difficult, don't look at this little medicinal material at most three or four cents, but for their family, it is of great use.

Forget it, I haven't given away medicine for free once or twice, as long as I can help them, it's enough. ”

"Our health center has medical subsidies from superiors, and it is not bad for those who are three cents or two cents, and it is most important to be able to help people.

The Liu family is also poor and afraid, horses are thin and long, people are poor and short-minded, this is an old saying.

If you don't have money in your pocket, you feel empty, and when you hear me say that you don't want money, you naturally don't dare to say anything else but to leave quickly, which is also human nature, nothing. ”

The rural clinic is like this, unlike the big hospitals, Qiaolian is used to it, and she doesn't feel like it.

The early summer of June 1 was the most difficult year in the past.

The little grain distributed in the winter has long been eaten, the crops in the field have only grown and have not yet tasseled, most of the wild vegetables on the mountains are old, and many families have no food to eat.

The commune's grain reserves used part of the seedlings, and there was not much left.

At this time, there was no way, so they could only share the grain and bean cakes, sweet potato noodles and the like from Qiaolian and his wife, and each family divided some to solve the siege.

However, what about the six or seven hundred households in Daying Commune, what can they do with less than 10,000 catties of grain? If a family can divide more than ten catties of grain, it is already very good.

How can such a little grain be enough to eat the new grain in the last autumn? I had no choice but to think of another way.

Eat as much as you can, and leave food for the family laborers.

People who really have no choice but to go into the mountains, pick up some elm bark, come back and dry it and put it on the mill to crush.

The elm bark is dried and hard, how can it be so easy to crush? The upside-down stone mill rattled.

I don't know how much work it took to launch the elm bark noodles.

This is also a good thing, and it should be mixed with bran, rice bran or wild vegetables.

Fortunately, at the end of June, the early potatoes planted in the gardens of each family were almost gone, so they didn't care about them and hurriedly dug them out.

The big ones were dried and received in the warehouse to eat slowly, and the small ones could not be let go, picking up a basket of soil and carrying it to the river, just shaking the basket vigorously in the water.

The tender skin of fresh potatoes is easily worn and faded, and after scrubbing, they are brought home.

Cut chopped green onions in the pot and stir-fry the small potatoes, then add soup and stew.

Regardless of those, the family held a bowl and fished out the boiled potatoes, but they could have a full meal.

The early beans in the vegetable garden came down, picked and washed, and cut them into small pieces with a knife.

Put aside a little noodles and mix well, boil a pot of boiling water and pour it into it to boil, add a little salt and chopped green onions out of the pot when cooked, when the pimple soup is drunk, you can also mix a full stomach.

These things are quite fresh when eaten once in a while, but if you eat them every day, it is also greasy enough.

But what can you eat if you don't eat? Food has to be reserved for the people who make the effort, women and children, and they can only deal with it in this way and not starve.

After that, June and July passed, and in August, at this time, in the small barren land of each family, the buds planted could almost be gnawed green.

Although there was a lot of loss in that hailstorm, there are still some left.

The people who were really hungry finally couldn't bear it anymore, gritted their teeth, and went into the field to break down a dozen rods of bud rice.

grinned in distress while breaking it, and then endured the distress, picked up the bud rice and threw it into the pot to cook.

The tender corn is cooked, and a sweet fragrance fills the nose, making people can't help but sniff.

I can't wait to fish it out, and it doesn't matter if it's hot or not, everyone in the family holds this stick of bud rice and gnaws it like this.

The fresh and sweet corn kernels enter the mouth, and you feel the long-lost flavor of grain, which is really satisfying.

"Mom, why does our bud feel so delicious? It seems to be very sweet, and it is a little sticky, and it tastes very delicious. ”

The Qu family is no exception, Qiao Lian boiled a pot of bud rice to satisfy the children's hunger.

Jiajun, the leather child, was eating and chattering, as if his own bud was different, sweeter than the bud in the field.

"You're hungry, aren't you? It's all the same thing, what's the difference?

Eat it, don't think about it so much, as long as you have something to eat, it doesn't matter if it's sweet or not? ”

Qiao Lian also took a stick of bud rice in her hand to gnaw, and when she heard her son's words, she replied casually.

He said so on his lips, but he didn't think so in his heart.

It was a new variety of sticky sweet corn that she specially exchanged from the system, which was specially designed to gnaw green bud rice.

At the beginning of spring, she planted about 200 trees in her garden, but fortunately, she was lucky, only a few were hit by hailstones.

Now it's a good time for this sticky sweet corn to be broken off and boiled for the child to eat.

The children didn't know the trick inside, but they only felt that their bud rice was particularly delicious, so they ate it one after another, and they really took gnawing bud rice as a meal.

Qiaolian doesn't care about those, anyway, the ones grown at home are enough to eat many times, so let the children eat them.

The newly cooked corn can not only be boiled and eaten directly, but also used to cook porridge.

Boil water in a pot, wipe the new bud rice down with a grater, drop it into the pot and boil, it is fresh corn porridge, the taste is sweet and delicious, and it is also the favorite of children.

Of course, the best thing to eat is new wheat.

At the beginning of spring, Qiao Lian planted half an acre of spring wheat in her own land.

At this time, when the wheat is not yet ready for harvest, the ears of wheat are plucked and put on the mill to push.

Because the new wheat contains moisture, it is not flour that is pushed out, but dough in balls or strips.

Put it away directly, pour it into a boiling pot and cook, add salt and chopped green onions out of the pot, it is the most fragrant gnocchi soup.

The unique sweet taste of the new wheat makes people want to eat another bowl after eating it, and the final result is that the children are eating one by one, holding their stomachs and strolling outside.

"Alas, I finally survived this time.

I see that the crops in our commune are growing well this year, and the seedlings that are replenished after the harvest seem to be okay.

If the weather in autumn is perfect, don't frost too early, it can really grow if you don't have it.

In that case, our commune will not have to go hungry this autumn. ”

It's okay at night, Qiaolian sat in the yard to enjoy the shade, watching the children running and laughing in the yard, Qiaolian also felt very happy.

While looking at the three small ones, he talked and chatted with Qu Weiyang.

"That's also because our commune responded in a timely manner and immediately replenished the seedlings, plus you got so many sweet potato seedlings.

If you go out and look at other places, there are sparse buds in the field, and there are many places where there are many seedlings missing like alopecia areata. ”

Qu Weiyang sighed, if there was no Qiaolian's system, the people of Daying Commune would not be able to run and starve this year.