Accidentally Born in the ‘60s:

After suffering from hunger, so much food fell from the sky, the Li family seemed to have forgotten their exhaustion from top to bottom, and they were full of energy. Several children tossed into the middle of the night, not going to bed until the food they brought back was ready.

Thinking that the three old people at home will go out to dump food tomorrow, before the day of Osmanthus, I got up and posted a pot of pancakes, steamed a pot of potatoes, touched two eggs and fried a bowl of fragrant egg sauce .

Mr. Li smelled the fragrance and went to the kitchen to look, with a distressed look on her face: "The raw sauce is no good, why do you still use eggs to fry the sauce, let's eat eggs, what do we eat during the day? ?"

Osmanthus hurriedly said with a smile: "Yesterday, three hens laid eggs, and a total of five eggs came back. Why can't I miss my sister. I think that my parents and milk are very tired when they go out to work, so I need to eat some eggs. The sauce nourishes the body."

Mr. Li couldn't help but put a smile on her face when she heard this: "We are all too old, we can't eat anything, you should eat something good." Osmanthus told Osmanthus: "Take off the rice skin today and let the four of them do it. You should be optimistic about Zhen Zhen in the house, but don't let her bump into each other."

Remembering the half basket of wild fruits that she brought back yesterday, Mrs. Li took a pot and put it back. She scooped half a pot of water from the water tank and rinsed it. When Osmanthus got up, she saw the watery fruits inside. Surprise: "Where did you get it? When I went to pick wild vegetables yesterday, I saw half-baked ones?"

Old Mrs. Li said without changing her face: "The driver of the truck here brought it from Liao Province. It is warmer than ours, and the fruit ripens earlier." This wild fruit is from a mountain and also ripened earlier. The ones that ripen late, even if I go to the mountains now, I can occasionally pick a few fruits that are beginning to become sweet, so Osmanthus doesn't care. Mrs. Li put the washed fruit in a small basin and instructed Osmanthus: "Zhen Zhen has long teeth, use this fruit to grind her teeth and make her mouth smell. It's not much in total, don't worry. I asked Mingnan and Mingbei to see it, these two boys are so greedy."

Osmanthus smiled and said, "I put some corn in the stove and baked it for them. They love it."

Mr. Li nodded: "Tell them to eat this time, and the rest has to be ground rice noodles, so it can't be so wasteful. By the way, the driver also brought a few big pine cones, I look at it bigger than the pine cone on our mountain, you went out in the morning to pack some sand and come back to fry the pine nuts, peel the kernels out and crush them, and put them on top when you steam the chicken cake for Zhen Zhen.”

Osmanthus responded, and quickly took down the pasted cakes one by one and put them in the basket. The two grandfathers and grandchildren were talking, and Li Muwu came back from the outside and brought back a small half-pot of loach with sauce.

"Where did it come from?" Mrs. Li couldn't help but ask when she smelled the fragrance.

"Mu Sen took it. His family Guangguang went to touch a pot late yesterday and came back. This is reserved for our family." Li Muwu put down the pot and drank half a bowl of water in one breath: "I gave the food to me in the morning. Mu Sen sent it, he didn't want it originally, I said that my mother had saved a lot before, and the family had enough food, so he didn't let it go."

Ms. Li nodded: "I will send some food to them after a while, and now I am busy going up the mountain and have no time to stop by." After that, Mrs. Li instructed Osmanthus: "During the day, you guys Lock the door when you're at home, and if anyone comes to visit, you shouldn't be at home, and don't let others see the food that our house is drying." Osmanthus agreed, and put the rice paste in a large pot.

Seeing that the meal was ready, Mrs. Li took the fly slinger and knocked everything in the house. Wang Sufen had already cleaned up and fed Zhen Zhen with milk.

Today, the whole family has to work hard, so the breakfast is very sincere. In addition, after seeing the food in the yard, I have a good heart, and everyone eats a full belly. When they were full, Li Muwu drove the car and dragged Mrs. Li and Wang Sufen to continue to collect food in the mountains.

This red pine mountain is not a good place for growing crops, despite the towering trees, mushrooms, and wild vegetables. However, Beicha is a forest area, and the surrounding area is just mountains except for mountains. There are many seasonal crops on the east and west sides of the courtyard. If you grow food, there is not such a big place.

The mountain is shaded by trees and it is cold and damp. In previous years, the harvest was only flat, but this year, seven or eight stalks of sorghum can grow on one stalk, and they are all huge and plump; the heavy sorghum ears are bent down by the sorghum , the cabbage in that field is a place where there is almost no foot next to each other.

There are so many crops, but Li Muwu was the only one who transported them down the mountain. The three of them worked together for seven or eight days to collect the things in the field. The cellar was full of cabbage and potatoes, and the rest were placed in the empty rooms in the back. After the peeling and rice were put on the flat ground in the backyard, they filled the entire small yard one by one.

The carriage that has been used for so many days should also be sent back. Mrs. Li opened the box and took out a pile of gross receipts, counted out the agreed rent, and packed three catties of sweet potato noodles for Li Muwu to send.

At this time, money is not the main thing, and food is the rarest. The daughter-in-law of the family who borrowed the horse-drawn carriage saw that the sweet potato noodles were happy and didn't even count the money. Borrow it from my house!"

Li Muwuhan nodded with a smile, he put down his things and didn't talk much, thinking that there are still two days of vacation to take a good rest,

After so many days of work in a row, the whole family didn't feel tired until they lay on the kang and slept in a deep sleep. The old lady Li was digging wild vegetables and mushrooms at the foot of the mountain. When I came and loosened my feet, my legs and feet were a little swollen. Li Muwu's usual job in the grain store is to carry sacks, except for some sore legs. The most tiring person was Wang Sufen. She was digging potatoes, harvesting soybeans, and pulling cabbage. She bent and worked so hard from morning to night. When Wang Sufen lay on the kang, she suddenly felt that this waist was not hers. She ate breakfast and lay on the kang and fell asleep.

Zhen Zhen knew that Wang Sufen was tired these days, so she sat quietly on the kang to eat. The sour and sweet grapes made her narrow her eyes. Wang Sufen slept and turned over to see that her daughter was still eating. She couldn't help sitting up and rubbing her belly: "You can't eat too much, your stomach will hurt."

Zhen Zhen smiled and picked up a blueberry and held it to Wang Sufen's mouth: "Mom eat!"

Wang Sufen was so excited that she hurriedly hugged Zhen Zhen in her arms and kissed a few times, the smile on her face blossomed: "I don't want to eat it, I will keep it for you."

Zhen Zhen insisted and put it into Wang Sufen's mouth: "Eat!"

Wang Sufen looked at Zhen Zhen's serious face, and then she ate the blueberries and touched the soft black hair on Zhen Zhen's head with satisfaction: "Our Zhen Zhen is smart, and she has only learned to speak in a few days. ."

Zhen Zhen naturally knew how to talk early, but the family members were busy looking for food on the mountain before, and the family members had to clean up the house while watching the children, and no one had time to teach her how to speak. That is, when Osmanthus took Zhen Zhen in the past two days, she taught her to speak casually, Zhen Zhen pretended to have a big tongue, and after a few days of learning, she jumped out word by word.

Wang Sufen doesn't know these twists and turns, she just thinks her daughter is extra smart. She took advantage of these two days to rest, and half leaned on the folded quilt, coaxing her to learn to speak.

One mother and daughter taught the other a big tongue, and from time to time bursts of laughter. Mrs. Li was lying in the next room and was feeling bored.

As soon as the door opened, Zhen Zhen raised her head and saw the person who came in, her big eyes immediately turned into a crooked moon: "Milk!"

"Oh, what a treasure!" Mrs. Li walked over to sit on the kang and sat cross-legged beside Zhen Zhen, looking at the remaining fruit, she couldn't help but ask: "Why don't you eat too much?" /

Wang Sufen said indifferently: "She can eat a fruit for a long time, and with such a small stomach, she can't eat much." Zhen Zhen touched her nose with a guilty conscience, and swept her eyes to the ground, she could still vaguely see A few small green sprouts.

Nowadays in the Beicha area, the wooden houses are covered with thick mud, and the ground inside the house is no different from the yard outside. Usually, just sprinkle some water on the ground to keep the ash down. , it's common to grow grass and sprout.

After teasing her granddaughter for a while, Mrs. Li started chatting with Wang Sufen again: "This year, our family harvested the grain ahead of schedule, and the harvest was pretty good. After drying the corn and grinding it out, it can almost survive the winter. "

Wang Sufen is still a little worried when she thinks of the snow-covered mountains in winter: "How can summer be better now, even if there is no food at home, I can live by relying on the mushrooms and wild vegetables picked in the mountains, although I can't eat enough, I can't get enough food. People can't starve to death, and when it's cold in two months, and the vegetables and mushrooms on the mountain are gone, how can those who have no food survive?"

Old Mrs. Li couldn't help but sighed: "Don't you have some mushrooms in the sun? Besides, there are some crops in the ground. Although the drought is not prosperous, it can still handle a winter, maybe wait. Next year will be good. I heard Dongzi say that in the past two years of severe drought in our Hei Province, we have cultivated less land in the mountains, and I don’t think that those places that rely on farming for a living are almost dead.”

Wang Sufen hurriedly put on her shoes and went out: "I have to instruct Osmanthus, now that I don't work, I need to make some dry food. I don't think I can count on this year's food supply."

Zhen Zhen has been here for seven months, and she probably knows the age. In 1961, even though she didn't understand and heard the history of the old man at home, Zhen Zhen put down the fruit in her hand, climbed onto the window sill, stuck her head out and looked out the window.

The open space between the front and back houses is densely packed with corn, and sweet potato seedlings can be seen on both sides of the house. This is the favorite crop of Beicha people. It is very resistant to hunger, and every household has planted a lot in front of and behind the house.

“Something should be done. Although it can’t be as horrifying as it is on the mountain, it should be fine to do some small actions in private, but I don’t know how many crops within my own range can be controlled.” Zhen Zhen’s small face showed her age Inconsistent meditation, Zhen Zhen pondered for a while, then climbed down from the windowsill, lay down on her little mattress and closed her eyes.

"Are you going to be sleepy?" Mrs. Li was very happy, she picked up the thin sheet next to her and put it on Zhen Zhen: "Honey, let's go to sleep." Zhen Zhen closed her eyes, but her consciousness followed the ground outward. Extend, go further and further...