Time flies, and three years have passed in the blink of an eye. A lot has happened in these three years.

First, the national machine started operating at high speed after receiving what Liu Mingfeng and his group had given them. Not long after the New Year in 1972, the special gang was overthrown, and then all the special people who had been sent down were exonerated and returned to their original positions.

In the same year, a special fertilizer was distributed to all major grain-producing areas across the country, resulting in a bumper harvest everywhere in the autumn. After this bumper harvest, the nationwide announcement of the end of the large-scale land reclamation was made, and the policy of returning farmland to forest was initiated. In addition, before the spring planting in 1973, due to the bumper harvest the previous year, land was distributed according to household registration.

In fact, thanks to that data and the agricultural experts, many high-yield grain seeds have been developed in the past three years, and now people no longer have to worry about going hungry.

While the country underwent significant changes, Liujiatunzi also experienced considerable transformations. Firstly, after the resumption of the college entrance examination, both educated youth and village high school students participated. Not to mention the village high school students, the educated youth who passed left, while those who didn't return to the city when the educated youth returned.

Of course, some bad things also happened to these educated youth. For example, some of them got married in the countryside and then abandoned their husbands, wives, or children.

Of course, none of this had anything to do with Wu Qiaoqiao's family. When the college entrance exam was reinstated, Wu Aiguo, the second daughter-in-law of Liu Ercheng, had studied in advance, so her exam results were excellent. This also included Liu Sanqian's daughter Liu Ying, Feng Mingran and his sister, Tan Jing, and of course, Feng Mingran's two good brothers.

These individuals all gained admission to university with excellent grades, but Liu Ying, not wanting to be too far from home, applied to a teachers' college in her province, intending to become a teacher after graduation.

Feng Mingran and his sister, along with Tan Jing and Wu Aiguo, all got into universities in Beijing. They lived on campus during their university years, but when they had holidays, they would go back home to stay. Liu Mengmeng wanted to invite Tan Jing and Wu Aiguo to stay at her house during holidays, but the two of them did not agree and continued to live on campus.

After Tan Jing and Feng Mingyue were admitted to university, which explicitly prohibited marriage, the two families got engaged, waiting to hold a wedding for them after graduation. During his studies, Tan Jing used his intelligence to quickly build connections in Beijing. Last year, he even used these connections to buy a piece of land in the suburbs of Beijing and opened a chicken farm to supply Liu Daniu.

It was only then that the Liu family realized that the Tan family was actually quite wealthy. Liu Mengmeng was relieved to see this. She wasn't after the Tan family's winnings, but if they were wealthy, her daughter wouldn't have to suffer after marrying into the family.

Wu Aiguo, however, always adhered to the principle of "familiarity breeds contempt," and she would only occasionally go to Liu Mengmeng's house for a meal. Later, the faster the country developed, the more Beijing changed, eventually becoming a place where business could even be conducted.

Wu Aiguo was an extremely intelligent woman. When she wasn't busy with her studies, she would travel around the entire city of Beijing. When she discovered that she could do business, she returned to Liujiatun during the Spring Festival holiday to discuss with everyone whether Liu Daniu could go to Beijing to do some business so that the whole family could be together.

When Wu Aiguo suggested that Liu Daniu go to Beijing with her, Liu Ercheng and his wife disagreed, wondering how Liu Daniu would make a living in Beijing. Later, when they heard that he could do business, they were troubled again.

Their main concern was what Liu Daniu could do. Later, with the help of Wu Qiaoqiao and Lin Yuwei, they decided that Liu Daniu would go to Beijing to start a catering business. The reason for this decision was simply that Wu Qiaoqiao and Lin Yuwei had quite a few recipes.

You should know that the various delicacies Lin Yuwei ate at home back then were dishes that the imperial chefs in the palace had painstakingly researched for her. Whenever she encountered something that interested her, Lin Yuwei would summon those imperial chefs and ask them how to make these dishes. Therefore, Lin Yuwei had a lot of theoretical knowledge in her mind.

Although Wu Qiaoqiao was forbidden from eating junk food before the age of ten because her family was in the medical field, and after the apocalypse began, there was even less food available, she still had a good childhood friend.

Before the apocalypse, Liu Mingfeng would occasionally take Wu Qiaoqiao out to eat what she wanted. At the beginning of the apocalypse, he helped her collect a lot of food. Because they had acquired spatial storage early on, they filled it with books and electronic devices. What's more, they were fortunate enough to have a huge warehouse in each of their spaces, where time was frozen; food placed inside remained exactly as it was when taken out.

However, as the apocalypse dragged on and all the food in their space ran out, Wu Qiaoqiao could only drool over the lifelike pictures of food on the recipes and the food videos on her electronic devices.

So this time, both Wu Qiaoqiao and Lin Yuwei brought out quite a few recipes. However, Wu Qiaoqiao was the main one to rely on, because the recipes Lin Yuwei brought out were very elaborate and used unusual ingredients, which were not suitable for this situation.

However, Liu Ercheng happily accepted it, knowing that if his second son were to really work in the catering industry in the future, he would need these very detailed recipes.

As for the recipes that Wu Qiaoqiao and her friends presented, Liu Ercheng made the decision. He had Liu Daniu sign an agreement stating that he and Lin Yuwei would split the profits Liu Daniu made from opening a restaurant using these recipes. However, Wu Qiaoqiao and her friend disagreed. After a heated debate, they reached an agreement that, regardless of whether Liu Daniu was in the catering industry now or in the future, he would give 20% to Wu Qiaoqiao and Lin Yuwei, and that 20% would be split equally between them.

Seeing that they couldn't refuse, Wu Qiaoqiao and Lin Yuwei had no choice but to agree. What followed was Liu Dashou's six-month culinary training. The reason he initially decided to work in the catering industry was because Liu Erniu's cooking skills were quite good. In the first half of 1974, which is the first half of this year, when school started, Liu Dashou went to Beijing with Wu Aiguo.

Of course, Liu Daniu wasn't the only one who went to Beijing; there were other people as well. But that was none of Wu Qiaoqiao's business. Although Wu Qiaoqiao and her group would offer some help to these people, they wouldn't consider them their responsibility.

Just like when Liu Daniu went to Beijing to open a restaurant, he helped them in Liujiatun by providing services such as animal husbandry. Finally, after the land was distributed, he persuaded Liu Ercheng and Liu Sanqian to contract the mountain to plant fruit trees and medicinal herbs.