"Yes, yes. Wait a minute. I'll go get our rations!"

Soon, it was as if he had brought four servings of cooking materials, in exchange for four servings of rice porridge!

Children like this were very common in the educated youth camps. Basically, anyone who cooked expensive food like grits would be asked about it. If anyone wanted to eat it, they just had to pay enough food according to the ration standard for each meal for men and women!

For people like Ji Wanru who eat less, their rations must be provided according to normal standards. This way, she can still make a little money!

Pickled two cucumbers and added a pinch of chili bean sauce sent by Du Meiting's family. No other seasoning is needed. The crisp, refreshing and slightly spicy taste will conquer your taste buds!

The corn barley porridge is soft and sticky, served with salty and fresh cucumber pickles. Drinking a bowl of it hot on a winter morning is so comfortable!

"The day after tomorrow, all the male workers in the team will go to the mountains to cut wood, and we will follow them to pick sea buckthorn. We have to take out our specially made high-top snow boots and put them on the kang to warm them up!"

Maodong Maodong means that after the autumn harvest, there is basically no farming activity. As the winter is long and cold, people start to stay at home unless necessary and gradually reduce the frequency of outdoor activities. This is the meaning of "cats spending the winter at home".

But this is not an excuse or reason for lazy people to be lazy, especially since there are many children in this generation. Two people earn work points, and there are five or six mouths to feed. They cannot really be idle in this winter.

There is always someone to help the strong laborers in the village to collect firewood, cut willow branches to make baskets, cut wood, etc.

Qingshan County belongs to a forest area. The state-owned Qingshan County Forest Farm has tree felling tasks assigned to the production teams below it every day, and the same is true for Sikanzi!

Logging work is usually done in winter after a heavy snowfall when the river freezes over. This way, pulling wood on the ice and snow is quick and easy and saves effort.

Of course, logging is a job with an uncontrollable risk factor that is too high, so it is done by the elders in the village who lead the strong laborers, and women do not participate!

When the men go to cut wood, the women follow them up the mountain to pick sea buckthorn!

Sea buckthorn is also a traditional Chinese medicine. Its fruit can be eaten or used as medicine. It can be used to treat spleen deficiency, loss of appetite, cough with excessive sputum, blood stasis, etc.

Sikanzi and the Erdaoqiao Brigade on the other side of the Qingshui River shared a clinic with poor conditions and only one medical staff. Apart from gentian violet and antipyretics which were the regular medicines, other medicines were often in short supply. Some people even died earlier because they had diarrhea and did not receive timely treatment!

Therefore, the team leaders of the two villages decided to include the common and easily recognizable herbs in the mountains into the scope of work points. In addition to taking the villagers to pick them collectively on a regular basis, anyone who picked herbs in the mountains could also take them to the clinic. The health staff would issue a receipt and then take it to the team to exchange for work points!

There is thick snow in the mountains, and ordinary cotton shoes can easily be filled with snow, which then melts with body temperature and soaks the shoes and socks. That is really uncomfortable!

The wisdom of the working people is endless. In order to cope with the situation, experienced farmers made boots.

The appearance of the 靰鞡 shoes is very special. They are made of thick cowhide and sheepskin. The upper is drawn into a circle of even pleats, and there is a tongue protruding upwards behind the pleats. Thin cowhide straps are tied around the shoe mouth, and the inside is filled with pounded 靰鞡 grass. The 靰鞡 grass has to be repeatedly pounded with a grass hammer to become soft, and it is warm and comfortable to put it in the 靰鞡 shoes. Even if you work outside for a whole day in the severe cold of minus 40 degrees Celsius, your feet will not get frozen.

Instead of cowhide, the uppers of Beckham's shoes were made of tanned rabbit skin, specially imitating the style of high boots with heels, and the boot shaft was made so that the height was just below the knee!

It is convenient for movement and not easy to get snowy. It is very practical!