But it's also possible that the information she read was incomplete: "I saw this in the newspaper. Does it mean that people in the city are returning to the countryside to farm?"

"Well, they're generally young men and women who have graduated and are unemployed and interested in this field. However, they are all assigned to various farms. I guess there will be more and more of them in the future."

Gu Qingbei was in the army himself, so he must have received more information than others. Moreover, his father held a high position, so he knew even more.

There are so many students in primary, middle and high schools in the city, but after graduation there are simply not that many jobs and housing allocations in the city.

Some young people, who neither go to school nor have jobs, idle around all day and are always getting into trouble, such as petty theft, collecting protection money, and even fighting. The police officers in the police station are too busy to handle them all day long.

The country has now begun to make arrangements for these people.

Send them to the countryside to support agricultural production and construction in the border areas, and alleviate population backlogs and food pressures in cities.

"People who have never worked in the fields may not be able to endure a life of working in the dirt all day long."

Gu Qingbei didn't think it was a big deal: "If I don't work, I won't eat. I'll get used to it eventually."

"Life is pretty good now. The brigade has a big canteen and everything is publicly owned. We don't have to worry about not having enough to eat. It's much better than before."

"Are all our places like this a big dining hall now? It's pretty good that we've lasted this long."

Gu Qingbei knew this news.

It's just that he has seen a lot of things outside. Some places have only run canteens for a few months, and the results are not very good.

The dishes in the cafeteria are a combination of coarse and fine food, meat and vegetables, and the leftovers are packed into buckets.

If they keep eating like this, not to mention continuing for a long time, the team's remaining food will probably be gone in a few months.

But I can’t say this kind of thing, I dare not say it.

He was now worried that the same thing was happening at home. His uncle was the team leader and he knew a little about the family situation, but he couldn't ask too many details in his normal letters, so he came back directly during this holiday.

"It's been open for several months now. I usually eat three meals a day in the cafeteria. During the Great Steel Production Movement, all the pots and ironware at home were gone."

She was in the city herself, so she naturally heard a lot about this.

It is said that city people envy rural people for being able to eat well and have enough to eat.

I heard that in many local canteens, students are fed so much that they are full every day, and can eat as much eggs and pork as they want with every meal.

Gu Qingbei also felt a little heavy in his heart. He always felt that this situation was not good.

This year, grain production across the country is not optimistic, and disasters have occurred in many places.

In comparison, the situation in the north is slightly better, but it is not optimistic either.

Before coming, he received a letter from his father, saying less and doing less.

He knew that this was asking him not to get involved, but when something happened to him, even though he couldn't do anything, he was still very worried.

This topic is a bit heavy for Jiang Mengxue. She knows very well what will happen in the future, so she doesn't want to dwell on it anymore and can only take it one step at a time.

The most she can do is take care of her own family; she doesn't have the ability to take care of others.

Although there is a lot of food in the space, it is only for Jiang Mengxue and her family. She really does not have the ability to support the entire city or the entire country.

I can only avoid this topic.

"Comrade Gu should be much better off in the army. Even if there's a shortage of food somewhere, there's no shortage of the army."

"Well, we can eat our fill in the army, but it's impossible to eat well. However, we occasionally go hunting, and the prey we bring back can be used as food for the regiment."

Jiang Mengxue was a little surprised.

How could she forget that they have mountains here.

Dig wild vegetables, pick mushrooms, pick wild fruits, and hunt wild animals.

This is allowed in this era, and she also wants to go to the mountains to see some of the action.

“That should be very interesting. Forget prey. I rarely even go up the mountain to dig wild vegetables. I can’t even recognize all the wild vegetables and mushrooms.

You can go hunting, and then you can eat meat every day."

Gu Qingbei found it a little funny. This little girl had such simple ideas.

"How is that possible? We usually focus on training and also go on missions.

Even if we have free time, we still have to help open up wasteland and farm, raise pigs and chickens. We can only hunt when we go up the mountain for training, and that's also a matter of luck.

Our army is large, and we often go up the mountain, so we make a lot of noise. Small prey is scarce, and if we encounter a wild boar, we're unlucky. Not only are they tough to kill because of their thick skin, but the meat isn't tasty either."

Jiang Mengxue was a little surprised. How could the meat not taste good?

In the novels she read, the heroine often went up the mountain to hunt wild boars, which tasted delicious.

"Ah? How could that be? Aren't wild animals all fragrant?"

"Wild animals generally don't taste very good. They have to be killed and bled, and then soaked in blood water. Wild boars that haven't been castrated taste very bad, and they have to be stewed for a long time."

Gu Qingbei smiled and shook his head.

Once during training, they caught a wild boar and roasted it on the spot. The taste was so good that they never wanted to eat it again in their life.

People who hadn't eaten meat for a long time couldn't swallow it. In the end, in order to avoid waste, they pushed each other and ate the meat. It was even more terrifying than eating insects.

Later, whenever we caught a wild boar, we would bring it down the mountain and give it to the canteen for processing. The pork tasted pretty good after processing.