No one knows better than the old lady what is going on in the back mountain.

Not to mention wild vegetables and mushrooms, even the grass roots and leaves that were not too bitter were swept away by the villagers.

What remains on the mountain now are all bitter, astringent and difficult to eat.

The old lady didn't believe that her eldest grandson went for a walk in the mountains and brought back dozens of kilograms of sweet potatoes.

Besides, it’s not the season for planting sweet potatoes!

Sweet potatoes are planted in summer and harvested in autumn. The production team’s sweet potatoes have just been planted.

"Grandma, Panpan wants to see some delicious food."

The rice jar was placed on the shelf, and three-year-old Zhang Panpan was lying on the ground, anxiously waiting.

Although she didn't know what her brother brought back, she knew it must be food.

The little girl had seen grandma and mother taking food out of this big vat when they were cooking.

"Grandma, don't worry. With so many sweet potatoes, no one else can take them out except the production team's warehouse.

The key to the warehouse door, the captain wanted to wear it on his ribs, you don't think I stole it from the production team warehouse, right? "

"No, that won't happen. My eldest grandson has clean hands and feet. He would never do anything sneaky or sneaky."

The old lady is still confident that the second son's wife has educated the three children well.

"Grandma, Panpan wants to eat."

The little girl tilted her head back and looked at Liu Guixiang pitifully.

"Okay, let's have sweet potatoes for lunch."

If you can't figure it out, just stop thinking about it. The family has been out of food for two days. We have to rely on wild vegetables and tree leaves, which have no nutrition at all. How many more days can we last?

"Shengli, it's hot in the kitchen. Take your sister out to play. I'll help grandma light the fire. When grandpa and mom get off work, we can eat sweet potatoes."

Logically speaking, if sixteen-year-old Zhang Shuguang went to work, he could earn eight work points a day.

But there was really nothing to eat at home, so after discussing it with his grandparents, they decided not to let him go to work for a few days, and asked Zhang Shuguang and his grandmother to go into the mountains to find food.

The original stove was definitely unusable. People from the commune came to collect iron pots from every household, and their house was of course not spared.

In the open space of the kitchen, a clay pot supported by stones serves as a simple stove. In the early 1960s, almost every household in the countryside cooked in this way.

Zhang Shuguang was in charge of two stoves: one pottery pot for cooking wild vegetable and tree leaf soup, and the other pottery pot for cooking sweet potatoes.

"Grandma, please go out and cool off for a while. I can handle the rest myself."

There were no seasonings back then, so just a little salt was added to the wild vegetable and tree leaf soup.

"Let grandma come. We have women in our family. How can we let a grown man like you hang around the stove?"

Liu Guixiang came from the old society and believed that cooking was naturally a woman's job.

"Grandma, we're a family, so what's the point of talking about gender? You said I'm already a grown man, and I can't let an old man like you do all the work. I'll just watch from the side."

"Okay, my eldest grandson is filial, so you control the fire and I'll go watch Panpan."

The little girl doesn't even have a pair of shoes, and children have no self-protection awareness, so they can easily get their feet pricked if they are not careful.

After grandma left, Zhang Shuguang looked at the fire while thinking about his future plans.

The family is short of food and clothing. It cannot be said that the family members are malnourished. It is not an exaggeration to say that they are barely surviving. The most urgent task is to ensure that the family members are well fed and clothed.

Buying food directly from the system is undoubtedly the simplest way, but finding a suitable reason is a difficult problem.

Zhang Shuguang tried hard to think about the period novels he had read in his previous life, in which the male protagonists usually hunted, fished, and visited the black market.

Novels are always just novels. It is easier said than done. Although I have the mountains behind me, I have no experience in hunting or fishing.

Forget it, let's take it one step at a time. Since I have already traveled through time and the system is in place, how can a living person be suffocated to death by urine?

The wild vegetable and tree leaf soup in the ceramic pot began to boil, the green soup kept rolling, and a hint of bitterness floated in the air.

Zhang Shuguang was a little confused as to whether he was cooking or making medicine.

After the meal was ready, Zhang Shuguang removed the fire from under the clay pot.

It was noon, and Zhang Qingchun and Su Hong, who had just finished work, walked into the yard one after another.

"Grandpa, Mom, are you back from work? Big brother has already prepared dinner."

"Grandpa, seven sweet potatoes."

The two children were very happy because they had food to eat at noon.

"Where did you get the sweet potatoes? Old woman, did you go to the brigade headquarters to borrow some food?"

Zhang Qingchun put the hoe down against the fence, bent down and picked up his barefoot granddaughter.

Facts have proved that whether a family is harmonious or not has nothing to do with poverty or wealth.

"What grain do you want to borrow? If the brigade has grain, is it our turn to borrow it? Who doesn't need food these days? The sweet potatoes were picked up by my eldest grandson in the mountains."

Although I don’t believe that the sweet potatoes were picked up, there is no other source!

"Picked it up?"

Zhang Qingchun looked at his eldest grandson with an inquiring look.

"Grandpa, I really picked it up in the mountains. Just eat it."

Since he couldn't explain it clearly, Zhang Shuguang stopped explaining. As long as he admitted that he died, his grandparents would not torture him to confess!

"Grandson, even though we may be poor, we still have great ambitions. We must always follow the right path."

Zhang Qingchun has lived for more than sixty years and is a very insightful old man.

Although he believed in his eldest grandson's character, he also knew that when people are extremely hungry, they can do anything.

"Don't worry, your grandson doesn't steal or rob. Besides, who has sweet potatoes for me to steal now?"

"I won't argue with you if you say that. If someone's family really lost sweet potatoes, they would definitely make a big fuss!"

Zhang Qingchun thought about it and it made sense. His family had run out of food, and other families were not much better off.

Families with more able-bodied laborers get more food, but the amount is limited. However, they still eat more.

Every household is short of food now. If the eldest grandson really stole from other people's homes, the village would be in chaos now.

The whole family arrived. Zhang Shuguang held a clay pot and Liu Guixiang held a basket full of sweet potatoes and placed them on the table in the main hall.

"I cooked a lot of sweet potatoes today, and everyone is full."

The family sat around the table and Liu Guixiang was responsible for distributing the food.

"Mom, how many sweet potatoes did Xiaoguang pick up?"

Su Hong looked at the full basket of sweet potatoes and couldn't help swallowing.

There was no food at home, and as a woman, the only thing Su Hong could do was to eat less or not eat at all, and save a bite for the children.

Due to long-term hunger and high-intensity labor, Su Hong was already exhausted.

If I don’t eat something proper, I don’t know if I can get up tomorrow when I go to bed tonight.

During the three years of famine, all those who starved to death were farmers who grew crops.

"It should be about 20 kilograms. Eat quickly, daughter-in-law. Now is not the time to save food. If you don't eat, your body will not be able to bear it."

Liu Guixiang took a sweet potato and stuffed it into Su Hong's hand.