He was so hungry and hot that he just wanted to hurry back to have lunch.

When they returned, the others had already eaten.

Ma Chunling set aside a bowl of food for Zhou Dajun, but she didn't know how the new educated youth were doing, so she didn't bother with them.

"Would you like to eat together?" Zhou Dajun asked them, holding a bowl of sweet potato porridge.

"What are we eating? What's this?" Zhou Man asked.

"This is sweet potato porridge. You haven't received your food rations yet, so eat a little to tide you over."

"Is this all we're eating? What about the other dishes?"

"Hey, this is the food in this bowl."

"Is this all you're eating? No chicken or pork?"

"Heh, what are you thinking about? Nothing, just eat this. I'll eat first, if you want some, take your own lunchboxes and get some, I see there's still some in the pot."

Lu Xiao put his things back in his room, took out the bowl he had brought, washed it, and went to get some porridge to eat.

He tried it, and wow... his eyes lit up, "Not bad!"

He gulped down the whole bowl in one go, without even needing any side dishes.

After finishing my bowl, I got another one, but I was still not full. Seeing how much was left in the pot, I got two more bowls and ate them.

Actually, sweet potatoes from that era were very fragrant. If they were dried in the sun for a few days and then placed in the shade for a few more days, they would taste even sweeter than sugar.

Therefore, when you cook sweet potato porridge, you don't need to add sugar at all; it will taste slightly sweet on its own.

Lu Xiao enjoyed it immensely because it was his first time eating it. However, the people at the educated youth settlement and the villagers got tired of it after a while and no longer found it delicious. They were hungry if they didn't eat, so they had to make do with what they had.

He ate his fill in no time. He was hungry and tired, and he filled his stomach in five minutes. He felt very comfortable and full of energy.

Seeing how much Lu Xiao was enjoying his meal, the other three also took out their own bowls, washed them, and started eating sweet potato porridge.

"Hey, this porridge is good! Brother Zhang Shang, eat up, this country food is actually quite tasty," Zhou Man said happily.

Lu Xiao thought to himself with disdain: "Hmph, didn't you look down on me? Well, you've proven me wrong. After being starving for so long, you'd even eat shit."

Liu Hongying didn't care about anything else and ate the porridge quickly, one bowl after another, until she had eaten three bowls before stopping.

Zhou Dajun smiled slightly as he watched them eat so heartily.

He went through the same thing back then, finding everything disgusting, but later he got so hungry that he ate anything.

He Hua had been lying in her room like a corpse. She thought about cooking, but then thought it was too tiring and too hot. She really couldn't stand lighting a fire in the sweltering heat.

As soon as Chen Gang finished work, Zou Daying took him to eat under the big banyan tree. Since she didn't have to work, she would get food from home and take it to the fields to wait for Chen Gang to finish work so they could eat together.

She waited for most of the day but Chen Gang didn't return. Could it be that he went to see that village girl again?