After adding a little salt and stirring, Gu Yunyang ladled out a bowl of porridge from an aluminum lunchbox, intending to let it cool down a bit.
They served Old Zheng another bowl.
Since I've already said I'd accepted their food and would prepare breakfast for them today, I can't go back on my word.
Luckily, he cooked a lot; it should be enough for four people.
Once the porridge had cooled down a bit, Gu Yunyang picked up the aluminum lunchbox and started eating.
I have to say, this aluminum lunchbox is burning hot.
"I need to find an opportunity to take out the rice bowl I bought. Who uses an aluminum lunchbox when eating at home?"
After he finished eating, Yang Shengnan and Han Xue returned, both of them exhausted.
Gu Yunyang jokingly asked, "Han Xue, are we going to be busy with farm work all the time?"
Han Xue didn't even bother to answer, just hummed a couple of times and rolled her eyes at Gu Yunyang.
Fortunately, Yang Shengnan still had some strength. She went to get an aluminum lunchbox, filled it with two boxes of porridge, and gave one to each of them: "Eat quickly. After breakfast, rest for a bit before going to the fields."
During the busy farming season, no leave is allowed.
She was even a little envious; Gu Yunyang went to work in the cowshed and didn't have to go to the fields.
Even the little children had to follow behind and do what they could.
Gu Yunyang hurried to the brigade, where Gu Hanping was already there. It seemed that he was eating even faster.
Upon seeing Gu Yunyang arrive, Gu Hanping quickly took out the grain allocated to them: "According to the rules, you will receive a grain subsidy every month. This was agreed upon by the Youth Affairs Office and the brigade."
However, our brigade has relatively little farmland, and after paying the grain tax, we have relatively little fine grain left.
So each of you will only have five jin of rice per month. Besides that, you can choose potatoes and sweet potatoes, and there's also some sorghum. What do you want? You can choose 30 jin. You can mix and match any of these three items.”
After a pause, Gu Hanping added, "Oh, right, there are also pumpkins, you can choose those too. We can give you more pumpkins, 10 catties of coarse grains in exchange for 20 catties of pumpkins."
Pumpkins are high-yielding, and people are unwilling to eat them as a staple food.
So you can give more pumpkin.
Gu Yunyang thought for a moment and said, "Then give me 10 jin of each of the front. I don't want the sorghum, give me 20 jin of pumpkin instead."
That way, he'll have everything; he can take out his pumpkin and eat it together.
A few pumpkins are nothing. We can just have Yang Shengnan and the others each give us one yuan as payment for the 20 jin of pumpkins.
Gu Hanping didn't try to dissuade him, and Gu Yunyang had previously sent some grain from Northeast China.
Choosing this way should be enough to fill you up.
If he really can't get enough to eat, let him spend some money to buy some food.
We transported all the items back in two separate trips.
Before Yang Shengnan and Han Xue left, Gu Yunyang brought up the matter of money. Since neither Yang Shengnan nor Han Xue lacked money, they naturally agreed immediately.
It's all whole grains, so the two of us might not be used to eating it.
But Gu Yunyang had no better solution; if he didn't want to be exposed, there was nothing he could do to help.
He took a lunchbox, filled it with porridge, and went over. Old Zheng was still busy over there.
When Gu Yunyang handed him the aluminum lunchbox, Old Zheng didn't say anything, assuming it was sweet potato porridge. He took it directly and said, "Make two portions of feed later."
The cows in the field have been busy all morning, so they need to eat something too.
Otherwise, we'd be working until late at night and we'd all be exhausted.
"Oh dear, there's still meat here! Is that black stuff preserved egg?"
Old Zheng was surprised that Gu Yunyang would cook congee with preserved egg and lean pork, with a few green bok choy floating in it, looking very nice.
Gu Yunyang laughed and said, "It's alright. I bought it at the commune yesterday. I was afraid it would spoil if I didn't eat it."
I'll bring you lunch, so you don't need to cook.
If you do most of the work in the cowshed every day, I wouldn't need such strenuous pay.
He added, and Old Zheng hesitated for a moment before finally agreeing: "Alright, then all you need to do every day is feed the cows. Take good care of them, and I'm waiting for you to raise them to adulthood so I can see what the difference is."
"But don't cook refined grains for lunch, you don't have much. Just some sorghum mixed with sweet potatoes or potatoes, that should be enough. By the way, do you have any pumpkins? I have quite a few stored here, take a few back and mix them with the sorghum rice, it tastes alright."
"I just received 20 jin from the brigade, that's enough for me. Next time, I won't be polite with you."
Gu Yunyang smiled and said, "Then I'll go mix the cattle feed. But which area is the cattle in?"
"It's in the direction of Beishan Village. Just follow the road and you'll find it."
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