Generally speaking, almost no parents want their children to play in the river.
Getting clothes and shoes wet is a small matter, but I’m afraid of playing too much, so I have to draw a map on my bed at night!
In this era, how many families have several beds and beddings that can be changed and washed in rotation?
None at all!
The three boys of the Gu family were rarely allowed to play by the stream, they were so happy!
It wasn't until the bell rang that the three of them ran back from outside.
There was no doubt that all three of them were soaked like drowned rats, with a lot of mud on their pants.
Just like something fished out of the river.
But when I looked at their backpacks, wow, what a big harvest!
There were four crucian carps weighing over one kilogram in total, and many small fish the size of a palm.
I also caught a lot of other snails and river shrimps.
They brought two backpacks in total, which were filled to the brim.
Of course, they didn't carry the things back by themselves, but asked Shi Tou, an older boy in the village, to help carry them back.
The weight of the backpack filled with things was still too heavy for them.
"Grandma, can you give Brother Shitou some wheat bran? We promised Brother Shitou that if he brings the backpack back for us, we will give him two handfuls of wheat bran." Gu Chendong said.
Qin Fangru still has some impression of the stone deep in her memory.
This child is the orphan of a martyr in the village. His surname is Jiang and his name is Jiang Lei. Everyone in the village calls him Shitou. He is twelve years old and lives with his grandmother.
Shitou originally had a grandfather who starved to death in order to save food during a famine a few years ago.
Logically speaking, the Jiang family received subsidies for families of martyrs, so Grandpa Jiang would not have starved to death.
Unfortunately, the subsidy was delayed by a few days that year, and Grandpa Jiang died.
Today, this family is made up of old and young people, and there is not even a labor force. They can only barely make ends meet relying on the subsidies for families of martyrs.
Grandma Jiang gritted her teeth and sent her grandson to school, and her life became even more difficult.
Not having enough to eat is common.
This bran stone was to be taken back and used as food for the two of them, the grandfather and the grandson.
Except during famine years, basically no one eats wheat bran, or mixes wheat bran with rice or flour.
This thing is rough, makes the throat hurt, and can cause indigestion and constipation. Most people usually use it to feed chickens and pigs.
The Gu family is no exception.
Of course, this was after Lin Manman and her group arrived.
Before they came through, the Gu family was really not much better off than the Jiang family. They went hungry every other day.
"Shi Tou, wait a moment. I'll ask your aunt to go into the house and get you some wheat bran." Qin Fangru said.
After receiving the instructions, Lin Manman hurried into the house to get the bran.
As a result, before she could even step out of the door, she received a mission from the space.
At the same time, several other people also heard the mission prompt sound.
[The space releases the second level mission, which is to save the Jiang family's grandfather and grandson, and prevent them from dying of excessive hunger tonight.
After the task is completed, the space will reward you with a primary livestock farm.
The primary farm has 20 laying hens and 10 roosters; 20 laying ducks and 10 drakes.
In addition, there are two milk-producing cows and two milk-producing ewes.
this......
Does the task released in the space have a predictive function?
If they didn't have this task today, would the Jiang family's grandfather and grandson starve to death?
No wonder these two people were not even mentioned in the book. It turns out that they had already passed away before the plot even began!
Lin Manman looked at the wheat bran in the gourd ladle in her hand, and then imagined the farm that would soon appear in the space, and the endless products from the farm...
She immediately poured the bran back, took a black cloth bag, and scooped about ten pounds of yellow cornmeal into it.
After thinking about it, I was afraid that this refined cornmeal would be too outstanding and easily arouse suspicion.
She also scooped in a lot of the black flour left over from the Gu family.
There were probably about 20 kilograms of food in the cloth bag, which was enough for the Jiang family's grandfather and grandson to survive the next few days.
She had heard that various subsidies were distributed on an annual basis.
It was originally distributed during the spring plowing season, but after three years of the Great Famine, the time was changed to the middle of the year.
There are about ten days left before the next payment of subsidies to families of martyrs.
With these twenty kilograms of food and some other wild vegetables, it will be no problem to survive until the subsidy comes.
In order to avoid being found out, she deliberately weighed the cloth bag for a long time to mix the two kinds of flour evenly.
Lin Manman tied the cloth bag tightly in advance, then took it out and handed it to Shi Tou.
"I've packed it for you. You don't have to return the cloth bag. It's getting late, you should go back quickly!" she said.
She said this because she wanted to get Jiang Lei away quickly and not let him open the bag on the spot.
If this is opened on the spot, wouldn't it be telling others that you have food?
It's time to get off work now, and we can't let anyone see this.
Jiang Lei thought Lin Manman had packed a lot of bran for him, so he immediately thanked them solemnly and ran away with the cloth bag.
When the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law returned to the kitchen, Lin Manman whispered this to Qin Fangru.
Qin Fangru agreed with her approach.
For them, it was not a loss at all to exchange her twenty kilograms of coarse grains for an entire space farm.
The three boys followed the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law closely, not because they were reluctant to leave the things in the basket, but because they wanted to be praised.
It would be great if I could get some reward!
In the end, Qin Fangru gave each of the three of them a piece of fruit candy before sending them all away.
The main thing is to let them go back and wash up, and change their wet clothes.
Although it is early summer now, it doesn't mean you won't catch a cold if you keep wearing wet clothes.
Li Zhaodi went back to her room to check on her two daughters. After confirming that they were almost well, she went straight to the kitchen to help with the work.
She was the one who slaughtered the chicken and killed the fish, because Lin Manman and Qin Fangru were not cut out for this!
When Gu Chongjun and his family came back from work, they only had the fish soup left.
Qin Fangru asked Li Zhaodi to cook fish soup with all four crucian carps, and added mushrooms to the chicken to make chicken stew with mushrooms.
The remaining small fish and shrimps were kept for their family, coated with flour paste and fried in oil.
Oil is hard to buy these days, and they can't be so extravagant when entertaining guests.
Isn't that telling others that you have a lot of oil?
Even if Gu Chongjun's family were not outsiders, they would not dare to do this.
"Second brother, second sister-in-law, we are here!" Gu Chongjun and Xu Chunhua greeted them.
"Second uncle, second aunt." The Gu Zhuolang brothers shouted to their wives.
"Hello, Second Grandpa, Second Grandma, Second Aunt, Third Aunt, and Third Uncle!" the children shouted in unison.
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