Tian Tian was still a little skeptical. This was the first time she had seen such a large vat, and she had no idea how much it could hold.
I always feel that this jar can hold enough food for her to eat for a year.
"That's good! This is good. We'll just have to wait for the food to be distributed tomorrow. I wonder if we can get more than 3,000 kilograms of food this year?"
Tian Tian's jaw dropped as she listened to this. She had never imagined in her life that one day the amount of food she would eat in a year would weigh thousands of kilograms.
How much is three thousand kilograms of grain?
Please forgive her for having no idea about these things. She grew up in an orphanage and basically ate in the cafeteria since she was a child. She has no idea how much food is needed to cook a meal.
Later, the end of the world came. Although she had stored a lot of rice and flour in the space, she would not deliberately weigh how much food was used in the meal every time she cooked. She always used bowls as the unit of measurement.
"Three thousand kilograms of food? That's a lot! How long will it take us to eat it all?" Tian Tian couldn't help but sigh.
"Three thousand kilograms of grain is just a small amount. Our brigade has a bumper harvest this year, so the grain distributed is more than in previous years. Moreover, these three thousand kilograms are all raw grain. After the shells are removed, the skins are peeled, and the grain is ground into flour, there may not be much left." said Old Mrs. Tian.
Old Mrs. Tian looked at the neatly arranged large jars. Her mind began to imagine these large jars filled with grain. She immediately put her hands on her hips with satisfaction.
"Okay! Now we just have to wait for the food to be brought back."
Tian Tian and Lin Meiyu looked at each other, and smiled with helplessness but also a hint of expectation.
In the evening, Mrs. Tian personally cooked a pot of eggplant soup.
Tian Lisong's portion was delivered by Tian Tian. Tian Lilin had been staying in his room since he went back to sleep after lunch in the morning and had not woken up. Tian Tian could hear Tian Lilin's loud snoring when she passed by the room.
Delivering public grain was not an easy job. Several brigades wanted to hand over the grain as soon as possible, and they ran to the grain station as soon as the grain was dried.
However, there are only a few staff members at the two stations, and it takes time to weigh each bag of grain. Those who work at the grain station go to the grain station on time every day and weigh the grain slowly.
These people work at the grain station. If they are in a good mood, they will ensure that the amount of grain you have paid is sufficient. If they are in a bad mood, they will insist that the amount of grain you have paid is too little. Farmers have no power and can do nothing about it, so they can only grit their teeth and pay another batch of grain.
Later, everyone learned their lesson and secretly handed them a pack of cigarettes when they were weighing the grain. Those people stopped playing tricks and reported the weight of the grain truthfully.
Even if they were a little slow in weighing the grain, no one dared to rush them and they had to just wait there. If they were fast, they could wait for two or three days; if they were slow, they might have to wait at the grain station for a week.
When I was thirsty, I drank water from the tap. When I was hungry, I ate some dry food I brought with me to fill my stomach. At night, I just lay on the ground and slept.
With so much food to guard, I couldn't sleep well and would wake up at the slightest noise.
It is not easy to go out and pay the public grain, and Old Mrs. Tian knows it. She feels sorry for Tian Lisong and Tian Lilin.
She wanted to let Tian Lisong come back and rest for a while, but distributing food was a big deal, and if Tian Lisong wanted to distribute the food earlier, Old Lady Tian would not stop him.
Now Tian Lilin is sleeping soundly at home, and Old Mrs. Tian won't call him.
So there were only six people including Old Lady Tian at the table.
Tian Zhuo finished drinking the eggplant soup and licked the bowl.
He didn't have this habit before, but recently there was no food at home, so he just had soup for three meals a day, without any oil at all.
The soupy feeling was gone after I peed, and I wasn't hungry at all. My stomach was still rumbling at the end of the day.
Tian Zhuo was never full, so every time after drinking the soup he would lick the bowl, tasting the food to deceive himself into thinking he had eaten something.
After these few days, Tian Zhuo's chubby little body has become thinner.
Although they look better now than before when they were dark and fat, Tian Tian felt distressed seeing them. After dinner, she roasted chestnuts for Tian Zhuo and Tian Baobao over charcoal fire.
While the chestnuts were being roasted, I cracked walnuts and hazelnuts for them.
"Sister! You eat too!" Tian Zhuo handed a peeled chestnut to Tian Tian's mouth, with black ash on his hands from peeling the chestnuts.
Tian Tian didn't mind and ate two chestnuts from Tian Zhuo's hand.
When Tian Zhuo handed her chestnuts again, Tian Tian raised her head to avoid Tian Zhuo's little hand.
"Sister isn't going to eat anymore. I drank so much at dinner that I can't eat any more chestnuts. You two can eat it by yourselves." Tian Tian said.
Tian Zhuo was still young and easily believed what Tian Tian said.
Tian Baobao is not as easy to fool as Tian Zhuo. He curled his lips and looked up at Tian Tian, "I'm hungry no matter what I eat. You are older than me, do more work than me in a day, and eat only a little more than me. How can you be full?"
Tian Baobao snatched the stone from Tian Tian's hand and said, "I'll help you crack the walnuts, and you go eat the chestnuts."
Tian Tian looked at this with a mixture of laughter and emotion, she really was reluctant to eat these chestnuts.
Because these chestnuts are something that can fill the stomachs of Tian Baobao and Tian Zhuo.
But there is food in Tian Tian’s space. Although she can’t take it out for everyone to eat, she can still eat it herself.
Chestnuts were just snacks for her, so there was no need to snatch the food from Tian Zhuo and Tian Baobao.
"I'm really not hungry. Neither of you ate the walnuts and hazelnuts I cracked just now, so I ate them all. Now I can't eat chestnuts." Tian Tian said.
Tian Baobao looked at the pile of hazelnut shells and walnut shells next to him and was a little dumbfounded, "Really?"
He and Tian Zhuo had only eaten a few hazelnuts and walnuts when the chestnuts were not roasted.
This thing smells good, but it's too hard to eat. It takes a lot of effort to break it open to get just a tiny bit.
Especially walnuts. Nowadays, walnuts are all hickory nuts, which have thick skin and small flesh. It takes a long time to pick them out, and you won’t feel full even after eating them for a long time.
After the chestnuts were well, Tian Zhuo and Tian Baobao kept eating them and never paid any attention to walnuts and hazelnuts.
But Tian Tian had been cracking walnuts and hazelnuts, and now there were no kernels nearby.
"Did you really eat it? You didn't lie to me?" the baby said doubtfully.
"I really ate it! Look at my belly!" Tian Tian relaxed completely after saying that, and consciously stuck out her little belly to show Tian Baobao.
When Tian Baobao saw Tian Tian’s bulging belly, he really thought she was full, so he no longer insisted on letting Tian Tian eat chestnuts.
"Okay! You two enjoy your meal. I'm going to go to the kang and have a rest." After cracking the last hazelnut, Tian Tian said to Tian Baobao and Tian Zhuo.
The two of them were eating happily, and when they heard Tian Tian talking, they nodded without even looking up.
"Grandma! Mom, Second Aunt!" Tian Tian ran into the room and sat next to Lin Meiyu.
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