Chapter 518 How much food is left at home?
Grandma Jing praised her several times, "My granddaughter is really thoughtful."
Li Zhu felt a little disappointed, but when he heard that they didn't have to walk back, he could actually accept it.
There is no rush to dig a canal, but Jingshu could never let someone she disliked enter the RV, so she would rather spend some money than let someone like her second uncle enter the RV, not to mention that if her second uncle's family came over again, it would be hard to say what would happen.
"Alright, then pack up and leave." Grandpa Jing's face was filled with worry. How could this be so bizarre? Disasters kept coming year after year, and each disaster only lasted a year. "I'm afraid this muddy water won't end easily. It might be like a flood, lasting a year. Make a decision quickly."
Grandma Jing was really distressed when she pulled her eldest aunt. After a while, she looked at her second daughter who was even thinner than the eldest daughter and her heart softened. But she thought of the family she married into and became angry again. In the end, she said:
"I'll bring you some oil-tea noodles. If you get hungry on the road, you can eat them with fried rice and water. If there are other people in the car, eat them secretly... Don't show off your wealth. Don't let anyone see you... Tell us if you have any news!"
Jingnai quietly asked Jingshu, "How about getting some milk powder for the baby?"
Jingshu smiled and nodded. Milk was not valuable in Jing's family, but it was more troublesome to make milk powder. However, milk powder was a good thing outside.
Still feeling sorry for little Shuen, Jing Nai asked Jing Shu before giving her a can of homemade milk powder, not daring to give her more. There was still a lot of milk powder at home, and except for gifts and favors, the family basically didn't eat it. After all, they couldn't finish it all just drinking milk.
So even though this thing can be stored for a few years after being vacuum-treated, if the family cannot finish it after a long time, it cannot be sold, and it is not good if it goes bad.
Jingnai was originally worried that Li Zhu and his family would stay in the community and not leave, but she didn't expect that after Li Zhu went over and told her about the situation, Li Zhu's mother was more anxious than anyone else and shouted that she wanted to go home quickly. It seemed that she was afraid that Li Zhu's family had hidden some good things.
The truck carrying the worm cakes arrived. It could only seat two people in the front, and the rest had to squeeze inside the truck. Li Zhu really pulled the whole family over. Fortunately, the truck was big enough, otherwise so many people would not be able to fit in even with a cart.
Seeing Li Zhu's family squeezed into the truck, Jing Nai rolled her eyes and said in fear: "Thank goodness, thank goodness."
"Yeah, otherwise the RV might have been stripped of its skin. How could they take advantage of this truck that has nothing on it?" Jingshu smiled proudly.
But Jingshu didn't know that the truck driver called her in the afternoon to express his gratitude.
Jingshu's face was full of question marks. After listening to the truck driver's explanation, Jingshu was speechless for a moment.
It turned out that Li Zhu and his family had cleaned up all the insect residue left on the walls of the carriage, even the smelly ones, making the entire truck much cleaner.
"Look how polite you are. Thank you, big sister. Your family is really hardworking."
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Jingshu seemed to be able to imagine the scene where Li Zhuniang led everyone to pick up the leftovers bit by bit and go back to cook.
No matter how you look at it, it can be considered that I did a good thing by accident.
After seeing off the two families, Jing Ye went to the backyard to clean it up. He wanted to improve these bulky guys. What should he do if mud and water spread over one day?
Grandma Jing sighed and said, "Oh no, oh no! Now we really have no land to grow crops. We have to save the rice and flour at home. We only have one big bag of flour in the past ten days. No one else eats like this..."
You wouldn't know until you do the math. Although Jingnai is illiterate, she counted on her fingers and found that according to the rate her family consumes white flour, they would eat a big bag in half a month. A bag is 40 kilograms. It has been several years. How much food is left at home?
There were many people in the family, so she scooped out flour in three or four large bowls to knead the dough. After a large bowl of dough was left to rise, Jingshu could eat half of it.
The key is that we don’t just eat white flour, sometimes we also eat rice, and there are also various meat dishes, pickles, braised products and smoked meat.
She remembered that when she lived with Old Jingtou and their little daughter, a bag of flour lasted half a year, and a bag of rice lasted two days.
After moving into the villa, isn't it just a bag of flour every two weeks? The rice is eaten even faster, it's gone in ten days.
Jingshu replenished the stock from time to time, which gave Jingnai the illusion that she could never finish eating it all over the years. But no matter how much her granddaughter stocked up, it would eventually be finished.
So, Jingshu saw Jingnai in the kitchen struggling over whether to cook one pot of rice or two, and the first thing she said to Jingshu was:
"Granddaughter, there's mud everywhere now. We can't grow food anywhere else. Our yard is already full of vegetables, so there's no place to grow rice or grain. We can't buy food outside either... Just tell me how much rice and flour we have left. If not, please make less in the future. We can eat more of what we can grow. We just need to avoid starvation. We can't just sit there and eat up all the food we have."
Only those who manage the household know how expensive firewood, rice, oil and salt are. Now the situation is getting worse and worse. Even the land cannot be cultivated. Jingnai is starting to get anxious. She has even made preparations to cook porridge and make steamed buns in the future. There is a lot of room for maneuver here, which can save food and still make you full.
"No, grandma, didn't we say a few days ago that we will do it as usual? Grandma, come with me, I will show you, but don't tell anyone else."
For the sake of her own and her family's quality of life, Jingshu could only show her grandmother the savings to comfort her young heart.
So Jingshu took advantage of the fact that no one was at home and brought Jingnai to her small private storage. Of course, there was not much rice and flour in the private storage. Rice and flour were prone to insects. Even if Jingshu added dried peppercorns and other insect repellents, they would not taste good if left outside for a long time, so now they were all stored directly in her space.
This time, they were put in quickly when the door was opened.
A gust of cold wind blew up and raised some dust. Jingnai coughed twice. The basement was a bit cold!
Turning on the lights, I saw that the rows of three-layer shelves in the basement were filled to the brim. The first thing I saw were bags of flour and various kinds of rice, stacked high, filling the shelves. Going further in, there were pieces and boxes of dry goods, including sweet potato vermicelli with a long shelf life, longkong vermicelli, dried black fungus, dried chrysanthemum, etc.
Further in are boxes of sugar, salt, vinegar and various seasonings.
The most eye-catching thing is the 5L barrels of 5S pressed peanut oil. Although a lot of it has been used in recent years, there is still enough to fill half a wall, not to mention that Jingshu also brought back a lot of olive oil and various rapeseed oils from the United States.
There were also a lot of supplies scattered on the ground. These were the supplies that Jingshu brought back from the United States and could be stored for a long time.
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