"I'll go ask." Li Dani tied the cloth bag tightly again and carried it back.
Zheng Yan said, "In the past, when the old boss came, the head of the village would serve him wheat flour and rice as the staple food. Who are we? We ate wheat flour for breakfast, how can we eat wheat flour for several days in a row?"
Li Erni agreed: "That's right, that bag must have weighed over a hundred pounds. Speaking of which, this morning was the first time in my life I'd ever eaten noodles made from wheat flour. They were so smooth and silky!"
"It's good enough to have something to eat. Have you forgotten how it felt to be hungry before? Just wait and see, there will probably be many more people going hungry in the days to come!" Wang Qiuyue sighed deeply.
The others pursed their lips, acknowledging that this was indeed the case.
They were already so poor, and along the way, some disaster victims even tried to rob them; those people probably couldn't even afford half a meal...
Li Dani left quickly and returned even faster, with an extra bag in her other hand.
Li Erni went up to her, "Sister, have you changed?"
They were sisters, and both married to brothers from the same family. When the flood came, they were together. Her older sister reacted quickly, grabbed the man who had been hit and pulled her back with all her might, which is how she survived.
None of the women in the village could swim, and of the two women in the family, only the two of them survived.
“No, the lady said she got the right one! It’s white flour!” Li Dani said to her younger sister, as if she still couldn’t believe it.
Li Erni opened her mouth, but after a long while, she finally spoke: "Just how good a boss have we encountered?"
Wang Qiuyue, Zhou Yu, and Zheng Yan were overjoyed.
Li Dani handed over another bag as well, "Madam said we had a hard journey, and they are going on a long trip tomorrow, which will be physically demanding, so we need to eat well."
They also gave us peanuts, sesame seeds, sugar, and salt, telling us to make whatever we wanted, whether sweet or savory, and in whatever quantities we wanted.
The four hurriedly opened the sack and found small cloth bags inside containing peanuts, sesame seeds, brown sugar, and salt wrapped in oil paper.
"Madam also said that after we are separated from the family in a while, we will no longer have white flour and rice to eat, but will have to eat cornmeal and potatoes, so that we can be mentally prepared in advance."
The four thought they had misheard and looked up at Li Dani, asking, "What kind of mental preparation do we need for eating cornmeal?"
One pound of cornmeal can buy two pounds of wheat flour!
In the past, even black flour couldn't be eaten dry every day in the village. Corn flour was only available during festivals when the host would give it to them.
Li Dani didn't understand either. She scratched her head and guessed, "Maybe they gave us cornmeal to eat so that we would work harder and more diligently?"
The four of them wholeheartedly agreed!
He nodded emphatically: "Now that we've eaten cornmeal, of course we have to work even harder!"
Otherwise, it would be a disservice to cornmeal.
As for eating potatoes, maybe we got used to them by then.
The five of them tidied up their things one by one and completed the preparations. There was no time for lunch, and when they returned, the food in the kitchen was already ready.
Sure enough, a short while later, the sound of dinner being served came from over there.
When the five of them arrived and saw the lunch, they finally remembered what Sister Da Ni had mentioned about "white flour and rice." They had eaten white flour noodles for breakfast, and now they had rice for lunch!
No, it wasn't just the rice; they didn't even get to eat the side dishes that came with it during the Chinese New Year!
I only saw it when the former owner came to the village and it was on the table prepared by the village head.
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