Chapter 499: Strength in numbers
Strength in numbers!
Everyone knows this saying in modern times, but few people actually regard it as the truth.
After all, modern technology is developing rapidly, and many things that require a lot of manpower can be replaced by machines.
Jiang Wanwan is a modern person. Even though she traveled to a special period and met a group of revolutionary martyrs, even though she was moved, admired, pitied, and distressed... and even empathized with them with tears in her eyes many times.
But these still cannot change the fact that Jiang Wanwan is a modern person and will subconsciously think about things with modern thinking.
Therefore, she never thought that for people in this special period, the saying "strength in numbers" is not just a slogan, but a bloody fact.
I heard that Yang Dasao's family has seven children, and Yang Er's family is about to give birth to the sixth child.
Jiang Wanwan habitually thought that this was a preference for boys over girls, a continuation of the family line, and the oppression of women by feudal remnants.
But she never thought that they were doing this voluntarily, or even on their own initiative, and that these women were using their own methods to add bricks and tiles to the crumbling motherland.
Yes, the body is one's own, and even the most ignorant women would know that giving birth to children continuously is not good for the body.
But they still did it, and everyone did it, wasting their vitality to give birth to one child after another, just to add more strength to the country and keep more fire.
Suddenly, Jiang Wanwan suddenly remembered a piece of news that she had seen by chance before.
There is a family in a certain place, with seven martyrs in the family. The seven sons of the old lady all died in the Anti-Japanese War. They were honored by netizens as the modern version of Yang's Generals.
Originally thought to be an isolated case, now combined with the current situation, Jiang Wanwan can't help but guess that perhaps such "Yang's Generals" are everywhere in this era!
Even, men have to fight for women when they can't, and women have to fight for children when they can't, until there are no families left, and finally drowned in the long river of history.
When reading history books, Jiang Wanwan already realized how tragic the country was during this period.
However, when she experienced it in person, one insignificant little thing after another, she refreshed her understanding of the word "tragic" again and again.
Yes, how could it not be tragic, tens of millions of compatriots died during this period!
In the cold numbers, there are living lives, fathers, children, and families that are either incomplete or complete!
Jiang Wanwan opened her mouth, wanting to persuade them that they don't have to keep giving birth to children, because the country will soon win.
However, when the words came to her lips, she couldn't say them.
Because Jiang Wanwan thought again that the founding of New China did not mean that it would be far away from the gunfire. In the following ten years, the soldiers were still fighting non-stop.
Moreover, the country after the war needs to recover, build, develop, and most importantly, it needs manpower!
And where can the manpower come from?
Therefore, Jiang Wanwan, with a "despicable" mind and a sense of guilt, did not say the words of persuasion after all.
At some point, Yang's wife had already left with the children, carrying two sacks on her back.
Yang's second aunt waited for a moment, but finally couldn't help herself and asked cautiously, "Miss Jiang, when are we going to test that thing?"
Upon hearing this, Jiang Wanwan, who had been a little silent, came to her senses, quickly reorganized her thoughts, and got her spirits up to do her business.
Just after guiding Yang's second aunt and the children to test the values,
Yang's second son happened to come over with Yang's eight-month pregnant daughter-in-law.
An eight-month-old pregnant belly looks more conspicuous than a watermelon, especially when a pregnant woman is skinny, it looks even more scary.
Jiang Wanwan was extremely nervous throughout the whole process. After carefully checking the data, she relaxed when she saw the other party moving out of the supermarket in small steps.
Aunt Yang is a generation older than Aunt Yang, but there is no difference in their knowledge of numbers.
In a word, she doesn't know what she can buy with the money she has.
So Jiang Wanwan had to follow the method she used when she received Aunt Yang before.
Let the other party take the goods that are confirmed to be needed first, and she will help calculate and distribute the rest.
They are all ordinary families in the village, and the most needed supplies are all kinds of food that can be preserved for a long time.
On the other hand, Aunt Yang, who left the supermarket, also moved very quickly and effectively.
When Jiang Wanwan and Aunt Yang were sure about the shopping list, there was movement outside the supermarket.
The villagers who came for the first time naturally had little trust in the sudden appearance of the supermarket and Jiang Wanwan.
Fortunately, there was an acquaintance, Aunt Yang, who was busy packing her own supplies into sacks while promoting and explaining to other villagers.
It's like a legacy!
After this experience, Jiang Wanwan became even busier.
Many times, the shopping list of the previous family has not been finalized, and the next family has already arrived.
So soon, Jiang Wanwan didn't have to worry about testing the national destiny factor.
And in front of the cashier, there was a long line waiting to buy goods.
The originally quiet supermarket suddenly became bustling. In addition to the adults queuing, there were also strings of children.
As more people came, everyone couldn't stop talking, and the supermarket became more and more lively.
Fortunately, with more people being received, Jiang Wanwan became more and more adept at it, and the speed of confirming the shopping list was also much faster than before.
This busy period lasted for two or three hours.
During this period, Jiang Wanwan received guests from forty or fifty households, which was probably all the residents in the vicinity.
Each household had one or two people at least, and more than a dozen people at most, and most of them had few adults and many children.
The total amount of national destiny factors possessed by these guests, who were families, was mostly around ten thousand points.
Even the smallest one had several thousand points of national destiny factors, and the largest one had thirty or forty thousand.
As for the goods they bought, they were naturally mainly food.
Among all the goods, the most popular ones are the cheap sachima, followed by chocolate, halved eggs and canned food.
Every household came in with empty sacks in a nervous mood, and then went home happily with sacks of different sizes on their backs.
After all, these precious materials were no different from getting them for free.
Some people were smart and after hiding the things at home, they hurried to inform relatives and friends in the next village.
These were all the benefits of getting things for free, so of course they had to bring their own relatives.
Of course, they only informed relatives nearby, and those who were too far away were ignored.
They all heard that the generous Miss Jiang would only stay for one day and leave in the middle of the night.