During the meal, the brother and sister kept scolding each other for a long time, while the educated youths at the educated youth center were very satisfied with the meal.
"This meal is so delicious!" Liu Gaoyuan, a young educated man, had the biggest bowl and the most food, but that didn't stop him from quickly finishing the delicious food. "I don't know if it's my imagination, but I feel like there's a strong meaty flavor in the broth."
Normally, saying something like this would be met with laughter, after all, it was hard to even get enough to eat these days, let alone meat. However, the educated youth present all nodded in agreement.
Because they all tasted meat, and it wasn't just one day.
Mao Kexin said: "I've been wanting to say this for a long time. It seems like there's this taste in every meal. It was there a few days ago, and it's there today too, but the meat tastes a little different today."
Today the Xu family ate beef, which was indeed different from before.
Liu Gaoyuan said: "The taste is different from the day before yesterday."
The day before yesterday was a soup made with razor clams and old duck, and yesterday was a soup made with fermented rice wine pork... If you really want to distinguish them carefully, they are indeed different.
Although I haven't eaten the relevant food specifically, I can still tell them apart because they taste different.
Mao Kexin lowered her voice. "But... where does the meat come from? I see a lot of people in the village don't seem to have enough to eat, and they're usually very stingy."
"They just eat a few bites every day in the fields. There's no meat, not even a speck of meat."
She paid great attention to it, and it was just as he said, most people's meals in the fields were as simple as possible, just making do with what they had, and if they really wanted to eat their fill they had to wait until they got home at night.
When she said this, the other educated youth nodded. "The houses in this village are nice because they're an immigrant village, and all the houses are newly built, so they're naturally nicer. But actually, it's pretty empty. Haven't we all been to the village chief's house? It's just so-so."
"Most people probably haven't had an easy time."
"They should have had meat recently," Bai Ru said. "Today, the team members were talking about the wolf pack that attacked the village. They hunted a lot of wolves, so everyone got a lot of wolf meat."
They were all stunned for a moment, but then they thought about the taste of the meat and decided that it didn't matter what kind of meat it was, as long as there was meat to eat. Why would you be so picky these days? Wait... "Wolf meat? The meat tastes different every day. How come?"
"Maybe it's because the cooking method is different." Several of them are novices in the kitchen, so it's hard to say for sure. Anyway, as long as it tastes good, that's enough.
"Hey, have you noticed?" Mao Kexin whispered, "There are a few families in our team who aren't having a good time. They eat simple meals during breaks, but some also eat exceptionally well. Look, the family that delivered us food today has a plump and white child."
"What's so strange about that?" Liu Gaoyuan said, "Aren't those kids who were chattering around us just now all white and plump?"
"But besides them, there are many other children in the village who look very skinny. They are completely different from the children in the city. Yet, today, these children are even fatter than the children in the city. This village is really strange. Could it be that some of the people's food has gone to another group of people?"
"That's not the case, but maybe they are better at hunting?"
Mao Kexin said, "The person who brought us food today is a doctor, so he probably has more money to spare, and the children are eating better, right?"
"These days, everything is the same." Liu Gaoyuan fanned himself with his large palm-leaf fan. Even at this hour, he still felt extremely hot. "What's wrong with the weather this year? Why is it so hot?"
Just now when I was hungry, I thought eating was the most important thing in the world. Now that I’m full, I feel very hot.
"It will be cooler later. It was so hot out in the fields today. I feel like I've gotten a lot darker. I'm sunburned and my skin is broken. It hurts a lot."
Bai Ru asked Mao Kexin: "When will you take a shower?"
Mao Kexin said, "You go first. I'll stay for a while. It's so hot."
Bai Ru nodded, went to fetch a bucket of water, and carried it back to her room. The water tank here was prepared by the village and was considered a collective supply for the educated youth site. They would take turns fetching water.
However, Bai Ru felt that she could cook in the future. Although her cooking skills were average, they were already very good compared to her current level. After all, she had traveled through time, and at least she knew how to use seasonings much easier than others.
After traveling through time until now, this is probably the thing she is most confident in showing off. She never thought that her skill, which was once criticized by others, could be so successful here.
It’s really because my friends are too useless in cooking.
Bai Ru pulled up the curtains. Today, Mao Kexin was outside enjoying the cool air, so she could finally wash herself thoroughly. A carefree bath was out of the question, as fetching water was difficult, and there was no separate bathroom, so for now, she had to make do with this.
It's not easy for her to find time to be alone these days. She has to apply sunscreen and wash it off carefully, and she can only choose those that are not so fragrant.
Mao Kexin still felt that she could not get tanned, and she was envious. How could such a good thing happen? When working in the fields, she would use the toilet every once in a while to put on her oily hair and sunscreen. No one else could do that.
But she wears sunscreen not to keep her skin white, but mainly to fight aging and protect her skin, because getting hurt is really not a pleasant thing, and sunburn is actually a very painful thing.
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