With so many sweet potato vines, how many could people possibly eat? Every time the fields were turned over, the sweet potato vines piled up like mountains. In the end, all these sweet potato vines were given to pig farms and chicken farms around the town. Of course, they didn't take them for free. If you went to them to buy pork or eggs, they would give you a discount.
Just give us a little bit, that's fine. After all, you don't need these vines, and you won't take them away. The chickens, ducks, and geese at home can't eat them all every day because there are too many. The vines in several acres of sweet potato fields can't be cleared out in a day.
Almost no one in town raises pigs. Some people raise chickens and dogs, but I've never heard of anyone raising pigs. These things stink. If you raise them in town, the neighbors around you won't be able to stand it, especially in the summer when they breed a lot of maggots. Who the hell can stand that? So even if you want to raise them, you have to consider the feelings of your neighbors.
That's how chicken and pig farms sprang up around the area. People had to find a way to make a living. Besides land, raising livestock and poultry was all that was left for ordinary people.
In this era of scarcity, no matter what you do, as long as you are diligent and the weather is kind, you won't starve.
Lazy couples like Tang Youtian exist in other places too, it's just that Cuihua and her friends were unlucky enough to run into them.
Cuihua and Zhaodi longed to study, but education was really expensive in those days, especially with inflation; a semester's tuition could cost a full 100,000 yuan.
The Tao family has four brothers. The eldest, second, and third brothers are in primary school, each costing 100,000 yuan. The youngest brother is in a preschool class, which is even more expensive because he needs to eat there, costing 200,000 yuan, not to mention that he also needs to bring some food with him.
So the tuition alone scared them away, and they didn't dare to even think about it anymore. When they came across a literacy class that offered free instruction, they ran away faster than anyone else.
Even Cuihua, who works in the city, is eager to learn and grow; she wants to learn everything, and Zhao Lingli is willing to teach her.
In the countryside, no one would invest in a girl's education. Even the daughters of some of the uncles didn't receive this treatment. Most girls in the village remained illiterate their entire lives, and no one thought this was abnormal; on the contrary, they considered it perfectly normal. Therefore, when they returned to town and had this opportunity to learn, not only did Cuihua cherish it, but Zhaodi and Pandi also valued it highly. Even if they couldn't understand the lessons, it didn't matter, because Taozui and the others would help them reinforce their knowledge when they returned.
Now they can not only write their own names, but also recognize many characters, and can even use an abacus to do addition and subtraction within 100.
It's a pity that Xiao Jiu is too young, otherwise I really wanted to help these older sisters by selling the food in the space to raise some tuition fees for them.
Their longing for education was so much like that of children in the mountains. In her past life, her parents had helped many children who had dropped out of school, and she had also visited those poor children in the mountains. So when these little faces, yearning for learning, overlapped together, it aroused her strong protective instincts.
In their province, primary, junior high, and senior high school together last for ten years. Primary school is six years (junior primary and senior primary), and junior high and senior high school together last for four years, for a total of ten years.
Even if she started school at the age of six, she could only study up to the first or second year of university at most, so if she wanted to complete a full university education, she would have to skip a grade.
This was nothing to her, who had been a top student since childhood in her previous life. It was just that the situation was too severe in the last few years, so she wanted to wait and see whether or not to go to university.
While reading is not the only way out, in this era, if you are educated and have cultural knowledge, it will be more helpful for you to find a job and get a good one.
In her previous life, she studied traditional Chinese medicine. The reason she studied traditional Chinese medicine was because her father felt that traditional Chinese medicine culture had been too heavily infiltrated by Western medicine culture. Some aspects of our culture are valued abroad, but not in our own country. This is how culture is plundered.
In addition, the number of talented people lost during those years was immeasurable. She spent eight years pursuing her bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees, and also interned at a traditional Chinese medicine hospital for two years. Although she had memorized the textbook material perfectly and spent a lot of time traveling with her teachers to various departments of the hospital, and even passed the medical licensing exam, she still had too few patients under her care. So in this life, she plans to pick up her unfinished medical ethics and carry forward traditional Chinese medicine.
Whether it's rebirth or time travel, such opportunities are extremely rare. With her learning experience from her previous life, and since she hasn't been away from textbooks for too long, it should be easy for her to pick them up again. So, skipping grades and finishing her studies before the catastrophe shouldn't be a problem.
She's growing up too slowly right now, and every day is a chaotic mess for her.
Because of this and that, she was restricted and could only follow her older sister or grandmother around. Her only role now was to add a few eggs and some harvested vegetables to the house from time to time. The vegetables she added were of good quality, like tomatoes and homegrown misshapen gourds and dates, but they tasted good. The ones she brought out looked nice, but they didn't taste good at all.
But there's nothing we can do. All the fruits and vegetables in later generations are the same. None of them are free from pesticides. Some are labeled as pesticide-free, but in reality, there's no difference between them and what you eat. The same goes for eggs. She can tell at a glance which eggs taste good and which don't between the ones she raises herself and the ones she takes out.
But even this thing that she herself disliked, while showing its flaws in this era, allowed everyone to eat more and be full. The current practical difficulty was that there were enough vegetables to eat, and Grandma Egg could spare a few to cook each day. The problem was that grain had to be carefully calculated down to the last two ounces, otherwise it wouldn't last until the end of the year.
Especially now that there is a shortage of oil and food, people eat a lot because they work a lot and expend a lot of energy. If a person eats three meals a day and each meal is two ounces, it is not enough to fill them up. A little wine might be okay, but for adult men and teenagers, a meal should be at least five ounces, if not a pound.
So their family has no shortage of vegetables, and with the help of a little wine, eggs can satisfy everyone's cravings. However, the amount of grain is limited, so they can only fill their stomachs by stir-frying more vegetables and steaming more potatoes, pumpkins, and sweet potatoes before finally finishing off with staple food.
Xiao Jiu has grain in her warehouse, but it's all refined grain. Compared to the refined grain in her space, her flour is too white, and there's too little of it—sweet potato flour, sorghum flour, corn flour, etc. It's all refined grain that's been filtered to remove the residue, so there's no way to mix it in. You can tell the difference at a glance.
Moreover, rice is expensive, so her family almost never buys it. They grind and filter their own flour. The flour in her warehouse is whiter than the most expensive high-gluten flour available at the time, so it's not easy to mix it in. The only things she can do are soybeans, peanuts, and millet. She can occasionally scoop a ladleful and add it in. She completely gives up on flour and the like, but she can secretly manipulate these grains.
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