Chapter 79 Egg Custard
Liu Yinyin said with shame: "Mom, you already said that we don't know what will happen this year. Now is not the time to have a baby."
The people of Liujia Village are simple and honest, and there are no evil villains among them. But...if there is a real famine, people will be extremely hungry and there will be nothing they can't do.
Jiang Cuihua also experienced famine when she was young. When it really comes to that, there is no humanity left.
It is really inappropriate for my daughter to be alone at home and take care of two more children...
Jiang Cuihua thought about it and sighed: "Your family should keep a low profile in the future."
The conditions of the young lady's family were definitely the best in the village. They could eat meat every few days and had fine grains whenever they wanted.
Although the villagers did not see it with their own eyes, there is no wall that is impenetrable.
Although everyone didn't say it, they knew it in their hearts. It would be a crime to possess the treasure, and they were afraid that it would cause trouble in the future.
"It's okay." Liu Yinyin didn't care much about it. "Gu Cheng said that if it really doesn't work out, we can move to the county town."
Anyway, there is a way out.
Jiang Cuihua glared at her and said, "You are so lucky to have such a good man as your son-in-law."
Even if there is a famine this year, the girl's family does not have to worry. As long as they eat commercial food, the family will never go hungry.
Liu Yinyin didn't comment, and changed the subject by asking, "Mom, how much food have you stored at home?"
Naturally, she was asking about the Liu family. Last time, she bought 440 kilograms of coarse grain for the family.
Later, the price of food at Aunt Li's place did increase, and the increase was quite drastic.
Cornmeal and brown rice used to cost 1.6 cents per pound, but later the price rose to 3.0 cents per pound. Sorghum rice and buckwheat flour cost 2.2 cents per pound, and dried sweet potatoes also rose to 1.0 cents per pound.
Not to mention fine grains.
Jiang Cuihua's heart was bleeding. In just a few days, the price of food had increased by nearly half.
However, this also shows that something is wrong this year and stockpiling food is urgent.
Despite the heartache, Jiang Cuihua still bought another batch of food.
Five hundred kilograms of dried sweet potatoes, two hundred kilograms of sorghum rice, two hundred kilograms of buckwheat noodles, and one hundred kilograms of corn noodles.
One thousand kilograms of food cost one hundred and sixty-eight dollars.
In fact, if Aunt Li had limited supply of dried sweet potatoes, Jiang Cuihua would probably have bought all of them.
There's nothing you can do about it. It's cheap. In years of famine, as long as you have something to eat, it doesn't matter whether it tastes good or not.
Liu Yinyin went to the county town several times later and bought about 100 kilograms of cornmeal for the Liu family.
All together, the Liu family has now stockpiled nearly 1,600 kilograms of food.
It is impossible for the village canteen to be completely without any food, so this amount of food is enough to support the Liu family for one or two years.
Having stockpiled so much food, Jiang Cuihua felt completely relieved, but as a result, the family was completely out of money.
She told Liu Yinyin, "Don't bring me food anymore. We can't even afford ten yuan at home. We have no money to buy food."
Liu Yinyin wanted to persuade her: "Mom, isn't it safer to stock up on more food? If you don't have money, I can lend it to you first."
In fact, the food that Liu Yinyin brought for Jiang Cuihua later was all smuggled by her from the system.
Because the food prices at Aunt Li's place have gone up again!
It is already July. Even if God sends rain right away, the crops in the fields cannot be saved. A reduction in production is inevitable. It would be a blessing from God if we can get half of the grain in the autumn harvest as in previous years.
At Aunt Li's place, dried sweet potatoes are now 20 cents per pound.
Liu Yinyin thought the food was too expensive, so she bought it directly from the system.
Anyway, you don’t buy much at a time, so it won’t cost much.
Jiang Cuihua quickly refused: "No, your family's money is all earned by your son-in-law. If you want to lend it to us, we don't know when we can pay it back. Let's forget it."
Borrowing money would hurt feelings, and the son-in-law also has family there, and Jiang Cuihua doesn't want to cause unhappiness between the couple because of this.
Anyway, the food in the house is enough for the family to eat until the autumn harvest next year, and if they save a little, they can still survive for another year or two.
Besides, Jiang Cuihua doesn't think the weather next year will be the same as this year.
If that were the case, there wouldn't be enough food at home and we would just have to wait to die.
Liu Yinyin couldn't persuade her anymore.
After giving Gu Yanyan a bath, Liu Yinyin put him in the stroller.
The little guy can crawl everywhere now, so we can no longer just put him in the crib to play.
The railing on the crib is not high, so I’m afraid he might accidentally climb out and fall.
Liu Yinyin beat two eggs and steamed egg custard.
Gu Yanyan can eat a lot of things now, including fruit puree, egg custard, rice porridge, vegetable and meat porridge, noodles and so on.
What's more, the little guy is not picky about food at all and will eat anything you give him.
Now the baby mainly eats complementary food, and just drinks milk when he wakes up in the morning.
After the egg custard was steamed and cooled, Liu Yinyin sprinkled a few drops of walnut oil on it.
I took a small spoon and gave it to Gu Yanyan.
When Gu Yanyan saw Liu Yinyin coming over with egg custard, she excitedly twisted her little butt and even shouted "ma...ma".
Liu Yinyin didn't know whether to laugh or cry. She put the egg custard on the cart, tested the temperature, and made sure that it wouldn't burn Gu Yanyan before giving him the small spoon.
The little boy's chubby hands immediately grabbed the spoon tightly, and couldn't wait to scoop a spoonful of egg custard into his mouth...
His movements were a bit clumsy, but the little guy was able to eat by himself.
Biting the small spoon, he finished a mouthful of egg custard in just a few bites, and continued to scoop the egg custard with his little hand tightly holding the spoon......
He ate spoonful after spoonful with a look of satisfaction on his face.
Liu Yinyin was watching him from the side, helping him wipe the egg custard off his face from time to time.
It took him more than half an hour to finish a bowl of egg custard. At the end, he licked the corner of his mouth as if he was still not satisfied. He looked so adorable.
In the evening, Liu Yinyin made a dish of cold okra, a dish of scrambled eggs with leeks, and steamed a pot of white rice in a casserole.
When the weather is hot, Liu Yinyin doesn’t like to cook anymore and mostly eats cold dishes.
If the meals she got from the cafeteria weren't getting less and less, she would have made it simpler.
Because of the drought, the crops in the fields did not grow well and the food quality in the canteen kept declining.
Recently, Liu Yinyin’s meals consisted of a bowl of wild vegetable dumplings and a bowl of porridge made from dried sweet potatoes. There was only one kind of vegetable, and not much of it.
There is no other way. If there is no harvest from the fields, the vegetables have to be dried and stored to be eaten slowly in the future. We always have to make plans for the future.
Not only that, the way the wild vegetable nests are made is also different from before.
In the past, vegetable nests were made up of three parts wild vegetables and seven parts cornmeal.
Now it’s the other way around, three parts cornmeal and seven parts wild vegetables.
To be honest, the taste is not that good. No matter how good wild vegetables are, they taste worse than vegetables grown at home.
Moreover, at this time, the villagers did not pick and choose the wild vegetables they dug. They would pick all the old ones or those with bad taste as long as they were edible.