Lin Wanjun suddenly opened her eyes.
There was no man, nor was he in the space, only Li Yuetang's gentle and concerned eyes.
"What's wrong? Why are you still crying? Did you have a nightmare?"
Lin Wanjun raised her hand and touched her cheek, which was wet.
"Yeah, I had a nightmare. I dreamt a big snake was biting me!"
She leaned into Li Yuetang's arms and said, "Zhan Jin and I had a fight last night. He was mean to me!"
Lin Wanjun exaggerated the story and felt aggrieved.
"I was almost scared to death by that snake. Instead of comforting and caring for me, it yelled at me, and yelled so loudly!"
Hearing this, Li Yuetang gritted her teeth in anger.
"That little bastard has really grown up. He dares to bully others like this. Just wait, Mom will give him a good beating to vent your anger!"
It was quite a coincidence that a baby snake as thick as a little finger appeared out of nowhere.
Lin Wanjun screamed louder than anyone else, as if she was extremely frightened.
"Ah! Mom! There's a snake! I'm so scared! Is this snake here to seek revenge? Did I kill their mother?"
The little snake who was more panicked and frightened than Lin Wanjun: Woman, look carefully, I am a rat snake, how can Chi Lian be my mother?
Chi Lian suffered an unprecedented tragic death. The snake world held a meeting last night to remind all snake members to stay away from you to prevent any accidents.
You snake killer, why are you pretending to yell for help? I'm more panicked than you, okay?
Snake twisted his body so hard that it almost caught fire, and then he slipped into the gap as fast as he could and disappeared...
This episode was forgotten as everyone rushed to the cafeteria to get breakfast.
When Li Yuetang came back with the rice bowl, his face was filled with sorrow.
"Yesterday we had steamed bread and pickles, but today..."
She opened the rice bowl to show Lin Wanjun, and saw a bowl of rice soup that was so thin that you could see your reflection in it.
"They said food was in short supply. Except for the men who did the hard labor, who were given a steamed bun for each meal, the rest of the family had liquid food in the morning and evening, and only solid food at noon."
Lin Wanjun had expected this.
In the original plot, because the place of exile was desolate and remote, and also suffered from drought, life was difficult for everyone from top to bottom.
This situation continued until the end of the autumn harvest, when the higher authorities allocated emergency food to the cadre school, temporarily solving the food problem.
There is still more than a month until the autumn harvest.
"It doesn't matter!"
Lin Wanjun smiled and blinked, then leaned over to whisper in Li Yuetang's ear, "I have a secret weapon!"
Li Yuetang thought the secret weapon was the butter cookies from last night, and she couldn't help but sigh.
How many cookies can I have? Where can I fill my stomach?
"Mom, please hang the clothes outside to dry. I'll serve the porridge to us!"
Lin Wanjun sent Li Yuetang away, and while no one was paying attention, she took out milk powder from the space and poured it into the porridge and stirred it evenly. After thinking for a while, she added a spoonful of cooked rice and mixed it into the porridge.
Yes, she had steamed the rice in advance when she had nothing to do during the three days of confinement.
Because of the extremely powerful preservation function of the space, the food will still be as fresh as before, not to mention three or five days, even if it is stored for three or five years.
Li Yuetang came back after finishing her work and hanging up the clothes.
"Mom, let's eat."
Lin Wanjun handed the bowl to Li Yuetang and said with a smile.
Li Yuetang took just one sip and was so shocked that she was speechless.
Milk powder! It definitely contains milk powder!
It was the same brand of milk powder she used to drink in the military compound, and she was very familiar with the taste.
"Shh!"
Lin Wanjun whispered, "Don't make any noise. Finish eating quickly. It will be troublesome if someone finds out."
Li Yuetang didn't think much about it and thought that the milk powder was brought by Lin Wanjun in her bag.
"Don't feed me something this precious anymore. Save it for a safer time."
The so-called just in case is in case Lin Wanjun becomes pregnant in the future.
Ordinary people can make do with one meal a day being hungry, but pregnant women cannot suffer. If they don’t get enough nutrition, both adults and children will suffer.
Lin Wanjun smiled and did not respond to Li Yuetang's words.
What's there to save?
There are hundreds of boxes of milk powder in the space. Even if you drink it every day, it will be enough for three to five years.
When I was almost done eating, a woman came over with her child.
The other person's name is Zhao Shuping. She was an accountant before being sent down to the countryside. Her daughter is just ten years old this year.
"Sister, can you spare a bite for the child?"
Zhao Shuping smiled flatteringly and said eagerly.
Yes, she is never greedy and never minds whether food is dirty or not. Every time she eats, she only asks others for a bite.
Everyone felt sorry for the child and agreed to leave a bite of their steamed buns or rice porridge for the child.
After taking a look around, Zhao Shuping found that the porridge in Li Yuetang's bowl was the thickest, so she asked her for some first.
Lin Wanjun suddenly looked up, first at the skinny little girl who was swallowing her saliva, then looked at Li Yuetang, as if she wanted to say something but hesitated.
My dear mother-in-law, please don't be soft-hearted and act like a saint at this critical moment!
There is something added to this porridge. If that little girl tastes it, there will be endless trouble!
Li Yuetang did not disappoint Lin Wanjun. No matter how much Zhao Shuping begged and pleaded, she pretended not to hear and drank the last porridge at the bottom of the bowl in one breath.
Seeing that the porridge in the bowl was gone, the child pouted and burst into tears.
"Bad guy! You bad guy! You stole my food!"
Zhao Shuping also changed her fawning smile and pointed at Li Yuetang and scolded, "You are so cruel! You even took the children's food away. Are you worthy of being a human being?"
After hearing this, Lin Wanjun quit.
She finished her bowl of porridge, stood up, pointed at Zhao Shuping, and cursed, "If your brain is full of water, just stand upside down and empty your mind. If your brain is kicked by a donkey, go to the hospital. Who are you trying to morally blackmail here?"
"Look carefully, this is our family's rice bowl. This is the rice my mom got from the cafeteria. How did it become your child's rice? Do you have any shame?"
Zhao Shuping scolded, "Who's shameless? I think you're the shameless one. Go ask around. Among the dozen or so people in this room, which one didn't leave their last bite of food for my daughter?"
"Leaving some food for my daughter has become an unbreakable rule. Anyone who breaks the rule is shameless!"
This made Lin Wanjun laugh out loud.
"Rules? Who the hell made these rules? Oh, you went to someone's house to beg for food, and they kindly gave you a steamed bun, so what? You just stay on their kang and refuse to leave?"
"If you really love your daughter, save some food yourself. Don't eat and drink like a pig and then let your child beg for food with you!"
It’s not that there are no one taking care of the children in this house, and the children have their own portion. No matter whether the food is good or bad, they only get half the adult portion.
Zhao Shuping would secretly eat her daughter's food every time, and then take the child to beg everywhere on the pretext that the child was growing and didn't eat enough. She was smarter than a ghost.
So she is the fattest person in this room.
Zhao Shuping's face flushed with embarrassment, and she angrily yelled, "Who are you calling a pig?"
"Anyone who steals other people's food is a pig! I'm telling you, don't argue with me. Arguing means you're guilty and you're a pig!"
Unlike Zhao Shuping's furious reaction, Lin Wanjun pulled the corners of her mouth together in a half-smile.
"Aunts and sisters-in-law, you've seen that there's a food shortage. Adults and children alike can't get enough to eat. There's an old saying that goes, 'If you're rich, you should help the world; if you're poor, you should just take care of yourself.'"
She looked around and said slowly, "I've said everything I need to say. You should all decide for yourself: which is more important, your own life or the lives of others."
After hearing this, everyone in the room fell silent and drank up all the porridge in their bowls. No one left a single mouthful for Zhao Shuping's daughter.
Zhao Shuping was furious and pointed at Lin Wanjun, cursing, "You...just wait, I'm not done with you!"
"If you're not threatening me, you might as well find a way to feed the kids!"
Lin Wanjun sneered, "Looking at the entire cadre school, your daughter is the darkest, thinnest and most pitiful one. I advise you to behave like a decent person!"
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