Based on the current consumption, there would definitely be no problem having two or three hundred kilograms of food left over after the New Year. After all, her younger sister doesn't eat much and likes to buy food, so there was a reason why she stopped her from buying so much food.
"The weather has been so strange this winter, it never hurts to save some food. Besides, these food coupons will expire if I don't spend them soon."
What Song Tanglan said was indeed the truth. The date on the food coupons would expire soon. Previously, these expiring food coupons were used to eat at state-owned restaurants or packed up and taken home to share.
If you can prepare more food now, then prepare more food and keep it there. It is better than going hungry later.
The couple looked at each other and nodded helplessly.
"Okay!"
Since they purchased a lot of things last time, they have been busy with family matters. The pigs and cows in the team are in good health, and they have stockpiled a lot of rations for them for the winter.
As a result, Song Tanglan had more free time and could help with various small things at home.
The days passed by gradually, and soon it was the end of October. As the weather gradually became colder, the people in the team also felt that something was wrong.
Captain Cheng urgently convened a meeting and asked everyone in the team to prepare more firewood. Even the grain delivery time this year was advanced a lot.
The cabbages, radishes and potatoes in the field were almost ready, so they were quickly asked to harvest them. In such strange weather, they were afraid that the crops would freeze in the fields.
Since the last meeting, the people in the team have been busy. Many people went to the mountain to look for firewood. The firewood outside the mountain was almost picked up dry. Many people did not find any and had to go further inside.
They didn't dare to go in alone, and they all went in groups to the inner area. However, they didn't expect that their luck was so bad that they encountered wild boars as soon as they entered the inner area.
When they hurriedly ran out of the periphery, they all suffered a lot of injuries. Two of them were injured particularly seriously. One of them was almost hit in the stomach, but he dodged quickly and was only scratched on the side of his waist, leaving a big wound, and the whole person hit the tree.
The other man was even more unlucky. He broke his leg when being chased by a wild boar. Fortunately, the noise they made was so loud that many people saw that it was a wild boar and surrounded him with axes, ready to kill it.
Finally, surrounded by a dozen tall and strong men, the wild boar still couldn't escape the fate of death. It lay on the ground unwillingly, breathing out more than breathing in. There were various scars on its body, and the cut on its stomach was bleeding continuously.
Even so, it was unwilling to give up, and it kept grunting from time to time, trying to scare them away with the sound of its attack. But when everyone saw the half-dead wild boar, they were unwilling to give up, and they just stood there waiting for it to die.
I didn't dare go forward, for fear that it would make a final rebuttal.
When the news was passed back to the team, the team that went up the mountain happily carried the wild boar back to the team.
The team was both happy and worried about the injured people. Although they were very happy to be given the pigs, at this time the family lost a laborer, and if they didn't have enough supplies to prepare for the winter, they would starve and freeze.
Fortunately, the team is relatively harmonious. Every household prepares their own winter supplies, and then they go to ask the elderly people living alone and the injured people. They will help in any way they can, hoping that everyone can survive this year.
I just didn’t expect that the weather was sunny yesterday, but it started to get colder and colder the next day, and it snowed in the evening.
Song Tanglan looked at the weather which had suddenly become much colder, took out a flashlight and looked at the scenery outside the window, and found that it had started snowing heavily outside. She was still wearing long sleeves yesterday, but today she had to wear a coat.
The temperature was already below zero, and she shivered with cold. She quickly closed the window, took out the bedding from the box, spread it out, covered herself with the big quilt, wrapped herself tightly, and slowly felt warmer.
"It's snowing heavily as expected. I was wondering why it was so cold." Song Tanglan lay on the bed and started to think wildly. She guessed that this winter would be very difficult to endure, and she also knew the general direction of things in the future.
But she didn't expect that when she actually experienced it, she would feel a little scared.
Before she could come up with an answer, she felt the warm temperature coming from the kang.
It turned out that Cheng Fangyuan discovered that it was snowing outside, so he got up in the middle of the night to remove the blocking stone slabs, and then went back to the kitchen to light a fire and heat the kang all night.
They fell asleep only after feeling the warmth on the kang.
Many people were woken up by the sudden heavy snow, especially those with thin quilts, who would get up and add more quilts.
The people in the Youth League Home also got up one after another and took out their thick quilts to cover themselves, but they didn't prepare much firewood this year, so no one thought of getting up to heat the kang.
Everyone thought the temperature was not too cold and everyone could hold on, so no one got up to heat the kang. However, when they got up for the second time, many people caught colds due to the sudden drop in temperature.
The heavy snow continued for 10 consecutive days. Many places on the road were covered with snow, and even the roofs had to be cleaned two or three times a day to prevent them from collapsing.
At this time, the two sisters of the Song family had just finished lunch and were looking at the snow scene outside the house. Song Tangcheng was speaking with a worried look on his face.
"The snow this year is really strange. Fortunately, I prepared a room full of firewood, otherwise this winter would be really hard to endure."
"I don't know when this snow will stop." Song Tanglan looked at the heavy snow outside and yawned out of boredom.
"You can't predict the weather this way." Song Tangcheng shook his head helplessly at the thought. Fortunately, the family had enough food reserves and they could still eat for a while. They could also accept the delay in food distribution due to the snow.
However, not every household is as well prepared as they are. Many families have started to worry about their food reserves as they see the continuous heavy snow falling outside.
Even Captain Cheng was worried about this. He just wanted them to distribute the food as soon as the snow stopped, so that at least everyone would not starve.
Only one month passed, and many people only ate one or two meals a day in order to save food. Only Xiao Cheng's family still maintained three meals a day.
Fortunately, after more than a month, the snow finally stopped. After Captain Cheng dealt with those who came to borrow grain, he discussed with Accountant Zhang and others and started distributing the grain in the afternoon.
So that this year's grain can be distributed to them earlier, so that people don't have to come to borrow grain from time to time.
Captain Cheng asked people to sweep the snow from the threshing ground aside to make room.
Then he picked up his loudspeaker and called on everyone to start collecting food.
Because everyone had been locked up at home for over a month, Accountant Zhang also counted the team's work points according to what was recorded in the notebook. This time, he deliberately divided them into two pairs in order to speed up the process.
I was afraid that it would start snowing before the food was distributed.
Many people were very happy to hear that food would be distributed in the afternoon. They took the food bags they had prepared long ago and went to line up early.
But Song Tangcheng has a little kid with him, and it’s not suitable for him to go out in such cold weather. He is afraid that he will catch a cold, which would be troublesome.
Song Tangcheng had no choice but to stay at home and leave the responsibility of collecting food to Song Tanglan.
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