The three of them drank some water, replenished their strength, and then set off again, ready to finish all the remaining work in one go.
"Light, light, light~"
With the sound of gongs, this morning's collective labor came to an end.
"Comrades who participated in collective labor, everyone should go to the cafeteria to eat."
"Comrades who participated in collective labor, everyone should go to the cafeteria to eat."
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Lin Siya and others followed the main group to the village canteen.
The village canteen was built a long time ago during the Great Leap Forward and has long been abandoned. However, every year during the spring planting and autumn harvest, the canteen will be used to ensure that each household has time to go home and cook during the busy farming season.
Every household pays a certain amount of food rations, and lunch is eaten in the canteen. Of course, the food is not particularly good, mainly because the village subsidizes part of it so that everyone can have enough to eat during this busy farming season.
As for them, they were all people who went to the countryside to participate in collective labor. They all provided their own food rations, otherwise the village would not be able to afford so many people.
The group took their lunch boxes and followed the main group to the cafeteria.
The canteen is not big and cannot accommodate so many people eating at once, so some villagers will take the food home to eat.
"We are so lucky today, we have meat to eat."
"Really?"
"Really? I heard the people working in the wheat fields caught a lot of field mice today. Those bad guys ate a lot and got really fat."
"That's really great! I can finally eat meat. My mouth has been almost dry lately."
"Who says it isn't? I heard there are also sparrows, and there are quite a lot of them."
"Then we have to hurry up, otherwise it will be gone soon."
Hearing the discussions in front, Lin Siya and the others who had been following this group of people looked at each other in confusion.
"Are we really having vole meat for lunch? Is this vole meat edible?"
Xiaowen, a little girl, was also going to the countryside to participate in collective labor for the first time. When she heard that they would have field mouse meat for lunch, she was so scared that her face turned pale.
Her family was well-off, and she was the only girl in the family, so she had never suffered any hardship since she was a child.
Now when I suddenly hear that those dreaded rats are going to be made into meat and eaten, to be honest, I can't accept it.
Not to mention Xiaowen, even Lin Siya couldn't accept it. In her previous life, she couldn't understand those people who liked to eat all kinds of weird things, such as bats and scorpions, and she still couldn't accept it now.
"Don't be afraid. This vole is different from the ordinary mice we have seen. I ate it once last year and it tasted very good."
Seeing that they were both very frightened, Xu Jie quickly spoke to comfort them.
Last year, she also ate vole meat without knowing what it was. When she ate it, she had no idea what it was. She felt so nauseous afterwards that she almost vomited.
Later, after a long time, she also tasted the flavor. After all, it was meat. As long as she didn't think about its appearance, it tasted very good.
The main reason is that the intensity of supporting rural labor this week is too great. To be honest, it would be unbearable if I don’t get some extra oil and water.
In the following days, she ate vole meat a few more times with others. Perhaps she accepted it mentally or physically, and she actually thought it tasted very good.
"Sister Xu, have you ever eaten vole meat?" Xiaowen was very curious.
"Yes, I also participated in the rural support work last year and ate it a few times. It tasted pretty good. But last year, we didn't catch so many voles. There were only a few every day. This time, there were so many."
"What does vole meat taste like?"
After hearing what Xu Jie said, Xiaowen became even more curious.
"What's that smell like? How should I put it? It smells a bit like chicken, but also a bit like something else. You'll know when you try it."
"Woo woo, I still don't dare."
Xiaowen's whole body was filled with resistance. Vole meat and the like were really too scary.
The three of them quickly got in line, and from the kitchen window, they saw a pile of steamed buns, wowotou, and two large pots of stew.
The person serving the food was also very clear. He put two spoonfuls of vegetables and two steamed buns made of wheat flour, more corn flour and less white flour, into each of their lunch boxes. It was already a very good meal. The steamed corn buns were just coarse flour.
Of course, most of what they handed over were coarse grains.
Lesbians can get one steamed bun and one steamed corn bread, while lesbians can get one steamed bun and two steamed corn bread.
After all, autumn harvest is hard physical labor, and you can’t do it without eating enough.
The three of them ordered their dishes, found a place to sit down, and then carefully looked at the dishes in their bowls.
One is cabbage stewed with meat. Everyone knows what this meat is.
Another one is stir-fried sparrows with water celery. The meat of sparrows is too small, so there is not much meat in the stir-fry.
Lin Siya didn’t have the courage to pick up the cabbage, so she took a bite of water celery.
Water celery is wild and has a special fragrance that neutralizes the taste of sparrow meat a little bit, so it tastes okay.
The steamed buns made with Erhe flour are mostly made of corn flour, and this corn flour is not ground very finely like the one used to be, but is very coarse. Even if a little white flour is mixed in, it still tastes very harsh on the throat.
But Lin Siya didn't show any abnormality. After all, she had been working for a whole morning and she was really hungry.
After eating all the fried sparrows with water celery, Lin Siya was hesitating about stewing the remaining cabbage with field mouse meat.
If I eat it, I feel a little disgusted. If I don’t eat it, I guess the food will be like this for the next few days.
After some inner struggle, Lin Siya finally only ate the cabbage in the dish and gave the meat to Xu Jie.
Xu Jie accepted all the food and ate it with gusto. Xiao Wen prepared himself mentally for a long time but still couldn't accept it. Finally, he followed Lin Siya's example and ate the cabbage, and gave the field mouse meat inside to Xu Jie.
The two of them just stared at Xu Jie eating alone.
"Are you two really not going to try it? It tastes okay, a bit like chicken."
The two of them shook their heads at the same time, resisting repeatedly.
"You two are really not lucky. Let me tell you, this is meat, real game. You'll never find it again if you miss this opportunity."
Even though Xu Jie praised vole meat to the skies, the two of them never opened their mouths to ask for it.
After dinner, the three of them went to the threshing ground to report. When they arrived, the village had not arranged accommodation for them, but now that it has been arranged, the three of them decided to go to a rest area to take a nap first, and then join the work in the afternoon.
Many people do this. After all, it is too hot in the middle of the day and there is no way to work.
However, the lunch break is limited, so they have to make the most of it.
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