Someone came down from above and asked everyone in the village to go to the big drying yard for a meeting.
Eat the meal that reminds you of the past!
Xu Nanxing had heard of this and searched for relevant information online.
The online post reads, "The 'Remembering the Bitterness and Thinking of the Sweetness' campaign aims to demonstrate the legitimacy of a happy life by virtually experiencing the social poverty before the founding of the People's Republic of China."
"We even deliberately cook the food to a point where even pigs wouldn't eat it. The harder it tastes, the more encouragement we get, and the better the effect of remembering the bitter past and thinking back to the sweet past."
All right!
This is really a mess made by people with nothing to do!
Who knows who people are complaining about in their hearts when they eat such disgusting food?
What does this prove?
There are quite a lot of such formalistic activities during this period!
Xu Nanxing also found out that the local rice to remember the bitter past and cherish the sweet past was made from steamed cornbread mixed with bran and black flour, which was dry, hard and tasted terrible!
This "Remembering the Bitterness and Thinking of the Sweetness" activity is mostly carried out during festivals such as the Spring Festival, May Fourth Youth Day, June 1 Children's Day, National Day, etc.
I didn't expect that it would be arranged during this non-holiday period.
Thinking about having to eat this thing in front of everyone, Xu Nanxing's face started to turn bitter before he even put it in his mouth.
I don’t know how strict this activity is here, and whether we really have to eat everything.
Forget it, even if she really wants to finish it, she can eat half of it and secretly put the other half into the space!
Isn’t that enough?
Xu Nanxing was about to give himself a thumbs up for his cleverness.
The next day, Xu Nanxing followed the educated youth to the large drying ground, where any large-scale activities in the village were held.
There were a few strangers wearing neat work clothes, and they seemed to be commune cadres who had gone to the countryside.
Well, I am here specifically to watch them eat the "bitterness and sweetness meal"!
The villagers all brought their own benches, and Xu Nanxing also brought a small stool, so he was not conspicuous at all among the group of educated youth.
The commune cadres who came from above took out a document and began to read the purpose of the "Remember the Bitterness and Think of the Sweetness" campaign.
This activity should be carried out frequently in the village, and the villagers have already adapted to it.
What came next was the highlight. The village chief arranged for several young people to bring over a large basin of black steamed bread.
Then give each of the villagers a piece of this black steamed bread.
Generally speaking, villagers would be very happy when food is distributed in the village, but now the villagers are holding the black steamed bread in their hands, with no expression on their faces.
Even the children looked disgusted when they saw it. They must have eaten this thing before, and it left a bad impression on them.
Even pigs wouldn’t like to eat this!
When it was delivered to Xu Nanxing, the young man in front of him picked up a steamed bun with his hands that had not been washed for a long time and handed it to Xu Nanxing.
Xu Nanxing: ...
I feel very resistant, what should I do?
The next second, Xu Nanxing took it silently.
I took a look at the dry and hard black steamed bread and wondered why I hadn’t followed Zhang Luyao on a long journey before!
regret!
This time, Zhang Luyao escaped because he was on a business trip again!
The same goes for Li Yao. She has to go to work at the supply and marketing cooperative in town during the day, so she doesn't need to participate in this event!
envy!
Seeing that everyone else had already started eating, Xu Nanxing had no choice. Although he wanted to put the food into the space, he had to pretend to eat at first, right?
But as soon as he bit it, Xu Nanxing was caught off guard and almost broke his teeth!
So hard!
Is there some 502 glue added in it?
How can people make food so hard?
In order to fully realize the effect of "remembering the bitterness and thinking of the sweetness", does the person making the steamed bread have to work so hard?
Xu Nanxing stared closely at the steamed bread in her hand. She wanted to remember the appearance of this thing!
Next time, I’ll make an imitation first, and when I really want to eat it, I can replace the original one!
This way she won't have to suffer this!
I secretly contacted Xiaoxing in my heart and asked her to remember the appearance of this steamed bread and try her best to imitate it to make one that looks similar but tastes more normal!
Unfortunately, Xu Nanxing had no idea that the village’s “bitter and sweet rice” was actually such a black steamed bun.
Now I can’t come up with a similar one to pretend.
The people from the commune above were watching everyone below eating this "bitterness-recalling and sweetness-mindful meal" very seriously and responsibly.
Xu Nanxing had no choice but to use his hands to break the steamed bread into pieces, slowly put it into his mouth and eat it, and then secretly put it back into the space bit by bit.
It's dry and hard, really hard to chew and swallow!
To eat this steamed bread, I'm afraid you'll need a big jar of water!
Otherwise it’s really easy to choke to death!
I couldn't help but curse the chef who made this steamed bread again!
After finally finishing the whole black steamed bread, I heard a villager shout, "Report to the government, I've finished it, I want to have another one!"
Xu Nanxing: ...Oh my god! What's so good about you eating here?
You really seem capable!
The others were also speechless, but no one dared to say anything sarcastic at this time, otherwise it would mean that they were dissatisfied with the policy.
A few activists also asked for another one, while the other villagers watched them silently.
The same goes for the educated youth; none of them dared to take the initiative.
But even if they don't show up, there are still people who are thinking about them.
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