Siheyuan: Shazhu's Brother Shadan

Sometimes he really wanted to ask God why he caused this natural disaster to punish the people.

Shadan remembered a joke about a landlord in the past. It was also a year of famine, and the landlord’s child had no steamed buns to eat, and could only eat the steamed corn bread given to him by his father.

It would be difficult for children to swallow coarse grains instead of fine grains.

But every time the landlord would take his children with him and wander around outside to let outsiders see that his family was also very poor.

All the food I had was changed from steamed buns made of white flour to steamed corn bread. Just look at how poor and difficult my life was.

Passing by a street, I saw a hungry peasant child crying for food at the corner of the street.

Next to him was his father who had starved to death long ago.

The landlord's son held the steamed bun in his hand, finding it hard to swallow, and gave it to the farmer's son.

Unexpectedly, the farmer's son finished up the steamed bun that the landlord's son had always found difficult to swallow in just a few bites.

Even the crumbs that fell on the ground were picked up and eaten.

Shadan looked up at the sky, then looked at the farm system.

After six or seven months, the first batch of wheat was harvested.

The second batch of wheat has now been planted and new shoots have sprouted.

"Guard!"

"To!"

"Come with me for a walk, into the country."

"Yes!" The guard quickly packed his luggage to go to the countryside.

They had been to the countryside before, and because the guards did not have enough supplies, the two of them had to spend a night outside.

This time, I took sleeping bags and food with me and followed the team.

In fact, the guards didn't have much food left, but fortunately, Shadan was the top leader in the Northwest, so he was given special care in terms of food supplies.

This time they went there by jeep, and the first house they visited was the family who came here and gave them the rabbit family.

When we arrived at the place and got out of the car, we heard a burst of cheerful laughter coming from the house, and the sound came from that family.

"Ok?"

Comrade Shadan frowned, because he actually smelled a faint fragrance in the air, and this smell... was very much like the aroma of rabbit meat.

"Could it be that……"

Comrade Shadan's face darkened and he quickened his pace towards that house.

"Is there any meat to eat now?"

Comrade Shadan couldn't help but ask the guard beside him.

"That's impossible. We don't even have food to eat, so how can we have meat to eat?"

The guard also felt something was wrong. The two looked at each other and had a bad feeling in their hearts.

The two men rushed into the house and opened the big pot while the owner was looking confused.

Sure enough, there were two adult rabbits stewing in the pot.

"This...how can this be possible?" Shadan exclaimed.

The owner of the house widened his eyes and looked at the scene in astonishment.

"You guys actually eat rabbits!"

Comrade Shadan was furious. He looked around the room and found that apart from the two rabbits in the pot, there was no sign of any other rabbits.

"What the hell is going on? Are we really so poor that we can only eat rabbits, and they are breeding rabbits?"

Comrade Shadan's voice was somewhat questioning, and his eyes were sharp, as if he wanted to see through the other person.

"I... we have no other choice. We have no food to eat and the children at home are crying with hunger. I just want to improve our lives."

The host stammered as he explained, his face full of regret.

"Improve your life! You know you are drinking poison to quench your thirst. You eat meat this time, but next time you will have nothing to eat?"

Comrade Shadan snorted coldly, with a hint of anger in his eyes.

"The rabbits in this pot are your own breed. How dare you eat them? It breaks my heart!"

Comrade Shadan became angrier and angrier as he spoke, and his voice became louder and louder.

"I'm sorry, I'm really sorry, but there's nothing we can do. We're really hungry, especially the children."

The host apologized repeatedly, hoping to be forgiven by his silly classmate.

However, Comrade Shadan remained unmoved.

"What's the point of apologizing? You've eaten up your future. If you can't save yourself, how can God save you? Do you still want me to forgive you?"

Comrade Shadan's tone was full of disappointment and anger.

"You guys really disappoint me."

After saying that, Shadan turned around and left the house, leaving the owner with a look of regret.

He walked all the way to the car and was still angry even after he got in.

"Let's go to the next house."

After hearing this, the guard asked quietly: "Are they the same families we sent rabbits to last time?"

"Correct!"

When they arrived at another house, they smelled the aroma of meat at the door again. This time, Silly Dan did not act impulsively, but politely asked the guard to knock on the door.

Then I heard the sound of people packing up in the house, and even the aroma of meat disappeared from the air.

Then the door opened.

When their eyes met, both the host and the hostess uttered "Huh".

"It's you!" the host said quickly.

"Come in, come in, the old woman, take out the hidden meat quickly, our distinguished guest has arrived."

As soon as Shadan entered the house, he immediately smelled an unpleasant smell.

But this smell made him very happy because he saw many little rabbits jumping around in the house, which showed that this was a caring family.

He is also a good farmer who is diligent and thrifty.

The hostess quickly took out the bowl and chopsticks and invited the two to sit down and eat meat. Comrade Shadan waved his hand and said, "We are here to eat, just to see how your rabbits are doing."

When it comes to rabbits, the male host becomes very talkative and talks nonstop.

As he said this, he pulled Shadan to the table to eat with him, and talked while they ate the meat.

The hostess at the side pulled him and asked him to speak less but she couldn't stop him.

"I see that your family is very good at raising rabbits. Do you have any tips? It would be best if you could share them with me."

"Uh! Share it?" The man was a little unhappy to hear this.

After all, at this time, it is important to keep something in reserve and treasure what you have.

But when he heard that Shadan actually wanted him to share it, the male host was about to ask why, but then he thought of the other party's identity, who was equivalent to their family's benefactor.

As a result, interest in the subsequent conversation was significantly reduced.

The man gave a brief outline of the matter, which was just some common knowledge and there was no trick at all.

He just kept picking up pieces of meat for Comrade Shadan to eat, as if he was repaying his gratitude in this way.

Comrade Shadan looked at the couple and the little boy in the house.

He went to take another look at the rice jar in his house, and found that there was still rice in it. A family like this was a model of self-sufficiency.

Then we talked about how to share secrets, but the male host remained silent.

Shadan knew that he had failed, so he said goodbye to this family and went to the next one.

Before leaving, the male host waved goodbye somewhat embarrassedly. Even Shadan could understand this situation. After all, no one is a saint in a disaster year, and don't expect others to become saints.

When we arrived at the next house, we didn’t see a single rabbit there, probably because there were more people in their house.

I did see a few newborn babies.

The man saw through the fool's thoughts and said, "My benefactor, we have no choice but to think about the child!"

"But what will you do in the future? Will you still eat tree bark and grass roots?"

The male host, who still had some confidence, was speechless now.

"Adults can eat tree bark and chew grass roots, but what about children?"

The whole family was completely speechless.

Shadan went to dozens of houses in succession, and found that only a few of them still had rabbits. The other dozens of houses basically had no rabbits, not even rabbit fur.

Among them, we saw a family who actually used rabbit fur to make clothes for their children and even showed it off to Comrade Shadan.

"Let's go to the next one!"

After the car drove into another village, Shadan saw at a glance that the other family to whom he had given the rabbit last time was demolishing their house.

He quickly stopped the car and ran to the family to ask what had happened.

The villagers said with a bitter face: "There is no food at home, so we can only tear down the house and sell it for some money to buy food."

After hearing this, Shadan felt upset and shouted angrily, "How could you do this? This house is your shelter from the wind and rain!"

The villagers sighed helplessly: "There is no other way. If we don't do this, our whole family will starve to death..."

Silly Dan gritted his teeth, turned back to the car, he knew he had to do something to help these poor people.

So he decided to go back to the city to see if he could think of some way to solve the problem.

He couldn't just watch his fellow villagers suffer, he had to find a way to change their fate.

After returning to the office, Shadan checked the farm system first.

After the wheat harvest, it reached an astonishing 2.5 million tons, which means the yield per acre of land is extremely high.

One acre of wheat can actually yield 2.5 tons of grain. This reported number is basically a bigger leap forward than the Great Leap Forward.

Fortunately, only he knows this number.

The yield per mu is 5,000 kilograms. Are you afraid?

Looking at the 2.5 million tons of wheat in the farm system, he called in the household registration comrades to first find out the population size of the Northwest.

thirty million!

This was only the data collected during the national census in 1953. We don’t know what the data is now, but the population will definitely be larger.

Two and a half million tons of wheat, based on an annual per capita consumption of five hundred kilograms, is only enough for ten million people to eat as food a year.

But people at this time have a very large appetite.

Especially fine grains like wheat.

Fortunately, wheat can be harvested twice a year, so it only needs to be supplied for half a year.

If it is half a year, that would be 20 million people, which is still insufficient for a population of over 30 million.

How to do?

The base population gap of 10 million is there, but if we can ensure that people in the northwest do not starve to death and can eat 70% full, it will be fine. Wouldn't there be food in this way?

In addition, there are a hundred acres of poultry ranch, and there are still many rabbits and other poultry, which can be harvested now. Even the rabbits have reached more than one million, so I think the people in the northwest will not starve to death.

But how to ensure reasonable transportation to the people in the northwest is a problem.

Do you still want to play tricks?

If he dares to do this, he will be the next one to be in trouble.

Now we can only make an information gap.