Reborn in 1940 and survived until the new century

"You three kids, from now on, practice your boxing and kicking skills every day. The basic moves are just those, but they're not difficult, and you've memorized them all.

For the next period of time, especially before the snow closes the mountain, I will no longer keep an eye on you."

"Dad, do you have anything else to do?"

"Yes, I thought that before the snow closed the mountain, the villagers in the team would definitely go into the mountain whenever they had time.

I plan to take advantage of the morning to wander around the mountains, otherwise what if the traps I dug are visited by others? "

"this?"

“Don’t think that no one does this kind of thing?

In this time of meat shortage, anything can happen.

Fortunately, the traps I dug are relatively remote and most people can’t reach them.

But I think it's better to go there in the morning than in the afternoon.

After all, even if everyone goes into the mountains to chop firewood, they basically have to finish the work first.

Even though there are relatively fewer people going into the mountains to chop firewood in the morning, we cannot take the risk.

Other times, they may not be in a rush to get to work.

But winter is almost here, and every household needs to prepare enough firewood. I think they will speed up their work.

Otherwise, do you think it is possible to survive the winter with only the dry firewood collected by the children at home?"

"How can it be used?"

“That’s right, there are only three of us, and even if we collect dry firewood every day, our firewood room is not even one-third full.

I heard that to keep the kang heated in winter, you need a lot of dry firewood, unless someone doesn't sleep on the kang.

But then again, if you don't sleep on a kang, there must be enough quilts at home.

If there aren't enough quilts, won't we still freeze to death?"

"That's right. Now, let alone quilts, there is only a little cotton cloth and cotton. If I want to make an extra piece of clothing or quilt, I don't know how long it will take to save up.

Come to think of it, our fellow villagers who live here, every household sleeps on a kang, and if they sleep on a kang, they can only store more dry firewood.

Otherwise, because of the lack of dry firewood, they might freeze to death.

In other words, if you don’t want to freeze to death, you have to stock up on dry firewood every meal. If you want to stock up on dry firewood, you have to go to the mountains to chop firewood every day before the snow closes the mountains.”

"That's right, but Dad, aren't you afraid of being seen going into the mountains this morning?"

“What do you see?

Is it that I just can't bundle up some firewood?"

"That's right!

That way, even if someone runs into you, they will only think that you are using the morning time to go to Kanchai."

"That's it. I'm afraid I won't have time to clean the pigsty at home. But it's okay. I can clean it when I get back at noon."

"That's easy. If you really don't have time, I'll clean the pigsty.

If you were not in the countryside, where you only have a few meat coupons throughout the year, you would not have thought of going to the mountains, right?"

"What's this?

Isn’t it said that if you live by the mountain, you can eat from the mountain; if you live by the water, you can eat from the water, right?”

"Yes, then, when I get up in the morning, I'll go there to get the fish basket. You don't have to go there, or it will be troublesome to go back and forth."

"That's fine, we can always save time by getting up a little earlier than others.

In the absence of tickets, we can only think of other ways."

“That’s all we can do. As for you three kids, the plan will still go on as before.

The only thing is that before the snow closes the mountain, we may not be able to eat meat very often. You should be aware of this and don’t let the meat-craving people go around complaining, okay?”

"Mom, we know about it. Don't worry, you and my dad. We won't be stupid enough to tell anyone about it."

“That is, in the past we may not have known what life was like for country people.

Don’t we know this now?”

"That's right. In order for us to have more meat to eat, it's better for things like this to rot in our stomachs."

"Yes."

"That's not necessary. I can't eat meat recently, but don't we still have salted eggs that we pickled before?

Starting tomorrow, our family will start eating pickled eggs. These eggs don’t taste as strong as meat.

But it’s only allowed at home, so you’ll have to bear with it at noon.”

"Mom, I don't feel wronged. I only bring steamed bread or cornmeal pancakes every day. Compared with many classmates, not everyone has such treatment."

"No, brother, aren't steamed bread or corn cakes the worst food to bring to school?"

"how to say?

This steamed corn bread, a cornmeal pancake, can only be said to be the most common food.

Some students from wealthy families either brought steamed buns, rice, or dumplings.

For some students from poor families, being able to eat vegetable dumplings is already very good.

How could I complain about it? I can just eat steamed corn bread or cornmeal cakes by myself!

Besides, don’t you know what’s in our steamed bread or cornmeal cakes? "

"Of course I know. When my mother makes steamed bread or cornmeal pancakes, she will put an egg and a spoonful of pork in them. Who would eat it like this?"

"Yes, if we put some vegetables on it, wouldn't it become a vegetable ball or a pie?"

Speaking of vegetable dumplings and pies, since we have more time after the autumn harvest, we have started to cook them in different ways.

Even without meat in it, the vegetables alone taste good.

I just didn't expect that there would be such a big reaction just because the child brought a pie.

"Guo Dong, why don't you eat steamed bread with pickles today?"

"You mean this pie?

Isn’t this the pancake my mother made for me this morning?

how?

Can’t your mother do it?”

"Yes, but baking pies requires a lot of oil, so let's forget about it with the oil coupons we have every month!"

"Yes, my mother made it this morning, which is a rare occasion. If she hadn't been very tired from the autumn harvest a few days ago, she wouldn't have baked a few pies for the family to replenish their energy.

Alas! If there were no way to buy meat, why would you do this? "

"Yeah, I haven't eaten meat for several days?"

"It's not like I haven't eaten meat for days, it's been a while since I've eaten meat."

Even if you ate meat almost every day not long ago, you can't say it in front of others.

After hearing my son say that eating pie in front of his classmates was a luxury, I stopped making pies and let my son take them to school.

Make cornmeal steamed cake instead, that should be okay!

And if you put a little bit of sugar in it, it doesn’t matter whether you have vegetables to eat with it.

However, in order not to attract other people's attention, even if it is just for eating, I only let the children bring it once a week, for fear that if it happens too often, it will be bad for the children.